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Heard oral arguments today in a pair of cases that have been consolidated and are expected to produce one ruling, a significant one, on whether or not states can regulate boys playing in girls' sports. We will discuss this in great depth at about 10 after 4. We will also break for you an exclusive story. Democrats who claim to be standing up for Hispanic people against ice raids in Minneapolis and Wisconsin. and across the country actually bullied a Hispanic woman out of an election in Waukesha. Why? Because, quote, she's a disgrace to Hispanics. What was her crime? Being conservative. We'll get into that in the 4 o'clock hour. And Governor Evers is realizing the political fallout from his 400-year veto, which dramatically spiked property taxes. pretty much across the state. Now he wants Republicans to go along with what else a bailout. That story coming up in the 5 o'clock hour right here on the Dan O'Donnell Show. Right now, though, a big update to an exclusive story that we broke for you on Friday afternoon about a candidate for the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Wisconsin has several district courts of appeals. This is the step below the Wisconsin Supreme Court. So the Wisconsin state court system is set up to mirror the federal court system. There is one court of last resort that is the Supreme Court. Below that, there is a court of appeals. There are several districts. District one is pretty much just Milwaukee County. In fact, I think it's entirely Milwaukee County. So those court judges will review decisions from Milwaukee County Circuit Court judges. The second... District Court of Appeals is Waukeshaw and several other counties. It is a very conservative court, and there was a woman by the name of Christine L. Hanson, who is politically and judicially very liberal, who wanted to go up against a very, very good judicial candidate, the conservative Anthony Lococo. They are battling for an open seat, and they are going to go at it. in this April's election. At least until the liberal Christine Hanson submitted her declaration of candidacy. There were two major disqualifying errors on it. In order to get on the ballot in Wisconsin, you need a couple of very basic things. You need to submit a petition with enough signatures of people who are in your district that want to see you on the ballot.

This is to ensure that our ballots aren't 75 pages long. There needs to be some very minimal bar to getting on the ballot. She failed to clear it. She did get enough valid signatures, at least as far as I know. But there's a second requirement, and that is the declaration of candidacy. Now, you would think this would be an easy one, especially for somebody with a legal background who wants to be a judge. Filing legal documents and making sure they are filled out correctly is pretty much all you do in the law. Of course, that's a joke. But there's a whole lot of paperwork. And people who go to law school, people who join the legal profession are typically very, very good at doing paperwork. They have eagle eyes. They have tremendous attention for detail. And they know how to follow every single rule except... Christine Hanson. On her declaration of candidacy, she says that this signature was notarized in the state of Wisconsin in the county of also Wisconsin. Instead of Waukeshaaw County, she put Wisconsin County. Now, okay, I've had typos. I've put the wrong things on documents. It happens. It happens to everybody. Here's the real problem. She had her husband, who also happens to be Waukesha County's Corporation Counsel, meaning he represents the county, notarize her signature. This is completely unlawful. Wisconsin law is remarkably clear. A spouse or a domestic partner is not allowed to notarize any document. for their spouse. Any document with respect to a record to which the officer or the officer's spouse or domestic partner is a party or in which either of them has a direct beneficial interest. That is Wisconsin statute 140.02. Very clearly it was violated by two people who should know what the law says. Waukesha County's Corporation Counsel, and by the way, Waukesha County, I am seriously concerned now for any documents that your corporation counsel is putting his name on because it doesn't seem as though he's reading them all that closely or is particularly concerned with following the law to the very letter.

Every single declaration of candidacy, though, needs to be notarized. This was not. Under Wisconsin statute 8.30, the Wisconsin Elections Commission, quote, may not place a candidate's name on the ballot if the candidate fails to file a declaration of candidacy within the time prescribed. Christine Hanson did not. The law is very clear. Now, what is it say about the state of the Wisconsin Elections Commission and the state of election law enforcement more generally here in Wisconsin that I had absolutely no faith that Christine L. Hansen would be barred from the ballot, even though the letter of the law, the spirit of the law, every aspect of the law could not be more clear. She has no business being on the ballot. If she couldn't even go down to her bank and get a notary public to notarize her signature for her. And as I said on Friday, my entire family is attorneys. There are notary publics up and down. You can't walk. You could not walk around my childhood home. without stepping over at least five or six notary seals okay i'm making that up but my point is that there are a whole ton of notary publics in my family usually i just go to my bank because it's way easier and also i'm very cognizant i will admit I did not know the extent to which you could not notarize a signature for someone in your family. I guess I always just assumed I never went to my mom or went to my dad who are both notaries because I just sort of assumed, okay, you can't notarize something for your child. So I always just went to, apparently you can. It's just a spouse, okay? I did not know. But I always just went to the bank because it's obviously easier. It's not very often that I need a notarized signature for something. But that's a great service that my bank provides. The Wisconsin Elections Commission, believe it or not, today voted five to one to keep Christine L. Hanson off the ballot. The only dissenting vote was Mark Thompson, who is a very liberal member of the commission and went on a little screed during this afternoon's meeting about disenfranchising the 1,400 people who signed the petition to get Hanson on the ballot. They're disenfranchised. Do you know what the problem with that is, with that assessment? They didn't actually vote for anything. They can still vote in this race. They can vote for Anthony Lococo. They can even if they want, write in Christine L. Hanson. She can get on the ballot.

She just has to get her supporters to write her in. Now, as a practical matter, is this ever going to be successful? No, of course it's not. But the idea that the 1,400 people who signed the petition for Christine Hanson to get on the ballot where disenfranchised is ludicrous. If they're disenfranchised by anybody, they're disenfranchised by their idiot of a candidate who couldn't manage to get a declaration of candidacy right. the wisconsin elections commission staff which is still headed by megan wolf who refused to go quietly into that good night even though she very obviously overstayed her term recommended that Hansen be kept off the belt. I could not believe what I saw, honest to goodness, I was getting texts from a source who was watching this meeting. I obviously was doing show prep and kind of had it on in the background and was half paying attention, but because I have to put in so many sound bites, I need my computer's audio, I couldn't have to sound up, and I was just sort of monitoring this. My source said, you won't believe this. When the staff recommendation came down shortly before the meeting started, staff is recommending that she be barred from the ballot. I said, there's no way. There is no way. I thought by hook or by crook, they were going to find a way to get this lib on the ballot to get her on the court of appeals. So now... Anthony LeCocco basically has a free ride to the Court of Appeals, which is good because I've talked to Anthony LeCocco. I believe we had him on the show. I met with him just for a lunch to get to know him. He's a really, really good guy. He's going to be an absolutely spectacular judge on this court. And... He actually managed to fill out his declaration of candidacy properly. So, you know, he's got that going for him, which is nice. When we come back, the most radical proposal I have yet heard from any candidate for governor for dealing with ICE. It's so radical. Even Governor Tony Evers came out and slapped it down today. You're not going to want to miss this. It's coming up in just three minutes here on the Dan O'Donnell Show.

It is the Dan O'Donnell Show. Welcome back to it. The truth is that Sarah Rodriguez, Wisconsin's lieutenant governor and Democrats' preferred candidate for governor of Wisconsin, at least preferred next to Mandela Barnes and Francesca Hong, has unveiled a plan. to obstruct ICE investigations here in the state that is so radical that even Wisconsin's left-wing governor Tony Evers is today distancing himself from it. Lieutenant Governor Sarah Rodriguez put out her ice-ready plan. Writing quote, families should not have to choose between their safety and accessing justice, health care, education, or worship. Sarah calls for ensuring that essential community spaces remain safe and accessible by banning civil immigration enforcement actions in and around courthouses, hospitals, and health clinics, licensed child care centers and daycares. Schools and institutions of higher education, domestic violence shelters, and places of worship. Exceptions, a judicial warrant, and imminent threats to public safety. Now. I don't think I need to tell you listeners of the Dan O'Donnell show who actually understand how this little thing called federalism works that what she is proposing is completely and totally unconstitutional. An ICE quote civil warrant is every bit as valid as a judicial warrant. It is known as an administrative warrant and it allows ICE officers to determine based on a systematic review of who it is that they're targeting and what their actions are that warrant deportation. This is all part and parcel of the 1996 Immigration and Naturalization Act passed by Democrats and signed by President Bill Clinton. You want to take it up with somebody, take it up with them. Democrats, including Rodriguez, have got it through their heads that somehow you need a judicial warrant for ICE to be able to have a valid enforcement operation. The 1996 Act specifically rejected this because there were so many illegals in this country who needed to be deported. How quaint that seems that back in 1996, we were worried about how many illegals. were in this country. We didn't have four years of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris flooding this nation with 11 million to 15 million more of them.

