No BS Newshour Episode #427
El-Sayed Scampaign Donors
Elizabeth is a true believer in liberal causes and continues to make small political donations by way of ActBlue—the Democrat online fundraising platform.
(4:36) But somehow, those few dozen small donations she has made have transmogrified into 14,696 donations totaling more than $150,000—the equivalent of eight donations a day, every day for the past five years averaging $9.18.
She says she has contributed to Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Socialist running for Michigan’s U.S. Senate seat, but not 47 times spanning the last TWO YEARS, as federal filings show.
PLUS- (28:30) Wrapped up like a meatloaf.
The city’s removing soil so toxic the city has to wrap neighboring houses in cellophane.
How poisoned is it?
Why weren’t the neighbors told?
Is the homeowner wrapped inside?
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TRANSCRIPT:
Every hour on the hour, when we listen and gain our knowledge and power, we turn to the No Bullshit Hour. Live from downtown Detroit, it’s the No Bullshit News Hour, with my main man, Charlie LeDoux! And Karen Dumas. This is just a breaking news.
No more bullshit! No more bullshit! Now out in the country on a rutted dirt road lined with corn, lives an old woman and her dog. Elizabeth Waffle is 88 years old. She was forced to move into a shabby trailer after her house burned down two years ago.
She owns a pickup truck, an old one, but she doesn’t own a computer. And that’s important, because Waffle, who lives on a modest pension, is a true believer in liberal causes and continues to make small, small political donations by way of ActBlue, the Democrat online fundraising platform. But somehow, these few dozen small donations she’s made have transmogrified into 14,696 donations, totaling more than $150,000, the equivalent of eight donations a day, every day for the past five years, averaging $9.18. $150,000, Waffle said with real surprise when I told her.
Hell no, I don’t have that kind of money. She says she’s contributed to Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Socialist running for Michigan’s U.S. Senate seat, but not 47 times, not 47 times spanning the last two years as federal filing show. El-Sayed promises to get money out of politics.
He makes a great show of refusing corporate PAC money, but that’s just wordplay. El-Sayed does take special interest money. He takes money from his father-in-law, and most concerning, he takes money from ActBlue.
The subject of multiple investigations, the fundraising platform is accused of rinsing foreign money and massive private donations by using the stolen names and addresses of real, often elderly Americans to fabricate hundreds of small donor donations, names like Elizabeth Waffle. ActBlue CEO Rena Wallace-Jones recently invoked her Fifth Amendment rights 22 times during a congressional hearing regarding foreign contributions. According to FEC campaign contributions compiled by Bob Cushman, ActBlue shows Waffle donating from her trailer, even though she has no computer and spotty internet access.
It also shows her donating from an apartment she rented in town a few years ago after her house burned down. Sometimes it shows Waffle donating from both the trailer and the apartment on the same day. It shows her donating to out-of-state candidates she’s never heard of.
It’s really abnormal, said Waffle, who was sitting in her trailer threshold looking over the paperwork I’d brought. I think it’s wrong, and I think there’s something in there that’s off, she told me. El-Sayed’s campaign brags that he’s the top Michigan fundraiser off the ActBlue platform, having raised ten times the money from small donors than his primary opponent, Haley Stevens.
And Stevens also has taken ActBlue money, as has Slotkin, Whitmer, Nessel, Benson, Gilchrist, and the entire Democrat gang. But it is Abdul who plays the sanctimony card. If he’s really serious about getting corrupt money out of politics, then he ought to get out of ActBlue and return the money.
Anything else is elder abuse. And I went out there, Mark, with Ken, way out there in the country, just so people can see it, this real humble woman. Yeah, nice lady.
Yeah, why don’t we play that? Well, here we are, out in the deep, thick country of Michigan, looking for one Elizabeth Waffle. 88 years old, donated nearly $150,000 in the last five years to democratic causes. This is one of El-Sayed’s micro-donors.
Doesn’t look like the Taj Mahal by any means. Come along. Where’s the house? Okay, if I’m not back in five minutes, call somebody.
Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Hello? Woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof. Here’s a walker.
Hi, madam. Okay. Pleasure.
My name’s Charlie. Are you Elizabeth Waffle? Yeah. It says here that you’ve donated $150,000 in the last five years to various campaigns, and that you’ve made nearly 15,000 donations.
I doubt it. You want to see it? 15,000, yeah. 15,000 separate donations on the computer.
