Stacy Besch: Fighting Giants June 2nd

This week Troy welcomes back Iowa Senate District 5 Republican Primary Candidate Stacy Besch. Since November, Stacy has been beating the streets contacting Republican primary voters and spreading the word about her candidacy. Tomorrow, Iowans head to the polls for the 2026 primaries and if Stacy earns the win from the voters in District 5 she will be the new State Senator as there is no Democratic challenger. See why she's been fighting giants during this campaign as dark monies flow in from different sectors of the party with less than one seventh of the campaign funds compared to her incumbent opponent and learn about the nasty lies they've been perpetuating in these last few weeks and perhaps why they are running scared she might win and shake things up! Talk about being the Sunnyside of Life for District 5!

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Hello friends and neighbors, welcome in the life where laughter's dancing and hearts are shining bright with gallant ends and with a rage shark. Let's craze the place where love ignite spark.

SPEAKER_04 0:17

Hello friends and neighbors and welcome to Sunnyside. Yay, it's another video. And uh we get to do this because we have Stacy Beschback with us, and that is fantastic because uh it's a big day tomorrow. It's primary day, and in this particular race, as it is for actually quite a few uh uh primary races in the state of Iowa, tomorrow probably determines uh who is actually gonna be the state senator. And so it is uh something that we've been talking about before. We introduced you to Stacy uh a few months ago, and uh we've been working hard to get her where she needs to be, and now she's back because uh tomorrow is the day. And so, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Sunnyside, Stacy Besh. Hey Stacy, hey true.

SPEAKER_00 0:56

I'm doing wonderful.

SPEAKER_04 0:57

Well, thank you. Uh thank you, thank you for being wonderful. Oh, I just sounded like an idiot there. But that could happen more than once. Don't worry about that. All right, let's here's how this is gonna go. Uh, I want to talk to you today about a lot of uh a lot of things, but we're gonna start with some um, we're gonna start with I think the fun stuff and maybe get into some other stuff uh uh a little bit further down there. First up, fun stuff. I had the opportunity to go beat the streets with you just for one day, not even a full day. And it wasn't exhausting, it was different. Uh it was an opportunity to go door knocking and meet people and tell them about you. And you've been doing that all over the district, actually knocking on doors. How many miles do you think you've walked and how many places, how many houses have you visited?

SPEAKER_00 1:40

Wow, we well, I'll tell you what. We started March 10th with our first town, and yesterday we completed 46 communities, which there are 46 in District 5 between the five and a half counties. Now, for as far as how many miles, you know, the only day that I had um I had a volunteer one day, and it was the first time I was in Forest City, she kept track on her watch, her smartwatch, and it said we had walked 10 miles. Now, saying that, I I don't know how many, but if we've been to 46 communities, I got thousands of miles on these feet. I will tell you what, I'm gonna throw those tennis shoes away as soon as uh Tuesday's over.

SPEAKER_04 2:19

But that's that's what they say, you know, when you're done with like they tough mutter, uh, done a couple tough tough mutters and you just throw your shoes away. In fact, they just recycle them and they get, I don't know what they do with them. So maybe that's what it is. You're actually, when they say running for office, you're you're you're running for office or walking.

SPEAKER_00 2:34

Yeah, you're running for office. Well, that was my goal. You know, my goal from the beginning was to do a true grassroots campaign, go out, meet the people, go knock on their door, you know, find out where they live in the sense of like, these are true hardworking people up here in northern Iowa. Now, my goal was 10,000 doors. We were just shy of that because it started raining on us um in Spirit Lake on this last day. But you know what, to hit over 9,000 doors in two and a half months and 46 towns with we had some awesome volunteers. And yes, you were an awesome volunteer, Troy. You you came with us to Forest City. But you know, it's just an experience, right? To just go knock on a door and be like, hey, I'm I'm trying to sell Stacy because we need her at that Senate.

SPEAKER_04 3:16

Yeah. I tell you, I I feel like I could I told you at lunch we had lunch. Thank you for buying lunch, by the way. That's really nice of you. Uh I feel like I could have run for mayor uh in Forest City because it seems like everybody does know me. Unfortunately, I don't live in town, or fortunately, the way I look at it. Uh I don't live in town, you know, but it was just nice to to talk to people. Uh I've never done that before in my life. I and I don't know, uh it probably ever this is just the modern era, but it would a cool way you just kind of you have a route, you kind of know where the in this case it's a primary, Republican primary. So uh you know where the Republicans live and you go knock on the door, and if they're not there, you leave a little door hanger and uh you move on, and and it's a cool app that you've got. I I I lived in this town or this area most of my life. Uh well, all my life, except when I was, you know, doing things in the army and whatever. And I did not know where some people live. And so I cannot wait uh to see some people that I didn't get a chance to talk to that day because I saw some stuff, and I'm like, I've got some questions about their house, you know. As a guy that used to, you know, remodel houses and things like that. I'm like, what's going on here? Did you build a garage literally in front of an oak tree? So half of your garage door is never usable, which I saw and I couldn't believe it. And I talked to the next neighbor and I was like, Yeah, did you know? And they're like, Yeah, they built it that way. Like, okay, you're never getting out of it. Anyway, have you seen stuff like that too?

SPEAKER_00 4:39

I uh, yeah, you know, it's so funny that you bring that up, but you know, it has been fun. And I I would say some of that fun part was I'd go up to a door, I get to see all these cool flowers and planters, and I would I would automatically always say something to that homeowner, like, oh my gosh, I love those flowers. Where did you buy them? Or that's a really cool antique wagon. Where'd you get that? So I would always try to bring up something too about their home. I think that's one that's a that's a genuine way to kind of open the door and just show them a little bit of your personality. But I saw some cool stuff, and yeah, that app was awesome. You know, I had I had friends who had used this app before down at the Capitol. And yeah, you got to pay for this app, but this app, it was awesome because it told us exactly where the Republicans live and who are the voters. And uh, so that narrows it down. If there's anybody who's listening to this and saying, well, she didn't come to my house, um, well, you have to be a registered Republican, you know, to be on that app and you have to be a voter. Um, you can understand if I'm trying to go out there to 46 towns. First of all, Democrats aren't voting in a Republican primary. Right. And if you've never voted before, the odds of you voting in a primary are probably not very high. But you know what? We're not we're not giving up on you. That means I still want you to come out and vote on Tuesday. By all means. By all means, I want you to come out. But we we definitely hit the doors of Republican voters. And uh, yeah, it was it was fun.

SPEAKER_04 6:00

Yeah, it's a it was obviously a lot of work. Uh, it's very, very well organized. Um dynamo out there, plus keeping all your other schedule with all of your whole, you know, your speaking and life and everything like that, and just making this a priority uh to get out there and and visit with the actual primary voters in the Republican Party in your district is a huge deal. Now, I didn't see your come your competition doing that. I've never seen but like but you maybe it's because I live in the country. And you did mention that if you're in the country, sorry, we just we don't we don't get so if you're a Republican and you didn't get a door knock uh because you're out in the country, it's because we live in God's country.

SPEAKER_00 6:34

That's true. You do live in God's country. I live on the farm too, so you know, but yeah, you know, I hope people understand and can uh you know respect the fact that we if we drove to every town in the country, it would take months and months to pull in the driveway, pull back out, you know, it's just all of that. But um, no, as far as my opponent, um, I did hear in the last week that he did make it into two communities, as far as I know from some people. So um, yeah, so I don't know. I that's all I know is that they just said that they'd seen him, but that's that's the only knowledge I have of that.

