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Friday to everybody. This is the last day of the week. And, Darrell, it's been two weeks, I guess. You've held the ship together nicely. And Crash will be back on Monday, and we have no idea in what condition. That is going to be interesting. You know, I've held it together with glue and lots of duct tape. And, you know, your cousin Rich there, he is such a phenomenal singer. I think Crash needs to join with him on a band, and they can be little and rich and just go out and tour the country.
Okay. I don't think Mrs. Crash would... Well, maybe she would let him go. I mean, come on. To be free of him for a little while, all the sounds and the bodily functions, I think she'd go for it. She might. She might. All right. 37 degrees here. It's warmer down than you are. You told me it was 44. Yeah, it's sweating weather down here. Palmer's 41. So that is 40. Homer's 40. Talkeetna 38. Fairbanks 29.
Prudhoe Bay is above freezing today. It's four. Seattle, 49. New York, 45. Akaroa, New Zealand, 67. Pensacola, Florida, 60. Tampa, Florida, 64. Chifton, Georgia is 60. And Tokyo. Is 55. All right. Well, lots of things going on. It's interesting. I guess there was some sort of town hall that... was organized by Democrats.
or progressives or something. And this is the project that was after Bronson. The same people. I mean, you know, it's like, it's America. You guys can do what you want to do. It's fine. But, you know, you don't have a town hall, invite people. You know, you basically, it's like, come to the town hall and stand there so we can put you against the wall and make it, you know, basically a fictitious firing squad or something.
Some pretty nasty stuff said about Sullivan and said about Begich. They're mad. They lost. They don't have either seat. You know, so they're just going to do what they're going to do. And that's fine. But it's not like it's their idea. This is a national thing. Let me just tell you what's going on. Nationally.
The town hall people, I mean, when somebody would go back to visit their constituents, they would hold a town hall. And, you know, you get good comments, you get bad comments, but you get comments, and hopefully... You give your constituents an opportunity to tell you what they think. Okay, that's good. You know, you may not agree with them, they may not agree with you, but at least everybody has a chance to exchange ideas. And hopefully it's done in a civilized manner.
Well, this group that's out here in Anchorage, I guess they did something in Fairbanks, too, and I guess they were in Juneau. Surprise. They held these town halls, and it's basically, let's bash these two guys. Let's bash Senator Sullivan, and let's bash Representative Begich. Because they lost. They don't have anything else. They've got nothing. This is baying at the moon. It's just unbelievable to watch these people self-destruct. You're dissolving. You look stupid. You look foolish, people.
If you want to do a town hall or something, why don't you do it the right way? Why don't you sit down with them? Call them. Work with them. And then tell them what you think. That's great. I know you don't like them. I know you never would vote for them. Why are you going under the pretext of some sort of thing where it's a town hall? Oh, come on. All right, so listen to this. This is a national movement. The Democrats...
are so desperate, they're actually telling the press, they're actually revealing their playbook. I don't think that Chuck Schumer realizes what he's doing. He was doing an interview with PBS. Maybe he felt he was in friendly territory. He did an interview with PBS, and he told a couple of things that were absolutely true. And any time you get a progressive Democrat to tell something that's absolutely true, that's news. That really is.
So here's what they're going to do. They're going to go out into every city in America that they can get organized people to do, and they're going to hold their own town hall meetings. or the plan was to actually infiltrate the town meetings called by the senators and congressmen from the areas.
Okay, so that's preferable because that's a real legitimate town hall meeting. And they were going to stack those things. Well, that didn't work because a lot of senators and congressmen, you know, caught on to it and said, I've got to do this. You know, if you want to come here and you want to actually legitimately tell me something, fine. But this is a political demonstration. This is a political protest. And that's not what the purpose of this hall is for.
So if you want to protest, go ahead. But I'm not going to be a part of it. And I guess if you protest and nobody hears you, did you really protest? I guess it gets kind of existential there. So. This is Chuck Schumer on with a PBS guy, and this is what he's talking about with town halls, and I believe that's cut number five, Darrell, so roll that. Oh, give me one second. I had four ready. Let me get five ready here. Hold on. Take me like five seconds. Yeah, I think it's cut number five.
Yeah, because I kind of went out of order. We are mobilizing in New York. We have people going to the Republican districts. going after these Republicans who are voting for this and forcing them to either change their vote or face the consequences. This is a long, relentless fight that we fight every day. I am confident that we will bring Trump's popularity, numbers and strength down if we keep at it and keep at it and keep at it. Okay, so there's the playbook.
Right? We're going to continue this. We're going to continue to bay at the moon, and we're going to drive Trump's numbers down. No, you're not going to do that. Trump's numbers are going to be what Trump's numbers are based upon what Trump is doing, not what you're saying he's doing. And therein lies the weakness of your strategy, Chuck. Chuck Schumer is a smart guy, by the way. I believe he got a perfect score on his SATs. So, it goes to show you. You can do that and you can become a senator.
What else are they doing? Well, every single thing that President Trump is trying to do, they're trying to stop. Trust me, if he cured cancer, they would try to enjoin him. There would be a judge that would say, no, you can't do it. So everything Trump is trying to do, they're trying to stop. I believe there's 125 lawsuits. In the lower courts. I say lower courts. Now, how did they get there? Who are these judges? How did all of a sudden these liberal judges turn up? Well...
