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Jeff Poor Show - Friday 10-11-24
[MUSIC PLAYING] 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 Porsche show. I don't think we've done it this way. [MUSIC PLAYING] Good morning. Welcome to the Jeff Porsche show. It's up to talk 106.5. Thank you very much for being with us on this Friday, Friday. It's finally Friday afternoon-- our morning, I should say. I've got a long day ahead of me, guys, shortly after this program. Two hours on the air in Chattanooga, Tennessee, filled in for Michael Yaffe of WVNN and South Station. I don't know the call letters to get Tennessee, WMOK, or something like that. So we're all to a rocket start on this journey. Count upon today's show, Todd Stacey, Alabama, daily news. That's in about 30 minutes or did that every Friday. I know you're thrilled for that. Also on the program today, Pete Reem and Pete Reemzall. We're a talk about Alabama Department of Veteran Affairs. They had a meeting yesterday. They asked for Admiral Kid Davis to reset his resignation and stay on and go-- they want to go-- this board is ready to go to war with Governor Ivy. Who would have thought the long bureaucracy, the long government agency would be veterans affairs to oppose this regime? I don't know if you'd call it a regime. I don't know what you would call it. It's Biden asking some ways. But Ivy's inner circle clearly wants a change there. Is it some-- I don't see if high drama, like high stakes politics, because it's the state VA. But anyway, they're standing up to the governor who-- everyone I talk to, everyone. Even Senator Greg Albritton up in atmore, who's publicly said this. But many others kind of all background it off the record, sort of. This is just Kay Ivy's petty vindictiveness underway here with this Department of Veterans Affairs controversy. Essentially, the VA, the state VA filed an ethics complaint against the Department of Mental Health. They're fighting over an opioid settlement money. Where that should go, there's questions about the VA misusing the ARPA money, but this sounds very exaggerated. It sounds like an excuse to topple the leadership or to topple the power structure of the Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs. I don't know if that's going to work. But I guess it's kind of like picking on the sisters, little sisters of the poor or whatever. And the VA versus the governor-- why dialed this Hill Governor, Ivy? You want to kick people off the Atrip 2 board? You want to send your early childhood education secretary into exile? You want to ostracize yourself with every media outlet in the state, except for one of our guests up here on the coming program. I mean, do what you've got to do. Pick it on the VA. I just-- I don't think that looks good. But I'm sure that Pete can articulate it much, much. It's better than I can. And then finally, our returning champions say to Chris Elliott, who is-- guys, this discussion about a newspaper error. And if you're out there listening, those of you who take money from government agencies or on legal advertising, it's better to listen clear here. But better listen up. So let me run through the story real quick. Gordo Alabama, which is in Pickett's County, and think about it if you're looking at it on the map. If you're heading west from Tuscaloosa toward Columbus, Mississippi toward Starkville, Highway 82. I mean, two of the closest SEC schools are Mississippi State and the University of Alabama. And they're connected by Highway 82. Just on the other side of Tuscaloosa, maybe about a half hour or so is Gordo Alabama. Are David households from used to be the Auburn SID? I turned athletic director. Who else of fame is there? The judge we used to have on-- I can't think of his name right now. But it's a heavy traffic place. A lot of people going back and forth to Tuscaloosa-- I've lived everywhere in my childhood. We live for a while in West Point, Mississippi. Maybe Starkville, Mom and Dad, with the Mississippi State. And to make city we used to go to, to go shopping, Tuscaloosa. So just imagine that thoroughfare there. So just like everywhere else in Alabama, it's taken Alabama's playing catch up. And 82 is-- I believe 82 is four-lane throughout the entire state of Mississippi. And they're still piecing together the four-lane portion between the Mississippi State and the Tuscaloosa because Alabama. And such as it is-- such as it is, they're working on this Gordo Bypass. And one of the reasons they haven't been able to get it done sooner-- and they tell us, I'll not tell us, which I'll not is a-- no, I feel about I'll not. Well, we have a public notice requirement in the law, in statute, that you must run a public notice about bids on this highway, for this highway, for two weeks straight in your publication. And an error was committed. So this newspaper that gets all the revenue from the legal advertising says that they had a corrupt file or something, and when they put the newspaper together, it's all done only computer doubts, not, you know. And they put the advertisement in. They said, Erica Thomas, who's always kind of maligned for reporting what other people say. I don't get that either. But the Alabama Department of Transportation says that the Pickens County Herald screwed this up. And they sent the bid off, or they paid for the ad. The ad never ran, so they didn't meet their legal obligation according to these public notices. So you have to advertise your bid in there for two straight weeks. And then they went ahead and did the bid, assuming that whoever the person at the public Pickens County Herald did the right thing that they were paid to do, opened the bids, and it seems supposed to be on their way, but come to find out, the bids weren't legitimate because they didn't run the ads, and the local newspaper, and the required statutory required amount of time. So they had to do a do-over. Well, first off, you know, everybody's bid now, so you come up on your price, but then just the delay of the delay and sort of our supply chain right now with the cost of labor and materials going up by the second, according to Al-Nod and others, $1.76 million in additional cost. And you think about that. It's about time to part ways with the antiquated legal advertising in the local newspaper requirement. Well, just people don't read newspapers anymore. Whether the three, well, Al.com kind of sped up the process. But guys, it's time to redo this. I even write for one of these newspapers, land, yeah, that takes this, but I feel like the days are numbered on this, and this is going to this-- I believe there are other stories forthcoming about how this has been a problem. The state bureaucracy doesn't want to pay these newspapers. How many ever thousands of dollars? And it adds up when you do all 67 counties. Say, for example, you want to just put in a turnlade, and the Alabama Department of Transportation has to let it, because they're using rebuild Alabama money or whatever. And you have to run an ad for two weeks. Do we believe that road builders are really going through the legal advertisements? And like, oh, there's a job I want to bid. Senator Elliott here, I believe, is going to talk about that. So I'm in the 11 o'clock hour. Anyway, 2, 5, 1, 3, 4, 3, 0, 1, 0, 6. You want to be in touch with the program. Please, by all means, utilize the text line. But back to this newspaper thing. I mean, how many of you-- let me ask you this on the text line. How many of you still subscribe to a print newspaper? I get a few. I get two ball and counting newspapers and land yet. The ball with times of the courier. It would be great if mobile had a newspaper, like the press register or something. But you want to know what's going on in the community. It's not necessarily about the politics. Sometimes it's a little old. The news is a little dated. But how many of you still get a print newspaper in this audience? And maybe you're in citradale, you get the call. Maybe you're in mobility, you get the call. Let me know on the text line, 2, 5, 1, 3, 4, 3, 0, 1, 0, 6. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say, not meeting many of you. You probably get in your news if you get it from the show. God bless you, or this station. But you get it from the internet, you get it from TV. But this public notice, legal advertising requirement that the state has in its code, I think its days are numbered. And we're probably going to hear from these state agencies about how much money they feel like they're wasting on this. And I think the time is going to turn on this. The Alabama Friends Association is like a cartel. It really is. And they sneer at publications like My1819News1819News.com are my former employer, Yellowhammer News. They just sneer at it like you're trying to take food out of our children's mouths or something. And we'll take you seriously. They give awards that are critical of my publication. Yeah, that happens. But their whole purpose, it's not really just like a press association, where they get together and discuss ideas about their business model. It's how they protect their turf on these state, local, legal advertising. It's just time for that to go. 2, 5, 1, 3, 4, 3, 0, 1, 0, 6, let me know, though. If you get a print copy of the newspaper still, and if you do, if you do, bonus points, if you read all of the fine print legal advertising in those print publications. I mean, the point is to make the public aware and let people know what's going on. And it's costing the taxpayer a lot of money, not in addition to the print costs. But when somebody messes it up, as they did in the small town newspaper in Pickens County, now we get to put a little bit on this on Alnot for not checking and making sure that their ads were running. I mean, they got to do their homework here and make sure before they open the bids that everything-- all the boxes are checked. But why are we doing this in the first