The opinions expressed on this show are those of the host and not of iHeartMedia or its employees. Amy Temposki. The show starts now. Our lines are open at 907-522-0650. This is The Morning Drive on NewsRadio 650 KENI. Welcome, welcome. It is Tuesday morning, February 25th, current time, 6.06 a.m. How's your morning this morning, Daryl? It is doing phenomenal. Excellent. It is chipper outside. It's nice. It's almost just about freezing out there. It's like 31 minutes. Okay.
Oh, 31. You're beating us. We're at 29 here in Palmer. Kenai checking in at 26. Big Lake, 27. Fairbanks, 5 degrees. Back to single digits. I was going to say, but, so, just so you know, Fairbanks, because, you know, we've got the Iditarod starting up, and they're going to start, they're doing a ceremonial down here. They're doing the real one up there. Yeah. I do believe it's on Sunday, next to this coming day.
Do you know what they're predicting is the temperature? I do not. 31 degrees for Fairbanks in April. Look, I told you spring is basically here. I mean, you know. Spring is basically here. Give it five minutes, and it'll be shorts weather. Are you kidding here at Anchorage? There's nothing but shorts and flip-flops everywhere.
I got to tell you, this morning when I got up and I got dressed, I was going to put on this really nice sweater. And then I was like, oh, I'm going to be too hot. So I went with my very light, my very light pink, you know, thing instead because I just felt like, hmm.
No, it's going to be too hot. See, I wore my lightest hoodie today. This is literally the lightest hoodie I have. See, I'm telling you, what are you going to do when it comes to be June? You'll have to switch to t-shirts, no hoodies. T-shirts, and then we bring the AC on. But actually, that's not a problem in this room right here. Oh, good Lord. In that room, you're right. This room does not have that problem. I was going to say...
The few times when I was in the studio and they turned on the AC, like, you could sit there with your coat on the whole show in June. Well, it's funny. So that's not even with the actual AC that, you know, inside. That's the mall's AC kicks on. And actually, people from other studios... bring their drinks in here and set them down so they can cool them down?
I know you may be exaggerating a little, but I know it's actually possible because I've seen how cold it is in that room. Let's just say your Coke does not get warm when you're sitting here. No, no, no, no. No, no, no, no. It does not. Well, I suppose I should go through some community announcements. We have a few of them today. We'll start with the Matsu Borough for today, Tuesday, February 25th. The Big Lake Community Council has their board meeting. That is going to kick off at 6 o'clock.
and it will be at Susitna Brewing Company, which is 5120 South Big Lake Road in Big Lake. The Tanina Community Council also has their meeting tonight at 7 p.m. at the Menard Center. It will be in person. and they have a Zoom link. So if you're interested in attending virtually, just go to matzoogov.us and then click on your community council that you're interested in, and it'll give you the information if there's a Zoom link. But like I said, tonight on...
That tonight does have a Zoom link. Those are the only two meetings for the Mat-Su for today. The City of Wasilla has a Planning Commission regular meeting tonight. It's publicly noticed from 6 to 10. at the Wasilla City Hall Council Chambers, which is, of course, located at 290 East Turning Avenue in Wasilla. If you want more information, including their agenda, just go to cityofwasilla.gov.
As far as the city of Palmer goes, there is a regular city council meeting tonight in Palmer. That will kick off at 6 p.m. at the city of Palmer's. Council Chambers located at 231 West Evergreen Avenue in Palmer. And again, if you want their agenda, all you have to do is go to palmerak.org, look at the calendar, just click through the links, you'll find the PDF. It's pretty straightforward. As far as the municipality of Anchorage goes for today, the 25th, the only thing I see on the calendar
For boards and commissions is a geotechnical advisory commission meeting. This will be at noon today. It's a hybrid meeting, so you can attend online or you can attend in person. If you want to attend in person, it's going to be at the plan. planning development. Planning and Development Center, which is located, of course, at 4700 Elmore Road in Anchorage in Conference Room 170. And if you need the link, just go to muni.org, click on the Mayor's tab, then click on the Events tab.
And that brings you to all the boards and commission meetings. As far as the Anchorage Assembly goes, there is a regular assembly meeting tonight for the Anchorage Assembly. It will start at 5 p.m., but all those items for public testimony start at 6 p.m. Of course, it's at the LUSAC Library in the Assembly Chambers, which is located at 3600 Denali Street in Anchorage. If you want to see their agenda, just go to muni.org.
and then click on the Assembly tab, and it'll bring you right in. As far as the Kenai Peninsula Borough goes for today, the 25th, there is an Assembly meeting that's publicly noticed, Darrell, from 6 to 8 p.m. Okay. I missed it. I've got to be honest with you. You know, how nice is to have a two-hour assembly meeting? I like the efficiency of Kenai. It's Kenai. It's Kenai.
in an hour and a half to an hour and 15 minutes and then have coffee and cookies afterwards. I'm telling you, coffee is that good. Now I'm telling you. So if you live in the borough down there in the Kenai, tonight there is a city council meeting. So that will be from 6 to 8 p.m. at the borough building, which is located at 144 North Binkley Street in Soldotna. If you need more information, including their agenda, just go to KPB.
That stands for Kenai Peninsula Borough, so KPB.us. There are no meetings scheduled today for the city of Kenai or Saldana itself. But I do want to remind people because time is waning here. Friday is the deadline. Storefront Improvement Program is now accepting applications. The city of Saldana is accepting applications for storefront improvement. It's a grant program that offers up to $7,500. for local businesses to rehabilitate Seldotna storefronts and help promote thriving
local economy, and attractive streetscapes. Applications are due no later than February 28, 2025. For program guidelines and more information, you can go to sildatna.org forward slash storefront. Or just go to sildatna.org and you'll see the little widget on the front page where it says grants up to $7,500. Just click through it and you'll be able to find all the information. Or you can call the planning department at 907-262-9107.
be able to find the information there. That really does it for Soldatna for today, and there's no public announcements for the city of Kena, or city of Homer, rather. Homer has no meetings today. They have some tomorrow, but not today. So that really wraps it up for our public announcements for local governments. I was just looking at a different website. Sorry. I'm getting distracted. But I do want to remind people.
Congressman Nick Begich, who joined the show yesterday, will be back in Alaska in March. He's in D.C. now, of course, but he will be back in Alaska in March. And there is a Lincoln Day dinner out here in the... Valley March 15th at 6.30 p.m. at Settlers Bay. There will be a Lincoln Day dinner hosted by the Valley Republican Women's Club of Alaska.
You can still purchase tickets online, but they're going fast. So I recommend if you're interested in going and hearing Congressman Begich in person, and he always works the crowd. So he's always very sociable when he goes to these. kind of event so you'll get an opportunity to talk to him All you have to do is go to vrwak.com, and you'll be able to purchase tickets that way. Again, tickets are going pretty fast, so I recommend if you're interested in going that you go and purchase your ticket.
right away. They're representative of the event. I say it's a semi-formal event, so you can get all gussied up, Daryl. You could totally wear your sequins outfit if you'd like. I can't find it. I can't see it anywhere. I'm just now imagining Daryl showing up in this blue sequins dress. How did you know it was blue?