SPEAKER_04 7:07

Yeah. Well, the I mean, part of the reason that I jumped on the bandwagon really early uh is because uh having working with the school board and uh going down every year and advocating for school boards, public schools in the state of Iowa, and education in general, as well as for veterans' affairs as a as a commissioner uh in Winnebago County for for vets and stuff like that, I can tell you that it's very important that I have the opportunity to talk to uh the representatives and senators that are that are down there. And I have had uh it's very easy for me to do that. Um with it just I had a heart at one time, one time in in four years have I been successful in getting Dave to come out of the either chamber or wherever he's at, because what you do is you send you a little slip in, and then those little page runs to it, and then they you give it to him, and it's like a you know, you so you I don't know how it works. Uh and then so then you wait like a ding-dong out in the you know area, and everybody when it's a big advocacy day, everybody's doing the exact same thing. So I could see how if you're uh an elected official and you've got lots of things on your plate and everything like that. I mean, maybe they look forward to those days, maybe they dread them. I really don't know. But uh everybody's waiting to talk to you, and a lot of times, probably they're not particularly happy about what's going on. And and so, um, but I was able to always talk to Senator Gooth, you know, but I was and and but Rowley's my senator, and so I have talked to him, uh, but uh I've also emailed, called, um, left messages, particularly about things that affect education. Uh, and um, and uh usually I get an out-of-office reply or something like that. And that's frustrating for me. Dennis Gooth always responds, uh, Henry Stone always I can call Henry Stone on the phone, you know, and uh and so and uh not that that's but to me that's important. And I think X accessibility is a huge part of the job because we're paying whoever our representatives are to go there and work for us. And not that you want to be constantly on the phone with the same people every day, uh, but that was frustrating to not being able to just occasionally, once or twice a year, get an answer, either in a written form or so. The written form was always for me like, I'm very busy with a lot of different things right now, but we have we will we will consider this. And I never I didn't get a response. So for me, accessibility was a big problem. And I just didn't see it, and that's why I was like, I'm looking for somebody else.

SPEAKER_00 9:17

Well, thank you. I I appreciate that. I appreciate your support from the very beginning. Yeah, accessibility is very, very important. If if I'm gonna go be a voice for district five, yeah, well, you gotta hear the people in order to be their voice.

SPEAKER_02 9:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:30

Uh so you know, whether it's being the vote or if we have a debate on the floor, yeah, you gotta know what the people in district five are thinking, or at least people who are like you who find an issue very important, yeah, then we got to bring that important issue to the floor. So yeah, accessibility is definitely something that I have not only committed to and I promise to, but you know, that's been a part of my life this whole, I mean, for 30 years. When you're an entrepreneur and you're a business owner and a manager, you have to be that person. Yeah. I mean, you're gonna get customer calls all the time.

SPEAKER_04 10:01

Yeah, that's exactly right. And that and that experience obviously does help. You know, had that that customer service experience. But I I so that was the big deal for me is that I was, I need I need accessibility. And, you know, you're not gonna be on every committee, you're not gonna be familiar with every single bill that comes through. Uh the Senate makes up its own bills every year. Come January, it's an onslaught of really bad ideas most of the time, in my opinion, just as a guy who's like watches them all. And I have learned and my advocacy for the last several years, uh working down the Capitol, things like that, with different folks, and just like back home, um constituents they get riled up pretty quick because they hear all of the dumb ones first. Uh, and there are a lot of dumb ones, and so they're like, this is the end of the world. And I'm like, that's never gonna make the funnel, I don't think. But I we'll keep an eye on it just to make sure because some of those do slip through. You can't be an expert on every single, every single thing that comes up at the beginning of January. You're not in every committee, so you don't know what they're working on in their committees. Uh, and that has happened when I've talked to all of the representatives, including uh, you know, Senator Rowley, was he may not know what's going on in the Senate Education Committee. Um, so it's very important for a constituent to uh do your homework and know what you're talking about, make sure you've got your your bill numbers and things like that, and then know why you're telling him either to vote for or against something. But I do expect that you would have um the wherewithal to be on top of um a lot of the things, at least what what what's going on down there, certainly in all of your committees, but being willing to look up the bills that we're uh in in any particular any constituent is talking about.

SPEAKER_00 11:40

Well, I would okay, so saying all that, my first and foremost thing that I would love to fight against is bill sandwiches, where they just put all this garbage in one bill.

SPEAKER_02 11:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:50

Um, we need to get rid of that in Iowa for sure. I mean, why are we allowing things to sneak in? Um, so that would be something that I'm gonna fight for. I don't know how much, but I'm gonna at least use my voice to get that. But you know what the awesome thing is, is I have created this amazing network of senators and legislators down there for the last three years on my human trafficking awareness, you know, journey.

SPEAKER_02 12:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:12

I I have so many people down there that if I have a question, I know exactly who to call. So I'm feeling really confident in I'm not gonna know everything. So, but I know who does. And so I always feel like, you know, when I'm out doing my presentations, I always say I'm the God connector. I know people who, if somebody, a victim calls me, I know who to give them a phone number to. Same thing's gonna happen down at that Senate. And so I'm I'm feeling really good about, you know, I'm gonna learn, surround yourself with people who do know. And if you don't, you you know who to call on. So I'm I'm not worried about that at all. The problem that I think I have a little bit is like these bills not only being sandwiched, but if they make them like, let's say a 500-page long bill and they hand it to you the night before and you're gonna vote on it the next day, who on earth has time to read a 500-page bill? And so I think Do you have those in the state? There's a few of those. Yeah, there's a few of those. Oh no. Because I've heard I've heard some senators down there tell me they didn't even have time to read some of these bills, and yet you have to go vote on them. So that's where it's gonna be important to know who to reach out to that knows the language of it, who knows what the intentions were of it. And you're not just taking the word of someone like, yeah, yeah, you need just to to vote on that. And I also think it's important because uh I think a lot of people out there constituents don't realize that when you are just going and voting yes or no, that doesn't mean you're a fighter. You can't say, well, I fought for this and I fight for that, and yet you just sit behind a chair and vote yes or no. No, you're not a fighter.

SPEAKER_02 13:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:36

No, we need a fighter down there, and I and I'm gonna be that warrior. If there's something that's not right, you're not just saying, I'm just gonna hit the no button, or yeah, I'm just gonna hit yes because you know, they were they talked me into it. We need true fighters down there and we need a voice. And I think people just have lost, they don't understand that's what happens down there. People say, Oh yeah, I fought for you. Um, I've been very, very much aware of down there at that capital, like, you know, my Facebook has been, you know, I've been public on Facebook. I have no problem like questioning hard topics and bringing up tough things. I'm gonna do the same thing when I'm down there. So just know everybody that stay tuned because I know that I'll be putting up videos and uh talking about what I learned that day and what they're talking about, what they're sharing. Really, we are not just your voice. We're supposed to be the eyes and ears for you.

SPEAKER_02 14:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 14:28

I mean, you should know what's happening down there. Some so many people blindly just are following and trusting, which we want you to trust us. But you know what? I think you should know what's kind of going on down there. And uh, because that's kind of opened my eyes in the last three years because I was kind of clueless. Like, I, you know, you just assume that what's happening is what you thought was happening and it's not.