place? Oh, I do get the Birmingham Business Journal, which is not inexpensive delivered to the house at that counts. In addition to the LANDEAP and the Baltimore County newspapers, let's get a break here. We'll be right back. This is the Jeff Moore Show and I've been talking about those five. Living on the road, my friend was going to keep you free and clean. Counting flowers on the wall that don't bother me at all. Playing solitaire, just dumb with the deck of 51. [MUSIC PLAYING] Welcome back to the Jeff Moore Show and I've been talking about 1065. Thanks for staying with us on this Friday morning. Coming up in the next segment, Todd Stacey Alba of Daily News. James, the official troll of the Jeff Moore Show. Cammy wants to be a money to go to a billion-dollar prisons. They got to find that money from somewhere. I don't think that's true, necessarily. They do have their designs on it, I guess. They need to throw the VA a bone here. Listen out there, probably not. You need to let Davis stay on and give them some kind of money and make this thing go away, Governor. This is a bad look. You can be petty and vindictive, all you want, with elected officials. With the damn VA, Alabama Department of-- Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs Board, you need to just knock it off. You think you're going to be a member for the West Alabama corridor? It's not going to be built, OK? It's not going to be finished. You're going to be a member for raising the gas tax and taking on the VA. Is that just the legacy you're going to submit here? Michael, the contractors to do government work don't have to pay the land yet for the world three, four months of ads, either. Just to be able to get paid for the work they've already completed on their texture. Hi, Jeff, what is a print newspaper? Is that something like an abacus? Squirrel, the good thing about a calm ending print is that they stopped littering their sales ads all over the state. I fought that for years on the phone with their people and in person. I got a good squirrel. Our buddy Dale Jackson had a response. Here's what he did. If you've listened to him, he has a son named Grant. And they were still-- they would just throw the ad newspaper out of everybody's driveway that nobody asked for. And he saved a bunch of them. And his son, he took the bag out of his diaper pail, which was full of dirty diapers, threw those newspapers at them. And back when AL.com still had that office in downtown Huntsville and the square, he left it at their front door. They reached out-- I don't know how that ended, but I think it did in the subscriptions-- unsolicited delivery of sales papers. And they texted her back in the '70s, Mississippi at all had federal money for $45.98, $84. Mississippi worked on all three Alabama politicians and bureaucrats stuffed their pockets. But he always hear about Roger Bedford. And when the Democrats were in charge of the Alabama Senate, the Alabama legislature is a whole. Up in Franklin County, Lawrence County, places you've probably met few of you have ever been. Alabama State Highway 24, it's this four-lane road. It's since been completed, I think, down to four-lane down to almost a Tupelo. But for more than a decade, it was this four-lane road. It was the opposite of what's going on in the rest of the state. It was a four-lane road from Decatur to Red Bay, Alabama, and it sort of did end it right near the Alabama state line. It was just like a four-lane road to nowhere. And how did Red Bay of all places-- it's a city that sits on the Alabama Mississippi state line. Get this. It was because Roger Bedford, who was in control of the Senate, steered money that way. Say with Corridor X, if you-- from Birmingham to Memphis now, you could take an interstate highway. For years, it was just the old highway 78. Well, it was most of it was four-lane, but some of it was two-lane still. And they built Corridor X, which is now Interstate 22. And that's up in his district. So you're right. Like, essentially, I don't know their stuff in their pockets, but they were directing money toward their districts. And we don't do that anymore. We don't politicize towards bridges. But they do that. They did that back in the day when Democrats were in charge. I don't know why Republicans are different, but maybe it's for the best. We'll be right back. This is F.M. Talk, 106.5. Under the barbershop pole, they set me up in the chair. The old school was our repair of year. We got the rebel players, blind and fun, wise and fierce, plenty of snow in the middle of June. We're hard and buggy after the day. The lines are loud, the better I use. It's life-building with these Alabama's loose. Welcome back to the Jet Force Show it up and talk 106.5. Thanks for staying with us on this Friday morning. 2513430106 to be in touch with the program. What you got to do, you got to text me. And we will proceed, however, whatever direction we set off in. But that's up to you. Still to come on the program. Pete Reeman, about an hour. And then in the 11 o'clock hour, as we do every Friday, State Senator Chris Elliott, our returning champion. Joining us now, since this Friday, we get to kick it off with Todd Stacy from Alabama. Daily news, Todd, good morning, how are you? I'm great, yeah. How are you? I am well. How are you going to spend your off-week in from football this week? I'm really, really hoping to play some golf. I'm trying to get back in the golf. I used to play a lot of the kids. But I'm asked about, I don't know, a bunch of people, and that it will, you know, miss everybody's Alabama fans. So they don't want to miss the game on Saturday. So it's like, I don't know, maybe I'll just play it on myself. But I would really like to enjoy an off-week Saturday, not thinking about the Auburn Tigers. So yeah, hopefully golf. Well, I guess I'm, you know, Alabama fans are gluttons for punishment. So we'll see what the future has in store for them. But you're right. That's right. I mean, we didn't have to make it last week. At least got to watch the Georgia game on TV. But five weeks in a row was, we, I can't live this way, Todd. They got to-- Well, especially during the hot part of the season, I think that makes a difference, too. It's like the sort of game where it's scorching hot. And it's just, it's a lot, and I'm not even a parent, for you to like, you know, take children to the game. Like, that got to be a lot for parents. So yeah, that scheduling has to be remedied. I mean, you got to park like a mile away, and then you got to trek it into humidity and the heat. And I mean, some of the night games were nice. And then there was the New Mexico game. It was just a monsoon. But this is just completely unfair to stack a bunch of games the way they have, and then put you on the road for an entire month. You know, I'm surprised. I don't know how to get away with that, why Auburn led them. I guess, you know, early part of the season, of course, you do front load, you know, with your cream puffs. But the rest of it, just brutal. But anyway, we can talk about that all day and probably getting nowhere. Todd, I think I'm really watching, I guess, at the state level. And this is your lead this morning on the Daily News newsletter. It's, I mean, the Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs, the board, at least, which Ivy, Governor Ivy controls. And this Governor Ivy, still at odds with one another. Do you have any sense of where this is going to go? What's going to happen inevitably there? Right. The yesterday, the board, the State Veterans Affairs board, voted to officially ask Kent Davis, who's the commissioner, to reconsider his decision to resign. I mean, after a meeting with the Governor earlier this year, about a month ago, tell you Governor Resin at the end of the year. So obviously, you know, the Governor had pressured him to resign. She had asked him to resign. She can't fire him because he's not a cabinet member. He works for the board. It's different than most state agencies in that regard. So it was kind of weird and awkward in the room, because obviously, you know, the Governor was there, spoke for a minute, had some good things to say about Commissioner Davis and their agreement and all this. And then she left, she had to go to the State School Board meeting, which she also chaired. And then they, the board voted to do this. So it was kind of awkward, the Governor came out with a statement later saying, just bashing the board, you know, it lacked leadership. It's kind of confusing. What we don't know is what Kent Davis is going to do, because he has said he's going to resign at the end of the year. He said yesterday that he has nothing to add to his statement from a month ago. I mean, one would assume that, OK, yeah, he's going to step down. But what's really kind of strange about the board is that they seem to be in a little bit of denial that there has been a problem, that there was a big problem with these office funds and with these opioid funds. And at the end of the day, nothing illegal happened, because it was all caught, right? It was all caught by the Department of Finance. And that's the whole point. So it's really confusing to me. And I think what you're going to see-- and this is what I'm hearing a lot from lawmakers-- is that there's going to be legislation to just revamp this veterans affairs department, the board, the whole thing, make it a more accountable organization, make it a true cabinet agency. I really think you're going to see that legislation. So at the end of the day, all this might not really matter, because I think the legislature is probably going to get involved and clean up this mess. That's interesting, you say. Well, I mean, like the ARPA stuff, do we have any idea specifically? But you say it's been what I haven't heard is they called it before the problem, the money were spent or whatever, right? The Department of Finance-- this is the way I took