Major Controversy Rocks David Crowley's Milwaukee

It is yet another scandal in David Crowley's Milwaukee County that I'm willing to wager. No one else in the media is going to touch. That's why we exist. That's why we started the Heartland Post. All of the details there. We broke this story exclusively about an hour ago. We get into the details in just a second. First, if you would like to join us on today's Foray into broadcast excellence or at the very least. and probably way more likely broadcast competence. Our Carpetland USA Flooring Center talk and text line always open. 414-799-1130. Email DOD at iHeartMedia.com at Dan O'Donnell Show on X, on Facebook, on Instagram. We are streaming live across social media. Watch the show on Facebook on X on our YouTube channel. And if you miss a single second of conservative thought and not just... talk today. Make sure to catch up on the Dan O'Donnell Show podcast on iHeartRadio or wherever you listen to podcasts. How do I know that almost no one is going to follow up on our exclusive that Sumatra Matthews, the top deputy and closest ally of Milwaukee County Clerk of Circuit Court, Anna Maria Hodges, was arrested yesterday and currently finds herself as an inmate or Excuse me, we no longer call jail inmates inmates in David Crowley's Milwaukee County. We call them residents or guests. You think I'm kidding? That is an actual policy change. That was enacted under Crowley in the peak woke era of the early 2020s. How do I know that the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is not going to pick up on this? How do I know that none of the TV news stations in Milwaukee or across the state are going to pick up on this? Because none of them picked up on the major and growing scandal that is just about to go national involving the City of Milwaukee Election Commission. And it's rather obvious lies about how it was that on five of data sticks during Tuesday night's primary election. It was audit log data and not the actual votes that were downloaded, causing a 90-minute delay and the city of Milwaukee's results being delayed until the early hours of Wednesday morning because nobody, not one news outlet, has picked up on this despite the fact that CBS 58's AJ Buyett Poor. Caught Milwaukee election officials red-handed lying about this. The follow-up coming up in the 4 o'clock hour here on the Dan O'Donnell Show, then at 5 Data Center Dave, how Milwaukee County Executive and Democratic Gubernatorial nominee David Crowley learned to stop worrying and embrace big tech oligarchs, the same big tech oligarchs that the Democratic Party supposedly. Hates, we will dive into all of that, but our big exclusive story.

The Heartland Post and Dan O'Donnell Show have learned exclusively that Sumatria Matthews, who has been one of the longest tenured employees at the Milwaukee County Courthouse. She has been working there since 1999, and she worked in various roles until 2022 when she briefly retired. And then once the clerk of circuit court, Anna Maria Hodges, her close friend was elected. as county clerk of court that november she went right back to work as one of her top deputies in fact on her own linked in page matthews actually identifies herself as a deputy division administrator For criminal court, the irony is far too delicious for one human being to eat. Now, sources tell me that Matthews was arrested during a raid at her home and is being held on potential drug charges. One source tells me that a substantial amount of drugs, it was not clear what type of drugs were found in Matthew's basement. I reached out to the Milwaukee County Clerk of Circuit Court, who was very defensive and very hostile in answering my questions on this. She says that, well, a lot of our reporting is incorrect about this. Here is the statement coming from Hodges. An individual holding an appointive position in the clerk of circuit court's office is in custody amid an investigation unrelated to her official duties. Yesterday, I suspended this employee pending further developments in this matter revoked all employee's system access and removed this employee from the website contact list. She did this very quietly. She told absolutely nobody she did this. She would not answer my questions as to whether or not she would ever inform the public about the reason for the removal of Samantria Matthews from the website if I didn't email her seeking comment. It is very clear that the intent was to just quietly remove her and pretend that this arrest never happened, pretend that there wasn't yet another controversy in David Crowley's Milwaukee County. Now, of course, she is trying to, in an email, after I referred to Sumatria Matthews as the top deputy to Crowley's clerk of circuit court, she said, well, I am a separate elected position. from the county executive. I'm sorry. Is David Crowley not in charge of Milwaukee County? I'm sorry. Is this not his county? Does the buck not stop with him? Does he not have any comment about this? Of course, he does not because everyone is just going to kind of try to pretend that this has absolutely nothing to do with him.

the fact that he presides over one of the most thoroughly inept, incompetent, and apparently criminally corrupt counties in the entire nation. Hodges, who again was very defensive about being caught trying to quietly remove a criminal from her staff website. A criminal, by the way, who went back to work for the county after retiring. Now, I asked Clerk Hodges whether or not Sumatria Matthews was in fact double dipping. Double dipping is a procedure. It's a process by which someone retires from government position, say, I don't know, what Sumatria Matthews retired from in 2022. They get their pension and then they go back to work. for a different branch or in a very similar role this was such a big problem during the era of the milwaukee county pension scandal so many people were getting a massive massive pension backdrop and then they were immediately going back to work they were they were hitting retirement age and then they were going back to work so they would get a salary and they would also get a pension Well, the Milwaukee County Board said, yeah, we're going to stop this. So about 15, 16 years ago, they cracked down on the process of double dipping. I asked whether or not Hodges was double dipping, or excuse me, whether Matthews was double dipping, whether she had retired and then she was hired back by the clerk, Hodges, in a similar role. and was getting both a pension and a salary. Hodges asked me to, quote, please correct my reporting because you are speculating that she might be double dipping. She did not collect a pension. So I said, okay, do you have any proof that she didn't collect a pension? Hodges said, I will refer you to the Human Resources Department and they will be able to verify your reporting. So I asked just to be clear. Clerk Hodges, you can't prove that she's not collecting a pension. You're just saying, you need to correct your reporting because your reporting is wrong. But I have no proof. I have no idea whether or not she's collecting a pension. In fact, it is entirely possible that Hodges would have no idea whether Samantria Matthews was collecting a pension and also getting a salary. The point is that the clerk of circuit court is getting super defensive that her BFF, Sumatria Matthews, who specifically went back to the county courthouse because Anna Maria Hodges was elected clerk of circuit court, she'd get real defensive that her BFF who... Yes, indeed, according to her linked-in. Oh, also, Hodges was very upset. She said, no, no, no. She was not in any capacity in the criminal court division, Dan. She was just doing administrative work. Okay, well, why does her own LinkedIn page identify Sumatria Matthews as being in the criminal division?

So I rather cheekily sent a screenshot of Matthew's LinkedIn page and said, hey, you should probably tell Sumatria when she gets out of the huskow that she's not actually in the criminal division because she seems to think she, I mean, now, now she's in the criminal division all right, just, you know, on the other side of it. What does it say about a county and what does it say about a county's leadership when somebody like Sumatraia Matthews is in such a prominent position working for the county in a position? The clerk of circuit court, ladies and gentlemen, is somebody who has a very prominent role in the... administration of justice in Milwaukee County. In fact, the clerk of court is a role that actually manages all of the day-to-day operations for the judicial system in the county. So they would manage the docket. They would manage file. Basically everything that an individual judge or the judiciary at large, the chief judge. doesn't handle the clerk of circuit court handles someone who i think it would be pretty accurate to describe as the second in command to the clerk of circuit court someone who works in the same building as David Crowley somebody who reports to oh a different elected official oh excuse me crowley could not possibly have anything to do with this because you see the buck stops with him except of course for all of the criminals that go to work for him in the county and may or may not be getting pensions funded by the taxpayers as well as salaries funded by the taxpayers oh and by the way lest we forget David Crowley was as recently as 2023 pleading poverty while begging the state to allow him to increase the county's sales tax levy, as well as get way more in shared revenue from the state because he had run the county's finances directly into the ground. The state dramatically increases the amount of money it just directly pays Milwaukee County, allows him to raise the county sales tax by 0.4%, generating more than $100 million in revenue. And what's the end of result of all this? At the end of the current budget, David Crowley is still running a $50 million deficit with all of this new revenue coming in. And let's not forget, he also jacked up the county property tax levy in there as well. So Milwaukee County residents are paying more in property taxes and they're paying more in sales taxes on almost everything they buy in Milwaukee County. And if you go into Milwaukee County and purchase something, you are helping to subsidize.

