Donnybrook
Donnybrook: August 3, 2023
Season 2023 Episode 51 | 27m 44sVideo has Closed Captions
Charlie Brennan debates with Amy Marxkors, Bill McClellan, Alvin Reid, and Ray Hartmann.
Charlie Brennan debates with Amy Marxkors, Bill McClellan, Alvin Reid, and Ray Hartmann.
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Donnybrook: August 3, 2023
Season 2023 Episode 51 | 27m 44sVideo has Closed Captions
Charlie Brennan debates with Amy Marxkors, Bill McClellan, Alvin Reid, and Ray Hartmann.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship>> "DONNYBROOK" IS MADE POSSIBLE BY THE SUPPORT O THOMAS PATTERSON FOUNDATION, AND THE MEMBERS OF NINE PBS.
>> THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR JOINING US FOR ANOTH OF "DONNYBROOK."
TH GOT LOTS TO TALK ABOUT ON THIS DAY SO LET'S F PAMMISTS.
STARTING WITH AMY MARXKORS FROM THE CHRIS AND AMY SHOW, SITTING IN FOR WENDY WIESE WHO WAS TRADED TO BALTIMORE BEFORE TUESDAY'S TRADING DEADLINE BILL McCLELLAN FROM REQUESTING THE POST HARTMANN FOUNDER OF THE "RIVERFRONT TIMES," ALVI LAST WEEK'S PROVAC TOUR AND COLUMNIST AND EDITOR WITH THE "ST. LOUIS AMERICAN" WHO DID A GREAT JOB LAST WEEK, MAYBE TOO GREAT.
>> IT >> GREAT JOB, SURE APPRECIATE THAT.
WA NIXON, FORMER GOVERNOR TO MISSOURI, NEEDS NO INTRODUCTION, DIRECTOR OF BALANCE LOCALE INTEGRITY FOR NO LABELS, THEY WANT TO GET CANDIDATES ON THE BALLOT IN ALL AUTO STATES IN 2024'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
HE'S GETTING GRIEF F DEMOCRATS SAYING THIS COULD HURT OUR CHANCE BIDEN REELECTED AND A TRUE DEMOCRAT WOULDN'T WHAT DO YOU THINK?
TAKE BUT JAY NIXON, I LIKE JAY AND BUT IT'S LIKE EVERY FIVE YEARS GOING BACK TO WHEN HE WAS RUNNING FOR SENA INTO THE VOLUNTARY PROGRAM, EVERY FIVE YEARS I'M EITHER JUST GOING OFF ON REALLY SUPPORTING SOMETHING HE DID.
I LIKE MODERATION.
I LIKE THE I KIND OF TALKING ABOUT, BUT THI IS, YOU KNOW, ALL HANDS ON DECK RIGHT NOW, AND THE ALTERNATIVE TO A DEMOCRAT BEING IN THE WHITE HOUSE RIGHT NOW IS AND SO I'M NOT TRYING TO SOUND PARTISAN, I'M TRYING TO SAY I'M SURE THERE'S REPUBLICANS SAYING THE SAME THING, THING WE NEED IS SOMEB BALLOT THAT WOULD TAKE AWAY -- >> SIPHON VOTES.
>> I SUPPORT JAY NIXON HE 'S DOING AND I LIKE GETTING PEOPLE ON THE BA PARTY, BUT I THINK THAT THIS IS A CRY TO THE DEMOCRATS THAT YOU GUYS CAN'T RUN JOE BIDEN.
I THINK THERE ARE DEMOCRATS LOOKING AROUND GOING, CAN'T WE GET -- I MEAN JOE BIDEN WAS A FINE ONE-TERM PRESIDENT, BUT HE'S, WHAT, 80 NOW, 81.
WE SAW WHAT HAPPENED WITH MITCH McCONNELL.
THIS IS A BAD IDEA TO RU IS IDEA IS IDEA IS AGAIN AND SPEAKING FOR JAY BUT I THINK AS DEMOCRATS YOU HAVE TO WAKE UP.
YOU CAN'T GO SLEEPWALK THIS ELECTION.
>> YEA WHO THE DEMOCRATS ARE OFFERING UP?
GOP HAS LOST ITS MIND.