Did you make 15,000 donations in five years? $150,000? 150, hell no. I don’t have that kind of money. Do you have internet? Sometimes.
Sometimes? Yeah. Do you have a computer? No. No? So how could you make all these donations? I don’t know.
Are these all mine? Yes, this is. Now, there’s 900 pages. I ran out of paper, too.
Really? Yeah, all of these. I had bad knees, and then I went out and sprained an ankle, and so I’m… Well, with $150,000, you get those knees replaced. No, I don’t think I’ve given them that much.
When’s the last time you lived in Canfield? Well, I lived there for one year after the house burned. Oh, your house here burned, yeah? So what it has here, here’s the dates. In August 27th of 2024, you not only contributed on the same day from this address, but also from the Canfield address, so it says like you were in two places at the same time on the same day.
Well, I still own the property out here, so… Surely. Yeah. But it says how many contributions that day did you do? It’s 10.
It could be. I don’t remember quite that much of it, but… Not $150,000, though. I can’t believe it.
And not 15,000 times. Yeah. And you have spotty internet.
What’s this one? Aaron Rugenberg? Rugenberg. Rugenberg. That name doesn’t ring a bell.
Doesn’t ring a bell, huh? Doesn’t mean a bell at all. $150,000 is that number? $150,000 is very abnormal, and I think it’s wrong. I think there’s something in there that’s off.
Can you show me how to make a donation? Yeah. Okay. Okay.
Come on. Internet. This thing hates me.
I’m not on the internet right at the moment. I’ll get it straightened around one. I guess in the house if that ever happens.
How long went your house burned down? Two years ago. Oh, my goodness. Everything goes through ActBlue.
ActBlue is like the bank. So everything you do goes through ActBlue. You don’t go to amyklobuchar.com and donate.
No, I do everything through ActBlue. Okay. Gotcha.
All ActBlue. Got a couple bucks I could borrow? Are you kidding? I got a couple guys coming back to mow the lawn, and I just went through my pocket to see if I had enough money for them. Do you? I think so.
You need a couple? You need a couple bucks to give to the guys to mow your lawn? Yeah. I got it. Elizabeth, where’s your car? This one? Maybe I’ll call some of these politicians and get your money back.
Yes, ma’am. Power to the people. Is this the hole-in-one? It’s a hole-in-one.
$50,000 if you hit it. Luke Nowacki, Financial Wealth Management. What is 50 grand after tax? $37,750.
What about state tax? Yeah, I’m throwing both in there. What about sales tax? There’s no sales tax. Well, you’re buying the beer.
There’s income. You’re buying the beer. Eh, we write that off.
Luke Nowacki, Financial Wealth Management. Expense allowance. What about the magic of TV? I’m over here now.
It’s unbelievable. Oh, technology. Listen, Michigan drivers paid the highest car insurance rates in the country for years.
Why? Give me the logo, Mark. Because the system priced people on everything but their driving. Cure came to Michigan to do it differently.
Your rate is priced mainly on how well you drive, not your credit score, Detroit. You’ve been driving these roads your whole life. Get priced like it.
Drivers who switch see an average savings of over 40%. Go to cure.com, C-U-R-E.com, right now, and see what your driving is actually worth. Cure.com, save a little money, and send it to ActBlue.
They’re the bank? Dot scam. Jeez, man. That’s wild.
Poor Elizabeth. I felt bad for her. We did this before.
Remember, we went to Lansing, saw another old lady? We got dozens of these things. When do they shut it down? Oh, they won’t. Not if they’re making money on it, unless they get caught on it.
Yeah, but I mean, there’s congressional hearings. There’s DOJ investigations. How many doors do I got to knock on where you’re like, what the fuck? More.
Just more, I guess. Just keep doing it? Yeah, because not until people realize. Well, you know what’ll stop it? When people stop giving money through that website or that app.
Right? When people are aware that this is not the right way to donate money because they’re washing it or whatever they’re doing. When their staff’s quitting and their crew that’s supposed to be monitoring credit cards and scams. You got to turn the spigot off.
When they all walked away. Yeah. I don’t know.
I just feel bad for her. And that’s Elizabeth. I can’t remember the other lady’s name because it just feels like they’re being, I mean, they are being used.
They’re flat out being used. But let’s keep this for what it’s, it’s not their money. Yeah.
So it’s their identities that are being used. Well, that’s what I was going to say. We’re always so worried about identity theft or AI stealing our personal information.
