No BS Newshour Episode #417
Lefty Besties
(18:13) Whitmer gal pal Fay Beydoun now indicted on $20 million scam.
What Gov. Whitmer did & what she knew.
(0:04) Finally- a suspect identified in the Southfield poison dirt scandal.
The problem is, it’s me… for trespassing.
(54:04) Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield a homewrecker?
(1:03:43) Mike Duggan’s Epstein connection.
(1:06:35) AND Spencer Pratt- with enemies like this he just might win the LA Mayoral race.
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TRANSCRIPT:
How you doing? I’m Charlie Leduff. I’m here to surrender myself and I’m his lawyer. Well, one guy’s finally being brought to justice concerning the mass poisoning of Southfield, Michigan.
That’s right. Me. Some twit filed a complaint that I was trespassing at the old Northland Mall site.
Aren’t you going to frisk me, officer? My client demands to be frisked. It’s constitutional right of due process. Now contractors connected to the mayor of Detroit are being investigated by the FBI for using poison dirt allegedly gotten here at the old Northland Mall site in Southfield, Michigan.
This is a kangaroo justice system. My client is just out here trying to do the work of the people to expose corruption and graft. And every time we try to get an answer from the mayor of Southfield, Ken Seifer, he runs away like a chicken.
Oh, wait a minute now. My gloves are coming off. This ain’t right.
Now here’s where the story takes a bizarre twist. The developer has filed a trespassing charge against me, even though the sign that is half built condominiums say, come on in. What a joke.
We’ll bring it on. We say we’ll take it all the way to the Supreme Court. You cannot run away while you poison our people.
And I got the lawyer. And he wants to be cuffed and maybe spanked a little bit if you don’t mind. We got time for that.
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 tags? $37,750. What about state tax? Yeah, that’s, I’m throwing both in there. Sales tax.
There’s no sales tax. Well, you’re buying the beer. You’ll buy the beer.
Eh, we rate that off. Luke Nowacki, financial wealth management. 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. Look at Bernie here on his hands and knees, giving it everything he’s got.
Look at that man crack. So busy. He forgot to wear a belt.
There’s Matt right there getting the board together. That’s 734-245-4100. If you need Matt and Bernie, take care of your voice over internet, your security cameras, off-campus access control, Wi-Fi and cameras for homes and business, they’ll design it for you.
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Guests today, you got Nasser Beydoun gonna be on the show, former United States Senate candidate and chairman of the board. Former. Former chairman of the board of the Arab American Chamber of Commerce and- American Arab.
Talk into the microphone. American Arab. Say it again then.
Former chairman, American Arab Chamber of Commerce. American Arab and Chaldean? No, not Chaldean. That’s a different one, right? That’s a totally different one.
God, there’s a lot of those. And then Jason Rowe, political strategist, amateur. What was that again? What’d you say it was? Comedian.
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Call XG Services at 734-245-4100. Live from downtown Detroit, it’s the No Bullshit News Hour with my main man, Charlie LaDoc. And Karen Dumas.
Who’s still breaking this? No more bullshit. No more bullshit. All right, now let me put a period on this bullshit.
You saw that, I’m catching a charge in Southfield. I did this, Nasser. I did this.
I did this, Jason. I didn’t do this. I didn’t do Flint either.
Flint got poisoned, but nobody did a single day in jail. People got sick and some died from water fed to them from a river, famously polluted with car batteries and corpses. And the hogs responsible for that calamity, they’re probably laughing it up somewhere right now over a porterhouse and a glass of pinot.
Now, it’s the people of Southfield who may be the latest victims of a mass poisoning. This time, it’s toxic dirt. Will anyone, anyone get charged for that? So far, I seem to be the only person who’s caught a case.
Now, it’s no secret that the FBI has opened a book on former Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, who’s dying in the polls and his demolition program. Authorities allege that Duggan’s handpicked contractor, who was allowed to run wild, hang out for the end of the show. We have a new segment.
See you next Tuesday. Little update on that. He was caught throwing contaminated soil, too toxic for human touch, into holes where houses once stood and charging big bucks for it.
Where did Duggan’s contractor get his dirt? Investors gators say at least some of it came from Southfield, specifically the old Northland Mall site that has been under redevelopment for the better part of a fucking decade. The dirt there was supposed to go to a landfill. Instead, it was used to fill people’s pockets.
No one seems to be digging in the Southfield side of things. Now, as far as I know, not the feds, not the EPA, not the attorney general, not state environmental regulators, not even the newspapers, even though Northland site still has mountains of dirt blowing all over the community. If you’re in the area, nine in Greenfield, go look at it.
So I called the Southfield Police Department to check up on the status of the complaint I filed a few weeks ago that that complaint alleged crimes against humanity. That case is going nowhere, a detective told me. I was informed, however, that a case has been opened up on me trespassing.
The police department even put two detectives on the case, two detectives on the case, two detectives on the case. According to the complaint filed by the developer, there’s been an ongoing quote. There’s been an ongoing trespassing issue with Charlie Ladoff, one of which he recorded a YouTube video on the property.
Now, the developer, Contour Company’s vice president, Dave Davoukai, further stated in this complaint that it is unknown where Ladoff is making his entry. Like I’m kind of fucking ninja some shit. It’s real.
It’s an open site. It’s real simple, Dave. Through the open gates near the unfurnished offices of the unfurnished condominium block, where a curious member of the public might inquire about purchasing a half-finished condo surrounded by contaminated dirt.
Simple. Doesn’t take a big imagination. We’re a year into this scandal and I’m the only one who’s caught some legal paperwork.
The whole episode is so cockamamie that as you saw, I brought along Joe DeMarco to the Southfield Police Department this week to act as my representative as I surrendered myself to authorities. DeMarco does not have a law degree, but he does own a shabby chicken costume and possesses a certificate of completion from the Spexhoward School of Media Arts. Now, I figured this at least qualifies DeMarco as a legitimate alternative to the current mayor of Southfield, Ken Siver.
I promised the detective a very nice guy that I would keep to myself and keep on the sidewalk. But I also promise you, the people of Detroit, and you, the people of Southfield, that I’ll get to the bottom of things. And I want to reiterate, I want to apologize to the people of Flint.
I didn’t do enough. It won’t happen again. I welcome Nasser Badun, Jason Rowe.
Okay, before we get to the great teap, not coffee pot scandal. Where do you think this goes? You guys been around forever? One, do you think we’ll get some justice? Two, is this having an effect this political year? You’re talking about the teap, the coffee pot? No, the Detroit demolition. Well, I mean, it’s starting to get traction.
I mean, the Detroit News actually wrote something, albeit they masked a lot of the stuff that you’re revealing. It is remarkable to me that they’re out there trying to sign up new tenants when these things aren’t even completed. You saw the latest polls, right? We’ll go into it later.
