Show #213 - Carolina Cabinet Election Recap: Surprises, Turnout, and the Road to November

Peter Pappas: everyone. Good afternoon and welcome to the Carolina Cabinet. I'm your host Peter Pappas in studio with Mrs. Laura Musler. Hello, hello. And that's it for today. It's just you and I. I think we can handle this. Nobody wants to be around us anymore because your election is over. The election is over and now we're feeling all lonely and blue. ⁓ well, let's we just had a primary. I think we're all rested after yesterday. Did you get any rest? Because we had a long day yesterday. A very long day. Because lo and behold, I finally get home and I'm like, oh, I'm going to get my jammies and just plug my computer in and watch the results. And then I got a call from one of my ATMs. We're out of money. So I had to get out of my car, go get money, take it out to the ATMs. was like, oh, An actual ATM machine, not a sugar daddy. Yes. OK. Yes. I do ATMs. I have an ATM business. Correct. Well. So then I came home, to my pajamas, fell asleep, and then I woke up about. 930 and I was very excited. Yeah. Okay. Good for you. I'm I can if I lay down here I could fall asleep. Have I actually been up and working longer than you today? I was actually at a meeting by 9am. Wow. No, I was up long before 8am. ⁓ you were? Yes. You said 9am. No, I went to sleep at 9 and then I woke up at 9.30 at night and then got onto my computer. Okay. Never mind. You still beat me. Okay, fine. All right. Well, ⁓ I was dressed and out of the house at 10am this morning because I had to be a bank because I needed more ATM money. So we were about tracking the same by getting out of the house. So we'll look, the primary results are in and this political landscape, mean, November is starting to take shape. ⁓ Democrats, they rallied behind this guy, Governor Roy Cooper. He was a very popular governor with the Democrats, though, so I'm not surprised. Well, you know, remember, he locked us down and closed us for two weeks to flatten the curve and took away all of our civil liberties. But why should they be popular? Republicans chose Michael Watley to carry our banner in what's shaping up to be one of the most closely watched Senate races in the country. one of the most expensive, Have you heard estimates? Like, I've heard like 500 million. That's why I heard it was starting out to be 100 million or more. And now it's like, know, two and a half to two to two hundred and fifty million. And it just keeps growing. So billion dollars to run for a Senate seat. And that just I think that brings attention to how important it is nationwide for us to keep our majorities. ⁓ now locally, ⁓ Cumberland County, had, I think the biggest race and the biggest surprise was, ⁓ former Spring Lake police chief, Troy McDuffie. He secured the democratic nomination. ⁓ he got just under 50 % of the vote. ⁓ so I, so is the sheriff's race going to be competitive though in the fall? You think Cumberland County will ever see a Republican sheriff? Because we do have a Republican that's running. We do have a Republican that's running, who's run before. And he's a good guy. Great guy, great guy. But he doesn't have the outreach to the Democrats in order to pull out the county-wide sheriff's race. I think that's endemic with a lot of the Republicans here is that we haven't done enough to reach across that aisle and say, look, guys, we're not your enemy. We want good things in our community as well. Nationally, we may disagree, but locally, think we all want clean water and safe streets. Right. So let's just dig into and I did pull up actual so we can share. Yay. Actually, put it on screen. See, I got to go over this. Well, yeah. Well, you know, look, I can't do it all. I think here we go. You can. OK, well, there you go. OK, so the first race we're going to discuss will be so that you can't read that. I'm too old now. I'm too old. got to blow it. too old. You just need different glasses. Okay. So US Senate, the Republicans really to me were the only, we had a competitive primary. The Democrats, think everybody knew they were going to vote for Roy Cooper. I mean, 92 % of Democrats voted for Roy Cooper. Let me just ask you a question. When you say we had a competitive primary, you are talking about 64.6%. You think that's competitive? I think, I think people thought it was going to be a lot more competitive than it was. And remember I told you, I went to the young Republicans and they were all for Michael Wiley. think that's what most people did because they don't just, don't know the inside baseball of the party. I think that way you and I might look at it. Um, I think locally we would consider ourselves grassroots or more. Yes. We know that Michael Wiley has ignored Cumberland County. 