COMING UP WHAT ON EARTH HAPPENED WHY AND WHAT NOW I I DON'T CARE WHO YOU ARE OR WHERE YOU COME FROM YOU GOTTA LOVE A COMEBACK STORY DON'T YOU LADIES AND GENTLEMEN WE DID IT I HAD NO IDEA SO MANY KANSANS COULD STAY UP THIS LATE YOU CAN OF COURSE COUNT ON ME TO CONTINUE TO WORK MY TAIL OFF WEEK IN REVIEW IS MADE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE GENEROUS SUPPORT OF AARP KANSAS CITY RSM DAVE AND JAMIE CUMMINGS BOB AND MARLISE GOURLEY THE COURTNEY S TURNER CHARITABLE TRUST JOHN H MIZE AND BANK OF AMERICA N A CO-TRUSTEES AND BY VIEWERS LIKE YOU THANK YOU HELLO AND WELCOME I'M NICK HAINES.

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OR ARE YOU JUST HAPPY THE WHOLE THING IS OVER THIS WEEK WE TRY TO UNDERSTAND WHAT HAPPENED AND WHAT IT MEANS NOW FOR YOU YOUR FAMILY AND YOUR POCKETBOOK POURING THROUGH THE RESULTS OUR KMBC 9 CHIEF POLITICAL ANALYST MICHEAL MAHONEY FROM OUR OWN DIGITAL NEWSROOM MARY SANCHEZ KEEPING TRACK OF THE NEWS FROM BEHIND A MICROPHONE AT KCMO TALK RADIO PETE MUNDO AND STILL AT THE KANSAS CITY STAR FOR AT LEAST A FEW MORE WEEKS DAVE HELLING NOW WHAT MESSAGE WERE YOU SENDING WHEN YOU WENT TO THE BALLOT BOX THIS WEEK LOOKING AT THE RESULTS IS IT POSSIBLE TO SAY IT WAS A MUDDLED AND CONFUSING ONE LET'S START IN KANSAS WHERE DEMOCRAT LAURA KELLY WON THE RACE FOR GOVERNOR BUT VOTERS PICKED CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN KRIS KOBACH TO BE THEIR NEXT ATTORNEY GENERAL WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE SUCCESS WE'VE ACHIEVED THESE FIRST FOUR YEARS AND WE'VE GOT FOUR MORE TO COME IT'S ABOUT A DESIRE TO SAVE OUR STATE AND SAVE OUR COUNTRY AND I'M SO HONORED THAT SO MANY KANSANS HAVE PUT THEIR TRUST IN ME SO THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN AND MAY GOD BLESS THE GREAT STATE OF KANSAS ALREADY HOW WOULD YOU EXPLAIN THESE TWO BIG POLITICAL OPPOSITES BOTH COMING UP WINNERS IN KANSAS MICHAEL A COUPLE OF THINGS NUMBER ONE UH UH LAURA KELLY RAN A REALLY GOOD CAMPAIGN A VERY GOOD CAMPAIGN AND IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT SHE SHE RAN A CAMPAIGN ON THE ECONOMY AS A DEMOCRAT AND SHE WON THIS MESSAGE ABOUT BEING IN THE MIDDLE NEVER VARIED FROM IT AND SHE WAS STILL WITHSTOOD THE ATTACKS LAURA KELLY THOUGH CAME IN WITH LESS THAN 50 PERCENT SUPPORT WOULD UM DEREK SCHMIDT HAVE WON IF THERE WAS NOT A MAN BY THE NAME OF DENNIS PYLE A INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE IN THIS RACE AND A CHIROPRACTOR FROM CENTRAL KANSAS CALLED SETH CORDELL YEAH I MEAN NICK YOU HAD THE NUMBERS UP ON THE SCREEN THERE AND THERE WAS ALSO A LIBERTARIAN CANDIDATE WHO GOT TEN THOUSAND AND IT'S PROBABLY MORE LIKELY THAT LIBERTARIAN WOULD GO TO THE REPUBLICAN THAN THE DEMOCRAT YOU ADD THOSE TOGETHER AND DEREK SCHMITZ THE NEXT GOVERNOR SO I WOULD ABSOLUTELY BELIEVE THAT GOMER PYLE AS MY CALLERS HAVE BEEN CALLING HIM THIS WEEK UH PLAYED A ROLE IN THIS DECISION AND YOU KNOW WHAT BUT UM ULTIMATELY ENDED UP HANDING THIS THING TO LAURA KELLY IN SOME WAY BUT IT THAT DOESN'T ABSOLVE THE SCHMIDT CAMPAIGN WHICH LOST JOHNSON COUNTY BY 20 POINTS AND BASICALLY GAVE UP ON THE COUNTY AND THEN THEY'RE CHASING THEIR TAIL AROUND THE REST OF THE STATE WHAT WILL BE THE RECEPTION BY THE WAY OF DENNIS PYLE AS HE GOES BACK TO THE LEGISLATURE IN TOPEKA IN JANUARY AMONG REPUBLICANS THERE HE MIGHT HAVE AN OFFICE AND A PHONE BOOTH YOU KNOW THE DEREK SCHMIDT CAMPAIGN UH DISCOUNTED THE PILE EFFORT ON THIS AND THOUGHT IN THE END PEOPLE WOULDN'T WASTE THEIR VOTES AND THE PYLE CAME IN WITH FIVE PERCENT IN THE POLLS HE GOT TWO PERCENT