Duggan’s slid seven points. Do you think three months of people hearing about this makes them say, hey, big city boss, maybe not? Well, I’m biased, Charlie. I’m supporting Mike Duggan.
And I don’t believe in polls. I mean, polls go up and down. So I’ll wait to see the end result.
But I think he’s going to be the next governor of Michigan. If I got something to say about it, I ain’t even be gone, bro. I watch the guy for 12 years.
Do you believe in polls, Jason? I believe in trends and polls. I don’t think these snapshots in time are very revealing. Frankly, I don’t think the media should do public polls because how people feel about things should not be influencing how other people feel about things.
We should be making decisions on our own. Polls should be for people like me to work out the messaging in a campaign and understand what motivates people. But these snapshots in time, because a lot of people will hear a poll and see that something is a popular position or a popular politician and gravitate to it because other people are.
So I think it kind of corrupts the views of voters when they are thinking about these things. I happen to think if Mike Duggan a year ago was told that he’d be at 23 percent as an independent, he’d be pretty damn happy being in the position that he’s in. He doesn’t have a primary in August.
The Republicans and the Democrats do. He’s six months away from the ballot. They’re three months away from the ballot.
I don’t think voters really have a sense even of who Benson is. I mean, in the Emerson poll a couple of weeks ago, Benson was losing 36 percent of the vote to Chris Watson, who nobody even knows. Chris Watson got the IBEW endorsement three, four weeks ago.
Why is the sitting secretary of state, who is likely the nominee of the Democratic Party, losing endorsements to a candidate who doesn’t really look like he’s going to be a viable candidate? The Michigan Education Association, the Teachers Association this week decided not to endorse in this race. That’s an incredible thing that’s popped up. And from what I understand, Chris Watson came in first in the vote for the endorsement, and Duggan came in second.
Benson came in third. Gretchen Whitmer, the vice chairman of the Democratic Governors Association, has not endorsed Jocelyn Benson. So I think she’s incredibly weak right now, and I think Duggan is going to capitalize on her weaknesses.
But, you know, we’re seeing like he’s not. She’s got the base. Looks like six months away.
Exactly. And she doesn’t have the base. Nobody likes her.
Nobody likes any of them. I know. Well, you have to pick the best of the worst.
Hey, man, fix my camera. Look, I look like look at this. Bring it negative for all of you people want to do a podcast like Nasser.
See the framing? Go ahead. Bring that down just a little bit more. Make me look bigger in there.
Oh, there you go. He just wants to look taller than me. Look at how short you are.
Look at that. Can you fix his? Want him to feel good? Well, you know, just just before I’m going to just be on this for a minute. It is interesting to me when all this demolition shit was going on.
The chief operating officer of Detroit was Dave Mass around is now working real estate for him and trying to ram that rems and bullshit down our throat before he came to Detroit. He was the bond attorney that put the whole Flint deal together. You don’t think that that’s going to be an issue in Genesee County, which is what? Eight largest county.
Oh, that matters. That meant people don’t know anything yet. So no way.
Yeah, but the people really care. Watch this. The people of Flint really care.
OK, and there’s the nurses union. You know, that’s like strikes going on and everything. What happened over at the DMC? Oh, there’s a lot to do.
We’ll talk about it. All right. We’ll move along.
But here’s let’s talk about the great coffee pot scandal. I don’t know how to introduce this thing. OK, it’s, again, not of interest to a lot of people, but.
Inside the political world, it’s it’s a huge smoking scandal, and it’s has to do with Faye Bedouin, Gal Palo Wetmers, former vice chairman of the Democratic State Party, just like Tracy Kornack was the treasurer of the Democratic State Party. Also a wine Palo Wetmers. Faye Bedouin.
Is she a relation? Yeah, she’s a cousin. What about Hassan Bedouin? He’s a cousin. Oh, jeez.
Get them all in. We’ll have a family reunion day. First cousin, second cousin, kissing cousin, third cousin, fourth cousin.
Oh, it’s not. We’re all cousins when you go that far back. OK, so Faye Bedouin is.
A member of the Chamber of Commerce executive director at the time. OK, give me the exact. I always thought was the Arab American Chamber of Executive Director of the American Arab Chamber of Commerce, the American area, which I used to be the executive director at one time and one time was the former chairman.
Yes, you’re big in there. OK, so she is employed. Yes, by the chamber making 180 grand and she’s specifically there to.
Get a grant. Correct for the chamber. What’s the grant? Some kind of incubator.
I don’t know too much of the details, but it’s just a business incubator to bring to attract business from the Middle East to Michigan. Right. OK, so that’s what the chamber does.
Right. OK, and she’s there. So she’s able to manipulate.
She raised a lot of money for Whitmer. Lots of money. Because of her connections through the chamber.
Yeah, it’s a very powerful organization. Right. Right.
No doubt about that. Like you want that endorsement. OK, so she uses that to weasel her way in.
Whitmer appoints her to the MEDC, the Michigan Economic Development Corp. What is that, brother? Real quick, just for people. What is the Michigan Economic Development Corp? Yeah, what is it? Basically, an organization that’s funded to help attract business to Michigan.
OK, like you were saying outside, it is a hellhole. It’s a slush fund. It’s a slush fund.
It’s a corporate welfare. Basically, I haven’t seen any success whatsoever from anything that the MEDC has ever done. I mean, you don’t bring you don’t create a great state and create jobs and opportunity by giving corporations money.
You do it by creating an environment in your state where you have young people moving into the state. You have great amenities. You have low taxes.
You know, instead of giving our taxes, cut the taxes. You know, I just bought a condo for my daughter in Arizona. Her property tax is $800 a year.
What? In Phoenix? In Scottsdale. In Scottsdale. So she’s going to dental school out there.
But I looked at it and I said, what the hell? I’m paying at my house, which is an average house in Dearborn, $19,000 a year. Oh, my God. So it doesn’t make sense.
I pay more in property taxes here than I paid in San Diego. And I had an ocean view. I used to live in San Diego.
I went to school. All the Chaldeans do. I’m Lebanese.
OK. I used to live in San Diego. I went to school.
I went to the University of San Diego. Really? The judge told me I had 24 hours to get out of there. It’s a great city.
It really is. It was. Democrats ruined $146 million deficit right now.
You’re not allowed technically to run a deficit. You know what I mean? So you know what they do? They don’t fund the pensions, et cetera, et cetera. Well, that’s why the city almost went bankrupt about 15 years ago.
And Detroit did. And Detroit did. So this is what we’re talking about.
This MEDC is one of these causes. There’s lots of money to claw back to pay for things we need. And OK.