100 % when he was in CGOP chair. And then when he became the national chair, we did not get any love from Michael Wotley. Nope. ⁓ not, no, we didn't even get any, ⁓ here pittance, not love, not like, didn't they go like to Robeson County for a lot of events? did. Yes. Cause they were, but how can we expect to switch this area red if nobody ever gives us any, you know, attention. So, but I mean, look, if our 50,000 votes don't matter, then that's fine. But we do have 50,000 registered Republicans in Cumberland County. Well, he's not going to get a whole lot of them just because most of the people were not for him and because he doesn't show us love. People aren't, mean, come, come show us who you are. Come speak to us so that we can at least I'm going to hold my nose on. to vote for him. He's definitely a no value proposition candidate for the Republicans. He's not saying anything besides identifying as a Republican and I'm going to carry Trump's water. Right. That's it. And I don't have anything. When I say I'm going to hold my nose and vote for him. It's not that I have anything against Michael Wiley. I don't, I don't know him. I've had like three conversations. He still owes me a phone call from when he was NC GOP chair. So, okay. Well, I'm going to that against him. I've only had like three conversations within my life. I don't not like him. I don't like him. I don't have feelings about him one way or another. just, well, did hear me? Yes, I did. I was repeating myself. Yeah, know. ⁓ yeah, look personally, we don't have a problem with any of these candidates, but comma, however, and a big but for me, it's however, comma. always say that wrong. Comma, however, comma, however, dear. ⁓ I ⁓ we somebody that can, and Michelle Moro said this and it has resonated with me over and over and over. It's not who can beat Whatley it's who can beat Cooper. ⁓ So the is going to become, can Michael Watley former governor Roy Cooper? At this moment in time, I would say no. I would say it's a long shot. But let's just look at the turnout. He got in a primary, Cooper got seven hundred and fifty eight thousand and what we got four hundred and four. Four hundred four one hundred nine. So even if we added all that up together, we still didn't get it. You wouldn't get it. No. So that's about a hundred for Don. One for you. Yeah. Yeah. No, the Republicans don't stand a chance if we don't turn if we don't start turning out. And I don't think we have any of those numbers yet for how many Republicans statewide turned out. No, we know in the county though. We do? Yeah, it's going to be over to your left. It was 14 percent. ⁓ If you go up, up there, right there. OK. ⁓ yeah, but that's that's total ballots cast. OK, out of. Out of seven. This is statewide out of million. Yeah, you got to go to come. You got to go to Cumberland County. Change that to Cumberland County. I was going to say that grew a lot since last night. We actually under way, way, way, way, way under the performance. I don't know if the Republicans are not in the state, but county. OK, count Cumberland. There we go. Yeah, but 14 points. got thirty one thousand two hundred and eighty eight. out of 218,724 registered voters. Yeah, and I mean, look, we have, there's in the county, there's the 218,000 of those about 50,000 are Republicans. Right. So if every Republican had voted, we would have exceeded this number by 19,000. Yep. Where are you guys? Well, I would say as part of the GOP, that there was nothing done Nothing, and I mean nothing. was no discussions had, there was no anything had about let's get out in the community and turn out the vote. If the situation were different, I actually already had a plan in place about door knocking and getting out the Republican vote and making phone calls and stuff like that. But I wasn't in that position and it wasn't discussed with me. So our low turnout is a direct result of the person in charge, in my personal humble opinion. Well, and I'm not so humble, but I'll say that, you know, leadership in these volunteer organizations is not just showing up to the meetings, but it's also ⁓ sharing information and also encouraging and appreciating the volunteers that we have because I think people, so I just had lunch with a client and we were talking about the GOP because he is a Republican. Our volunteers are the best. Yeah, they are. so I met my friend, now client, whatever. We were both precinct judges for the board of elections and that's how we formed a 15 year friendship here But we were discussing the local party. I'm like look people think that we get money from Donald Trump We do not know people think that we get volunteers from elsewhere. No, we don't it's all grassroots It's all the people that are right here and some people I know that the Democrats they pay people to go out the Republicans don't pay people We, all of our people are actual people that care and show up. And then maybe we need to start paying people because Democrats show up. Let's see, to pay people, you have to then contribute to campaigns. If you want to see change, it's going to cost more than lip service. You're going to have to open your wallet, give a candidate five, 10, 20 bucks. Right. OK. So are we done with US Senate? Because I'm just kind of sad with the turnout and then knowing that Roy Cooper is 70 % likelihood of being our Senate senator. Yes, for all those grassroots people that are out there that end up hearing us. Is it worth it to stay home and say Governor Cooper or just hold your nose and vote for Watley because Governor, mean, I'm sorry, Senator Watley is better than Senator Cooper unless you like being tight, locked down and all of that stuff because it has implications further than our state board. Right. It's going to be. the furtherance or the stopping of President Trump's agenda. ⁓ Like him or don't like him, if some of my unaffiliated Democrat friends are watching, I mean, the man is doing things. That's right. And we needed to go ahead and get these things done so that for our children, for the next generation to get the things that Trump's doing will have long lasting implications. Yes, will. Mostly good. Mostly. Mostly good. But not everything that one party does is always bad and not everything that everything that a party does is always good either. So let's go down to the next race I have here is the ⁓ US House of Representatives ⁓ incumbent David Rausser retook his seat comfortably 74 % of the vote and Mr. Buzzard based out of Wilmington now he took 1625%. So definitely, know, he, Congressman Rausser, I think he slept pretty well last night. But. And District 9 didn't have a cousin. I don't think so. No, he didn't have a primary. So that's it. Well, the Democrats did. Wow, they ran four people. But the turnout in their race was low. Well, I guess. Now, let's see. We had about 7000 Republicans. That's little more than 7000. Five and a half. Yeah. So so people turned out for their. House representative, guess maybe because they're closer to people. Maybe. I would think they're more accessible than maybe a Senator. Well, David Rouser has been, I mean, he's, I could pick him out from a lineup. I could pick him out from a lineup too, but I will, like I've said before, I thought Chance, who is his LA, was Rouser for a very long time. like, ⁓ they're, I always heard, there's Rouser, I never listened to the LA. I didn't know what an LA was when I first come around. Rouser's LA and I thought that was David Rouser. And they were saying something of I don't know what an LA is but whatever. But then I introduced myself as Hyde. ⁓ He said, yeah, I'm not Rouser. I'm Chance. He is the Surrey. Yes. And he shows up a lot. He does. And I will say that Chance is a very knowledgeable young man. Yes, is. And hopefully we're grooming him for a future office. But ⁓ he is knowledgeable of what the congressman does and the congressman is doing a lot. I agree. ⁓ And I think I'm more accepting of a surrogate with a senator or a house representative than I am ⁓ a commissioner or somebody. know what? If you have a surrogate and you're out in the community too, there's a lot of things like, ⁓ I'm, was talking to Diane Wheatley who won her race, ⁓ last night and this, like she's got like two or three different events in, in, in a night, you know, two or three, she's going there, she's going there to have a surrogate even locally. You know, hey, my- wouldn't hurt, but for the ones that are serious about the job, they're everywhere. She's everywhere. So let's see, the next, we had court of appeals that was available to us to vote. we had Mr. Byrne, Michael Byrne on the show. He ⁓ got about 60 % of the vote versus Matt Smith, who got about 40%. Mr. Smith did not appear with us. ⁓ No harm, no foul with that, but I think that's a solid win for Byrne. But Smith, I think I called him a Johnny come lately on the last show. ⁓ but cause I didn't know anything about Mr. Smith, but he, I think he pretty much came out of nowhere. Like he'd never run for office before. was very impressive when he spoke. ⁓ I was more impressed with Mr. Byrne. Yeah. Yeah. Well, and again, you mentioned, you know, the things he could talk about off air, right? More interesting than having them on air. We got it. We got to coach our, ⁓ judicial candidates on what we got to get some parameters ahead of time so we don't get them in trouble. I mean, even if they just talk about themselves, their family and stuff like that, to give a little background, we don't need to talk about. Well, and that's what the cabinet's for. Let's see you be a human. So ⁓ next up we have Mr. Tom McGinnis. We're going to just give a round of applause for him. took 73 % of the vote versus Ray Daly's 26%. You know, that was a very hotly, there was a lot of emotion in Tom's race. ⁓ More so than I think any a lot of campaign shit. Not from Tom. I was going to say it was more visceral from the other side. It was very disappointing to see Republicans, because people seem to forget as soon as the primary is over, all of these- We have to vote for the people that we got through. Right. So why the anger and the vitriol and the, I understand, be positive about your candidate instead of negative about the other person. This ugliness back and forth is a little much. The stuff that I learned for Mr. Daley, sounded like, I don't know if he's a Republican. mean, so he reminded me. He's a very angry man. Hearing his language and his choice of words and his diction. Okay. He's a big, big S.A.T. work. He sounded like someone who occupied Tammany Hall in New York. Tammany Hall is the famous ⁓ city hall. that was notorious for bribery and coercion and maybe some mafia ties in there too. Who knows. I don't know. I don't know about all that. didn't think I was hearing from a North Carolinian that wanted the best for North Carolinians. Okay. I heard a transplant that wanted to bring Tammany Hall to Moore County. So the next up, so Ms. Ackles did win her primary in the Democratic side for District 43. She will advance to run against our now Diane Wheatley. She pulled it out. pulled it out. 59.5 % of the vote. Yeah, not bad. 60-40. That's not a bad and that's a healthy margin for Mr. Goins too. Yeah. So observing the polls yesterday. And he was a very nice man. When I met him, spoke to him. Some of the people that he had working in this poll were not so nice, but he and his I ran into all the nice ones. Did you? Yeah. Yeah, well. Yeah. I don't know. Maybe you just attract trouble. Or maybe I went to North Regional and you didn't. I did not. Or East Regional. One of those regionals. Yeah, I went to North Regional at least twice. Okay, I East Regional. ⁓ So what I did is I kind of messed with his helpers. I said, so have you seen the guy? You know who he is? And pretty much he had a lot of his fellow church members, I think is what it ended up being. And I met Pam Carter's husband. He was out there at, ⁓ God, I forget which one it is. think was Massey Hill. No, Massey Hill someplace. It was in Fayetteville. ⁓ But anyway, I just thought it was funny because a lot of people, they were volunteering for him, but had never met him. Really? Yeah. Yeah. So I thought we're supposed to separate church and state. I'm just joking. it goes to your advantage that you couldn't have him in bed. ⁓ let's see. want to mention Frances Jackson as a former guest of the show. She made it through her election 60 40. ⁓ seems to be a magic number with these guys. ⁓ now let's talk about our first judicial district court judge here locally. ⁓ I have to give a round of applause for Sherry Miller. She appeared on the show and I know this is the second time she's running and she took 56 % of the vote. So good job, Sherry. ⁓ hopefully have you back on and talk about your. plan for the future. Now the next seat, seat five, Sherry Seiler Mack, the incumbent. She beat Brene. Now we had, we had Brene Orozco on the show. Very entertaining, very knowledgeable, but she only was able to get 33.83 % this We'll just call it 34. But for, I believe that's the first time she ran for office. So that's very respectable to get 60, 30. It's not a blowout and I hope that she comes back out to play another round. That's right. Now let's get to our County Commission. ⁓ my lord. So not surprise Charles Evans. No, not at all. ⁓ That was actually just a I think you could vote for Charles and somebody else. I'm happy to see Charles as a former, so he's been a city councilman. He's been a county commissioner. ⁓ Charles is one of the rare people on these ballots that he loves the work. Like it's not, he's not doing it for you to call him commissioner. He's doing it because he loves his neighbors. It just goes to his heart, you know, and he's genuine. about what he wants to do too. hopefully we'll see what happens in the fall. I think the at-large will advance to, we do have two Republicans running at large. So Charles Evans and Veronica Jones will go against ⁓ Greg West, formerly of School Board, and Ron Ross. Right. Correct? ⁓ I pretty much can guarantee we're going to be saying Commissioner Charles Evans. Yes. The other one, so you're voting for Charles Evans and someone else. Yes. ⁓ I think... I have a feeling one of our Republican guys are going to make it through this time. I think there's a good chance that we may be calling ⁓ Commissioner West. Yes, yes. he did a great job on the school board and he got reelected over and over and over again. He worked across party lines. So he really did. ⁓ So District 1 County Commission, we had, let's see, two, three, four, five people running. ⁓ Let's see here. Glenn Adams and Sheila Cuffee. So Mr. Adams did appear on the show with us. Always good to see Glenn. Now I have a question. There's so many people that went rent for that, nobody did anybody get. OK, did I just? Nobody got 30%. Do they not do runoffs if you don't get a 30 %? So yes, they should. But how do you do a runoff with that many people? You take the top three. Yeah, it's like you. will there be a runoff? Hold on. I have that. Actually, I have that answer. ⁓ Because I think I asked that last. Hey, Google. No, no, no. I actually have I, you know, I know a couple of things. OK, so ⁓ let's see. Having said all that, formula for a runoff, a total of all votes cast, divide by two or the available number of seats. multiply by 30 percent, which is a threshold. If more candidates than the number of available seats meet the threshold, the top number of candidates go through again. what's that is? Okay. So what did I say? Add it up and divide by the number of seats and then by 30 percent. You didn't do the math yet. No, I don't have my calculator. Okay. So 35 or four. I'm supposed to add up all the votes, right? what you said, 34.94. 3053 and 24.87 plus, this is a lot better when I do it ahead of time. And divide by 2 times 0.3. So the threshold for a recount would be 1,992 votes. That can't be right. All right, total of all votes divide by 2, multiply by 30%. I think you need to text one of your board of elections my sources and say, okay, how does this work? But I was told that we're not going to have a runoff ⁓ for that. And actually, you know what? Look at Miss Cuffee. She got 26.3. And then from Miss Cuffee to Mr. Wright, it dropped to 22.9. So there's a market difference between the top two vote getters and the bottom three. I'm just asking. Look, I'd like to not have a runoff because that costs a lot of money and Mr. Wright can run again. I'm just asking. I don't make the rules. I'm just asking a question. That'd be nice to be king for a day and make the rules. Right. It's maybe there's two seats. It would make me a Democrat for a day. Rules for the not for me. Yeah. Well, I want to be a Democrat. OK. All right. So let's get down to I don't want to be a Democrat for five minutes. Let's get down to our sheriff's race. Now this one did surprise me. because, okay, this surprised me for the main reason is that usually the incumbent sheriff has the advantage. And this time that went against, what do call it? Traditional thinking, traditional wisdom. So Mr. Troy McDuffie, former police chief, Spring Lake, he took it with 49.6 % of the Democrat vote. Uh, he will advance on to run against, uh, LaRue Winham in the fall. Mr. Morgan, Jonathan Morgan, who has just, when NS Wright retired. don't know. Uh, I'm going to give him a couple of days before I reach out to him, but, I would expect to see him, uh, just, I think he was almost to his 30. I think it's time for him to retire anyway. So I see. would hate to, I would hate to lose him. I hate to lose him because he, to me. was outstanding and he has made a difference and we've seen him in the community and he's doing what it needs to be. Maybe we can make a, maybe the new sheriff can do something with him in order to continue his outreach and in the neighborhoods. Well, one would think, ⁓ so because the thing, listen with Mr. McDuffie, ⁓ he has a lot of experience with police departments. He did work with the sheriff's office before, but Police department runs differently than the sheriff's department because sheriff's department has your jail has your legal serving your evictions. There has so many other duties in the sheriff's department and I don't know. I'd like to ask Mr. McDuffie back on because I think we did ask him like what his plan was. He says just getting through the primary. Right. What's his answer? now I'm up to six pushups because that sheriff Morgan told me that if I could you have to do 10 pushups. I've been practicing. There was one day I couldn't even move my arms. What did he tell you? 10 pushups to be a city. You have to do 10 pushups. Why? To get through the thing. You have to roll 150 pounds and stuff like that. So I gotta do 10 pushups. For the sheriffs? For the sheriffs. Okay, I was like, what are you torturing yourself for? Because I want to be able to... I was thinking, isn't Weight Watchers easier if you're trying No, but he said I could work in the courthouse. Remember? Oh, yeah. I thought he said you can't get to choose. He was going to let you choose? He said, if you come aboard, we have spots at the courthouse. Cause otherwise I would quit. was probably doing something else. I don't know. You put in what you want. If there's a shortage, I'll put you there. Okay. I mean, I'll go through the training and do all of that stuff. And if they're like, you're out on the road, I'd be like, yeah, I quit. Yeah. I don't want to do it. Yeah. I'm not going to do it. I don't want to do it. I'm not going to do it. I'm too old. We're both too old for that crap. So, all right. So to round this up, does Michael Wotley, does he unify the Republican base? Not at all. No, that's not fair. Why? Why is it not fair? OK, because I'm basing my immediate no on past behavior, which is a fair point. However, maybe somebody is going to say, dude, and shake him and be like, you need to start showing up. And maybe he'll start showing up. And if he does, there is possible that some people, not a lot, but some people will, you know, come over to his way if he like shows. We are voters. Show us some respect and make us want to come out to the polls for