AND YEAH, YOU'RE RIGHT.
THE PARTY'S LOST I WE HAVE TRUMP, OKAY.
THAT'S WHAT WE'RE DEAL BUT IF THE DEMOCRATS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE THE HAS IT TOGETHER, T COOLER PARTY, THE YOUNGE WHY IS JOE BIDEN IT?
>> I AGREE WIT I CAN'T ANSWER.
>> I SAID ON THE RADIO THAT I THOUGHT HE SHOULD RUN AS ONE-TERM JOE.
HE SHOULD RUN KNOWING HE'S GOING TO BE 82 AT THE TERM, HE SHOULD SAY I'M RUNNING TO GET THE COUNTRY SETTLED THAT WAS MY STATED OPINION AT THE TIME.
IT STILL IS, AND I'D LIKE TO SOMEONE LIKE GRETCHEN WHITMER OR SOME OTHER GOVERNOR PERHAPS, GAVIN NEWSOM, WHOEVER, IN HIS PLACE.
HAVING SAID THAT, I THINK HE'S BEEN A GOOD PRESIDENT, FIRST OF AL KNOW, UN ALTERNATIVE, THE IDEA OF THIS NO LABELS CONCEPT AND WHEN THEY START TALK LIKE JOE MANCHIN, I THINK IT IS ABSOLUTELY -- I SAY DANGEROUS, DANGEROUS BECAUSE I HAPPEN TO THINK THAT IF DONALD T SEEMS TO BE THE NOMINEE FOR THE REPUBLICAN SIDE, WINS, THEN THERE MAY NOT BE A 2028 ELECTION.
>> BUT DO YOU THINK MAYBE JOE BIDEN IF HE MODERATED HI AND STARTED TO APPEALING TO MODERATE.
THAT'S HE IS A MODERATE >> THIS IS WE'RE NOT GOING FOR A YOUNGER CANDIDATE.
WE'RE GOING FOR A MODERATE CANDID ARE BESIDE OURSELVES WE CAN'T RUN SOMEBODY BESIDE JOE BIDEN.
HE'S JUST TOO OLD AND THIS WHOLE THING IS PART OF THAT.
>> I D >> I DON IT THIS WAY.
WHATEV RALPH NADER WOULD HAVE BEEN THE PRESIDENT IF RALPH SO WE'VE BEEN DOWN THIS PATH.
LET'S NOT GO DOWN IT AGAIN.
>> GOOD POINT.
IT'S D >> A >> DO YOU THINK THEY'RE CALLING THE EXHAUSTED MAJORITY'S BLUFF THAT'S WHAT THE NO LABLTZ PARTY IS DOING.
NECESSARILY GOING TO GET A CANDIDATE ON THE BALLOTS.
>> A >> MAYBE THE NO LABE GET DISAFFECTED REPUBLICANS AND HURT TRUMP.
TO TAKE.
&g SCHOOLS IN THE LAND OF LINCOLN, ILLINOIS.
ILLINOIS STUDENTS ARE REQUIRED TO TAKE COURSE AMERICAN HISTORY, INCLUDING GENOCIDE, AFTER IT WAS PASSED BY THE LEGISLATURE AND SIGNED BY GOVERNOR J.B. PRITZKER.
IN MISSOURI WE GENERALLY DON'T LIKE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY TELLING THE SCHOOLS WHAT T SHOULDN'T THAT BE LEFT UP TO EDUCATORS AND SCHOOL BOARDS OR DO YOU THINK THE LIEU MAKERS IN ILLI DICTATING CURRICULUM?
>&g TO PLAY IN SETTING STANDARDS A DOING TESTS, AND I DON'T HAVE ANY PROBLEM WITH THEM SAYING YOU KNOW, WE'RE GOING TO H STUDENTS LEARNING OF ILLINOIS HISTORY, OR NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY.
HISTORY.
TO KNOW WHAT MISSOURI'S ABOUT.
AND I DO.
SO I THIS.
A GOOD STUDENT BUT I HAVE TO SAY, I HAVE ABSOLUTELY, I'M ON BOARD WITH ILLINOIS DOING THIS AND ONE OF THE REA JUST DON'T TEACH OUR HISTORY ACCURATELY, AND FULLY, AND FOR THE STATE, I DON'T WANT THEM TO MICRO MANAGE EDUCATORS, AND I DON'T THINK THIS QUALIFIES AS THAT.