So Fabie doing your cousin. Your cousin gets on the board. Now she’s ostensibly there to get this grant for the Chamber of Commerce.
She’s on the board. She’s a Whitmer appointee on the board of the MEDC. Yes.
She’s working separately to get the grant for the chamber while she’s on the board. And that grant has to go through the MEDC. So that’s not a clusterfuck.
I don’t know what it is. So you’re working for the board. You’re on the board of directors of the chamber.
You’re on the chamber. And you’re lobbying the Michigan Economic Development Corp to give the chamber a grant. And you’re on the board influencing.
You didn’t recuse yourself and stuff, right? Long story short, the grant does come through, but it doesn’t go to the Chamber of Commerce. It goes to Bay Doon herself with a company that doesn’t exist. Her company, she gets the 20 million.
And two days later, the company is created to take the 20 million. And all this is done through the state legislature, through the budget, right? Okay, now she’s been hit with 16 charges. Basically, what were those, Claude? Forgery, larceny, and running a criminal enterprise.
These are big felonies. Now, Attorney General Dana Nessel says that Whitmer may have steered the contract towards the Bay Doon relation, but could not know she was going to commit fraud. Okay, Whitmer knew.
Ranking GOP members knew. That’s the water cooler question, is it not? What’s that? Everybody. That Republicans were in on it too.
It’s a scum pit up there. I can’t confirm that. What I do know is that when it came through the House with Speaker Wentworth, a Republican, as the sponsor, that the House bill was supposed to have this go out to bid.
So there would have been an RFP. And somewhere between the House and the Senate version, the Senate version made it a sole source contract going to this entity that Faye created. So somewhere between the House and the Senate, it went for something that probably even the American Arab Chamber would have had to submit an RFP to get those funds.
And apparently Faye had said she would apply. And then somewhere. And what I understand is the governor’s office intervened and made sure that this went directly.
It’s important to say both chambers of the state government were controlled by Republicans at the time. Yes. Nothing gets in there without Republicans say so.
So again, swamp, uniparty, graft. That’s what it is. I have the affidavit, basically the charging document.
And I just made some bullet points. And I want to go through them. Claude, I got these out of order.
And you guys stop me right when you want. Before we do that, I think it’s important to say when she got caught with a forty five hundred dollar coffee pot, exotic trips, carpets, fake receipts, fake legal bills, fake offices. You, when it came out, when it came out that it didn’t go to the chamber, that it went to her, you went apeshit.
You called everybody, didn’t you? You called me. Well, I just thought I just didn’t like the corruption. I mean, in the end, it’s our tax dollars.
Yeah. It’s our tax dollars that are being going to waste. The chamber had, you know, I still don’t believe in these grants and these, you know, trying to give money to organizations.
I’d rather see that money stay with the taxpayer of the state of Michigan. Let’s reduce our tax rate. Let’s reevaluate how the state does business, because the way it does business right now is assessable.
It’s all corrupt. The Democrats and the Republicans, they’re both corrupt and they they have a symbiotic relationship against each other, you know, with each other. They feed off each other.
Well, there’s a reason we’re not a competitive state, even within the Midwest, because a lot of the things you’re talking about, I mean, let’s go back to the SOAR fund that Governor Whitmer and Republicans in the legislature created to give billions to the automakers to build EV battery plants here in Michigan and create 4000 jobs. We were told how many jobs have been created, how many EV battery plants have been built. They’ve all bailed on the state in Delta Township, Lake Orion, Marshall, these all these things that we gave billions of dollars.
By the way, the autos aren’t giving that taxpayer money back. We are picking winners and losers. It is corporate welfare.
It absolutely is corporate welfare. And the reason when when she did this, you remember Ford announced that they were building EV facilities in Sunbelt states and Whitmer didn’t even know that they were considering an expansion of these and was humiliated that here, Michigan, the home of Ford, wasn’t even aware and given an opportunity to compete for these new plants. In that embarrassment, she created this huge slush fund trying to bribe them in.
At the time, Governing Magazine, which is one of the obscure trade publications, has a 10 biggest considerations that companies make when they determine where they’re going to expand or locate. Corporate subsidies, however they worded it, incentives, I think was seventh. You know what’s in the top six? Energy costs, infrastructure, infrastructure, tax rates, regulations, workforce, all these things that we’re doing terrible at.
And so Whitmer’s idea was, well, let’s just bribe everybody with the thing that they don’t give a shit about instead of addressing the things that he’s talking about to make us competitive. So I mean, let’s talk infrastructure. Why is it in Michigan? You want to go down a road? No pun intended.
Why is it every two, three years they have to rebuild our highways? I mean, every year, 96 was just done. They’re working on it again. Why do we I mean, what is, you know, I don’t know about 96, but there was a certain highway.
There was an audit done. And the material, the aggregate used to make the cement was below spec. Yeah.
Okay. There was another audit. There are insurance policies on this.
The contractor builds it five years. You got to maintain it. The average inspection by the Department of Transportation is six years.
Where’s the Department of Environment in Southfield? Where’s anything? That’s part of the corruption. That’s all part to our government sucks. It basically is.
Okay. So you go on the war path like this is just another blob drop in the bucket up there, but you make it so that the media at least write something about it. So I think the media picked it up.
The Detroit News picked it up. I had nothing to do with that media. I just called when I called you.
I was asking, have you heard about this? Just trying to get some information just like everybody else. You know, who listens to this show? Everybody listens to this show. That’s where they got it.
I know what you did. What’s that called in the business, Jason? What’s that? When you call someone a whisper, and it turns a new tsunami. Amateur.
It’s called a whisper. So anyway, everybody knows. The Detroit News broke the story.
It was. Yeah. It was hubris on her part, though, because.
So we’re all watching. There’s something fishy here. Just a little inside baseball story.
And then the hubris of this woman, you know, you’re being watched. You get the money. You don’t have a board of directors.
You’re operating out of your house. There’s nothing going on. The entity didn’t even exist when she got the earmark.
She literally got the money and then went and created the company to accept the money. With no client. To circumvent the half million dollar a year salary.
OK, you don’t know that’s coming. That’s how protected this woman thought she was. Got all the people.
So Ness, the House Oversight Committee. Subpoenas all of this. Before they can get it, Nestle raids the and Michigan Economic Development Corporation and took all of the oversight committee’s documents.
Oversight Committee never got a second copy of them. So what’s not in this indictment? What did Nestle hide? And it’s fair to say, what did she hide? Because we now know she’s corrupt. She hides stuff.
She does political favors. Is there more here? And she does political attacks, too. She goes after political.
I mean, she went after these kids on university campuses for demonstrating. You know, she basically, I’m telling you, the whole system’s corrupt. You can’t just pin it on one person.
