Hour 4 of NMN, Michael Patrick Leahy + The Hand-Off

Welcome on in to the fourth and final hour. There's a story that has just popped, or been posted, sorry, on Tennesseestar.com. What kind of hip slang was that? Yeah, right. No, you know what? When you say a story is popping, like in journalism lingo, that's what people, maybe people of a certain age like me, will say, hey, the story just popped, whatever. It just crossed the wire. Thank you, Joan. The stone tablet arrived. Tennessee Star is where this story is where, I mean, it's a surprising story. U.S. Representative John Rose donated to multiple Tennessee Democrats that were in favor of establishing a state income tax during the pivotal political fight between 1998 and 2002 that culminated in Tennessee passing a constitutional amendment banning the income tax in 2014. So. John Rose way back when gave money to a bunch of Democrats involved in trying to get that income tax passed here in Tennessee. Michael Patrick Leahy, of course, with the Tennessee Star. It joins us. Michael, you put this story up a few moments ago. Total of about what, $19,000 to Democrats between 98 and 2010? Yeah, that's exactly correct. What's key about this is how many of these contributions by John Rose? went to democrat state legislators who are on the cutting edge of the battle between 1998 and 2002 to establish a state income tax in the state of Tennessee. Ultimately, that effort failed largely because of the leadership of now Senator Marsha Blackburn, Tim Burchett and Diane Black and May Beaver's part of that as well, as well as radio host Steve Gill and WTN's great Phil Valentine. Yeah. And it only failed to pass by a single vote. It was a dramatic period in Tennessee history. And as you know, Dan, most economists say the huge economic growth that Tennessee has seen of the past several decades is largely attributable to the fact we have no state income tax. But here's the thing that's very significant. John Rose made a contribution. to the leading Democrat who was pushing for a state income tax, State Senator Bob Rochelle, Democrat from Lebanon, in 1998, which was when this whole thing began. And then they were so close that Bob Rochelle introduced and passed a Senate resolution. honoring John Rose because he had a company with the odd name of Transcender, which did some training stuff for academic purposes, and was quite successful. He and his company founders sold that for $60 million in 2000.

And so some of that large S went to Democrats in Tennessee who supported the state income tax. And it wasn't just Bob Rochelle. We have a very long list. Yes. It's about eight Democrats who got money who supported a state income tax during that period. Matt Kisber, state rep from Jackson, got a donation from them. Bobby Sands. a Democrat state rep from Columbia. Matt Kisber, of course, was a Democrat from Jackson. John White, a Democrat from Lawrenceburg, who voted for a state income tax. Charlotte Berg, is a Democrat from Monterey, State Senator. They all got money, and Shelby Aaron Reinhardt, a Democrat from Spencer. They all got contributions from John Rose. You know, one of the things, Michael, let me ask this. So, a lot of money. going to Democrats at a very critical time. So is this a kind of thing where, because remember Donald Trump also gave to Democrats and Republicans, if I'm not mistaken. So is this a kind of thing where you're a successful businessman and you just, you know, you want to, I don't know. to help both sides, I don't know, maybe you want to have an alliance with people from both sides of the aisle. Is this maybe that kind of a thing? Did you see any donations to Republicans? I think there, yeah, there were some donations to Republicans, but I think the key point here is that in the most crucial battle of economic policy in the state of Tennessee, the battle over the state income tax. John Rose donated to Democrats who wanted to put that in there. He also served in the administration of the rhino governor who broke his word and said on the campaign trail in 98, Don Sunquist said, no state income tax ever. Early 99, he totally flipped. All the Democrats tried to join him. In 2002, John Rose served in. What would you do if your online store converted 36% more shoppers? You could take 36% more vacation. Another pinacolada? Yes, please. Open a new retail location. With 36% more square feet. Fantastic. Hire 36% more help. You're hired and you're hired. Shopify has the world's best converting checkout up to 36% better than other e-commerce platforms. What you do with those extra sales is up to you. Switch to Shopify today at shopify.com slash listen and get a $1.5.com. when the moments in your life are too important to miss you can trust o'reilly auto parts to keep you and your plans on the road our professional parts people can test your vehicle's battery and even give it a charge if needed in most cases we can install your new battery for free it's just one of the many services we provide at o'Reilly auto parts to ensure life's best moments don't find you stranded