EXAMPLE, GROWING UP AND WE'RE NEIGHBORS TO OKLAHOMA, FOR EXAMPLE, AND I DON'T KNOW THAT THERE WAS ANY STANDARD MASSACRE IN OKLAHOMA OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS, I HADN'T EVEN HE >> OR NATIVE AMERICANS.
>> I'M TALKING ABOUT B AMERICANS, THE TULSA RACE IT WAS A MAS EVEN KNOW ABOUT THAT!
>> HAS TO BE DETAILED EVERYTHING THAT OUR ANCESTORS DID WRONG.
AMERICANS STILL SHOULD BE TAUGHT IS ALL I'M SAY >> SO YO >> TRAIL OF TEARS?
>> -- SAYING YOU GOT TO TEACH THIS PART T FOR SOME SLAVES.
>> BECAUSE YOU DON'T TEACH IT INACCURATELY.
TELL SOMEBODY WHAT THEY HAVE TO TEACH.
>> EXACTLY RIGHT.
> THAT.
WE CANNOT GO THERE.
>> WHAT DO LAWMAKERS KNOW AB EDUCATION?
&g >> NUMBER ONE.
NUMBER TWO MANY STATES, THE READING AND THE MATH SCORES ARE SO LOW LIKE AT 50-YEAR LOWS AND IF THERE'S ANY CHANGE IN THE CURRICULUM, SHOULD BE TO AUGMENT THE OF THE KIDS WHO CAN'T READ OR WRITE.
BROAD -- THEY DID NOT HAVE A POINT OF VIEW.
THEY BASIC TEACH NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY.
THAT'S NOT TO SAY AS REVISED -- >> OKAY, THE SCHOOL BOARD, THEY SAY WE'RE GOING TO DO THIS, EVERY INDIVIDUAL DISTRICT HAS TO MAKE THIS DECISION.
LISTEN, IF THERE ARE SCHOOL DISTRICTS THAT HISTORY, I WOULD TELL THEM THAT'S A SHAME B GO THERE AND SAY THE STATE NEE TO COME DOWN AND -- >> I DISAGREE, >> AMY, WHAT DO YOU THINK?
>> GO AHEA >> NOT LEAVE IT TO THE SCHOOL BOARD.
ILLINOIS AND SAY I AGREE THE SCHOOLS SHOULD TEACH NATIVE AMERICAN HISTO UP FLORIDA AND YOU'RE EDUCATORS WHICH ARE HIGHLY PARTISAN IN A NEGATIVE PARTISAN COUNTRY WITH GUYS LIKE RON DeSANTIS, GOVERNOR OF THE STATE TRYING TO PUSH FOR PRESIDENT, HE COULD IMPLEMENT SCHOOL POLICIES HE THINKS APPEAL TO HIS SPECIFIC VOTING BASE.
> >> YOU JUST CAN'T.
>> THIS IS TALKING ABOUT -- >> LOOK, I AGREE.
IT'S, SEE, BEYOND OBSCENE FOR THIS CREATURE DeSANTIS TO BE TALKING, YOU KNOW, THE BENEFITS OF SLAVERY.
WE ALL KNO THAT IS.
THE PO GUY DID ONE DISGUSTING THING TO HELP HIM GET ELECTED -- >> IT' STATE.
LET'S MOVE ON TO SPEAKING OF STATES, IT TUR OUT, AMY, THAT MIS OF 20 STATES TO HAVE MORE DEATHS THAN BIRTHS IN 2022, AND ACTUALLY, A SITUATION SO BAD THAT THERE HAVE BEEN THAN BIRTHS FOR THE PAST THREE YEARS, AND WE HAVEN'T SEEN T IN 100 YEARS.
LAST YEAR, THERE WERE 2, DEATHS THAN BIRTHS IN MISSOURI.
WHAT DO YOU THINK IT IS?
IS IT FENTANYL?
IS IT COVID?