a literal suspected criminal and her salary and potentially her pension as well. This is the sort of stuff that goes on in David Crowley's Milwaukee, and we're supposed to believe that David Crowley is just this incredibly effective leader of men and women. That he is going to be impossible for Tom Tiffany to beat, that he would be just an incredible governor. I would love to see who David Crowley appoints as his director of prisons. We'll be lucky if that person isn't actually in prison when they're appointed if this is the second in command to the clerk of circuit court. All of this speaks to the utter dysfunction, mismanagement, incompetence, and open hostility to anyone who dares to question the literal criminality that goes on in Milwaukee County government. Should I post all of the emails that the clerk of circuit court Hodges has been sending me this afternoon? Oh, well, your reporting is just so. I respectfully ask that you change your reporting. Miss Matthews is most certainly not double dipping. She is not receiving a pension. I just respond, okay, can you prove that? Well, I'm going to have to refer you to the Human Resources Department because they'll be able to provide that documentation. Okay, well, that's not a no. Clerk Hodges. This is also somebody who, if the Heartland Post didn't exist, if the Dan O'Donnell show didn't exist, you would have no idea about this. Just so we're all clear here. The rest of the media might have heard about Samatraia Matthews and the alleged drug house that she was keeping, the felony charges that are pending against her. But would the connection ever be made to the clerk of circuit court's office? What, seriously? What kind of utterly dysfunctional building? Has the number two in the clerk of circuit courts off? Oh, no, no, no, no, Dan, she was not in the criminal division. Okay, well, it says right on her LinkedIn page that at one point at least she was working with the criminal court division and helping to set the calendar. Do you think Sumatra Matthews will still be allowed to set the docket for her own criminal case? Also, you'll notice that she was simply suspended. Now, I will allow for the very likely scenario in which Sumatria Matthews is fired as soon as she's criminally charged. But I will also posit that if the allegations against her are true, and this was some massive drug sting,

This wasn't a one-time thing that Sumatria Matthews may well have been engaged in criminal activity for a substantial portion of the time that she was also working for the criminal justice system. And that, to me, just might be the most scandalous thing about this. That somebody employed in the operation of Milwaukee County's justice system. was actually willfully, knowingly, and blatantly violating this states and this country's laws with no regard for them. And you wonder, you wonder, ladies and gentlemen, why the Milwaukee County criminal justice system and why so many criminal justice systems in so many liberal counties like David Crowley's thoroughly corrupt and inept Milwaukee are so sympathetic to criminals. Does it does it not stand to reason that there are a decent number of criminals working for said justice system? Or at least people who are related to, married to, buddies with criminals? It never really makes sense. Why so many libs are just so enamored with the concept that the justice system is just, it's so racist and unfair and we need to be lenient. Well, have we considered the possibility that the people who are staffing the criminal justice system might themselves be criminals and if they themselves are not criminals, that they at the very least know a lot of people who are? I think I'll call this the Sumatria Matthews effect. How tough on crime. And I get that Samatra Matthews and the clerk of courts office are only doing administrative work, right? They're not actually deciding guilt or innocence or anything like this. They're not judges. They're not prosecutors. They're clerks. They're doing literal clerical work. That's important work. But my God. If you live in David Crowley's Milwaukee County, your taxes were paying this woman's salary so that she could go out and run a drug operation or at least use her basement to store, allegedly, a hell of a lot of drugs. Not only that, you may well have been paying for her pension as well as she's double dipping, potentially, getting a pension and a salary. Welcome to David Crowley's Milwaukee County, where literal criminals can rise to the very heights of power. within the county. You're listening to the Dan O'Donnell show, a TV station in O'Clair, forced to apologize.

For an on-air graphic comparing the Republican Party to the KKK, Hannah Dugan was convicted and sentenced earlier this summer for trying to get an illegal alien violent criminal who was appearing before her, snuck out of her courtroom through the jury room exit to a privately used elevator. and allow him to run to freedom. Fortunately, an eagle-eyed FBI agent spotted this go down and was able to arrest this scumbag after a brief foot chase. This is all in David Crowley's Milwaukee County. This is the most corrupt, the most inept, the most poorly run county in the state, and it's not even close. Even Mayor Sunbeam-Rhodes Conway in Madison, who allowed the crazies to take over a street for about two weeks, is actually a better, more effective leader than David Crowley. And I think this latest episode proves it. We are reporting exclusively that the top deputy to Milwaukee County Clerk of Circuit Court, Anna Maria Hodges, a woman by the name of Sumatraia Matthews, was arrested yesterday in what I am told is a drug sting at her house. She is currently in the Milwaukee County Jail awaiting pending criminal charges. She was very quietly removed from the Clerk of Circuit Court's website yesterday. And in fact, I sincerely doubt if Clerk Hodges was ever going to tell anybody about this. In fact, it took a long time for me to determine that Matthews was in fact still an employee. because I actually had to use the Internet Archives way back machine to show that like three days ago, Sumatra Matthews was still on the website as a current employee, but then magically disappeared when I presented the evidence of this. Hodges said, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. She's no longer employed. Well, she's suspended. She's still employed. I suspended her. I revoked all of her access to the Milwaukee County Courthouse. Well, that's good because she's probably... going to be going to be itching to get back to work once she gets out of jail. She has not yet been criminally charged. We do expect criminal charges at some point very, very soon because eventually she does need to know why she is being held. She does need to have some formal charging document or else she's going to need to be released from custody. On Monday night, W-E-A-U-T-V, Channel 13 News in O'Clair, aired a story about the Republican Governors Association getting involved in the Wisconsin Democratic primary running ads that were on their face meant to look like they were very critical of Francesca Hong, but really they were aimed at boosting Hong.

amongst a far-left audience by saying, oh, she opposes President Trump on all of this. The RGA spent millions of dollars doing this, unfortunately, they came up just short as Jensen Huang lost by just about 3,000 raw votes out of, what, half a million, more than half a million that were cast. We will get into all of the controversy again in David Crowley's thoroughly corrupt, thoroughly incompetent Milwaukee County in the four. o'clock hour. But while W.EAU's news anchor was reading this story, they put up a graphic of the Republican Party's elephant logo, but it wasn't just the elephant logo. In the space between the elephant's legs were drawn Ku Klux Klan hoods. Now, once again, just like the Milwaukee County Clerk of Circuit Court, It seems as though if the Heartland Post and yours truly didn't start asking very, very difficult questions of station management, they were perfectly content to just let this slide. And I could actually prove that because there were multiple people who complained about this and were blown off, just never even got a response. So one of them did what you should always do. If you get blown off by a media or government entity, Always come to the Dan O'Donnell Show. DoD at iHeartMedia.com. We'll get it on the air. We'll get it on Heartland Post. We'll get it on social media. We will make it into a big deal. Trust me, I will not blow you off. That is my solemn promise and sources are always fully guaranteed. DoD. at iHeartMedia.com. Easiest way, if you email me through my Heartland Post email. That all gets routed through the exact same email address. So DoD at iHeartMedia.com. Easiest way you can get a hold of me. I asked a question, very simple one. Hey, how exactly did this happen? How did this graphic end up on your 10 o'clock news and nobody noticed? Well, of course, W-E-A-U never got back to me. But then issued an on-air apology after I was off the air last night at exactly 6.15 p.m. during the 6 o'clock news. And then the general manager, Terry McHugh of W.EA.U. got back to me and said, hey, Dan, here is what we just read on the air. Here's what it sounded like. At W-E-A-U, earning your trust means being transparent when we make a mistake. We recently used what we believed was a generic Republican Party elephant graphic. We later learned the image also contained hidden Ku Klux Klan imagery. We did not realize that when it aired. That's when we immediately removed it from our system.