They’re literally using their name and their address. It seems to me to wash donations from one place to another. So, you know, and the sanctimony of politics, right? There’s too much corporate money in there.
There’s too much dark money in there. Okay. Agreed.
Elizabeth agrees. You know, she, you know, she’s a true believer. She’s a lifelong liberal, a college professor, really nice lady.
I would think most people would agree. There’s too much corporate, large donation, large money in it on both sides. Well, you know, like when you’re running for us Senate and you say, I’m not taking any corporate PAC money.
Yeah. Like what it, where’s this money coming from and what is corporate PAC money? You know, in, in a nutshell, basically a political action committee through a corporation, a little bit more, but about the same can donate or contribute as much as an individual. Yeah.
Okay. So that’s not where the money’s at. You follow me? Yeah.
Cause there’s a cap on it. Yeah. There’s like 10,000, 11,000 in a cycle, which is close to what an individual can do.
So that’s not where it’s at when other packs are bundling, like whether you’re unions or you name it, you know what I mean? Yeah. Nonprofits. It’s the same thing.
It’s, it’s the dark money, the stuff getting washed through charities and you know what I’m saying? Yeah. To cover who really is the entity that is behind the money. Yeah.
Because charities aren’t required to say who their donors are. Exactly. You can just, you know, some super rich guy did the charity and they put it into a super PAC, which is in control by the candidate, but like you, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
It’s a fucking hustle. It is. So, you know, I wouldn’t be bragging.
I’m getting this money from all for a good loophole. Right. And generally, but this is, I don’t know, this seems a little obscene.
It’s fucked up. Yeah. Got to get rid of it.
So, you know, and again, these candidates can genuinely say, I didn’t know. Of course you didn’t know. You know, it’s, you’re not the ones raising it.
I mean, it’s this scam network. I was going to say, it’s just, it’s just a sure. It might be true, but it’s no one believe, I don’t think people believe it.
Right. There’s just so much money behind individual people. Yeah.
Well, where’s, where’s obviously you heard her. Where’s Elizabeth getting 150 grand. She’s not.
So where’d it come from? Great question. I showed her one. It was too long to show you everything, but I’m like, have you ever donated just 50 cents? She goes, no, of course not.
That’s silly. And then I’m like, then why does it say here you donated 50 cents? How many times? Oh, I do. There’s not numerous.
Yeah, I know. Well, that, that seemed to really blow her. That’s like when it really hit home tours, like 900 pages.
I mean, I couldn’t do this 900 times. I think if I heard her right when I said $15,000 or a 15,000, which is how many donations separately that apparently allegedly she, she registered. No, no, no, no.
I said, that’s the number of donations. The dollar miles, 150 grand. What’s another zero.
It just seems so scummy. You know, when I first caught onto this is when a Garland Gilchrist, who now wants to be your secretary of state, be in charge of this. Yeah.
He said he’s running for Detroit city clerk and it was decimal point difference between him and what’s her name. I forget. I’m not, not yet the year.
She’s County. Uh, whatever. Um, the clerk was, he’s, he’s out there doing jumping jacks going, ah, my small donors, my small donors.
Look at me. I’m so modern and hip. I figured out the internet, how to raise money.
And I looked at it and I’m like, what is a woman in Maine sending a dollar and 38 cents or what it was a dollar one point something like a dollar 38 to an obscure guy in Detroit for an obscure office. Right then I knew something was up. I mean, why not just, why not get rid of the cap on donations and let any individual or corporation donate whatever they want and then we’ll know who these people are.
Right. Instead of, instead of all these different layers of bullshit, you know, donate whatever you like. Wide open while West.
Well, it pretty much is if you have the means to do it right. If you have the means to cover up or, or, or wash it through different entities. So nobody, you know, a charity, so it’s not reported who it is.
Just get rid of all that garbage, bring it out in the light and have a, to have no cap on it. How about that? Just, well, the Supreme court’s already ruled like money is speech. Yeah.
So, so why is it kept anyway? It’s a good, well, you know, it’s a good question. I mean, there’s limitations on speech, so I guess you could put limitations on money if it’s speech, but I don’t know, just get rid of all this hidden stuff and these, the shell games and the moving of money and just no cap. Whatever you want to donate to whoever you want to donate and then it’s on a database and everybody sees it and everybody knows Soros is giving money here or the Cokes are giving money here or all these little people are giving $5.
It just, just do it that way. It’s, I don’t know. I mean, that’s common sense, I would suppose.
