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Thanks so much for joining us on Last Call, these are the topics we didn't get to in the first 28 or so minutes of our Donnybrook, Joe I want to ask you um the city's been criticized in this from this panel and elsewhere for you know not spending Rams money turns out St louis County has spent about $40 million on uh street repairs and most recently has decided to spend part of this one-time gigantic windfall on the upcoming election or should I say the ballot measure Prop B which in the county would take uh give the county council the ability to fire department heads and also $5 million to spend in neighborhoods damaged by last Friday's storm probably not exactly what people were thinking about when they first got this NFL settlement but overall what do you think i'm guessing Batten 500 isn't bad uh the storm damage repair uh in a perfect world with a perfect government which doesn't exist you'd have a rainy day fund that could do that but mother nature sometimes will throw something on you and so I don't have a problem with saying we need this money to put a ballot on issue to me just seems like an absolute waste of money don't put an issue on the ballot if you can't afford to put it on a ballot it's almost like buying something if you can't afford it don't buy it and there's so many questions about this issue anyway on whether it's going to hold up to any sort of legal challenge to start with but this is not at all what that money is supposed to be doing which is basically using money that you got for fundamental transformational change whatever you want to call it to basically forward a political agenda so I think when it comes to that second one terrible waste of money right and I you know you made the point there where you're basically taking the public's money and even though I am with the leaders of the county that probably is a bad idea they're people that support it and you're you're taking their Rams money too and using it in a way that you know that's not fair uh to them also what what can you do between now and April 8th get people to the polls or make more signs or whether it's already too late for that good idea on the storm damage until the bill comes in and we find out that you know somebody's house that cost you know $75,000 got $750,000 i'm wary of that kind of thing but at the same time I'm I'm with you on that use it for the storm damage probably won't be that much won't just a drop in the bucket of all the money that the county got but I hate to you know I hate to say it but that is the inherent danger in waiting so long to do something with this this windfall is that the the list just keeps you know you keep adding to the list and all of the things that are considered in the minds of the voters who have been waiting for you know certain things to be checked off that list you know they're they're forgotten about and so just from a perception standpoint it's it's not good yeah and Willie and I were hunkered down in the basement during the storm we were texting each other during the storm big Creek Rising that's right that's right people expect the government to step in and help them when there's been something like a storm i mean that's what a government does that's Rams so I I think it's a that's a great use of the Rams money oh you do okay yeah what what do you think Bill of uh New York Times story it might have been elsewhere too i I I didn't happen to see it elsewhere and that is that Senator Josh Holly didn't really care for one woman her name is Hillary Perkins who became general counsel for the FDA turns out she had defeated Mrs holly Aaron Holly in a legal suit uh involving an abortion drug that went to the Supreme Court well even though she was very conservative and the folks at Focus on the Family said "You know what she's exactly what we need in government."

Holly went after her and uh had a campaign on social media and as a as a result uh she had to step down yeah oh he called her you know they said that she was uh doing the outrageous Biden pro-abortion stuff and you know I thought that really it was like like a blonde whose dark roots show i mean Josh Holly was showing who he really is and that's an elitist you know he's he went to Yale Law School and his wife went to Yale Law School and has made a lot of money in the prolife movement always good to have a woman fronting for you when you're talking about taking women you know essentially saying women shouldn't have the right to make some of these decisions it's good to have a woman fronting when she uh got blasted in the Supreme Court Josh Holly's wife by Hillary Perkins who was a of all things a graduate of a public university law school she went to University of Georgia i think that Josh Holly just lost it that his wife a Yale law grad along with you know Hunter Biden and Hillary Clinton and Steuart Rhodess i mean there's a school that should be shut down yeah i I I think that that it was just a personal thing and and I think there are a lot of people who who are going to agree with you i for one am hopeful that he is not that superficial to make a political enemy so publicly i think it's simply the fact that she calls herself a conservative and she is a supporter or at least on paper of the morning after pill you know that is if you have those prolife bonafides then that includes that includes the morning after pill rit large so uh I you she was she was a government lawyer right and and when you're in the deep state working for Republic administration and the Democratic administration if the if the if your boss the government says "Okay we support this."

You go to court and you support it i totally understand so it became a political issue and Josh Holly flexed some political muscle no doubt about that i don't believe it had anything to do with state universities i don't think anybody's ever questioned whether Josh Holly is or is not pro-life i think he's been pretty clear on that and I don't think he liked that was there some added satisfaction of because it was the lawyer who beat his wife in front of the Supreme Court maybe but also there was pointed out as well she also defended Biden's vaccines uh laws and he said "I don't think this is what Donald Trump wants."

So I think it was a purely political maneuver on Holly's part i thought it seemed personal to me an attack on on her like she said I'm not who Senator Holly says I am and I thought well of course you're not i mean Senator Holly's not known for being forthright i mean well I think sometimes defense attorneys get criticized for defending bad people in a way lawyers tend to be who they represent they got to live with that i I don't attack defense attorneys for representing criminals that's what they do i'm just saying but they get identified with who they defend well Josh Josh Law Holly went to Yale law he should understand that you don't attack a lawyer because her job had her representing this client that's what I don't know i this this bitterness and people getting fired for no reason i mean you know general the general for joint chiefs of staff what did he do he got fired right where was People are getting fired over nonsense right now and the axe fell on her i'm sorry i feel bad for her but at the same time hey look people you everybody better start standing up to this nonsense right elections have consequences and it's happened before and it'll happen again remember that Hank Williams Jr song he fired his ass he fired his ass and he fired some ass he didn't even know I didn't know that i never heard that hank Williams Jr ladies and gentlemen Alvin I want to ask you about overtime josh Holly would like there not to be any federal tax on uh overtime wages what do you think about that johnny Taylor had a song about that got to quit working all this overtime and you know like whatever take this job and sh another one that was Johnny Paycheck johnny Paycheck um okay yeah come on Josh you know you cannot eliminate federal tax on overtime because when there was a such thing for us in journalism we had watched our own overtime because it's like oh as much as I love getting this extra money it comes to a point we're like I'm financing the federal government right now you have to watch that yourself i did not mind the the tax coming out of it up to a point so I think that's just some more Josh Holly talk right there he's a populist from general I think you know you know what's so amazing everybody seems to know what Josh Holly really means but he keeps introducing this legislation that's the exact opposite you know and so I believe for whatever reasons you want to attribute that he's doing this he has introduced legislation that makes it easier for labor unions to get contract negotiations going quicker and he's put one to eliminate taxes on overtime which is a working man's bill he is trying to reposition the Republican party now for whatever reason no he's not well how do you know this how do you know this i You talk about Wait a minute you talk about the mayor of St louis like you know her and you talk about other politicians like you know exactly what's going on in Do you agree with me that I know her i mean but no you agree with me we all sit here and say you know what I think she or he is thinking this all right that's all we're doing with Josh why does he get a free pass no but he put the bill down and put his name on it oh yeah right yeah storm the capital baby oh see if you want to go back and do personalities that's fine but no but there's a bill in the legislature so he's sincere about all this there's a bill in the legislature no but we're going to find out aren't we but at least he took step one politician knows exactly and the thing that we got to wrap it up living in overtime would help workers not management it's that simple right he don't hopefully the overtime we get for this segment someday thank you very much we'll see you sometime soon