The Democrats put them in office. They seated the judiciary with these progressive judges.
as a fallback position in case they lost the election, which they did. So their plan is, okay, we didn't win. The American people turned down our arguments. The American people essentially turned down our... vision of america but we're going to fix them we're going to get these low-level unelected judges and i'm not that i'm not trying to denigrate them or anything like that but we're going to get these judges who are far left
that owe us to block everything that Trump does because we say so. Now, don't take my word for it. Once again, here is Senator Chuck Schumer on PBS. We are mobilizing in New York. We have people going to the... We are mobilizing. No, Daryl, it's the wrong guy. Yes, our democracy is at risk. because Donald Trump shows that he wishes to violate the laws in many, many different ways. The good news here is we did put 235 judges, progressive judges, judges not under the control of Trump last year.
on the bench and they are ruling against trump time after time after time and we hope that the appellate courts when it gets up there and the supreme court will uphold those rulings they restored the money to nih they require that 8,000 federal employees have to come back. We're in over 100 lawsuits against them, and we are having a good deal of success. It's only at the lower court level right now.
All right. I want you to run that one again. This is Chuck Schumer giving you the game plan for these progressive judges to stop Trump. Yes, our democracy is at risk because Donald Trump shows that he wishes to violate the laws in many, many different ways. The good news here is we did put 235 judges, progressive judges.
judges not under the control of Trump last year on the bench and they are ruling against Trump time after time after time and we hope that the appellate courts when it gets up there in the Supreme Court will uphold those rulings They restored the money to NIH. They required that 8,000 federal employees have to come back. We're in over 100 lawsuits against them, and we are having a good deal of success. It's only at the lower court level right now.
Okay, so you heard Chuck Schumer not calling them judges, calling them progressive judges, with the sole purpose of stopping Trump. Now that's not a judge. I'm sorry. I don't care what your personal political beliefs are. You could be the most radical person on the planet. You're supposed to look at a case objectively. according to the law and apply it. That's what you're supposed to do as a judge. You're not supposed to legislate. You're not supposed to...
opine and then decide because you think a certain way that it has to be the way you think. These judges are committing malfeasance. Chuck Schumer has basically just told us, I mean he just laid it out for you as clearly as possible, that they put these people in office to specifically do... what he said to stop Trump. Welcome to the loyal opposition. They're not going to win. We'll be right back. The Mike Porcaro Show with Crash. Weekdays at 3 on NewsRadio 650 KENI.
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with daily highs in the upper 30s and the lower 40s. For Alaska's weather source, I'm meteorologist Aaron Morrison. Now, back to the Mike Porcaro Show with Crash on News Radio 650 KENI. All right, 422. And, Darrell, you brought up an interesting point over the break about one of the cuts that we ran from Chuck Schumer. And, by the way, if you wanted to hear him, just listen to the podcast. hear Chuck Schumer actually tell the unvarnished truth. It's a beautiful thing.
What I noticed when they were talking is they made a specific point to say that these judges are not under Trump's control, which to me that insinuates then, because he called them progressive judges, that they're under their control. Nobody is supposed to control the judiciary. They are supposed to be independent.
They're not supposed to allow their personal opinions and feelings to get in the way of their judgments or their job. So this right there, I mean, that's literally a coup of the judiciary right off the bat. Yeah, I mean, I know that the chief justice is not happy about somebody saying impeachment. Well, the time that a judge gets impeached is when they commit malfeasance in office, and that's the remedy. Now, if a judge is knowingly doing this with the intent of following orders from...
the Senate minority leader and the Democratic Party, then that judge, in my mind, in my opinion, is committing malfeasance. And there's a remedy for that. If he just makes a stupid, bad decision, well... the remedy for that is take it upstairs to a higher court and see how you do. And I think the Supreme Court, and I agree with Trump on this one, the Supreme Court needs to clean its house. They need to set some strict guidelines here to these judges and say, look, you can do this.
And we want you to be, you know, say your opinions. That's what you're there for. But they've got to be yours applied to the law. But you just can't run amok here. These are lower court judges. These are district judges. District court. There's a big difference in the power of federal judges. And what the Supreme Court needs to do is...
Say, look, you can do this, but you can't do that. You cannot stop nationwide the president from doing something for defense of the nation. You can't do it. You don't have the power. Nobody's got, the president's got the power to do that. Congress can slap him down if they want to, but that's where it ends. And so, you know... There's going to be a clash here, and it's better for the Supreme Court to set the guidelines and set the guidance for them to do it.
than to have a clash, because it's going to happen. You can see it. And I don't think it's a constitutional crisis, because I think the Constitution is very, very much on the side of President Trump. He's the president. He has these powers. Read Article 2 of the Constitution. In fact, there is no such thing as a district court judge mentioned.
in the Constitution. That's a creation of Congress. The presidency is a creation of the Founding Fathers. Big difference. Oh yeah, I know, the document is old. But it's a document we have, and it's probably the best one in the world at this point. Not perfect. I was going to say, it's...
Chief Justice Roberts is who actually needs to step forward because I was doing some reading the other day, and it doesn't say that he's the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. No, he's the Chief Justice of all courts. Of all courts, of the United States of America.
He is the one who can step forward and say no. But he's a little bit of waffling there because he doesn't want to get jumped on by the Democrats saying, oh, you're siding with Trump because they're calling it the Trump court and everything. But it's just... Yeah, that Chief Justice Roberts needs to step down and, as you said, clean his house, get this stuff in order. Yeah. No, I mean, it has to happen because if he doesn't do something about this, then it's only going to get worse.
All right, let's go to Mike. Hi, Mike. Hey there. So, a couple of things. My understanding of the Constitution is that the Supreme Court really doesn't... any disciplinary authority over the law courts I mean they can admonish them they can have make decisions that go back down to them remanded but in terms of The impartiality of a federal judge, that's really a job of Congress. Yes, Congress is essentially the arbiter.