But the idea was that ICE needed to move so quickly and that there were so many potential targets that it would be impossible for judges to sign off on every warrant. So ICE was granted the statutory authority. And this is critical. I want Sarah Roder. I know her people listen to this program. I want them all to listen very carefully. The legislature. authorized the executive to issue its own warrants. And the executive signed off on this authority. Not only that, the judicial branch did not revoke this power for said executive agency, meaning it is perfectly lawful and it is perfectly constitutional. Now, the other aspect of federalism that Democrats don't particularly want to confront because it has a tendency to defeat all of their hysteria over ICE investigations. is that a governor of a state has no authority to designate the places that federal agents can and can't execute warrants. We've also gotten it through our heads as Democrats that somehow a place of worship is sacrosanct, that a courtroom. is somewhere where ICE agents couldn't possibly take in a dangerous trend Aaragua gangbanger. Call this the Hanna Dugan effect. ICE agents are absolutely authorized to operate anywhere. In fact, state authorities do not have the authority to supersede federal law. Enforcement of federal law takes place where enforcement of federal law takes place. Whether that's at a domestic violence shelter, whether that's at a hospital and a health clinic, whether that's at a courthouse, it does not matter. If the federal government, if the Congress of the United States and the president were to get together, passed legislation, the president would sign saying, okay, ICE, you are no longer authorized to work in courthouses. You're no longer authorized to conduct operations in hospitals. Then that would be a valid reigning in of federal authority. The governor of Wisconsin has no authority to do this, but it doesn't matter to Sarah Rodriguez because it sounds good. Now, in one of the more shocking developments since the Wisconsin Elections Commission actually properly interpreted and applied state election law against a liberal court of appeals candidate, Governor Tony Evers came out today. He was asked about Rodriguez's ICE plan.

And he actually distanced himself from it and dismissed it as a bit too left wing even for him. You know, we can take a look at that, but I think, you know, banning things will. absolutely ramp up the actions of our folks in Washington, D.C. They don't, they don't tend to approach those things appropriately. And so we're very, very vigilant. I'm not sure that we have the ability to do what the lieutenant governor is doing or want to do. So we'll see. What is going on here? What, seriously? Am I having some sort of fever dream? I've been under the weather for the past couple of weeks. Have I slipped into a coma when Tony Evers and the Wisconsin Election Commission are actually following appropriate guidelines for their respective positions and actually talking about the inherent limits on their power? This is the same governor. who used his partial veto authority to raise all of our taxes for the next four centuries and saw no constitutional problem with that. And he's saying, hey, you know, geez, I really don't think that we have the authority under the Constitution to stop ICE from doing this. Or could there be a little bit more at play? Could this be yet another example of Wisconsin's governor absolutely trying to sabotage the gubernatorial candidacy of his lieutenant governor? It's a distinct possibility, and we will get into that when the Dan O'Donnell Show returns.

The same libs who stand up for Hispanics against the evil ICE Gestapo ran a Hispanic woman out of a race in Waukeshaugh simply because she's conservative. It's an exclusive story that we will bring to you at about 425 here on the Dan O'Donnell show. Welcome back to it. I can't stop laughing at Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers every chance he gets. undermining his own lieutenant governor's gubernatorial campaign. And folks, that is exactly what's happening. Sarah Rodriguez came out last night with a truly radical anti-ice plan that would use state power to try to keep ICE agents out of courthouses, schools, domestic violence, shelters, hospitals, basically anywhere and everywhere. Do you know why ICE typically will try to make deportation arrests in courthouses? Because the subject is unarmed, because they have to go into a courtroom and they have to go through a metal detector. These are often very dangerous confrontations, made all the more dangerous in places like Minneapolis when you've got a bunch of left-winger pink-haired crazies screeching at them. as they're trying to do their job, and blowing the whistles. I find that endlessly hilarious, too. So Evers today was asked about Rodriguez's plan and just dismissed it out of hand in the most brutal way possible. You know, we can take a look at that, but I think, you know, banning things will... absolutely ramp up the actions of our folks in Washington, D.C. They don't, they don't tend to approach those things appropriately, and so we're... We're very, very vigilant. I'm not sure that we have the ability to do what the lieutenant governor is doing or want to do. So we'll see. We'll see. She's an idiot. She doesn't understand federalism. We can't actually do anything that she wants to do. But, you know, what else? Now, if this just existed in a vacuum, it would be an interesting curiosity about the relationship between Sarah Rodriguez and Tony Evers and their respective teams, but it does not exist in a vacuum. You might remember way back in July. There was a certain radio host who reported that it was almost certain that Governor Ivers the very next day was going to be announcing that he wasn't running for a third term. Well, Ivers spokesperson.

taunted me when Evers did not announce that he was retiring the next day. In fact, she waited. I said it was going to come between 24 and 36 hours from when I first reported it. And I said on the radio show that, look, he's not going to do it on a Friday. It's probably going to be Thursday. It's going to be tomorrow. Well, the spokesperson waited until the exact moment. Her name is Britt Cuddeback that 36 hours had passed. And she said, well, looks like Dan O'Donnell is full of bleep. And I said, okay, well, whatever. Then I started getting word, hey, Dan, they actually moved back Governor Iver's announcement just to spite you. This was proven when Lieutenant Governor Sarah Rodriguez went live with her gubernatorial campaign a week after the initial start date. The only problem? Her YouTube video was actually created the original day that I said Evers was going to retire. She was clearly told, hey, this is the day Evers is going to retire. This caused so much friction between cut-a-back and Ivers' whole team and Ivers himself and Rodriguez and her whole team that Ivers, and pretty much everybody associated with him, has despised her ever since. Case in point. Ivers refused to endorse her and was even asked on July 28th whether he would endorse in the race. And he said, yeah, you know what? If someone comes along and is a good candidate and deserves my endorsement, I'll totally endorse. Yeah, so Rodriguez was already in the race and he didn't endorse. Take a listen to this. The lieutenant governor over the weekend told us she would welcome your endorsement. I'm curious, are you going to endorse in the Democratic primary now? Probably not. I tend to try to avoid that. No, I'll never say never, but I want to make sure who the rest of the candidates are before I even make that decision. That's the important thing. I tend to not get involved with. with primaries in general. And so it's probably where I hope to be again. But at that turn, if there's somebody that really needs support, and I want them to win, I might get in. In other words, if someone who's not named Sarah Rodriguez gets in, I'll totally endorse just so she doesn't win the nomination. Ouch. Ouch. And now you have got him dismissing out of hand her proposal for dealing with the most hot button issue in left wing circles today. How to deal with ICE. Now, make no mistake.