Auto parts. The Bush administration is commissioner of agriculture. The other point to make here is that John Rose also voted in three Democrat primaries during this period, 2002 and 2004. He voted in the Democrat presidential primary. in February of 2004. We don't know if he voted for John Terry or Howard Dean or, you know, John Edwards. But we also know that we've asked the Rhodes campaign, we send them a request or comment on Thursday, gave them plenty of time. They knew our deadline was this morning. We haven't heard back from them yet. They said on Sunday they'd talk to us and they'd give us a comment. this morning we have not received it yet as soon as we receive that comment we'll put it up they did sort of a pre-buggle of this story after we asked them to answer these questions on Thursday magically left-wing national banner got a story on it and they gave them a quote which was non-responsive so there you go well do you have the quote in front of you from the national national national national banner Well, if you go to the National Banner story, the campaign on Friday, the John Rose campaign said, did not address at all the facts of the donations to Democrats who supported state income tax. Or did not address the fact that he voted in Democrat primaries in 2002 and 2004 here in Tennessee. But basically they said, oh, you know, this is a tough campaign and all these charges are coming out. And that's why this is coming out. Well, that's that is a non-answer. That is a Dodge. It is not an honest response to a legitimate question. Well, if I don't know what else to say about this other than. He's very conservative now, but when you look at these campaign donations, I guess the question is, if you are, hey, you want to do a Daily Dan poll, Sam, let's do this. I'd like to do it because I, and Michael Patrick Galehi, great reporting is always over there at the Tennessee Star. The only thing that I would say about this is this is a long time ago. So let's do a daily Dan poll. Do you hold these past... contributions to Democrats against John Rose, or maybe pose it as, I don't know, should it matter? Michael Patrick Leahy, you are, of course, a talk show host as well, so you tell me, should it matter? Dan, I think you're framing it absolutely incorrectly. Okay, go ahead. It is the central issue in the state of Tennessee's economic growth and political history. And John Rose was on the wrong side of it. He was basically supporting Democrats. who wanted a state income tax. Yeah. It failed ultimately, but, you know, when you look at it, the leader of the opposition to a state income tax was Senator Marsha Blackburn. Right. He's now running for governor against John Rose. I mean, you're right. It is, this is a pinnacle moment in the history of Tennessee. So, I don't know, we'll put up the poll, see if it matters to folks. I am going to be very interested to see how John Rose.

defends this and what he has to say about this. I don't know. Maybe he was young and impressionable. I have no idea. But we'll have to wait and see ultimately what happens. Will you let me know, Michael Patrick Leahy, if the Rose campaign comes out with a response to your reporting? Yeah, they haven't as of the deadline that we gave them and they knew about for several days. Yeah. All right. Very good. Michael, thank you again. I appreciate your reporting and keep up the good work. Thanks, Dan. Appreciate you. Bye, I'll see you. All right, let's see here. 7262. It matters. If he beat you once, he'll beat you again later, says 7262. Let's see. Trevor, of course, Monty, Monty, Monty. Monty, that's not squared. It's triple whatever it is. I'm just, I'm reading to see what people are saying. So glad I didn't vote for Rose. He seems a bit wishy-washy. Let's see here. I don't know. Joan, what do you think? Does it matter to folks? No. You don't think it'll matter to folks? Well, it might matter to folks. But I said, as I said to you before, a lot of people have already voted. That's true. This is kind of late to the party. Yeah. Did we, do we, do we, do we, do we, do we, do we, do we, when we, when we, when we, when the early voting stats have come out, we're up 45% from 2022 when it comes to early voting. I wonder why that is. Do you think it's because I know what you, I know what you two are going to say. It's because of Monty. Do you think it's because of Monty? I think it's a groundswell of support clearly. Well, he also, he, he, he, he, he, he kind of. Spencer Pratt-esque, you know, he kind of shook things up as far as your non-traditional candidate. Yep. And according to the YouTube poll, just does John Rose supporting the income tax vote from years ago mean something to you now? 81% are saying yes. Yeah. It's not surprising. It's not surprising. It's flip-floppy. That's what it is. People don't like flip-floppy. Well, and Michael Patrick Gulley, he is absolutely correct when he says this was a pinnacle moment in Tennessee history. I think I said that, but whatever. And he is right. I think some people would look at this and say, because I'm trying to be fair, I think some people would look at this and say, you know what? He was, hey, look this up, Sam, if you would. What was John Rose's heritage action score? So, because I want to, I want to look at him now and look at him back then. And because he's very conservative now. I bet you, I bet you he's up there in the top. I don't know, whatever. But he's, he's very conservative. So in other words, at some point, he went through a change. That's a big change. It is a, it's a huge change. Interesting. What does it say? The heritage action score, lifetime score, 100%. lifetime score? Mm-hmm. Whereas Marsha Blackburn has a lifetime score around 88%. So that's the thing. So think about this. Because, again, I'm trying to be fair. I'm not trying to bury John Rose. But think about this. So in the...