your comment-- that they called whatever the alleged violation was before the violation occurred. Yeah, it was just kind of, I don't know, just not run the right way. You know, all the agencies got ARPA funds. And so the way it works is you come up with your proposed way to spend those funds, run it through finance, and then it gets approved or doesn't approve or whatever, because there's a lot of regulations through what the Congress passed, through the Department of Treasury, all that. And if you don't spend it the right way, if you spend it on things that aren't qualified, then the state's on the hook for paying that money back or in violation of the law. So they-- number one, they were late doing it. They were late getting their request to finance about a year late, actually. And then to have like 33 different grantees that they were proposing to give this money to. And I think very well-intentioned, by the way, I mean, but, you know, finance came back with a laundry list of, you know, reasons why this money can't be spent like this. Number one, you can't spend money to pay lobbyists to lobby for more money. That's federal law and state law. You can't buy money to-- you can't spend money to buy guns and ammunition. You know, just like pretty obvious things that should have been caught. And not necessarily nefarious, just bad work. And because of all that, it led to some bad blood between veterans affairs and mental health that eventually led to the ethics complaint, which was inaccurate. The governor called it frivolous. It was obviously thrown out. Just mismanagement, honestly, at the Department of Veterans Affairs. But a big part of that has been the board itself. They just told me that his board pressured him to, you know, turn in ethics complaint against the mental health commissioner that they didn't end up getting thrown out. So it's kind of all the way down pretty, you know, concerning. And I think that's why you're seeing the legislature say, all right, clearly, you know, the governor's done what she can, given her limited role there. I think you're going to see the legislature get involved and say, all right, let's fix this board, you know, and hold the department, though it's more accountable, more functional. You think they're going to make it like the position of cabinet secretary or part of the governor's cabinet or something? I do, and they do need a board, but you know, it can probably-- there are probably examples from other states where it probably works better. But there is a problem when all this comes out and all this is documented and, you know, the board basically ignores it, does nothing happen. That's when, you know, there's something wrong. It's not-- I'm not saying crimes were committed or something like that, but there was a big, messy problem at Veterans Affairs and the board yesterday basically just pretended like it didn't happen. And that's when you know there's an internal problem there. You said they were late with their ARPA record. I mean, is it not a-- it seems like there's a lot of-- it's just part-time worker. What? Why-- because I don't-- No, they're just-- they're just state employees. Yeah. They got full-time lawyers, full-time-- I mean, they were the only agency that had a problem. And that's really saying something for the state of Alabama. I'll tell you something, because when my father died, he was a veteran and the state gives you a lot of benefits since he's 2017 and, you know, we went to Shelby County, my parents at the time and we went to Columbia and went to the office and it was like the best experience with the state agency I've ever had, the Department of Veterans Affairs. And they called my mom, checked on her, they made sure that she got everything from the federal government. I mean, it was like-- it was such a contrast to everything else I've ever dealt with in state government. But I'm told that, well, that's sort of an anomaly with your experience. But like, that's all I had to go on. And I-- but I hear this and I just wonder, like, how big of a structure will change? What will there be? I don't think it has to be-- look, when you're doing something right like that, I think they-- I think Davis has done a great job on a lot of things, like pushing for more veterans cemeteries, pushing for this new veterans nursing home that just opened up an enterprise. There are great things that the Department of Veterans Affairs has done and they need to continue this. But this comes down to was mismanagement of money of federal funds that could have gotten the state in real trouble. And a big-- you know, one big glaring concern there, it was at the very top of the list, was trying to use federal offer taxpayer dollars to hire lobbyists to lobby for more dollars. But it's just that if against both state and federal law, it should never have happened. It shouldn't have been pushed by the board. It shouldn't have been approved by the director. It shouldn't have gone through legal counsel. There were so many backstops. And I'm not saying the gash that, you know, that's between him and Governor Ivey, whether he should step down and all that, but clearly there was mismanagement. Clearly there's a problem there. And what happened yesterday was just so glaring because they pretend like it didn't happen. Well, last question on this, though, but my understanding is Ivey controls the board, right? She can force people off and appoint who she wants. Is it-- is that the case? Not all of them, but a lot of them. And so yeah, and I expect that, by the way, I mean, if I would not be surprised if she would end up considering her statement after this vote, if she went and replaced-- she already replaced Kirkpatrick on the board. He was kind of in the middle of all that. So, no, it would not be surprised if she went and replaced some of these things. And again, for the reason that they seem to be in denial that there was ever a problem with these awful funds, there was documented. And so I wouldn't be surprised to see it, but again, at the end of the day, I think you're going to see a legislative fix, the speakers talked about it, and so that comes February, I think the legislature is going to be the final site here. Well, we'll keep an eye on that. Well, you and I don't speak a lot about national politics, but it is-- at that time of year, we got to do this once every four years. How are you feeling about the presidential election? I mean, I'm ready for it to be over. I'm so tired of it, and we don't even live in a swing state. I think y'all probably get some of the Florida media buys and everything, but I think it's probably trending toward Trump just because the more Donald Harris is out there, the more, you know, unimpressive she kind of is, just not a lot. Let's substance there. I mean, I'm not a voter in Pennsylvania, it's going to be really close. And look, the one thing I'll say is that if Trump does win, you're going to see this media meltdown that we, you know, that it'll make 2016 look like nothing. Let me-- because we're going to bring him back to Alabama here. I think this is big for 2026 in that number one, if it's a Harris win, it's going to be a big GOP year, 26, if it's a Trump win, it's going to be a big Democrat year, 26. But if you hone that in on Alabama, and I saw somebody about this the other day, like, have you ever seen a time when so much of all the dominoes that should fall in place for 2026 in this state really hinge on this election? And I would say probably what is Tommy Tuberville, our senior US senator, going to do? Well, yeah, you got to go back to 2026. And that's when, you know, when Jeff Sessions is tapped for Attorney General, that really completely reshaped the landscape in Alabama, think of all what happened, right, with their strange gets appointed. That was a messy situation, right, led to Doug Jones getting elected, because the whole Roy Moore situation, and finally, at least the Tuberville. So yeah, just one little thing can shake up the entire map. Yeah, it's pretty well known throughout the political world that several, you know, either wants or would consider an appointment to the Trump administration, to a second Trump administration. And yeah, that would lead to, you know, first of all, an appointment. What kind of appointment would it be? Would it be, to the end of the term, would it be temporary, considering what happened with Luther Strange? And who gets that? Do they want to run? Who else wants to run? A percent. I mean, that's a kind of the brass ring right there at the Senate, so yeah, lots is riding on 20 on this November's election for 2026, including the governor's rights, by the way. Let's go ask you. Yeah. Before we let you go. Taking their time. Do you think Tommy Tuberville would run for governor? I'm really skeptical of that. I know there's rumors out there and he is perpetuating these rumors, by the way. He does not mind. People talk about him from the governor. I'm just not sure he'd be serious about it. Number one, you got to move to Montgomery, you got to live in the mansion, and a lot of people don't like the idea of that, especially, you know, considering other accommodations. And it's a tough job. So I'm not really sure about that, but just the fact that he talked about running for governor, he is talked about kind of has everybody else waiting to see because they know he would be a really tough contender for that. What I'm saying, Willingsworth, Steve Marshall, all those that are considering, they're holding their horses waiting to see, okay, what happens with Tuberville? I also probably mean, for your trips to 30A, you can't be the Alabama governor and hang out in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida. So I'll let you say that, so I don't, I don't, I don't, that's why I have a little skeptical, but hey, time for let's you go folks with a sign up for your newsletter, then what you got coming up on Capitol