HE GOT ABOUT 20 000 VOTES AND IT WAS THE PILE CANDIDACY AND UH THE LIBERTARIAN CORDELL THAT COST DEREK SCHMIDT IT'S IT'S ONE OF THE BIG STORIES IN THIS WHAT HAPPENS TO DEREK SCHMIDT NOW DAVE IS THAT THE END OF HIM POLITICALLY WELL WELL KRIS KOBACH SUGGESTS NO LOSE A RACE IN KANSAS YOU CAN ALWAYS RUN AGAIN BUT I DO THINK REPUBLICANS ARE SECOND GUESSING A LOT OF HIS STRATEGIC DECISIONS UH WE JUST TALKED WITH BOB BEATTY THE POLITICAL SCIENCE PROFESSOR AT WASHBURN WE ALL KNOW HIM RESPECT HIM HE SAID ONE OF THE VERY INTERESTING THING ABOUT THIS RACE HE SAID LOOK DEMOCRATS HAVE A CHANCE STATEWIDE IN KANSAS BUT THEY HAVE TO MAKE THEMSELVES KNOWN THEY HAVE TO IDENTIFY THEMSELVES TO VOTERS IN THIS CASE WE ALL KNEW LAURA KELLY SHE'D BEEN GOVERNOR FOR FOUR YEARS SHE RAN A GREAT CAMPAIGN AS MIKE POINTS OUT BY CONTRAST CHRIS MANN REMAINED UNKNOWN TO A VAST MAJORITY OF KANSANS EVEN UP TO ELECTION DAY APPARENTLY SOME EXIT POLLS SUGGESTING THAT HALF OF VOTERS HAD NEVER HEARD OF THE GUY SO IF HE ISN'T MAKING AN EFFORT A REAL EFFORT I DON'T BLAME HIM REALLY BUT THE PARTY IF HE DOESN'T MAKE A REAL EFFORT OR IN THE SECRETARY OF STATE RACE OR THE TREASURES RACE THEN THE DEFAULT POSITION IS REPUBLICANS AND THAT MAY EXPLAIN SOMETHING MARY WHAT IS THE MOST IMMEDIATE CHANGE WE WILL NOTICE NOW THAT KRIS KOBACH IS GOING TO BE THE STATE'S TOP LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER WELL I THINK WASHINGTON D.C MAY NOTICE FIRST HE'S BEEN VOWING THAT HE'S GOING TO JUST SUE PUT KANSAS FORWARD AS ONE OF THE STATES THAT SHE'S GOING TO CONSISTENTLY SUE THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION OVER ANYTHING THAT HE POSSIBLY CAN I ALSO THINK WITHIN ABORTION LAW YOU KNOW I MEAN THE ATTORNEY GENERAL IS TO UPHOLD THE LAWS OF THE STATE THAT ALSO MEANS THOUGH THAT HE CAN REALLY DRILL DOWN IN HOW ABORTION IS MANAGED IN THE STATE OF KANSAS AND SO THERE'S A LOT OF TREPIDATION YOU KNOW JUST WHAT IS HE GOING TO DO NEXT I THINK NICK ONE OF THE THINGS WE'LL WATCH FOR IS KRIS KOBACH NOT SUING THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION BUT SUING THE KELLY ADMINISTRATION AND YEAH THAT THAT CONTRAST WILL BE VERY EVIDENT UNLIKELY THERE WILL BE A BIGGER CLASHES THEN BETWEEN THE ATTORNEY GENERAL AND THE GOVERNOR WE ALSO KNOW FOR INSTANCE WILL THE GOVERNOR'S WINGS BE CLIPPED IN THIS SECOND TERM PETE BECAUSE THAT CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT THAT WOULD HAVE NEUTERED HER IN MANY WAYS PREVENTING HER FROM AT LEAST THE LAWMAKERS WOULD BE ALLOWED TO REVOKE ANY EXECUTIVE ORDERS OR REGULATIONS SHE COMES UP WITH IN THEIR OFFICE THAT'S STILL TOO CLOSE TO COAL RIGHT NOW THAT CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT AS WE RECORD THIS PROGRAM BUT IF IT DOES PASS IS SHE GOING TO BE ABLE TO GET MUCH DONE IN THAT SECOND FOUR-YEAR TERM WELL IT'LL BE INTERESTING BECAUSE UH REPUBLICANS IT KIND OF GET OVERLOOKED OVER THE BIGGER RACES WE'RE TALKING ABOUT BUT THEY ACTUALLY LOST A FEW SEATS ESPECIALLY IN JOHNSON COUNTY IN PARTICULAR DEMOCRATS FLIPPED SOME OF THOSE HOUSE SEATS SO THAT SUPER MAJORITY AS I UNDERSTAND IT WILL BE THERE BUT IT WILL NOT BE AS FIRM AS IT HAS BEEN AND THAT'S GOING TO MAKE FOR AN INTERESTING LEGISLATIVE SESSION GOING FORWARD WITH THE LAME DUCK GOVERNOR NOW THERE WERE TWO BIG SENATE RACES ON THE BALLOT THOUGH NEITHER WERE VIEWED AS BEING PARTICULARLY COMPETITIVE IN KANSAS REPUBLICAN JERRY MORAN WINS IN A LANDSLIDE VICTORY AGAINST FORMER WYANDOTTE COUNTY MAYOR MARK HOLLAND AND IN MISSOURI REPUBLICAN ERIC SCHMIDT SCORES A DOUBLE-DIGIT VICTORY AGAINST BUSH BREWERY RS TRUDY