<SPAN Style="text-align:left;">>>> PRODUCTION FUNDING FOR RUCKUS HAS BEEN PROVIDED BY GIFTS FROM <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">HUSCH BLACKWELL, BARBARA AND PETER GETTERMEYER AND BY VIEWERS LIKE <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">>> WELCOME TO RUCKUS, OUR WEEKLY FOOD FOOD-FOR-THOUGHT FIGHT OVER <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">OF THE TIMES.

I'M MIKE SHANIN.

THE RUCKETTES JOIN ME SHORTLY, AND <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">KCI QUESTION IS FINALLY ANSWERED.

NO ANSWERS YET TO PERSISTENT <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">AND SOME DEMOCRATS QUESTION IF HILLARY'S NOMINATION WAS RIGGED.

<SPAN Style="text-align:left;">SEGMENT AND FOCUS ON AMERICA'S VETERANS AND THE UPCOMING VETERANS DAY <SPAN <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">JOINING ME TO TALK ABOUT THE VFW AND ITS WORK FOR VETERANS AND BROOKLYNNE <SPAN <SPAN <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">BEFORE WE TALK ABOUT THE WORK OF THE VFW, TALK A BIT ABOUT YOUR OWN <SPAN <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">I JOINED THE AIR FORCE RIGHT OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL IN 2002, AND I WAS IN THE AIR FORCE FOR 10 <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">OF SERVICE, I DID 8 TOURS IN THE MIDDLE EAST.

I WAS A KC 10 BOOM <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">WHAT A BOOM OPERATOR IS, A BOOM OPERATOR REFUELS PLANES IN THE <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">THAT CARRIES ABOUT QUIES TWICE THE FUEL OF KC 135.

>> MIKE: SO YOU <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">DECIDED TO GO TO WORK FOR THE VFW.

>> I GOT OUT OF THE AIR FORCE AND MY <SPAN <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">THE COLLEGE, AND THEY ACTUALLY INVITED ME TO THE POST, AND THEN <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">THEN AFTER I WAS FINISHED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, I ACTUALLY <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">END OF MAY.

>> MIKE: WHAT DOES THE VFW DO?

WHAT DOES IT EXIST?

>> WHAT <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">>> MIKE: I ASKED YOU WHAT DOES IT DO.

>> ORIGINALLY THE VFW, WHICH <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">STARTED OUT WHEN PEOPLE GO GOT BACK FROM THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR AND <SPAN <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">SOME OF THE THINGS THE VFW DOES IS WE ADVOCATE IN DC, BUT MOST <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">HELP FAMILIES WHO ARE IN NEED.

WE HAVE AN EMPLOYMENT AND <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">OFFER SCHOLARSHIPS THROUGH OUR HELP A HERO SCHOLARSHIP, WHICH IS <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">>> AND THEY MONITOR HOSPITALS.

>> YES, THEY DO.

WE ALSO HAVE A SERVICE <SPAN <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">THROUGH THAT DAUNTING TASK OF TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT YOU QUALIFY FOR <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">WE ACTUALLY HAVE THOSE PEOPLE.

>> YOU CAN'T GET IN THE VFW IF <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">FOREIGN CONFLICT, HAVE YOU NOT?

>> YES.

I GOT MY VFW ELIGIBILITY THROUGH <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">FREEDOM AND OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM.

ONE THING REALLY GREAT ABOUT THE <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">PROVIDE WE PROVIDE TO VETERANS REGARDLESS IF THEY ARE VFW <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">TO HAVE SERVED IN A FOREIGN LAND, DO YOU NOT?

>> YES.

>> MIKE: MINE IS <SPAN <SPAN <SPAN <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">>> YOU MENTIONED SOME OF THE PROGRAMS YOU'RE INVOLVED WITH.

GIVE US A <SPAN <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">OUR UNMET NEEDS PROGRAM HAS GIVEN OVER $8 MILLION OF AID TO <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">$5,000 WHO FOR VETERANS WHO HAVE FOUND THEMSELVES IN A FINANCIAL <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">OUR UNMET NEEDS PROGRAM.

SO TO KIND OF GIVE A SNAPSHOT WITH ALL THE <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">PROGRAM HAS ACTUALLY PROCESSED MORE APPLICATIONS IN THE LAST TWO <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">SO THE AMOUNT IS A LOT LESS THAN THE FULL FINANCIAL GRANT, BUT <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">GET BACK ON THEIR FEET.

>> SO IF THEY ARE NOT SURE WHERE TO TURN, <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">SOME GUIDANCE.

>> YES.

