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Episode Date: January 22, 2026

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This hour of the Bill Myers Show podcast is proudly sponsored by Klauser Drilling. They've been leading the way in Southern Oregon well drilling for more than 50 years. Find out more about them at Klausor drilling.com. State rep and now gubernatorial candidate, Ed Deal, joins the show. Good morning, Ed. Welcome. Good to have you on. Good morning, Bill. Great to be with you. So yesterday, what, more than 500 of your best buddies and friends showing up at the brewery, where did this end up happening where you ended up making your announcement to run for governor?

Yeah, I did my announcement down at my hometown brewery here in Staten, Snow Peak brewery. I've held a lot of events there. They're great people. And, yeah, we had over 540 people from across the state. That's the cool thing. It wasn't just local friends. We had people from Portland and all the way down to southern Oregon. some of them came across the mountains from eastern Oregon.

I had independents and libertarians there. I think there were some Democrats there, too. It was great. Well, I've heard very good things about you. I made the right decision. Yeah, I've heard very good things. What made you actually choose to get into this? There are already a couple of other Republicans that are in this race currently.

So you're going to be the third one, I guess? Oh, there's a pile of us, Bill. There's a number of them. Oh, really? So, yeah, I think there's about a dozen of us. Oh, no. One of them actually, Patrick Hale, he reached out to me yesterday and said, I was going to stay in this race until I saw someone I could get behind, and that's you, and I'm going to drop out. So he dropped out yesterday and then supported me, which was amazing.

I'm honored. Okay. Well, I'm hoping we're not going to be getting into this circular firing squad that we had a few years ago. Remember that we had 17? That wasn't good. I remember. Yes, I remember. I hope not.

But, you know, for me, Bill, it's a few things, but I see a path to victory for me, and I do not see a path for victory for the other folks. And frankly, I believe strongly that I'm the best one, I'm the right one to go head to head against Tina Kotech. you know, with this referendum that we will do everything we can to make sure it stays on the ballot. That referendum is the demonstration that shows Governor Kotech is not serving the interest of the people. She openly defied the will of the people, and I'm outraged by that, and so are a lot of Oregonians. And so I can paint probably the starkest contrast there. I also bring a business and engineering background to the table. What, you mean you're not a lawyer?

Hold on. I'm not a lawyer. I didn't spend my career in that building. I've only been in that building says 23. I built a business from the ground up, an engineering business with my wife and partners, a successful one. I love projects. I love setting goals. I love building teams.

And I love getting things done. And I think, you know, that's the kind of, I believe, leadership it takes to get what we saw, that referendum across the table with all those amazing volunteers. But I also think that's the kind of skill set we need in the governor's office to get our agencies accountable to make sure we're making best use of the hard-earned tax dollars. I hear it every day. I'm paying all these taxes, and I am not seeing the return on that. I hear it from people everywhere I go,

and a lot of that comes down to agency accountability. And while our governor talks about affordability and how important she says that is, she comes right back around and tries to raise our taxes, they're going to come right back around this year and try and eliminate the tax benefits that Oregonians will see from HR1. Yeah, the big, beautiful bill that the whole push is to detach. Ed, deal with me once again, a Republican running for governor right now.

And cats out of the bag here when you see what's going on. No doubt you've heard about what House Speaker Julie Fahey and Senate President Rob Wagner are trying to do, both of them Democrats in the legislature. They want that ODA tax repeal, you know, that you ended up being one of the key people in fighting the gas tax hike and so much more. They want that on the primary ballot in May rather than in November. Boy, they really don't want to have to run against that in November, do they, Ed? No, they don't.

So it's important for people to know. Our referendum, when we submitted it, we said we want the November 2026 ballot. We got it through. We have the signatures verified. It is set for the November 2026 ballot. They set out on a path that they thought they could repeal the bill and remove it from the ballot. They had a legal counsel opinion where the LC contorted himself to come up with that conclusion. Then somebody found a 90-year-old attorney general opinion that said, no, you cannot repeal a bill.

bill once it's been referred to the voters. It's in the hands of the voters now. So now their last ditch effort is to actually move it, to move it. You know, the governor slapped, slapped voters in the face when she delayed signing this bill, trying to deny us the opportunity to get it on. Dragged it out to the very last minute that she could. Yep. Cut our time in half. And to move this thing, what an insult. to the people she supposedly represents. What an insult. Well, you know how they're framing this? It's like, well, this way the agencies will have more certainty on funding. It's because the Democrats that want the higher gas taxes here, Ed,

they care about us. They really care about us. They're always thinking about us. Isn't that great? Isn't that wonderful? It is such BS. Everybody sees through it. It's total garbage. They don't want to be held accountable for their vote. That's the three. reason. So we need everybody to reach out and make sure that those legislators here, don't you dare move this thing. Don't you dare deny us our right to vote on this in the general election. Yeah, the general election when everyone's really paying attention, they want to move into the primary. All right. Ed Deal, and he was the key figure in fighting this gas tax hike, and he's now running for governor here, too. Were you planning on running for governor even before this?