BUSH VALENTINE ONLY IN AMERICA ONLY IN AMERICA COULD THE SON OF A NIGHT SHIFT WORKER AT ANHEUSER-BUSCH GO ON TO RUN FOR THE UNITED STATES SENATE AGAINST AN HEIRESS FROM ONE OF THE MOST ICONIC AND WEALTHY FAMILIES OF MISSOURI AND WIN NOW SCHMIDT ALSO SAYS HE'LL NOW TAKE A BLOW TORCH TO THE BIDEN AGENDA IF DEMOCRATS HOLD ON TO THE U.S SENATE HOW MUCH BLOWTORCHING CAN HE DO DAVE WELL HE CAN DO WHAT JOSH HAWLEY DOES WHICH IS PUT OUT LOTS OF PRESS RELEASES AND STATEMENTS AND TWEETS AND FILE BILLS AND HOLD HEARINGS UH IT'LL BE A FASCINATING DYNAMIC BETWEEN THE TWO OF THEM BECAUSE THEY'RE BOTH VERY AMBITIOUS PEOPLE AND REMEMBER JOSH HAWLEY ENDORSED VICKI HARTZLER SO THERE MAY BE SOME RAW EDGES AROUND ALL OF THIS AS WELL WHAT LESSONS THOUGH WILL DEMOCRATS LEARN FROM THIS YOU KNOW TRUDY BUSH VALENTINE HAD PLENTY OF MONEY PLOWED TO MORE THAN SEVEN MILLION DOLLARS OF OUR OWN CASH INTO THIS ACCORDING TO SOME PUBLISHED REPORTS WILL THIS HAVE A CHILLING EFFECT NOW ON THIS NEXT RACE WHICH WILL BE IN 2024 WHEN JOSH HAWLEY IS RUNNING FOR RE-ELECTION WILL THEY BE ABLE TO EVEN FIND A HIGH-PROFILE CANDIDATE TO RUN IN THAT RACE WELL HOPEFULLY THEY'RE STARTING TO LOOK NOW BECAUSE I MEAN THAT JUST SHOWS THAT SHE WASN'T HIGH PROFILE AND THE WAY PEOPLE KNEW HER WAS THROUGH HER MONEY AND THROUGH THE FAMILY CONNECTION IT TOOK HER SO LONG TO JUST OVERCOME THAT OR EVEN BEGIN TO AND TO ESTABLISH HERSELF OUT THERE AS A CANDIDATE I THINK PEOPLE FELT LIKE DEMOCRATS WHO WANTED TO KNOW HER AND WANTED TO LIKE HER IT TOOK TOO LONG FOR THEM TO GET TO KNOW HER AND SO A LOT OF THAT'S ON HER OWN CAMPAIGN SO THE LESSON IS DON'T DO IT LIKE THEY JUST DID COULD MAYOR LUCAS GET INTO THAT RACE HE HE BOWED OUT OF THIS PARTICULAR CAMPAIGN IS THAT HE IN FOR 2024 I DON'T THINK HE WAS EVER IN THIS CAMPAIGN OTHER THAN JUST THE THE TRIAL BALLOON MENTIONS I DOUBT IT BUT UH MARY'S POINT ABOUT THE LACK OF EQUALITY CANDIDATE IS IS RIGHT ON THE BUTTON HERE THEY HAD A FORMER STATE SENATOR THAT GOT SHOVED OUT OF THE RACE THE DAY BEFORE THE PRIMARY THEY HAD A FAIRLY ATTRACTIVE POPULIST THAT RAN A GOOD PRIMARY CAMP CAMPAIGN HE GOT SHOVED OFF TO THE SIDE AND MISSOURI DEMOCRATS WERE DELIVERED WITH TRUDY BUSH VALENTINE WHO WAS NOT A GOOD CANDIDATE IT SEEMS LIKE A VERY GOOD PERSON BUT SHE WASN'T A VERY GOOD CANDIDATE NO IF THERE WAS IF THERE WAS A RACE WE WERE TOLD WOULD DEFINITELY BE TOO CLOSE TO COAL IT WAS THE CONTEST BETWEEN CHARISSE DAVIDS AND AMANDA ATKINS AND THE KANSAS THIRD CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT SO HOW DO WE EXPLAIN DAVID'S DOUBLE-DIGIT VICTORY IN FACT SHE WENT BY AN EVEN LARGER MARGIN THAN HER FIRST MATCHUP AGAINST ATKINS TWO YEARS AGO WE DIDN'T TRY TO JUST BLAME EVERYBODY WE GOT TO WORK WE GOT TO WORK AND TONIGHT THAT WORK PAID OFF IN A RACE THAT WAS UNBELIEVABLY NEGATIVE I CAN SAY WE HAVE BEEN INTELLECTUALLY HONEST WE HAVE BEEN LOVING REGARDLESS OF WHAT HAPPENS TONIGHT WE HAVE REAL PROBLEMS IN THIS COUNTRY THAT REMAIN UNSOLVED SO WHAT DID THE ATKINS DO SO TERRIBLY WRONG OR WHAT DID DAVID'S DO THAT WAS SO REMARKABLY RIGHT WELL NICK I DON'T THINK IT'S EITHER OF THOSE THINGS I THINK THAT SHARICE DAVIDS ROE WAS A GIFT ROE GETTING OVERTURNED WAS A GIFT LEADING IN TO VALUE THEM BOTH I THINK THAT'S HOW HISTORY IS GOING TO TELL THIS RACE YOU KNOW I DON'T THINK AMANDA ATKINS DID ANYTHING TERRIBLY WRONG BUT LOOK AT JOHNSON COUNTY UH LOOK AT CHARISSE DAVIDS WON JOHNSON COUNTY BY SEVEN POINTS TWO YEARS AGO AND WHAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A A BAD YEAR FOR DEMOCRATS BECAUSE IT ALWAYS IS FOR THE PARTY IN POWER DURING A MIDTERM SHE WON IT BY 16.