Journal, let them know. Absolutely. Just go to A L daily news.com, you can hear your name, your email right there on the home page and you'll be on the list. And yes, Capitol Journal is tonight, seven 30 on Alabama public television, get a good show. So please tune in. All right. Y'all check that out. Appreciate it. All right. Yeah. Be good. All right, guys, we got to get a break here. Be right back. This is F.M. Talk. 106 five. Two, five, one, three, four, three, zero, one, zero, six is the tech slide. You want to be in touch with the show and it's up there, Pete Riem coming up in the next hour. Stay tuned for them kicking off your Shane. I get the land yap and love the Jet Force stories along with the call news. Well, thank you. I always, you know, it's just a little bit of work that goes into that column. But I always forget people actually read the land yap column. Just like I guys are telling you, sometimes I forget people listen to this show. But maybe that's a healthy way of approaching radio without getting to inside your own head. Math. You rights. I get the Orlando Business Journal mostly read it online, but I still get a print copy in the mail twice a week. It's handy to be able to skim over to 30 pages of print copy looking for things in news, nothing from the mobile area. I get to Birmingham Business Journal, which is sort of the, that's Alabama's version of it. Now Huntsville has a business journal, but I, I don't think it's this, this quite as comprehensive. The problem with these business journals, Matthew, and it's just this change in leadership at the parent company, they are all focused on this DEI ESG crap. That is, I mean, it is, it is useless to me. There's no news. I don't need to know how to organize a corporation that conforms to the, well, whoever decides what the appropriate ESG protocol are, but that's, that's what's happened with that. I just, I find it so, it's just such a waste and it's like these, these people need to feel good or something about it. I, I don't know, but, uh, the burning of business journal used to like, break a lot of news. Now they would have tell me how to make better diversity hires and I, I, I need to cancel it, but I don't know, my hope is that it will change. We'll be right back. This is a Jeff Porte Show, enough to talk with us, 6-5 on a freight train leaving town, not knowing where I'm bound and no one can change my mind but mama tried. From Buck's pocket to the shores of Orange Beach, at all points in between, an insider's perspective on Alabama politics. It's the Jeff Porte Show. I don't think I've done it this way, no, no. Now, welcome back to the Jeff Porte Show, to talk with us, 6-5. Thank you for being with us on this Friday, Friday morning, 25134301, 06, we're gonna get through these text here in just a moment. Uh, got a bunch of them and I have, uh, I'm slow walking them, uh, sort of like Hurricane Aid by Alejandro Mayorkas, uh, still to come Pete Reem, uh, about a half hour from now talking about the Department of Veterans Affairs, um, sort of a strain set of circumstances. I, I mean, I was listening to Todd, he's already plugged into the governor's office and that the, the alleged ARPA in discretion here with the funding that the agency allegedly committed was the only agency that had a hard time with ARPA, that, that, that is pretty bad. If you're, if that, if the, if true, that it's a more incompetent than Al Dodd and Department of Corrections and, uh, archives and history or whatever, that's, uh, that's an issue. However, uh, I, I guess my, my opinion on this is Governor Ivy discretion is the better part of our don't you want to go to war with some shadowy, dark, awful state agency, go to war with them, not the veterans affairs. Yeah, I heard my experience in the last hour, I mean, I find them to be more, more reasonable but it might just one time I've ever had to deal with them, I'm not a veteran, I'm not a vet, but going to war with these guys, is that really the best you see your time? You, you probably ought to try to find some kind of amicable solution and move on, but that's just, uh, that's just me. Let's see what we got here. Uh. Is your name to remember? We talked Gordo when he was running in the primary and he was on, we talked, I always had to call into these guests and we, we'd wait off air until the show was live and we talked a lot of Gordo, we talked a lot of Pickett's County. Uh, Marty, land yap is the only print I still receive. I also get too electronically. I subscribe to the two small town publications, the South Alabama and the subter county record journal. I, I want my struggle with these small town newspapers. I want to know what's going on in your city council and county commission meetings. I want to know your local politics, not, not, not the, you don't have to give me the gory description, the personalities or any of that, but, but if you're paving a road or whatever, like, you know, the, the, the, and they don't do that really. They'll do a lot of crime or it's, um, no, I mean, you've got to build a newspaper on your local sports coverage, T ball league, all the way up to high school football. But seriously, like, I, I'm interested to know what's going on and with the Maro County commission, what's going on in Scambie County? Now they had to add what the app more newspaper there and it got in trouble with the school board. There's an other problem with these, somebody's small town newspapers and there's, there's a lot of incestuousness where a local politician owns the local newspaper, which, hey, we have a first amendment and the first amendment doesn't stop when you went elected office. However, as a consumer news, you can see where that'd be problematic. Uh, David still gets the press register now called the lead. Yeah, I get that in my email too. Also take 18, 19 news also learn a lot from listening to you. 18, 19 news is a fine website, despite what people may tell you. We take a lot of heat from the, uh, the mainstream media intelligence here. The same people who were complaining about the elitist ail.com media, the same people who complained about that are complaining about us. King, why wouldn't prisons be built with casino money? If casinos were out to ever be an album and they could go even in the same piece of land or they wouldn't do that, um, security reasons. I think number one, I mean, there's already sort of that, right? With the wind Creek facility that more down the road from home and also what's up good, the way quick facility there down the street from what Teltweiler, um, and what's up good, but I let me tell you something here, guys, you know, we can talk about all the good things that casino money and gambling money can do. That money's already been spent. That money has already been earmarked. You're insane. If you think it's going to go to anything except for teacher pay raises or new schools or any of that, it's, it's the, the education of this lobby, the education lobby in this state is already commandeer that money. If it ever gets passed, uh, the, uh, the legislature super majority and then the vote of the people forget about it, they're just, you're not going to get them to put money into general fund. I'm surprised. I think they, whoever it was that figured out the internet sales tax to get that to go to the general fund. It was very clever, they took advantage of an old antiquated sort of mindset and they, I don't think the people, the powers to be realized the, the revenue that would come out of an internet sales tax, they probably thought it was much, much less than it turned out to be, but, but that's what that's important here. If I think the powers that be had realized how much money could be generated from the internet sales tax, it would have been an earmarked for education. Jeremy, stop reading your texts. If you don't stop calling it, the university of West Georgia, let's just tell you that right now that it was cute the first time it's, it's obnoxious now. Okay. Deal. You don't like it. You don't have to text, but I'm, I'm over the university of West Georgia thing. He writes, Jeff, it's the law that they had to put mental to print a newspaper and didn't get it and put it in a print newspaper. Why the hell aren't they talking about the state employees who got fired? If you were to call shot a million dollars by doing something stupid, would he pay for to blame the law? I always thought that I didn't like Stacy, but now I know I don't like his. Sorry. Well, but you don't have to go after Auburn university, but we know the rules now, Jerry. The West Georgia thing's retired. So there's a moratorium on it because you've used it like every day this week. And this is not a good week for Bama fans to be rapid. Okay. Oh, it was the, it was the, it was the newspaper error. I would think the one where I'll not messed up was they didn't go back and check the hard copy of the newspaper to make sure the ads had read. But I don't know that that's just one part of it. I mean, you pay for advertising and you do everything you're supposed to do and you assume it ran, but somebody, I mean, these newspapers forget, but I mean, our state is being held at the whim of a, of a, you know, a careless newspaper. I know how these newspapers are. You're throwing it together at the last minute late at night, you're trying to, you're trying to create a publication that's as current as possible because there's a mindset from some people who put out these newspapers. They're just like money printing machines and essentially you're just printing high school football photos or prom king photos or whatever the hell goes into a local newspaper now and you sell the advertising, but some newspapers, I think the syndication, these guys in Pickett's County were like, well, we don't want to like put last week's news in this week's newspaper. So you wait up, you went up to the last minute, you have a system, you have a routine and