ONE OF THE WAYS TO FIND OUT WHAT KIND OF <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">OUR WEBSITE, VFW DOT ORG, SLASH ASSISTANCE.

IF YOU NEED HELP <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">WEBSITE AS WELL.

WE HAVE SO MANY PROGRAMS AND THAT'S THE BEST <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">>> BROOKLYNNE, THANKS FOR COMING IN.

HAPPY VETERANS DAY AND THANK <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">TEAR.

>> THANK YOU, AND WELCOME HOME, SIR.

>> THAT IS BROOKLYNNE <SPAN <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">START A RUCKUS.

>> STEVE ROSE IS A JOHNSON COUNTY CIVIC LEADER AND <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">STAR.

GWEN GRANT IS PRESIDENT AND CEO OF THE YOU URBAN LEAGUE IN KANSS <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">JON STEPHENS IS THE HEAD OF ROCKHILL STRATEGIC, AND PATRICK TOUHEY IS <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">A FREE MARKET THINK-TANK.

IT IS GOOD TO SEE ALL OF YOU AGAIN.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">ME.

LET'S TALK ABOUT THE ELECTIONS.

IT WASN'T EVEN CLOSE.

KANSAS <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">BE IT -- VOTERS ALBEIT IN SMALL NUMBERS, ABOUT 20%, GAVE A HUGE <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">WHO BACKED A ONE BILLION DOLLAR PLAN TO BUILD A NEW ONE TERMINAL <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">YES VOTE FEATURED MAYOR SLY JAMES AS THE SPOKESMAN AND APPARENTLY <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">NOW THAT THE ELECTION IS OVER, WHAT DOES THE OUTCOME TELL US ABOUT <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">LET'S START WITH PATRICK.

>> WELL, I THINK THAT MAY BE ALL IT TELLS <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">WAS WIDE, BY THE WAY.

ALTHOUGH TURNOUT MAYBE WAS LOW, IT WAS <SPAN <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">>> THERE IS YET TO BE A MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING WORKED OUT <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">>> THAT'S CORRECT, AND I FOUND OUT JUST EARLIER TODAY THAT THE <SPAN <SPAN <SPAN <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">>> I THINK IT TELLS US THAT THE MYTH OF CONVENIENCE AT KCI WAS JUST <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">LISTEN.

WHEN YOU HAVE A GOOD GROUND GAME, YOU EXPLAIN, DO TOWN <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">THE VOTERS.

YOU'RE OUT THERE WITH THE VOTERS INSTEAD OF JUST <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">THEY ENGAGED FOR WEEKS AND WEEKS AND HAD DISCUSSIONS ACROSS THE <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">SHOWS ALONE THAT THAT SORT OF INTERACTIVE GROUND GAME WITH THE <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">>> STEVE, WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL OF THOSE PEOPLE WE SAW ON RUCKUS <SPAN <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">HOW HOW MANY OF THOSE PEOPLE ACTUALLY WENT OUT AND VOTED.

IT'S HARD TO <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">POLLS THAT SAID IT WAS GOING TO BE VERY CLOSE WWS REALLY ACCURATE.

<SPAN Style="text-align:left;">ALWAYS CONCERNED ABOUT TURNOUT, AND TO SAY THAT THE ELECTION IS GOING <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">I DON'T KNOW FOR SURE IF IT WAS, BUT TO GO FROM WHERE THEY WERE IN THE HIGH 30s TO THE 70s?

<SPAN Style="text-align:left;">STATION AND THAT GOT NUMBERS UP THERE IN THE HIGH TEMPERATURES.

>> <SPAN <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">>> MIKE: GWEN, THERE IS A LOT YET TO BE DONE BEFORE WORK IS BEGUN <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">I THINK THEY'RE SAYING THEY HOPE TO BREAK GROUND IN THE FALL OF 2018, SO THAT GIVES THEM TIME TO <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">I THINK THE OTHER IMPORTANT ASPECT HERE IS STILL THE NEGOTIATION OF THE MOU WITH EDGEMOOR.</SPAN> <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">>> MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING.

>> MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING.

I <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">MOU IS AT THE END OF THIS MONTH.

BUT THAT STANDS, YOU KNOW, TO BE <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">WITH CONCERN ABOUT HOW WOMEN AND MINORITY BUSINESSES ARE TREATED <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">WE STILL HAVE THOSE CONCERNS, BECAUSE THOSE THINGS HAVE NOT <SPAN <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">>> I ABSOLUTELY AGREE.