IS IT PEOPLE DECIDING NOT TO MONOCAUSAL ANSWERS FOR A QUESTION L IT'S SO BIG BUT YOU HAVE T AT TRENDS AC ROROSS THE COUNTRY.
OVER THE PAST 15 YEARS, FERTILITY RATES ACROSS THE H HAD%, 14 A LOT OF COUNTRIES LIK NORDIC COUNTRIES OR IN EUROPE WHERE THEY'RE PEOPLE ARE HAVING FEWER AN FEWER KIDS.
I DECISION.
THE WORKFORCE.
IT'S NOT LIK THE '50s WHERE WOMEN WERE WE'RE DECIDING WE' COLLEGE, GOING TO WORK.
WE MIGHT PUT OFF CHILDBI LITTLE BIT LATER.
SOME PEO ANTI-NATALISM MOVEMENT WHERE PEOPLE VIEWING KIDS AHAVING HARMFUL, AND PEOPLE ARE HAVING ONE OR TWO.
A A LOT OF PEOPLE AR COVID, WITH ILLNESS, DEATH DESPAIR HAVE SKY-ROCKETED.
WE TALKED ABOUT COVID DEATHS BUT OPEN YOU KNOWEDS DESPAIR, IT'S DEVASTATING.
>> I D I DON'T THINK I-- IT'S A REAL IED.
JUST THE IDEA THAT WE'RE LOSING POPULATION TO ME IS A REASON TO FOCUS MORE ON THE QUALITY OF LIFE THAN IT IS TO LIKE WRING OUR HANDS ABOUT THE INEVITABLE AND AGAIN, AS SOMEBODY WHO IS CERTAINLY ON THE OLDER, YOU KNOW, I GUESS I'M THEORETICALLY PART OF THE PROBLEM, BECAUSE I WILL DIE BEFORE LAFG ANY MORE KIDS.
>> I WOULD DIE BEFOR MORE KIDS.
> >> I DON'T THINK CAN IT'S -- >> I TH OUR HANDS ABOUT, THAT WE HAVE ALL THESE KIDS GOING TO WASU, UNIVERSITY, AND THEY LEAVE THE ST OPPORTUNITY HERE.
>> I WAS GOING TO SAY -- >> THAT'S A DIFFER >> WHEN WE WERE COMI COLLEGE, NOT WE, JUST A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO WENT INTO T NEWSPAPER GAME, WE D WHO WE WENT.
I DID SAY I DIDN'T WANT TO GO TO ANNISTON, ALABAMA.
WE PEOPLE ALL OVER THE COUNTRY TO GET STARTED.
I DON'T REALLY WANT TO GO OUT IN THE MIDDLE O STATE AND THEN OH, YEAH, I'D LOVE TO LIVE IN CALIFORNIA OR NEW YORK OR NORTH CAROLINA BUT I SK YOUNG PERSON.
IF Y I'LL BET YOU THEY FIND DOCTORS IN RURAL TOWNS, LAWYERS.
I KNOW FOR A FACT TH WANT TO BE A VET LIKE OUT IN LIKE A RURAL AREA, YOU'LL MAKE LIKE $200,000 A YEAR.
THEY JUST CAN'T GET YO PROFESSIONALS THERE, AND AS A RESULT, THAT'S, THEY'RE HAVING THEIR KIDS SOMEPLACE ELSE.
>> SMALL TOWN.
VERY > LOT OF ST. LOUIS KIDS WHO HAVE MOVED TO DENVER AND AR REPRODUCING HERE?
OF THE NUMBERS IS A BIG DEAL.
>> WELL, IF YOU WANT SOMEBO PAY A PAYROLL TAX TO FUND SOCIAL SECURITY -- &g AGREE WITH BOTH OF YOU GENTLEM THAT -- I'M USING THAT TERM LOOSELY.
> CONCERNED AND FOCUSED ON M OUR COMMUNITY MORE RELEVANT AND MORE ATTRACTIVE, TALKING ABOUT GEOSPATIAL OR BIOTECH.
INDUSTRIES AND I'VE ARGUED VERY MUCH THAT ONE WAY NOT TO DO IT IS JUST TO PROCLAIM THAT WE'RE THE GEOTECH CENTER OF TH WORLD -- GEOSPATIAL CENTER BUT WE OUGHT TO BE FOCUSED ON THAT.