We are committed to fair and unbiased journalism. When we get something wrong, we will acknowledge it, correct it, and tell you what happened. We sincerely apologize to the Republican Party and to you, our viewers. So, uh, What wasn't explained in that statement is how exactly did the Ku Klux Klan Republican elephant get in W.EAU's graphics system to begin with? Did somebody really not notice the little eyes in between the elephant's legs? Because I'll be totally honest with you. When this was first sent to me, it was like an email sent to me. It just said newscast, look closely at the graphic or something like that. And I didn't even know what I was looking for. Oh, oh, wait, that actually aired? I noticed it right away. Now, granted, it's possible they missed it. But I'll be damned if I have ever seen any sort of graphic or any sort of mistake that insults the Democrat Party, which, by the way, was the party, the actual party of the Ku Klux Klan. This is the thing that I just find endlessly hilarious about this. Oh, the Republicans, that's the clan. No, the actual, like, honest to God, former Confederate soldiers who formed the clan in 1866 were the militant wing of the Democrat Party. They were the ones intimidating and committing horrendous acts of violence against... Republican voters, especially freed slaves who were voting for the very first time as citizens and as human beings in the eyes of the law. The Democrats were perfectly content to keep them as objects, as pieces of property. And in fact, they actually went to war and assassinated the first Republican president because they were so mad they couldn't keep their slaves. But yes, please, please, W.EA.U. Tell us again how Republicans are actually the KKK, although it is a mistake. It was a mistake. And I would be, I would be inclined to believe them if those mistakes went equally in both directions. For example, for example. It was obviously a mistake, right? It was human error that caused those flash drives to get downloaded with the wrong data. It's human error, right?

Even though it was practically impossible for somebody to miss the fact that they were downloading audit log data and not actual vote data from the tabulators on election night. But those errors, they always seem to result. I mean, whenever there are these weird errors, especially when they happen late at night. The end result of the election in which those errors occur, they're just human errors. The end result of the election is always that the candidate that Democrats want to win, in this case, David Crowley, who happens to be the county executive of the county where these errors took place, who happens to work in the building. Where those human errors were discovered late Tuesday night, they always seem to benefit. Again, those errors never go in both directions. It's never like there's a human error on election night. Oh, whoopsie daisy. Turns out the Republican actually won. What do you know? Weird. I want to congratulate the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on just an incredible scoop. Vanessa Swales, intrepid reporter, just getting an amazing story that nobody else reported posting at exactly 321 p.m. after I had broken the story on both the Heartland Post and the radio, Milwaukee County employee arrested after drug search on home. No credit whatsoever to where she actually got the story. It was from our reporting. The Heartland Post, in fact, posted that story at about 1.30 p.m. How do I know? Because I'm the editor-in-chief of the Heartland Post, and I'm the one who posted the story and then had it up on social media. I believe it went up at exactly 2 o'clock p.m. on social media. And yeah, but Vanessa, great job. That's just an incredible, incredible scoop. Folks, this is what the, do you ever hear me not give credit to, like, for example, yesterday, A.J. Buy it, P. CBS 58, had the scoop of all scoops where his photojournalist actually captured the moment that the flash drives. at the Milwaukee Elections Commission accidentally had downloaded onto them. The audit log data, not the votes? What if I just posted the picture, posted the screenshot and said, hey, look it. I just happened to be there. Look at what I just discovered. That's what the journal Sentinel does routinely. Mark Belling used to complain about this all the time. And folks, frankly, does it matter? Not really. Do you care who broke this story first? No, the story is out there. But this is like journalistic ethics 101. So if you would like to follow.

a news organization that actually has some ethics, unlike the liberal pap that you will read from Vanessa Swales and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Seriously, what is, I actually have a lot of respect for Greg Borowski, the editor-in-chief over at the Journal Sentinel. This is like three stories within the last three weeks. Your paper has just directly stolen from the Heartland Post or me personally. What happened to journalistic ethics, Greg? I mean, it would be very easy for me to just steal all your stories since nobody's reading your paper and everybody's listening to us and reading us over at Heartland Post. So congratulations on that big scoop. Vanessa and the journal said no idea where you got it. None. Let's play Follow the Leader, and the leader is apparently conservative media yet again. At Heartland Post, WI, on X, if you want stories before the journal Sentinel Steel said. They got the big breaking news bar up at JS Online. Yeah, it was breaking when we broke it, guys. Dan O'Donnell's show coming right back with the latest on Auditlog Gate. A simple The Heartland Post was first to report the arrest of the top deputy to Milwaukee County Clerk of Circuit Court, Anna Maria Hodges, woman by the name of, uh, might I forget her name already. Demontria Martin. This is embarrassing. This is the surest sign that I'm getting old, or that it's a beautiful Friday evening and that I am already looking to... I don't know. I was just texting with my son about possibly going to state fair tonight. Sumatraia Matthews is the woman who was arrested. This apparently has to do with a drug case. It's fentanyl, by the way. There was a ton of fentanyl in her basement. Now, I am going to give credit to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel because I was waiting on getting the search warrant from the home. They apparently got it quicker. According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, see Journal Sentinel how easy this is to give even a competitor credit when they report something, some detail that I don't have. According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Milwaukee police executed a search warrant on the employee's home after the employee's spouse was arrested following a police chase August 11th, according to a copy of the warrant. Officers later found 1,280 grams of fentanyl, a mixture of fentanyl and cocaine weighing about 431.6 grams. That would be a speedball.

167.2 grams of cocaine, a gun, and a drug processing equipment at the property. During the search officers found clear plastic bags, a cutting agent, and hydraulic brick presses. The spouse was on active supervision at the time of the search following a March 6 incident where he fled police, according to that warrant. The warrant does not include or indicate whether the county employee was aware or actively involved in the possession of drugs. No, it was, how could she possibly be aware that there was a drug house operating out of her basement? How could she? It's her house. It was her house that they raided. No, the boyfriend, I just. He had all the fent in the county in her basement, and she had no idea that this was going on right under her nose. Weird how that works. 414-799-1130, Carpetland, USA, Flooring Center, talk, and text line. DoD. at iHeartMedia.com at Dan O'Donnell Show on X, Facebook, Instagram, wherever you can find us on social media. We are also on YouTube. YouTube channel is live. Dano Cam is on. We're also streaming on X and Facebook. And if you miss a single second. uh please do listen to the podcast download it follow us dan o'donnell's show on iheart radio or wherever you listen to podcasts tuesday night there was a big delay in the counting or rather the reporting of the city of milwaukee's vote Well, we weren't exactly told why. We thought we would get all of Milwaukee's 28,000 absentee ballots counted by 10 o'clock. That's what we were told. Okay, 10 o'clock, 10 o'clock, Milwaukee County Clerk George Christensen said 10 p.m. We're going to know because the primary election was coming down to the city of Milwaukee. David Crowley had about a 3,500 vote lead over Francesca Hong, and it seemed clear that Crowley with the absentee vote in his own county was probably barring something truly remarkable in those absentee ballots from Hong. He was probably going to win this thing. However, there was a delay. Not just in Milwaukee, but also in Fondelac County and Green County, there was some sort of issue in both of those counties that delayed the reporting of the vote. So the city of Milwaukee just kind of kept on delaying their vote too. Didn't exactly explain why. They said, okay, absolutely positively, we will have those 28,000 absentee ballots by 1130. At 1130,

There was a press conference held at the Milwaukee County Courthouse indicating that there was human error that led to the audit log data from five of the nine high-speed tabulators that Milwaukee's central count used to count those ballots. And there is something that's not adding up about those counters that we'll get into as well, just how high-speed tabulators. were do you realize how fast they can process ballots there were only 28,000 of them to feed through a conservative estimate as to what time they should have been finished putting all those ballots through was probably about 11 a.m. to noon why they were still working Well after the legally determined stop time is beyond me. We'll get into that in a second. From those nine tabulators. There were nine data sticks. Because for obvious reasons, the tabulators are not connected to the internet. They can't be hacked. You can't, you know, digitally alter the vote count from some third party location as some suggested in 2020. It's not possible to do. They're not hooked up to the internet. You actually have to take a flash drive if you want to transport data from that tabulator. And the data actually needs to be reported at the Milwaukee County clerk's office at the courthouse so that Milwaukee County can report its vote total. Five of those nine tabulators. had the audit log data and not the vote data downloaded onto the memory sticks that were then transported to the county courthouse the milwaukee election commissions executive director paulina gutierrez said on tuesday night and again wednesday It was impossible to know what had been downloaded onto those flash drives, those memory sticks, until we got to the courthouse because you just couldn't see. It was human error. You couldn't see what you were downloading. Well, CBS 58 reporter, A.J. Buy it Poor was actually at Central Count, and his photographer captured the moment that the audit log data was mistakenly downloaded onto one of those flash drives. It was very obvious that you were downloading audit log data and not the vote. In fact, there was a giant pop-up on the screen that you had to click confirm. Are you sure you want to download audit log data? You had to hit confirm. And then there was another pop-up that popped up and said, downloading audit log data.