I THINK IT'S CRUCIAL THAT KCMO, OUR CITY <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">DONE WITH THE GO BOND ACTIVATION THAT THEY'RE TRANSPARENT, THAT THEY <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">THINK THAT'S GOING TO BE IMPORTANT IF WE WANT TO HAVE FUTURE ELECTIONS <SPAN <SPAN <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">MORE ELECTIONS.

WHEN I TURN ON UNIFIED GOVERNMENT TV, THE CITY <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">YOU SITTING THERE TALKING ABOUT PROGRAMS, PITCHING THE COUNTY <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">MAYOR COMING IN, MARK HOLLAND, THE INCUMBENT DEFEATED, AND DAVIDAL <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">>> WITHIN KCK, THEY ARE BOTHWELL KNOWN.

IT WAS A CLOSE ELECTION.

<SPAN <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">AND I DON'T KNOW THAT IT IS AS SURPRISING AS SOME PEOPLE <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">NOT, PRIMARILY THAT MR.

HOLLAND, MAYOR HOLLAND, HAD DISPUTES WITH <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">HAVE HAD SOME IMPACT.

I DON'T KNOW THAT THERE WAS A LOT OF TRUTH TO <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">>> I'M SAYING THERE WAS ACTION OUT THERE.

I'M SAYING I DON'T KNOW <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">>> MIKE: STEVE, IT WASN'T A TERRIBLY SURPRISING OUTCOME THAT <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">>> THERE WERE A GROUP OF US THAT MADE BETS THE WEEK BEFORE AND <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">NONE OF US THOUGHT THAT CHARLOTTE O'HARA WAS REALLY GAINING TRACTION.

I <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">IN OVERLAND PARK.

MAYBE THEY'RE MORE THAN HAPPY.

THEY'RE <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">THAT IT'S DONE AND FOR THE FAMILIES TO LIVE THERE.

SO SHE WAS <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">>> MIKE: THEY KEEP RE-ELECTING THE SAME MAYOR.

THEY DID THAT WITH <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">>> THAT'S TRUE, AND THERE SEEMS TO BE A LONG-TERM SATISFACTION WITH <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">GROUP OF NEWLY ELECTED LEGISLATORS, SOME FROM JOHNSON COUNTY, MANY <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">TOPEKA TO END WHAT THEY SAW AS THE BROWNBACK REIGN OF TERROR.

THEY <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">RAISING TAXES AND THEREBY ENSURING THAT THE STATE'S PUBLIC SCHOOLS GOT <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">WELL, THE LEGISLATORS DID RAISE TAXES AND SCHOOLS GOT MORE MONEY.

BUT <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">HAVE PREVIOUS ONES, THE STATE SUPREME COURT CONTINUES TO DID DEMAND <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">WITH HIGHER INCOME TAXES, THE FINANCIAL FORECAST LOOKS BETTER, <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">OF THE CONTINUED UNCERTAINTY ABOUT SCHOOLS.

ONE MIGHT SAY, STEVE, <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">STAY THE SAME?

>> YES, AND I THINK THAT THERE'S NO ONE WHO IS <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">CAME DOWN WITH THE DECISION THEY DID.

I THINK THE ISSUE IS GOING TO BE <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">A WAY TO COME UP WITH AN EXTRA SEVERAL HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS, BECAUSE THAT IS GOING TO BE -- <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">THE MAGIC NUMBER THAT'S GOING TO PLEASE THE SUPREME COURT.

>> <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">>> THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE TO RAISE TAXES, AND WE DON'T KNOW -- <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">>> INCOME TAXES?

>> IT COULD BE INCOME.

IT COULD BE SALES AGAIN.

<SPAN <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">BE PLEASANT, AND NOBODY IS GOING TO LIKE DOING IT.

BUT I THINK THAT <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">I DON'T SEE THERE ARE ANY MORE CUTS IN THE SOCIAL FABRIC OR ANYTHING ELSE GOING ON.

>> <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">WE ALWAYS CUT BUDGETS TO THE BONE.

WHAT HAPPENED IN KANSAS AND IN A <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">MIDWEST IS INCOME HAS REMAINED FLAT.

THE AGRICULTURE INDUSTRY TOOK A HIT <SPAN <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">WITHOUT THOSE BASIC FUNDAMENTALS CHANGING, KANSAS WILL NOT BE <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">TO EDUCATION, BOTH K THROUGH 12 AND HIGHER EDUCATION, AND THEN YOU <SPAN <SPAN <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">>> I THINK THAT'S THE PROBLEM.

I THINK KANSAS HAS TO LOOK AT HOW <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">EDUCATE KIDS WITHOUT SOME PRETEND MAGIC FORMULA, AS YOU SAID EARLIER, <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">>> MIKE: JOHN, 2018 IS AN ELECTION YEAR IN KANSAS.