THE TWO AREN'T MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE.
THE POINT THAT MATTERS.
>> WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT CRYSTAL QUADE, THE HOUSE MINORITY LEADER IN JEFFERSON CITY RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR AND RAY, SHE SAID THERE SPECIAL SESSION IN SEPTEMBER TO LOOK AT NUCLEAR WA EFFECTS AND VICTIMS IN THE GREATER MISSOURI AREA.
>> I THINK GOVERNOR QUADE IS GREAT, JUST PRACTICING THAT.
I DIDN'T REALIZE BYRON CUMMINGS REMINDED ME THE FIRST EDITORIAL I WR THIS WAS IN 1983.
HE WAS TO HIS CREDIT BYRON HAD US OUT IN FRONT OF THIS ISSUE 40 YEARS AGO.
THERE'S NO QUESTION THAT THIS IS -- I TH WORST ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER IN THE HISTORY OF ST. LOUIS.
I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT SECOND PLACE WOULD BE, BUT THE WHOLE ISSUE OF COLDWATER CREEK AND NOW TO SOME DEGREE WEST LAKE BUT GOOD FOR JOSH HAWLEY.
I DON'T SA LEADING THE WAY AND A LOT OF THESE PEOPLE -- >> MAR >> >> CALL RIPLEY FOR THE NEXT?
EDITION OF "BELIEVE IT O ALVIN, WHAT DO YOU SAY?
>> I WAS GOING TO SAY THERE ARE OT AGO, JOSH HAWLEY WAS NOWHERE TO BE FOUND THAT TIME.
I'M JUST SAYING THAT LET'S GO BACK TWO YEARS AND THERE WERE POLITICIANS THAT WERE AGAIN ON THIS.
TH IS SPECIAL SESSION?
THEY KNOW, RADIATION BAD?
>> I THINK THE FUNDS, RIGHT?
THEY WANT TO SO THAT THE STATE OF MISSO THE EPA CAN GO INTO CLEANING UP THE SITE TH E FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS MUCH RESPONSIBLE FOR TH I IS -- ATTORNEY GENERAL ENTER INTO THAT AGREEMENT WITH REPUBLIC SERVICES THEY WERE OFF THE HOOK FOR $ MILLION?
EXPLAINING TO DO.
HE'S WAGON NOW, BUT I THINK THAT STATE OF MISSOURI HAS BEEN CULPABLE FOR A LONG TIME AND IF NOTHING ELSE, I THINK THEY OUGHT TO INVESTIGATE THE CONDUCT OF OUR OWN HEALTH DEPARTMENT AND ITS FAILURE TO -- >> MAYBE THEY SHOULD JUST TRY TO CL >> INSTEAD OF INVESTIGATING PEOPLE'S CONDUCT.
>> W >> FORGET THE CLEANING IT UP.
IT'S BEEN GOIN AND WE DON'T HAVE RESOLUTION, WHY NOT BUY ALL THE PROPERTY > >> NO MORE ELEMENTARY AND WI LL BECOME A DMZ, DEMILITARIZED ZONE, NOBODY GOES THERE.
>> WE NEED MONEY BEHIND HEALTH CARE.
THAT CONTINUE TO >> YES, >> I THINK THE STATE CO PART OF THAT AND THE FEDERAL GO >> ALVIN REID LIEUTENANT CORN MIKE SACK SUING THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS HE WAS THE VICTIM OF REVERSE DISCRIMINATION WANTED TO BE THE NEXT POLICE CHIEF, HAD A HIGH TEST SCORE AND RANKED VERY HIGH IN TERMS OF BACKGROUND, 27 YEARS ON THE FORCE AND YET COULDN'T E AN INTERVIEW WITH DAN ISOM PUBLIC SAFETY DIRECTOR AND HE SAYS IN HIS LAWSUIT TWO AFRICAN-AMERICAN CANDIDATES, ONE SAID NO THANKS AND T ONE WANTED AN'S CLAYED, THEY REJECTED THAT OFFER AND GAVE IT TO ROBERT TRACY.
HE SAID HE WAS D ABILITY TO BE CHIEF BECAUSE HE'S WH LITERALLY, I STARTED LAUGHING IF I WAS THE JUDGE.