I don't know. I was channeling your inner liberal. I don't know. I don't know. I was just guessing. You got to do what you got to do. I gave up on the red one just because too many people kept thinking they were being pulled over by a cop when I went by. I had a friend that used to have for Fourth of July. Everybody knows Finest Sheldon in Chugiak, right? So he passed a few years ago. But he had this wonderful sequence for Fourth of July. He always, like, dressed up like Uncle Sam.
sort of. He had this red, white, and blue suit. And, you know, the sequence was popping. It was always, you always knew when Finest was coming because he looked very festive for the occasion. It was very, it was awesome. So whenever I think of like sequence outfits.
That's one of the first ones that pops in my head. And it's funny you said they knew he was coming. They also knew when he'd been there and left because he left sequins behind. That's the worst thing about sequins is finding a little trail of them behind going, and there's another one. And there's another one. That's it. So bring your best dress. That's it. For the Valley Republican Women of Alaska, Lincoln Day Dinner. Again, that's going to be Saturday, March 15th.
6.30 to 9 p.m. at Settlers Bay Lodge out in Wasilla. If you want more information, including buying tickets, just go to vrwak.com. That does it for our community announcements for this morning. like to call in be part of the show the numbers five two two zero six fifty when we come back we will start with the headlines of the day Amy Demboski, 6 to 8, mornings on NewsRadio 650, KENI. Call now, 907-522-0650. Welcome back.
Daryl and I were just having this very interesting conversation off air because he told me there was a caller to Mike's show last night that asked where to go to find all the vehicles owned by the state of Alaska. So, you know, this is, I don't know that there's one place. I mean, the Department of Administration has the DMV. The DMV could certainly run a report to say all the vehicles owned by the state of Alaska.
I would recommend, because there's multiple departments that have their own vehicles, right? Fish and Game. You have the Troopers, so Department of Public Safety, Transit. I would say the best way to get the most comprehensive list would be to contact the governor's office. This would be a really good task. It would be a really good task for Todd Smolden, the Governor's Matsu director. Todd's going to love me throwing out his name for this one.
But, you know, if anybody can pull together all that information, I can't even imagine how many vehicles there are. Because when you start saying vehicles, like DPS, for example, they have a whole fleet of planes. i mean so they have planes they have boats they have cars but you said this was sparked because a caller said that they had seen a tesla
with state plates on it. And Mike drilled into it. He said, well, were they legislative plates? Because that would make sense. I can see that. And the caller said, no, they were definite state of Alaska. You know, plates, official plates. And so now the question for Todd Smolden. How many electric vehicles does the state of Alaska own? Bingo. That's exactly the next question on it because according to registration, I think there's only like 1,200, 1,400 electric vehicles registered in the state.
Yeah. So if it's that low, like I said, wondering, A, how many does the state own and why were they bought? And then my question would be also where are they charged at? Who pays for the charging? All that kind of stuff also. Well, come on, be honest. We all pay for it. We pay for gas and state vehicles, too. But that's tracked through a gas card.
That is tractor now for let's say vehicles did they have did whoever owns it or gets it? Did they have a charging station have to be put in at their house for that huge amount of a dollar spent? And, you know, it just brings up all these other questions. But, again, why are we buying for the state luxury cars? Well, and you have to remember, not every state vehicle is driven home either. Oh, good question. So sometimes it could be, you know.
The municipality in Anchorage had a couple of electric buses. And let's just be honest, they didn't work out too well. And we hear about some other communities that have electric. So a lot of the vehicles, I'm thinking about different inspectors. I'm thinking about stuff like that. of times those cars aren't even driven home. They're just...
at work and they use them for their day-to-day when they have to go out on sites and stuff. So I don't know. That's a really good question. So I hope Todd's ears are burning because I'll send him an email later and see if I can spread But whoever's looking for that information, that's who I would contact. Because, you know, again, you could contact the Department of Administration. through the DMV, they should be able to give a list of all vehicles owned by the state of Alaska, I would think.
But I think you'd probably get more of a response from the governor's office because they tend to be very good at customer service. And so I think they would be more inclined to... pull all that information together from all the different departments. See, and me, I was looking down, and I can't remember the name of it, the little building down off of Post Road that's down in the hole where they buy and sell stuff or where you can buy and sell stuff. Yeah. They a lot of times get rid of.
Excess vehicles. They usually have a general idea of what vehicles are owned by what departments. So those are the guys that I was trying to get a hold of yesterday. I spent, oh... Probably 30 minutes, and that was all from basically about 4.15 to 4.45, calling all the numbers. You're working way too hard. You're working way too hard. You just need to know people, Daryl. See, and that's the thing. So I just went down the list of phone numbers for everybody in that building. Yeah.
I got voicemail for everybody in the whole building. Yeah, you're working way too hard. I would just start with the governor's office. That's where I would start. And that's why I brought it up to you this morning. And, you know, speaking of that electric bus you were talking about, did you hear what happened to the electric bus? last company that we gave a bunch of that money to. Did they go out of business?
Oh, yeah, they filed for bankruptcy last year. Oh, of course. Of course they did. I'm trying to find the number that we gave them, but it was like $5 billion we gave them. On a federal level? Yeah, yeah, from the federal government, from, you know, part of the inflation reduction. reminiscent of what solyndra i keep bringing solyndra up because that was that was that was a total scam you know that was the that was the
the sweet little honeypot of the Obama administration, you know, developing all this green energy. You give tons of money to Solyndra, and then they don't produce nearly what they said they were going to produce, and then they go belly up. This is what happens with the green scam, right? I mean, this is the green news scam. It's investing in these companies that make a product that simply isn't...
isn't really in demand by the market, and then when the government subsidies dry up, they just go belly up. I think I know why they went bankrupt now. Why is that? Because there was a recall issued on 483 of their buses. I'm not surprised. You know, we had looked at garbage. They had looked at garbage trucks trying to go through green.
in Anchorage, they were going to do these green garbage trucks, you know, electric garbage trucks. The biggest problem you have is they can't even do a full route on one charge. And so it's totally... I mean, it's not even logical. When they can't do the basic job, if you can't run one route without having to go back and charge up for hours at a time, it's nonsensical. It comes to a point where you look at it and you're like, this doesn't even work.
even make sense. You know what does make sense though? State of Florida.
gotta be honest with you state of florida i was i was chatting with somebody yesterday and i was having this conversation you know i'm really getting harder into the pain on this whole property tax thing because you can never really own your property when it comes to property tax and And no matter what, like, I get so irritated, and I'm just generally irritated this year because of how much money I had to pay to the federal government in taxes.