Show me one person in this system other than maybe I would go with Tom Massey and the entire government or Ro Khanna that is not actually corrupt or bought. I like Tom Barrett, too. Tom Barrett.
Client of yours? He happens to be a client of mine. Full disclosure. He wouldn’t be my client if I didn’t believe in him.
Something like that. Come on, man. Hire me.
This is easy. All right. So let’s just go through this quickly.
Just jump in when you want, okay? Because I’m going to show you what really happened. If you just read it clear. Okay.
So again, Beydoun was thus a decision-making member of the MEDC board. At the same time, she was seeking a specific appropriation that the MEDC would administer if the legislature passed it. Okay? We know that.
Beydoun told her partner in all of this, a man named Sharif Hussein. You know him. I don’t know.
You know him. I’ve met him. Everybody knows him.
He’s a big contributor to Republican causes. Republican. It’s important.
He plays both sides, but he’s mostly Republican. Yes. Everybody plays both sides.
That’s the whole point of what we’re doing here. Beydoun told Hussein that she initially approached the governor directly to seek the appropriation as a budget line item. But the governor asked Beydoun to clear it with the MEDC.
You know, of which she’s a board member. Yeah, exactly. Okay.
Now.
The investigators interviewed Trevor Paul, formerly MEDC’s head of mobility. Okay, got that. Paul confirmed that Beydoun had at least one meeting with himself and other MEDC officials in the summer of 2021 to pitch this grant, her company called Global Link.
Paul told investigators that the pitch was quote, one of the worst concepts that I had ever, ever seen. She had no business model. She had no plan to access in the market context to get the leads that she ultimately wanted.
Paul’s conclusion was that there was no way this was fundable. Paul remembered that the consensus after the meeting on the MEDC side was that Global Link was not ready to be funded, that it needed work. But the next conversation with Beydoun that Paul remembered having is that Beydoun called me and she’s like, I got the money.
I was like, you got the money? I remember my job. I remember just being like, oh my God, like how? And, and she basically said, you know, I’ve been talking to the legislature, other folks, and I got the money. And I wanted you to know anytime you want to jump in, but it’s, it’s pretty, pretty kind of juicy.
Paul told the investigators that Beydoun’s overall pitch was, I know people. Oh man. Paul said she was able to skip over the MEDC to get what she wanted.
Then ultimately, now I’m making assumptions, but ultimately came back and forced their hand. And since she’s a board member, what else can you do? But congratulate her. Despite Paul’s assessment, Beydoun apparently received the approval she sought from MEDC.
Beydoun emailed Trish Foster, the governor’s chief operation officer, who I went to high school with. Really? He said, jump in at any time. That the MEDC had approved the appropriation and that Quentin Messer, the head of it, was aware of this.
I just got to do this. Trish, here’s, here’s the, from Beydoun to Trish. Sorry, missed you at Mackinac.
Mackinac, the policy. This is where this shit goes on, right? Have some cocktails, divide up our money, rob our kids, right? Lay in the sun, fuck in the horse stables, right? Get your, get your stuff in the newspapers and away we go. That’s all sick.
I wanted to give you a quick update regarding the Global Inc. project. They’re giving, MEDC’s giving, they’re not of approval.
Quentin and Susan Corbin are aware of this. Okay. Now, Beydoun’s interactions with Quentin Messner.
There are text messages that Beydoun was in contact with Messner about Global Inc., Messer, about Global Inc. as early as June 11th, 2021, more than a month before he was officially hired. The text message between Beydoun and Messer in the summer of 2021 established Beydoun connected Messer with many Michigan leaders through private meetings and parties, including one held by Sharif Hussein at his home with the Republican leadership.
Through these meetings and other introductions to Michigan leaders, Beydoun made herself a mentor to Messner as both acknowledged. Great job this week, Quentin. You are too kind and so appreciate your meeting and support.
We should have done a reenactment of this. Beydoun’s records indicate that Beydoun had a meeting planned with the governor on December 9th, 2021. Beydoun’s outline for the meeting includes an outline of the $25 million project indicates that the MEDC has given the nod that staff and board members are on board and that Chris Harkins, which is what, Whitmer’s budget guy? I think he was the budget director.
Is supportive. The notes also include a list of what Beydoun has delivered, including $330,000 first term campaign money. Now, what does that, I’m not understanding what that meant.
I’ve read it three times and I still don’t understand. I’m led to believe that that’s how much I raised. She raised, that’s the money she raised politically.
Okay. Politically. And she included this in a conversation.
It’s in her own notes. Okay. And quote, established Quentin with relationships with Republicans.
Okay. In January, 2022, Sharif Hussein, allegedly her partner sent the following text to then speaker of the house, Jason Wentworth, stating that the global link project had been cleared by the governor. And that there would be quote, known to get negotiations on the line item.
And that it will be understood that the agreement is in place to move forward. Speaker of the house, governor of the state. Hussein told investigators that Hussein and all those state officials he spoke to understood he would be a board member in whatever organization received the appropriations funds.
Hussein stated that he had regular contact with Republican speaker of the house, Jason Wentworth, repeat Republican Senate majority leader, Mike Shirky and Curtis Hertel, the democratic former, um, Senate majority leader. And at this time, I believe is the chief lobbyist for Whitmer. No, I think he was still in the Senate, but he was Whitmer’s fixer in the Senate.
He was the caucus chair and Nick was the democratic leader, but nothing happened in the democratic caucus, uh, in the Senate that didn’t go through Curtis or tell now the Michigan democratic party chairman. Wow. Everybody was in on this.
Yes. It seems to be, you can’t, you can’t isolate one person. And if, you know, if I were a Faye, I would have taken the money too, but I would have been a lot smarter about it, but I might, I might’ve actually done something with the money instead of pay myself.
I’m saying how much would you have spent on a coffee maker? I would not I would have gone to, Oh, I can’t go to Starbucks. I’m boycotting Starbucks, but, um, I would have gone to Yemeni coffee shop and bought my coffee. But the question is who does he know? But the question is why, how could this, our government, our state government give $20 million just like that? That’s the question that needs to be asked.
You know, Faye is the recipient. She’s the scapegoat. She’s the one that everybody’s focused on, but the system, the system that allowed this to happen.
That’s what I want to know. How and when we’re underfunding roads, we’re underfunding pensions, we’re underfunding all these basic services. Uh, I mean, the budget has grown in seven years from 58 billion to 82 billion.
And what are they doing? They’re coming up with new programs like free lunch for kids in Birmingham and Bloomfield. Is that really what we all need to be doing is subsidizing rich kids lunches at their private schools. It’s bullshit.