LIKE LOOK, YOU HAVE NO C BECAUSE THEY HIRED A WHITE MAN, AND IF YOU WANT TO SAY L WELL, YOU KNOW, I WAS THE FIRST CHOICE WAS BLACK AND SECOND CHOICE WAS BLACK MATTER.
TO JOBS.
INTERVIEWED BEFORE YOU DOING THAT.
HIRE BLACK EDITORS.
YOU'RE A BESS "LANCES STATE JOURNAL."
THE FIRST TWO CH WHITE.
YOU GOT THE JOB.
> THEY SEND THE NEW CHIEF ON THE WITNESS STAND AND THEY SAY, WHAT RACE ARE YOU?
I GUESS THAT, BUT ON THE OTHER HAND, AND I WAS NOT A FAN MICHAEL STAFF GETTING THE JOB BUT THE WHOLE SELECTION CREW THING WAS SO TERRIBLE THAT PEOPLE WE HIRED TO FIND US THESE CANDIDATES AND THEY GOT THE ONE GUY, REMEMBER, HE WAS A BLACK GUY AND HE WOULDN'T EVEN C FOR AN INTERVIEW, REMEMBER, AND THE SECOND BLACK GUY HAD JUST RESIGNED ABRUPTLY FROM HIS JOB WASN'T EVEN AT THE PRESS CONFERENCE, WOULDN'T T QUESTIONS, JUST THE CHIE LEFT.
SO THAT LEFT THEM WITH SACK, THE INTERNAL CHOICE, AND TRACY.
I MEAN, IT WAS DONE SO POORLY THAT I THINK SACK MIGHT HAVE A CASE.
THAT ONE OF THESE TWO GENTLEMEN WOULD HAVE ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY GOTTEN THE JOB.
YOU MIGHT HAVE NEGOTIATING, MAYBE WE'LL SEE, WHAT DO YOU WANT?
I WANT AN ESCALADE, THAT A HAPPENING PLUS I DON'T LIKE YOUR ATTITUDE.
>> RIGHT, HOWEVER, DON'T HE ALONG WITH LARRY O'TOOLE WERE THE ONLY FINALISTS IN THE FIRST ROUND AND THE MAYOR HERSELF I THINK SHE RAN ON IT, BASICALLY, I WANT A MORE DIVERSE FIELD TO CHOOSE FROM.
&g I DON'T KNOW ALVIN OR AMY IF YOU CAN RELATE TO HOW TOUGH IT IS US WHITE GUYS.
THE SY WHITE GUYS IN THIS COUNTRY IS JUST ONE OF THE -- AND T TO TEACH IT IN THE SCHOOLS NO.
LAWSUIT IN HISTORY, IT'S CERTAINLY IN THE CONVERSATIO >> WHAT >> I DON'T EVEN WANT TO HEAR WHAT THEY'RE SAYING.
>> THE CONSTITUTION SAYS YOU CAN'T HIRE BAS >> THE FACT TH GUY HURTS THE CASE.
>> THEY SAID THEY DID TH INK SACK WAS ALLEGING HE WAS HIRED SO THAT IT DIDN'T LOOK LIKE THEY WERE RACIST.
THEY HIRED A WHITE GUY.
>> SO SPEAKING OF HIRING AND FIRING -- THE 1964 CIVIL RIGHTS ACT DOES, RIGHT?
>> DOES, I GUESS NOW, BUT NO.
>> YOU CAN'T DISCRIMINATE BA ON RACE!
THEY'VE NOT READ THE LAW!
>> RAY, THIS GUY A HOMELESS ADVOCATE, WORKED FOR ST. PATRICK'S CENTER.
REMOVING THE HOMELESS CAMPS ON THE RIVERFRONT, TRYING TO PREVENT THE CITY FROM REMOVING HE SAYS IN A LAWSUIT A MAYOR BECAUSE SHE THREATENED TO TAKE MONEY AWAY FROM HIS BOSS, ST. PATRICK'S'S CENTER.
ABOUT THIS ONE?
>> READ MY ARTICLE TOMORROW.