And you look at how many times $1 that you make gets taxed, right? You have to pay your payroll taxes, right? You've got to pay the money as soon as you earn it. They take a cut. And then if there's state... you know tax then you you're paying on your state tax due but then and then you turn around and you know
They tax with your already taxed dollars. If you want to invest them, then they tax you on your earnings from your already taxed dollars. And then you turn around and buy a house, and then the local government taxes you on your property of your already taxed.
And then you want to go buy groceries, and there's a sales tax. And then you want to put fuel in your car so you can go to work, and there's a fuel tax. And then if you die, a lot of places, you know, have a death tax, basically, an inheritance. And so you start talking about it. Now, I know on the federal level, the inheritance tax has come and gone over the years. But make no mistake about it, they will try 50 ways from Sunday to tax the same dollar over and over again.
it's irritating and when you look at seniors you look at the Social Security the money that you put into Social Security if you would have just taken that money instead of giving it to the government. If you would have just taken that money and put it in like the S&P and let it just grow over the years, you'd have far more money than if you actually just wait for Social Security to come back. And then they tax your Social Security.
money's already been taxed over and over again. And then they turn around and tax you more. Well, Governor DeSantis is now backing a proposal to eliminate property taxes in Florida. I'm looking at this article from Realtor.com. The Florida legislature is considering a move to eliminate property taxes in a state.
It says in the state. Some are calling this a radical step by DeSantis. If actually carried out, the proposal would make Florida the first state in the country without property taxes, a prospect that has already dropped on strong reactions from supporters and opponents. Of course, what does that mean? It means the government is going to have to control their spending, but more than likely they will shift it from a property tax to a sales tax, which I am actually, you know.
Look, I don't trust the government, to be honest with you. And this is the reason why a sales tax in Anchorage has failed over and over again, because people don't believe that... the sales tax is actually going to offset property taxes dollar for dollar. Like, if you just completely wipe out property taxes and go to a sales tax, like, I got to be honest with you, to me, that's a more fair tax.
But the reality is, unless you get government spending under control, you're never going to do it. But I think that there's something to it. Ron DeSantis posted on X, property taxes are local, not state.
so we need to do a constitutional amendment which requires sixty percent of voters to approve to eliminate them which i would support or even to reform slash lower them we should put the boldest amendment on the ballot that has a chance of getting that sixty percent i agree that taxing land slash property the more oppressive and ineffective form of taxation.
it's right think about this I mean this is what seniors deal with all the time people anybody on a fixed income deals with you know you just making your budget maybe you just retired And you say, okay, I have enough money now. I can make my bills. But then what happens when your property taxes go up 10%, 20%? All of a sudden, you go from making it.
to not making it anymore. Then you have to choose, am I going to cut back on my groceries? Am I going to start cutting my medication? Can I afford my medication? Now that's the choice that a lot of people have to make. And so especially when you're on a fixed income. you know the as the years go by and those property taxes creep up or your valuations creep up and everybody's starting to get their little green cards in the mail now as your valuations creep up i mean really it is
tax on unrealized gains. That's really what it is, right? And so there you have it. And when Ron DeSantis is now having the conversation about Basically, our property tax is fair. You bought this property. You own this property. But over the years, especially in a state like Florida, which has a high, high senior population, you have people.
that now are on a fixed income. You know, when you're 88, you're not going back to work. There's nothing you can do. You're totally subject to the whims of local politicians who could be cranking up your property taxes. How do you pay for that? And so I think the conversation...
about the level of property taxes. Should it be capped? Should it be eliminated? Should people over a certain age be able to have a complete, you know, they're not paying anymore on their property taxes? I think these are all logical questions. ask and I think at the end of the day it's a fundamental question If you're constantly being taxed on your property that you purchased with after-tax dollars, so it's like a double jeopardy, do you actually ever own your property? No, you don't.
There you go. All right, we're going to take a quick break. We'll come back. Stay with us. 7-5-2-2-0-6-50. That's 9-0-7-5-2-2-0-6-50. It's Amy Deboski on NewsRadio 650. KENI. Welcome back. Current time, 638. I'm going to go ahead and go straight to the phones. I'm going to start with Tim here. Hang on just a second. I'm having issues with my phones.
There we go. Almost there. Almost there. All right. There we go. We got Tim. Good morning, Tim. Good morning, Amy. How are you? I am wonderful. What's on your mind this morning? Well, you know the big outrage over the five bullet points, you know, what did you do this week? Elon Musk, yeah, his memo, yeah. So I asked, Daryl's your screener, isn't he? Yeah, he's my producer. So I asked him what he did last week, and he froze up like Joe Biden giving a speech. Oh, wow. All right. Not really.
You need to keep him for another week. He was pretty busy last week. He was very busy. I've got to tell you, he had to deal with me for two days last week. I mean, that's a handful right there. Yeah.
To the point, I guess, so I worked for the National Park Service from 2012 to 2019. And every day I got done, we'd have to write in our... little notebook what we did that week you know hour and a half doing this two hours that so I mean that was just normal you know I can't remember if it started under
Obama, or I know under Trump we did, but nobody was outraged. Everybody, you know, well, this is what I did. You know, you turn it in, they send it up to the office, and then wherever it goes. But, I mean, they're acting like this is a new thing. And I think that... The reason why they're so outraged is because they're being exposed. I mean, every time you turn around, they're doing this and that, you know. So they're being exposed, and that's why they're so outraged.
Oh, yeah, I think you're exactly right. You know, my husband and I were having this conversation. He works up on the slope now after he retired. So now he works up on the slope. And every single day, he basically journals what he does. Like, that's one of the things that, you know, his boss has him do is, you know, he's a safety guy up on the slope. So he's like, you know.
He goes to all of the different camps up there, and he's constantly going from this camp to this camp to that camp. And his boss says, hey, I just want you to journal every day what you're doing. That way his boss can double-check not that he's doing it.
his job he's double-checking if there's big issues that are starting to bubble up or issuers trends that he's seeing or whatever you know it's just a way to just keep a tab on what your organization is doing and and if somebody you know and this is what I laugh about the Elon Elon Musk, you know, memo. If people haven't realized this by now, with Elon Musk, this is like clickbait for Doge. They're seeing if anybody's responding, and if they're not, it's a really big red flag.
that you're probably not checking your email I mean it's not that complicated right I mean even if even if you work in one of these agencies where they're like oh it's something sensitive I don't think they're looking so much at the content of what you're saying. They're looking to see if you're even responding at all. And I will tell you, I had this conversation yesterday with somebody.
that their spouse is very good friends with two federal employees up here in Alaska. And up here in Alaska, both of them working for different organizations, we're told by their supervisors, do not respond. So lower level bureaucrats are telling people, do not respond. And so, but the whole point of this, and this is why I say this is basically Doge Bade.
is because this helps DOGE very quickly sort out which agencies they're going to have issues in and which ones are absolutely refusing the directive of the executive. right who is is and isn't going to be compliant with trump's orders because elon musk is working for donald trump so he is clearly doing the work of donald trump so this to me is i mean effectively you know
Using this terminology, which is not the most ideal, but effectively you're putting a target on yourself by saying, by just absolutely refusing to. Who of us cannot say five things we did last week? I mean, come on. I worked two days. last week, and I can rattle off five things off the top of my head. It's not that complicated. Like, what did you work on? You know? Yeah. Well, you know, it was twice that I started to feel entitled.
to tell you the truth, because I was making good money. It was like, ah, my future's secure. But then, you know, thank the Lord Almighty, he brought me back to reality those few times. Like, money's not everything. It is not, and we are all replaceable. I mean, the reality is, you know, many of us have been in that situation, and I've made the conscious choice in my life that I get to choose who I want to be. I don't have to live.