you're laying out the newspaper page and like I, my experience laying out a newspaper page is all back in 20 years ago when I was at South Alabama when I ran to college newspaper. And like I could, I could design newspaper pages in my sleep. That was a struggle for a lot of people, but getting their copy in, you know, you're editing their copy on the fly, you're trying to place it, you're trying to find a good photo, you're trying to put this newspaper together, you're laying out all the pages, you're making sure the ads, you got a checklist to make sure all the ads are in and then you send it to a printer somewhere and then they bring it and then you put it in a big truck and then they throw them in a van and then they go put them on newsstands everywhere. I think it's how these small town newspapers operate. Well, they don't have printing presses anymore. The printing press, it just isn't viable. So you have a one printing press and one town somewhere that serves like eight counties and you got to hit your deadlines, you got to get your newspaper there on that day because the printing press has to print another newspaper and it's just barely hanging on. So I can see how mistakes would happen. I've had more negative experiences with the VA with my grandfather World War II, Dan Vietnam, myself over the years, I used to work in health insurance over the VA for now, but I'm talking about the state VA, not the Fed. The federal VA is a, it's mixed. Some places look third world and some look like, I mean, you're just in like something Elon Musk would create. The variations of the VA system and the federal government's crazy, the state VA much different. I, I'm telling you, maybe that's what you're talking about fire dog, but it's for me, my own experience was pretty good. A name texture, you really need to interview someone who sees the other side of this veteran's a, a, a DVA issue. Well, who do I need? Governor Ivey? That side's not talking. A little score I relatively pay for land, you have to spike the editors being obvious never Trump for types. Most people in the media are, I don't know what it is, um, and this is the thing about being in this business as long as I have been, even if I were or I could never Trump or type or I never, uh, never Kamala or whoever, I mean, like being that emotionally invested when you're in this business is weird to me, I like, I, my wife, she gets upset about stuff all the time and I, I'm just like, you know, but, but like, you know this living through democratic administrations is all of you have had, I mean, not just Biden, but Obama and Clinton versus Reagan, Bush, Bush to Trump, whatever your destiny, you control your old destiny in this country for the most part. Now, the federal government could add some obstacles and I think the biggest obstacle in my lifetime would probably be Obamacare, but generally speaking, you, you can make something of yourself regardless of who's president and I, I'm like, kind of emotionally detached, desensitized to a lot of this and I, I just, I think that's the healthy way to approach it, but I find people in my line of work in the media, I don't get it. I don't get why they, why they, especially in the mainstream media, friends of mine in Washington, D.C., good hilliers, the perfect example, like I have no quid forever and you can just tell like there's something in him that is, he finds Trump so repulsive that it triggers something emotionally, but he's sort of just like one, one, one example, there's hundreds of these people, I just, I don't get it. Why are you that, why are you that trouble by this, you, you see, if you control your old destiny in life, you've got to make up at what you will and don't blame who's in charge in the government looking to the JD Vance book, he talks about that, but we'll be right back, this is effort talk, 106.5. Thanks for staying with us on this Friday morning, 24 minutes, out to the hour, Pete Reem coming up in the next segment, we'll talk VA, that's coming up here shortly, also going to show, say Senator Chris Elliot, oh, you the last few texts here, what was the last time someone came to your house trying to sell you newspaper subscriptions, it's been a while, but I get inundated on just emails, at least one to a day, the two that hit me up the most, but I want to subscribe to these newspapers, the Decatur Daily and the Times Daily and the Shoals, which were decent papers five, six years ago, but now they're like, it's the Tuscaloosa news and Montgomery advertiser problem. These newspapers, Gadsden Times, I throw that one in there, they just print all in the same stories and maybe it'll be like one or two that are different, but what it is, one line office creates one newspaper and they change the masthead, they change the banner at the top to the end, they sell ads in those communities as if they're like three separate newspapers, but they're really just the same paper, essentially. The thoughts are a little different, but it's, it's, it's, you have the same reporters right in the same stories and then they just repurpose them for the local newspaper. And it takes years back, dad was hospitalized to be a Montgomery, his care was like, he's a myerian and sister immediately pulled him and out and sent him to a private hospital with a Montgomery VA that had a very low energy nursing staff and a subpar for doctors that were bought, bought on the cheap. Now, there's a Martha Robie, the former congresswoman really had a lot to do with cleaning up the Montgomery VA. Well, the Montgomery VA used to be one of the worst in the country, used to be corrupt, used to be just awful. It's gotten better now. I haven't heard the horror stories in a while coming out of the Montgomery VA. The ones I got telling you, so we were in and out of VA hospitals all the time growing up because that was a veteran he served in Korea and, well, no, sort of Korea, but not the Korean War, their Vietnam, it was stationed in Korea and then started the Air Force when I was a kid. Army in the Air Force, but I remember St. Louis VA, it was just, it was a homeless problem. Bernie Hamm was okay. That's where he spent his last days, we'd split the Tupole, which had to drive the Jackson to the VA. I mean, you just, it was really, really a mix, like really nice facilities and it's really some par facilities at the federal VA. Now the Alabama VA, like I said, was fairly workable. Ah, Ron, minority opinion here, I'm a veteran, 66 to 72 Vietnam era vet. The last voices of the veterans that you hear to cry, babies, weeping and willing about some VA benefits they are having a hard time getting VA is a federal issue. The VA would be a wasteful state service that wouldn't be missed if it weren't be, if it were to be dissolved. That's not likely to happen. That's Pete Reeve about the state of the ADA does that federal, does what the federal VA cannot do. Um, they, the, they, the cemeteries, uh, there's a lot of things that they do, do that aren't, I think necessarily a function of the federal government. Now, maybe the federal government pays for it, but they delegate or they, uh, authorize the, the authority of the state to do it. The state kind of has, I mean, I understand how it works. You obviously do too. I can see where the state would have some say in what's going on in the, uh, with the regards to veterans affairs. Anyway, not for that. Two, five, one, three, four, three, zero, one, zero, six week. We are, uh, we, we have declared text to bankruptcy. Uh, yes, they carly doffs it on the program. She had her debate with Shamari figures and it wasn't about as expected. I, uh, AL.com did, uh, they're most, uh, the debate itself sounded like it was pretty even kill, but the, the write-ups of it were just totally one-sided for figures. These people cannot help themselves. They are what they are speaking of never Trumpers or with emotional derangement. We'll be right back. This is effort talk one of six, five. They should stay with us on this Friday morning, two, five, one, three, four, three, zero, one, zero, six. That's the text line. Uh, we'll read your text as they come in and, uh, maybe I will, uh, snarl or sneer or whatever. Or maybe I will say thank you for contributing to the program. Anyway, it's up to you. You control your old destiny there. Uh, joining us now on the line, uh, he, um, he, he's a, he's a column. You could read in various publications around the state, but, uh, always good to hear from him. Pete Reem, uh, joins us on the line. Pete, good morning. How are you? Doing great. Jeff, good morning. How are you? I'm, uh, I'm doing well, doing well. Uh, we'll start here. You're on the way to North Carolina, uh, talk about that real quick. Well, yeah, I mean, just a lot of folks know my, all my adult children and grandchildren. They live in Western North Carolina in, in those hearted counties and, uh, they, they're all thanks. Praise God. Everyone's safe or really good, but a lot of home damage, matter of fact, my oldest daughter, her house got completely washed away. They lost everything. So we're going back up there helping, uh, clean up and rebuild and, uh, what the other daughter and son-in-law, they're going to, we're moving them back. They're going to move down here for a while. So we're, we're in the middle of doing all that by, uh, my roots are in Western North Carolina too. Um, I think it will further south the Brevard, uh, Transylvania County and just for days didn't hear from anybody. It was kind of spooky. Very spooky. We didn't, there was no, I mean, I didn't know they were okay until I literally drove in Monday morning, Tennessee and I found them at our cabin. Just no way to get in touch with people and, and, uh, I mean, you know, you, the roads are blocked. You know how those roads are there. There's, you know, it's, it's, it's going in and going out. And it's, I tell you what's crazy to see and so my son and I went up to, we spent a little time in Western North Carolina, the very beginning of August and that some of those roads were gone and some of them were just like rivers, um, around Asheville that I don't know. Like, uh, I can't imagine like in my, you know, like I said, I'm almost 50 years old at any point in time that it would have been ever that kind of a landscape. Yeah, no, it's, I've never seen anything like it to see. It looks like parts of it look like the Mississippi Gulf Coast Africa tree that just completely wiped out. It's like, just humbling. Well, um, let's get into what we, uh, we're getting, having you had your own to talk about and, and this isn't like fascinating, but not necessarily a, you know, something to be excited about. Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs, uh, Admiral Davis, uh, uh, effectively resigning at the end of the year, uh, but the board there is at least putting up a fight against the governor. Yeah. Some really strong opinions on what's going on here. Kyle walk us through what your take is and explain to us, well, I mean, I, I'm very naive on this, but I'm kind of watching this for the outside, but well, what, what do you make of it? Well, I really appreciate that you hit me on an hour after Alabama Proveda was interviewed the, uh, the propaganda Todd Stacy from Alabama Proveda. I listened to that and that was very infuriating to listen to the misrepresentations and just inaccuracies and he's acting like, oh, he's got the inside story. Uh, we'll see if we can address them for that. But really the issue is mental health care in this state is inadequate, inefficient and it's been that way for decades. In contrary to that crap, the speaker put in his office this morning, uh, blood better, uh, accounting what they've all done, they are spending hundreds of millions of dollars for very little effect. So I, I don't know where that propaganda came from, but where does God do is over the last five to 10 years in a good portion of it is under Commissioner Davis's leadership, veterans organizations and nonprofits across this state have risen to the challenge with innovative programs in ways to bring real services and treatment to veterans, particularly with PTSD and substance abuse and those things. And we've been having great, great success at that. And I will say that success has come despite the resistance and obstacles thrown up by the Alabama Department of mental health and all of the monopoly of health care providers in this state. They have tried to keep the veterans organizations from doing what they have successfully been starting to do. And so the problem is the big picture is that the success of the veterans department has exposed the incompetence of the Alabama Department of health and it is also a mental health. It is those who exposed the utter corruption and trans corruption and complete waste of money because really the veterans are being targeted right here. But really that every citizen in the state of Alabama should be incensed that hundreds of millions of dollars a ridiculously high budget is spent on mental health and we are number 47 in the country. And we can find all sorts of places in every town of the inadequate inadequacies of finding mental health care for substance abuse for PTSD. That's why we have homeless all over the street. That's what the real story is that we've exposed that the way we didn't expose it. We just happened to step into it because of the success of the veterans affairs. I'm really living about the way they talk about Admiral Davis because we've known several VA commissioners over the last couple decades. Admiral Davis is heading shoulders far away above the best commissioner that we've ever had. And he has done more for veterans in his tenure than they've done in the last 50 years for veterans from the state veterans department. And they've got a stage to get on there and malign the Admiral and his agency who they I will put that agency to let's go have on it. Let's go have on it independent audits and compared to every other state agency and I will bet money that the Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs will come through with flying colors and I guarantee you ain't going to say that for the rest of them. So it's ridiculous for him to do that and the other one and I know I'm rambling here. The fact that he said the board is a problem like they don't know what they're doing. The board is part of the problem of the way it functions. The Department doesn't function correctly and then he got the board to sort of out of touch or whatever he was trying to apply there making it sound like oh we just went down to local BMW and we got the two drugs that sit there every day and that's who sits on the board. I really that is an affront. The people on the Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs are the top veteran senior leaders in the state of Alabama, these are people who have distinguished records of service in uniform and they are now still serving very nobly and very capable. This is the veterans, the citizens overseeing government for him to make it sound like there are a bunch of troop balls who don't know what they're doing in an offense because I'm telling you they have a that board has a better feel for what's going on that agency overseeing it than any other thing in Montgomery because there's no corruption in the Department of Veterans Affairs and you cannot say that for the rest of them. Sorry, I'm really upset the way it characterized those people and their self with service. Well, the governor and my extension of the Todd Stacey's quibble here I guess is that they they misappropriated or misstated some ARPA money. Now the general flood chairman Greg Albritton says that's not true that that never happened and the story here is the way Todd explained it and I hadn't heard this until now that no it didn't actually happen but the finance director or whoever called it before the error was committed. So like to me if there was like maybe there was the potential for the foul but the foul didn't get committed and this warrants a whole shake up it just it seems like they were kind of looking for a reason to do what they have done. Well, you're exactly right because when you do look at you know we stopped if you assume that that's correct we stopped it before the foul was committed well look at every other state agency how many fouls do they commit constantly and they don't fire any of those people but this one we supposedly we caught it before any infraction and we fixed it but all of that's untrue. That's pretty much I mean Todd Stacey might as well go work for seeing that or MSNBC because he got about the same veracity that that ARPA funds never got to the Department of Veterans Affairs but the part they don't tell you is that they ironed out memorandums of agreement, memorandums of understanding with all those agencies Department of Mental Health Department of Finance they were part of this. This was not done in the store done with complete coordination and interaction with all these other agencies and they'd all signed up on it and they were already do they knew all the stuff that was in there right they knew all that stuff it wasn't until the Alabama Council of Behavioral Health those were obvious caught wind that some of these funds would be going to programs that support mental health treatment that's their rice bowl that's their money they don't want anybody to ever there's a total monopoly on mental health it's a whole other story but they went back to the Department of Medicine you cannot let any kind of money go outside of our purview to mental health that we can't control mental health care so they went and stopped it and that's where all the ethical stuff came in because it was unilateral by the commissioners say oh well we just withdraw from the from the memorandum and we're not going to support those because if the truth is they didn't give them the seven million dollars in ARPA but the Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs took it out of other parts of their budget to fund those 33 programs that Todd Stacey maligned and said stupid stuff like they didn't know what they were doing and trying to misuse the funds I mean it's really in front because it's those people who are actually providing services to real people on the ground and we we can prove it we can show it and they're maligning those people to try to suck us back into a a lethargic monopoly that doesn't provide the real system for any real treatment he's wrong about almost everything he said so that that I guess it was this if I recall that they were going to use ARPA money to hire a lobbyist to lobby the state for more money which was taboo you don't know how much time you spend in the state house I know you ran for state Senate but you go up there and I'd say probably at least half of the lobbyists in the hallways are working for state agencies at the taxpayer expense which is always or not even just state agencies you throw in all the other governments local county whatever and I'm surprised like it how that is I mean I can see where people might hear that think well that's not good spend in a lobbyist but that's the sort of the Montgomery game why did you make of that part of it well it's incredibly hypocritical because of what you just said I mean there's so many lobbyists that are basically state funded working for agencies and everybody else up there but it's like really that that's what upset y'all but the other thing is that wasn't in there that was not in there they did this the Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs was not trying to hire lobbyists they were just trying to get support and funds to support VSOs and non-profits who are doing the real work on the ground and that we can show the success across the state that one in there something about the ammunition so I can have ammunition that is a peer support program a