Mandela Barnes and Francesca Hong would have just as radical or far more radical proposals than that. In fact, I'm actually surprised that you haven't seen Francesca Hong out in the streets launching Molotov cocktails at this point. That's how radically left-wing she is. But Sarah Rodriguez sort of staked her path to the nomination as being the more centrist alternative. Two-man Deadbeat and to Hong and to anyone else in the race. In fact, she and David Crowley are probably going to represent the middle ground. They're going to be the more centrist candidates. The only problem? There are no centrist voters. The Democrat Party's base, the ones that you need to win a nomination before you can even get into a general election where the electorate tends to be far more moderate and you in turn have to moderate your positions, you need to win the primary. And the presence of Hong and the presence of Barnes and the presence of every other left-wing nut. in this race is going to push people like Rodriguez and people like David Crowley farther to the left. This is going to be great news for Tom Tiffany or Josh Schoeman or whomever it is that ends up winning the Republican nomination. It's going to be one of those two guys. Showman just released some fundraising numbers of million bucks. I believe Tom Tiffany has $2 million. I typically don't get too much into the horse race aspect of this. But both guys would be fantastic candidates and they would be fantastic. I just, I'm going to be totally honest in the way I see this race right now. And that is Tiffany has just overwhelming support. The publicly released polls are all showing him with a commanding lead. But I have been very complimentary of Josh Schoeman. I believe in what figures to be a, at least historically speaking, pretty good Democrat year. His candidacy, he is the candidate profile that wins these races that provides the upset. Whoever the candidate is has got to be licking their chops at the leftward lurch of pretty much every Democrat on the ICE issue. Democrats could stake a moderate position on what's going on in Minneapolis and say, look, the agent overreacted, and we need to get to the bottom of this. The agent needs to face justice and a full and comprehensive investigation. A full and comprehensive investigation is going to show exactly what the evidence on the ground that's publicly available clearly shows, and that the agent was completely justified in his actions, that he had a very reasonable belief that Renee Good was going to run him over. And in fact, she did strike him with her SUV shortly before, an instant before he fired two shots, one of which struck her in the head and killed her. But they could stake that position.

and say, look, this is why we need to have a better regulated federal force for immigration enforcement. They're not doing that. They're saying ICE is a terror organization and you people need to get out in the streets and put your bodies in harm's way to oppose them. That is a radical position. How radical is it? How many deportations? Were there under the Obama administration? Just if you had to guess. Under President Trump, in the first full year of his second term, there have been approximately 400,000 deportations. It's estimated that there are about 800,000 voluntary... deportations and that's a big reason why you have the big show of force from ice the idea is to send the message in illegal immigrant communities that if you don't voluntarily self-deport and there is a fantastic policy attached to that that the trump administration is actually giving you funds to relocate back to your country of origin and then actually giving you a something of a preferred status to sort of apply for a green card He's making it, they're making it very enticing for illegals to self-deport and go back and try to do it again the right way. The message is if you don't take our very generous offer, we are going to forcibly deport you and you will never, ever, ever get back into this country. There were three million deportations in the eight years of Barack Obama's term. In fact, I can actually remember Democrats touting that fact to try to counter the conservative narrative that Obama was an open borders president. They would say, well, he's deported three million illegal aliens. Don't you right-wingers feel stupid for saying he wants every illegal here in voting? He did deport three million people. And there was not a single riot in the streets over any of them. In fact, Obama was throwing kids in cages, which Democrats decided they didn't really care about until President Trump was in office and they got the pictures of the cages that the Obama administration built. We will name the unhinged liberal of the day. That's coming up in just a second when the Dan O'Donnell Show returns. Wisconsin's lieutenant governor, Sarah Rodriguez, a leading candidate for gubernatorial nomination for Dems, has responded to Governor Evers, her running mate last time around. who basically threw cold water all over her anti-ice proposal, saying he didn't think that state authorities actually had the power to do anything that Rodriguez was proposing, like saying ICE is not allowed to do deportations or to take suspects into custody in churches and hospitals or anything like that. Evers, of course, shockingly, is absolutely correct. We have this little thing called federal...

in this country and federal law enforcement is not barred by state mandates from political actors. So Rodriguez has now responded to Evers. saying, we don't have the authority to do what Rodriguez is saying. She says, I respect where Governor Evers is coming from. But for too long, Democrats have dialed back actions in hopes President Trump doesn't escalate. And that's not what happens. He always escalates. Other states are moving swiftly to protect their citizens and their neighbors from federal overreach in locations like daycare schools and courthouses. And Wisconsin canons should do the same. Couple of problems with that. What word did she use to describe the targets of ICE? Citizens. What are targets of ICE most assuredly not? Citizens. Also, she doesn't bother to answer the actual substantive... issue that Ivers raises with her plan, and that is that the states do not have the power. We have this thing called the Supremacy Clause in the United States Constitution that says federal law trumps state law. Constitution is the supreme law of the land. All laws pursuant to that, i.e. federal laws are the supreme laws of the land. You cannot have a law. You cannot have a policy in a state that directly contradicts federal law or federal policy. Yet that is exactly what Sarah Rodriguez is proposing. Time now to name the unhinged liberal of the name. Trump is Hitler. We are in pre-Nazi Germany. White people are racist. Trump is dangerous because he's evil. America is over. President Trump was visiting an auto plant in Michigan today, and some unhinged lib started screaming his head off at the president. Do you know what Trump did? He smiled. He mouthed bleep you. and actually flip the guy off. I love this president. Ladies and gentlemen, that Mouthy Lib, your unhinged liberal of the day. Coming up, we will have much more on the president's visit to Michigan, including some big news that he broke during a speech to supporters after visiting that plant. Also an exclusive story, Democrats in Waukeshaugh chase an Hispanic woman off the ballot.

because she is a traitor to her people for being a conservative. Yes, really? You're listening to The Dan O'Donnell Show. Classical conservatism and contemporary style. We do it three hours a day, every day here on the Dan O'Donnell Show. Coming up in just a second, your chance to win $1,000 in our cold, hard cash contest. First, if you'd like to join us, 414-799 1130 or 1-800-839-476, email DoD at iHeartMedia.com or follow us across social media at Dan O'Donnell Show. Trump in Detroit. Let's get you caught up in the Daily Trump Day. We're going to win so much. You may even get tired of winning. Trump just keeps waiting. It is a win for the administration. It's also a big win for the United States. We have to keep winning. We have to win more. Now after less than 12 months. The president touting his economic wins in his first trip back to Michigan since winning the state en route to a second term in office. Now we have to less than 12 months in office. I'm back in Michigan to report to you on the strong... and fastest economic turnaround in our country's history. It's really been historically. There's never been, there's never been, we're not 12 months, we're through 11 months. We've got 18 trillion dollars being invested in our country. The most of any country ever was three. We're at 18. There's never been anything like this. The president touting the virtues of his tariffs and the trade war he initiated. Telling the crowd that was gathered in Detroit that every single economist who predicted economic doom has been wrong. Not only that, real wages for hardworking Americans like them are way up. After real wages plummeted by $3,000 under Sleepy Joe Biden, real wages are up by $1,300 in less than one year under President Trump. For construction workers, wages are up. 1,800. Don't forget, they were down 3,000. Factory workers over $2,000, and for many other workers, over $5,000. And I just gave the military, because we're doing so well, we're taking in so much money with the tariffs. I just gave them 1776. You saw that, right? Did you see that? They had 75, and I said, you know, if you had one more dollar, 1776, they said, that was a good idea. We could afford one more dollar. We gave them 1776. Meanwhile, grocery prices are starting to go rapidly down. Rent is down. Airfares are down. Hotel rates are down. Cell phone prices are down.

And we're just getting started. The president also talked about his proposal to cap credit card interest rates at 10% as well as prohibit big corporations from buying up single family homes and artificially reducing the supply for families who might otherwise be able to buy them. He also talked at length about fraud being a major driver of the increases. in prices that Americans pay. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent earlier in the week said that between 5% and 10% of all federal outlays, the total amount. that the federal government spends each year is stolen through fraud. The president said his administration was redoubling its efforts to catch fraudsters and made a little bit of news. He said that the states like Minnesota and cities like Minneapolis that protect them and actively oppose immigration enforcement, so-called sanctuary states and sanctuary cities, will no longer get a dime from the federal government. First, we're not making any payments to sanctuary cities or states having sanctuary cities because they do everything possible to protect criminals at the expense of American citizens and it breeds fraud and crime and all of the other problems that come. So we're not making any payment to anybody that supports sanctuary cities. Absolutely spectacular policy and long overdue that, ladies and gentlemen, your daily Trump date. At the United States Supreme Court today, the justices heard oral arguments on a pair of cases that are tremendously important. The first is Little v. Hickox, and it involves a case in Idaho. The state has a law called the Women's Fairness in Sports Act. and a woman by the name of Lindsay Hickox, I say woman loosely, she is transgender, and she challenged being barred from women's track and cross-country teams, initially in high school and at the club level, and then at Boise State University, the state defends its ban on people like Hickokx. protesting to protect, rather, fairness and safety in female sports. The other case that has been merged with this one is West Virginia, the BPJ. West Virginia has something called the Save Women's Sports Act, a transgender girl who identified as female since third grade and has been on hormone therapy ever since, was barred from competing on girls' middle and high school track teams. Both of these cases