The notion that you could not tell you were downloading audit log data is just completely wrong. It's a lie. It is, it is easily debunked. It was debunked on video. It's debunked in 4K. As the kids say, here's A.J. Buy it poor from last night's CBS 58 newscast. Milwaukee Election Commission said in a statement, quote, the error could not be caught sooner by staff because to maintain security, all material downloaded from the tabulators are encrypted and can only be opened at the county courthouse. However, video our photojournalist took Tuesday night at Central Count raises questions about why nobody caught the mistake in the moment. Here's what it looked like when elections staff hit export files on the machine instead of export. audit log the loading screen in that case read collecting and exporting batch data then when someone hit export audit log you can see the screen read exporting audit log this happened with five of the city's nine vote counting machines so five different times somebody hit export audit log but didn't know that they were exporting the audit log. Five times. Five times. Just so we're clear. Five different times. I'm not buying it. I am absolutely positively not buying it. We now apparently do know the name of this employee. The employee who I am told was actually the one who downloaded all of these. I have been going back and forth within my own head for pretty much six hours now. Do I release the name of this employee? And frankly, right now I am I am leading towards no. Because I don't want to be responsible for this person. I realize how emotional people get when we talk about this stuff. And basically everything I've learned about this woman, I absolutely do believe she would be stupid enough to not be able to actually read a screen that says download audit logs. So I am not going to be releasing her name. However, If the City of Milwaukee Elections Commission continues to try to sweep this under the rug and continues to be dishonest about what this employee did five different times, I will absolutely release her name, and I continue to demand an FBI investigation into exactly what happened.

Because I still do believe, and I've heard from multiple sources, that this woman is just beyond stupid. Like, just it is a complete incompetent hack. But as incompetent as she may be, it would be impossible not to know that you had downloaded audit logs and did not download votes. This is someone also who is high up in the City of Milwaukee Elections Commission office. Because as I understand it, the only people who have access to the keys that will allow you to even download data from these tabulators are the election director, Paulina Gutierrez, and her deputy directors. So I'll let you kind of narrow it down from there, but I am not going to... be accused of doxing a woman who, again, I have no evidence, nor am I saying that anything nefarious took place. Again, Hanlon's razor is almost invariably the correct interpretation of anything like this that goes on. Never assume malevolence when incompetence is the better explanation. When it comes to government, always assume incompetence. However, it is getting real difficult to assume incompetence when you see the screen that A.J. Buy it poor. posted on X and put on the CBS 58 10 o'clock news. I mean, it was just it, this is a truly incredible scoop by buy it poor. I don't know. Is the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, they don't want to give poor AJ Buy it poor the credit he deserves for breaking this story. And that's why they haven't reported on this at all. I don't see. how it is possible that somebody could not tell at Central Count how this woman, this deputy director, did not know that she was downloading audit logs. Now, if there were a nefarious explanation, If you were trying to do something nefarious, and again, I don't think, I think it was always going to be an insanely tall order for Francesca Hong to make up the difference in 28,000 votes, a 3,500 vote gap. She didn't lose the election because of the late arriving miscounted or mis-tabulated misreported votes in the city of Milwaukee. She lost because she did not run up the score in the city of Madison. She did not run up Dane County. Had she done so, she would have been the nominee and it wouldn't have even been close.

Because she actually outperformed expectations in Crowley's Milwaukee County. She underperformed in Dane County. Clearly, the memo had gone out. Democrats rigged the primary for Crowley by basically blackmailing poor Mandela Barnes out of the race by threatening to reveal much more about his dalliances with young women throughout the years. I've never heard of a political party. creating an opposition research dossier on its own candidate, but that's exactly what the Democratic Party of Wisconsin did. My goodness, hair-lip, Devin Remaker, that is about the dirtiest of dirty tricks. And here I thought this guy was just an incompetent boob. Turns out this probably had nothing to do with him. It was Democratic Party lawyers, likely at the behest of their billionaire donors trying to keep Mandela Barnes out of this race. He gets in the race. They release the dossier when they need to force him out. In any event, while this likely doesn't change the outcome, if somebody would have wanted to. What this delay allowed was for the Green County and Fondalak County votes to be reported. And it allowed for if somebody was going to be just kind of waiting for everybody, if they just needed a little bit more time to put in some votes or maybe, you know, you kind of hold some votes back. While everybody else is at the Milwaukee County Courthouse and you're just kind of chilling at Central Count while everybody else in this, all the media is gone. Everybody else is gone. This would probably be a pretty good diversion to get everybody out of Central Count while something nefarious was going on. Again, I have nothing to suggest. I have no evidence that there was. But because this is such an important thing, because this is about election integrity, this is about our democracy, this is about protecting and defending our democracy and Democrats, look, this does not involve conservatives, Republicans like me at all. This is a 100% Democrat election. I have no dog in this fight. Would I have liked to have faced crazy Francesca Hong? Well, yeah, just because I wanted three more months of doing my Francesca Hong impression. My favorite holiday is Thanksgiving. Yeah, I don't really want to ban it. I love it. That is a shockingly accurate impression of Francesca Hong. Don't believe me, watch her interview with Politico Playbooks podcast. So we have the clip. Seriously, this, this, this is Francesca Hong. My favorite holiday is Thanksgiving. So I just wanted to do my impression for three more months.

But I really do care about the integrity of our election. I do care about our democracy. And that is why I believe a truly independent body like the FBI. I don't believe that Josh Cole can fairly investigate this. He's on the ballot in November. He obviously has a stake in this election. There cannot be a state election. I thought, was it, Scott Krug said, oh, well, we need a legislative election. No, every single assembly representative is on the ballot. The FBI needs to get involved in this. There are simply too many questions that... cannot be answered and have not been answered honestly by the Milwaukee Election Commission, which apparently now is just shutting up. They are not answering any questions. Paulina Gutierrez is wisely, I think, listening to the city's attorneys and saying don't answer any questions because you very well could face lawsuits. You very well could face a criminal probe. That's how deadly serious this stuff. Is it far more likely that this was incompetence? Yes. But incompetence or corruption are the only two explanations here. There is no third. Tuesday's central count had approximately 28,000 absentee ballots to count from in-person absentee voting, mail-in voting, whatever. They had nine high-speed tabulators. Those tabulators can process approximately 300 ballots per minute. All ballots need to be counted by 8 p.m. per state law. How exactly when you have nine... ballots or nine tabulators and 28,000 ballots. So if you're doing 900 or excuse me, 300 per minute times nine tabulators, you've got 2,700 ballots that you can process per minute. Okay. So if you're going 28,000 ballots.