THAT'S YOU CAN'T EVEN COMPREHEND THOSE KIND OF NUMBERS I MEAN IT JUST FEELS LIKE IT WAS THE TAILWINDS FROM THE LAST FEW MONTHS AROUND ABORTION NOW YOU SAID ON YOUR RADIO PROGRAM IF DAVID'S WON BY MORE THAN DOUBLE DIGITS YOU WOULD RUN AROUND YOUR RADIO STATION NAKED DID YOU DO THAT OR CAN WE GET OUR CAMERAS OUT THIS WEEKEND TO WATCH I DID IT'S ON SOCIAL MEDIA IF YOU'D LIKE TO SEE IT THERE NICK I KNOW YOU'RE DYING FOR THE VIDEO I I HELD UP A CHARICE DAVID SIGN AND SHE EVEN CALLED INTO THE SHOW FOR THE FIRST TIME IT WAS A GOOD SPORT ABOUT IT SO WELL THANK YOU BY THE WAY FOR WEARING CLOTHES ON THIS PROGRAM ONLY FOR YOU ONLY FOR YOU IS THAT THE FOR AMANDA ATKINS UH IT MIGHT BE I'M A UH ADD A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE ON THIS UH ADKINS REFERRED TO THE NEGATIVE CAMPAIGN AND SHE GOT STRAPPED WITH THE BROWNBACK LINK AND IT STUCK IF SHE GOT A SLAPPED WITH THE ABORTION LINK AND IT STUCK ALTHOUGH SOME OF THAT WAS NOT EXACTLY ACCURATE ALL THE WAY THROUGH AND UH THEN JOHNSON COUNTY IS THE BIG ENCHILADA IN ANY THIRD DISTRICT NEW OR OLD AND SHE AND SHE WON THAT VERY UH VERY WELL PLUS SHARICE DAVIDS HAS TURNED INTO A MUCH BETTER CAMPAIGNER THAN SHE WAS HER FIRST TWO CYCLES MUCH BETTER CAMPAIGNER SEEMED MORE RELAXED A LITTLE BIT BETTER ON ME ON MESSAGE DELIVERED IT WELL IT'S REALLY AUTHENTIC THOUGH I MEAN CHERISE DAVIDS WHEN YOU MEET HER IN PERSON SHE'S ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE THAT WHEN SHE LISTENS TO YOU YOU FEEL LIKE SHE IS LISTENING TO YOU DAVE HALEY CAN I ASK YOU THIS QUESTION I SHOULD BECOME NOW UNTOUCHABLE A TEFLON COATED CANDIDATE IN CONGRESS VERY MUCH LIKE EMMANUEL CLEAVER RIGHT NOW WELL NOT QUITE THAT FAR NICK BUT UH WHEN YOU SURVIVE TWO CHALLENGES AS CHARICE DAVIDS HAS UH YOU'RE MORE COMFORTABLE NOT COMPLETELY SO BECAUSE IT'S STILL KANSAS THE CENTRAL QUESTION AND PETE TALKED ABOUT THIS IS WHETHER THE CHANGES IN JOHNSON COUNTY WHICH ARE VERY REAL FROM REPUBLICAN TO DEMOCRAT ARE PERMANENT OR EVEN SEMI-PERMANENT OR IF THEY'RE VERY MUCH TRANSITIONAL OR TRANSACTIONAL IS THIS BASED ON HATRED FOR TRUMP DONALD TRUMP AND TRUMPISM IN WHICH CASE THEY MIGHT FLIP BACK TO BEING REPUBLICANS AT SOME POINT AND VOTE FOR A A CREDIBLE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE IN THE THIRD DISTRICT OR IS THERE A DEMOGRAPHIC GENERATIONAL SHIFT IN THAT COUNTY THAT WOULD LEAD DEMOCRATS TO HAVE THE UPPER HAND IN THE THIRD FOUR YEARS TO COME AND I DON'T THINK THE JURY IS IN ON THAT QUESTION YET BUT BOY THREE ELECTIONS IN A ROW SHARICE DAVIDS BEATING KEVIN YODER THE INCUMBENT THEN BEATING TOO WELL FUNDED CHALLENGES FROM AMANDA ATKINS THAT SOMETHING IS HAPPENING IN THAT DISTRICT THAT WE NEED TO KEEP OUR EYE REAL QUICKLY I WOULD HOLD THIS MIGHT HAVE BEEN CHARISSA'S TOUGHEST CAMPAIGN GIVEN THE POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT THAT SHE WAS IN HE EVEN TAKEN ON A 10-YEAR CONGRESSMAN NOW THERE WERE A LOT OF ISSUES ON THE BALLOT THIS WEEK AND I'M NOT JUST TALKING ABOUT WHETHER TO ELECT SHERIFFS IN KANSAS IT PASSED BY THE WAY OR WHETHER TO MAKE THE NATIONAL GUARD IN MISSOURI ITS OWN DEPARTMENT REPORTING DIRECTLY TO THE GOVERNOR THAT PASSED TOO I WAS THINKING MORE ABOUT MARIJUANA 53 PERCENT OF MISSOURI VOTERS SAYING YES TO LEGALIZING RECREATIONAL POT HOW DOES IT FEEL TO MAKE HISTORY THIS IS THE MOST CRIMINAL IMPORTANT CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM THAT HAS EVER BEEN PASSED BY THE VOTERS OF MISSOURI BEFORE YOU GO CRAZY WILD ACCORDING TO THE STATE THE VERY EARLIEST YOU'LL BE ABLE TO LEGALLY BUY MARIJUANA