When was this way back in the late 90s, 2000s? 19,000 to Democrats between 98 and 2010, right? So clearly he's giving to Democrats. Clearly, he's giving to Democrats who support the state income tax, passing the state income tax. So this is a pivotal moment in Tennessee history. But then he is elected the House of Representatives, and he's got 100% heritage action score. So it's like, okay, so which John Rose is it, right? I mean, I find it fascinating. Yeah. And to be fair, Monifritz doesn't have a heritage action score because he hasn't been in U.S. Congress. True. So just to make sure that we're. Talking about all three candidates and not just the two. Oh, Joan. The other interesting thing about that, my parents explained it to me because it happened shortly after I was born that this whole, you know, is a big hot topic in Tennessee. Are we going to have a state income tax? Yeah. And the majority of people in the state at the time couldn't really afford for that to happen. So anyone that was pushing it. From my parents' protect, my family's end of things kind of came across as elitist and, you know, kind of better than you mentality. Do you know what I need to do? I need to read Phil Valentine's book on the attempt of the state income tax. He wrote a book about it, and I don't know if it's still in print or not, but I got to read it. We could get AI to read it to you in Anthony Fauci's voice. I sure, sure I could. While you're driving home. I mean, it's easy. I represent the income tax. By the way, a friend of mine who I'm not going to say who it is, but he says, Dan, remember that Republicans are not always conservative. That's true. That's where we get the term rhino from. Remember that being a conservative doesn't mean necessarily that you're a Republican. That's true. That is very, very true. So I don't know. I'm trying to gauge, you know, John Rose 100% heritage action score, which I very much appreciate. And going back, you know. to the late 90s into 2010 and donating to all these Democrats who supported the Tea Party, or not the Tea Party, the income tax. So I don't know. We'll have to see. People are telling me to call. I can try to call them. I don't know. I think they're trying to figure it. I'm kind of out of time. Let me see if I can call him real quick. Let's go to a break. And then Jay Jones got the news coming up at 830. Thank you, Joan. I'm trying to find John's phone number. No worries. Got a lot more. No, no, no, no. That's not how it goes. Stop that. Stop that. It doesn't go one, two, whatever, yo. Check me out right here, yo. It goes one, two, buckle my shoe. Joan, back me up on this. It's not one, two, back me up, yo. It's one, two, buckle my shoe. Three, four.