at that time and or, you know, when did you actually make this decision where you said, okay, because I'm surprised maybe you didn't make an announcement maybe six months ago. I mean, what ripened it for you in your view here, Ed? Well, you know, I could say in 2022, I didn't even plan to be a state representative. A lot has happened in the last few years and a lot has happened in the last few months. I did not intend to run. but what happened is with this referendum. I think it gave Oregonians an opportunity to see what I can do

and what a business and engineering approach can accomplish. And over this last week, I didn't make the decision with my wife, Jamie, until this weekend. And it was really, over this last week where we really reflected on the significance of this referendum effort. I was getting encouragement from so many people and not just Republicans, Democrats as well, to run. And then I started hearing it from people that really surprised me, and it made me reflect.

And my wife and I thought about it and prayed on us that this is the time. This is our time. Yeah, if not now, when, right? That kind of thing. Yeah. All right. State Representative Ed Deal, he is now running for governor, as a Republican here. It's the primary race you've got to win here first.

Let me grab a call here. I think someone may have to have a question or a comment here. Good morning. Hi. You want to talk with Ed? Yes, sir. It's deplorable Patrick here. He's highly susceptible to getting my big-time support.

I'd like to have him talk to us about gun rights, sanctuary, state status and state control of land use. What do you think about that? Ed, there's three big ones there that are worth chewing on. I don't know if they have... Yeah, exactly. Thanks, Patrick. Well, I am an ardent Second Amendment guy.

Aren't you an NRA lifer? I'm pretty sure you're a lifer, aren't you? I am an NRA lifer, yes. And so that's an important right. It's not there for 100. it's there to protect us from an out-of-control government. And I understand that. And I will defend and protect that right.

And I think a lot of Democrats in Portland are also buying guns right now. So I think I'm on the very popular side of that one. On the sanctuary state status, you know, this is one of those deals where with Sanctuary state came through in Oregon years ago. It was a bipartisan thing, and it was designed to provide, basically provide safe harbor for immigrants that were victims of crime, where they could safely go and talk to law enforcement. And what our governor has done is turn that thing on its head, and now we're protecting the criminals. She's openly protecting friend of Iraq with gang members and in prostitution ring leaders and it's outrageous so you're saying

that essentially the executive the governors in Oregon have distorted what sanctuary law was supposed to accomplish really totally totally distorted it and I what I want to see uh you know I think if you're going to remove sanctuary state that's a decision that the people have to make but I think what the governor can do is going to say, you know, we're going to turn the temperature down. Our governor has sent fear across a whole population of immigrants. Many of them have been here for decades, and they've built a family here. I go to church with some of them. I've led faith retreats with some of them. Put fear across all these people, and they are not, they're not, cooperating with ice to focus them on the bad dudes.

I was talking to a DA the other day. And if we had some level of cooperation with ice, where we pointed them to the bad dudes and worked with them to get the bad dudes, the temperature would go way down. Yeah. And this problem would go away. Yeah, that's the smart way of looking at that. How about a quick one?

Is there anything you could be done with the overweening control of land at state level? You know, it almost seems like, you know, this is something that should be handled more at the local. We're the only country or only state in the entire country here that has state land use control. Is that something worth taking on or not? Yeah, you know, that's, we, there's a few aspects to that, and I'm not sure what he was talking about. If he's talking about, you know, the 50-year-old law that sets up our EFUs and so on, we do need to look at that. we restrain where we can build houses. There needs to be some more balance there, and I'm totally open to that.

If he's talking about how our state locks down our timberlands and our ability to manage our natural resources, that's a whole other issue. And, you know, I'm a guy that I grew up in a logging family, and I believe firmly that, you know, the people who live and work these forests are the best stewards of those forests. All right. State Rep. Ed Deal, candidate for governor is with me this morning. Let me grab another quick call here, and then I'll ask a couple more questions. I know you have other people to talk to also. Hi, good morning. You're with Ed Deal and Bill. Who's this? Hi, Cliff. Fredson, Point.

Hey, Cliff, fire away. Go ahead. Yeah, the question I had for you, Ed, is how are the Republicans going to deal with The section in the Constitution, Article 4.1, subparagraph 4C, and it states all elections on initiative and referendum measures shall be held at the regular general elections unless otherwise ordered by the legislative assembly. And I've read the news that hit last night, and apparently they're going to try in the short session. moves this to the primaries. Is there going to be a big fight over this? Oh, there's going to be a hell of a fight over that. That is completely unacceptable, and I think it's unacceptable to the Oregon people.

So, yeah, they do have the constitutional right to move that date. But we see it as a direct assault on what the voters said, what over 250,000 of them said by putting that referent. him on the November 2026 ballot. Yeah, this is being done for political, for political purposes. Democrats don't want to have to run with this hanging over their head. You know, that's what this. It's very transparent.

It's very obvious. So I guess the point is we'll find out how much fight there is in the Republican Party in the caucus. I guess when it comes to this one, huh, in the short session. You know where I'm coming from. Yeah. All right. Ed Deal.com. You want to find out more about Ed, contribute, get involved in this one, and it's D-I-E-H-L, Eddiel.com.

And thanks so much for having joined us, and you think you're going to be able to, I mean, how much money you think you need to raise in this kind of a battle in the state of Oregon against the Democratic machine? What do you think? It's big, you know, you're talking about, I would imagine, $25 to $30 million. $25 to $30 million for less than $100,000 a year. huh? Well? Yeah. Yeah. Hey, you don't do this for money. That's for sure. But it's a significant, you know, it's significant. It points us in the direction for the state. And Bill, I really feel that

if I'm at the top of that ticket, I really feel, I hope and pray anyway, that I can motivate some Republicans and some non-affiliated that are conservative leaning to get off. the fence maybe for the first time and vote. Well, maybe actually, well, vote for something you like rather than holding your nose. It'd be nice to be able to not hold the nose this time, okay? Well, this is what I heard over and over again, Bill, over the last few weeks. People were tepidly supporting one candidate or another. They hadn't found the person they really wanted.

and when I announced I had people coming out of the work, woodwork. This is what I was hoping for. Now I have somebody I can really support, and it's humbling and it's inspiring, and it just reaffirms I'm doing the right thing. Ed, I appreciate you coming on, and we'll have you back, no doubt. I had a friend of mine who said that one of your best qualifications of the way he was putting it is that you have a high level of executive ability.

And I have to tell you, just trying to make Oregon work correctly, just to make the, well, you know, reportedly the trains run on time, you know, kind of like that old statement. Actually making it work and do what it's supposed to be doing would be quite helpful. I appreciate you going. Okay. Thanks. You bet. Thank you. Eddeal.com. Eddiel.com. 729 at KMED.E.D. Ugh, dead battery. Head to batteries plot. BM Auto Works and Father and Son jewelry in downtown Medford.

You're hearing the Bill Myers Show on 1063 KMED. 731. We'll catch up on the rest of the news here and then Dr. Jane Orient MD. There's all this talk about a Trump health plan. Like I said, President Trump driving the news cycle for sure. What does the Trump health plan look like? Details are a little thin. but maybe the overall framework, kind of like that framework with Greenland. We'll talk about what she's thinking about that. Dr. Jane Orient MD. Brian's here. Hello, Brian from Joe County.

How you doing this morning, Brian? It's on your mind. Good. Good. Yeah, you know, I don't think that Ed could have answered this because he's not elected. What really concerns me is, you know, my neighbor, Herman Berchizer told me this a while back, and I'm sure everybody else has heard this, that since 1987, when we allowed mail-in voting,

we have never, ever seen a conservative governor. This is the number one problem, while I see that we will never see a conservative governor. We need to stop this mail-in voting because of the fraudulent activity behind it. We need to go back to mailing. you know, with your ID, your ballot in a church or else. Yeah, it needs to be in person again. We have essentially sold, we essentially sold election integrity for convenience is what we did in this state. Exactly.

Okay. Until that's changed, I don't think we're going to get somebody a quality conservative like Ed elected, and that's what bothers me. Well, a quality conservative is a tall order in Oregon in any, you know, any kind of election system here. But, yeah, mail-in ballots certainly don't help. Notice how 800, what is it, 800,000, I guess, are going to be cleaned off of the rolls, supposedly.

That's great. But those 800,000 never caused any trouble before up to that point, right? Yeah. Okay. Point well taken. All right. Yeah, the, well, you know, the thing is, though, Ed can't, you know, Ed can't, I don't think that's part of his platform.

That's not yet. That's not what's on the ballot this year. is something that the people I think would have to reverse. And because you know darn well, the Democrat controlling supermajority right now doesn't want to touch it. They love mail-in voting. Yep. All right.

Thanks for the call. 733. Trump medical plan, rather, like I was mentioning, Dr. Jane Orient MD. She has a thought or two about that coming up. Do you hesitate to heat the whole house when you spend most of your time in a particular room? Glacier heating an air is a diamond deal. You're waking up with the Bill Myers show.