Listen, you know, if I have a problem with somebody, I'm going to tell them to their face, like, I have an issue. Let's see if we can work it out. But, you know, at the end of the day, You know, you have a choice. You know, you can make every day whatever you want it to be. But you have to choose to show up and you have to choose to work. Yeah. Just one last thing. Everybody got a kick out of watching the Elon.
Well, a chainsaw on stage with the Argentine president. Yeah, Malay, yeah. And I would be willing to pay for a tank of gas and some bar oil for his next move. Well, we will all be watching. a big bucket of popcorn. I have no idea what it's going to be, but we'll watch. All right, Tim, thank you for the call this morning, sir. All right, bye-bye.
Daryl, I'm going to go to Randy, but line two has cleared for me. I can't see who's on there, so let's go to Randy first. Good morning, Randy. Good morning, preempt day. Yay. you got me going in a different direction that was originally called in for but i'm going with your car um it's taxes and so forth like burnett was saying well how much where did this money come from etc well
The taxes, they're going to keep going up. I don't care what they do. The state is down a hell bit to have the state tax. I don't care what form it's going to be in. It's just going to be a tax. Where it's going to stop, one never knows. Yeah, look, if they can't control their spending, look, you know, I had a great conversation yesterday with a group of women that I met with after work. And the reality is, if the state can't control their spending, they will have no...
Look, little minds go straight to taxes. That's what happens. If you truly believe you're spending every penny that you're collecting from people well, then I think the conversation can be on revenue enhancements. And how does that work? happen it doesn't have to happen through taxes it can also happen through let's say in Alaska let's take the university system for example they're a land bank
Why aren't they utilizing their asset of land more effectively to generate revenue? They could allow for land sales. They could allow for leases on their property that could generate revenue in perpetuity. There's a lot of things that they could do with their actual asset. It doesn't always have to go to taxes, but I think lazy minds go straight to taxes. That's what it is. And I will tell you this. I am becoming more and more firm in my position. that...
I would really like to know what the personal finances are of a lot of these lawmakers that are making decisions. I want to know what their credit score is. I want to know what, in fact, who is managing our resources and our assets for the state of Alaska. Because I'm starting to believe many of these people don't know how to balance a checkbook. Well, don't we have a disclosure on that when they go into office?
Well, they have to do a financial disclosure to tell where all their money is or where their money comes from. That's what they have to tell. But it doesn't actually, I mean, it doesn't actually tell you a whole lot. It doesn't tell you how they manage their resources.
tell you if they're good with money and you know there's a lot of things that doesn't tell you but you know when I look at the Alaska legislature and the reality is if you're passing budgets that you're relying on savings It's not really a balanced budget, is it? I mean, because your revenues should at least meet your expenditures. If your expenditures are exceeding your revenues, you're pulling from savings. But here's the problem with legislators.
They have a real hard time cutting anything. Once a program and entitlement has started,
They have a real hard time on the federal level, on the state level, on the local level. When entitlement has started, they have a real hard problem saying no. And they don't treat our money like it's their own personal money. What they do is they just... throw it out they're like here here's some for you here's some for you look at gerald was telling me during the break You know, they have another grant appropriation for the Alaska Black Caucus to get like $65,000 for their kitchen.
Now, first of all, explain to me why we bought the Alaska Black Caucus a building. And renovated it. And now we're throwing more and more money into it. So it's not enough that they were given taxpayer money. you know, to the tune of a lot of money, thousands and thousands of dollars. I actually think they were over a million.
It's not to the fact that they were given thousands and thousands of dollars. Now they're coming for more and more and more. They haven't figured out how to take this gift from Anchorage's taxpayers. and utilize it. They're now coming back for more with their handout. And you know what? The Anchorage Assembly will probably give it to them. Oh, yeah. So they have an addiction to spending. Yeah, all right, all right, what's your joke?
Okay, what do you get when you cross Star Wars and Star Trek? Ooh, what do you get when you cross Star Wars with Star Trek? Confused. Star Wars strikes out. Empire Strikes Out. All right, well, I have one for you. Daryl's laughing. I have one for you. Why was the mushroom so popular? No clue. Because he was a fun guy. You're welcome. All right. Thank you, Randy. All right. We're going to go ahead and take a quick break. We'll be right back. Now back.
to the boss, Amy Demboski. Call 907-522-0650 and be a part of the show on News Radio 650. KENI. Welcome back. We're going to go straight to the phones. And Ken is with us this morning. Good morning, sir. Hey, good morning. Hey, I got your joke. I'll play that gig. What should we do with the people who rely on government handouts but refuse to work? Oh, what? Do you have a punchline?
Yeah, kick him out of Congress. Oh, look, I like your creativity. I like it. Oh, man. Well, I see my notes on here. Daryl says taxes is your conversation. point of the morning what are your thoughts yeah did you see uh did you see bill let's see the cronk's new bill uh let me get the number right uh sb 109 i have not seen it yet Yes, a permanent fund dividend split to change it to $75.25, and Cronk is a sponsor on that.
I'm not surprised. Look, we're going to be lucky if we get 25% this year. You know what I heard yesterday? I heard yesterday there's discussion in the halls of the Senate that they're going to potentially cut it down to $1,000 this year. I mean, their goal is to eliminate it completely. And if they pass the BSA increase and they return to a defined benefit, there's no way, as Kathy Giesel says in income taxes, and I'm going to paraphrase here, it's effectively going to happen.
Right. They can't pass these huge spending bills without a revenue source. And so the first bucket of money they're going to go to is a PFD. The second bucket of money is going to be new taxes. Well, let's talk about that for the listener's awareness. Anybody that believes that failed third grade math, because you've got about 400,000 wage earners by the state statistics off the website.
And with that, you look at the tables on that, you've got about $200,000 that make enough money to tax. You can't tax all of $200,000 people's money if you're the bloat. Exactly. You're exactly right. I mean, you're 100% right. I mean, the reality of this is, that's why I keep saying the issue here is not a revenue issue. The issue here is a spending issue. And when the legislature can't keep it in check and they can't actually pass a balanced budget with what they have,
I mean, they're going to drive us into the hole. That's what's going to happen. Ken, thank you for weighing in this morning. I appreciate your call this morning. We're hitting our heartbreak, so we've got to take a quick break. We'll be right back. In today's Marketers Report, Erica Taylor, Chief Marketing Officer of Donentech, weighs in on audio's ability to reach any audience.