Shut the door. Joan and I know. See, Joan, we're the wokeest here. Many such cases. But we're woke in the sense that we know these things. As opposed to you two, you go to that hip-hop stuff that nobody likes that. Nobody likes it. Yeah, nobody likes that stuff. Right, Joan? It's true. Can you turn it back up, Sam? I was kind of enjoying it. It's victory. That's victory by B-I-G. So... So, no, she did. Happy birthday. No, no, no, hold on. Hold on. Hold on, everybody. Chris. Did Marsha bring you those? Because I've been hearing. I've been hearing you're in the tank for Marsha Blackburn. I wanted to wish you happy birthday. And I brought you some fortune cookies, courtesy of Marsha Blackburn. She did not really do this, did she? No, she didn't. Okay. Those are actually from our friend Lindsay. All right. Who stopped by and gave me some fortune cookies. Oh, you know. I'm going to read my fortune on the air. I'll read my fortune too. First, let's learn Chinese. China? That's funny. Learn some Chinese. Oh, let's go. My present plans are going to succeed. Really? Yeah. All right. Currently, I've been planning to just troll you throughout the segment. China. You know what mine says? You're in the tank from Marsha Blackburn. What? Have you seen the viral video on Instagram? I don't know if the lady's a Democrat or a Republican. I just know she's very, very funny. Right. Where she's like, she's pretending to be Marsha Blackburn. And she's like, I'm tired of little Italy's popping up everywhere. You know what I'm going to do to Italy? And she just like snaps a bunch of pasta. Throws a bunch of pizza around. Yeah. Then she goes after Mexico and she just starts crunching taco shells. She's like, yeah, take that. Okay, that's funny. Then she went after Ireland, and she tried to break a potato with her bare hands, but she couldn't. So she broke out a knife. She's like, that's what I'm going to do to Ireland. I'm tired of them dancing without moving their arms. You know, she could be against, like, Greeks and, like, start crushing a bunch of feta cheese. Stomping on yogurt. By the way, my fortune actually says, you will always be surrounded by true friends. When? When does this start? Sure is it during this shift. I'm just kidding. Whatever. By the way, so this is great. So I have Michael Patrick Leahy on. talking about all these Democrat donations to John Rose. Oh, no, no, hold on. I have some opinions. Okay, I'm sure that you do. But hold, let me get mine out first. So, by the way, I've texted John Rose and no response. He's going to be on my show tomorrow. Oh, okay. You get first crack out of him. I'm in the tank for John Rose. Clearly. No, no, no, but this is the funny thing. So I have Michael Patrick Leah on. He had just posted a story to the Tennessee star about all these Democrat donations, right? So then I say, well, because I'm just a question asker, right? I just, you know, I try to be fair. What you do? Huh? It's what you do. Yeah, it's what I do. So then I said, well, that's interesting that he did that way back when because he's got 100% heritage action score, which shows that he's very conservative.

And so now people are like, oh, so you're in the tank for John Rose. And I'm like, if I was in the tank for John Rose, I wouldn't have had Michael Patrick Leahy on talking about the donations. Come on, you know what I want to do sometimes? Tell me, Dan. I want to take the microphone and just choke it. Choke it. Like I'm choking people that are like listening and accusing me of being in the tank for anybody. Are we able to clip video? We will definitely clip that because I'm glad you explained to the listening audience that you were choking the microphone because to the visual audience you were stroking. If somebody had you on mute. Oh, good Lord. Why do you always go this route, Sam? I'm just saying if somebody had you on mute on their TV on YouTube and they walked in and saw that. Just aggressively double-handed it? They would have been a little bit thrown off. So the fortune cookie clearly was wrong, Joan, when it said that I'm surrounded by friends. And Joan checked out. That's where we are today. Is it 9 o'clock yet? Michael Patrick Leahy, I like him. I like his reporting. They do a good job over the Tennessee Star. But how blatant is it that you are in the Marsha Blackburn camp? You're not talking about me. You're talking about Michael. Michael Patrick Leahy. Yeah. Is he? I don't know. Come on. I have no idea. You don't think so? I heard that interview. Does he have anything negative to say about Marsha Blackburn? I'm sure if you were to do some digging, you'd find plenty of eyebrow-raising things in her past. Probably, but okay. Do you know what I'm saying? No, no, no. Okay. Was he factual in saying that Marsha Blackburn was instrumental in preventing the income tax? A lot of the vast staff here at WTO. Oh, God. Don't tell the May Beaver's thing. No, no, no. Johnny B. Who was right there with Phil V. said that the whole stolen valor, May beavers thing, is a bunch of bovine scatology. That's what Johnny B said. I've heard.