PRODUCTS IS FEBRUARY 6TH OF NEXT YEAR SO IT'S GOING TO TAKE A WHILE MARY YES ABSOLUTELY I MEAN THERE IS A SYSTEM TO BE SET UP THAT LICENSES AND THAT WAS PART OF THE PUSHBACK AGAINST THIS WAS THAT IT WOULD BE UNFAIR TO PEOPLE WHO WERE TRYING TO COME INTO THE MARKET SO IT'S YOU KNOW IT NEEDS TO BE SET UP AND TAXED THAT THAT'S A HUGE PORTION OF IT SO THERE'S JUST A LOT OF THINGS THAT NEED TO BE PUT IN PLACE AND ESPECIALLY THE EXPUNGEMENT WHAT HE WAS JUST TALKING ABOUT THERE IS YOU KNOW HOW DO YOU MAKE THAT IN FAIRLY ENFORCE THAT IT'S SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN AUTOMATICALLY FOR PEOPLE TO TAKE THAT OFF OF THEIR RECORD IF THEY HAVE A NON-VIOLENT OFFENSE BUT I'VE SEEN THE MISSOURI SUPREME COURT SAYS THEY WANT LAWMAKERS TO APPROPRIATE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF MONEY TO HELP THEM ACTUALLY DO THAT EXPUNGEMENT PROCESS IS THIS GOING TO BE A BIG POLITICAL BATTLE NOW THEY'RE THE COURTS AND LEGISLATURE THE LEGISLATION WON'T GIVE THEM THE MONEY TO DO THIS SO THIS PLAYS OUT OVER SEVERAL YEARS WELL THE STATE AUDITOR'S FISCAL NOTE ON THE THIS SAID THAT THE MONEY OFF THE TOP GOES TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH TO ADMINISTER THE PROGRAM AND THEN IT GOES IN TO THE COURT SYSTEM TO PAY FOR THESE EXPUNGEMENTS AND UH AND THEY EXPECT THAT LARGELY TO HAPPEN IN IN THE FIRST YEAR OF THIS THING AND THEN THE OTHER THING IS I DO THINK THAT LEGAL LEGALIZED MARIJUANA WILL GET IN PLACE IN MISSOURI QUICKER THAN MEDICAL DEAD BECAUSE THE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR MEDICAL IS ALREADY THERE AND THEN AND THEY'LL REPLICATE THAT THIS IS JUST THE LATEST THOUGH IT'S A PROGRESSIVE KIND OF ISSUE THAT'S GONE BEFORE VOTERS THAT THEY'VE APPROVED WE'VE HAD THE EXPANSION OF MEDICAID WE'VE HAD THE INCREASE IN THE MINIMUM WAGE IS THIS GOING TO JUMP START THAT BEHIND THE SCENES FOCUS NOW ON HAVING AN ABORTION AMENDMENT ON THE BALLOT THAT MAY BE A BRIDGE TOO FAR BUT YOU'RE RIGHT NICK RIGHT TO WORK MINIMUM WAGE GAMBLING IN MISSOURI MEDICINAL MARIJUANA I MEAN ALL THESE PROGRESSIVE CLEAN MISSOURI PASSED BEFORE IT WAS REPEALED I MEAN ALL THESE PROGRESSIVE THINGS PASS AND THEN THE DEMOCRATS FALL APART AND HOLD NO STATEWIDE OFFICES AND HAVE NO PROSPECTS AND I'M NOT SURE WHY THAT IS AND I THINK DEMOCRATS BANG THEIR HEADS INTO THE WALL TO TRY AND UNDERSTAND THAT BUT IT IS CLEAR THAT PROGRESSIVE EFFORTS IN MISSOURI ALMOST CERTAINLY NEED TO GO THE INITIATIVE AND PETITION ROUTE RATHER THAN THROUGH THE LEGISLATURE WHERE NONE OF THIS IS GOING TO HAPPEN NOW WHILE THE MISSOURI MARIJUANA VOTE WAS REASONABLY CLOSE THAT MISSOURI AMENDMENT REQUIRING KANSAS CITY SPEND MORE MONEY ON ITS POLICE DEPARTMENT WAS NOT MORE THAN 63 PERCENT OF MISSOURI VOTERS SAID YES TO THAT SO WHAT HAPPENS NOW DOES KANSAS CITY TRY AND FIND SOME LOOSE CHANGE UNDER THE CUSHIONS TO BOOST POLICE CASH OR IS THIS GOING TO BE THE START OF A LENGTHY LEGAL BATTLE THAT WILL PLAY OUT FOR MONTHS PETE WELL QUENTIN LUCAS SAYS THAT THIS THING IS GOING TO COURT BUT THE REALITY IS I MEAN RIGHT NOW THE CITY'S SPENDING ABOUT 24.6 PERCENT ON UH ON THE POLICE DEPARTMENT SO WE'RE TALKING LESS THAN HALF A PERCENTAGE POINT WHEN ALL IS SAID AND DONE THIS IS REALLY SOMETHING THAT THAT WAS ABOUT MAINTAINING THE STATUS QUO SO THAT THEY WOULD SAY THE DEPARTMENT CAN PLAN FOR THE MONEY IT'S GETTING AND I THINK HISTORY HISTORICALLY WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE MISTAKE THE POLITICAL MISTAKE QUENTIN LUCAS MADE IN MAY OF 2021 SAME-DAY ORDINANCE TO TAKE THE 42 MILLION DOLLARS OUT OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND SEND IT WHO KNOWS WHERE THAT THIS WAS POLITICS HE SAYS IT'S POLITICS BUT HIS OPPONENTS ARE RIGHT TO POINT OUT IT WAS POLITICS ON HIS END TOO AND IT BACKFIRED ON HIM WELL BUT IT ALSO THOUGH I MEAN EVER THE CITY LOST THE CITIZENS LOST BECAUSE IT BECAME POLITICAL DEALING WITH THE MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES AND DOING PREVENTATIVE POLICING POLICE ARE ON BOARD WITH THAT QUENTIN LUCAS WAS ON BOARD WITH THAT THE CITY COUNCIL WAS ON BOARD WITH THAT ANYONE WHO CAN BE THREATENED TO VOTE OVER A CRIME ISSUE OUGHT TO BE INFORMED OF THAT SO I'M SURE I'M SURE MAYOR LUCAS WAS NOT HAPPY OF COURSE WITH THAT RESULT AT LEAST KANSAS CITY THOUGH WE'LL GET SOME MONEY TO PLAY WITH VOTERS ARE PROVING TWO BALLOT QUESTIONS TO FIX UP KANSAS CITY THAT MEANS 175 MILLION DOLLARS IN NEW CASH FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND TO FIX UP THINGS LIKE BOTTLE HALL AND SOME OF THE CITY'S FOUNTAINS AND SWIMMING POOLS MORE THAN 70 PERCENT OF VOTERS SAYING YES TO BOTH QUESTIONS SO QUENTIN LUCAS HAPPY WITH THAT DAVE NO QUESTION THEY WANT TO DO THESE THINGS PARTICULARLY THE HOUSING COMPONENT OF 50 MILLION DOLLARS THAT GETS THE CITY SOME BREATHING ROOM WITH KC TENANTS AND OTHER GROUPS HOW THAT MONEY GETS SPENT IS ANOTHER QUESTION AND WILL BE AN ISSUE AND THEN THE 125 FOR BARTLE HALL AND PARKS AND OTHER RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES IS PROBABLY PRETTY POPULAR TOO SO BOTH OF THOSE THINGS ARE YOU KNOW GOOD FOR QUENTIN LUCAS POLITICALLY HOW THE MONEY ROLLS OUT WHO GETS IT FIRST WHERE THE PROJECTS GO THAT REMAINS AN OPEN QUESTION AND THAT COULD COME BACK ACTIVE ITEM AS WELL NOW JOHNSON COUNTY HAS A NEW TOP GOT DOG SHOULD I SAY MIKE KELLY WILL NOW OFFICIALLY SUCCEED AT ISLET AS JOHNSON COUNTY LEADER 56 PERCENT OF JOHNSON COUNTY VOTERS CHOOSING KELLY OVER HIS RIVAL CHARLOTTE O'HARA WHAT'S THE BIGGEST CHANGE YOU THINK WE'LL SEE IN JOHNSON COUNTY NOW THAT MIKE KELLY WILL BE IN CHARGE YEAH I DO THINK YOU'RE GOING TO SEE NICK SOME INCREASING CLASHES BETWEEN MIKE KELLY AND THE COUNTY COMMISSION AND SHERIFF CALVIN HAYDEN WHO HAS ALREADY BUTTED HEADS BY THE WAY WITH ED IDLER AND OTHERS OVER FINANCE AND BUDGET AND WHAT THEY PAY OFFICERS MIKE KELLY BEFORE THE ELECTION SAID CALVIN HAYDEN SHOULD RESIGN HAYDEN AS YOU KNOW IS PURSUING THESE ELECTION FRAUD ALLEGATIONS IN JOHNSON COUNTY THAT'S GOING TO GET HOTTER BEFORE IT GETS COOLER AND MAY HAVE SOME REAL IMPACT ON IT STILL HAS HER SEAT ON THE COMMISSION SO SHE WILL BE PUTTING A LOT OF PRESSURE WHITE BY THE WAY EARNED FOUR MORE YEARS AS HEAD OF JACKSON COUNTY GOVERNMENT THIS WEEK HE DEFEATED LEGISLATOR TERESA GALVIN WITH JUST OVER 55 PERCENT OF THE VOTE I CAN'T THINK OF ANY MORE REWARDING THING TO DO THAN TO BE ABLE TO SERVE THE COMMUNITY AND BE IN A POSITION WHERE YOU CAN REALLY INFLUENCE HOW THINGS UH AFFECT THE COMMUNITY WHAT'S THE LESSON FROM THIS RACE NAME RECOGNITION MATTERS YES YES YES YES YES YES I MEAN THE GUY HASN'T DONE A GOOD JOB I MEAN HE HASN'T AND GOD BLESS THE KANSAS CITY STARITORIAL BOARD WHEN THEY'RE ENDORSING TERESA GALVIN FRANK WHITE'S GOT A PROBLEM ALL RIGHT SHE'S GOT AN R NEXT TO HER NAME AND THEY THEY WERE ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT HER AS THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN IT'S A IT SHOULD BE A NON-PARTISAN RACE BY THE WAY IT'S A RACE ABOUT PROPERTY TAXES IT'S A RACE ABOUT CRIME HE HAS NOT DONE A GOOD JOB ON THAT THERE WAS NO CAMPAIGN CLEARLY THOUGH VOTERS DISAGREED NAME ID ESPECIALLY IN THIS RACE WITH THIS INDIVIDUAL WHO IS A HOMETOWN