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Jeff Poor Show - Wednesday 1-14-24
(upbeat music) From Bucks Pocket to the shores of Orange Beach, at all points in between, an insider's perspective on Alabama politics. It's the Jeff Porshow. ♪ I don't think hang down in this way ♪ ♪ No ♪ - Good morning, and welcome to the Jeff Porshow and at the talk, 106.5. They should be with us on. - Well, this is a Wednesday. Well, coming back on a Wednesday, been away for a while, did you miss me? And if you didn't, well, don't answer. Text line 25134301, the 06 would be a touch with the show. All you've got to do is text me and I will read your text and then maybe I will respond to them. Sometimes I read them and I don't respond because they're just not worth responding to. Coming up on the program today, former state senator Dick Brubaker will be with us. That's it about, we'll see, about a half hour. About 10 o'clock hour, Joey Clark. He has a show called News and Views in Montgomery, Alabama on News Talk 93.1. He will be with us, so you'll want to stay tuned for that. And finally, the official Democrat response at the Jeff Porshow, former congressman, Parker Griffith, had had him on since we were up there in Huntsville, I believe, in his office. We used his office to do this show, seem to work out OK. So let's hope we can keep that streak alive. Let's see here, a bunch of stuff happened while it was gone. And I guess the biggest thing for me, if we were talking when I rolled out of town on-- it had to be like the 5th or so of August. The polls are starting to shift. They're coming around for Harris. Look, I still think these polls are lagging indicator. We're still kind of on the Kamala Harris sugar eye. Now, when they settle down, she will still be in probably a decent position. She's not going to fall back behind Trump. I don't think, at least not yet. She had a good rollout, even though she didn't do an interview. And she doesn't really say anything. I think people, especially Democrats, is like the idea of Kamala Harris and not really Harris' president. I don't know. It's just nothing she's saying really rises to the occasion. But just my takeaway right now is, I don't know. At some point, we got to see things kind of move for Trump. As we were talking about that last segment with the guys, there's a lot of focus on the bottom of the ticket with the walls, advance. And I don't think that's going to last either. But she's going to play this game. If her campaigns continue to play this game, these are professionals. They know what they're doing. But I don't think this strategy is a good long-term strategy. And it may be really smart for a short-term strategy. But the kind of lay low and hang tight, hang back is not going to work for the long haul. Like I said, I think she's riding this high. Those people just like the idea of her. To be honest, I don't think people really know who she is. I don't think people really know or think about her as-- If you think of the vice president, it is a big deal, but it's sort of a very secondary in nature. I mean, think of all the vice presidents who did not go on to be presidents, where they aren't history. I mean, how to do we talk about like a Dick Cheney or Dan Quail. We talked about Al Gore because he's made money off of global warming. Of course, Joe Biden was president. H.W. Bush was president. I don't know, Walter Mondale. I mean, you just go back to history. And Kamala Harris kind of falls in that category. Now, she's got to elevate herself to presidential. And it's sort of a gap between vice presidential and presidential. So that's where I think she-- That's how I think she's got to like-- her campaign's got to figure that out. And they probably will. Like, these are not-- These are much better people running this than what I think Biden had. Well, Biden had to play defense. There is the opportunity at some point to go on offense. And they haven't chosen not to go on it. They're just-- I guess they're riding the sugar high. They're riding the sugar high. And they're downplaying the assassination attempt. They are the media are. But that's what you're up against. You wouldn't be a Republican president. United States of America. You don't only have to go up against your opponent. You got to go up against the mainstream media. Two, five, one, three, four, three, zero, one, zero, six. One thing I'd caution you about on the polls. The polls got really-- the margin's really wrong. Maybe the polls got it right with the W's and L's. But they were predicting big landslide wins for Biden in 2020 and Hillary in 2016. And the CNN data and analysts, Harriet, and pointed this out, we factor those in. Trump's still up. For Kamala Harris, and she's got to win in the electoral college. She can't just win with the popular vote. So you start looking at these battleground states, and she's got to-- she's got to build up a lead. She can't just say, oh, I got a two-point lead in Wisconsin because she could still lose it. Because they were showing big leads for, like, you know, four or five-point leads from Biden in 2020. And then he just inks it out in some of those states. So anyway, we can talk more about that here throughout the program. Let's talk about my show-- I mean, my show, my trip. I