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I'm not going nuts. I'm not going nuts. I feel like I wouldn't be your friend if I didn't, you know, kind of accuse you of lying here. Are you waiting for something else to come out? Something like that would really push your vote into one candidate or not? How do you know? Did the John Rose donation story? You were like, this is exactly why I waited. It's exactly why I waited, man. We don't know what's going to happen. By the way, play that again one more time. I'm not going nuts. So I told this really bad joke. And we're going to get it again? Maybe twice? I can't, no, I can't in morning drive tell the really bad joke that I told in the presence of one Matt Murphy. Oh, yeah, this is when you guys were hanging out over the weekend. And then I got a pity invite from Murphy during the podcast recording on Thursday once he found out that it was my birthday all weekend. All weekend. It's a birthday weekend. Yeah, 100%. Hold on. So, time out. You told me earlier that your lovely wife got a week. You only get a weekend? Well, we're going to, we got, there's some run over, you know. Is there some run over? We're still going to, we're probably going to go to in and out tonight. Addie boy. Put a little candle on the cheeseburgers. What are you going to do? Dude, I literally had a candle in lasagna last night. Did you really? Awesome. It was so good. What are you like 42? No, I'm 38. I know. I knew that. I'm just messing with you. Listen. The moral of the story here is that Dan and Matt knew it was my birthday, and they chose not to invite me. I didn't even get a text from Dan. I thought your fortune cookie said we were friends. I literally said happy birthday to you on Thursday. I said when we were recording the podcast, I said, happy birthday. I didn't know it was your birthday. Okay, can I ask you a question? It was like in passing. It was like, you were like, once you found out, you were like, oh, happy birthday. Take the trash out of the studio. This is the moment we find out Chris Hand has the mentality of a 13-year-old girl. He was so, Dan, I'm always so caring and kind with your birthday. Oh, Dan didn't acknowledge my birthday weekend. I get Dan Gifts. Really? Did you get me a gift last year? I did. What did you? I just gave you a fortune cookie. You know what I'm going to do? A third party fortune cookie. I'm going to, that's not your business, Joan. You only do the news. You re-gifted it. It's like the label maker in Seinfeld. That's what you did to me. You know what? Since stolen valor is clearly the topic, I stole Lindsay's valor by giving that to you. Thank you, Lindsay. By the way, I say thank you to Lindsay because she's the one who. Thank you, Lindsay. All right, so I'm going to go back. to December 26th of 2025, and I'm going to see if you sent me a happy birthday message. By all means. I don't think that you did. Oh, I know it's there. You know what the problem is? We text a lot. You're going to be scrolling for a while. I'm going to be scrolling forever. Can't you go to the search bar in the conversation and type in? I don't know if I'm not that advanced in texting. Like, I don't really know actually how it works. Should be able to type in in the search bar of the conversation, happy birthday, and it should pull up anything highlighted by that. I left my key card at home one day, and Mason had texted me the other gate code, and I just typed in code. Found it. Really? Yep. Okay.

Well, I don't know. This must be compelling radio as both Chris and I are going back to December 26th of 2025 to see if he actually wished me a happy birthday. By the way, it's got to be on my actual birthday. Why? You said happy birthday to him on Thursday and his birthday was Friday. Thank you, Joan. Joan, you only cover the news. My birthday was Sunday. I'm the only one. Joan didn't wish me a happy birthday either, by the way. I'm the only one here that did it. Jay Jones, Jay Jones overly defending me because she feels guilty as well. Hold on. Okay, Sam wished you a happy birthday on your birthday, and you never responded to him. You want to talk about a 13-year-old girl mentality? He's like really be hurt over it. Did he really? Yeah. Did you really wish me happy birthday? Yeah. Yesterday, 818 in the morning. Oh. Via text? Yeah. You know, I was cheap with it, though. I'll be honest. I said you a happy birthday too. You clearly didn't see it. And now your phone deleted it. I responded to Sam. I did get a thank you. 24 hours later. Maybe 30 seconds ago. But I responded to him. I went simple, Snoopy on top of his house. One happy birthday. All right. Anyway. You know what? We'll solve this tomorrow because I'll look through. I'll spend two hours going through all of our text messages scrolling to see if I got a birthday message from you in 2025. Perfect. So did you ever put it together that... Kaitlan Collins does indeed look like Dylan Mulvaney. 100%. You can't unsee it now. We talked about that earlier. We can't... Unsee it. So the left is saying that Trump bombed last or bombed at the White House Correspondents Dinner. But I thought he was very funny. It's just he's in a room full of people that hate him. Yeah. And are butt hurt by every joke he makes. Oh, every single joke. By the way, for people that feel like they need to defend Kaitlan Collins, this is the highlight of her weekend. Oh, yeah. Because all the attention is on her. All the attention is on her. And she gets to, and here's the other thing. What do Democrats value almost more than anything else, victim status, right? So now she gets to play the victim for probably the next week or so. The rest of her life. Or the rest of her life. I thought trans women were women and are beautiful. So for them to think that this is an insult. I find that very bigoted. Do you find it? I do. Bigoted?