Well, I was thinking they let’s, let’s take it further. Like what’s going on nationally with all the graft and everything going on. When you look at, you talk about the budget explosion in Michigan.
If you adjust for inflation in that time, it only grew about 5%, which isn’t a lot over seven years. It’s the mismanagement of our money on our incomes did not grow equally a hundred percent. They’re taking more out of our pockets proportionally to what we were.
We’re getting less for more money. We’re paying more, they’re spending more and we’re getting less services and they’re coming up with more recurring social services and gifts to their friends. And they’re not doing the things that we elect them to do.
Now in this, you look, you look at, you know, between your property tax and your income tax and your state sales tax, and then the fees. I mean, have you registered your car lately? Yeah. Have you seen how much it costs to register a car in the worst tax so much, and we’re not receiving the benefits from that tax.
Oh, can you give me some fucking emotion here? I get it, right? This is a whip off. Wentworth was in, had his earmark in here. Something to do with a medical center or some property tax move.
That was another 25 million, right? Wentworth took over from Lee Chatfield and nobody bothered to keep track of him when he was speaker of the house the year before he’s currently charged with campaign finance fraud, uh, graft, but spending, spending his political money on hookers, dope jet airplanes, two of his aides convicted. What the fuck? Okay. Let’s, let’s keep going.
Hussein stated Hussein was supposed to be your cousin’s partner in on this thing. And he stated to the investigators that most of his conversations were with Phil Brown, Wentworth’s budget director, the Republican speaker of the house’s budget director on this thing. Now, while Hussein was negotiating funding for a business incubator, they doing was still at the, uh, was still the chamber’s executive director as a salary employee.
According to Ahmed Chobani, who’s the chairman? Yep. The chamber’s board understood. They do.
His job at the time was to be negotiating on their behalf, not on her behalf. Okay. That’s important.
Stay with me on July 1st, 2022, the legislature passed this deal for her with speaker Wentworth as the listed sponsor. So when he says he wasn’t, well, they’re talking to your budget director, you’re going to parties, but we could please, but listen, the, the, what you got to look at is she got the 20 million, uh, another organization in the Jewish community got 20 million, another organization in the Kelly and community got 20 million. So it wasn’t like packages.
Yeah. I mean, so that they’re buying the influence and paying people off, you know, with our tax dollars. It wasn’t like, you know, and, you know, Fay, what she did just basically exposed everything and makes our community look bad, but the system’s rotten your community, her community, his community, the big corporations, every, everybody, but us.
And it’s not the communities. Oh, we’re not benefiting from it, right? Nobody benefits except those individuals that are driving the Rolls Royce. As they say, it’s funny you say that because who benefits here’s the next one.
Paragraphs 63 on the affidavit. At the time, they do told Chabani that they do had directed the grant to herself because quote, she needed the money. On March 26th, 2023, Faye Beydoun forwarded an article to Hassan Beydoun cousin.
Yeah, he’s a good guy. Good guy. Yeah.
Very good guy. Okay. Um, very smart.
Very capable. He’s a really good guy. He, he was actually the lawyer for the house Republicans for about eight years.
And then he left and he was hired by Mike Duggan. Smart be the economic development. Smart move leads to trouble with the demolitions and how they’re building and creating jobs.
And now we have an FBI scandal on that. And what is he doing now? He was kept on by current mayor, Mary Sheffield for the same job. And she’s in a shitload of trouble.
Anyway, I stand with Hassan Beydoun. Here’s what he wrote to Faye is a pick me up in March of 2023. A little pick me up little economic development director of Detroit picked me up.
Hey, I know it looks bad, but quote, saw that article. And honestly, my takeaway from these articles is pride in you, LOL. Doesn’t look great for the process or the governor, but you come off as a boss who learned how to work the system about time that our community benefits from the same process that has benefited old and rich white guys for years.
Screw the haters and double down on earning your fair share. It’s our time. I agree with that.
I mean, he’s not wrong. I completely I’m against that. I do not.
I’m not for it, but I know, but he’s not wrong. You know, the bulk of the money. Let me, let me, let me get in here.
You said to jump in when I get in and then you can do it. I get it. That rich white guys have been doing it for years and they’re still doing it.
Yup. I mean, you know, are there any Arabs at the high level of GM that I, that I don’t know about? Yeah. Uh, but, uh, the, um, the, you know, ethnic communities, the immigrant communities, it’s taken them a long time to get to a point where they’re at, where they understand the system.
These guys have been rigging the system forever and benefiting from it. So he’s saying good for you. It’s our time.
You agree with like, we should be doing this. I agree that we should be able to play the political game, just like everybody else. Do you agree? I don’t agree with the cheerleading of it, but I think the sentiment he expresses is that this is, this is the system.
They did work that system and they got the reward of working that system, just like many other people have. And now she’s fucking indicted. That’s stupidity, but it goes back to what you really originally said the hubris of it.
I mean, she was brazen and throwing around her political clout and using the relationships that she had and enlisting Sharif in, in helping her to work the Republican side of the aisle. I mean, her, her downfall was that she worked, had she quit the chamber and pursued the money, then, you know, nobody would say anything. Her obligation was to the chamber.
Her loyalty should have been to the chamber because they were paying her the salary to do this. You can’t go and, you know, lobby for money for an organization. And then when you get the money, transferred it into an organization you control.
That’s her downfall. That’s her stupidity. And my guess is that she always represented this to policymakers as funding for the American Arab chamber, not for herself.
Yeah. Which has a 20 year track record, you know, which has proven accomplishments. You know, when I was at the chamber, we did the U.S. Arab Economic Forum here in Michigan.
We brought together leaders from all over the world. We took delegations over to the Middle East, to Dubai and Qatar and, you know, Egypt to educate lawmakers and others about the Middle East and try to bring business here, you know, from Dubai and stuff like that. But nothing ever came to fruition because our system here, people don’t want to come to Michigan.
When you go to Dubai and say, why don’t you guys come to Michigan and invest? No, they’ll go to New York. They’ll go to L.A. They’ll go to Miami because it’s sexier. So we’re not a sexy state.
We’re not a competitive state. I was talking to a local businessman born and raised in Michigan. He works in 40 states.
He said he only stays in Michigan because it’s where he’s from. But that of the 40 states that his company has a footprint, Michigan is the most difficult one to deal with in terms of taxes and regulations. Well, for my company, it’s a wonderful place to be because it’s so fucked up.
I could do a podcast every week. I mean, what the fuck? I got a friend, Matt Labash, probably the greatest non-fictionalist of our generation. And he wrote, man, I’m jealous.
This is like stories just like laying on the sidewalk. I mean, and they’re literally laying on the sidewalk. I think I’ve told it before.