And you've got 2,800 per minute. You can do all of them in 10 minutes. Now, of course, you can't do all because you need to take them out. You need to take them out of the envelope. You need to get them in. You need to physically put them in the tabulator. A conservative estimate for how long it should take to do 28,000 ballots, which is not a lot of ballots when you've got high-speed tab. That's the whole reason they have so many high-speed tabulators. That's the reason we're told that you need to have a central count facility. Now. The reason that there's a central count facility and not, you know, the Election Commission office at City Hall is because there are early vote locations all across the city in direct violation of state law. State law is very clear. You can have one location for early voting. One. Mail-in ballots can be sent to one location. One. If it is somewhere other than the clerk's office or the election commission's office, then that is the only location that can be used for voting. Every other community, save for the Democrat ones, Milwaukee, Madison, I believe Racine has multiple in-person early voting locations. Every other community seems to get by just fine with just one early voting location.

We use central count so all of the votes can be tabulated there quickly. They are not. A conservative estimate for if you're starting at, say, polls open at 7 o'clock, let's say you start feeding the machines at 9. It should take you maybe 3 or 4 hours to get all 28,000 in. This is not something that should take. You could probably do, I'm guessing, 1,800 every 15 minutes. They were doing an average of about 1,800 per hour. Why were they going so slow? Well. If you ask Wisconsin Election Commission member Ann Jacobs, which A.J. Byett Poor, CBS 58 did, she would tell you that it was because, you know, they just, they don't have enough funding. The Wisconsin Elections Commission is the entity that is responsible for overseeing, as you could imagine, elections in Wisconsin. This woman, a Democrat. of course from milwaukee of course said well they just didn't have enough money and by it poor went through all of the recent examples of major major issues with absentee voting in milwaukee most recently in twenty twenty four the uh... vote machines themselves were left unsecured that they were unlocked and they were just kind of sitting there at central count And Jacob said, well, I don't know about all that, but what I can tell you is that they probably just need more funding. I don't know the answer to that in the sense that I don't know the limitations that the Milwaukee Elections Commission staff are working under. I don't know their budgetary limitations, their personnel limitations. Certainly, when we see things like this happen, we want them to be fixed right away. We want procedures in place that they never happen again. So with regards to those machine doors being open, which was quite the thing, when I arrived at Central Count the other day, I definitely went through and looked at the machines, and they were all locked and sealed and very visible to anyone who wanted to see that. So it's one of those things where you hope that people are forecasting what could go wrong, but we definitely learned from things that have gone wrong. On X, formerly known as Twitter, I asked Ann Jacobs, who is very, very vocal on social media.

How exactly are we supposed to fund literacy training for the deputy election commission director so she can read when the giant pop-up on the screen says, are you sure you want to export audit log data? And then when she hit confirm, a pop-up says, okay, exporting audit-log data. So unless we're paying for this woman to actually... Learn to read. I fail to see how more funding would be responsible for this. Again, folks, when there are this many questions and when you've got people like Anne Jacobs, clearly a partisan hack who doesn't want to actually contemplate why exactly somebody might be so incompetent as to five different times. Download audit log data instead of vote totals defying every, every reasonable expectation of competence. Look, someone texted on the Carpetland USA Flooring Center talk and text line yesterday. A great line from Casina. It's you're either too stupid to work here or you're in on the scam. There's no third option. Either this woman needs to be fired immediately. Paulina Gutierrez, the Elections Commission executive director, needs to be removed from office immediately. Her entire staff needs to be removed from office immediately because of this screw up. Or. There need to be criminal charges filed because there was severe corruption. And the fact that they are now totally silent after lying about not being able to tell. that they were downloading incorrect. They were caught in a lie. A.J. Buyett Poor's video is so significant. That screen capture is so significant because it proved that they were lying, that there was just no way to tell that they were downloading the wrong data. It was impossible not to tell you were downloading the wrong data. That's a lie. When that happens, you need to have an independent third party investigate, not the Wisconsin Elections Commission. not the state legislature, the FBI. You're listening to the Dan O'Donnell. At the beginning of this program, I told you that we broke a very big story, so big that it is also the lead story at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, just totally copied it right from the Heartland Post, that the top deputy to the Milwaukee County Clerk of Court, Anna Maria Hodges, a woman named Sumatraia Matthews.

is under arrest and currently in the Milwaukee County Jail for helping run a drug house. There is apparently a drug sting in her basement where according to a search warrant that the journal Sentinel obtained that there was a whole lot of fentanyl and cocaine found in this basement. Now. I speculated in my article on the Heartland Post that Sumatria Matthews, who retired in 2022 after 23 years with the county, she started in 1999, she was in the division of deputy administrators. And. I speculated that she retired with a full pension and probably had a pension backdrop. Milwaukee County's clerk of court, Anna Maria Hodges, emailed me back very upset, say, Dan, she did not have a pension. I respectfully request that you change your reporting to reflect this. I said, okay, clerk Hodges, do you have proof she didn't have a pension? I was referred to the HR department. Ladies and gentlemen, I can now confirm, not from the HR department, but through my ways of getting information. Sumatria Matthews does have a pension and is absolutely double dipping in rather obvious violation of Milwaukee County ordinance. In other words, your clerk of circuit court is lying. She was lying to me. She's lying to you. She has been lying about all of this. Now, lest you think that Dan O'Donnell is just making this up, I am literally looking at Sumatria Matthews pension. It is a 10-year certain option type of a pension. She gets the monthly amount of $2,608.65. Not only that. She has got a backdrop in the amount of $53,775. And 13 cents. Her retirement date, July 1st, 2022. Her non-backdrop amount. is $2,850.83. So every month, Samatra Matthews, who along with her significant other at her house,

had a whole lot of fentanyl and cocaine in the basement, was not only getting taxpayer-funded salary in David Crowley's Milwaukee County, she was also very likely, illegally double-dipping and getting a monthly pension of $2,608.65. Is anybody in David Crowley's Milwaukee County honest? Is anybody competent? I am hereby calling for a recall of Anna Maria Hodges for a lying, not just to me, but for employing somebody who not only was illegally keeping a drug house. And we're supposed to believe that, oh, she had no idea what the, what the boyfriend was doing at her house in the basement. But was this like the episode of The Simpsons where Homer was the beer baron when Springfield enact's prohibition? And all of his bathtub stills start exploding and he pretends that it's him passing gas when Marge is asking what's going on in the basement? Not only that, the clerk, of course, these two are best friends, okay? Samatra Matthews went back to work and started double dipping solely because... Her friend, Anna Maria Hodges, won the election for clerk of circuit court. Haja. Oh, no, no, no. Take that out. No, clerk Hodges. I am going to now include in my reporting that you lied about your friend, Sumatria Matthews, double dipping. Now, I would say, okay, well, the people in Milwaukee County won't stand for this, but apparently they will. Because corruption and incompetence are just hallmarks of David Crowley's Milwaukee County. This is just how things work, apparently. Honest to goodness, at what point do things in David Crowley's Milwaukee, the best thing you can say about him, well, at least they'll get that moving walkway fixed at some point in the next decade. This county, under this human being, wants to spend $200,000 to study how to replace the moving walkway at Mitchell International Airport that doesn't actually move anymore. You've got a judge in David Crowley's Milwaukee County trying to help an illegal immigrant criminal escape. She gets criminally charged, convicted, and sentenced this summer. Now you have got the second leading light in the Milwaukee County Clerk of Courts in David Crowley's Milwaukee County, keeping a drug house and the clerk of circuit court lying about the fact that she's double dipping.