HERO UM AND A DEMOCRAT AND DEMOCRATIC JACKSON COUNTY UH TERESA GALLON RAN A GREAT RACE AND REALLY REALLY UH PUT HER HEART INTO THIS AND A LOT OF PEOPLE A LOT OF SMART PEOPLE UH THOUGHT THAT THIS WAS THE YEAR THAT WHITE GETS UH TAKEN OUT BUT YOU KNOW IT'S FRANK WHITE YEAH BUT PEOPLE ALSO DON'T REALLY LOOK AT JACKSON COUNTY POLITICS THAT CLOSELY YOU KNOW THEY'RE MORE FOCUSED ON THE CITY THEY'RE MORE FOCUSED ON COUNTIES IN JOHNSON COUNTY AND ON CONGRESS AND I DO THINK SOMETIMES JACKSON COUNTY KIND OF JUST MEANDERS ALONG YEAH UNTIL THE PROPERTY TAXES EXACTLY UNCORRECTABLE ON THIS BUT I THINK TERESA GALVIN ACTUALLY WON IN JACKSON COUNTY OUTSIDE OF KANSAS CITY SHE HAD MORE VOTES THAN FRANK WHITE BUT FRANK WHITE RAN UP YOU KNOW THREE TO ONE MARGINS IN KANSAS CITY PROPER PART OF THAT IS NAME ID PART OF IT IS FREEDOM INC WHICH REMAINS AN IMPORTANT POLITICAL CLUB IN THE INNER CITY AND THEY WORK REALLY HARD ON FRANK WHITE'S BEHALF GOT A LOT OF VOTES OUT OUR FRIEND ERIC WESSON CAN TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT AND I I THINK THAT MADE THE DIFFERENCE IN THIS RACE AND HE IS OUT THERE IN THE COMMUNITY I MEAN PEOPLE MIGHT NOT REALIZE THAT BUT IT'S IT AT THE TYPE OF EVENTS THAT DON'T GET A LOT OF MEDIA COVERAGE NECESSARILY HE'S PRESENT AND SO PEOPLE SEE HIM AND THEY ATTACH HIS ROLE THERE WHICH IS A LITTLE FURTHER DISTANCING FROM THE ROYALS NOW A QUICK FIRE ROUND OF QUESTIONS FILL IN THE BLANK THE BIGGEST WINNER OF ELECTION 2022 IN METRO KC WAS BLANK PETE UM CHARICE DAVIDS I MEAN 16 POINTS WE TALKED ABOUT IT IN JOHNSON COUNTY I MEAN THAT IS WOW UNBELIEVABLE MARY I WOULD SAY CHARISSE AS WELL CHARISSE UH MAKE IT FOR CHARICE DAVIDS WINNING BY THAT MARGIN IN MY MIND ACTUALLY ONE OF THE BIGGEST WINNERS ON ELECTION NIGHT WAS MARK HOLFORD JUST A YEAR AGO REMEMBER HE WAS READING A TELEPROMPTER ON THE ANCHOR DESK AT FOX 4 NOW HE'S OUR AREA'S NEWEST CONGRESSMAN AND I'M JUST I'M OVERWHELMED WITH THE CONFIDENCE THAT THE PEOPLE OF MISSOURI HAVE PUT IN ME TO BE THEIR STRONG VOICE AND I'M GOING TO DO JUST THAT FROM JOURNALISTS TO CONGRESS IN ONE YEAR FLAT ANY LESSONS FOR US HERE ON THAT IF YOU READ THE KANSAS CITY STAR YOU MIGHT HAVE SEEN THE STORY THIS WEEK DAVE HELLING RETIRING FROM THE KANSAS CITY STAR AFTER 17 YEARS OF THE PAPER 45 YEARS IN JOURNALISM DAVE ARE YOU PREPARED TO ANNOUNCE YOUR CANDIDACY ON THIS PROGRAM THIS HALF HOUR A DAY YEAH IF UH ELECTED I WILL NOT SERVE IF CHOSEN I WILL NOT RUN NO I I AM STEPPING AWAY FROM COVERING THIS COMMUNITY AT A RIPE OLD AGE OF 67 AND IT FEELS GOOD BUT BUT WHAT A YEAR NEXT YEAR IS GOING TO BE YOU'VE GOT DOWNTOWN BASEBALL YOU'VE GOT UH MAYORS HOPEFULLY WE COULD STILL RELY UPON YOU ON THIS PROGRAM TO COME AND PROVIDE YOU BUT CAN I JUST SAY QUICKLY YEAH I GOT SO MANY NICE UH EMAILS FROM PEOPLE AND READERS AND FOLKS WHO HAVE WATCHED THE SHOW NICK FOR MANY MANY YEARS I'VE DONE IT FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS AND I JUST WANT TO SAY THANKS FOR ALL OF THAT IT WAS REALLY FLATTERING AND UNEXPECTED YOU KNOW YOU DON'T REALLY HAVE A SENSE OF HOW YOU'RE OUT IN THE COMMUNITY SO IT'S GREAT SO NOT KNOWING HOW LONG WE'RE GOING TO GET YOU YOU'RE GOING TO STOP THE NEXT QUESTION FOR ME WHICH IS WHO WILL WHAT WAS THE BIGGEST LOSER ON ELECTION DAY DAVE WELL I'D SAY THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN MISSOURI I JUST DON'T SEE A PATH FOR THEM FOR YEARS AND YEARS TO COME THE DEMOCRATS IN KANSAS WERE IN A SIMILAR PLACE A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO AND THEY'VE BEEN ABLE TO SORT OF SCRAPE TOGETHER SOME SOME EFFECTIVE CAMPAIGNS