you. Okay, so look, he could, he's going to have my vote in the fall because I want a Republican senator. because I want Michael Wotley. However, I would like to see him with some talking points or with something besides I'm Trump's boy. Right. That's all. Because you know what? Because you got to get some of the unaffiliated affiliated ⁓ I was a Marco. Okay. Trump first ran, I was a Marco. He's Hispanic. know, yeah, whatever. No, it has nothing to do with that. I respect that man and the way he speaks, the way he delivers. just, I was a Marco Rubio fan when Trump announced that he was running. was all about Marco Rubio. Are you allowed to admit that? Because, you know, I thought that made me a righto. That makes me not a real Republican. I don't know. Who cares? I don't know. As soon as Trump got the, I came aboard with Trump And that's what we're supposed to do. That's right. know, we can fight it out in the primary. We can be a little nasty to each other, but then we come together. And ⁓ so overall, I think the incumbents dominated yesterday's race. David Rouser, Diane Wheatley, Tom McInnes locally, one judge, judicial candidate did. ⁓ you know what I'm sad about? What are you sad about? Teela Kivett's husband didn't do well. Teela Kivett. Our district. ⁓ her husband was running for something. Congress or Statehouse? I don't remember. think Statehouse. Well, one thing that did point out, ⁓ democratic turnout looks strong in the urban counties as usual. ⁓ Mecklenburg, Wake, Durham, and Cumberland is on that list as well. I want to get the numbers from Linda or from somebody. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to say somebody's name from somebody at the board elections to find out was Republican turnout in here in Cumberland County better or worse. Well, we need to know because going forward, we need the ones that didn't turn out. We're to have a list of those who did and those who didn't. Right. And we don't know how they voted. I was almost, almost one of those that didn't. Did you almost forget? It's that day. Cause I always got up and doing everything I've running from poll to poll. I get, I vote and everybody's harassing. Yeah, I already voted, but I hadn't voted. I was just saying that so they wouldn't harass me. But I was like, okay. And then I was like, ⁓ I don't feel like going in there now. I'll do it later. I'll do it later. And then yesterday. I finally got all the stuff that I was doing, running from polls and dropping off lunches and doing all of that stuff. And I was like, whew. And I, oh my God, I never voted. Where's your polling place, your actual day of polling place? Right at the church, the Presbyterian Church in Hamel. the one on Rayford Road or Snyder? No, ⁓ it is on, I don't know what the name is. Okay, all right. Yeah, I went to Snyder, saw it. It's right by the truck stop. Okay, yeah, that's not, that's First Pres. That's it. Yeah, First Pres. Okay. You know, but that's one thing to mention to our Republican cohorts or anybody for this matter. ⁓ Who loves getting campaign text messages? Raise your hands. If you want to be off those lists as soon as possible, vote early. That's true. Because these campaigns, being consciously aware of how much they spend on advertising to people, they will stop texting you. The more prudent campaigns will be scraping your name off the list as you hear somebody. Thank you for all the support for Diane. ⁓ yeah. Hey, David. Hey, David. But no, the candidates, if they're actually watching their budgets and somebody's not asleep at the wheel, they'll take your name off the list. So if you vote early. You're done. You probably won't even get mailings. That's right. I don't know. mean, mailings take a little bit longer. So you probably still will get the mailings. yeah. Yeah. Well, yeah, because early voting is only two weeks. So it's hard to whatever. So to all of you that don't like all that stuff. So what else we got to talk about? We have a GOP meeting tomorrow, Thursday at 304 and drive the resource center. And Saturday and Saturday, every single registered Republic. And then here's the this podcast. need you to show up at Freedom Christian Academy at eight o'clock in the morning. Freedom Christian Academy on Gillespie Street. If you are a registered Republican, come join us for the convention. Meet people. Say hi. You'll meet the stars of the, I'm just joking. You are a star in No, No, I was going to say you and I, the stars of the Academy. Yeah. Well, I just thought, cause you're always glittery and I do. am glitter. You are very glittery. I don't have much glitter on today. No, but you look nice. I even said that. Yeah, I know. I don't do that often. That's true. Forever. No, every once in a while Is the first time? Probably like the third time. We've known each other for two years, three years. I thought, you look nice today. Like, what, did you get drunk this Yeah, see, there you go. See, see, see. That's how I, when I receive a compliment, I'm like, what does she want? Yeah, pretty much. very, I don't know. So. the convention Saturday morning at 8 a.m., which sounds horrible, but we have donuts and coffee, I believe. Donuts and coffee, and it's actually kind of fun. The young Republicans are going to be involved in our first convention, so come join. If you have young Republicans, bring them with you. Let them join the young Republicans, because the young Republicans, I'm trying to help them. We're going to have reading hour for those young Republicans that have children at the library with Commissioner Pavan Patel. Okay, and that's coming up at the end of March, but they're not going to have meetings like us old fogies the Republican women do they're gonna have events like roller skating with a commissioner or and their kid friendly to you So they're good. We're assuming they're young families. Yes. I mean you have to be like under 30 something. Okay, so I'm out Yeah, so I'm out twice. Do it. we pay it? What do we do pay extra to be honoraries? No honoraries. You're just once you age out you're just part of the Republican Party but yes please bring your children children friendly bring your young people we even have teens that you know we can always do teens and then of course with the turning point all of that stuff so please please please Saturday morning take three outer hours out of your life you'll meet some friendly people with like minds ⁓ show up we'd love to have you remember ten dollars in cash because we like cash at the door ten dollars in cash at the door Photo ID. You gotta have a photo ID. you're right. We sure do. Photo ID and $10 cash because we ain't taking checks or credit. And photo ID because we are the party of wanting to know who you are. That's right. And we will have people at the front door checking your registration. Telling you where your precinct is. You'll people in your neighborhood. It starts out, you come inside and they give you, you log in. They give you a piece of paper that says who's in your precinct. and your precinct are your neighbors. So if you don't know your neighbors, if you're new to town, if you just want to get to know your neighbors, what a great way to find neighbors that are like-minded. Because I have one neighbor on my side and she had a Biden sign out. I didn't talk to her. You didn't run over it, did you? No, I would never do that. That's a felony too. If you get caught. Well, I'm not going to take that chance. Thank you very much. But yes, so you'll meet your neighbors. You'll meet fellow Republicans. You'll meet the Fayetteville Republican Women's Club. You'll meet the young Republicans. You'll meet elected officials. Now people that are running for office in the future. There's people in your district nine, district seven, 13, all of it. And if any of that sounds complicated, believe me, I still find it complicated, but we still kind of figured out how to navigate these waters. So there are so many seasoned people there. It sounds complicated, but if you've been to two or three, it's like. Well, I do like I do like the precinct sign up part because you do get to meet somebody that's hyper local ⁓ My cold capitalistic heart did has met clients there before you know people that ended up needing real estate or whatever So for me it works out all the way around politically and economically ⁓ But please ten dollars photo ID, please be a registered Democrat. I What Republican are you I was thinking don't don't be a registered don't talk in negatives. Yeah, sorry That's okay. Be a registered Republican. Come to the county convention at 8 a.m. this Saturday, March 7th. Are we gonna start on time you think? a.m. The doors open at 8 a.m. When do we start our program? 9 a.m. starts the precinct meeting. If you're not in the door before 9 a.m. you are not coming in. Thank you very much. Have a nice day. Doors are barred. Yes they are. Have a good day. I have that on good authority from last convention. There was a young man. traveling from West Fayetteville, but he got off work late that morning and the powers that be would not let him in. hated it because he is actually a ⁓ foreign born person. He's a young dude and he's very active. He's very vocal and you know who I'm talking about and he just wasn't able to come in. So I'll have to reach out to him and let him know, eight to nine. And this Saturday, by the way, since we're not gonna be on before Saturday night, our clock go forward. Wait, they do? Yes. So I'm going to lose sleep. Go to bed an hour earlier. Well, to everybody that joined us today, we appreciate you joining. ⁓ Thank you to my on air cabinet co-host, Mrs. Laura Musler. Always good to have you and see you. Thank you. And to everybody, please go to our website, www.thecarolinacabinet.com for all of our shows and links. and we will see you all Monday at 6 p.m. No, we'll see you Saturday at the convention. at convention. you're a registered Republican. And I will see you guys Monday at 6. Have a good afternoon.