SPEAKER_04 14:48

Right. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, the sandwich bills are a mess. I've always wondered why they wouldn't just, you know, why isn't it public shaming where you have non-germane uh, you know, uh amendments added to original bills? This is like, this is something about this, but I'm gonna do something because we need uh some new public toilets in the town next to them, you know. And I mean, like, how is this relative? You know, is it a public works bill? No, it's an education, uh, and whatever, you know. It's like they have I the they those the people that put that in there should be like their name should be made known to the world. That's right. You know, Senator So and so wanted this slid into here, yeah, you know, uh, and and there should be shame brought upon them. Um but I do know that that's kind of how politics works. Like that uh you're like, ah, you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours, I'll vote for that if we wish it were more like I'll vote for that because it's the right thing to do, and everybody can debate on the merits of that. Um, or I'm gonna vote no against that because it's the wrong thing to do, and here's why. Um but instead it's like it's the wrong thing to do, but I'll vote yes if Yeah, I don't like those sandwich bills either. How do you how how do you perceive um uh this when you say you're gonna make videos and stuff like that? This is the things that I learned today. I have seen that some of the um uh I guess more social media apt people uh that are in the state house and the senate down there have some of them do that where they they just kind of it's not necessarily every day, but every few days, or it's particularly during the session, they'll update and they'll say, here's what's going on. And uh I love that. I think that's great. Is that what you are thinking you're doing?

SPEAKER_00 16:31

That's exactly what I'm planning on doing. Because, you know, I've been doing videos, you know, driving in my car for many years, right? You know, I'm in my car and I'm driving and I do a video and just share kind of where I'm going and what I'm up to and what I've learned. Yeah, same thing's gonna happen. I'm not afraid to get in front of a camera, but it's more so I'm not afraid to tell you what's happening. Yeah. And we need somebody like that. We don't want somebody hiding behind a curtain and just hitting the yes and no button. We need somebody literally out there for the people. And yeah, I mean, to me, it's just an obvious choice.

SPEAKER_04 17:02

Now, with all of this, uh with all this making videos while you're driving, is is am I are you gonna be getting rid of the distracted driving laws in Iowa? That'd be great for me.

SPEAKER_00 17:11

You know what I find interesting? Uh, you know, I I definitely keep my phone as magnetized to my dash, so it's never in my hand. Right. But yeah, I'll pull up to a stop sign. This person next to me is holding a big Mac with a in one hand and a and a coke in the other.

SPEAKER_04 17:26

And yet driving with their knee.

SPEAKER_00 17:27

Yeah, driving with their knee, and yeah, yeah, we're not supposed to have our phone. So it's just interesting that, you know, there's some laws sometimes that you kind of just sit there and scratch your head, like, but they can do that. Women are putting mascara on, but that's okay. But don't you dare have that phone in your hand, or yeah, you know, yeah, there's just some interesting things that are out there, and you know, some of this is just too much government overreach, and you know, let's just have some common sense people. Yeah, but we've kind of known that some of our people have lost their way on common sense. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 17:54

Yeah, I'm not in favor of distracted driving. Let me be clear about that. I just uh um we are all distracted for a variety of reasons. You could be digging on the radio, as Charlie Daniels would say, you know, and and who knows what else. So uh anyway, that's supposed to be a bit terrible joke that I made. But you all right, so let's talk about some of these issues now which you revisit. Obviously, um you're you're not a one-issue candidate. This is uh, you know, one of the things that uh that has been on your social media. You've been doing a lot more. I would say, have you done any mailers?

SPEAKER_00 18:25

I did a so I didn't do a mailer as far as a flyer um all by itself. What I did was every newspaper I'm in District 5, I had an insert um that would fall out of the newspaper, except for Winnebago County. Winnebago County, they don't have any inserts to to put in. So I just put a huge ad on the front page of that of that newspaper. So other than that, every other newspaper I had an insert that would fall out. I'm hoping people magnetize those to their fridge because it was not only a reminder of to vote, but a reminder of who I was and the things that I fight for. Um so I did that, you know. Then I did also lots of not only social media commercials. I did those on social media that way. I never did do a radio ad, and we can get into like why I chose not to do that, but I also did, of course, the door knocking, grassroots campaigning, which was the biggest deal of all. And of course, the signs in the yards. I mean, what you want is name recognition. And so when you have that name recognition, I have over 850 signs sitting in yards across district five. Well, that says something, yeah. Right? That says not only your your power of support, but it's just a constant reminder of there's that name, you know, for you. So that that was a big deal too, is just that's a part of that grassroots campaigning.

SPEAKER_04 19:39

Well, let's talk about that. I think, you know, I'm gonna guess the radio is expensive. You know, it's a lot of money. Isn't that is that part of it, or was there something else?

SPEAKER_00 19:46

Um, you know, the radio, yeah, it can be expensive. Obviously, TV as well, but I kind of look at most people don't even have regular TV anymore. They might have like satellite or digital. Same with radio too. Some people do listen to their local. Uh but when the smearing campaign started um just a few weeks ago on me. Yeah, we had a a big smear campaign going on against me, which you know, we can get into a little bit, like you have to scratch your head, like, why would they go after Stacy so bad? But when they started doing that and these radio stations started playing um these nasty ads about me, which is full of, of course, lies and just a a total thing to put doubt in people's minds. That's what that's what they're designed to do, right? That's all they're trying to do. Doubt and discredit. That's what they're trying to do. Well, after I found out doing um some digging and talking to the FCC, you know what? Those radio stations did not have to put those ads on. You see, if you look at the rules for for the radio stations, that if it was truly my opponent that came in, dropped off these ads and paid for them, because political ads have to be paid for in advance. If he came in and did it and he's a credited candidate, they have to by law air them.

SPEAKER_02 20:57

Sure.

SPEAKER_00 20:58

If it's a pack paying for the ad and it's full of defamation, the radio station can say, you know what, we're just not gonna we're not gonna air that. That's that's not right. So it's choosing to have values and morals as far as your radio station. Um, I will say the most disappointing is when my hometown radio station didn't even want to back up their hometown girl. And they played them over and over and over. So what that says to people out there, because I've had a lot of people contact me that are pulling their ads and not listening to the radio station anymore, was they took money over value.

SPEAKER_04 21:35

Yeah. Yeah, they're gonna. I mean, I used to work in radio, and so um uh they just I mean, it's m it's money. It's it's it's it's money that's what radio stations aren't killing it. Radio radio personalities, believe me, do not get paid very much. There was reasons that I moved on, you know, to other things in life. But but uh it was a great job, it was a lot of fun, you know. But I just I didn't uh have a face for radio. Uh Uh but I wanted to uh do I wanted to make more money. The radio stations want to make more money. That's what it that's but I I without naming the the call letters of that particular radio station, I know your home hometown. And so I I think that's funny because the first time that they ever did um live streaming, by the way, for a baseball game was about two years ago, three years ago. Might have been longer than that now. The first time that they'd ever done it was like the final game of the conference championship for the top of Iowa West conference between uh Bishop uh Garrigan, uh the Golden Bears, and uh the wonderful Fort City Indians. And uh and that was the first time that they had ever done live streaming. And um they cheated on the pitch count. And we kept that Four City kept watching over, going over and say, hey, what's the pitch count? What's we're getting pretty close because we keep track of it too, but the homebook always counts. And uh they're like, no, no, no, he's still good to pitch. And they had a great pitcher, and it was really dead and uh they uh they did win that game. Uh, but then they didn't win that game because they they had to forfeit uh because they actually did throw more than they were supposed to, and nobody would have been able to prove it had that particular radio station whose letters will remain untamed. Haven't done a live stream. So that listen, you're not the only person from that area, that town that has been bamboozled by that particular radio station, even their local Catholic school guy. That's a terrible story.