The Milwaukee County Board 15 years ago voted to stop this practice because you can't, we think it's sort of unfair to taxpayers that we're paying the drug house woman $2,600 a month plus, I believe, a $90,000 plus a year salary, which comes out to a couple thousand dollars a month. That's clearly a violation of the double dipping ordinance. And you've got the clerk of circuit court lying about it. At what point Milwaukee, at what point Wisconsin are you going to say that David Crowley is too much of a buffoon who is too incompetent to keep his eye on all of the corrupt hacks who are working in his county's government? How does this in any way, how does somebody who oversees this county, how is he able to run a state? This is, boy, oh boy, how dare you? How dare you, Dan, lie about Sumatria Matthews double dipping? Just lying straight to my face. It's what they do. This, I hope you'll, Wisconsin, get ready for Milwaukee County style governance come January 3rd if this buffoon is somehow elected governor. The hallmark of David Crowley's Milwaukee County is that there is never, never any accountability, ever. from a Milwaukee County judge who sure was removed from the bench and criminally convicted in federal court. There was no chance in hell that a Milwaukee County judge was ever going to convict Hannah Mike Duggan. And in fact, I am actually stunned that a Milwaukee federal judge as left wing as Lynn Edelman actually allowed a jury's verdict to stand convicting her. Of course, she's appealing. her guilty conviction she was credited with time served which was a grand total of about fifteen minutes where she was booked she didn't even get community service i don't believe she didn't even have to i think she paid like a five fifty dollar fine i was some slap that you can't even call it a slap on the wrist no accountability there I'm willing to wager if the FBI does not investigate what happened with the Milwaukee Election Commission on Tuesday night and how it was very obvious that they should have been able to tell the deputy clerk or the deputy election commissioner who I know who it was. I can identify who she is. I'm just choosing not to so as not to, you know. The last thing I want is someone to be doxed, someone to be, you know, I am going to take them at their word that this was just a mistake.

This woman, then, I hope you will forgive me for saying is simply too stupid to work in the elections administration role that she's in any longer. There's just no accountability for her either. Is there going to be any accountability for the literal drug house operator? that is double dipping collecting a pension and a salary from David Crowley's milwaukee county i'm guessing not dan o'donnell show there's a reason that sarah godluski is the lieutenant governor nominee and boy oh boy is she having the time of her life David Crowley is a lot of exactly like a type A commanding personality. In fact, with the glasses that are just way too big for his head, he kind of looks like Urkel. And I don't mean that, I swear, I don't mean that to be demeaning. I mean that in a literal sense. His glasses are so big, he actually does look like Steve Urkel. Because he's not exactly the, you know, most macho alpha figure in the world. Already it's been, what, two days of these two campaigning together that Godluski is absolutely taking control of every one of their joint appearances because this woman wants nothing more than to be somebody other than the woman who married a multi-millionaire finance guy. Yeah, she doesn't want you to know she's worth, well, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Her husband is worth somewhere between $20 and $60 million. Sarah married well. She really did. She also. leveraged a failed run for the U.S. Senate four years ago into an uncontested run for lieutenant governor this year, which, by the way, I hope you know the way this is playing out. Sarah Godluski is almost certainly going to be the Democrats nominee for Senate in 2028. Francesca Hong because she dropped out of the race for Senate for Mandela Barnes. This is how Democrats work. Mandela Barnes wouldn't play ball. So they blackmailed him with the dossier that they compiled on him in October of 2025 when he was threatening to get into the race. And Democrats knew they needed some sort of insurance policy just in case they couldn't bring this guy to heal. Well, they bribed Sarah Rodriguez. They clearly said, okay, Sarah, you get out of the race. You drop out in favor of Mandela. You can run for whatever you want. Okay, not governor. But how about you run for lieutenant governor in 2026? Don't you think it's a little weird that nobody else in the state of Wisconsin on the Democrat side wanted to be lieutenant governor and what figures to be?

a big democrat year nobody wanted that position other than sarah godluski that is so weird no it's because she knew that democrats had cleared the field for her and from that position she is going to run for senate in twenty twenty eight one wonders now What Francesca Hong has been bribed with in order to not challenge what is obviously an election whose results need to be challenged. Not just a recount, since it is absolutely within the margin of a recount. It's well closer than 1%. And not only that, you have got real serious concerns about what might or might not have happened during the obvious lies. about the wrong data being downloaded onto the memory sticks. She's not challenging any of that. Why not? It is my very strong suspicion. She's been promised Mark Pocan's congressional seat in 2028. I have no inside information on this. But Francesca Hong clearly, they want her out of state government. They don't want her potentially running again in 2030 if David Crowley loses. She can represent Madison probably for the next 25 years. She can be as nuts as she wants because she's just one vote out of 435. So, Mark, I hope you enjoyed your time in Congress. It's been real, brother, but you'll have plenty of time to vacation, to, you know, travel around. You can go to Italy. You know, you can go to Costa Rica. I don't know. Seems like a place you would enjoy. But chances are, I think Francesca Hong has been promised something in exchange for just kind of going quietly and not actually challenging a very, very, very questionable results. Sizzling summer cash contest time. Wait, what? Why do I have a thing that says Sizzling summer cash contest? Seriously? I Heart Radio Music Festival Flyaway contest time. As soon as I read that, I said, wait a second. Are we sure the word is correct because the rest of the sheet is not, Eric? I am going to assume the word is correct. The word is Vegas. You have got until 555 to text it to 200, 200. If your text is picked at random, you win not just $1,000 like you could in the sizzling summer cash contest, which ended last week, but also a trip for two to Las Vegas, including round trip airfare for two, two nights, hotel stay, ground transportation, and two tickets. Two.

Both nights of the IHeart Radio Music Festival, September 18th and 19th, including such acts as the Gougatoll, Snoop Dog, and Kenny Chesney. Now, if you enter this contest, you will get a confirmation text and information. Standard data and message rates apply in this nationwide contest. The word is Vegas, if that's not actually the word. Eric Paulson is the man you need to call and continue to call. If it's not the correct word, I'm giving you his personal cell phone, and I want you to call him on that. How did you give me a sizzling summer? I thought we were out of those. Like we were out, like we had to make more copies. Okay. Last week, we ran out of, so I get a sheet that says, you know, we read all the contest information. Was it you or was it Armand that actually had to go in the garbage because we ran out of sheets? That was you. So I asked, so I don't, you know, read the wrong hours word. I'll read the word and then immediately throw it out. There's a garbage can right next to my seat. I did that. And Eric. comes in and fishes the sheet out of the garbage and says, hey, we ran out of sheets. So he takes white out and whites out the word that he had written on the last sheet that he needed to make copies of to get us through the final week of the sizzling summer cash contest. We're totally out of sheets. Yet another sheet. for the sizzling summer cash contest makes its way almost a week into the iHeart radio music festival flyaway contest into the rotation for that one we made extra copy at least at least we are forthcoming about why mistakes happen unlike the mill if i was the milwaukee election commission i would say There was just no way to be able to tell that I was actually reading the sizzling summer cash contest sheet. Even though it said sizzling summer cash contest in giant letters right at the top of the sheet, it was simply human error. And now we're going to have to wait 90 minutes. While we get you the word for the I Heart Radio Music Festival flyaway contest. Imagine if we ran contests the way the city of Milwaukee runs elections. This is what we just kind of have to accept in Milwaukee. Yeah, well, yeah, human error, what are you going to do? Yeah, yeah. Our deputy director, shh. You know, hooked on phonics apparently didn't work for her. She couldn't see the giant pop up that said, do you want to download audit data? Human error that she repeated five times. Folks, it's very clear. These people did not think there was any chance. A reporter like A.J. Buy it poor caught them in their lies.