I'M GENERALLY A SUPPORT AND OF WHATEVER YOU CALL IT, TASHARA JONES.
HE'S ALLEGING THE ST. PATRICK'S CENTER WAS PRESSURED BY THE MAYOR AND ONE OF HER DEPUT FIRE HIM.
SHE DID THAT, AND FIRED AND I'VE GOT A LETTER FROM ST. PATRICK'S CENTER THAT SEEMS TO SUPPO I AS SOMEBODY THAT SUPPORTS THE MAYOR AND LIKES TH IS THE THIRD TIME NOW, AND NOBODY KNOWS WHAT THE LAWSUI GOING TO END UP, GOING AFTER ELAD GROSS WHO OUGHT TO BE OUR NEXT ATTORNEY GENERAL WHO SUED THE CITY FOR FOYA AND GOING AFTER HEATHER TAYLOR -- >> OKAY, THIS LAWSUIT -- >> TIME IS LIMITED.
>> IT'S GETTING OLD.
>> THIS LAWSUIT IS GETTIN I JUST DON'T SEE IT AS AMENDMENT CASE.
IF YOU REPRESENT THIS COMPANY AND YOU SAY SOMETHING BAD ABOU THE MAYOR, I'M OFTEN AGAINST, SAYS THAT'S IT, I'M NOT GOING THE COMPANY SAYS, YOU'RE FIRED.
YOU CAN'T GO AFTER THE PEOPLE WHO WE DEPEND ON FOR GRANTS.
>> YES, LET'S GE PEOPLE GET FIRED AND THAT LAWSUIT'S GOING TRASH CAN RIGHT NEXT TO SACK'S.
THEY ARE A WASTE OF TIME AND PEOPLE ARE BEING PUT UP TO THINGS.
WHERE IS ETHICAL SOCIETY A POLICE AT.
I'M JUST SAYING, THIS IS FRIVOLOUS.
>> WE HAVE A AMY MARX HORSE, WE LOST A CHARACTER, BEATLE BOB LAST WEEK.
HE DANCED AT A LOT OF CONCERTS.
YOU WERE QUITE FAMILIAR WITH HIM.
CONCERTS I W BEATLE BOB UP FRONT, HE WAS DANCING.
HE LIKE ALMOST 30 YEARS AGO HE WAS GOING TO GO TO LIVE MUSIC EVERY SINGLE NIGHT.
SOMETHING UPWARDS OF 9,400 CONSECUTIVE CONCERTS OVER THE COURSE OF 27 YEARS AND H AWAY.
GEHRIG'S DISEASE, REALLY, REALLY CRUEL DISEASE.
BEATLE BOB WAS A FIXTURE CONCERTS.
INSTIT PASSED HOW MANY CONCERTS.
I SAW HIM A LOT NEVER SAW HIM WITHOUT A SMILE ON HIS FACE AND REST >> YES, SAME.
BACK IN ST. LOUIS TWO DAYS, 1995, WHEN I WAS WORKING AT RCGA.
HE'S BEATLE BOB AND GOES TO THE SHOWS.
WE'R I'M SOMEPLACE ELSE AT.
"HI, I REALLY LIKED THE SHOW YOU'RE ON" AND WENT RIGHT BACK TO DANCING.
OOH.
COOL GUY.
I ENJOYED SEEING HIM THE FEW TIMES I'D GO TO A >> THERE IS A BOOK CALLED "ST. LOUIS CHARACTERS" AND BEATLE BOB IS IN IT AND SO IS RAY HARTMANN.
>> A FINE BOOK.
>> IS THAT THE SAME AUTHOR AS "AMAZING ST. LOUIS"?
>> LET'S LOOK AT THE MAIL BAG AND SEE ABOUT LAST WEEK'S PR WE?
HAD MENTAL PROBLEMS WHEN HE ABDUCTED AND ASSAULTED A 6-YEAR-OLD.
HIM FOR HIM TO EXIT THIS MOTHERAL COIL FROM MARTIN LOGAN.
MARY HANSON, THE BOEING PROJECT IS A GOOD THING FOR ST. LOUIS, 50% TAX ABATE SEEMS SCAREY.
ST. LOUIS IS GETTING 50% TAXES THEY'RE NOT GETTING NOW.
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