But the Chief Justice has a great deal of influence. And send them a memoranda. I don't disagree with you, but the discipline is not the purview or the authority. of the Supreme Court unless the Supreme Court as a body takes action, and they can't take any action until somebody brings them a case. Now, the second thing is...
You have to grant cert in order to hear it. Exactly, exactly. And as far as Schumer is concerned, the thing that I'd be hanging, I mean, Darrell makes a great point, don't get me wrong. But the thing I'm really interested in is what really does he mean by consequences? That's an extremely broad term for a U.S. senator to make, which could include everything from, you can't do that anymore.
to outright violence and we we have seen a couple of these town halls turn into tussles screaming matches where people have actually put hands on elderly people so I mean, are we going to continue to allow elected representatives to make those types of statements? And when will the FBI... become involved well these are all good questions I guess what I wanted everybody to do is to actually hear the plan from Schumer's own mouth yeah you did a good job on that And now you know. Yeah. Yeah.
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All right, it's 436-522-0650. Let's go to Rick. Hi, Rick. You're on. Hi, Mike. Hey. Yeah. You said that it appears to you that the Democrats are baying at the moon. They're flailing away. And they're ineffective. And you've finished it by saying, and it won't work. And I wonder why you are so confident it won't work. I have no faith at all in John Roberts or Amy Coney Barrett.
They hate to be disliked. And if it does come to the Supreme Court, I'm not sure at all that they would rule against those district court judges. So why are you so confident? I'm confident simply because this one is so clear. I mean, a fourth grader who knows how to read.
can tell you that this is so clear. I mean, these are the powers of the president. It's not an if, and, or but kind of thing. It's not open to interpretation. It is very clear when you read Article 2 that Trump has these powers. These judges, as you heard in the Schumer soundbite, they put them in there for a specific purpose to sabotage Trump. And I don't think... Yeah, I don't think that the Supreme Court, and I agree, Roberts is very, very wishy-washy.
He's not a conservative. He goes with it wherever the wind blows. You can thank him for Obamacare. Exactly. And he made up law. He said, well, it's a tax. It wasn't a tax. No, it was a mandate, which you can't do. So I would suspect he'd do the same thing with this. He couldn't stand to get bad press about this. I think Barrett's the same way. I think that this one is so important.
that if they don't do this, they will forever change the United States and make it a judiciography. And the Supreme Court, supposedly, the court system, the judiciary, while it's a co-equal brand, is supposed to be the weakest branch. And I don't know if anybody has read history, but they're important, but they don't legislate and they don't execute.
They basically decide whether or not the Congress has written a law that's constitutional or that the executive has done a constitutional thing in executing laws. That's it. What they're doing now is beyond belief. And I guess it's just my optimism and my belief in my country that... I hope that patriotism burns deeply in their hearts. Because if not, then we're in big trouble. But I don't think they're going to do the wrong thing. I think they're going to do the right thing. And Trump...
in his own inimitable fashion, is going to make things really hot for people. And good for him. I think it's time. Okay. Well, I'm not as optimistic as you, but... Appreciate your listening to me. Well, Rick, trust me, I understand your skepticism. I do. Okay. All right. All right. You're back. All right, 439-522-0650. That's our phone number. And I don't know. I guess I look at all this stuff, and I think to myself, you know,
These are people on the other side of the aisle who don't want to see America succeed. America has rejected their vision of this country. America has said we don't want 152 genders. We don't want to see boys in girls' sports or in girls' locker rooms. talked about this 15 20 years ago you would have had me locked up for being loony and now look where we are we actually have to talk about this stuff
We want a secure border. I mean, this was just such a simple concept. If you have no border, you have no country. And Americans were getting mad. And it's not just Republicans. These are Americans, okay? We're supposed to be Americans first. And if you go down to Texas or California or any of the border states in the southern border and talk to people there, talk to ranchers.
Talk to people that live in some of the cities. They'll tell you it was an invasion. Try going to a hospital in San Diego or in Texas somewhere. The emergency rooms were full of migrants. Not that you shouldn't humanely try to treat people if they're sick or they need help. Of course you do. But they're not supposed to be there. There's a way to come to the country. And I'm proud. I'm a child of immigrants. America let my family in here.
We had to go through a lot of hoops, and we had to do a lot of things, but it was worth it. Coming to America shouldn't be easy. America wanted to know who we were. America wanted to know what we could do. How could we help America? Why were we coming? And we had to prove up, just like anybody's family who had to come, whether it was... You know, 100 years ago, 200 years ago, or whatever. You know, you had a look at this thing. So I'm just, I guess.
When you look and see what's going on in the country, and when you look and see how Americans think, the Democrats were so far off the mark. Nobody was buying it. and they have not learned anything that's why i'm so optimistic let's go to bob hi bob yes sir well our judicial system is way out of whack and out of run running over the top of the people. Look at the state of Alaska with the dividend thing. I mean, they were right that it's the legislature that says it, but they have to...
by 30 years of law have to go by a formula. Right. That they already have been using for 30 years. Now, if they would like to change that formula, they have the legal right to do so. But until that formula is changed, they owe us the money. Well, the legislature itself isn't even obeying its own law. Right. And you can't take them to court because the court agrees with them. So what's an American to do?
The only thing you can do is try to get new people, but that's few and far between. It's a long process. Well, the problem is, is the Republican Party of the state of Alaska, they'll endorse anybody that says they're Republican. I don't know if it's because they want the money. I don't know what the problem is.