George Christensen is a liar. Liar, liar, liar. I know people who used to play poker with George Christensen and suspected him of cheating at poker. You think I'm kidding? George, you and I both know exactly who I'm talking about. Own it. Be honest about it. And seriously, stop. Making people think that you cheat at everything. Paulina Gutierrez lied. Flat out lied to the entire city. Flat out lied to the entire country. Say, well, there was no way you could have to. Either you are employing somebody. And on Monday, I'm just going to give her name and say she's got to be fired. In fact, I'm dangerously close to just giving this woman's name and saying you either fire her for gross incompetence tonight or I'm going to assume you are all in on this. Frankly, I think the entire Milwaukee Elections Commission staff should be fired for gross incompetence because if this was human error, this is a pretty big one. And it's not as though this error just kind of existed in a vacuum. 2024, for some reason, all of the tabulator doors were just kind of open when the central count doors were opened on election morning in November. Never explained how that happened. Oh, man, weird. One of those things didn't really affect anything, but that's kind of a big screw up. I still don't have an answer as to how exactly in 2020, the flash drive with all of the votes. was forgotten and the police had to go back to get it. And then Ryan Chu of the elections group hired by Mark Zuckerberg illegally to oversee elections in five Democrat cities in Wisconsin. What exactly he meant by, Claire, you certainly have a flare for the dramatic delivering just the margin needed at 3 a.m. Oh, it was a joke, we were told. Okay, they were joking about just the margin needed because it sure seems like the margin needed was the margin needed to get Joe Biden elected president. But again, that was just that was that was incompetence as well. Folks, the FBI needs to investigate. I think this is incompetence knowing what I know and hearing what I've heard about the woman who did this. And frankly, I can absolutely see how this woman is so thoroughly incompetent and completely unworthy of the position of trust that was placed in her. So either she gets fired or I'm going to assume.

that this wasn't actually human error and she was doing exactly what she was supposed to do. There's no other option, is there? It was either gross incompetence that she should pay for her with her job and that I think Paulina Gutierrez should resign because these mistakes just sort of keep happening and because it's human error, right? I mean, human error. Five of nine, this is more than 50% of the data sticks were incorrect. As someone pointed out on the Carpetland USA Flooring Center talk and text line, if you get less than 50% on a test, you fail. Big national story today, left-wing terrorist Luigi Mangione pleads guilty to the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson at a United Conference in New York City on December 4th, 2024. Does he actually admit that what he did was wrong? Of course not. He's a left-wing terrorist. Here's his attorney after the guilty plea. As Luigi explained in court today, he endured years of severe debilitating pain following a broken back while struggling to navigate our health care and health insurance systems. Like the thousands of people who have reached out since this tragedy to share their own experiences, he believed that the system had failed him and destroyed his life. Which is kind of interesting because that's exactly. what both Elizabeth Warren and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said after Mangione was arrested. No, no, no. Of course we denounce violence in all of its forms, but this, this sort of violence is exactly what health insurance companies, like the one that Brian Thompson had been CEO of inflict upon people. It's violence, you see. Mangione's not sorry. He's a terrorist. He believes, like all left-wing goons, that society had wronged him. Not Brian Thompson, but the evil state violence of the capitalist health care system that Brian Thompson represents. And never mind that this is just an innocent father, a husband, by all accounts, an incredible human being who worked his way up from the freaking mail room. After he worked his way through college, and I think it was the University of Iowa, works all the way up the corporate ladder, totally self-made man, gunned down by some trust fund piece of garbage who should have broken his neck instead of his back and done all of society a favor because an innocent man would be alive today. Yes, I absolutely do mean that. No sympathy for terrorists or homicidal maniacs. Yet this one, because he espouses left-wing pap that all of these socialist brainless zombies eat up.

He's actually got fans outside of the federal courthouse where he's sentenced today. Like this woman, take a listen to how she answers this question from a New York Post reporter. Do you think it's wrong that he murdered someone regardless of why he did it? Everyone has a different opinion, and I'm not going to say it was wrong or right, because I do think I exist within a gray area of the opinions around this case, but I see it more as a revolutionary act of protest, the likes of which we haven't seen since the civil rights era. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, we need to shut down 20-something white women until we can figure out what the hell is going on here. I see this as a revolutionary act, the likes of which we haven't seen since the civil rights era. Somebody please explain to this idiot that MLK Jr. didn't have a body count. That civil rights movement. What, what revolutionary act, the murder of Malcolm X? By the nation of Islam? No, not the white man, not the FBI. It was absolutely the nation of Islam. Followers of Elijah Muhammad were ticked off that Malcolm dared to go against the nation and gunned him down. It was plain as day. This woman is at, is she talking about the weather underground, Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorn? who, by the way, helped launch the career of a little known politician by the name of Barack Obama. My God. Folks, this, this is an absolutely dangerous mentality. And it's not just the true nuts like Luigi Mangione who subscribe to it. The leading lights of socialism, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Francesca Hong, Elizabeth Warren. Now, they'll all say, no, no, nobody, nobody thinks like this insane person who is outside of Mangione's hearing today that murder is a revolutionary act, but they all were saying, look, we can see how people are driven to do desperate things by state violence committed by the insurance companies. That's sick. That is absolutely sick.

But this is the modern American left, ladies and gentlemen. It is the Dan O'Donnell Show, a tour de force of truth. What is going on with some of our very popular recurring segments, how bizarre, unhinged liberal of the day, daily Trump date? We are going to bring those back in some form, likely starting on Monday. As you know, we have had an issue with... Copyright. While we are allowed to use music on the air, we use Narls Barkley's Crazy as the theme song for the unhinged Liberal of the Day, for example, we're not allowed to use those on the podcasts. We have, as a company, iHeart Media, has been asking the music industry as represented by everybody always laughs when I say this, ASCAP, the ASCAP, the association of songwriters and something or other composers and producers, publishers, the association of songwriters, composers, and publishers, we think. And then BMI, which is not body mass index, but it's another one. They are not given, what's that? No, the other one is not called C-SAC. So we have ASCAP and CSAC. Really? And I'm allowed to just kind of say this stuff on the radio. I can just say ASCAP and CSAC. when I'm talking about. So we have to pay our dues. We have to pay our C-SAC fees. But they're not telling us what exactly that dollar amount is to be able to use the music that we pay a fortune to license to play on the radio on podcasts. And because I want to include these segments, because I think they're fun and they're worthwhile. We could either not include them on the podcast. We could do them without the music or without the sound effects or anything like that. But I think they lose some of their charm. So we've been kind of trying to figure out. And also, it's just been a busy week with the election and the aftermath and all of that. So we'll try to get back to normal doing our fun little segments. especially the unhinged liberal of the day. I've probably gotten 20 emails asking me, hey, Dan, did you stop doing the unhinged liberal of the day? No, we are going to be bringing it back. We just need to figure out exactly how. President Trump today, speaking in New York, talking about his successful war on crime. And in fact, it has been a phenomenal success. According to FBI data from 2024 to 2025, the nation's homicide rate experienced the biggest one-year decline ever since record-keeping began in 1900.

In select cities that President Trump has been able to partner with Republican governors and deploy federal support forces to help local and state law enforcement clean up the streets. There's been a phenomenal success led, of course. by Washington, D.C., which the president and the Congress especially do have dominion over it being a federal district. There is a mayor. There is a city council, but those essentially operate under the auspices of the Congress. Congress authorizes a mayor to exist. Congress has the ultimate authority over Washington, D.C. It's a bizarre structure to be sure. President Trump, therefore, was authorized to deploy federal forces not to do law enforcement duties per se, but just to provide a show of force and to provide support for local law enforcement in D.C., the result was immediate. And over the past year, D.C. has seen a significant drop in crime, but so, too, have liberal cities... in conservative states like Memphis, Tennessee, and New Orleans. President Trump talked about that today. In D.C., Memphis and New Orleans, we've removed over 30,000 criminals from the streets in a single year. In Memphis, crime is down 71%. In New Orleans, crime is down 75%. And in D.C. crime is down 81%.