SPEAKER_00 23:23

Well, it goes to show well, it goes to show nobody's perfect, right? Well, so yeah, you know, I just yeah, you'd you'd like to have more faith in your community, right? That they that they're for you, but you know, that's the way. So because of that, that's why I chose not to do radio ads. Not because it was expensive, but you know, when I started talking to some people that I look up to and I respect and I was getting advice from them on the campaigning because they've been down this road before, so many people were starting to turn off the radio when they would hear my name because they didn't want to hear the negative ad. So why would I go and pay for an ad? Because if I even said my name, who's to say that they would think it was legit me or was it legit ad? So they were just gonna turn it off.

SPEAKER_04 24:05

Yeah. Well, so the mail and the mailers are the same way. This is what got me fired up. I gave you a call on the weekend and I was just like, hey, listen, I think we got to come on the show here because I got I've been getting a lot of mailers since I since I registered Republican again. Uh now I get all these re these mailers um for all these people. And they're all they're typically the ones that I that I'm not gonna vote for anyway. Someone's like, they're the ones that are sending the mailers. So I was like, what is wrong with the ones that I like? Why don't they do mailers? Uh, but then the one that really got me upset had your picture on it. And of course, it's always like grainy, like like you're watching some crime TV thing or whatever. And the the crime that they want you to believe, and this is where it's this misinformation campaign that came out that got me so upset, was like they said, uh it start off with, do you want uh Stacy Besch would tell your 10-year-old child, talk to your 10-year-old child about pornography, do you want that? Like you're just going around to elementary school, like, hey kid, come over here. I want to show, you know, like that's the exact opposite of what you do. And and uh, but they make it seem the people behind that particular campaign make it seem like uh that that's that that's a bad thing. And what's infuriating about that on that same placard was uh a picture of the Cassooth County Sheriff who who had been on then and he had Dickinson County. Dickinson County, yeah. Sorry, Cassooth County. I was just thinking about the other thing with the radio station. And so, but you're yeah, the Dickinson County Sheriff had been on there with a quote, and he had said he his picture wasn't on there. Uh his his but his quote was on there saying that he can't believe, essentially, that you can't believe that you, you know, uh that you doubt the law enforcement community, and in all of his years of law enforcement, he just can't stand that's why he's voting for for for for Rowley. And it's like none of this is true. You've been endorsed by law enforcement office. You have you have people in in in uh in that particular county that are deputies that are saying we want more of what you're saying that we need to do for this human trafficking stuff. And uh and that's what I was that got me fired up. So you this is happening on the yeah, it's back on you now. Like, all right, very well.

SPEAKER_00 26:07

I appreciate it. You got fired up, and I hope a lot of people are getting fired up. Obviously. Yeah, the people, you know, I've been in front of 30,000 people for these programs. More than likely, at every program that I have done, I've had law enforcement there because we always invite them to come. They know that I'm not only backing them, I'm going to be their voice too at the Capitol because they're all begging for help. And I have had numerous law enforcement from Dickinson County be there who have told me their frustrations, have shared with me where they need the help, and I promise to go and do that for them. So it, you know, and you were at my presentation here in Forest City that I did, and I've been I've been in Forest City three times doing my human trafficking presentation. And so it is very clear to people that I do not show pornography nor talk about pornography with 10-year-olds. I bring up the awareness that this is the root of the problem of human trafficking. Now, I've had a, I'm just giving you an example. I had a parent with a 10-year-old child sitting in one of my presentations. And this would have been down in uh, this was in Dunlap, Iowa, as a matter of fact. And I remember at the end of the presentation, I looked over and I asked the 10-year boy in front of the audience, do you even know what pornography is? And he said he shook his head, no. And the parents thanked me. They said, Thank you, because now you open the door for us so that when we go home tonight, now we can tell them. Because it's a hard topic for parents just to bring up, right? It's like, how do you bring up pornography with our kids? But yet the people who are not understanding this, you need to talk to some kids that I've talked to so many kids who their addiction to pornography is so mass and so great that this is what starts the whole problem with, of course, online predators. So, yeah, that whole misconception of me trying to talk to kids about pornography. No, we're trying to bring awareness because I will promise any parent listening, if you don't talk to about your, you know, talk to your kids about it, somebody else will. Predators will. And the predators will. In fact, they'll be sending your kids videos, they'll be asking your kids to do videos. And the youngest kid who came up to me and told me he was addicted was an eight-year-old little boy. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 28:14

And that doesn't, you know, that so I heard a statistic recently, uh, and I think it was on Tucker Carlson's program, actually, and he was just saying, like, the age now is like eight years old exposure to pornography because of the little computer in everybody's hand, which is, I mean, that's astounding. I couldn't even imagine that. And so uh that's there. And then a uh on a on another particular podcast I was listening to, um, they were talking about how pedophilia is like they did the ex the the definition, they're looking for 13 and younger. That's right. So why would you not want why would you not want to tell a 10-year-old that these people that evil exists, that there are people that are like that out there, and that then that they're wrong, and that no matter what they threaten you with, we're going they're the bad guy and we're gonna get them. But you have to tell us. And if they don't feel empowered to be able to tell their parents or their teachers or their family, like, how in the world are they gonna even know what's happening? And groomers are really good at what they do for a reason because that's what makes them predators. They're predators pre preying on somebody, I guess is what it is. Yeah, and and and so those videos that you're talking about say, Whoa, well, you watch those videos and and now, oh, that's a bad thing that you just did. You don't want anybody to know about that, or or you know, all these other things. Um that that's how they hook them and and in a variety of other ways. You know, I mean, this is your expertise, your field. Um, it just drove me nuts to see that that is a twist and such a sick and twisted version of the truth that but there is some, you know, person who I would assume is gonna be a lot older than me, um, that is out there, um, and particularly probably just was watches one particular news network, and uh based on whatever there is being told, uh, they're like, Well, that must be true. That's terrible. And just that little bit uh is uh and that's with the whole purpose of it. That's right. So who does that? Who why do they do that? It's it's not paid for by the candidate, it's somebody else.

SPEAKER_00 30:06

Right. Yeah, you know, I would say all these flyers that definitely were trying to discredit and defamation flyers on me, where they were paid by PACs. So we have it narrowed down to there's five PACs that have been paying for these flyers. Yeah. Uh we have an investigative team working on this, by the way. So yeah, we do. Um, but the thing is this, you know, I'm gonna rise above this. I wasn't gonna do anything and stoop to their level. Yeah. And if anybody out there that is aware, you always know the enemy is always accusing you of doing what they usually do. Yeah. Right? That's usually what happens. That's usually the game they play. They want to accuse you first, but that's really behind the scenes. That's what they're doing. And so you do have to ask yourself, like, why would they go after, you know, the whole this human trafficking? Why would they steal every picture of me in front of an audience for human trafficking with and call me a conspiracy theorist? You know, so you have to kind of speak. Oh, yeah. That's you know, I've been called so many names in five years that, you know, I just laugh when I hear conspiracy theorists or a Christian nationalist. I mean, I get called all kinds of those things. So that doesn't even uh phase me. But the for the people that are buying this stuff, right? You got to sit back and say to yourself, why on earth would they do that? You know, I always tell people this there's only two reasons why anybody would A, try to stop Stacy on bringing awareness. You're either complicit or you somebody's paying you to do so.