But they don't vet anybody. Why should people leave the Republican Party in the state of Alaska if they don't vet anybody? Well, you've got a bunch of Republicans down in Juneau that call themselves Republicans, and they have essentially knifed... The party and anybody who's a Republican legislator right in the back
Well, I mean, maybe it's time we do away with the Republican Party of the state of Alaska and start a new Republican Party of the state of Alaska and get rid of all the old people that are in charge. That's certainly an option. I mean, it should be. I mean, I think that's if somebody came out tomorrow and says, we're the Republican Party of the state of Alaska and we're changing over and we're going to vet everybody.
Maybe everybody quit handing the Republican Party that's there now money. Yeah. Well, Bob, you make some good points. Well, why should anybody hand them money if they're just going to basically give it to the Democrats? Well, that's, you know, we've got the best legislature that the Republican Party can buy here with the Democrats. Yes, sir. Well, thank you for your time. All right, Bob. Okay. Yeah, you know.
The problem is the party itself doesn't have the power to kick somebody out of the party, as far as I know. But the party does have the power to censure. The party does have the power to go after somebody and say, you are not behaving according to the platform of the Republican Party. And they can take out ads and they can go on talk shows and they can raise a lot of fuss. And they should. They should. You've got Republicans that are down there, literally, they're Democrats.
But the only way they were going to get elected in their district is to say they were a Republican. Well, you know, they lied. Okay? And they immediately jump ship and go play with the Democrats. That's okay, but just tell everybody that you're a Democrat. That's all. And so it's up to the party, I think, to say, hey.
This person is not who they say they are. And we condemn them. And we are going to find somebody to run against them. And we are going to do everything we can to get them out of office. That's what I think they should do. Now, whether or not they can or not, I don't know, or they will or not, that's up to them. 446, we'll be right back. Call Mike and Crash now. Be a part of the show on NewsRadio 650 KENI.
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Welcome back. It's 4.50, and I thank Suzanne Downing for sending this. This just cleared Must Read Alaska, so if you go there, this is a really good article. And I think you should check this out. The article is entitled, Democrats Opened Their Trapping Season on Baggage, Who Spent Countless Hours With Alaskans This Week.
And so here's what she says. It's a Democrat town hall set up for Republicans this year. It's definitely a trap. And you heard from Chuck Schumer that this is going on all over the country. We're going to stop these guys. We're going to be out there. We're going to cause trouble. We're going to whatever else he said. We can play the cut later. And the mainstream media will be playing along, which they have.
Congressman Nick Begich and Dan Sullivan have crisscrossed the state, meeting thousands of Alaskans. But the Democrat Aligned 907 initiative, and in case you're wondering who this is or what this is, it is a group or a couple of people that are being funded. And I don't know where the money's coming from, but I would assume that it's coming from very progressive left-wing sources, which is, you know, fine. It's there. It's America. You can do that.
It would be nice to disclose who it is, but I don't know if they have or not. Anyway, the 907 initiative, these were the people that went after Bronson, if you remember. This is an Anchorage Daily new alumnus and Democrat Party operatives from out of state. They're crafting a narrative of absence. And, you know, that usually makes the heart grow fonder, doesn't it? The Democrats have been setting up fake town halls on their own without consulting lawmakers.
using these town halls to attack and video events. No lawmaker in their right mind would show up. Of course not. In general, the Democrats are mad at Begich and Sullivan. because they're not walking into their partisan quicksand. According to the country, this is being repeated across the country. Democratic Party and its dark money lookalikes have been setting these traps, hoping to get Republicans.
They've not used the same tactic on Lisa Murkowski, however, who's a Republican, and she was elected to help people who are, I guess, on the left side of the fence. You know, let's face it, she's not conservative, and some people would say she's not a Republican. I'll leave that up to you to determine. Yesterday, more than 600, this is a quote now from the Daily News.
Yesterday, more than 600 Alaskans flooded the Wildemarson Theater at the Lusak Library in Anchorage to call out Senator Dan Sullivan and Representative Nick Begich for hiding from their constituents. In the face of devastating, and devastating is spelled incorrectly, cuts to federal services. The 907 initiative reported in its press release from Democrat operative Aubrey Weber. a former reporter for the Anchorage Daily News. Now, baggage...
has spent the last two congressional recesses on the ground here in Alaska. He went to Fairbanks, Juneau, et cetera, lots of community organizations. He has been here. And anybody that knows Nick Begich knows the guy is indefatigable. He goes to the meetings. He meets with constituents. He's literally the energizer bunny. So anybody that says Bankage is ducking people or not, they're just not telling you the truth. Either that or they don't know him.
And they're terribly misinformed. So let me tell you what the guy's done. Okay? Suzanne outlines it here. Sit down with a Japanese consulate. in Anchorage, meeting with Doyon, meeting with Tote, meeting with Anchorage Neighborhood Health Center, meeting with Providence Medical Center, engagements with multiple Alaska Native organizations, including AFN, ARV, ANVCA.
and voice of the Arctic Inupia. They get spoke at events hosted by Commonwealth North, Americans for Prosperity, and Meet Alaska Conference, where he delivered a keynote. speech. He also toured the UAA campus with John Young Palmer Court Center. at the Don Young Palmer Job Corps Center and the Alaska Military Youth Academy, emphasizing commitment on education, job readiness, and military youth support.