WE'LL ELECT A <SPAN <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">>> I THINK NATIONALLY, YES.

I THINK KANSAS, I DON'T KNOW.

I THINK <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">I THINK YOU WILL CONTINUE TO SEE A MOVE TO THE CENTER IN KANSAS, BUT I THINK YOU'LL SEE MORE <SPAN <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">ANY CUTS TO PROGRAMS, AS STEVE SAID.

I ALSO THINK IT'S GOING TO BE <SPAN <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">THE MARGINS TO GET SOMEWHERE WHERE THE SUPREME COURT IS GOING TO <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">LOOKING AT THE MARGINS?

>> WELL, IT DEPENDS ON WHICH LOOPHOLES AND <SPAN <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">SINGLE GREATEST THING YOU COULD DO.

>> I THINK MOST OF WHAT THEY'RE <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">HOLES.

>> GWEN, IS IT FUN AS A MISSOURI DEMOCRAT TO WATCH WHAT GOEE ON <SPAN <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">IT, AND I REALLY HOPE THEY GET THIS EDUCATION PROBLEM SOLVED, <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">YEAR, FOR YEARS.

>> MORE THAN THAT.

IT GOES BACK DECADES, I THINK IT'S <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">OF HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH TO SATISFY WHAT THE STATE SUPREME COURT BELIEVES <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">BEST A VAGUE TERM IN THE STATE CONSTITUTION.

I THINK EVERYBODY <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A PERFECT DEMOCRATIC PARTY LOYALIST, DONNA <SPAN <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">LINE.

SO IT IS HARD INDEED TO IGNORE HER NEW BOOK, "HACKS," WHERE <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">PROCESS HAD BEEN RIGGED BY HILLARY CLINTON'S CAMPAIGN AND BERNIE <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">WAS CHEATED N BRIEF, BRAZILE CLAIMS THE NATIONAL PARTY WAS BROKE, <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">THE PARTY'S FINANCES, STRATEGY AND ALL OF THE MONEY RAISED AND <SPAN <SPAN <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">BOOK PULLS THE SCAB OFF OF AN UGLY SORE IN THE DNC, BUT IT DOES NOT <SPAN <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">NOW, YOU ALSO CANNOT DENY, THOUGH, THAT THE DNC DID, THROUGH ITS <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">TIP IT IN HILLARY'S FAVOR, BUT THE NOTION OF RIGGING AT THE BALLOT <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">>> MIKE: BUT THE DNC IS SUPPOSED TO BE IMPARTIAL.

THE DEMOCRATIC <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">FAIR ASH -- OWE NOT TAKE SIDES.

I THINK IT'S CLEAR THEY WERE <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">>> BRAZIL SAID THE CAMPAIGN WAS LIKE A CULT.

>> AND THAT SHE WAS <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">>> OBVIOUSLY SHE'S ANGRY.

>> THIS SHOULDN'T BE SURPRISING.

BUT <SPAN <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">WIN.

THIS IS ALL GOOD, AND NOT JUST GOOD FOR THE DEMOCRATS.

IT'S <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">WELL.

>> CAN WE BELIEVE DONNA BRAZILE.

SHE'S THE LADY WE KNOW NOW <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">BEFORE THE CNN TOWN HALL DEBATE BETWEEN SANDERS AND CLINTON WHEN DONNA <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">THE WIKILEAKS E-MAILS CAME OUT.

>> I ABSOLUTELY AGREE WITH PATRICK.

<SPAN Style="text-align:left;">PARTY TO GO THROUGH, TO LOOK AT THEMSELVES IN THE MIRROR.

>> <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">>> SHE CONVENIENTLY LEFT THAT OUT.

SHE HAS YET TO EXPLAIN THAT.

SHE WAS <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">NIGHTS AGO, I HAPPENED TO SEE IT, AND SHE WAS ASKED ABOUT THAT, AND <SPAN <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">THAT SAID, YOU CANNOT DISCOUNT THE FACT THAT THERE ARE PROBLEMS <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">SAYING.

SO HOW MUCH OF IT IS TRUE IS GOING TO BE DEPENDENT ON HOW <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">HERE IS PROOF THAT SHE'S LYING AND THESE THINGS ARE NOT TRUE.

WHAT <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">AND WE WEREN'T DEPRESSED, AND ALL THAT, BUT THERE HAS NOT BEEN A DENIAL <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">>> MIKE: WHY ARE ALL THE DEMOCRATS ATTACKING DONNA BRAZIL.