That's pretty much all athletic competitions. Chess team doesn't really matter. A boy is not going to, you know, seriously injure a girl with a rook in a chess match. In a wrestling match, that's problematic. Volleyball match, problematic. The deeper issue at play here. is equal protection under the 14th Amendment. You are barred from discriminating, as the government, you are barred from discriminating against someone based on sex. There are three levels of scrutiny that a court can apply. And I apologize if this gets too lawyer-like or esoteric or just too out there. Strict scrutiny. is discrimination on the basis of race. So you would better have a damn good reason if you are discriminating against people on the basis of race. If there is a policy that has racial differences, there needs to be an incredibly compelling governmental interest. Laws that classify people based on sex or gender receive intermediate scrutiny. So you need to have a compelling governmental interest and the law needs to be substantially related to achieving that interest. Well, the fairness and safety of sports for biological females clearly is a compelling governmental interest. The government has a vested interest in making sure that at state-sponsored, like, say, here in Wisconsin, the WIAA governs all high school athletic competitions. The government of Wisconsin, therefore, has a vested and compelling interest in making sure that the people who compete in those sanctioned events are safe. If you have got a boy competing on the girls' soccer team. and is just running them over and injuring them, the state can craft a policy that's subject to intermediate scrutiny by the courts that protects women and girls in sports that keeps boys out because it's simply not safe. There is also a compelling interest in a sport where girls wouldn't be directly in physical danger if boys are competing against them. Say powerlifting.

Boys have, biological males have such a clear advantage in muscle tone, in just the size of their bodies, in all of it, that the WIAA, i.e., the state of Wisconsin, has a compelling interest in protecting the opportunities that women would have, that girls would have in competing in those sports to be able to win. Because winning athletic competitions in high school leads to opportunities for collegiate scholarships to go on to compete at higher levels. If all of a sudden a bunch of boys are coming in and dominating the girls' powerlifting competitions, there are no opportunities for girls to get those scholarships because the boys will have taken all of them from them. Samuel Alito once again proves what an incredible justice he is by creating a hypothetical, which isn't really a hypothetical, that once again the plaintiffs for these transgender girls, these attorneys are unable to answer. Take a listen.

The school has that. And a student who has the genes and the reproductive system of a male and had those at birth and has never taken puberty blockers, never taken female hormones, never had any gender altering or affirming. Surgery says, nevertheless, I am a woman. That's who I am. Can the school say no, you cannot participate on the girls' team? Sorry, so you're just a birth sex male who has all the advantages of birth sex male hormones and can the school borrow him from the woman's team? Yes, they can. But that person, is that person not a woman in your understanding? The person says, I sincerely believe I a woman, I am in fact a woman. Is that person not a woman? I would respect their self-identity in addressing the person, but in terms of the statute, I think the question is, does that person have a sex-based biological advantage that's going to make it unfair for that person to be part of the women's team? And that's the rationale for the regulation, and so that's the way we would be testing that hypothetical. Well, the reason I'm asking has to do with discrimination on the basis of transgender status. So what you seem to be saying is, yes, it is permissible for the school to discriminate on the basis of transgender status. person is a trans woman, a trans girl, and is barred from the team, from the girl's team, then that person is being subjected to differential treatment based on transgender status, right? Well, that would be, then the question would be whether the scrutiny would be satisfied. So from our perspective, that would be a transgender classification. Here, I'm going to do a quick audio impression, all right? This is Samuel Alito to every single argument for boys and girls' sports. You ready? Told you he was the best justice on the court. If I, as a biological male who identifies as a biological male. want to play and let's say I occasionally fill in for some friends, perhaps foolishly, playing on their adult league soccer team. One thing I was ever actually good at in soccer was being able to run faster than people. I had no discernible skill whatsoever, but I was fast. Guess what I'm not anymore. Fast. I'm a biological male. I make no pretense about... Identifying as a male. I am hairy. I am sweaty. I am smelly. I am a male. Would I be able to be legally barred from signing up from the girls bar league team and playing against a bunch of women? Of course I would. Well, what happens if I say, okay, I'm a woman now.

Never taken any hormones, never done anything. I just put on a wig, put on a sports bra, put on some pink shin guards, and say, I'm a woman. I want to go play in the women's league. Is there any fundamental difference between the person, Dan O'Donnell, saying he is a woman or saying he is a bet? There is not. And Samuel Alito just destroyed every single argument. The argument basically comes down to, well, if the man says he's a woman, we have to believe he's a woman and the state needs to allow him to compete against other women. If he doesn't say he's a woman, then the state can bar him from competing against other women. Absolutely. Brilliant from Samuel Alito. Coming up next to Dan O'Donnell Show exclusive. Liberals in Waukesha, Chase a Hispanic woman out of a race. We move now to a Dan O'Donnell show exclusive. Maria Carrillo. A Waukeshaw School Board candidate has been forced from the race because of widespread, for lack of a better word, bigotry against her. By liberals in the community, Carrillo is a conservative. Online and really across the city, left-wingers have been calling her to, quote, one leader of the opposition against her, a quote, disappointment for the Hispanic community. They filed an ethics complaint against her, alleging that she had a conflict of interest because she is currently employed at Lacasa de Esperanza. That is a charter school. Carrillo says she's done nothing wrong. Says her role doesn't influence the school, its enrollment, anything like that. Guess what? She's absolutely right. According to state law, working at a choice school does not, under any circumstances, present a conflict of interest for a school board member. She would, of course, need to recuse herself from any decisions involving the charter school, involving La Casa de Esperanza, which she would absolutely do. Are teachers at public schools barred from being school board members? There are very few, in fact, rules on who may or may not be a school board member. Now, Carrillo has faced unbelievable opposition.

So much so that she eventually decided once this ethics complaint was filed that she didn't want to go through with all of the trouble. And this is a big thing that left winger is due to local candidates. And it's a big reason why we here at the Dan O'Donnell show are again going to be doing better know a candidate and we are redoubling our efforts to support. people like Maria Carrillo and other conservatives who are running for Waukesha school board or any other school board, village board, any other position across the state. because so many conservatives are either bullied out of races like Carrillo was or they don't run because they know the sort of harassment that they will face. In fact, Carrillo and another conservative candidate who homeschools his children have been attacked in the liberal community in Waukishaw as, quote, not real parents. Because there's kids don't go to public school in Waukesh. Now, as you know, tensions are running very, very high because of a school closure vote that the school board took. The very difficult vote. Nobody wants to close down schools, but the suddenly conservative school board. Remember, Waukesha was one of the most egregious liberal school boards. Well, in the Moms for Liberty post-COVID era that we went through, we had conservatives in that community take the board back. They elected some great conservatives, and Waukesha actually understands the reality of declining enrollment. They cannot support or justify or ask their taxpayers to continue to fund increasingly empty schools. They needed to consolidate. It's terrible. It's awful. No one wants to do it. It is a reality. Maria Carrillo wanted to be a part of that. But because the left determined that she was a disappointment for the Hispanic community, they made up a legal standard to file with the Wisconsin Ethics Commission that she somehow was not able to be a part of this because she works at a nonprofit that has a charter school. Really, they hate the fact that she has a charter school. They hate the fact, especially she has a charter school for primarily Hispanic kids. The left-wing education establishment in this state and across the country despises charter schools, especially for black and Hispanic students because it has the tendency to show black and Hispanic parents that the predominantly white educational bureaucrats.