There was once a murder and the guy was left on the sidewalk for like 16 hours. Now, it’s important to say where the murder occurred and where the body lay. It lay just to the right of the key swipe for your car when you’re coming to work at the Detroit police 9-1-1 center.
So this is a homeless guy laying there. 16 hour shifts. Nobody.
Oh my goodness. Called 9-1-1, couldn’t get through. All right.
So listen, this thing passed in what? 2022. It’s not till 2023 when the stories come out and hey, boss lady, good for you. Time we got ours.
That around the same time, this is paragraph 83 of the affidavit. Around the same time in 2023, Chobani, the chairman of the board of the chamber of commerce, Chobani told agents that the governor’s chief of staff, Joanne Hules, drove to the chamber’s office in Dearborn to apologize that the GLI funds were not directed to the chamber because the administration understood that the funds were intended for that purpose. So you guys were mad and they came and kissed you.
They were mad. I’m not involved in the chamber anymore. Yeah, but you know.
I know what’s going on. Friends of yours. Now just to wind it up here, fake legal work.
She was faking legal documents according to the attorney general. Fake, just billing to show there was a legitimate purpose for spending these funds. Here’s a fake office.
It was actually a vacant lot. Oh my God, what’s this? I’m speechless. Two catered events at her home in honor of Mike Duggan.
Okay, Duggan went to dinner. My, my, my. Duggan went to dinner.
My, my, my. The events at Beidou and his home from Mike Duggan were from one catering firm. Okay, there’s the $4,500 coffee pot.
When was the event for Duggan? I just threw the thing away. 2022, 2023, it looks probably. He was still mayor, so she just invited the mayor for dinner.
A couple of times as he was planning his run for the hills. The city’s broken. I’m now going to do a Don Quixote run for governor.
Okay, $4,500 for a coffee pot. $5,500 for lighting and furniture. Six months away.
This is six months away from even having an office. Let’s see what, what items. Let’s see here, six, $650 for a nesting table, $316 for an orchid plus frame, a $1,200 table, two $500 vases, a $500 artificial flower, and various items designed by Michael Aram, a premier brand for home accessories.
There’s also the Tunisian carpets. That were supposedly a catered event. Nobody bothered.
I didn’t, it was many thousands of dollars on those rugs, wasn’t it? Yeah. Like, uh, 11,000. Yeah.
Yeah. I see 500, 6,500. And how much for the, uh, first class plane ticket over there? That was 11, 11 grand.
I mean, I guess those rugs must’ve been for the office that she didn’t have. No, in the, in the end, you know, she got the money. She thought she could spend it any way she wants.
She didn’t understand that this is public dollars and you have to be fiscally responsible for it. And in the end, she’s paying her price for it. But I still go back to the fact that first of all, I don’t blame her.
I mean, she worked the system and she got it, but it’s the system. You got to blame the system. I blame her.
I blame her. I mean, I’m smart as Wendell, the American Arab chamber. She did.
I mean that right there in itself, but she should be criminally prosecuted. But she’s the only one paying for that. But she did.
Is she going to pay for it? Is she really going to? But she also is the one that did it. Yeah. I mean, just because the system’s corrupt doesn’t mean that you aren’t held accountable for participating in the corruption.
You know, I used to have an economics teacher at the university of San Diego, real right wing nut. And he would say, I’m going to suck the tip of the welfare state dry. So if you can get it, you get it.
A person with, um, you know, somebody that has respects himself and, you know, has some kind of ethics, won’t do this stuff. But a lot of these people who work in politics, they don’t have that. They have no self-respect.
They have breaking news, breaking. That’s why I stay on the campaign side where everyone is moral and ethical. Oh yeah.
I ran a, I was in a campaign. I saw a Merrill moral. They’re the biggest whores in the world.
Everybody’s looking for that next paycheck, you know? And it’s funny. You know what I read for Senate? You don’t realize how much money you spend with Mark Zuckerberg. Every candidate, every ad, this guy’s making money off of us.
And I, I just look, you go Faye Bay Dune to, um, Hassan Bay Dune, the, the economic development chief of Detroit, Mike Duggan to Mary Sheffield. You’ve got the speaker of the house, Senate majority leader, Faye Bay Dune, the governor, Dana Nessel, Tracy Kornack. What the fuck is happening there? It’s all one incestuous orgy.
I do want to give credit though. I mean, cause when politicians do do the right thing, we should highlight it. And I think you look at what speaker Matt Hall’s been doing.
He’s been trying to clear some of this shit out. And last year’s budget, he actually reduced the state budget by a billion dollars. I’ve, you never see government unless it’s a time of crisis and he caught spending and he actually got it done with a Democrat.
He wants it down to 75 billion. We’ll see where he goes. But he’s also rooting out a lot of the programmatic shit that we’re seeing like this, uh, you know, he created the heat, um, hall ethics and whatever it is.
I want to know, you know, he’s actually putting a spotlight on again, where’s the contempt charges for Dana Nessel. We know they exist. We, we, we’ll get to in this next segment here, our, our, our new segment.
See you next Tuesday. See you next Tuesday. Soulful now around last Tuesday and things are supposed to be brought up next Tuesday at the city council hearing of the general body about what’s going on with the demolition.
Where are we going to get the money? This could be, they’re trying to hide how bad it is, but even if it was 80 holes at $50,000, $4 million, they don’t have it. If you listen like I do to these committee hearings, Mike Duggan said he left $15 million. It shouldn’t take more than $8 million.
None of that money’s there. They’re saying they’re complaining. What are we going to do? What are we going to do? If it’s a thousand, where are we going to get 50 million? Now the guy, uh, um, Brian McKinney of guy anger company.
He’s not the only one. He’s he, he filed suit. I’m not the only one.
I, I bought my ship from legitimate. He’s just the one that had the affair with the city council president when he was getting the contract, the mayor, Mary Sheffield, who lied to the public, to their face saying I had a relationship, but you know, I, I, I wouldn’t vote on it. It wasn’t formal though.
As I remember, we’re getting to know each other. It wasn’t exclusive. All right.
Okay. That’s kind of weird. So McKinney has now filed suit against the inspector general of the city of Detroit investigating him.
That’s like John Gotti suing, suing Rudy Giuliani, the FBI, Rudy Giuliani for investigating him and saying something about it. But that’s what he’s done. A novel legal approach.
And now he’s quoted in Detroit free press last week is saying this, this is, this is weird. Over the past year, we remained largely silent while navigating an intense public and legal process beyond the temporary inspector general suspension of Guy Engin company and myself. Much was discussed publicly about my personal relationship with Mary Sheffield.
And I understand it became a tactic during last year’s mayoral race. I have already acknowledged the pain my affair caused. What I’ve already acknowledged the pain.