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You know, I'm laughing right now because the Faulkner focus is on Fox right now. That is a tongue twister. Faulkner focus on Fox it's going on right now here's Faulkner is talking about what we were just talking about the whole Elon Musk five things you did last week email And I'm looking at the email right in front of me. This is what it actually says.
Please reply to this email with approximately five bullets of what you accomplished last week and CC your manager. Please do not send any classified information, links, or documents. Deadline is this Monday at 1159 p.m. Eastern. That's all it says. Now, you wouldn't know that if you're watching, you know, msnbc or you're watching cnn because what they're freaking out about is oh you know he wants all this classified information it literally says in the email
Please do not send any classified information, links, or documents. It literally says it. It just says some bullets. It doesn't even say a number, just some bullets, which means just vaguely tell me what you did. Give me a bullet point what you did. And this is why I say this is doge bait. Because these idiots, all they're doing by not responding is it's telling the executive that you cannot follow simple directions.
Or you're refusing to comply with an executive directive. That's the important one. Write down. So the fact of the matter is, by not responding, you're effectively saying, fire me because I'm not going to listen to you. That's a fact. what you're doing. I mean, it's really stupid at this point. I kind of laugh because...
I look at this, Sean Duffy, you know, transportation secretary. He says, Mr. President, five things I did last week. One, terminated New York City elitist anti-worker congestion pricing. Two, launched an investigation into the $16 billion. and taxpayer dollars wasted on high-speed rail projects that, after 17 years, has yet to lay a single mile of track. Gavin Newsom. That's California, right? Number three, save $10 million a year by eliminating redundant and outdated landlines.
Four, visited the Air Traffic Control Command Center in Virginia to see the critical tech upgrades we need to make our air traffic system, the envy of the world, and five, toured Burbank, California, traffic control tower and heard from air traffic controllers about how to improve conditions.
and retain and recruit more controllers. So even the cabinet members are responding, is my point here. And they're the big dogs. I mean, come on. I mean, this is not complicated. I've got to be honest with you. Okay. You want to hear a little inside baseball? Sure. Same thing happened during the transition that I was a part of, where people were asked to do a simple task. If they did not respond to the transition team and do the simple task,
They were immediately put on a red list, basically. These are people that are going to be fired because they refused to follow simple directions. Now, I'm not saying people didn't get off the red list. Maybe they did. Maybe they were on vacation. I don't know. I wasn't on the personnel side of it. I was doing something else for that transition. But my point is this. This is easy, easy doge bait. And doge bait simply means, are these people that are actually working?
Are these people that are going to be hostile to the administration and won't follow simple directions? Are these people that are going to be problems down the road? I'm telling you right now, during a transition, this is the easiest time to get rid of people. Look. Biggest mistake managers make is they hold on to dead weight too long. That's the biggest mistake they make.
Because the problem is that dead weight is going to become bigger and bigger and bigger issues for you down the road. You've got to kind of rip the Band-Aid off. And you've got to deal with issues. And if people that are institutionally... going to be the ones that are slow rolling your agenda.
It's going to be a problem for you down the road. You want to know what's really funny? One of the comments I heard from some of the detractors of this, you know, saying that they don't want to do it and stuff like that is. Yeah. This is hilarious for me. So they're saying. You know, those people that don't want to do it and get fired because of it, you know, they get fired from the federal government.
Yeah. We've got to worry about them, especially if they've been working in, you know, areas that they have access to secret information and stuff. Oh, I saw that article yesterday. Yeah, you know, just disseminate that. classified information, and because they get fired, they all of a sudden become an agent of Russia or some hostile country. They deserve to be charged with treason or espionage and locked up. Period. And I would have made sure they were fired before that. I'm sorry.
The reality is, if that's the type of person you're employing in those areas, you have the wrong type of person in those areas. That's exactly where I'm going with that. This is not complicated. All right, let's go to the phones. And Bruce is with us. Good morning, sir. Hey, morning, Amy. Morning, Daryl. Well, I'm one of those federal employees, and oh my gosh, this weekend when this email came out.
People's hair was on fire, dude. They were losing it. It was the craziest thing. Oh, my gosh. How dare they ask me what I did last week. I mean, come on. It's not complicated. Bruce, okay. So I have to ask you the million-dollar question. You got this email. that I just read, right? It doesn't seem super complicated. It doesn't seem offensive to me. Did you respond to it? So I had like a
20 different things I was right, but our department, we were told, don't worry about it, and that came from our department head. Yeah. For the DHS secretary, it came from them, don't worry about it. But, like, all these people, like... Before that came out, all these coworkers were like, I'm not going to do it. Our union was telling people, like, don't respond. And I was telling people along the lines of what you're talking about. I was like, dude, there's nothing here that's unlawful.
Or what's wrong. Nothing. And it goes back to a bigger picture right now with Trump and Doge and this email and all the accountability. What's happening right now across the federal workforce and just the country?
is that people were asleep and they've gotten cold water thrown in their face. And nobody likes that, dude, right? And they're being woken up. And government employees, I don't care if they're local, state, or federal, they've gotten this idea in their head that they're just untouchable. Like, oh, my gosh, woe is me. You asked me to talk about what I did or how I'm valuable to not only this organization but the country, and they act like they're so offended. It absolutely amazes me.
You know, I'm a federal employee, been doing it for a long time. And, you know, I was happy when I got hired. I was happy when I got through my probation. It was a big deal. But in no way do I think I'm unaccountable or can't answer for my questions. And I do realize that taxpayers are paying my salary, and I don't want to let them down. And I just find it shocking that so many people are so upset. Yeah, it's cold water in the face, and it's been long overdue.
You know, this is my point. Look, I have worked for local governments now. I've worked for state governments. But most of my career, frankly, has been in the private sector. And what I have found is there are some really good people that work in the different agencies.
that I've worked in. So by no stretch of the imagination am I saying because somebody works for the government that they're lazy and they're not doing their job. Because I've worked with a lot of hard working people. Man, I had this one director at the municipality of Anchorage.
When it snows, he's sleeping on his couch in his office. Like he's almost working 24 hours a day. I mean, he busts hump. And I look at that type of work ethic and I say, you know, that's like what I want to be. And many people know in my office.
I always had a pillow and blankie, a toothbrush and toothpaste. And people would try to keep up because I just feel like I'm going to spend every minute I can doing the best job I can. And I think there's thousands and thousands and thousands of government workers. that feel the same way and so to me I see an email like this and again
I've also been part of transitions where I've seen these type of emails come out, and it's not really about what the content of the email says, what you respond. It's are you going to be compliant, and are you going to listen to a basic... This is not complicated. Please reply to this email with approximately five bullets of what you accomplished last week in CC, your manager. Please do not send any classified information, links, or documents.