who have been in charge of their kids' education, have been failing them egregiously for years and years and years. It tends to show them that there is a better way forward. But here's the icing on the cake that is the delicious irony of this story. There is a liberal by the name of Diane Voight, who is also on the ballot this spring running for re-election as a Waukeshaw school board member. Now remember, liberals in Waukesha wanted Maria Carrillo off the ballot because she supposedly had a conflict of interest. Diane Voight voted to fire the Rainbow Land teacher. Remember the Rainbow Land controversy? The, what was it? First grade kindergarten teacher who was fired for teaching very obviously extra curricular lessons about gay pride in the classroom. She had the kids sing Rainbow Land. She was an activist. Diane Voight voted to fire this woman. She voted with the board that the teacher needs to be fired. She then gave to the teachers go fund me to raise funds to sue the Waukesha School District. So Diane Voight was supporting the effort to sue the board and the district that Diane Voight was elected to represent. That is about the most egregious conflict of interest that one could imagine. Voigt supports this teacher to sue the school district that she is elected by the taxpayers to represent and to protect the interests of. Do you think that supporting the effort to sue the school district? is protecting the taxpayers on behalf of the school district. It most certainly is not. That's a conflict of interest. No ethics complaint against Diane Voight, but because Maria Carrillo dares to be Hispanic and dares to step out of line by espousing conservative beliefs and dares to try to run up against the educational establishment in Waukesha. The left-wing mob chases her off the ballot. absolutely sickening behavior. Personally, I wish Carrillo would have stayed and fought, but I don't necessarily disagree with her decision to just be done with these crazies. Wisconsin State Assembly passed a couple of bills today. One, semi-controversial, at least if you are a lib.

The state may no longer give race-based preferences. It may no longer discriminate on the basis of race. It makes hiring admissions or contract decisions on the basis of skin color or sex discrimination, which it always was. That passes the assembly. Here's another one that should be... as uncontroversial as humanly possible. Making grooming a crime. Not grooming like a dog, but grooming a child. Would you believe six Democrats actually voted no on this? It passed 93 to 6. Voting no? Socialists Ryan Clancy. Francesca Hong and Darren Madison joined by two others, Cruz and Phelps, actually three others and Tenorio. The socialist caucus apparently wants to be able to groom kids. Now, if I were a Democrat, if I were a lib, I would say... Just like Democrats have been saying about President Trump, well, he's probably a pedophile. Now, what if I were to go on the air and say Francesca Hong? She clearly is not, I hope. There's no evidence that she has done anything untoward. Same thing with Ryan Clancy. They, for reasons known only to God or possibly the ghost of Vladimir Putin Lenin. They don't think that grooming should be a crime. Using the exact same language that people like them and their supporters use. Should everybody be in their social media mentions calling them a pedophile? Because that's what they've been doing with President Trump and his supporters, myself included, for the better part of seven months now. Good news coming out of the Wisconsin Assembly. I believe the state Senate is going to pass both of those bills as well, where they will be, of course, immediately vetoed by Governor Evers. Actually, on the grooming bill, I don't know if Governor Evers will veto that because the overwhelming majority of Democrats actually did do the same thing and vote for group. I mean, look. If I were a reporter who actually was able to get people like Ryan Clancy and Francesca Hong to answer my questions, Huang especially since she's running for governor. And according to publicly available polling, she's running like third. I would ask her for her position on grooming.

Representative Hong, why don't you believe grooming is a crime? Real simple question, which, of course, she will likely never be asked. Okay, I just realized, folks, don't kill me here. I did not give you the 4 o'clock word in the cold hard cash contest yet. Now, you still have 10 minutes. It is a complete oversight on my part. I am not intending to go 45 minutes without giving you the word because I know all of the brilliant, eloquent points that I make are merely filler between your chances to win a thousand bucks. Complete oversight, second day of the contest. I will do better next hour. We'll get you the word very, very quickly. This hour's word, though, you still have 10 minutes. So go to our website, enter the keyword credit, C-R-E-D-I-T credit. You have got until 455. So nine minutes now to go to our website, enter the keyword credit to enter the contest. If your entry is picked at random, you won't get credit. You will get cash, $1,000, in fact, in cash. Some sad news to pass along today. Dilbert creator and conservative icon, Scott Adams, has passed away. He had been battling cancer for quite some time. He was 68 years old. He had drawn the Dilbert comic strip, which satirized office life since 1989.

passed away at his home in northern california after metastatic prostate cancer spread to his bones following a stage four diagnosis announced in may his ex-wife confirmed the news on his real coffee with scott adams podcast reading a letter from january first where he accepted jesus christ as his lord and savior based on a risk reward calculation That's known as Pascal's Wager. The mathematician Blaise Pascal said, if you're a betting man, it is smart to bet on the existence of God because if you're wrong, you don't lose anything. You're just sort of dead. But if you bet that God doesn't exist, you don't accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior. Well, the consequences could be really bad if Jesus is saying, hey, bra, what's the deal? You're not getting past these pearly Bill Gates. Actually, it's not totally like that as a very simplistic explanation of Pascal's wager, but that's what... Adams did. He authored books such as How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big. His podcasting was a late career move that really opened him to a new generation of fans. And in that letter, he urged his fans to pay forward any benefits. from his work tributes have been pouring in all day long from the White House, President Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Elon Musk, across the conservative sphere. Of course, of course. What is he remembered for in the mainstream press, not his decades of, I'll admit, I was, see, when Dilbert came out, I was a kid, so I didn't get any, I was a big fan of like Garfield. It was another big comic strip. Family Circle was big when I was a kid. Oh, Calvin and Hobbs was mad. I thought Calvin and Hobbs was absolutely brilliant. Let's see. Peanuts. Yeah, Peanuts was still going strong when I was a kid. And the green sheet, was that the Sentinel? Or the journal? The journal had the green sheet. And I think they brought it back. I have not read a physical copy of a newspaper in a long, long time. So I have no idea. Later on, when I was a teenager, the comic Zitz came out, which I thought was hilarious. It was a pitch-perfect satire. of being a parent of a teenage boy. My mom, that was like her all-time favorite comic because she had three teenage boys. So go figure. I know, Dilbert was a little bit, is a little bit older than me. I just, I never really got into it. It was, you know, it's, oh, Far Side. Gary Larson's Far Side, I thought was just absolutely beyond brilliant. I guess he is doing new strips. At least he was for a while at the Far Side site.

Back in the day, the far side, oh, absolute brilliance. What was the one for better or for worse? That was another one that was about family life? What's that? Oh, you said for better or for worse. Producer Eric was a big fan of for better or for worse. They actually, the creator did something rather remarkable. He reached sort of the end of the story he told with the family. And then he started all over, like the kids who had grown up. Like he actually aged the characters. In Zitz and in Garfield, the characters never aged. But Garfield would be on like his 18th life right now if they did. I think Jim Davis started that strip in like 1978. But he actually went back in time and started it all over again. So the kids that grew up and had kids of their own were back to being like seven, eight years old. The parents who grew up and, you know, retired and all of that. They were back to being in their 30s and 40s. Really remarkable, actually. The mainstream media. Of course, is focusing on just the controversy that got Scott Adams canceled everywhere. Admittedly, what he said was not great. He was talking about a poll where it was something like 50% of black people said they hated white people. It's something like that. And it was just it was some awful poll. And he gets on his podcast and says, white people need to get the hell away from black people. Uh, you're kind of racist, Scott. He said, with numbers like this, black people constitute a hate group. Scott, not the thing you want to say. But what was remarkable about him is that he perfectly accepted it. He said, look, I can remember when this controversy went down a few years back. He said, look. My syndicator, within a couple of days, every single newspaper that carried my comic strip is going to drop me. I am going to be canceled. This is the consequence of what I said. And he accepted it. Didn't whine, didn't, you know, just accepted the consequences of what he said, which was kind of remarkable. He had a unique take on life. and a unique philosophy that will absolutely be missed. You're listening to The Dan O'Donnell Show. It is conservative thought, not just talk. We are going to bump the unsung hero of the day to the top of the 5 o'clock hour because we've only got about a minute and a half left in the 4 o'clock hour. It's a great story about a local business owner going very far above and beyond the call of duty for one of her customers. I want to make sure that I give this story the attention. It deserves and highlight.