Affair caused while I was married and it’s not something I’m proud of out of respect for my ex-wife and family. I will not discuss private details further. What? That one there, none of my business until like this guy’s getting $60 million in contracts and your paramour is voting on it.
Now, I don’t know. Is that homewrecking? There’s well, now we know why it wasn’t exclusive. Mm, mm, mm, mm.
Good thought. Crack, crack, crack staff. See how that worked? Now, I don’t know, but you know, uh, let me just put it this way.
McKinney’s got young children. Just saying divorce records are sealed. There were restraining orders.
Very acrimonious. I’m just saying, wow. See you next Tuesday.
As we discussed earlier, gentlemen, poll came out yesterday, Tuesday that, uh, Mike Duggan is cratering and we don’t believe in polls, do we, Nasser? No, no, we don’t. I’ll make you a bet here and now that Mike Duggan will be the next governor of Michigan. I’ll take that bet all day.
How much? $100? $100. $100. $100.
No, how about a Yemeni coffee? You got it. You’re on. Wait, what hijinks do you guys have? Okay.
Well, first of all, the poll was conducted by a democratic operative hired by the chamber of commerce, right? His polls are awful. And if you remember, Jocelyn Benson, the secretary of state forwarded a criminal referral on the guy for campaign finance fraud, laundering money through, right? He was wrong. He was wrong.
He’s been wrong so many times. So I find it interesting that this, this isn’t mentioned. He’s a Detroit news pollster.
He’s the chamber’s pollster and nobody’s mentioned.
Guys, polls aren’t good and he was referred criminally and Benson and Nessel got together illegally to discuss making the criminal referral go away against this guy who was working with Nessel’s wife. This is really gross. This is more of this shit.
More and more. The regional chamber, I would say that’s conservative. That’s money.
That’s not conservative. I’m not conservative about the Detroit chamber. Okay.
It’s multinational, so they tend to be less conservative. Michigan chamber be more conservative, privately owned businesses, but the publicly traded companies tend to be a little more lefties. Thank you for that information.
You know who’s, who leads in the polls, whoever pays for, see, I’m not quite so cynical about the polling. Um, you know, and I say what I said about this guy, uh, skepticals put that well, when, when the poll came out a couple of months ago that the Richard Schubert did for the Detroit chamber and it had three votes, Duggan much higher, a little bit higher than he is right now. Seven points or something.
I listened to everyone say, Oh look, see, he’s cooking the numbers on this in order to create a result that makes Duggan look good because the Detroit chamber, uh, is backing Duggan and it’s a Detroit chamber poll. Well then this poll comes out that shows some drop in Duggan support and those same people are trying to figure out how to attack Richard’s polling when just three months ago he was cooking the books to make Duggan look good. What’s all of a sudden he’s cooking the books to not make Duggan look good.
So polls are a snapshot in time. Things happen in campaigns that affect how people vote. Three months ago, very little was happening in this race over the last three months.
Things have started to happen, but we’re still 80 plus days from the primary election and in Duggan’s case, six months from an election. This is going to change multiple times and I don’t get, I don’t get hung up on any one poll because what you want to look at is the trends in polling. Um, and so right now I don’t think we know anything and I bet you the numbers that we see today in three months when the election happens will look absolutely nothing like the results.
They look the same to me. I’m just going to basically medicine 34 John James 29, which is a floor for the guy cause he’s not even running yet. Right.
And then dug in 23, 13 undecided, but it’s plus or minus four. So it could be 19 which were Duggan’s been hanging out forever despite spending a operative out over there. How much has he spent so far? Anybody, how much? Give me something.
Do you know how much he spent? How much has he spent? Like how much has Duggan spent? He hasn’t spent that much. I think it’s, I think, I think the, the outside group supporting have spent like 20 million. I think it’s the number.
I don’t know. 20 mil so far, but you got to remember how they spend this money. They can’t say that he’s running for governor.
Like if you see the billboards on 27, it’s promoting, uh, him as mayor of Detroit. Like he got named best mayor or something like that. No one realizes when they see those billboards, it’s because he’s running for governor.
So this money doesn’t spend as well as hard dollars, campaign dollars in which you can say Mike Duggan for governor. It just says Mike Duggan. The other thing is, you said it earlier, you know, he doesn’t have a primary.
So the Democrats are going to beat each other up. The Republicans are going to beat each other up. And then after their primary, then, then, you know, you start to look.
But in the meantime, Duggan is going out, going around the state where people don’t know him, building relationships. And I’ll tell you what, he is one hell of an effective campaigner. Duggan knows what he’s doing.
You know, you might not like the, uh, but the mayor has done a good job. I mean, look at where the city was, where it is, uh, everything, you know, his track record beats anybody that’s running for that position. We’ll see.
Cause you know, the, the thing that’s happened the last three months is F B I no one’s laid a glove on the guy, like, go ahead and do your thing. You’re going to get punched. But I, I mean, he makes a good point too, though.
I mean, say what you want. I mean, there’s certainly things you can criticize, um, you know, running a big city. But he actually has a narrative, a story to tell about Detroit and the other candidates don’t really have a story.
I mean, well, Harry Johnson can talk about building his businesses, but people glaze over. They’ve heard this a thousand times. It’s not interesting.
Uh, I mean, what’s Jocelyn Benson’s narrative? What’s her story. Election integrity, Barbie. I mean, she, and she fucked up the campaign finance portal that is less transparent than it was before she made it more transparent.
John James is, you know, a congressman. Great. You know, you’re a backbench congressman.
Not that appealing. Mike Cox hasn’t been in office for 16 years. Um, Eric Nesbitt’s the, you know, a, a politician.
He’s the Senate Republican leader. When you get out and there’s three candidates, there’s actually going to be a story that Doug and gets to tell that probably the other two politicians in the race aren’t going to be able to tell. And I do think that’s going to be one of the, you know, what else they’re going to do.
He’s also the guy that’s got the most fucking baggage. So when you’ve got the Democratic Governors Association throwing 5 million in there just to, just to seed it, who knows? We’ll see. Well, and that’s what he’s been able to avoid so far with no primary is a cross examination of that record.
And that’s actually one of the reasons I thought it was kind of a smart move to go independent because you don’t have to get the colonoscopy that the Republican and Democrats are going to have to get going through their process. Well, I think that we’ve got to find a way to eliminate this two party system and run more independents because these are the fucking independent. So stop working the campaign for these are fucking Democratic machine boss who everywhere he went, the fucking feds follow that will be coming.
Let’s just I’ll give you one more because it’s coming, Mike. The guy behind this dark money is Peter shirt. The X is the executive vice chairman of JPMorgan Chase.