took a long trip with the little one kind of-- and we taught-- and I somehow pulled it off pretty close to schedule that I talked about before we left. But we did go to Washington, DC. And observation there, really kind of fascinating, was like how-- just driving on the interstate highways there and how crowded they were compared to Alabama. But the difference is this is my observation driving down '95 between Washington, DC, and Richmond. It's just really kind of like driving an auto race. At least they're like adding on lanes, and they're doing work, and they're trying to improve a congested situation. Whereas in Alabama, we don't look at transportation policy as something that is suited to meet a need. It's instead-- it's like economic expansion project in the middle of the black belt. We're going to build a four lane highway. And not that we're not bringing economic expansion. But why would you take your transportation policy and not look at the bare bones getting from point A to point B sort of approach? Instead, it's like, hey, we're going to build this road out here, and the jobs will come. And that's not why we have a Department of Transportation. I don't know whether this obsession with economic development in this state is really, really-- I don't know-- it needs to be tamped down or something. But driving up other places in North Carolina, too, and you'll look at the roads, and now 65 between Montgomery mobility and dream compared to these places. But where we need it is at Birmingham Montgomery corridor there, and it's on the back burner. We got other things to do in this state. But anyway, you talk about that, the way things are done, elsewhere. Hit me up on that text, like, 2513430106. One more thing here, sort of locally. And I don't know how much y'all have been paying attention to it, because it's on the opposite end of the state. But the busting of the Haitian-- well, they're refugees. Haitian refugees to the chicken plants up in Marshall County is outrageous, especially given the amount of-- like, back to the economic incentives that the state gives just about any industry that locates in Alabama. The point being, they're taking advantage of a situation. So I want you to think about this-- this chicken plant, processing plant, whatever it is. Not only do they get the benefit of the local government working to help them with their sewer, water, and infrastructure, maybe some kind of tax abatement, or something like that. They're workforce. The idea of putting these plants here is to generate economic opportunity for the people that live in this place and create jobs. But what they're doing is, rather than hiring the locals from Albert Miller, Boaz, or Gunnersville, or wherever, they're bringing in workers, that's number one. Number two, those workers are bringing in become a burden on the local infrastructure. So you have Haitian immigrants who are not culturally assimilated, but they will go to the schools. They will require the, say, public safety, police, fire, et cetera, and they're not really paying into the system. So it becomes a double burden in that regard. And it's just outrageous to do. I mean, I'm glad to see that some of the lawmakers, I think the lieutenant governor is from that area, but also the state delegation and Congressman Adderhol from the 4th congressional district, kind of speaking out on this, but absolutely just ridiculous. And this is something that goes on in Alabama. Like I said, the state of Alabama paves the way for these, especially for these, you know, the ag industry, the planters, or whatever you want to call them. This is where the poultry processing comes in. Still big players in the state are taking advantage of a situation. And they're making it out to be some sort of natural story, like those racist guys in Alabama don't want the brown people coming to work at their chicken plants. I've always said this, if we're going to have economic development, do they need to pay a good wage? Figure it out. Or go locate your chicken processing plan elsewhere. Well, what they want is they want to both ways, the safety, security, the hygiene, all these requirements that we require in the United States, but they want the third world labor rate. And it's just absurd. But there's a lot of that going on. I mean, that is very a textbook example of kind of this state and the way it thinks sometimes. It's all geared toward big business, speaking of big business. And I'll get to this a little later. The BCA met over the weekend while I was away down here in-- well, point clear. Play Schofield, the former Senate Majority Leader, given a speech. Now, behind the scenes talking to people, they said, well, they were really kind of fighting behind the scenes about what pro jobs and pro business looks like and what that statement of that policy is. But the former Majority Leader, given a speech now the device president at BCA threatening. Anybody who stands in their way. And I saw that I was like, are you kidding me? Like these guys, they're going to threaten lawmakers. If they don't succumb to the will of the BCA, BCA hasn't been relevant. They're not as-- you can say what you want to about Bill Canary, but they have not been a force. That is still a force in the building. But, electorally, they