He attended March Madness events, met with many Alaskans face to face, and it just goes on and on and on. about what he does and where he spends. So the fake town halls, the 907 initiative, dark money operatives, the ad buys, and using the media are all part of a plan. It will only intensify as the year progresses. This is something that is going on nationally, and we've got these nice folks up here to thank.
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Oh, thank you, Rich. Appreciate that. It is 508 exactly. 522-0650 is our phone number. Joining us now from Juneau. I think it's from Juneau. Maybe he's home. is Senator James Goffman. He's my senator. And, Senator, how are you? Good, good, Mike. I would argue that I'm in Juneau, but I'm from Anchorage. I'm here because the troopers will come find me if I don't take a reaction. Well, we don't want that to happen. You're a law-abiding guy, you know.
Now, you are down there, and one of the things that you are dedicated to do is try to fix the state's fiscal situation. That's an awfully big lift. James, but you've come up with something that I think the public needs to hear about. It's Senate Bill 37. Maybe you could kind of explain to us what that is and how you see it as a piece of the puzzle to try to solve our fiscal problems. Well, yeah, I have a set of...
legislative proposals that I nicknamed diet and exercise as the road to economic health for the state of Alaska for fiscal health. And so the...
37 is an Executive Budget Act reform which puts the state on a better planning regimen. It puts us on four-year strategic operating plans updated every two years, and our annual budget discussions start to become... the performance management and funding discussion against those uh rolling four-year plans so that you know every uh piece of the executive branch uh the department's doing the
the work that we fund, that we have an idea of not just what the can down the road need for the coming year is, but also what the plan for improvement is. And so, like you said, that's a heavy lift. trying to get that put in place. And then the other thing, so that's the exercise plan as well. The next piece of it is a GDP-based spending cap where we measure... Our economic activity in the state, minus government spending, set a healthy percentage of spending to spend every year.
And that's done by taking a five-year average of the state economic performance, using that as the measurement of an average and then select a... a good percentage of it. It doesn't even have to be strict to start to have benefit because it smooths out and prevents the boom-bust cycle. There's an additional provision, and this is a constitutional cap that I'm trying to put in place.
and an additional measure that will allow us to go the next increment of spending focused on capital project spending in order to go up to the upper limit. So it smooths out our spending. It rolls forward savings in years where we have extra revenue, which could happen with the gas line. Right now, we're in a very cash...
You know, poor situation. We're definitely revenue limited. But that's not always the case because we're a boom and bust state by nature. You know, it's the nature of producing commodity. And if we have better mechanisms to control the performance that we get out of the money we spend, that's the Executive Budget Act reform. And then a better reform to control how much we spend every year, especially in peak earnings years.
We can roll forward savings, smooth things out, get our roads and bridges fixed up, and just provide a much better economic and performance management of the state. Well, I think that's really what we should be doing. The big question is, We should have been doing that a long time ago. We're not. And I guess from a practical standpoint, how do you see your colleagues?
in Juneau embracing this. This makes a lot of sense, James, and that's what scares me, because it makes sense. Well, you know, a mentor... Taught me early in life never to overestimate what you can do in one year and never underestimate what you can do in 10. When I took this on, I didn't think I would get it done quickly. But we've had success in every legislature. I'm now in my third legislature. I served two years in the 32nd over in the House, two years in the 33rd in the Senate.
And now I'm the 34th as a senator again. And in each legislature, I was able to get the bills up to the finance committee in both houses. We've actually made progress. We've had a lot of hearings. We've garnered support from industry groups through this type of legislation. It's just the type of thing that you have to keep serving up and doing.
a faithful job of preventing and do your best with it. And ultimately, if you keep making it present and available, there can come along circumstances where it can happen. So basically it's that old adage that you do not play, you cannot win. Well, that's very true. So I look at what's going on in Juneau, and I look at the education. And, you know, enormous amounts of money. And then I look at this benefits package fight.
And that's also enormous amounts of money. I mean, there's a dragon in there. Trust me, you don't want to let out. But it seems like we have all of these things and we don't have the money to do it. And then the very next thing I hear from some of your colleagues. on the other side of the aisle, is, well, where you should be looking at taxes. And I think that the people of the state of Alaska...
are going to say, well, before you want to tax me, show me that it's necessary. Right, yeah, there's definitely... You know, do the air quotes thing, revenue enhancements. It's another word for taxes. I've been carrying the same policy forward to folks. No new taxes or expansion of taxes. without an effective cap in place. Taxes, to implement them requires a simple majority vote and a governor that doesn't veto it.
And so that's an easy lift. The spending cap at a constitutional level, that's a tougher lift. But again, I keep putting forth ideas that... If we're going to go there, that we at least bridle up and saddle the horse before we fling the barn doors open and let it go running. Yeah, that's true. That's all I can do. So it's more effective to say no new taxes without a cap than it is to just say no new taxes. And so I don't want to give away the farm for...
you know, for a piece of legislation that doesn't do anything. So I remain against increased taxes or new taxes as long as we don't have an effective means of controlling it. And that's really the bottom line, control. because otherwise, as we say, as you said, we just keep kicking the can down. I mean, we do this with the permanent fund every single year. There should be a fix to that. The fact that we haven't fixed is pretty sad because that sucks up
all the oxygen in the room, and you know that for a fact. So, you know, there's things we can fix, and it doesn't seem like it's that hard to do. I don't know. Maybe I'm being naive here. Well, it's tough. The legislature is designed to be kind of a contentious place where you have to work awfully darn hard to get consensus on something. It was created that way by our founders to be...
an intense, deliberative, challenging process to get anything changed. And so that's something I always remind myself. Well, there's a couple of things. A, I volunteered for this. And B, it is the process that... our founders put in place and they knew what they were doing it's not always satisfying to participate um you know in all of this but when you start to remember the the long unbroken uh you know string of
Every year of people coming together to try and deliberate on policy, it settles me down and just gets me back to work trying to do the best I can with the challenges that we have. Well, in the time we have remaining, what's your take on what is going to be accomplished this year by this legislature? Well, there's a couple big things in play. One is to protect...
the draw from the permanent fund and put the entire corpus and earnings reserve behind the protection of a constitutional percentage of market value draw. I agree with that. I know it. It scares some people that it's somehow trying to grab the permanent fund and make it available for spending, but it's actually the opposite. So I'm happy to chat with anybody that has questions or concerns about that.