You’re in the Epstein files. You guys help your dark money guy help Epstein rinse a billion dollars to pay off the girls like that’s, that’s going to be an issue, man. That’s what’s in the Epstein files.
Are you trying to tie a tie? Mike Duggett Epstein? Yeah. Why are you hiring guys that made Epstein possible? How’d that relationship come about? I’d like to know that. Oh yeah, that’s going to be there.
Well, Jamie Diamond is a good friend of the mayor and is a big supportive supporter of Detroit. And why is, uh, why is Peter on his way out? Peter? Who? Sure. I got from JPMorgan Chase.
I don’t know those details there, but why is he there? I mean, I’ve been hearing this for months and he’s still there, right? Yeah. He’s given it. He’ll be out at the end of the year.
Okay. So if, if, if he’s implicated in this, why did they keep him around? Lots of people implicated, you know, again, but just your names being in the Epstein files is not no, no. Like you’re, you’re, you’re the top brass there that okayed you, you guys, you guys blocked the reporting of the suspicious activity reports, right? To the federal government.
Why you made his life possible? It was this group, this group he’s tied into. Again, we just went through a $20 million little scam. This is a billion dollar scam and the whole world knows about it.
Gotta answer for it. How’d you meet this guy? What’s this relationship? Who’s the answer for the Epstein files? Nobody. Nobody.
Who’s the, exactly? Nobody. I mean, that’s, let’s look at that. We started a whole war against the country just to whitewash the Epstein files.
Nobody’s gone to jail. None of these big, you know, Les Wexner who funded the entire Epstein. Nobody’s come near him.
Why? I know. The guy goes, a guy like, like Les is like, I didn’t know he stole all that money. Oh no, he’s got.
It’s like the mortgage crisis. Who’s held accountable for the mortgage crisis? The only people that suffered for that were the people that lost their homes. And we could have saved all those people had we not given the money to the bankers.
Yep. That’s by the way. That’s by the way, more corporate welfare, bailing out the banks, bailing out the autos.
JP Morgan Chase, $13 billion fraud settlement with the United States of America. And you’ve got to put that into the communities that you destroyed Detroit being one of them. Did we, did we get cash? No, we got low interest loans.
I don’t know. And six blowjob 60 minutes pieces. I I’m for the people.
No way. Finally, we move along next week. We got some people listening in LA.
You got till next Tuesday to register to vote, to vote in the mayoral primary. And Spencer Pratt, he’s not a Republican. He’s an independent.
They’re trying to make him a Republican, right? My wife is flying out to LA next week to spend five days walking precincts for Spencer Pratt in Los Angeles. Is she going to vote? Are you married to Mallory? McMurrow? She’s not Mallory McMurrow. She’ll, she’ll keep voting.
When I ran for office, when I ran for us Senate, I pulled my voting records and Alyssa Slotkins and Hill Harper. I’m the only one that ever voted in Michigan for like for the next 20 years, last 20 years. You tell it didn’t slot can vote in 2018.
I have no idea what she voted for. That’s interesting. See, we’re so ripe here.
Like the National Party. Well, like Tom Barrett’s got some carpetbaggers coming in, right? Yeah. Of those three candidates, one doesn’t live in the district.
He lives in Ann Arbor. The other one moved back to Michigan a year ago after being gone 37 years. She’s never lived in the seventh district for one minute of her life.
She was from Grand Rapids originally. She airdropped into, and then there’s one guy who’s, you know, homegrown guy, but two deep state types that are dropped, airdropped in just to try to steal it. What about Mike Rogers? When’s the last time Mike Rogers, Mike Rogers is from here and served 14 years in Congress.
Foolishness of the McMorrow people and all these fuckers saying, oh, he’s a Floridian. My ass. Florida is a suburb of Michigan.
Every one of us spend time in Florida. You know, after 14 years in Congress, the guy deserves a little fucking sunshine. I don’t know.
I moved away for 20 years in my carpet. You’re a fucking carpetbagger. Apparently I moved away.
I moved away for 11. Then I moved away for four. I came back after 25 years.
Hmm. Okay. So Spencer Pratt.
He’s making some hay because he’s just telling the truth. Like Kelly’s fucked. It’s another reason to leave.
They destroyed it. They did. Right.
You agree there? It’s destroyed. I mean, yeah. But the weather, you can’t beat it.
If you got, if you, if you got money, I mean, you lived in LA, I lived in LA. I’ve been back in the last year. It is disgraceful.
What has happened to it? I think back to the early nineties before Reardon became mayor, when Skid Row was all of downtown, you couldn’t even go into downtown Los Angeles before Reardon. They cleaned it up. They put the Staples center in there.
They put, you know, the, the entertainment facilities around in LA. And now it’s as bad as it was back in the nineties with homeless everywhere. And these homeless are more radicalized because we’ve legalized the possession and use of drugs.
We no longer put people in jail for a theft under $950. So these fuckers are out there stealing shit and then paying for the damn drugs and the cops can’t enforce the drug laws because there aren’t any drug laws and they can’t enforce shoplifting or theft laws because those are no longer against the law. It, it, to me, it’s a dystopian burn down.
Yeah. All right. So, um, he’s, he’s making hay next Tuesday.
Remember it’s the last day to register. He’s making hay because he’s, he’s kind of telling the truth. Now here come the union attack ads.
Devin, this is devastating. Watch what the unions in Los Angeles have put out. So Republican Spencer Pratt is the last thing Los Angeles needs for mayor Pratt opposes using taxpayer money to build brand new houses for unhoused neighbors saying it’s time for the homeless to get help or get out.
Pratt thinks LA needs thousands more police officers rather than more social workers and Republican Spencer Pratt thinks public employee unions should have less power, not more. LA is on the right track and needs to stay the course. Vote no on Republican Spencer Pratt.
Devastating. They should record that as an in-kind contribution to Spencer Pratt. That’s how fucking out of touch they are.
They think that’s a negative ad. I thought it was a parody when I first saw it. I thought, I thought it was a, uh, an ad by Spencer Pratt.
Yeah. Yeah. It’s just what we’ve been talking about here.
Like I said, dystopian. They think this is criticism for fuck’s sake. That’s what we need.
That’s what we need everywhere. Not pissing away. I mean, you see the new New York schools budget, $44,000 per student is the public school funding budget, $44,000 per student.
How much gets to the class? How many gets to exactly the private schools cost less than that? Well, so how do we wipe the slate clean and start from scratch? I think we got to get rid of giving money to private entities, period. Just end it. Fund the programs in the government.
That’s fucking it. Go back to basics. Roads, education, safety.
Are you glossing over or are you inspired? I gotta go get a stress test. Bye bye. Bye bye.