SPEAKER_04 31:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:27

That's it. That's the only two things.

SPEAKER_04 31:28

You just don't want things to change. I guess that's the complicity part of it, right? They don't want it to change, maybe, and they don't want to stir up the Apple card. Look, I get it that if you're a, you know, uh, I'm not saying that there's anything nefarious going on in the in the sheriff's department in Dickinson County whatsoever. Uh, I'm sure that if that particular sheriff's been in office for over two decades, so I'm sure he knows Mark very well. Like they probably know each other from before Mark, you know. Or David. David Rowley. Why did I say Mark Rowley? I wonder who that was. I think I was in the National Guard with a Mark Rowley. Hey Mark, how you doing? Uh sorry, David Rowley. Anyway, so don't vote for that guy or Mark. Uh let only Stacey Bash. Hold on up. Anyway, he he obviously knows and they must know each other. And so that's that's normal for me. And if they're friends, like, yeah, you probably vote for your friend. Why wouldn't? But it's just a weird thing to put on. That particular pack, so I looked into it too. I like the investigative stuff, you know, and part of it. I don't want to get into the you know the names, the details, and things like that, because you know, whatever. I want to lose umbrella insurance again. And so we have um, you know, but this particular one that I saw in that mailer, I talked to you about it on the phone. Now, this is a pack that comes out of um that's registered in Omaha, Nebraska. The mailing address, the return address on for this junk mail, uh, was from Johnston, Iowa. It's not hard. You can set up an office, but you're just like sending out your crap, uh, and that's what they're doing. Uh, but the butt the the the actual pack is registered in Omaha, Nebraska. The president is like an insurance financial services guy uh who is about a little younger than me. I think who graduated from high school in like 1996 or something like that. So and then uh then and then the uh another like the vice president is a 25-year veteran of the Omaha Police Department. And uh then I couldn't get a whole lot of details on the treasury. I couldn't figure out what like he had such a common name that it was like, oh my god, how many of these are there on LinkedIn? Or whatever it happened to be. But I thought it was weird that that uh out of Omaha, Nebraska, and it's not a huge pack. I mean, this is a pack with less than $100,000, so they're spending money on mailings, you know, they're not doing the legwork. It's not, they're certainly not out there busting, you know, feet and and knocking on doors for David Rowley. They're out there sending crappy junk mail, you know, mailers to everybody's house, would most of the time just get thrown away, except I didn't throw this one away because I kept it. I was so mad uh at it uh to see what it was what it was all about. What why in the world would why would these packs, these five packs that you mentioned, be so concerned about Senate District 5 in the state of Iowa?

SPEAKER_00 33:50

You know, we've been asking ourselves that too, because I I think it comes down to I'm fighting three giants. And I this is how I look at it. I've been very vocal that I'm going to expose corruption. I've been very vocal that there's a lot of dark money happening at our state capital. You know, this is not just Minnesota or California. That's trust me, people, there's things happening here in Iowa. So when I've been vocal that I'm going to expose some of these things and the three giants I'm trying to fight, first of all, let's talk about property protection, which is the imminent domain abuse for our pipeline, right? So, you know, there's a lot of big money at stake, and so that means there's a lot of dark money. There's people who have a lot to gain or lose if this thing passes or not passes here in the state of Iowa. So there's dark money probably being passed under the table to these PACs to say, go after her. We we do not want her voice down here because District Five has a lot to gain with this pipeline coming through. You know, we have um out of the five and a half counties that District 5 has, it is five counties that it's going through. Winnebago is the only county that it's not. So, okay, so saying that, that's that's one giant. You know, second giant is of course, I'm going after human traffickers, right? And and buyers. Well, we all know as if you've been to my presentations, our buyers are in our backyards. So if we're trying to disturb a multi-billion dollar industry right here in Iowa, and they know that I have woken up a sleeping giant of warriors against this crime, of course they don't want me down there. They know that not only may I maybe shift some energy and some change down at that Senate and that capital, but you know, I could be hurting their financial pocketbooks. And then the third giant I'm trying to fight, of course, is big pharma insurance companies. You know, when you're they're all in cahoots together. So when you have big pharma insurance companies monopolizing our people, and of course, the outlandish rates that we all have because they're all in cahoots with each other and our healthcare systems, um, yeah, I'm gonna be vocal on that. And so people, okay, everybody that's listening, you talk about those three giants alone, which are the three most money-making things here in our state, and you have somebody that's gonna go actually fight for fight about this. Well, why wouldn't they be after me? So, what you have to ask yourself is why do they want my opponent and not Stacey? That's what you need to ask yourself. And uh that right there, when I always tell people I have a stronger voice, that's right there is your answer. I do have a stronger voice. I have proven that I will bring awareness. I have proven that I will talk about topics that are hard to talk about or that people don't want to mention. But it's to me, I just had somebody last week ask me, how does it feel to be the most feared candidate in the state of Iowa? Wow. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 36:30

Well, it feels pretty good now that you say it that way.

SPEAKER_00 36:32

I know. When somebody said that to me, I'm like, wow, yeah, I had to kind of take a step back. But she did follow it through by saying, But you're the most loved by your constituents. And, you know, they're they have picked, when I say they, I'm talking about the these packs. They have picked three of us candidates in the state to go after. They have sent tons of misleading doubt, lies, and deceit on three of us candidates across the state, but they've spent the most money on Stacy Bash.

SPEAKER_02 36:58

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 36:59

Um, so that tells you, district five, we are a big district. And because of being a big district, I think that's why I was chosen as to spend the most money on.

SPEAKER_04 37:08

So, you know Yeah, but you're still just one vote.

SPEAKER_00 37:11

That's true. I am just one vote, but I obviously um my network, remember I already told you.

SPEAKER_04 37:16

Like we don't know how this primary is the most important thing. Yeah, because like after the Democrats don't even run anybody, are they?

SPEAKER_00 37:22

No, there's no Democrat running.

SPEAKER_04 37:23

You win you you win the primary Tuesday. I mean, more than likely you're in. You know, but yeah.

SPEAKER_00 37:31

Yeah, it we are a red district, but you gotta keep in mind there's more than just the yes vote. Yeah, it's called influence.

SPEAKER_02 37:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 37:37

And remember, I already shared that I have this awesome network of people down at the Capitol. Yeah. Um, we yeah, there's gonna be a great influence, but it's also the voice.