That, to me, I'm sorry, Bruce, but it's not a big deal. I can name five things I did. I only worked two days last week because I was on vacation. I can name five things I did in one day. Yeah, same here. I think what people fail to realize, the president, whoever that person is, they're the executive officer. They're the CEO of the executive branch. And if you fall under that and they give you a lawful order, you must follow. You don't have any choice. And what shocks me is...
This is the hill that people are willing to die on. This is the hill. This is it, right? Five little stupid bullets, right? Come on, sweetheart. You can do this. It's not that big of a deal. All right. Did you just call them Tweetheart? Bruce, did you just call them Tweetheart? Because that's hilarious. Because with everybody tweeting nowadays, I had a thought for you here. How about this?
You know, Elon Musk, he did the letter, right? But before that, we've been talking about cutting all these personnel. That's what set their hair on fire. And Elon Musk just tossed him a can of Aquanet. Yeah, there you go. All right. You guys have a good day. All right. Thanks for calling. I appreciate your call this morning. All right. We're going to take a quick break. Then when we come back, we will continue with your calls. 522-0650. Looking at your Alaska total traffic cameras.
You're listening to live, local, and always insightful Morning Drive Radio with Amy Demboski on NewsRadio 650 KENI. Get on the show now by calling 907-522-007. Welcome back. It is 20 after the hour. We're going to go straight to the phones, and Vince is with us. Good morning, sir. Hey, good morning. I want something real quick is that watching all this is maybe... Think of a movie I saw once called Blazing Saddles and Mel Brooks' character as the governor. That's a blast. Wasn't that in the 70s?
Yeah, early 70s. I don't think they can play it today. I mean, I got to be honest with you. I remember watching it as a kid multiple times. I mean, yeah. He was making a point about... come on, gentlemen, we need to save our phony baloney jobs. And I thought, well, you know what, that's what all these people are doing, trying to save their phony baloney jobs because they're barely working, they have a real cush position with the government.
Because of COVID, they don't have to go into the office, so now they're getting caught. Yeah, I mean, look, here's the reality. Especially if you're just not responding to your email, it probably tells me that, number one, you're either... not checking your email or number two, you're not being compliant. So, you know, it's a very simple direction. Like, I'm not offended when anybody asks what I did today.
Even today, like, what did you do today? What did you accomplish yesterday? And some days, I've got to be honest with you, some days I don't feel like I get anything done because every time I try to walk into my office, I have five people lined up waiting to talk to me. I need this, I need that. But I get so rattled.
off all the different conversations I had all the different issues that I solved without even having to you know write a paper but but my point is it should not be hard for anybody to name five things that they did so I think you're right anything
I think Bruce hit it. There's this entitlement type of attitude where it's kind of like, wait a second, somebody's checking up on me now? Like, how dare you? And I think that's what you're seeing from some people. And I think that's unfortunate because it could just be a non- issue but
Now, the way you see it portrayed in the media, you would think that Elon Musk is trying to get the greatest state secrets in the world and try to use them against us. And that's just not at all what he's doing. Yeah, you know, he was able to find leakers, people that... We're sending out classified information, secret information from Tesla by doing this kind of a thing. He knows what he's doing. He's a smart guy, but I feel bad for those managers.
Especially in California, they're telling people don't listen to an unelected billionaire. You know what? That's just showing what he thinks of his job. Well, exactly, and I think what they've done is they're helping Doge hone in on the problem children. That's what they're doing, and that's why I'm like, I can't believe they're taking the bait. I mean, are they really this ignorant? Yeah. reaction. They can show that they're political bias. Yeah.
Yeah, Vince, I think you're right. I think you are right, sir. Now I have to go back. Now I want to watch Blazing Saddles again. I probably haven't seen it in 25 years. Now I want to watch it again. I will tell you, though, I laughed. I saw a clip of it about three weeks ago, and I just kind of chuckled, and I thought,
Man, if that came out this day and age, people would lose their ever-loving mind. I don't think you could play it on cable anymore. Well, wokeism destroyed comedy. It did. It did. I know. I know. Ben, thank you for the call. I appreciate it. Just to let you guys know, though, comedy is slowly... Go ahead. I was going to say, we have the smartest listeners, I got to tell you. You know, but he's right. When you start looking at a lot of these people, like...
Honestly, all they're doing, when he talks about Elon Musk and how he found the leakers at Tesla, if you don't know the story, the story goes something like this. Basically, some proprietary information was getting leaked from Tesla. out who the leaker was. They sent everybody the same email. But throughout the email, they put different spaces in different areas. So it was basically every email had a fingerprint. And they knew exactly who was sent which email.
the leaked email came out, they knew who their leaker was. And I think you're seeing the same thing. I mean, Kristi Noem. is doing the same thing with DHS and, you know, all these raids that you're seeing on illegal immigrants. I mean, whether it's the FBI or DHS, we haven't been told who is the leaker.
Look, they're going after leakers, too. But before I get to that, Daryl, I want to go back to your point about comedy and blazing saddles. So, yeah, blazing saddles wouldn't be able to – Mel Brooks would – pretty much everything of his would have been shut down. But –
And in the TV shows, the woke still rules, but in the actual comics hitting the stages now, they are actually fighting back. There are multiple comics out there now that have literally just thrown the doors open and said, you know what?
You can try to cancel us. Bill Burr, one of them out there, he will get out there and just rage down. You tell him your pronouns, watch out, he's going after you. Matt Reif, another one. I mean, I could name off three or four out there that are on the common circuit.
right now that aren't putting up with it. They've made the conscious decision that we are not going to coddle your emotions. One other thing, we had a caller just call in and couldn't get on the air, but he wanted to let us know that he got one of those letters. And he was also told not to respond to it. And when he said, and you had made the comment that it was, you know, lower echelon bureaucrats, he says, no, he was told by pretty much mid to high level.
bureaucrats or echelon to not respond to it he's seriously considering retiring now is what he's considering doing about it but he's worried that we're gonna lose a lot of people that are actually good people and I love the way that he put it he said there's you know there are a lot of bad
bad workers in there that are putting um um gumming up the cogs in the wheels or you know the cogs in the wheels in the thing and he says he's worried that when we go through this wholesale clearing of everybody that we're going to destroy the machine because we've broken you know all these broken cogs and
I agree with him to a point, but like a lawnmower or anything else, if it starts running bad and you've got to fix it, you've got to take those broken and bad cogs out. Yes, you might have to pull a couple of good cogs with it, and then you've got to... rebuild it so well here's the reality and i will tell you this there there is no question in my mind when you talk about the federal government there are essential effective positions that need to be maintained no doubt about it
You know, Bruce is in one of those professions where I'm like, I think when we're talking about Border Patrol, we're talking about a lot of different agencies, whether it is processing, you know, VA payments or whether we're talking about Social Security.