We are hearing that in Senate finance. I had a proposal to do the same thing, but there's now a committee proposal. That's important because we have a serious cash flow issue coming up because of the structure of the fund. And there's better management options by doing this stuff. But I understand that people may have questions. The other thing, you know, the budget. The governor, bless him, his budget proposal was about $1.5 billion in the red.
And the House is playing with a budget right now that's about $2 billion in the red. And whatever we get in the end, it's going to have to be a balanced budget. And I don't see the votes. to drain the remaining amounts in the Constitutional Budget Reserve, the CDR. I don't see the votes here. So people have expectations, I think. Everybody's going to get a little haircut this year. We're temporarily revenue constrained because of the nature of production in view of the write-off.
you know, the producers get for the capital project improvements that they're doing and also the source of the oil, whether it's coming from state or federal land. And so right now we've got a little revenue pinch, but the future is looking really bright.
with the movements that are being done in Washington to open up opportunity and to get more oil in the pipe and even create the type of international consortium that we would need to be anchor tenants for a big... pipeline no gas pipeline project um i think there's bright days ahead we just need to navigate through these you know few linears without doing too much harm to our
our in-state commercial activity, business activity, production improvements, and those sort of things. All right. Senator Kaufman, it's always good to have you on and hear your logical mind. Don't change. Okay? We'll be talking to you soon. In the meantime, have a good weekend. When you swing back up here, maybe we can get together and just kind of talk. How's that? Thank you.
That would be great. I'll shoot you a text or something and give you a shout next time I'm coming into town. Sounds great. You take care, sir. Take care. All right. Senator James Kaufman, we'll be right back. Back to the Mike Porcaro Show with Crash on News Radio 650.
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on News Radio 650, KENI. All right, welcome back, 525. Let's go to Rhonda. Hi, Rhonda. Hello? Yeah, hi, Rhonda. You're on. Hi. I wanted to mention that I've heard many times that John Roberts, the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, is very, very concerned about the perception that people have of the court. and that he will rule in order to gain favor with people so that they think the Supreme Court's a viable institution. And that may be why he voted for Roe v. Wade.
And then he flip-flops around. So that's one thing I wanted to mention. And then the other thing I wanted to mention is that the Alaska Federal District Court Judgeship, which has been open since last July, they had a few... People applied through the Bar Association, and one of the ones that applied was a Judge Zeman that some people in the Kenai tried very hard to get rid of. I guess he passed on the...
on the vote for the, you know, continued appointment. But most of the 407 people that responded to the bars poll didn't know most of the judges. There were very few. that ranked them as competent or mildly competent or incompetent and didn't know. Most of them didn't know. So if there's a Republican or conservative judge out there that would like to...
serve his country or her country. We sure need them to step up to the plate because they need to get appointed for the Alaskan district or we're going to end up in the same mess as the other places. They really do. You make a good point. The problem is, and I don't know how, what they usually do is they listen to both senators. I have a feeling that our president isn't going to listen to one of them.
So Dan Sullivan is going to be in a pretty good position. But in order to move the thing out of the Judiciary Committee, they're going to have to convince the chair, Chuck Grassley from Iowa, that this is the will or this is what the president wants and what Alaskans want. I don't think that's too hard. But I think that people need to get in touch with Senator Sullivan. Yep, I agree. But the problem really is that most conservatives are...
Worried about being targeted. I think the Republican Party has the same problem. Nobody wants to serve because they don't want to get death threats. and social media threats and whatnot. I ran into Nick Begich just yesterday after his shindig there down in South Anchorage. He mentioned to me that his office in Anchorage got a death threat and they had a SWAT team and everything come out. You've only been there for a month, not even a month. How can you be getting death threats already?
It's sad. Well, look what happened to Governor Dunley. The guy was in office for two weeks and they started a recall. It's kind of sickening. So we've got to get a little bit more moxie in our conservative people. We're getting run over by these progressives that have no morals, no integrity. They just want chaos and to intimidate people. And we need to have an automatic response.
People, if they come up and they say, oh, you offended me, or oh, you're racist, I always say, yeah, I'm racist, I'm part of the human race, we're part of you. Yeah, exactly. I like your spirit, Rhonda. I like your spirit. No, that's exactly what we need. A little moxie. Yeah, more moxie. And the Republican Party is trying, but it's so far behind. It was so divided between the old guard and the new guard.
And we're finally starting to move into the new era. But, boy, we need help. We need people to step up and say, yeah, I'll do it. Thanks for doing what you do. Well, thank you, Rhonda. I appreciate your call very much. You keep it up. You're infectious. It's good, in a good way. Good. More, more, better, better. All right. Thanks, Rhonda. Take care. All right. All right, let's do this. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back. Stay with us.