BUT GOSH YOU JUST DON'T SEE WHERE IT'S GOING TO COME FROM IN MISSOURI PETE I WOULD AGREE WITH DAVE BUT I I THINK THAT WE THOUGHT THE MISSOURI DEMOCRATIC PARTY WAS GOING TO BE A LOSER THE KANSAS REPUBLICAN PARTY TO ME IS THE LOSER HERE THE PILE THING WAS A MESS THEY COULDN'T GET THAT FIGURED OUT SOME BELIEVE IT DATES BACK TO THE LEGISLATIVE SESSION LAST YEAR WHEN THEY WERE DOING REDISTRICTING AMANDA'S LOSS WAS BEYOND WHAT ANYBODY THOUGHT WAS GOING TO BE THE CASE BAD NIGHT FOR THE KANSAS GOP AND BAD WEEK FOR HIM MARY YOU KNOW I'D GO MORE SPECIFIC TO CHRIS MANN WHO RAN AGAINST KOBACH HE DOESN'T WANT TO CONCEDE THE RACE EVEN THOUGH THERE'S NO WAY HE'S GOING TO WIN NOW AND IT WAS LIKE HIS CHANCE TO LEAP INTO STATE POLITICS AND YOU KNOW TO LOSE TO KRIS KOPA BECAUSE THEY HAD SUCH A LENGTHY HISTORY OF KIND OF NEGATIVES AGAINST HIM I DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU GO AFTER THAT MICHAEL I WOULD AGREE WITH THE KANSAS GOP AND UH WITH THIS CAVEAT ON IT I WAS FOR MISSOURI DEMOCRATS IT WAS ACTUALLY A PRETTY GOOD NIGHT THEY I THINK IN 2020 THEY'VE ABSOLUTELY REACHED THE BASEMENT THEY PICKED UP SEATS UM AND YOU KNOW THEY GOT CLOBBERED IN THE SENATE RACE BUT THEY THEY PICKED UP SEATS UH ACROSS THE STATE WON AN IMPORTANT STATE SENATOR VERY QUICKLY THEY DID LOSE THE STATE AUDITOR'S CHAIR WHICH IS NOW GOING TO A REPUBLICAN AND THE DEMOCRATS HAVE NO STATEWIDE OFFICE SO MISSOURI HOUSE DEMOCRATS CERTAINLY UH GOT A BEST ELECTION NIGHT IN YEARS THEY NOW HAVE THEIR LARGEST CAUCUS IN JEFFERSON CITY IN MORE THAN A DECADE THAT'S ONE OF THE INTERESTING TIDBITS A PRETTY GOOD NIGHT FOR DEMOCRATS IN JOHNSON COUNTY THEY PICK UP HOUSE SEATS AND I SEE CONSERVATIVES ACTUALLY MAKING GAINS ON THE KANSAS STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION TOO BUT WHAT FOR YOU WAS THE MOST OVERLOOKED LOCAL RACE TREND OR STORY FROM ELECTION 2022 PETE UH MIKE THOMPSON NOT THE FORMER WEATHERMAN BUT A DIFFERENT MIKE THOMPSON IN WYANDOTTE COUNTY A REPUBLICAN WHO FLIPPED A DEMOCRAT SEAT BEEN DEMOCRAT FOR 50 YEARS IN WYANDOTTE COUNTY HE FLIPPED THAT AND THAT IS UH ONE OF THE UNTOLD POSITIVE STORIES FOR THE KANSAS GOP MARY I WOULD SAY THE POLL WORKERS WAS IT SMOOTH SAILING OR A HOT MESS ON ELECTION DAY WHEN IT CAME TO POLLING DID IT ALL WORK OUT BY AND LARGE PRETTY WELL WELL IT SEEMS LIKE IT DID I MEAN THERE HAVEN'T BEEN ANY YOU KNOW YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR SOME SCREAMERS SAYING OH SO YOU KNOW FAKE COLLECTION AND THERE'S FRAUD AND WHATEVER BUT THERE'S NO EVIDENCE OF THAT BUT I WAS SURPRISED TO SEE ACROSS THE METRO A TURNOUT WAS LOWER IN THIS MIDTERM THAN IT WAS IN 2018.

WHAT WAS YOUR MOST OVERLOOKED STORY THE JUDGE'S RETENTION OVER IN KANSAS ALL OF THEM WERE RETAINED IT WAS KIND OF A BLACK CAMPAIGN CAMPAIGN STATE MISSOURI WILL NOT HAVE A CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTIONS AND A CONVENTION AND IT'LL BE 20 YEARS BEFORE THEY GET ASKED AGAIN NICK IF I'M STILL AROUND IN 20 YEARS I'LL COME ON THE SHOW AND TALK ABOUT THE MISSOURI CONSTITUTION YOU WILL BE ON HERE AND WE WILL LOOK FORWARD TO HAVING YOU THANK YOU DAVE FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS OVER SO MANY YEARS HERE AND ON THAT WE WILL SAY OUR ELECTION WEEK HAS BEEN REVIEWED COURTESY OF MARY SANCHEZ FROM OUR KANSAS CITY PBS DIGITAL NEWSROOM FLATLAND AND DAVE HELLING FROM YOUR KANSAS CITY STAR SIX TO TEN WEEKDAYS ON KCMO TALK RADIO PETE MUNDO AND CHANNEL 9'S MICHAEL MAHONEY AND I'M NICK HAINES FROM ALL OF US HERE AT KANSAS CITY PBS BE WELL KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON