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conservative just plain right so I'm gonna switch gears
now that's enough weakness it's only so much weakness
I can talk about without just sitting around getting
irritable Charlene didn't want me coming home irritable so
let me switch gears let's talk about number two
on the triple dipper election aftershocks yeah listen there
are some OK I remember just using the analogy
here when you have an earthquake then it's very
common to have what they call aftershocks which are
mini quakes that occur thereafter they can they can
occur you know for days thereafter aftershocks election aftershocks
are the things that are happening in the wake
of the election day like you know legal actions
and things that runoffs are generating and votes that
are too close to call and challenges asking for
OK all that's happening right now in Alabama by
the way we did well for the most part
as a state again but listen there's there's some
problems and there's some things happening and not all
of it is related to election integrity there's one
that I'll tell you by here in a second
that is but wow some of the stuff going
on right now so right now story on al
.com so if you hadn't heard there was a
there was a proposed televised statewide debate that was
gonna be held for the runoff in the US
Senate race Katie Britt Mo Brooks well it appears that
Katie Britt has pulled out well now she won
all right she say one she was ahead she had
40 where's my numbers here let me look she
had somewhere in the neighborhood of 4 5 %
I believe she had 4 5 % of the
vote and Mo Brooks ended up with 2 9 well
now both sides are trying to grab everything that
Mike Durant had Mike Durant had 2 3 %
of of course you had some other names in the
race that did not achieve much but those were
the top three so everybody wants those others what
are the means by which you know Brooks believes
he can invest the word out is to stand
on stage with Katie Britt and go back-and-forth Katie
Britt won't do it and so Mo Brooks headline on
al .com Mo Brooks says Katie Britt is too weak
to debate Britt retaliate by saying Brooks just wanted
a circus I got news debates are a part
of the election process you have two you have
2 2 styles of gatherings you have debates in
your forum a Canada forum is where it's not
a debate you just both are on the stage
you both have the opportunities to answer questions but
you don't go back-and-forth a debate is when you
literally go back-and-forth and you make the case that
your side your position you're whatever is better than
the other others Britt is apparently refusing to do
that and I guarantee she's in what they call
do no harm mode she had the 4 5
% she only needs 5 % plus one vote
and she can take this you know to the
house but right now she won't do it and
I'm sure it's because her team is saying we
don't need to risk getting on stage with Brooks
because he knows what he's doing he's a lawyer
he's also been a congressman he knows how to
answer the questions and he's gonna call you out
and you don't wanna have to deal with that I
got news if you wanna be a US senator
you have to deal with that kind of stuff are
you gonna avoid the hard issues when you get
to DC so I really wish they would debate
I think that would be important there's one election
aftershock happening right now here's another story on 18
19 news just this morning interview with Mike Durant
I believe by Ray Malik who is the chief
editor for 18 19 been on the show multiple
times headline for this is Durant on the election
loss says " the process is as broken as
you could possibly imagine so you can read the
article and you can see his ex Durant is
extremely mentally disappointed he's disenchanted disenfranchised with the process
of running for office several quotes in the story
I mean Durant talks about the fact he basically
says I'm a guy who spent all these years
serving my country and then building a business and
he literally thought that it would be an opportunity
for a guy with a good résumé to go
to DC to do good things and did not
expect to have to deal with some of the what
he calls absolute fabrications in misinforming of voters he
said there's a problem there an absolute problem he
said this was a Republican primary quoting Mike Durant
here this is a Republican primary the Ronald Reagan years
were the glory days a Republican party he said
says there's a reason we're not there anymore everybody
has their own agenda nobody cares what's right for
the conservative of the country the backbone of this
country Reagan 's 11th Commandment was " thou shall
not speak ill of any fellow Republican will wear
a long way from that to Durant he says
yeah I was shocked at the lies and the
corruption in the influence on the media and then
he went on to say and he focused most
of this on Brit although we did also mention
Brooks he said the Senate race was really an
open seat I came to that was wasn't was
not really an open seat he said I came
to that realization this was against an incumbent Shelby
candidate that had no desire whatsoever to let go
with the power it was willing to do anything
to hold onto it that's Durant 's call he
says the most shocking thing to him it was
them determining that he was second amendment that he
was a second amendment hater when he said everyone
knows the speech I gave I was talking about
Somalia well there's that there's an election after shot
by the way one thing that he had said
on the eve of the election was it if
he if he lost if he was in third
place he was gonna swing his support behind Brooks
he's apparently changed his mind in this article and
I'm sorry to know these like I stay involved
in some capacity cause I think you should but
he says on here where did it go I
lost my place in the article wait one he
says he goes ought to say I'm not gonna
vote which Mike he got a vote you can't
be a guy who ran for office and then
be the guy says I'm not gonna vote but
he says that he will not support either candidate
now in the runoff he says in retrospect says
the election open my eyes and left him so
disgusted by what he called the attack as by
both Brent and Brooks that he will not support
either one in the runoff and he wanted to
say I'm not gonna vote and I think that's
the wrong I think that's the wrong tack that
this is the wrong and if if if you're
listening or any of your folks are listening I
just wanna encourage you you gotta stay in the
process you gotta stay in the fight night stalkers
don't quit enough of that moving on all right other
things that are happening in the world of election
aftershocks so Ottawa County Alabama a place that I
am intimately familiar with Ottawa County Alabama I told
you the other day didn't I I know I
did about the issues going on when the board
of registrars apparently did not do their job by
the way they all need to lose their jobs
all three people in that board of registrars office
at Ottawa County need to lose their jobs because
they didn't do it election integrity means something right
now the systems are OK but the systems mean
nothing if the human error is such that it
involves basically negligence even to the extent of recklessness
I don't know but what we're looking at right
now is the board of registrar is when the
redistricting happened last year they never went back and
corrected all the names to put them in the
right districts I don't know if they were incompetent
or just negligent but in any event what happened
is I'm hearing secondhand that there could be up
to 1 000 names in Ottawa County that were
not in the right new house district house district
2 8 and 2 9 and that is a
big hairy deal I mean you know how this
came out you talk about a wake up call
as a fellow named Steve Reagan who I've I've
known for years Steve Reagan wanted to run for
the house he was going to run for house
district 2 9 he went to the registrar 's
office and said I wanna I wanted to declare
my Candacy I wanna verify where I live according
to the new lines and they said oh no
Mr. Reagan you don't live in that district you
can't run oh shoot then he goes to the
polls on election day what do they do they
handed them a district 2 9 ballot and he's
like wait a minute I think his words in
the article that I've got here in my hand
from al .com what the crap all right that happened
but it got bigger of those two house races
both of them ended very close now one of
them between my Mac Butler and really somebody else
who have known quite well for quite a while too
Gil state representative Gilboe it was close enough to
wear a Mac only one by 2 00 and
something votes but that was like a 5 2
4 8 spread when you count the overall percentages
but 2 0 2 votes and the provisional ballot
didn't make a bit of difference in that but
in looking at the problems now guilds has an
issue with this the other race is between two
guys who I also know quite well Jamie Grant
County commissioner and Mark Gidley a pastor both running
for the state house and district 2 9 lo and behold
that one is literally only about 7 5 votes
apart and it appears of that thousand or so
names that were in the wrong place about 1
20 of those actually went and voted so 1
20 people voted in the wrong district here's a
story on nailed .com headline candidates for a new
election after acknowledge voting problems in Ottawa County and
everything I just told you still stays so now
the two candidates who lost the races which would
be Jamie Grant and representative Gil and Steve Reagan
who wanted to run and couldn't they all want
the state party to declaring new election for house
districts 2 8 and 2 9 I don't think
it's gonna happen but this is part of the
process immediately after the certification of the vote you
have X amount of time to petition and challenge
and asked for a new election state Republican Party chairman
John Wall said last week the party was incredibly upset
about the situation it was investigating and looking for
the best way to fix it based on the
law on Tuesday wall said the party would certify
the results which they did which he said would
them be subject to challenge by the candidates wall
said tonight the parties candidate committee at 2 1
member panel the chair is would hear the election
challenges the date of the hearing is yet to
be determined now John Merrill says according to state
code Alabama 's code section 17 – 13 –
4 2 that there is no provision allowing for
a last-minute addition of a new vote you have to
have 60 days notice if they do it it
would be a special election to be very costly
OK here's a deal I've been the attorney on
an election challenge before and it's hard to do
but it's possible except the gullible went ahead and
just said in today's article that if they don't
grant him the new election by by means of
the party that he won't challenge it legally well
you just sucked all the air right out of your
argument because if they're not worried about your legal
action then why should they change anything anyway election
aftershocks a few more of those I'll tell you about
when we get back from this break Kelsey go
ahead and move to the break man but listen
elections have consequences but sometimes elections generate additional activity
and these aftershocks are being filled all over the
state couple more I'll tell you about when we
get back and oh by the way right here
in the listening area more runoffs in the northern
part of the state and anywhere else I'll tell
you about them when we get back Phil Williams
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wanna hang around because top of the hour grand
Council myself my brother and Jeff poor and Dale
Jackson all doing it once a week on Thursday
afternoons at four we do this thing the grand
council we paying each other with questions we don't even
know what the questions are in advance and then
we see how we just you know we could
compare and contrast as to what we think about
certain things in the political social cultural Arena from
a conservative standpoint you're gonna wanna stay tuned to
that top of the hour right after the newsbreak
we'll have the grand council I listen we got
we got more runoffs in North fact Jeff Poor
just texted me and said what's going on in
Lauderdale County because the state party released it it's
a list of runoffs and I've got a list
right here too from W H N T our
own channel 19 W H N T says here
are the Alabama electoral candidates for the 20 2
2 runoff election and in size 10 font it's
2 1/ 2 pages I don't know that I've
ever seen this many runoffs now it's not all
Republican by the way one of the biggest ones
is the democrat candidate for governor what do you
know stands about a snowballs chance of getting elected
over K IV but nonetheless the Democrat candidate for
governor the runoff is between Malika Sanders Fortier who
is a current state senator the daughter of longtime
Democrat state Senator Hank Sanders and somebody Yolanda flowers
who I don't know but anyway the two of
them are in a runoff of course you got the
US Senate Republican primary then you got Casey Ledinsky
and Dale Strong for the US fifth congressional district
that's that that's a big one that's gonna cover
most of North Alabama then you got the Secretary of State
that's everybody voting on Jim Ziegler and Wes Allen
then you've got state auditor Andrew Cerelle Stan Cook
and then you've got here's one house district 2
over towards the shows I believe Ben Harrison had
the largest number of votes but they did not
know who the number two was going to be
for the runoff until just Tuesday so now it's
Ben Harrison and Jason Black it was that close
I guess the provisional ballot of what kicked it
in you got also a house district for Parker
Moore and Patrick Johnson you got house district 20
James Lomax Francis Taylor you got cobra County District Judge
you got the cab county Board of Education you got Lauderdale
County commission you got Lauderdale County Board of Education you got
limestone County District Court judge and Lawrence County commission district
number five Republican I'm just saying it's unbelievable how
many runoffs there are so here's a thing don't
get jaded y'all we gotta go to the pose
and what's gonna be itching to see two is
how does the North Alabama heavy runoff season if
you will weigh into the Katy Britt Mo Brooks race
I don't know but we do know this it
appears that that Katie Britt is strong on South
Alabama and I think my recollection is she's originally
from the Wiregrass area herself personally like down to
the Dothan area I'm going for memory but anyway
but she is from South Alabama I believe of course
Mo Brooks is from up here in the North Alabama
region and if we have this many reasons for
people to go to the polls in North Alabama
will that help Mo Brooks I don't know what those
election aftershocks things you just wonder about things that
make you go all right other stuff happening let me
just tell you these about to be some legal
challenges I'm already hearing that Senator Tom Watley down
in Lee County Auburn area who lost his home
county pretty big to a guy of Jhove but
he won his outline counties after all of the
provisional ballots were counted and everything was done the
incumbent state Senator Tom Whatley lost by one vote
one vote out of tins of thousands of votes cast
in that district one vote one vote over a
three county race one vote well I fully suspect
that Tom Whiteley is filing a challenge and asking
for a recount at the very least I would
think I don't know what the grounds will be
for him to challenge I would think it's the
very least he would ask for a recount because
if you recount although the recount is hard because
the machines have the tapes the tapes to get added up
the tabulation is done by machine is hard to
say that was done wrong but if you could
see provisional ballots or absentee ballots or military ballot
that should not have been discounted but they were
and you can get them added back in all
you need is too and you win the race
listen I'll end with this when I represented just
a wonderful lady who ran for a city Council
in rainbow city Alabama she ran for city Council
and lost by one vote and I said it
earlier on the show and I've said it more
than once you know I was her attorney we
challenged 11 provisional ballots that were not counted we
proved that none of them should've been and unfortunately
it was a weird deal where I said earlier
you know we won the case but lost the
race cause when we opened the ballot cause we
didn't know what they were we didn't cherry pick
we picked the ball it should've been counted low
and behold she still lost by one but it
was her right to challenge it it is your
right under title 17 of the state code to
challenge it and I guarantee you there's gonna be
some legal challenges mounting up because they have to do
it within 4 8 hours which is today I
thought I was coming back after the break we
got one of my favorite moments the grand Council
Dale Jackson Jeff poor and me will be right
back