What if we just totally capped it and then that way, but they’ve already ruled on that. No, you cap it like equally for everybody, like corporations, individuals, and then that way we don’t have to be fucking bombarded with the same stupid fucking ad hour after hour, minute after minute. I gotta admit though, I, well, you know me, I like a circus.
I like chaos. So I kind of enjoy political ads because I know they’re just garbage, right? I just think they’re really kind of silly and fun in a way. I just think they’re lies.
So, but you know, unfortunately a lot of people don’t see it that way and they get rallied or fired up and excited to go vote for whomever based on their ad. Yeah, I guess so. I mean, and just the, the, the, the fact checking, uh, please industry that’s popped up, you know what I mean? I know.
So sanctimonious. It really is. It’s just prissy.
And you know, what was, it was like PolitiFact or the other one, whichever one, I think one of Pulitzer prize and red and I, there was a dead man who voted, but he didn’t vote. His son voted. They had the same name.
The dad died back in the eighties. I remember it. Yep.
And they sent the wrong absentee ballot. So the son filled it out. So a dead man voted.
We went to interview him. And then when you’re looking at these fact check organizations, they wouldn’t admit it. They said it was a clerical error and it’s been cleared up.
It can’t be cleared up once, once the top of the ballot is torn off with the number. It’s um, untraceable. Yeah.
So I called him and they never called back, never called back. I think it would help if they would just say, yeah, you know what? Sometimes mistakes are made, but it’s not widespread. It’s not this, it’s whatever you want to say.
But just to say there’s zero dead people or zero fraud, you know, I don’t know if that’s believable, but just say, you know what? Sometimes when you have 150 million votes, things fall through the cracks and we do our best. It’s not widespread. It’s not often that, um, two guys have the same name and one died and we set them the wrong one.
But when you act like that never has happened, that never, or we’ve cleared it up, then it, you’re just inviting more. It’s just like not clearing up the, you know, these, the media, the organizations made it go away because again, that’s one, one in 5 billion votes, right? But what that requires a secretary of state to do is admit that there is a man who’s been dead for 40 years, still actively, uh, actively registered to vote as federal law requires. And what’s the hangup about turning the roles over? What’s the hangup? Why is the head of ag blue taking the fifth 22 times? I don’t know.
It seems real simple to me. Well, anytime we do that, it certainly gives the appearance of malfeasance. Yeah.
And watch the commercials again. You got it. Got it.
Got to get the money out of politics. Oh, come on, man. How’d you pay for that ad? Oh, come on, man.
Act blue. I’m the, I’m the number one guy. Little people love me.
Please. No, we’re going to do some more TV magic and I’m, I’m going to like pee out in the neighborhood in just a few minutes. It’s going to be like, that’s amazing.
It’s like the genie. Yeah. The I dream of genie.
I’m going to be out there, but just speaking of like ridiculous politics, uh, we started off the show with our good friend, the late Eric Mays, America’s city councilman from Flint every hour on the hour. Now they hounded up in Flint, man. It’s pretty, pretty gnarly up there.
Pretty. Yeah. Everybody knows we’ve covered it a lot.
Uh, they hounded Eric into a heart attack and he died and he lived in the first ward. Loved the first ward. It was, you know, I, we should put, put something up at the end of the program.
I’ll throw something. Okay. Yeah.
And, um, to fill his seat, uh, mayor Sheldon Neely appointed, um, Leon L Alameen 45 formerly Leon Wilson who found Islam in prison number of years ago, um, when he did a seven year bid for crack cocaine and firearms in a shootout over a drug turf war. And that was expunged by Whitmer is a clean slate act, right? Well now the man is in October, he’s running for reelection. So he was appointed and then he won election in the first ward.
Um, and then he caught a felony domestic assault case and that’s going to be in October just before the election. And then last week he was charged with felony election fraud. Oh my God.
Great guy. Claiming he lived in the first ward in Eric’s neighborhood, but he doesn’t live in the first ward allegedly. At least that’s what the charges allege.
He lived in a town, uh, you know, nearby called Mount Morris township in a home that has been the victim of arson three times. Oh wow. What are the odds of that? I don’t know.
It’s crazy. Hope it was insured three times. I’d like to see the premium on the third one.
Oh my God. Right. So he’s got rental properties publicly, you know, paid for it.
People are there. And it’s alleged that he just simply signed up at one of his renter’s houses and he got caught and it was, it was referred to Jocelyn Benson, the secretary of state who refused to look into it. Oh, you know, territorial disputes.