the unsung hero of the day. So be sure to be listening to that right after the top of the hour. We had a lot of texts coming in, people talking about after Dilbert creator and conservative influencer, Scott Adams passed away today after a battle with cancer. He was 68 years old. People were talking about their favorite comics from back in the day. Beetle Bailey. Got mentioned by a number. See, that was one that was a little before my time. Beetle Bailey, Dennis the Menace. Those were a little before my time. I watched the Dennis the Menace cartoon that was out in like the 80s, early 90s, but the comic strip that wasn't really in my wheelhouse, family circus, crank shaft. That was another. Was that about the old bus driver? Yep, I read that one. Far Side Family Circus. Hagar the Horrible. That was another one about the Viking who had like marital, the whole thing derived from just like everyday things. Oh, comic strips were absolutely fantastic. Kind of a dying art with the death of print newspaper. Dan O'Donnell's show back in just a sec. Welcome back. Final hour of the Dan O'Donnell Show. You want to join us, 414-79, 1130 on our advent nose.com talk and text line. 1-800-838-9476. You can reach us toll-free or email me directly, DoD at iHeartMedia.com. Follow me on social media at Dan O'Donnell Show on X, on Facebook, on Instagram, and be sure to check out the show streaming live on all of those social media networks plus our YouTube channel. Like and subscribe, as the kids say, and give us a thumbs up, a heart, a poop emoji, if you must, on our podcast. on iHeartRadio or wherever you listen to podcasts. All right. Normally, we do the unsung hero of the day where we highlight someone, hopefully in our local community, but someone somewhere in the world doing good. It's sort of a companion piece that we started this year to our unhinged liberal of the day, which we've been doing for, my goodness, almost a decade now. I thought. I thought the libs would give it a break after Trump left office. Do you realize we are still using the same opening theme song to the unhinged liberal of the day with the same sound bites of people saying, Trump is Hitler, Trump is dangerous because he's evil? They never gave it up. I thought for sure, for sure. They'd get less crazy when Trump was out of office, when Biden won the presidency. No, if anything, they got crazier. So we decided this year, you know what, we're going to focus on the positive. We're going to highlight people, everyday people, who just do really cool things. I wanted to make sure we got to this story because it is very cool. It comes to us from a listener. It is his nomination for the unsung hero of the day. Today's unsung hero of the day is Thoy.

She is the owner of the bamboo restaurant in Grafton. This email comes to me from Tom in Grafton who writes, Dan, my wife and I visited the bamboo bistro on Sunday, and as always, the meal was delicious and the service was impeccable. We took our leftovers home and called it a night. The next day, while I was at work and my wife was at home, our ring camera alerted us to some activity. I saw a car pull up to our garage and thinking what was an Amazon delivery I kept watching. To my surprise, a woman got out of the car and approached our front door. She knocked a couple of times, but my wife didn't hear her. After waiting a bit, she returned to her car but then got out again and left something near our garage. Intrigued, I called my wife and asked if she had heard anything which she hadn't curious, she went outside to investigate. What she found was a note and her wallet personally delivered by Thoy. The owner of the Bamboo Bistra must have fallen out of her purse at the restaurant the previous evening. And since she hadn't run any errands, she hadn't even realized that it was missing. Thoy had driven about half an hour to our house to return the wallet an act of kindness and customer service that left us deeply touched. The experience has undoubtedly made us loyal customers for the future. I thought this might be a great story for you to share. I've also attached a photo of the note. Thoy left with the wallet. It is very cute. She writes, and I'm going to have to strain to see this with my bad eyes. It says, good morning. I'm Thoy, the owner of Bamboo Bistro. I stopped by this morning and dropped off your wallet you forgot last night. Thank you. Please come back to eat again. That comes from Tom and Grafton, who says absolutely he will be back to eat again. And Thoy, the owner of Bamboo Bistro, isn't just our unsung hero of the day. I want you, members of Dan Nation, to repay her kindness. Because... This was a true act of kindness, not just holding onto the wallet, which would be cool, you know, until the next time the couple comes back and maybe it gets back to him, maybe it doesn't. But to drive a half hour to return the wallet to a loyal customer or any customer, that's just spectacular. So I am calling... on members of Dan Nation to show up at Bamboo Bistro, get a dinner, get a lunch, support this local business because it is owned by a person who is truly worthy of your business. Thoy, way to do the right thing. You are our unsung hero of the day. That's just a cool story. I'm sorry. That is just a very, very, she gets in her car.

and drives all the way to this couple's house. I have a text. How did she know where they lived? Ladies and gentlemen, I love you. How do you think she knew where they... Yes, the driver's license. The address was printed on Tom's wife's driver's license. And she dropped off the wallet. I live nowhere near Grafton. The station is nowhere near Grafton. The next time I am in Grafton, I hope I remember. But if you are in or around Grafton, I'm not sure if they're open tonight because a lot of restaurants are closed. Oh, wait, no, tonight's Tuesday. For some reason, I thought it was Monday. A lot of restaurants are closed Tuesday, though. Sometimes they'll just have a random night off. One of my favorite restaurants is not closed on Monday, but rather Tuesday night. And I always forget about that if like the kids and my wife are at violin or something like that. I'm on my own. I'm like, I'm just going to head out there. Oh, no, it's Tuesday. Doggone it. I don't know. I assume they're open tonight, but head out too. I already forgot the name. Bamboo Bistro. I want to call it Bamboo Garden. Bamboo Bistro. Oh, it's closed tonight and tomorrow. Okay. According to Google, they're closed tonight and tomorrow, but reopened Thursday night. All right. Dan Nation, you know what to do. Thursday night, I want it to be a full house at bamboo bistro all weekend long. Support this local business because the owner supports the people of crafting. Cold hard cash contest time. The word this hour is friend. F-R-I-E-N-D friend. You got a friend here at the Dan O'Donnell Show because we are giving you a chance to win $1,000 instantly just by going to our website and entering the keyword friend. If your entry is picked at random, you win a thousand bucks. Yes, for those texting and emailing, we apparently did get a new list of words this year. I do not recall friend being in there last year. We used to have just like random words. It would be like, text the word clock. Text the word. Mark Rutte Bega. What? I don't even know how to spell that. So we sort of synthesized our, we condensed our list of words down to like cash, money, bank, credit. For the music festival flyaway contest, it would be like festival, music, song. Twork. No, I made that last one up. But we have apparently some new words. Like last hour it was credit. That's an old favorite bonus is always a friend. Friend. All right. Friend. Governor Evers is no friend to taxpayers here in Wisconsin. But now he wants the state legislature.

to make up for his egregious blunder. This is the story from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. As homeowners field surging property tax bills, Democratic Governor Tony Evers is asking the Republican-led legislature to revisit a proposal from his most recent state budget to provide $1.3 billion in relief. Republican legislative leaders have also said they'd like to alleviate Wisconsin's property tax burden and argue Evers is to blame for using his powerful partial veto authority in the 2023 to 2025 state budget to extend for 400 years an annual $325 per pupil funding increase for school districts by adding to state imposed revenue limits. As only the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel can, this is the third paragraph. Property taxes ballooned this year in part because the most recent state budget passed by Republican lawmakers and signed into law by Evers did not add any new funding for general school a school funding increase that would have lowered the burden on property taxpayers. Give me a break. Do you know why there wasn't an increase in general school aides? Just take a while guess. Because the population of K-12 students in Wisconsin's public schools keeps going down. In fact, in the last 25 years, we are down an estimated 120,000 students. According to national figures for the 2000, 2001 school year, total public school enrollment was 879,476 kids. In 2025, 26, quarter century later, according to preliminary data from the Department of Public Instruction, there are currently 759,800 students. So in 255 years, the student population has gone down. Now, what do you suppose has happened to per pupil funding in the state budget? It's more than doubled. In 2000, we were paying between $8,000 and $9,000 per student in the state of Wisconsin K-12 system. The last most recent year for which data is available, I believe this is 24-25 school year, $18,592 per kid. We are paying tons more money to educate far fewer students. You want to know why the number, the total funding in state aides has gone down because the number of students has gone down. You know what hasn't gone down? The number of teachers, the number of educational bureaucrats.