marksmanship program peer support to take veterans out and they do marksmanship training with those guys but it's one of those therapeutic things kind of like the guy remember the Navy SEAL was doing it it's a therapeutic rate the legitimate program but he threw it out the way you get by guns and ammunition made it sound like we were arming the veterans or something totally misrepresented and in any sense something about the those ethics complaints oh wow those were really inaccurate thrown out let me tell you something all of them people in Montgomery are going to ruin the day they said that because they know that those are legitimate complaints and when an actual athlete ethical at this commission or some real attorneys look at it they're gonna come back and revisit all that stuff they won't be talking about that being frivolous or inaccurate yeah and and that I and you know the the the the way I don't know I just all in all it just feels like there's there's some kind of if it's just a personal thing and I don't know the governor to me isn't very clear thinking or it doesn't seem like she's clear thinking on this and I wonder if she just kind of this is more of like her inner circle staring her in this direction or something yeah I mean you know I can't say where the governor really is I don't know really how much he knows well the Kim the Kim Boswell and the Department of Mental Health Commissioner which is on the governor's cabinet what would assume is in her inner circle and and maybe that's why she's going in a direction that she is I know well that could be I'm not going to say that I'm telling you what this really is and we can do a lot more programs because I've had experience with this going back ten years what this really is is the monopoly of mental health care mental health care in the state of Alabama is run pretty much by a single monopoly and they they will not allow any competition whatsoever and that's that's really what's at the root this it really doesn't have to do with the veterans it doesn't really have to do with Commissioner Davis doesn't really have to do that they don't like the programs that we're doing this is the monopoly of mental health care asserting their dominance and they're going to make sure that nobody else can get in to their little gravy train that's what this is ultimately about Pete go leave it there we do appreciate you make a time for safe travels stay safe up there man yes sir thank you very much have a great day all right we got to get a break here we'll be right back this is the Jeff Moore show what a foot talk 10065. 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I did me the treat you bad they know just what I had but honey now don't it make my browns don't it make my browns don't look back to the Jeff Moore show what if I'm talking 10065 thanks for staying with us on this Friday morning 2513430106 stay sir Chris Hilly coming up in about 45 minutes got a ton of text I guess Pete got y'all all riled up which is a you know very useful for this program nothing that helps out I mean that does help out a lot less the real Sam a father and yours may have served together in Korea he was an army helicopter there during Vietnam my dad really talk about it he talked about he talked about missing me at home and like it was always I think he did some stuff that was sort of I was a top secret but not really something you you can talk about more like I it was intelligence but it was like tracking enemy aircraft I think but that I mean you know that was 50 plus years 60 years ago when he was there and he died in 2017 but when he got back he went to college and got his undergrad Western Carolina and then his NBA at Mississippi State and then but wait before he went to Mississippi State he was in the Air Force for a few years we lived on England Air Force Base when I was a kid my first time living in the state of Florida but I guess there was a lot going on in Korea during the Vietnam War and he was a part of it anyway we gotta get a break in here we'll be right back this is the Jeff poor shoulder for talking with us 65 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 poor show I don't think hang down in this way well back to the Jeff poor show and if I'm talking one oh six five thanks for staying with us on this Friday morning two five one three four three zero one zero six would be a touch with the program what you got to do you got a text me and we'll proceed accordingly I still a calm state senator Chris Elliott our returning champion always good to hear from senator Elliott uh see kind of make the there's a lot of uh a lot of contentious state things going on meanwhile there is a presidential election going on they are desperate I mean here we are increasingly desperate the stories you're starting to see I mean we're just we're we're just a few weeks away from how to how to talk to your relatives at Thanksgiving about politics feature pieces I was thinking about that and uh how how those are just right around the corner I'm uh I tell you start to see this too this is a this is a great tell this is on telling this is these Democrats who are non-committal and certifying the 2024 election oh election deniers huh so listen to me today in general the Democrats have been in the election denial business since 1860 and where did that take the country they were the original election deniers okay we know 2000 2004 oh Stacey Abrams hey you can't say what I did is the same thing that a lot of y'all did the original election deniers all you people who think I'm not gonna vote because it doesn't matter my vote doesn't matter anyway Democrats have been playing this game in a long time they want you not to vote they want you to think that way they want you to be like hey yeah the election doesn't matter you stay home your senator Brubaker not talking about that yesterday I'll see what we got here community notes want to be Jeff I know you and your listeners disagree with you hate listen or whatever I can't speak for everyone else by a joint listening to your show I think you're Robin you seem like a pretty good dude thanks for pushing back on the weather control nonsense have a a good weekend well thank you for that hate but there are people who hate listen to this show I don't understand that impulse like I don't I try to keep up with this is it this is why I'm so beaten down maybe and why this doesn't get to me I started monitoring cable news for the media research center back in like 2006 liberal bias we were a liberal media watchdog I got I got the financial news beat which was not as not quite as tedious as like MSNBC and at the time it wasn't as bad as it is now CNN was trying to be a moderate middle of the road network even though they were still left MSNBC wanted to be left but they also wanted to have like some things that they thought they could pull audience away from it was more about an audience demographic game and less about ideology is you remember like you know Don I miss was on MSNBC for years and and I know he was like not exactly your your team party Republican a supported Democrats but he wasn't like vintage MSNBC but yet you had Pat Buchanan for a while as a contributor Joe Scarborough before he he he lost his marbles was was was a fairly decent commentator and they did not try to be this like they didn't try to brand themselves around Keith over a minute later Rachel Maddow until what really changed was Obama winning the presidency and I'm gonna tell you this general electric still owned the NBC networks GE was all in the business of hyping up the regime hyping up Obama getting his getting goes they were spending that stimulus money the tarp bail out there was a lot of money flowing out of Washington into the private sector and they saw it as their duty to run for essentially for the Obama administration and that kind of sent it off in that direction. Ratings don't matter anymore guys. The ESGification, the DEIification of the media is what's happened because you no longer these ad buyers in New York or whatever say they're responsible for the marketing for XYZ pharmaceutical company. It's no longer about getting your message in front of a big audience for them. Now, I mean, there's still some of that. You see that during sports like Super Bowl or college football or whatever. But when your target is the news, your brand is as such. You don't want to be on that crazy right wing out of touch Fox News channel. You want to be on the softer gentler. You want your brand to be associated with these master orators like Chris Hayes and Lawrence O'Donnell. That's where you want to advertise. That's your brand. That's your identity. And they're like, yeah. That's where our, that's where our public is, right? That's where everybody is right now. They're on the hard, low, left now. Everybody wants to do Black Lives Matter or whatever. Let's roll here. It's a bit off topic, but the Mobile Public Library is promoting Kamala with a large display, a feature of her book and accomplishments, 100% guarantee they would have never done anything positive about a conservative, which which public library, the one downtown. That's big of true. Firedog. Do you know any of the textures really contribute to your show? Ricky, maybe James, hate listens, and I contribute nothing but getting you to read pointless text on the radio. No, the text are big. I just logistically, I don't do my show in the studio. So like calls are difficult. Okay. It's hard to do a call. And then those people who say that I don't take calls or because I can't take the pushback or just wrong. Listen to me filling on other shows and I take calls all day long. When I was at Leland Waley on 1995 in Birmingham, I filled in a bunch for him the last last month. And it's like it's a collar driven show. Well, at some point in the show, I just decided, well, that's that's probably not going to work as well for this format. And the