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Dan Kendall. Hi, Dan. You're on. How are you? Hi, Mike. I'm doing good. I'm hoping everybody's out getting their suntan with the sunny weather we're having. Yes, I may go sit on my deck. It's a rare day we can get our suntans. I'm really pale. I haven't worked on that. What brings you to our door today, sir? Well, I was listening to Senator Kaufman just now. And in a very nice way, he described the economy of Alaska, which is boom and bust. And that's the way it is. And we're in a bust.
state right now because we don't have enough money to spend for everything we want to do so that's a bust and if you tax everybody that makes it even worse and if you take the permanent fund that makes it worse you know because people depend on on these kinds of funds to keep their everyday living going. You know, and I want to say that the PFD was created because during statehood,
They didn't want individuals to go out and mine their own gold. They wanted to have a big gold mining operation, go out and do it so they could take royalties from it. When I lived in Valdez, there were several people that earned a living. year-round by just going out to the creeks and mining gold. But they can't do that anymore because it has to be some kind of corporate entity that goes out to mine gold. Right, and the state wants its cut. Yeah.
Anyway, I called about the meetings that were in the... Yes, yeah. Last Saturday we had a district meeting for District 24 and 23. Our senator, you know, Dan Sadler, Jamie Allard, and Kelly Merrick. And it was that pizza man in the conference room there. And I wasn't there, but people tell me that there was over 250 people there in the room. There was standing room only, and there were people standing outside the door that wanted to get in. And keep in mind that...
Chugack Eagle River is Nick Baggage's hometown, so I'm sure they were planning on him being there to get harassed by this group of people. So were they orderly? Did they behave themselves? Yes, they did, but they just kind of elbowed everybody, you know, so that, you know, I'm in charge kind of thing. Yeah, so I'm taking over the meeting, basically. Yeah, yeah. Isn't that interesting?
And typically this time of year, it's the last meeting before the end of the legislature, and there's 30 people there, and they're talking about, well, should we spend money on education? Should we spend money on the new road? Should we spend money on Port McKenzie? You know, those kind of discussions. But no, this was just kind of intense. Well, at some point, Dan, I think what's going to happen is, you know, if they're not getting what they want...
and they're not getting any traction, unless they're all being paid to show up, you're going to see a drop-off. And that's why I say I don't think a lot of this stuff is going to work, because they're not... They're not going to achieve what they want to achieve, despite Chuck Schumer and his antics. Yeah, and back to the Alaska budget, we can't afford to... change the school allocation, and we can't afford to change the retirement for state employees. The money isn't there. No, it's not.
And I think you probably would agree with this. Before anybody says anything about taxes or revenue enhancements, it's kind of like show us that you are doing everything in your power. to run a mean, lean machine and provide the services with the money that you have as opposed to the services that you want to provide with the money you don't have.
Yes, and I grew up with the education system here in Alaska, and I got a really good education, but I'm looking at younger people today, and they're not getting the same education I did. No, they're not. And I think it's national. I mean, when you look at it, the Department of Education, that's one of the reasons why Trump is trying to reduce it.
They're not doing what they should be doing. They're taking a lot of money to do nothing, just as our school board seems to be taking a lot of money to do nothing. And what's interesting is we keep... We literally are in this loop of insanity. There are states that are doing well, but we somehow refuse to acknowledge them and even go and say, how are you doing these?
things can we can we can we at least get some ideas from you but we don't do that yeah Idaho is doing much better than we are heck Mississippi is doing better than we are And that's significant, yes. You know, and the stuff about, well, Alaska's got poverty schools, and, well, Mississippi, trust me, they got us beat.
And they're doing well. Florida used to be at the bottom of the pile, and now they're way up top. And you look at the school districts around the country that spend less money than we do, and they're performing well. It's not the money, it's the method It's the opportunity of the parents to be involved, to work with the teachers. I mean, if you've got the parents involved, the teachers involved, and the students involved, you're going to have a good outcome if you've got a good curriculum.
That's right. And I think what we need here in Anchorage is for the parents to get more involved. You know, they need to go to meetings, they need to go to the classrooms, they need to go to the assemblies. and just see what's going on and ask for a better turnout. Well, and that's why you see charter schools doing so well, because the parents are involved. The charter schools are doing wonderfully. You know, maybe we should just have the money follow the student. Well, they do that in Europe.
The money follows the kid, and it's almost like the schools are kind of competing. I mean, I look at the world of sports, and you look at free agency, you know, and everybody wants this guy to be there. quarterback or whatever, and the money is just flying out there. Well, you've got good students. Why not? Then you should also incent and reward your good teachers.
Because they're absolutely a gem. I mean, my gosh, having a great teacher, that's unbelievably great. In seventh grade, I think it was, I had a history teacher. And he had traveled the world, and he knew all about these places, and so he told me about his personal experiences in those different countries and how that fitted into world history, and it was really great. He was a great teacher.
You know, and I can say that about him, but it's about the person, about the personality and how they deal with the students. Yeah, and they can make learning challenging yet fun and something you want to go to. I've been very lucky in my life that I've had some great teachers. And, you know, I look back and I think, boy, am I one lucky guy to have them and to know exactly the same kind of thing. You know, they make the learning come alive.
You know, history wasn't dates and places. History was living, you know, to me. Yes, very vibrant. And these guys wanted this and those guys wanted that. And these were human beings. They were flawed. They did great things, but they also made some dumb mistakes, too. And you've got to see them all. But my experience in life is that competition works.