SPEAKER_04 37:46

Yeah. Let's talk a little bit about Big Form. We'll come back to human trafficking there because we want to talk about bringing Mark Mark Thompson uh and that whole story there. Uh he's doing a great job, and and it'd be good to have an ally in the Senate. But it's interesting because digging into, you know, like who is behind um who who is the biggest who so when you do get elected, it's already happening because you're you're you're you're camp you've been campaigning for a while. So your campaign committee, you raise money, and and him, you know, he personally, uh your opponent's got seven times uh in his personal deal, like what you've got. But they've spent way more than what he has got in his in his campaign uh account or whatever. And so um the so then you go and you look, well let's like up and see who are the biggest donors, which by the way, you can do to every person who is in any political office in the state of in the United States of America. Um but so you can look it up by by all of the candidates uh in in the state of Iowa and it'll tell you exactly, you know, uh up to uh the most you know current reporting of how much money they've actually got in their campaign. Uh, you know, that's how I know. Uh and everybody, but so it's who are then to say, well, who will the who are the biggest? You can see down to the person that gave a dollar, you know. So the who are the biggest donors. So for your opponent, uh, I don't know, was he in the insurance business? Was he an insurance guy? Seems like he might have been an insurance guy. I don't know what his actual job was before he did this. Um, his biggest donors are insurance companies. That's right. Insurance tax. And that makes sense to me now that's what you're saying. I don't know you know too much about big pharma insurance. Look, insurance companies are barely making any money out there, folks. I mean, uh, you've seen your premiums go down and be and coverage get larger and just about everything we've ever done. No, it's a gambling process. They're betting something is gonna happen, isn't gonna happen, and you're betting something will, and that's what your premium does. And the house almost always wins. And what's interesting to me about this particular district in this part of the state of Iowa, and one of the things that David Rowley did this past this past session was he wanted to rob money from the save account, which is the penny sales tax, uh, for schools in the state of Iowa. So 20 years ago, schools were doing all whatever, every district was doing their own thing. And the state says, no, let's just make it one penny sales tax across the board, and then you use that for your infrastructure so you can keep your air conditionings going and keep your all of that stuff on top of Pepel and voter approve Peple. Great, saved, cleaned all that up, and what that resulted in was fewer bond issues so that the taxpayers weren't constantly being like, well, we need a $60 billion, you know, playground or whatever. It was just able to be taken care of, right? And so that's worked great for the last, I don't know, 15-20 years. And then this year, the Republicans have decided that uh with with reducing their property taxes and all the things that they've done with it reducing taxes, which we could go a little farther on that, um uh they are running out like the rainy day fund is going down. This is this is what happens when you don't have revenues coming in. Uh, and so um one of their solutions was to, and it was the governor's idea, she wanted to take 25% of save uh and apply it towards other things because schools apparently have too much money, and so that's gonna cause more bond issues. So that's what it did is it opened up save to everybody, including your opponent, who was like, Hey, I got an idea. In Spirit Lake, they were the first school district in the state of Iowa to say, we're gonna arm our teachers. Uh, and they did it after the school shooting um that happened in Iowa, and and uh, and so they were like, We're gonna arm our teachers. And everybody's like, bold move, way to go, Spirit Lake, uh, still uses the Indian head uh on their mascot, which we forced to Indians does not do that anymore. Um, but but good for them. Good. That's how Spirit Lake is. You know, they got a cool lake, it's a great school, they got great programs. I do like Spirit Lake, you know, they're tough competitors and they're also Indians. Uh, but so we I appreciate that. And actually, we have one of their Indian heads here that had carved out of metal because I graduated from Forsad, as did my dad and my grandpa and everything. So it's like, you know, we still have, but we had to go to Spirit Lake to buy it because they were selling it when there's their booster things. Irrelevant, anyway. Um, they were also the school, they're the district that says we're gonna we're gonna arm our teachers. And and and everybody's like, that's great, maybe we'll do that. And the insurance people that cover insurance, they have people that cover the schools, they're like, I don't think you're gonna have any insurance if you do that, because that doesn't calculate into our model of how we do business. And you're like, well, that makes sense. Insurance companies has have the right to do that. Um we had an insurance, well, actually, one of one of your opponents' backers, now that I think about it, an insurance company, dropped me because I have a podcast, and they're like, we had them just with with our um just just but just with our uh uh uh umbrella, you know, over all of our other insurance. And that's fine. I say I totally get it. That's you guys can do what you want, you're a business, whatever you want to do. And the next day we just got a different one from from our local insurance guy that does everything for us. So like, you just get a new you just get a new new company. The problem is, is that with schools, there's really only one company in the state of Iowa. One insurance, it's a monopoly, and they are unapologetic about it. Because I've talked to them at the school, uh, at the state uh uh with a school state school board convention who go down there and they always have their you know their little shows and then they're all they got their little booths and everything like that, and you go and say, Hey, uh, I won't name the insurance company, but there's only one of them. And I was like, you know, you guys kind of have a monopoly. They're like, I was like, that's not quite how they responded, but it might have well been put a top hat on and a little thing like evil, you know. And and so wouldn't it make sense if you represent the school district up there and you happen to be very familiar with your insurance and your biggest donors are insurance packs? And gall darn it, if we could just open up save uh the penny sales tax across the state of Iowa so that schools then could just have to have an open checkbook, they wanted to pay their school premiums for insurance out of save, which would have been an open checkbook to this one particular insurance company. Millions and millions and millions of dollars every year. Uh and uh brilliant, right? And what's even what's what's brilliant about the save thing doing that is that uh not only would it enrich the insurance companies on this uh limited risk with uh you know have arming potent certain Teachers in a school, which I don't I'm not opposed to. Four City has got its own policies, you know. But it's something that is um it also allows them to take uh money from an account that the state budget doesn't have. Like those are penny sales tax from your district. So you're generating that and it's got your name already on it. It's not coming from the management fund, which is funded by our appropriations every year. And so when it comes to how are we gonna get this insurance covered, we're gonna take it out of the penny sales tax, local school districts are gonna pay for it, and one insurance company is gonna decide what the premiums are gonna be, and it's gonna be insane. That was his key legislation. This that so like when he's down there fighting for fighting for people, and you're taking credit for just voting, yes or no, like you mentioned at the top. This is something he was actually fighting for because it's actually something that he argued for. It's actually something that he wrote and wanted to get through. It did not go through. It was a terrible idea.

SPEAKER_00 45:02

It was a terrible idea. Yeah, you know, just I won't hit on all of that because that's that was a lot. But I had sat down with that was a lot, Troy. You know, I sat down with administrators from Spirit Lake School. I just think it's an outstanding school. Um, I've been so impressed with their administrators too. And that was one of their issues they brought up with me when I visited with the administration was there's a lot of teachers at that school, not all of them, but a good chunk of them, wanted to be able to carry. And they had taken the course, they'd taken the class, they'd all lined up. And then insurance turned them down and said, nope, we can't. And, you know, I I could go further on in saying that if you look at our crimes where our shootings happen, it's in gun-free zones. And of course, we have gun-free zones in schools. And you just look at all the places where there's gun-free zones, that's where our crimes happen. I'd like to get rid of gun-free zones. So, just saying all that, that insurance company, that is, yeah, when you talk about the monopolization and there's only one company to benefit from all this, you guys, you have to start scratching your head and digging, just like what you did. I mean, that's what we were saying is that, you know, when you start looking at who's to gain, that's start looking at that. Follow the money. We've all heard that term. Follow the money. When you look at who's to gain, this is where it's happening. So yeah, if you're if you're in the insurance business, well, of course, you know, and then why would you want to protect the insurance companies and businesses? Well, that's that's who's paying you and funding you, right?

SPEAKER_02 46:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 46:25

I can promise you, not one insurance company gave me any money. In fact, there wasn't a pack money, you know, a pack that gave me money. You know, my my whole campaign was run on personal donations from people. And you can go and look at my go look at my list and uh good. And I and I'm very proud to say that because it that means that what those were true, genuine people that support me and said, Here, we we want to help you. I didn't have to go asking for pack money. When pack money gives you money, yeah, you they own you.