text really, really do contribute to the program. Look, I mean, this just it just works in this format. Sorry if you don't like it. Sorry if you want to call in there's ample opportunity on other programs. We don't do a lot of calls for that reason. I give out the number and it's just, I don't do the show in the studio and I'm not about to start going over there just to take your calls. Sorry, you can learn to use your smartphone. A name texture we've lost every engagement since World War two. It's still a wastey money on in the VA. According to P is a total waste of time. Maybe we could just reinvest back into the military and start winning again. They're the one like Grenada, Panama. Yeah, you're probably right. I don't think I think you got to take care of your veterans though. Jerry, I wish a member of the Alabama media would call Todd out for being a sorry little piece of crap. He really is. Todd's important to the discussion and I know that a lot of you don't like Todd Stacy. It doesn't matter. He's going to be on the show because it's my show. I want to know what the governor's thinking. I want to know what the governor's thinking. It's important to hear his reporting because he's getting it straight from the governor and you can take that and you can make up it what you want to. But it's an important voice in our discussion. I wish that there were other people in the state that run state websites that didn't like just lose their day of mind because of where I work that I would still have on to this day. But we got out of sorts. But look, if you're going to come on my terrible radio show, I'm going to treat you. I'm going to treat you decent. For the most part, unless you're Dale Jackson. But I'm going to treat you pretty pretty good. But Todd Stacy at times, sometimes I get, I push back against Todd, but like what he is telling us. Now, you do, could he be better and be a little more impartial or I don't know here from other sides? Sure. But beggars can't be choosers here, but he does offer an important voice. It is sort of an insidery, Montgomery discussion that I can't have a discussion at that level about what's going on in the state with a lot of other people. There's just there's not anybody who's as knowledgeable about what's going on in the state in the state house in the capital as he is. That's not a politician or some kind of elected official or a staffer. I mean, there's just not a big, strong media presence and the media that are there, they're fly by night. It's a lot of kids who come in and it's their first job. They do a year for ale.com or the album reflector, then they move on to another publication. Or did you have Brian Lyman who I think is just a a shill for sending the South back into reconstruction, post civil war reconstruction or something. Not a credible source. Paul, I love Freebird. He's selling it to my child. Chris, next time we have Pete on asking if he likes Todd Stacey or not, please. I couldn't tell. Uh, name text or good morning, Jeff. This is Bob from Foley. Just an FYI. You want me to let your listeners know that the road surfacing in the Foley, uh, express has been a nightmare in particularly this weekend. The traffic is backed up for miles in both directions. That's, uh, that's good to know. Well, they're trying. So they're going, the state is taking that road over and, and look, when the, whatever the, the road company that initially built that Foley beach express and the ball would express, they didn't, they didn't have to conform to certain like road standards. They can just build a road here on these accidents on the, on the beach express because of the grading and the way, you know, you take a four lane road and you try to add a bunch of curves to it. It's just not built for that. And people drive on it, like it's 65 miles per hour, like it's an interstate. And what the state has to do is they got to add a shoulder, they got to do some things to it to get it up to state standards to get like federal money or whatever it may be. And then they're going to rebrand it to, uh, state highway at 161, which will run right now, 161 is like a really short road. You know, we're docked, seafood at orange beach, the old docs, not the new one all the way to, uh, the, the beach boulevard there. Let's get that weird Michigan, you turn and you have to like, if you're coming down the beach boulevard to do it and then you get on that and it takes you back over there where docs is, the canal road. That's 161 now. It's going to be 161 from there all the way to buckies. Once the state takes it over, it's going to be a state side highway. And that includes the bridges. The one they're building now will be southbound and the one that's existing by the wharf is northbound. I don't know how I feel about that. A lot of people, but it's like Senator Ellie said, uh, I guess it's a better situation than it was. Chris, please tell the senator I got my hearing aids and this is a trip. Thank you for, for me, for his help and story this, uh, this is going to be a real fight guys. The Volley County Commission wants to do away with, I guess, there's a county portion on the hearing aid tax and they're running into some opposition here. The school board of Volley County is what I'm being told. Watch this fight guys. Watch this real close. I don't know how they win this in a court of public opinion. Hey, we want to keep your tax high on this medical device to fund schools. That's coming. Stay tuned for that. Hey, well, we got to get a break here. We're very back. This is the Jeff Moore show and I've been talking one over six, five getting crazy getting hammers sitting right here at the floor of famine. At the floor of famine, I'll fly a starship across the universe device. And when I reach the other side, I'll find a place to risk my spirit if I can. And perhaps I may become a highway man again. Welcome back to the Jeff Moore show that from talk about those six, five Senator Ellie coming up in the next segment. So stay tuned for that. We'll wipe out these texts. Once again, squirrel, just what I start to appreciate the mobile public library. They pulled nutty lefty stuff. I'm glad I have resisted buying their coffee mugs. I just kind of resist buying their coffee mugs out of principle, not necessarily any political agenda, but that's just me money. Texting makes the texture get to the point. Therefore, while I participate here from the audience, I don't have a problem with it. Yeah, I mean, it just makes the show flow better and I can work in with texting guys. I can work in a lot more feedback. I do my best to read all the text. Sometimes I have at the very end of the program. I have to leave them on the vine, but we do our best here to try to make up for the interactions and not having a phone interaction. I mean, I do all the way I do it. All these interviews you hear of the phone are done on my cell phone, just so you get to the lay out of the way. And so it's not like a really dedicated phone line to this program. But that's where we're going to do it. We've been doing it that way since the show was on launched on 106 five back in 2020. It has now been more than four years. Luckily still haven't been fired, but it just the way it works is the text line two, five, one, three, four, three, zero, one, zero, six, you can take it or leave it. I don't really care, but I do care if you, if you do participate, I am appreciative. But if you don't, if you don't want to take it, then do what you got to do. Go check out the latest link, Brian single or something, if you will. Let's see here. I guess I said this early in the program, and I want to emphasize this point once again with the signs that there's something afoot here that it is very realistic to Trump will win this election, where it just seemed like, why isn't he losing? That was my lady up column this week, by the way, it was like everything that's gone wrong for Donald Trump the last four years, uh, he'd already been impeached. He got impeached again after when he was out of office, that's a Pelosi who doesn't let a grudge die, does she? But the felony convictions that no one really bought, the law fair, just the, the endless, uh, use of the, the justice system and the legal fees that have been incurred. Why would these, these people are doing to try to stop him? They can't stop him. They did two assassination attempts. And then there's he's trending in a good direction. Well, what's going to happen here? Now it's going to be, it's going to be tough sledding, guys, really, really tough sledding. Because I think, um, whoever wins, if it's Trump or Kamala, the other side's not going to see the election as legitimate. It's going to be, what's going to be kind of wild is the Democrats, if he does win, the Democrats now being in that, on that, in that position that Republicans were four years ago, being the election deniers after all, we're going to, maybe we can have a special prime time commission to, uh, like a McCarthy ask commission to, uh, to see if, uh, these election deniers are working for a hostile actor. Uh, the Westmobile public library, prominently displayed, it's a checkout counter. Thank you for that, Michael. That, you know, that's, that's a very useful, believe it or not. These libraries, I think in these public libraries in particular, they, they had the public trust. What, whether you use them or not, it doesn't matter. But your community generates money, um, the, be it private money, or be it public money, and they generate the money and it is supposed to be a representation of the community. But they're run by left wing ideology for the most part. Some libraries are different, but most of these pump, especially in the bigger cities. That's what they're doing. So, uh, anyway, that's, uh, that's good to know. Let's get a break here. We'll be right back to stuff and talk about those six, five. 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