THEY <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">FOR COMING FORWARD AND TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT THE PARTY AND <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">WRITTEN A BOOK THAT WAS CLEAR AND LAID OUT THE FACTS.

SHE WROTE A BOOK <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">OF BOOKS.

>> MIKE: AREN'T MOST BOOKS WRITTEN FOR THAT PURPOSE?

<SPAN Style="text-align:left;">>> SHE FEARED FOR HER SAFETY AND PULLED THE SHADES CLOSED OF HER OFFICE.

<SPAN Style="text-align:left;">DNC GOT KILLED.

>> EVEN SHE IS WALKING IT BACK.

YET SHE TOLD WILLIE, <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">SO SHE'S WALKING BACK HER OWN STATEMENTS.

>> MIKE: SHE CAN'T <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">>> RIGHT, EXACTLY.

>> MIKE: IS THIS THE END OF HILLARY CLINTON AS A <SPAN <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">THIS WOMAN HAS GOT LEGS.

SHE'LL BE AROUND FOR YEARS AND YEARS.

>> <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">BRAZILE HAVING INFLUENCE IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, SERVING AS DCN <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">DNC.

SHE HAS STILL INFLUENCE?

>> YM WAS -- WHY DID SHE WAIT SO <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">>> SHE WAS WRITING HER BOOK.

>> SO HER BOOK WAS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">>> YES.

>> SPEAKING OF HEALTH, SHE SAID SHE WAS SO CONCERNED ABOUT <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">GIVEN THOUGHT TO WHAT THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE WOULD DO IF <SPAN <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">VICE PRESIDENT.

>> RIGHT.

>> I THINK THAT SHE PROBABLY GOT IN THERE <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">HAVE THE RIGHT HORSE IN THE RACE.

>> MIKE: WELL, I COULD HAVE TOLD <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">>> AND WHICH WE LEARNED THE CLINTON CAMPAIGN, YOU KNOW, THEY BLEW <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">>> MIKE: AND SANDERS MIGHT HAVE WON.

>> SOME OF THIS IS MONDAY <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">>> OF COURSE, IT IS.

>> IF 40,000 VOTES WENT THE OTHER WAY, WE <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">WERE BRILLIANT AND HILLARY WOULD HAVE BEEN PRESIDENT.

IT'S A SMALL <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">SHE WROTE, BUT ULTIMATELY FOR THE PARTY, THIS IS A GOOD, IF <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">TO BUY THE BOOK OR CHECK IT OUT FROM THE LIBRARY.

>> I JUST <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">NOW WE'RE GOING TO HEAD TO THE SOAPBOX FOR ROASTS AND TOASTS <SPAN <SPAN <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">WHICH IS A COMPLETE AND UTTER DISASTER.

HE SHOULD BE TELLING <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">ROUTE.

MY HOME STATE HAS ALREADY DONE THAT, AND IT'S PROVEN TO BE A <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">YOU DON'T GET MORE REVENUE BY SLASHING TAXES EXTREMELY ACROSS <SPAN <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">GLOBAL CREATIVE CLASS CITIES SPECIFICALLY RELATED TO THE <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">MUSIC SCENES AND I WOULD ENCOURAGE ALL KANSAS CITIANS TO GET AND <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">WEST WESTPORT -- THE FACT THAT SUCH AN ORDINANCE WOULD EVEN SEE THE <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">TO PRIVATIZE PUBLICITY STREETS IS A SLIPPERY SLOPE THAT CAN LEAD TO <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">WE ARE MUCH BETTER THAN THAT, KANSAS CITY.

THIS IS NOT THE SOLUTION <SPAN <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">>> MY TOAST IS TO THE WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONSHIP HOUSTON ASTROS AND <SPAN <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">OFTEN YOU SEE A JAZZ LEGEND IN DOWNTOWN KANSAS CITY, BUT THAT <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">THE QUALITY HILL PLAYHOUSE.

SHE WAS BACK LAST WEEK AND SO WERE HER <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">THE WORD LEGEND IS USED FAR TOO OFTEN AND OFTEN INAPPROPRIATELY, <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">SINGING THE GREAT AMERICAN SONG BOOK AT THE AGE OF 89.

AND THAT IS <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">WE ARE BACK NEXT THURSDAY AT 7:00.

NOW, FOR THE RUCKETTES AND THE CREW, <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">VERY MUCH FOR WATCHING, AND GOOD NIGHT.

>>> PRODUCTION FUNDING <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">GIFTS FROM DAVE AND JAMIE CUMMINGS, THE HARTWIG FAMILY, HUSCH <SPAN Style="text-align:left;">VIEWERS LIKE YOU.

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