That’s that’s Flint. You have the power, madam. This on.
Okay. So who does this guy know so well? What does he have on them? Why is he worth it? He knows mayor Sheldon Neely and he was appointed by Neely and that was a five vote. Now Neely has a five vote block, which amongst other things blocked the city council from looking into how Neely was spending the public’s money.
Wow. You feel all this? Yeah. Yeah.
We got a picture of the cat. Yeah. There is that one.
That’s a nice one. Yeah. Oh, there’s a, he and Whitmer.
There you go. Oh man. With his little name tag.
Now what do we got here? How embarrassing? I don’t understand why he would be worth it for Benson not to look into it. I think memory serves. He was, uh, there was a little viral video of, of him with a semi auto evicting a single mother and her teenage son at one of his rental houses of memory serves.
If not, I apologize. You know? Wow. What a guy.
What a representative. Oh my goodness, folks. Oh man.
I wish, I wish Eric was still here. Yeah. You could say what you want about him, but he gave a shit and he took people to task.
You know, he, he took on the, uh, the chief of police. We were watching that before the show. He was open.
Yeah. He was an open book. Yeah.
Yeah. Maybe he had some skeletons, but very, very minor. Right.
I’d like to party. Yeah. It’s, you know, like whatever, you know, that’s my kind of representative driving northbound on the southbound, uh, I don’t know what happens for 75 flat tires, have arson at his house three times.
He represented himself. Yeah. Oh, I like the guy, you know, and they didn’t have him take his dentures out when they did the breathalyzer.
Really? Yeah. Which could you register a false positive. So in his summation of the jury, he said, ladies and gentlemen, if the teeth don’t fit, you must acquit.
And he took them out and he put them, they convicted him. I would have acquitted him just for the theatrics. And there he sat in the Genesee County jail, looking down at the swearing in of the mayor of which he was supposed to be.
Do you remember that story? Yeah. Yeah. Uh huh.
The clerk made a mistake and told everybody they had a week more to file their applications. And nobody did early except Eric. She got the date wrong.
So they colluded, the Republicans and the Democrats colluded to keep Eric out of office. And he’s sitting up in jail watching the inauguration, the swearing in poor little Eric, how much more shit can Flint go through? Yeah. Well, now you got this.
Um, okay. I’m starting to think you all know me a long time. You might be bored with it, but you, you got to stay with me because what I’m going to show you with all this toxic dirt, it’s, I don’t want to sound like a nut, but I think I have a track record in this town.
This is really looking like some kind of conspiracy, like too many people, too many agencies, too many politicians, too many contractors are involved in this not to think otherwise. So what I’m going to do after this commercial break is jettison myself to the neighborhood. You all remember the Mike Duggan said it would cost about $18,000 to clean up these toxic holes.
Well, now there’s one where it’s going to cost at least $93,000 to dig up one hole where a house stood, take, take the poison dirt somewhere and then get some new dirt and put it in. And that’s one, which begs the question, why, what’s in it? Yeah. Well, all right.
I’m sure there’s a detailed report with exactly, well, I’ll see you from the neighborhood right after this. Well, you know, when it rains, the power goes out and when the power goes out, the internet goes out. When the internet goes out, I call my friend, Matt and Bernie at XG service group.
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All right, you’re gonna love this. Okay, so I’m out here on 25th Street and that’s the poison hole right there. That’s the $93,000 a hole.
I don’t know what’s in there, but they got it covered in plastic. I don’t know if that works, but to fix it, they’re gonna wrap this house in plastic. I don’t know if you can see it.
Yeah. So when they dig this up, it doesn’t blow on this radio house. I don’t know what that’s gonna cost.
I mean, I never heard of that. Wrapping it like a meatloaf. No, there’s no way to run anything.
No. What’s going on, brother? We’re gonna wrap it like a meatloaf? What’s in here? I don’t know. You maybe want to wear something? Yeah, that’s nuts.
Yeah, good. Yeah, appreciate you. That’s crazy.
I never seen it. Have you ever wrapped a house before? Yes, he said. Ain’t nobody in there, right? That’s okay.
So there you go. They’re gonna wrap the meatloaf and morning, take out the shit. Now, I don’t know what the fuck they put in here.
If you go online, like the city pretending like they’re publishing test results. But if you look this one up, there are no test results. They’re not telling the public.