SPEAKER_02 46:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 46:55

I mean, this is an unwritten rule, they own you. And if you don't vote the way they that they want you to vote, they're either gonna make your life terrible or you don't get money, you know, maybe the next year. Yeah. I don't want their money to start with.

SPEAKER_04 47:06

Yeah. Well, listen, and this is so to be fair to insurance companies, you know, like I'm not opposed to insurance. In fact, if you're a true Austrian um uh economist, you would say, we shouldn't be funding uh our own military. You can just have your state should only be insured to make war. It's a complete we're not gonna get into that concept. That's right. It's a crazy, it's a crazy concept, but it's just we need insurance. It's true, yeah. Yeah, we need insurance.

SPEAKER_00 47:30

We just don't want the monopoly of it.

SPEAKER_04 47:32

That is exactly right. So it's like, yeah, Spirit Lake needs to be able to, and other schools, not just them, but other schools are kind of waiting. They're taking the lead on it. And they're like, well, you're the point of the spear here. Um, you know, what's gonna happen? So trying to provide a solution for that is fine. However, there was nothing in there about any type of, you know, uh breaking up a monopoly. So all it does is creates, you know, it's it solves a problem, but it it really creates just an open checkbook. And so that is something that was overlooked. Now, with this whole um uh jump jumping back to you know these three issues, how did it, how did the pipeline go? This completely unnecessary carbon pipeline, the entire thing is based on green credits uh and and carbon credits, and which are all subsidies, and it's um it's imaginary, and so but this is how the whole business is, and there's millions and millions of dollars wrapped up in subsidy abuse, in my opinion, and then they're gonna take it. So if you want to sell your land to let people go through, that's fine. But if your neighbor doesn't, too dang bad, uh, you can't do that. And that's where eminent domain comes in, and uh that's where my you know my libertarian roots really get strung up pretty high because I was just like, well, we this is my land, you know. But if the state decides, if the Iowa Utilities Board is like, no, it taint, tithen, you know, how's that? It's not yours. Uh we need to run this unnecessary carbon pipeline through here. How did how did that vote come out in the Senate? And how did your opponent have end up coming out on that?

SPEAKER_00 48:55

Okay, so of course, we did not get anything passed again this year down at the Senate, and this has been going on for multiple years now. Um, my opponent was not down there at um towards the you know, the good half later of the session. So he wasn't there for that vote. But yeah, I will tell you that when it comes to this pipeline, it has just been so drawn out because remember, the governor selects the utility board. So when you got three people on that utility board who are appointed by the governor who then vetoed this last year, and we've talked about that before. Um, that's where the problem kind of starts and lies. But I've been fighting just in patriot meetings and groups because it's about truly protecting our constitution. And our constitution states that in order for eminent domain to be used, it must be convenient and necessary. Well, this is not only not convenient, it is not necessary when you start talking about CO2. So we don't need to get into that whole thing, but I will tell you that no, it did not get but it's another one of those things.

SPEAKER_04 49:54

Yeah. A lot of money behind it. There's so much money really driving the training.

SPEAKER_00 49:58

Follow the money.

SPEAKER_04 49:59

And and and along with that type of thing, you also have green energy stuff. So there's a lot of you know other energy things. I'm not a huge fan. This is I'm not speaking for you. I don't, I'm not a huge fan of our skyline anymore. I don't like the wind turbines. I don't think that I think that they're just subsidy cows. But um that but there's a lot of a lot more windmills going up and I we put them on our dang license plate. Like what are we doing with a we put windmills on a license plate and DNA because we You know that's propaganda, right? Yeah, it is absolutely. Uh, you know, but anyway, we did that, and and so um uh they're in it too. So I mean you're gonna be there's a lot of money and subsidized energy uh of all types, and and that is um look, there's a place for it. And in the market, and the place is called the marketplace. And you know, so whether it's whether it's wind energy, and that's a great way for you to do it, then that company, Florida Light and Power, can just invest their own money in it because it's such a great deal. No, no, no, no, no. It's gotta be backed by tax dollars, which we never see the benefit of. And our and our energy prices never go down. And now we're gonna need even more energy of them. Now those same people that were like, we need to go totally green are like, we need nuclear because we got to build all these data centers. So we now they're on the nuclear train, finally. Uh, you know, which was so anyway, you're gonna have a lot to deal with. And those are also some bigger donors uh that are on the established candidates out there, not just the guy you're running against, but across the board, you know. So you've got some some places like that. How do you how do you expect to get around that?

SPEAKER_00 51:28

Well, the the good news is we have a good small core group of people who will stand behind those values and stand behind our constitution. Those are my network of friends that are already down there. So the good news is that you're not going there and fighting alone. We're going there into lock arms. And that's what's key for everybody to understand is that we're not going to be bought. They're waiting for some more good candidates to get down there to that Senate so that we truly can fight this together. Right now, when you're outnumbered by the people who are of the establishment, it's really hard to get things moved, right? We talked about the good old boys club of you vote for this. Yeah, I'll maybe vote for yours. They didn't pass any of the good bills by the good people down there because they were unwilling to go ahead and fight for some of these new green energy ideas.

SPEAKER_04 52:15

Yeah, and that's why it's so important to get you in there because let's talk about Mark Thompson. He brought up a great, he had his, he has he got a bill of two, three years ago approved, passed through 100% unanimous. It's his great bill. He came up with another one that had that teeth in the for the enforcement side of things that went that just got that passed almost unanimously, or maybe unanimously, you know, through the House, and then it gets to the Senate and it gets shut down in committee. I think never made it to the floor. Didn't even go to committee. Okay, didn't even go to committee, it was shut down by the the manager, the floor manager.

SPEAKER_00 52:47

Yeah, would be in the the chair of the judiciary committee.

SPEAKER_04 52:50

The chair of the judiciary committee shut it down. Yeah. And um he represents the district that has uh Carroll in it, which is that's where he's from. Carol's a great town. I know you know I have friends that are that are that are from there, all right? But it's also one of the towns that you mentioned that has the from the people that you have helped uh in your walk as a human you know, fighting human trafficking. Um the the the girls that that have that had stories to tell, they were naming certain towns. That was one of them. So I'm not accusing the whole people. It's not that's right, you know, but this is where that dude's from. And he shuts down the human trafficking bill that Mark Thompson got unanimously through the House. That's right.

SPEAKER_00 53:31

So yeah, yes. This comes to that third giant, and of course, again, we're back to that human trafficking. Mark Thompson is a dear friend of mine. Of course, he's from that Clarion area. He's been a House representative.

SPEAKER_04 53:42

He's he did endorse you.