I think there's a lot of agencies where you have essential personnel. There's no question. But having worked in... the government in multiple capacities I will tell you there's no question there is waste there's no question and the managers typically know who their dead weight is let's be honest sometimes it's the manager we've all been in those positions
where we've seen people who are like, oh my gosh, this person is a worthless manager. We know that. But I would be honest with you, if I was a federal worker and I got that email, I don't care what my boss would say, I would still respond to it. Because it's not complicated. And guess what? I got my tail off. I'm proud of what I did. Like I said, we were talking last week. You know, I think about...
All the things I did just in the course of one day last week. Like, I was only there two days last week. I dealt with the IRS, which is like a monthly occurrence with me in my new job. So I dealt with the IRS. You know, I dealt with insurance, you know.
Because especially in the private sector, you have to go through all these insurance renewal processes and stuff. And there's like a buttload of information. You have to give insurance company underwriters before they will renew your policy. So, I mean, it could take you two hours.
to get together all the information that they need in order to renew a policy. Dealt with that, taught CPR classes, prepared for, submitted and emailed out an entire board packet. Then, you know, you deal with the everyday occurrences. of, you know, this thing just happened over here and this thing just happened over there and now we have an emergency over here. I mean, it's not that complicated. And frankly, this is an opportunity for people to toot their own horn.
Look at all the things I've done. Look, I just did this in one day. Here you go. This is just one accomplishment. Here's five accomplishments from one day last week. I mean, it's an opportunity. Frankly, that's how I look at it. Well, that's how go-getters look at it. That's exactly how a go-getter looks at it. I'm like, it's an opportunity for me to toot my own horn. And, you know, I've got to be honest with you. If you have a crappy manager, it's an opportunity to say, you know, P.S.
My manager told me not to respond to this email, but I feel like it's important for me to highlight the value that I bring to the organization. Like, I've got to be honest with you, 100% that I would do that.
If my union is telling me not to respond, I'd also say, oh, my union is telling me not to respond, but I think it's important for me to have an open line of communication with leadership. I mean, I'm telling you right now, there's no question, no question in this world that Amy would be responding to this email. Yeah. I mean, how many days do you have the opportunity to make an impression on Elon Musk, the richest man in the world?
I'm just saying. It's small-minded thinking. I'm going to take my ball and go home. I'm not going to play. I mean, I think it's small-minded thinking, not responding, to be honest with you. You guys missed the most ultimate face in the world. Literally. The face she put on with that voice. I'm in here dying. Did you like me? Oh, absolutely. I'm dying from this. Throwing my temper tantrum. I'm not going to play.
I'm like, this isn't complicated, people. Like, it's not hard. You know, and I know you've got to work with people. You know, here's the thing. Again, this isn't about the contents, really, of what you say. It's really about trying to weed out where the biggest problems are in the federal government. Is it we have a 95% non-responsive rate in the Department of Education? Guess what that means. You guys are going to get a lot more love from Doge.
That's what that means. If you have a 95% non-responsive rate from the IRS, guess what that means? You're going to get a lot more love from Doge. You're going to get a lot more attention. And I always tell people this. Look. I do my best as a manager to support people and make sure they have the tools to be successful. The more contact time you have with me, it's probably not necessarily a positive thing for you. Because, number one,
It usually means you're not doing your job. That's generally what that means. And when we look at DOGE, what does that mean? The more time DOGE is spending in an agency like USAID, it probably means there's more problems over there. So if I was a manager at the federal government,
I would say, you know, yes, please follow the instructions in the email. Don't send any confidential slash classified information. Just give a general highlight, a 20,000 view of, you know, five things you accomplished. I appreciate you. seeing me on the email. That's what I would say as a manager, right? Because then you know what your people are saying. And you can also problem spot. Is there an issue that's bubbling up that I didn't know about?
Is there resources that I need to divert to help somebody or some department, some, you know, division within my department? Is there more resources I need to divert or commit to that? because they're struggling in this area or that area. I mean, again, I think people are really missing the opportunity here with this email. It's a great tool. All right, we're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back. 6 to 8 mornings on News Radio 650 KENI call now 907-522-0650
I want to go back to a story we were talking about a little bit. I alluded to it earlier. But, you know, I mean, part of the issue you have, any government has it. Any transition has it. We just have it on a very large scale on the federal level. You've got to sniff out the people who refuse to do their job and are just, you know,
So entrenched and so political that they're just going to slow roll you. They're going to sabotage your efforts. That's what Trump dealt with in his first administration. Even, I think, some of his cabinet members, frankly. And so now what you have is a man who has learned from his first go-round, and the second time it is not going to be the same. And we've seen this play out in dangerous fashion. I mean, you've seen some of the Department of Homeland Security, the ICE raids.
that have happened where there's a multitude of people that know ahead of time where the raids are going to happen. And they're out there protesting. They're warning illegals that ICE is coming. And it's frankly very... very dangerous for law enforcement. Kristi Noem was on Sean Hannity earlier this week.
What day is today? Today is Tuesday. So yesterday she was on Sean Hannity. And she says, we're not playing games. Gnome says DHS found leakers. Details how agency caught sellout bureaucrats. This according to the Daily Caller. Department of Homeland Security.
Secretary Kristi Noem said Monday evening on Fox News that her agency has identified some of the leakers responsible for releasing internal information. On February 10th, Noem suggested the corrupt FBI agents were behind the leaked memo about upcoming large-scale immigration and customs enforcement raids in the Los Angeles area, with Borders Hour Tom Homan echoing the Secretary's suspicions later that day.
She didn't say specifically who the leakers are, but this is what she said, quote, I have found some leakers. We are continuing to get more. They will be fired. There will be consequences. And remember, when they leak information to the press in order to blow up an op, They are putting law enforcement lives in jeopardy. They are risking their lives and putting their families in a position where they have to live without those individuals any further, end quote.
So she goes on to tell them that they're using every tactic they have in their toolbox. And she said not only are they, you know, figuring out who they are, but because they're law enforcement, they're using polygraphs to go after and interview folks because this is a national security agency, she says. She said it's a tool she has and she's using it.
Noam goes on to say, quote, it's amazing how these bureaucrats who have an agenda to stop the work that we're doing to bring safety to America, how they will sell each other down the river if it's just to protect themselves. So don't worry. I'm going to do everything to find these. leakers and get rid of them so that we can do our work and our law enforcement officers and agents can do it safely." You know, I saw another news story earlier today in different areas. I think it was in California.
where people are figuring out who the ICE agents are. They're putting their phone numbers and their home addresses on flyers, and they're papering them throughout the community. I'm literally reading that right... Yeah. I got to tell you, I get up early, so I screen, even after my show prep, I still screen the daily headlines that are happening. But to me, this is, I mean, it's incredibly dangerous. I mean, look, you see what's happening on the federal level, you know, with Elon Musk.
in to try to help save the country frankly from absolute utter financial disaster. When you have, you know, him, his life, Donald Trump, different cabinet members, they have all been, received multiple death threats and, you know, Look, the Trump administration is taking it seriously, which they should. There's another article that I pulled from the Daily Caller. TikToker's post calls for Musk's murder gets quick reply from the U.S. attorney.