In fact, I dare say the number of vice principals per school and the number of education coordinators per district has increased dramatically. Governor Evers is solely responsible for the dramatic increase in property tax. Actually, I take that back. Governor Evers, as well as the left-wing school board members and superintendents who saw the opportunity to increase funding per pupil because of Governor Evers partial veto and took it. Wouldn't you know it? It is in the most left-leaning school districts that property taxes increased the most dramatically. Why? Because not only have those districts been going to referendum nearly constantly, and we are told, oh, well, it's because the state isn't funding K-12 education nearly enough that these districts need to go to referendum. Okay, how do you explain the fact that there are school districts in very conservative communities that don't go to referendum ever? The new Berlin school district built an entirely new high school, for goodness sakes, and a field house without going to referendum. How does that happen? Because they're fiscally responsible. How is it that West Dallas, West Milwaukee? goes to referendum constantly to fix fiscal mismanagement in the extreme. How is it that the Milwaukee Public Schools School District goes to referendum for a quarter of a billion dollars without ever accounting to the state? how it spent nearly a billion dollars in COVID relief. And let's not forget, ladies and gentlemen, that as the Evers administration and Democrats and their mouthpieces at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel conveniently ignore, COVID relief money has been flowing into this state for the past five years. The spigot just got turned off last year. But for four straight, five straight years, 2020, 21, 22, 23, and 24, there was federal COVID relief money going into state government. In fact, Governor Evers still has his own personal slush fund of COVID relief funds that we have no idea what exactly he has done with or is doing with. We think we, we, we, we.

guess he says he spent it all no not quite the numbers don't totally add up here but now he's doing the classic democrat move he screws up finances he screws up by overspending by doing something that soaks taxpayers and then demanding that Republicans fix his mess. Is that not exactly what Democrats in Congress have been demanding President Trump and Republicans in Congress do with respect to Obamacare tax credits? Not a single Republican past Obamacare, which dramatically spiked health insurance premiums much more so than they would have otherwise naturally increased by introducing all sort of government regulation, bureaucratic red tape, and basically just introducing government as an interference with the free market between health insurance providers, health care providers, and their ultimate customers, patients and... just everyday people. Not a single Republican voted for that. Not a single Republican voted for the Biden stimulus, the American Rescue Plan Act, that added reimbursement payments, that basically added a lifeline to Obamacare so people wouldn't realize just how unaffordable the Affordable Care Act really was. Those were supposed to be temporary. That was supposed to be a temporary COVID thing. Well, during the Inflation Reduction Act, which again, not a single Democrat ever or a single Republican ever voted for, Democrats voted to have those Obamacare subsidies sunset at the end of 2025. There's no Republican anywhere near these subsidies or the thing that's making health care unaffordable for so many people, Obamacare. What have Democrats been doing for the past six months demanding that Republicans vote to extend those Obamacare subsidies? That it's Republicans' fault if your health care goes up because they didn't vote to extend the subsidies that Democrats were the only ones to vote in favor of. And Democrats... were the only ones to vote for the law that has made health care unaffordable. This is exactly what Tony Evers is trying to do. He's trying to place the onus on Republicans saying, hey, your taxes are going up because Republicans wouldn't pass my property tax relief proposal. No, that's not it at all. What it is,

is the fact that Governor Evers allowed for millions and millions and millions more property tax dollars to go for a K-12 education system that doesn't have nearly the number of students that it once did, but has been overfunded. By millions and millions of dollars every single year. We'll get back into this when the Dan O'Donnell show returns in just three minutes. Got an update to a story we first broke for you in the very beginning of today's program. Christina L. Hansen, who is running for judge, or at least she was, until the Wisconsin Elections Commission today ruled that she can't be on the ballot. for District to Appeals Court running against conservative Anthony LeCocco because she had her husband, who is the Waukesha County Corporation Counsel, notarize her signature that is in violation of state law, that invalidated her declaration of candidacy, the Wisconsin elections. We broke this story for you on Friday. There was a challenge filed. It was apparently filed. by Kyle Schrader, who is the chairman of the Wisconsin Young Republicans. I had no idea until she posted on Facebook that that's who actually filed the challenge. I got this sent to me and just happened to see the bare bones of what the challenge was. She makes it seem like this was a partisan attack on her. And she says she is weighing her options as to what to do. But she is not going to appear on the ballot either in the primary election or in the general election. In fact, since I think there were only two declared candidates. there wouldn't be a primary. It would just be on the April general election ballot. Well, now it appears there is only one candidate. I'm not actually sure if there is anybody else who made the ballot in that race, but it does appear that Lococo is going to run unopposed. Hanson is... She says she's weighing her. What are you going to do? Run a registered write-in campaign. Good luck. I mean, I don't know what to tell you. Fill out your paperwork properly. She also says her husband, the Corporation Council of Waukesha County, who is one of the most conservative men I know. That's all well and good. That's just, that's great.

conservative or liberal or political agnostic, you need to know as a notary public. You cannot notarize something for your spouse. I'm not a notary public. Even I know that. Sorry. Fill out your paperwork properly. When even Ann Jacobs, the Uber Lib of the Wisconsin Elections Commission is siding against you, you know doggone well. I still can't believe this still blows my mind that the Wisconsin Elections Commission actually got something right. I'm shocked. I am absolutely shocked. Usually it's just Bob Spindell, the one voice in the wilderness saying, uh, hey, this is totally illegal what we just did. Spindell is the one true conservative on that commission. But that's the quick update that we have. An update to the sticker shock that thousands and thousands and thousands of you folks got when you opened up your property tax bill. Governor Evers now thinks the Wisconsin legislature. Should be the ones to lower property taxes. This is so shamelessly political in a gubernatorial election year. The property tax argument is probably the most potent that Democrats have saying, hey, you remember how your property taxes went up by like a thousand bucks last year? That's because of Governor Evers and his 400-year veto. Evers and his team. For as thoroughly incompetent as they are, they understand politics. And they understand that this would hurt Democrats' chances of trying to recapture the governor's mansion, whether it's Sarah Rodriguez, who they clearly don't want to win or man deadbeat or David Crowley. I still think Crowley is going to be the compromise candidate. He's not Mandela. Nobody wants Mandela because everybody thinks Mandela is going to lose again. The Ivers administration hates Sarah Rodriguez. I think it's because she proved me right about his... She proved me right that the Ivers administration actually held off his retirement announcement just to spite a radio host, me. It sounds almost unbelievable, but it is true. And her stupidity in putting out her campaign announcement video on the day that I said Evers was going to originally retire, proved it.

I think they despite, first of all, they didn't like her to begin with. I'm not exactly sure why. My source says there has been a long time just animosity between the Rodriguez people and the Ivers people. They just don't particularly like each other. I had a turf war or something like that. No, no one big thing. But after that happened, it was all out war. The two sides hated each other. Evers openly, openly. tried to undermine her candidacy by saying, yeah, I'll endorse somebody so long as it's not Sarah Rodriguez. If there's someone who gets in the race that I like, Rodriguez at the time was the only candidate who is in the race. There's a candidate that gets in that I like and I think deserves to win, then yeah, yeah, I'll endorse right now. No, I'm not going to retort. The obvious implication was he doesn't like Sarah Rodriguez. He doesn't want her to win, and he's not going to endorse her.