He is out here wrapping a meatloaf. Now, one of the neighborhoods, if you look around it, they tore everything down it. And no telling what’s in any of this.
But across the street, there’s one house. And I got a trampoline for like kids. And then I wrap in this house.
This one’s occupied. Grass is mowed. Let’s see what’s in here.
Minority woman veteran contract. Hmm. I didn’t check out this house.
See if they got warned. It’s a nice house. City said they warn everybody.
Audios are mark. Give me a thumbs up if you can hear me, brother. Yeah, no, everything.
Everything’s good. Looking good. You can see it all.
Oh, yeah. Is that shit nuts? It’s insane. I just can’t believe that that house across the street.
Grabbing it like a meatloaf. What’s up? Good, good, good. Well, I’m doing better than them.
Yeah. Wow. It says home sweet home here on the porch.
Very nice. Yeah. They take care of their house.
I’d be wrapped the kids trampoline. Yeah. Let’s go.
Let’s go. Let’s go back over here. This is just fucking outrageous.
Why aren’t they telling the people? Oh, the city’s here. Why aren’t they telling the people what the fuck they put in the ground? Oh, how are you? Wonderful. How are you doing? I’m Charlie.
I’m a reporter. You know what they’re doing over here? Let me. OK, I’ll put it like this.
Yeah, yeah, I do. You look good, though. You don’t know what you’re doing.
The city said you spoke. You got kids, don’t you? Yeah. Little ones.
OK. See that pile of plastic? I’m gonna put it that way. See that pile of plastic right there that they put dirt in there when they tore it down.
And it’s so poisonous. They got it. It’s going to cost about 100 grand to pull it up and they’re going to wrap this house like it’s a meatloaf to keep the toxic soil from blowing on it.
But what about you? Stay right here. It’s a lady that stay in there. She in there right now.
So they said she not in there. Her car is in there. Her car is the black car.
That one right between the truck, therefore. So the lady’s in there. She’s been there since.
Oh, shit. And they didn’t tell you nothing. I got a letter.
What the letter say? Did they say it’s dangerous? You should leave for a couple of days. Oh, wow. How’s that make you feel? The one walking right there.
Yeah. Right. OK, that’s her with the purse there.
That’s the lady who lives in that house. I think so. OK, I’m gonna go ask her.
So they didn’t tell you this is dangerous. You might want to get your babies out of here. You might want to get yourself out of here.
If you’re wrapping a house. Holy shit, man, is that your house? How you doing? I never seen a house. I never seen a house get wrapped like a meatloaf.
Oh, my Lord. Is the lady still in there? Oh, they don’t know if the lady’s still in there. Holy shit.
Oh, God. I’m just going to go up to the door and make sure the lady ain’t in there. Yeah.
You still with me, Mark? Yeah. That’s wild, man. I don’t know if the lady’s still in there.
I hope she’s not. Oh, good. He’s got his gear on.
How you doing, man? At least he’s all right. I heard the lady might be in there. That’s what the neighbor told me.
I’m going to check, all right, because I’m glad you’re wearing your stuff, man. Shit, they’re all in the spaceman gear now. Oh, God.
Nice communication. I hope that lady’s not in there. No.
Mm-mm. They wrap her all up in there? How would you know? You wouldn’t? My, my, my, my, my. They love secrets.
Mine, this is not good. What the fuck did they do to this city? Okay, Mark, come back here and let me see if I could see you. Yep.
Okay. Now, this is what’s been alleged amongst other places, right? They went and got shitty, toxic soil. They threw it in there.
It was supposed to be disposed of. So, contractors didn’t have to pay to dispose of it. Then they threw it in shit like this and then charged the city for it.
And we did some stories. One was about this shit coming from the Northland Mall. Not this one particularly, but other ones.
Office of Inspector General confirmed that. There’s a sprawling FBI investigation. Now, in the meantime, I’m going to play some video for you.
This was Sunday morning, around 8 in the morning, this past Sunday. I stopped by the Northland site in Southfield, Michigan. Remember, it’s alleged that poison material came from there.
We’re trying to get analytical studies. They won’t give them to us. We can’t get any state health agencies, federal health agencies to even help.
Look at the state of this. You got to wrap a house. It’s bad.
I went by Northland at 8 in the morning on Sunday, and I saw a contractor taking that dirt. I don’t know if the dirt’s clean. I don’t know if it’s contaminated.