picked off a few seats here and there. They haven't been the force that they were since that 2010 cycle. But they're saying they're going to come after you. So there were a bunch of lawmakers who stood in their way. The vaccine exemption sticks in my head. You didn't want to get the COVID vaccine. And lawmakers said, well, we're going to give you an opt-out with a religious exemption or a medical exemption, because the state can define that. And the BCA opposed it. And they got steamrolled. [MUSIC PLAYING] Ain't that special session? [MUSIC PLAYING] Are they going to come after all those lawmakers now? Text line, 250-3430106. We'll be right back. This is the Jeff Moore Show on FM Talk, 1-0-6-5. You big talk in mine. And I'll be waiting in Jackson, behind my J-PAND plan. Here you come again. Just what I'm about to make it work without you. You look into my eyes and lie those quick nights. And pretty soon, I'm wondering how I came to a dark year. [MUSIC PLAYING] We'll go back to the Jeff Moore Show on FM Talk, 1-0-6-5. They just stay with us on this Wednesday morning. Come up in the next segment. Our good friend, Dick Brubaker, will be with us. So please make sure you stay tuned for that. Like I said, text line, 250-3430106. Let's see what we got here. Uh, the real Sam, I missed you, Jeff. No, seriously. I had to change the chat-- well, that's not very nice. I thought-- I didn't listen to any of the fill-ins. I know we had a-- we had some confusion last Friday about who was supposed to host. So you got a replay of yours truly. But I thought, y'all were generally in good hands. I'll see here. When did the polls become election interference? News outlets roll with them as if they're solid truth and they're absolute garbage. Uh, I-- I think most of these polls-- the way these polls would try to shift numbers is the way they ask a question into how they get the response. So they would ask a question in a way, in a manner to-- to elicit a response. Do you want to vote for Kamala Harris? She likes butterflies and unicorns, or Donald Trump who likes demons and, uh, I-- I don't know, uh, smoking marijuana in the boys' room or whatever. Which one would you vote for? And it-- I mean, you got to-- which one are you going to say? Well, I'm going to go with the unicorn and butterflies, person. And so the polls-- that's an exaggeration, by the way. But they can do that. The way they can frame a question can move the numbers in their favor. And look, the media sometimes can't help, but they have a worldview. They-- they operate on a, uh, on this conventional wisdom that you and I don't. These people, this is the way they think. And they don't-- they-- they tend not to, you know, everything that we believe, especially culturally, like, uh, uh, you know, faith in the church and things of that nature and the Second Amendment. And that's all craziness to them. But they can't help it. They look at the world differently. And global warming is real. You know, and if you don't-- if you don't believe in it, you are a science denier. They-- so that impacts the way they ask these questions. And it moves the numbers. Now, it doesn't move the numbers, you know, the entire survey, but it can on the margins. Uh, weren't the polls predicting a red wave in the 2022 congressional cycle? No, that's the thing. The polls kind of got it right because they-- they muted them to the Republican. They-- first off, they weren't predicting a red wave in the Senate. I think they thought the House would turn out a little bit better, but it turned out-- and I don't-- they got this wrong in some of these battleground states, some of these swing districts, just how big that abortion issue was. And now, I mean, here we are. You have Republicans running away from the pro-life issue. They don't have-- instead of, like, a good response, they're just like, you ask any generic Republican at that convention last month in Milwaukee, and you probably get a different response from a bunch of them. There's no coherent messaging on that. And they're afraid of it. It's probably going to be their Achilles' Hill. I-- you know, I'm just telling like it is. I think Republicans should have to stick to their pro-life virtues, what brought them to the dance, going back to the 1980s in the Reagan, you know, kind of takeover of that demographic. But now, they seem to be like, well, maybe we just don't talk about that today. Uh, Sommernell, Tony, economic incentives need to be tied to using the workforce in the area that is available. On the other hand, I do get it-- I run a business at our workforce that's from here or lazy, or lazy. Well, I just-- you know, again, I don't know what it is. Tony, maybe it was a cultural thing. But I think if you pay more, maybe this costs your overhead to go up. But that's what you got to do. It's just a marketplace. Uh, backstrap, chicken plants, anywhere that's a flat land. [MUSIC PLAYING] Have you spent time in that area of album? I've been up there twice this year. There's a lot of Hispanics in that area. Yeah, we can talk about Albert Millbackstrap later in the program. Let's get a break in here. We'll be right back this year's "The Jet Force" show. We'll have to talk about those six, five. 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