Every time. Absolutely. And we have a lack of competition here in the Anchorage School District, in particular in other school districts here in Alaska. Absolutely. Dan, we've got to take a quick break. I appreciate that. Are you going to call in next week on the earthquake? I will, certainly. Okay, because you've got some great stories to tell. Every year I try to get Mrs. P on because she was here in 64, ready to go out on a date, which wasn't with me.
And that's why we had the earthquake. It might have been safer than where I was. Yes, you were in ground zero for contestants. I was on the dock, yeah. Which isn't there anymore. No. All right, we'll look forward to talking to you next week, Dan. Thanks. You bet. Okay. Bye-bye. All right. 545. We'll be right back. Get on with Mike and Crash weekdays at 3 on NewsRadio 650 KENI.
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Welcome back, everybody. 522-0650. Glad that you could be with us. Because if you weren't with us, it would be awfully lonely. Well, it's the end of the week, which is great. And kind of interesting stuff today with the sound bites from Chuck Schumer. and the town halls and all the other stuff that's going on. And I think that, you know, I think Rhonda had a good point. Republicans have to have some moxie.
And, you know, the Democrats don't like losing. They got whacked pretty good in the election. But they don't like losing. They're not learning very much from their loss, which you should, but they're not. And so what they have now resorted to do is they're trying to do everything to scuttle the ship of state. It just shows you what kind of losers they are. They would rather see America fail and hurt America rather than try to work with the people that are in charge to make America great again.
I don't care if you like the president or don't like the president. He's the president. You know, I wasn't thrilled with Biden. And as it turned out, I was right. I said the guy probably isn't running the country. We still don't know who was running the country at the time. Whoever had the auto pen was running the country. And Biden proved very conclusively that he was impaired.
You know, I mean, as I say, I didn't wish him any ill. I was hoping that he would get some help, and I hope he does now in his retirement years. But he was in no way, shape, or form able to do the job of the President of the United States. Just wasn't there. And everybody was covering for the guy and lying. Okay? That's what was going on. Trump, whether you like him or don't like him, is a force. And he wants to get stuff done, and he understands because he was in the office four years ago.
that you've got about two years to get stuff done. If he loses one House of Congress, his life gets changed. The Democrats... understand that too, but the Democrats weren't expecting to lose everything. Their fallback plan was what Chuck Schumer said earlier in the broadcast, which was, we're going to cede the judiciary with... Liberal judges that are not under the control of Trump. Which makes me a little uneasy because judges aren't supposed to be under the control of anybody.
Nobody. You're supposed to be independent. But these people seem to be hand-picked for a mission. And so far, with 125 lawsuits, it's pretty clear what their mission is. So that's what's going on in the world. And, Darrell, I mean, I don't know if you've got any more thoughts on it, but it's just to me we've got to not... take our eye off the ball here. Not take our eye off the ball, and remember that the progressives play the long game. We, as conservatives, we're...
focusing mainly on what our world now is, and maybe just five years down the line, ten years down the line. Progressives take the communist approach to this, and that is to look at the 20-year. The 50 year, the 100 years, what they want us to, the utopia they want at the end. But most of them, it's the 20 years. So they set all this stuff up so they get it going. And if we get a little hitch where they, you know, they, oop, lost an election here. That's okay. They're already planning.
For if they can win again. Now, I honestly don't feel that they'll be able to win again for a little while because we've got some good contenders in the lineup. And they really don't have any foot to stand on. But we don't want to get complacent. We don't want to just say, oh, Trump's in.
there and this is going to be, we need to stand up, as Rhonda said, I love the word moxie, because we need to stand up and not be afraid to be called a racist. Not to be afraid to call, because that's their tactic. Because we're not. Exactly. We're not. We know we're not. Our family and friends know we're not. But they like to put that little hint. And then if they've got 10 of them shouting it at you, well...
The people over there are just going, oh, well, they're shouting at him. Forget that. Don't worry what those people think. You know who you are. You know you're in the right. Republicans, conservatives, stand up to it. Look them right in the eye and say, liar. Just, you know, thank you very much. Bye. I think, Amy, you used the term, by Felicia, is, I think, the word she used. Okay.
I think that goes back to some trend from like 15 years ago, because I remember hearing that before, but I thought it was well said. Well, we just need to make sure that we don't... We don't get essentially our I guess our focus isn't distracted because we can't do that. You've got to focus on what you're trying to do, as Trump is doing. You've got to focus on it and get it done.
And once he can clear some of these lawsuits and this other stuff away, I think you're going to see stuff fly through. Because he's got the power to do what he wants to do. He's not breaking any laws. He's not being lawless. I know there are people that don't like some of the things he's doing. Oh, you're cutting too many employees, etc. You know, I think he's the president. He has the power to do it.
You want to make sure that when you're cutting employees, you're cutting employees that could be cut. It's a tough thing. You don't want to see people out of work. But what Trump has done, I think, is he's given people an opportunity to take a package, which is, you know, what you do in private business. Yeah, it helps you more. So another thing that I've noticed out there...
is the fact that, so A, the progressive side, they don't focus anything that Trump's done, they don't consider good. So I've seen an article and I read in the first line and it was, the first two months of the second Trump administration have brought practically nothing but bad news to a lot. Oh, my gosh. The news to Alaska has never been better. Exactly. I mean, this is like unshackling.
you know, the crown jewels of America. We have never had more opportunity than we have staring us right in the face, and we need to take advantage of it.
And the progressives, though, are only focusing on the government cuts that we've, you know, shut down the government and all this kind of stuff. And one of the things that they're forgetting is, and I had to explain this to somebody yesterday, is when you've got to make as many cuts and cleaning out as we do to the federal government, But you got to cut them to start.
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