I just noticed a lot of questions about it, FBI investigation, et cetera. And here’s what they were doing. They were taking the soil and sifting it and making it into topsoil for sale.
Here you go. Well, there they are. They’re taking that questionable dirt that was buried in Detroit that’s poison and they’re making topsoil here at the Northland Mall.
See, I told you, man. Why would you be working at 8 in the morning on a Sunday so no one can see you? When are we going to get some help? That’s nuts. That’s insane.
Now we’re back over here. These guys in the protective gear, they’re protecting the house. I don’t know what’s in there.
That lady hadn’t been told it’s toxic. The city promised they would. Man, I don’t know.
I don’t know. If you’re listening and you belong to the bureaucracy, it’s your duty to help that woman, even these cats. It’s your duty.
This is some scam-ass shit and it’s big. A couple of counties, a couple of municipalities, contractors, as I said before, before I magically appeared out here. Damn.
Okay. That’s where we’re at. I’m going to throw back to you, Mark, and maybe take us out with Eric Mays, a city councilman who gave a shit about his people.
The only guy in the city council that was against that water deal, Flint. Good luck. We’ll see you next week.
Look at this one more time. We don’t know if the lady’s in there. We don’t know if the lady’s in there.
Don’t know. All right. Peace.
Flint city councilman Eric Mays with some time on his hands these days and he’s catching up with a little laundry here, taking his drawers in the Kim’s dry cleaners. One black work suit, one navy blue city councilman suit. That’s Mr. Choi.
This is his dry cleaning shop. I really like him. He’s working very hard for the city.
Yeah. Well, thank you. Yeah.
I talked to a lot of people. He’s a good counselor. Good work.
His fellow council members voted him to go away for one month. You got a big fan here. This guy loves you.
What happened? I called two of the councilmen and somebody in the mayor’s office. A bad name. What was, what was the name? What’s your pet name? I’m scared to say it.
No, go ahead. I called them assholes. Oh, that’s good.
That’s good. And so they voted me out for 30 days for saying that. I don’t think you can do that.
So call somebody an asshole. That’s it. That’s it.
I think there’s some politics at work. A man call you an asshole and he threw a democratically elected councilman. You call somebody an asshole and they tell you to go away.
Mr. Choi. Yes. Where are you from? I’m from the South Korea, South Korea.
So when you were growing up, it was a dictatorship, right? Yeah. Big dictatorship, very corrupt. Yeah.
Did they ban people from parliament, from calling each other asshole? Yeah, I was reading that. And the thing that they put you out for 30 days. Yeah, we don’t think they can do that.
We’re in court right now. We’re going to find out. We’ll just wait for the time and just going on in there and then you just kind of, you know, talk to them a little, justify.
No, they talk to me a certain way. I talk to them a certain way. You ain’t got to act the way they act.
Never said a mumbling word for me. Discrimination is defined by law. It’s different treatment for the same or similar conduct.
The same or similar conduct is evil calling me a narcissistic asshole. I called them all assholes. Eva Worthing called me a narcissistic asshole.
I told her, because she asked, did I want her to say it again? I said, yeah. And then Councilwoman Burns said, well, you told her to say it. I say, what if I told her to do a flip off of the Mackinac Bridge? Would she do it? I say, what if I told her to do a double flip belly flop off of the roof of city hall? Would she do it? The Mayor, Senators, Deputy Chief of Staff in the meeting, which started at six o’clock and about a quarter to seven, they had seven or eight police lined up.
What the hell is going on in this town? You ain’t got freedom of speech, some might think. Let’s see what the courts say. You think they’re going after you just because you annoy them? Not just because I annoy them, because I try to uncover corruption.
I call it out like I see it. I know what people doing right and wrong. I know which council people the Mayor’s calling to his office.
I know who’s in cahoots with who. And we got all that federal Biden money. I’m highly suspicious.
That’s why they’re trying to take me off the scene for the next 30 days while people maneuver and vote on that 30 to 50 million dollars. Is that coming this month while you’re gone? It’s on the agenda now. It was on the agenda when they made the bogus move to put me out.
Wednesday’s the City Council meeting? Yeah, Wednesday, August the 9th. So if you’re not reinstated, will you be going as a private citizen? Yeah, I might speak during public comment. But isn’t that capped at two minutes? Huh? Isn’t public comment capped at two minutes per person? Yeah, if I speak three, I might be arrested.
Yeah. Oh, I’m nervous. So long, Councilman.
Good luck.