Acting United States Attorney Ed Martin of the District of Columbia replied to a post Monday showing a video of a woman calling for the assassination of Tesla CEO and White House Senior Advisor Elon Musk. Martin previously opened probes into Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer of New York and Representative Robert Garcia of California over allegedly threatening comments they made about Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency and U.S. Supreme Court justices.
A TikTok user admitted to not filing her taxes for eight years before she called for Musk's murder in a video reposted by ex, libs of TikTok. That's the account it was posted on. The woman says, I promised myself I would avoid the news, the woman, who goes by username Sarah Kroberts.
on the since-deleted account, said, quote, but obviously I haven't. Here's my one thought. I have many thoughts. Elon Musk, before making the gesture that appeared to mimicking cutting your throat, she noted, like when you do X him and she like slashed her throat with her hand, and by X I mean formally mean assassination, and it's a warning from the FBI is going to blank, I can't say that word, show up. I don't. Arrest me, the user said.
You don't have enough people to even investigate me at this point. I haven't filed my taxes in like eight years, and yet no one's come for me, so I'm going to blank say it. Let's assassinate some blankety blanks, end quote. Like, obviously, my blankety blanks are substituting the F word, right? Like, I'm not going to say it on the air. Right, because they're not cube viewing. Right, yeah, exactly. So then, Martin...
You know, the U.S. Attorney responded duly noted. Thanks for letting us know. We'll put you in the system. Talk soon, ma'am. And it's funny. Do you remember last week they had the issue where one of the congressmen from Southern California said that we need to – well, following the other congresspeople who said we need to take to the streets to make this a street fight, he added into –
that with real, actual weapons. And with actual weapons. And so the... That's inciting violence. So Martin sent him a letter. Martin sent him a letter and said, hey... We heard that you said this. We've seen that you said this. We'd like more information on it. And he did add a couple of other things in there about, you know, you've been disparaging to Elon Musk. But mainly the thing was is that we need to talk to you about.
the comments you made. The left-wing media and the mainstream, I'm talking MSNBC, CBS, all of these ones put that story out there as FBI or U.S. Department of Justice is investigating congressmen. And they make it sound like he's doing something...
I've got to be honest with you. They should be investigating the congressmen. And the reality is you can't make death threats against people. You can't incite people to violence. And telling people to peacefully protest is not the same as saying we need to have fights in the streets. and bring real weapons. Exactly. They're not the same. So when this chick goes on Twitter, goes on X, and says she hasn't filed her taxes for eight years, and then she goes on to say you need to assassinate.
using that word and with hand gestures saying you need to assassinate elon musk guess what you just did you just committed a crime and you admitted to another crime of tax evasion so i gotta be honest with you like you're kind of an idiot You're kind of an idiot at this point. And good for Ed Martin. Good for Ed Martin. You know, Musk posted to response to Ed Martin's comment, death threat and admission of multiple counts of tax fraud. I mean, yeah.
Obviously, right? I mean, these people, this is the reality when you get into a lawless society. People think they can say and do anything, and it's only on the left, right? Because the right, the moment you go somewhere, like the January... Sixers, many of them walked into a Capitol building and were basically thrown into a federal prison for a couple years for trespassing or, you know, basically interfering with the public.
with an official public proceeding, which the courts then struck down, but they still weren't let out of jail. So imagine that. But this is my point. The left is coming unhinged. Because Elon Musk is rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse. That's really the hill they're going to die on? I'm just saying there's a reason why the majority of Americans... are supporting the work of DOGE because we don't want our hard-earned money to go to waste, fraud, and abuse. If the government must take it from us,
We want it spent appropriately. We want it to be audited. And we want it to go to an actual legitimate purpose. Probably not to terrorists. Probably not to swindlers. And I certainly don't want it to line the pockets of the left. Sorry, don't. And I'm sure they don't want it to line the pockets of the right. So this is something all Americans can get behind unless you're a nut job.
If you're a nut job, you're coming unglued right now over what Doge is doing, which, you know, thank you for outing yourself to us. All right, we're going to take a quick break. When we come back, Anchorage School Board member Dave Donnelly will be joining the show. Stay with us. Looking at your laughs. Welcome back to live, local, and insightful Morning Drive Radio on NewsRadio 650 KENI.
Welcome back. We're going to go straight to the phones because we only have about two minutes left here. And Mr. Dave Donnelly is a member of the Anchorage School Board. Dave, let's start with your disclosure, and then I'll let you just take it away. Yeah, I'm speaking just for myself and not for the Anchor School Board or the ASD. Tonight's meeting, there's been some misinformation out there about public testimony.
I confirmed with President Holbin last night that it's not on the agenda. It's not a typical meeting. It's a very special meeting. And at the last meeting, we heard from, I think it was almost 150 people gave testimony. So there is not a plan on the agenda to take public testimony tonight. But, you know, the board has the flexibility to do so if they decided to amend the agenda tonight.
I'm not saying it's impossible, but I'm saying that if you showed up, you may not get the opportunity to testify because we took all that public testimony last week. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Well, look, in tonight's meeting, you guys are set to debate and potentially pass your budget, right? Correct, yes.
Okay, I'm looking at some of your – David Boyle has a really good article yesterday in Mustard, Alaska, and he talks about some of your budget amendments to potentially bring down the budget, and it seems to me like some of the things you were focused on are pretty complicated. Well, I prioritize other things that the majority or the superintendent seems to be prioritizing. I prioritize the restoration of Ignite. and immersion schools, school sports, and also class sizes.
I think those things are all more important than the current DEI department, which you read the news about the university eliminating DEI from their University of Alaska is doing it. And also the current extra planning period, non-instructional period for middle school teachers has cost us over $3 million a year. I'd much rather have them go into direct instruction.
and shouldn't be prioritized over these other really important programs. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense to me. So tonight the school board meeting will be taking up passing the budget. If people want more information on that meeting tonight, where is the best place for them to go? You can go on the website, look under meetings, and it's posted there the amendments that the members of the board have submitted for consideration tonight.
Perfect. Dave, best of luck at tonight's meeting. We'd love it if you want to call in and give us an update tomorrow on what happened at the meeting. We'd love to hear that if you have time tomorrow. Sounds good, Amy. All right, thanks so much. If you want more information, just go to ASDK12.org, and you'll be able to find the information on tonight's Anchorage School Board meeting tonight. That does it for Daryl and I. On deck, this is Clay Travis and Buck Sexton, followed by Sean Hannity.
And, of course, the great Mike Pacaro and Crash live and local from 4 to 6 p.m. this afternoon and every weekday afternoon. Daryl and I will be back with you tomorrow morning at 6 a.m. Until then, stay safe. God bless.