SPEAKER_00 53:43

Yes, he did. He endorsed me, he's back up for re-election. Um, yeah, great man, and he knows um my integrity and he knows exactly he's been to numerous presentations of mine, so he can back me on anything that I say. But yeah, when we have a bill go through, now the one that you talked about earlier that got passed in 2023 that was to make harsher consequences, and people are all celebrating that, like, oh, that's great. We got that bill passed, we have harsher consequences. But when we've only had one case prosecuted in the whole state in three years, no, this is where people are not understanding. We might have got a bill passed and to make it harsher consequences, but if we've only had one case, there's there's a gap missing. Something is dropping the ball. And of course, we know where this is happening. And it's not our law enforcement. In fact, they're the ones that are asking for help in this area. So again, we can get on the maybe some other time and later. But now, when I all that I can speak about in my presentations is my true the stories that I are coming from victims and survivors themselves. Yeah, right. Um, and or some cases that law enforcement has sent me numerous cases as well, and I share stories from those cases. Right now, the yes, Carol's name. I can't name the top three towns in Iowa. There is no such thing as the top three towns in Iowa because again, this is the most under-reported crime, let alone I already told you, we've only had one case prosecuted for our Class A felony cases. But Carol is mentioned many times to me. Okeboji is mentioned many times to me. So we have two towns who they are mentioned many times. Uh, that doesn't make them the top ones in the in the state, but it does make it probably the top towns that I talk about. It is interesting, isn't it? That the chair of the Judiciary Committee of our Senate literally took a bill that passed 82 to zero from our house, which I think this is a crime happening at our Capitol too. How can a bill that passes unanimously on both sides of the aisle get over to our Senate? And it I understand that by you know rules, it has to go through the committee first. But when the chair can take a bill that was passed unanimously and can literally throw it in the garbage, that's essentially what he did. And he stated, it's really not that bad here in Iowa. If you think human trafficking is not that bad, and yet you are overseeing Carol of one of your communities, it just makes you scratch your head. Yeah, absolutely. And then when Okeboji's mentioned many times to me, and of course I've had numerous law enforcement from the Okeboji area, we gotta say area because there's many communities up there with different law enforcement centers up there. Um, I can tell you right now, in all honesty, I've had 12 officers in that whole lakes area who I've had great deep conversations about what's happening up there. So why would somebody make a nasty comment about me in a quote who knows exactly what's happening with human trafficking?

SPEAKER_04 56:35

Yeah. It's a party town and it's a great, it's a beautiful area. Those are wonderful lakes. I mean, they're the the great lakes of Iowa, they're fantastic. Nobody, nobody discounts that. Good fishing, you know, love it.

SPEAKER_00 56:44

Um so they're either for the candidate. That's again, you know, they're either for the my opposing candidate or they're trying to help stop uh the awareness. Yeah. Right.

SPEAKER_04 56:55

It tell that to the parents of a victim of of uh human trafficking.

SPEAKER_00 57:02

That's right.

SPEAKER_04 57:03

If if the if the parents aren't the ones that are performing it, you know, which is also sometimes what occurs, you know, when they're f surprised to find out that their that their child has been, you know, in that situation. Yes. And they were they couldn't make, you know, uh they and and they feel terrible as parents. Tell them that it's not that big of a problem in the in the state of Iowa.

SPEAKER_00 57:20

We we wanted to tell that that senator, of course. I've I've called him out numerous times. I'm wait, I'm still waiting for a phone call from him uh in the Senate. But what I'd like to tell him, you go come with me to around to any presentation and talk to the victims and you tell them it's not happening that bad here. Because when we talk about anything else in the state, whether it be um, you know, drunken drivers kill somebody, you're really gonna go out there and say, well, that doesn't happen very often to the person that just the family of the person that just died. I mean, come on.

SPEAKER_04 57:49

Well, it's because they have mad. I mean, you're like you're the you're like the you know you're not the you're not a one-woman show when it comes to fighting human trafficking. But I mean, compared to mad, you know, you're you're kind of on your own.

SPEAKER_00 58:00

Right.

SPEAKER_04 58:00

Yeah, in the state.

SPEAKER_00 58:01

Well that's why that giant, you know, again, that's a that's a big deal. Yeah. But um, we definitely uh the one of the big gaps is the Senate. And that was my first passion of why I decided to run.

SPEAKER_02 58:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 58:12

Was because I started seeing what was happening in our Senate, not with all these other issues. I mean, granted, there's a lot of issues, but it was the child trafficking and protecting our children that made me, you know, want to get in this fight. And I clearly heard God tell me to run for Senate. Well, when you hear Senate, it's it's like, God knows, that's where that the gap was happening. Yeah, let alone the pornography bill that our wonder we have a wonderful senator, Kevin Alons from Sioux City, has been trying to pass that for two years to protect our children from the pornography. Um, because again, it's so highly addictive. People don't understand the addiction because they're used to what you and I grew up with with that magazine. If it's just pictures, well, we have videos now, of course. That's highly more addictive. No, Senate won't pass that either.

SPEAKER_04 58:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 58:55

So you have to ask yourself why.

SPEAKER_04 58:57

Yeah. Uh yeah, why aren't they doing that? And um, and that's not, I mean, they're gonna hear that uh a lot come uh, you know, when you get elected this fall, but it starts with tomorrow. I know you're pressed for time because you have to get to the next thing, and uh because you're still you're still running, you know. And and uh you've done such a great job, beating feet across all those. I haven't seen uh you work really hard, and and uh if that's just any indication, enthusiasm, uh the Vim, the vigor, the clearity, clarity of what doing, and being like willing to learn. She was like, I don't know, I'm gonna find out, and doing the investigation and finding out things for yourself. You're gonna you're just gonna be drinking from the fire hose, but we got to get you in there first. And so, folks, it's primary tomorrow, primary tomorrow, uh the 2nd of June. Um June 2nd, Tuesday, this comes out on Mondays. So it says it's time to go. It's time to, if you're a registered Republican, you need to vote in the primary, and then uh that will determine the winner. Uh, you'll still have to vote in November, but it'll be a lot easier because we have to get through this primary first. Listen, wish everybody well that uh that that serves in the in the offices that they do in the state, the Senate, the uh the the House of Representatives, the governor's office, everybody that's running for us, they're all doing it. Uh you hope for the good reason. Um, but what uh we really want here is we want Stacy Besh in the Senate, uh loud and proud and willing to go and uh start fights. And when she says that we're gonna be fighting for you, uh she'll have uh the uh the ability to prove that she's actually fighting. Not just voting, but she's actually down there fighting. And so I'll give you the last word and send you on your way. But just thanks for being the sunny side of so many people's lives. If you want to make you want to be the sunny side of Stacey Besh's life, uh go and vote uh in the Republican primary on June 2nd on Tuesday. Make sure it happens tomorrow uh so that uh she can uh get focused on um being a senator from uh this district.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:44

That's right. Yeah, well, thank thank you, Troy. Thanks for this time today. And I just gonna just reiterate that that bad politicians are elected by people who don't vote. So people get out there and vote tomorrow. It's really important. Even if you've never voted before, just take your driver's license to your precinct, go vote tomorrow. I promise you that I'm gonna work hard. I mean, I I have proven that. Um, I'm not gonna back down and I'm not gonna give up. And we have a lot of battles to enter. I I'm ready to go. I'm I'm probably gonna wear an astronaut suit on my first day of legislation. And uh, you know what? I got my shield ready. And tonight we'll be doing um, since this is coming out on Monday at 6 p.m. in Algona at the Eastland Hill Plaza parking lot area, we're doing a prayer gathering. So I encourage any of you out there, um, you know that God is just gathering his army. So I'm asking you to show up at 6 p.m. for the prayer gathering. Uh, that's again tonight at 6. And so I look forward to people coming because I believe in the power of prayer. I believe that God is raising his army and we are gonna go fight this together. So thank you, everybody.

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