I'll tell you, because D.C. is very personal for me, but in D.C., crime is now, it was so bad when I got there a year and a half ago. People were being murdered. Three a week on average. We have very few murders anymore. Yeah, barely any murders in Washington, D.C., which is amazing because Washington, D.C. used to be one of the most violent capitals in the entire world, believe it or not, or at least in the developed world. How does that compare to Milwaukee? David Crowley's Milwaukee? Well, the murder rate actually went up from 2024 to 2025. And when Trump talks about removing 30,000 criminals from the streets, what's he talking about? He's talking about deportations. He's been able to partner with governors to be able to go into jails and to be able to take... out illegal immigrant criminals. In fact, the only major policy change nationwide that was enacted from 2024 to 2025. was mass deportations combined with a closed southern border. President Trump today said just before getting on Air Force One to go to New York for this campaign appearance that we now have 15 straight months without a single illegal alien being released into the interior of the United States. Not one. Not one. That's actually kind of remarkable. The result. has been immediate and the result has been pronounced. Crime rate goes down exponentially. Now let's contrast that. with David Crowley, who said literally yesterday that he wants to stop illegal aliens, especially illegal alien criminals, from being deported. He's not going to cooperate with ICE. He's not going to allow President Trump to clean up Wisconsin streets. He wants criminal illegals in this state. The governor. Who's going to protect our most vulnerable populations and not be a part of a federal immigration agenda that Donald Trump has created? The federal immigration agenda that David Crowley wants is open borders. Just a flood of people coming into this country and into this state that we have no way to vet, that we have no way to know who any of these people are. He just wants him in. He said so himself. He does not want to be part of the Trump agenda, even though the Trump agenda is quite literally making people safer and saving the lives of the very vulnerable people that Crowley only pretends to care about or want to protect. Dan O'Donnell's show coming.

Whitefish Bay Little League team denied its first appearance in Wisconsin's first appearance in the Little League World Series this afternoon. They lose 7 to 6 to a team from Davinsport, Iowa, Davenport, Iowa in Whitesown, Indiana, 7 to 6 loss. Iowa sends a team to the Little League World Series for the 16th. Time. Wisconsin has never had a team in the Little League World Series. Darn. Congratulations to all those kids. They made everyone in this state proud. Unfortunately, it just came up a little short. I'm a big fan of the Little League World Series, although I sort of had mixed feelings about it because it is such a big deal. And it is such a draw. I think it contributes to the toxic culture of team sports, of youth sports in America, frankly, that everybody is just, well, I shouldn't say the professionalization of it. The fact that it's just gotten so much more like big business than just going out and having fun for pure love of the game. Although it is very entertaining. It's obviously something cool for the kids to see themselves on TV. I will never begrudge the Little League World Series, but it just, youth sports in general is not, I don't think at the highest levels of select travel ball, it's in a good place, quite frankly. You've got parents who are struggling with the high cost of everything, with Biden inflation just taking a bite out of everything. And they're expected to pay $5,000, just to get on these teams, plus another few hundred for the uniforms, plus 10,000 or more for travel, going to tournaments in God knows where every single weekend. your life becomes just about the kids sport. And if you have multiple kids playing on multiple different teams, how do you even keep the family together? Some parents swear by it. They say this is how our life is. We love it. You know, we party with the other parents on the team at the hotel pool. Great. Awesome. I just, I don't think it is healthy. When I'm seeing kids have Tommy John surgery at 14 years old, their arms are just going to hell because of overuse, that's a big problem. So, all right, end of my rant on that. David Crowley's big thing is affordability, right? The price of everything is just too high. And, of course, the biggest thing that he is hammering home is that gas is too high. And of course, it rather obviously is. Well, why exactly does he not want to lower gas?

prices interview he taped for meet the press he does not want to actually lower gas prices immediately he said so himself why rule out temporary relief at the pump Because we need permanent relief. We have actually proposed repealing the minimum markup law on gas, which is a law that's been on the books since 1939 here in the state of Wisconsin. Why not do both though? Why not do both? Why not get rid of the gas tax and then try to work toward long-term relief too? Because we need to provide long-term relief. I mean, what we have seen related to one day of cash taxes is not going to provide a sufficient amount of funds for individuals when we can provide that one time, that long-term relief. What? So why not do both? Why not provide short-term relief and long-term relief? Because we need to provide long-term relief. I thought Francesca Hong was supposed to be the dumb one in the Democratic field. Okay, just so we're clear, David Crowley actively made things less affordable in Milwaukee County. He put a 0.4% sales tax on everything because he couldn't manage the county's finances. Up of that, the county's property tax levy went up exponentially in the most recent budget signed by county executive David Crowley. David Crowley. Oh, yes, he's totally going to repeal the minimum markup law. This guy can't even stand up to the data center lobby. Okay. I'm a fan of data centers. Even I don't think they should be getting massive tax breaks, but apparently Data Center David absolutely does. Don't believe me? Here's Chris Larson. Here is a fellow Democrat saying that David Crowley, yeah, he's totally bought and paid for by the utility lobby and big data. David Crowley is the only candidate to refuse to repeal the $2 billion tax cut for data centers. Part of this may be that the $350 grand that he got from interest groups immediately after his insurance into the race came from the same groups that are building data centers. But even... Tom Tiffany has said that he would repeal that $2 billion sales tax break. Hmm. I didn't know that data center David got $350,000 from the data center lobby, did you? But yet we're to believe he's totally going to stand up to the gas lobby.

He's going to stand up to big oil and repeal the minimum markup law. Okay. Yeah. He totally sounds like the type of guy who's going to do that. By the way, the first poll post-David Crowley gubernatorial nomination is going to be released on Sunday morning. I have actually been privy, just on background, to what that poll is very likely to say. I am not going to say anything until it's actually released, I believe, 9 a.m. on Sunday, but I was somewhat surprised by this. Of course, we are going to have complete coverage on the Heartland Post on Sunday morning. Suffice it to say. that this campaign is off to the races and Tom Tiffany i think who has a very well thought out position on data centers Well, he's competing with David Crowley, who said himself just about a month ago that he wants a chicken in every pot and a data center on every farm. I do think that there's an opportunity for us to really become AI and a data hub, not only for the entire country, but for the entire globe. It really sets us really apart in making sure that we can continue to invest in businesses and companies here. I mean, I think data centers are making transform economies. Even I am not as pro data center as data center Dave. He was in your backyard. You listening to me right now. You're enjoying your patio. You know, the clouds are starting to roll in. Unfortunately, it looks like some rain might be coming in when you're sitting on your bed. David Crowley wants a data center where your neighbor's pool is right now. Chris Christie Larson certainly thinks so. David Crowley said so. But yeah, he's, he's totally going to lower your gas prices after raising the price of literally everything with a new county sales tax. Dan O'Donnell Show back to wrap things up for the week in just a couple of minutes. Gen Z, according to Eric Balchunas on X, is moving money from stocks. to sports betting in their wealth plans. 52% of them have redirected investment funds to sports betting and a quarter of them treat sports betting as a deliberate part of their long-term financial plan according to a survey from betterment. Please, if you are a Generation Z listening to me or if you have a Generation Z son. Sports betting is absolutely not a good replacement for stocks. You are never going to make the money you could make on NVIDIA on the New York Jets. And if you're betting or investment plan includes the New York Jets.

You are like, you are like David Crowley managing money. Okay, you're going to get a massive influx from the state like your mom and dad. You're going to blow it all. And then you're going to demand more money in the form of property taxes. Oh, my God. In the wheel tax, a raise in the sales tax. How do you get a ton of money from the state, David Crowley? And then have to, he's still running a $50 million deficit. They're still cutting bus routes by 25%. Maybe it's the fact that we're paying somebody like Sumatria Matthews who's currently sitting in jail on drug charges, not just a salary as the number two deputy in the Milwaukee clerk of court's office, but she's also getting a pension, something that clerk of circuit court Anna Maria Hodges deliberately lied to me about. Anna Maria. Please, I hope you have now learned what everyone else in Wisconsin already has. I have sources everywhere. I will get information from everywhere. Do not under any circumstances lie to me because I will figure it out often within just a couple of minutes. So thank you to the anonymous source who sent me. Paulina, or excuse me, Somatria Matthews pension information. I wonder if she's spending the pension on sports betting and she lost her ass and needed to make it up by selling a whole ton of fentanyl and cocaine with her boyfriend. We may find out if and when she's criminally charged. Until then, we're taking a break for the weekend. Have a wonderful one, Wisconsin back Monday afternoon here on the Dan O'Donnell Show. Please.