Ivers, though, wants Democrats to maintain the governor's mansion. Ivers' people clearly want jobs in the next gubernatorial administration, and they want a governor to be of the left, whomever it is. They all recognize that Republicans can say, hey, look at your property taxes. Do you want that to keep happening? Vote Democrat. Do you want me to instantly end that 400-year veto? Vote for me. Do you want your property taxes to go down? Vote for me. Very politically potent argument. Ivers now wants to put the onus back on Republicans saying, look, I tried. I wanted property tax. I proposed a billion dollars in property tax relief. And those mean tax and spend Republicans, they rebuffed me. They wouldn't do it. How insanely disingenuous. Ivers is the reason your property tax bill went up. The Democrats who control your local school board taking advantage of Iver's partial veto, the 400-year veto, they're the reason your property taxes wet up. All this is is political C-YA. Another head coaching shocker in the NFL today will discuss and what it could possibly mean for the Green Bay Packers. Next. Did you feel bad for Aaron Rogers last night, or was there still some shout in Freud watching him get absolutely mauled by the Houston Texans defense? That game was 7 to 6, and then all of a sudden it was 30 to 6. I was watching that with some friends, and wow, that took a turn very quickly. The Texans scored two defensive touchdowns in the second half. And immediately after the game, apparently longtime Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin told ownership he's done. After 19 seasons, he was the longest tenured coach in the NFL. He's out. Now, there was a whole lot of speculation about his future in Pittsburgh, much like with John Harbaugh, the second longest tenured head coach in football, who was fired by the Baltimore Ravens after 18 seasons when that team was eliminated by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the final game of the regular season after a missed field goal by rookie kicker Tyler Loop. Real interesting story there. You might remember the longtime Ravens kicker was Justin Tucker Carlson, an all-time great. You know what happened to him? He's out of the league. The Ravens cut him because he was doing allegedly all manner of inappropriate things with masseuses. He was pulling the old Deshawn Watson.

So he's no longer the kicker, and the Ravens cut him. They signed this rookie Tyler Loop, who is actually pretty good during the regular season. But in the most important kick of his life... He shanked it. And he shanked a short one. It cost John Harbaugh his job. That was apparently the last straw for Ravens ownership. And the Steelers, the Rooney family, was apparently looking to start over, move on from Aaron Rogers, move on from Mike Tomlin, get some young blood in there. Well, Tomlin didn't give him the chance. He walked away. Now, what does this mean for the Green Bay Packers? A lot. It is very likely that John Harbaugh, who probably has his pick of jobs. He is easily the most highly regarded coach on the market. Second, probably Kevin Stefansky. Do you know who is very likely to be the third in line in the pecking order, the Packers defensive coordinator, Jeff Hathley? He's interviewing with the Tennessee Titans today for their head coaching job. I believe he's also interviewing with the Miami Dolphins. He probably will have his pick of jobs as well. Well, with Tomlin gone out of Pittsburgh, if the Green Bay Packers were to have a coaching vacancy, they would easily be the most desirable job. Stable ownership and management, front office, a good young quarterback, a franchise quarterback, franchise defensive player, yes, coming off an injury, but... Talent on both sides of the ball, a dedicated fan base, a loyal fan base who doesn't call for the firing of the head coach until things go really, really, really, really bad like they did on Saturday night. It is my very strong suspicion. In fact, it was my strong suspicion even before this latest Epic Packers playoff collapse that they were going to extend Matt LaFleur. I don't believe. The only reason I think that they would even consider not bringing him back is because they think they could get John Harbaugh and they believe John Harbaugh is a better coach. With the Pittsburgh Steelers job opening, this is another very attractive job opening. Now, they don't have a young franchise quarterback. Aaron Rogers is going to be 43 years old next year. And while it's very possible that he comes back for another year, he certainly sounded in his postgame press conference last night like he was done talking about, he was reminiscing about the good time saying I spent 18 great years in a wonderful city like Green Bay.

Sure sounded like he's going to call it a career, but who knows? I think Rogers has still got gas left in the tank. Is a new coach going to want to come in with a 43-year-old quarterback who almost certainly would be playing in his last NFL season? No. They're going to want to draft and develop a quarterback, or maybe they spend free agent money on Malik Willis, judging that their roster is potentially... Super Bowl bound, save for the quarterback position. I don't know. John Harbaugh could theoretically go to the Ravens divisional rival in Pittsburgh. He could say, hey, I wouldn't need to move my family all that far. Maybe it's a better opportunity. Maybe I get more money in Pittsburgh than I do in Green Bay. If that's the case, then absolutely the Packers hold on to Matt LaFleur. Tomlin theoretically would also have his pick of any other job. I tend to believe that Tomlin is probably done. I think he's probably going to call it a career and retire, though. I don't know. If there's one thing I do know about football coaches, they're like boxers. They're never really retired. Just look at Pete Carroll with the Raiders this year. Packers, though, are going to have to get a new defensive coordinator. They're going to have to get a new special teams coach. That much is sure. Rich Bessachia, thanks for the memories, brother. Gone. Done.

I think they're going to run it back with Matt LaFleur. And if they have another bad season, I think Goudicunst and Ed Policy are saying, all right, injury bug bit. You lose a generational talent like Michael Parsons. I mean, think about it like this. Packers' front office clearly believed that Michael Parsons was the key to their Super Bowl run. And it looked like he was. When he went down, the Packers are 9, 3, and 1. They've won a whole bunch of games in a row. They're leading the Denver Broncos, the number one seed in the AFC. Frankly, they're out playing them. Parsons goes down. They lose that game and they don't win another game for the rest of the season. Can Matt Lefleur make the argument, hey, we were a Micah Parsons away from Super Bowl contention. This season goes very differently if Parsons doesn't tear his ACL. I think you can make that argument. Now, I'm of the opinion that the Packers do need new blood. That, look, I think LaFleur is a better coach than his critics deride him for. Some of the challenges, the replay challenge are just idiotic. You're burning timeouts. The timeout management is awful. The fact that they take a delay of game penalty coming out of a timeout, I've never seen that. In all my years of following football, I don't think I've ever seen a high school team do that. I think it's time that you need a change. Again, I will go back to the stat that just jumped off the page to me. In two decades, in the past two decades, no coach has gone seven years from hiring to winning a Super Bowl except Andy Reid. Matt Lafleur is entering his eighth season in Greenback. Do we believe that he's going to be the guy to turn the tide to, to break through and win? The reality is the guys who win Super Bowls, I hate to say it, are the ones who come in and make a big splash, like a Ben Johnson, who just totally change the culture of an organization. Eventually, there, you know what, wears a little thin. They usually burn out by year six or seven. Rogers, though, did make a good point. He said when he first came into the league, there wasn't this level of impatience with head coaches. where if you don't win within two years, you're gone. No questions asked. Not entirely true. Owners did have relatively short leashes two decades ago as well. But there was more stability. He was saying, you know, guys like Matt LaFleur, guys like Mike Tomlin, there should be no, there should be no heat under their seat because of what they've accomplished. And sure, just the culture in professional sports. Need I remind you, the Bucks fired Mike Boodenholzer, what, two years after he won the NBA championship? And they've been a mess ever since. So you never quite know.

how a culture is going to change, how a team is going to change, but it does seem as though the Packers are content to stand pat with their current head coach, even though the Steelers, one of the most stable franchises in the NFL were not. Do you know how many head coaches the Pittsburgh Steelers have had since 1969? Three, Chuck Noel, Bill Cowher, and the now retired Mike Tomlin. That is unbelievable. That is you thought other organization, you thought the Packers had stability at the quarterback position. They're going to end up having three quarterbacks in about 40 years after Farr, Rogers and now Jim Jordan Love. Assuming, of course, love stays healthy. He's clearly proven himself to be the franchise quarterback that the Packers always seem to be able to draft and develop. That is organizational stability in Pittsburgh. Three head coaches in 50 plus year, what is that? 57 years? That's insane. And they felt the need to make a change. Steelers very similar to the Packers. They make the playoffs every year and they lose every year. In fact, I don't think they've won a playoff game in 12 years. Packers who won playoff games, but they always seem to lose in heartbreaking, soul-crushing fashion. And if the Pittsburgh Steelers can make a change at the head coaching position, so too can the Packers, although I don't believe they are going to. Out of time for today's show. Back tomorrow, 306 with another edition of the Dan O'Donnell Show. Talk to you then. If you're someone who's tracking your sleep, your steps, and your macros, then you already know that what you eat is kind of everything. You should also know that Sprouts Farmer's Market can help make eating for longevity easier. Sprouts has all the high-quality, nutrient-dense, organic foods and cutting-edge supplements you need. So whether you're focused on protein, gut health, or optimizing how you feel day-to-day, it's all there. And here's what no other grocery store can offer, an in-store wellness expert to help you find exactly what you need. So whether you're after longevity or on any other health journey, it's easier at Sprout's Farmer's Market.