Okay, good. By the way, what did you do on your birthday? So we, I slept in a little bit. Yeah. Then we skateboarded with the boys out in the driveway. We did a lot of skateboarding. And we went on a... Do yourself actually skateboard? Yeah. Do you? Yeah. You do the kick thing? Well, no, not all that. But I can balance and get some speed. And then we went... Oh, hold that. Hold on. Do you know how I, when my son... was interested in this many years ago when he was into skateboarding. So, hey, dad, why don't you try it? So, of course, I try it. Did you eat it? Did you hurt? So I actually stayed on the board for quite some time. And then I was going so fast. that I kind of like... Death wobbles? Steered... I was able to steer into some grass, and I steered into the grass. It went flying. Oh, my goodness gracious. Only we had ring doorbells back then. I know, right? Anyway, so... Then we went on a Facebook Marketplace adventure, and me and the wife drove out to Lebanon. We had to get some chairs. We got a good deal on chairs. Oh, good. It was very excited. Don't you love that? It's awesome. What kind of chairs? Swivel sitting chairs. Okay. My wife said this is the one time the algorithm favored her because she'd been looking at them and then it popped up on the marketplace. Oh, really? Okay. Very good. We got some chairs. It was pretty cool. Well, Chris, happy birthday. Thank you, Dan. Better late than ever. But I was early and late. So I think that's got to count for something. It does. It does it? It does. Okay, good. Don't let him go that easy. Come on. Joan, you only do the news. Don't worry. Do you like how? I have a whole monologue prepared for Mandis when I get into my show. About how I'm in the tank for John Rose. And by the way, I will also say. In the tank for Fritz. I don't understand what's going on. That's not true. When I did the interview with Fritz, people said I was in the tank for Fritz. Like I just, I don't know what, why can't I just be fair and balance? It's the cheapest tank to be. And there's not a lot of money behind that campaign. Behind what, Fritz? Yeah. If you're going to get paid off by any candidate, Rose or Blackburn, that's the route to go. Nobody's paying me. Trust me on that one. So anyway. Well, very good. Well, you know what? If I forgot to say it, Chris, happy birthday. Thank you. So when are you going to decide who you're voting for? Is that like as you pull up in the parking lot? You know what? You're going to wait until you get to the machine? I might. What's it to you? I'm just curious. It is my right as an American to vote is confidential. Right? It's confidential, right? Nobody can look at it up. Anyway, it's confidential. And that's what I'm going to do. I don't get involved in primaries. I vote for who I vote for, and then I support my party. Dan Sullivan going to vote on the way to the event, August 6th at Hop Springs and Murphysboro. Just so he can say he... That's a good idea. We'll ask you. We'll ask you at the event. Who you voted for? I can be on my phone. See, they won't let me do it, but I'd be on my phone. and um face time and broadcast live i'd get arrested i'd be the guy that gets arrested and uh broadcast live from my from my voting booth there you go there you go do it i'm not going to do that why not

Well, because they'll take my phone away and I'll get arrested. People post their vote all the time. You're not going to get arrested. You can't. You can't. You can't. I have seen tons of polling machines that are lit up with the candidate of choice and someone hitting. Okay. How many of them have been radio people? Like, that would be silly. I'm going to go into a voting booth and I'm going to broadcast life my voting booth and vote while I'm FaceTiming or on the I would actually I would not FaceTime I'd do it on the air with Chris because I'm going to do it about 10 o'clock I'm going to leave right here I'm going to leave here on August 6th and I'm going to go and that's when I'll vote will you call into my show after you decide who you voted for maybe I might let the people know Dude, nobody is clamoring to find out who I've... There's a lot of clamoring. I promise you, no one is clamoring for me. I've had so many people. They've said to me, they said, I understand that you're voting for Fritz. And Murphy said he's only voting for the guy that wants to debate. Yeah. And Guy Benson's going to vote for Jerry Green. But what we want to know is... I'm just kidding, Chad. I love you. But what we want to know is who's Dan voting for, because that's really... It's going to be a couple dozen holdouts that aren't ready to place their vote until they hear from the mandis. Well, then they got to figure it out because, you know, in that sense, I'm not an influencer. Do your homework and vote for who you want to vote for.