President Trump announced recently. a medical plan, at least like a framework of it, called the Great Healthcare Plan. Kind of short on details right now, but sort of an overall concept. And I wanted to talk about that concept with one of my favorite medical guests, because a good thinker, she thinks deeply about such things, and she's been working for medical reform for a long time. Dr. Jane Orient MD, the executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. You can read up at AAPSOnline.org. Dr. Orient, it's a pleasure having you back on.

Welcome. Bill, I always love talking to you. Yeah, let's dig into the Great American Health Plan, which seems to be more of a concept than a hard nuts and bolts plan. Would that be fair to say where President Trump's going? There are a few details, and really the whole concept is wrong, is that we need a great American health plan. What we need is the ability of Americans to provide for themselves like they did

before the outrage called the Affordable Care Act, and given an alternative to that, the Republicans promised for years they were going to repeal it, and then they didn't. Everyone's afraid, well, you can't take our health care away from us. That's what the Affordable Health Care Plan did, is it did away with insurance. It demolished a huge proportion of independently owned private medical practices, so they're now owned by private equity farms or by big so-called insurance companies, which are really managed care plans. They may provide things like eyeglasses for you,

but if you're really sick and you really need insurance, then good luck. Yeah. So in essence, when the president talks about the great health care plan, right out of the gate, though, you're concerned about it because it's still talking. talking about a form of federal control? Is that what concerns you about this? Or just trying to... Right. But, you know, the basic idea that we're going to have money go to the people instead of directly to the insurance plan, which is what Obamacare does, is it, anything that

the subsidy is, which misleadingly called a tax credit, but it's a subsidy, goes to the managed care plan, not to the individual. I think the president has the concept, we'll put it into health savings accounts, and people can then decide what kind of insurance they want to buy, or if they want to buy a low-cost plan that has a bid deductible, they could do that, or they could invest in a direct primary care plan, or they could save the money for their deductible. it would be up to them to choose.

They would not be forced to put it in to a managed care plan, which is outrageously expensive, and tightly controls what is available. So do you think anything can really change until they actually repeal the Affordable Care Act? I mean, is that the key? Is that the root then of the conflict where we find ourselves right now? And if you do anything else, all you're doing is just like changing the colors of the drapes on a bad system. I mean, how do you see this? Well, I think it's maybe not quite that bad.

If it's impossible to repeal it, then the thing to do is to repeal the mandates and make alternatives available to people. It will take a while for them to develop. I mean, Obama promised if you like your insurance plan, you can keep your insurance plan. Well, the insurance plan is gone. Yeah, it didn't work out that way, doctor, for practically anybody listening, right? It didn't work out that way at all. could choose to buy the type of real insurance that we used to have, and then the marketplace will revive, and more plans will become available.

So people have an alternative to Obamacare. All right. Now, when the president talks about the great health care plan, what he is envisioning here, at least this is part of it. I'm hoping I understand this correctly. The whole idea is to lower health care costs by sending payments, direct payments, to the consumers. So, in other words, to the patient.

instead of subsidies to the insurance company then. Is that a good reform to have that happen? In other words, instead of subsidizing, well, look at the Obamacare subsidies that we've been talking about. Everybody was fighting about that end of last year during the government shutdown because a lot of Democrats and some Republicans too wanted those subsidies for those Obamacare insurance company plans to be continued. and it's coming up to be a battle again. So would the Trump plan actually be helpful in your view? It should be.

I mean, the subsidies were necessary for Obamacare to survive because it's so expensive that nobody would choose to buy it, and very few people could afford to buy it without the subsidies. And the subsidies did not go to the patient who then had a choice about how to spend them, but rather to the managed care company. I really don't like calling them insurance companies because they're not. They take all the money and they dole out a little bit to the people who do the actual work,

but they spend a lot of it on administering it and deciding on benefits and sending out to denials and that you have to appeal. and not so much of it goes to people who really do the work, the ones who answer their car button, call buttons, the ones who do the surgery, the hospital that's providing the, you know, the janitorial services and other necessary things to take care of you. It goes to the insurer who is doling out money as it sees fit. All right. Dr. Jane Orient M.D., executive director of the Associated, of American Physicians and Surgeons, AAPSonline.org.

Another proposal here, you know, coming from the White House, this is for the White House, is that there are proposals to reduce drug prices and increase price transparency. Now, I was told that we already have laws that require hospitals in all medical facilities to display prices or actually tell you, make it very easy to find out what something costs. Why hasn't this happened? You know? Well, it hasn't happened, and it's very difficult to find out ahead of time when something's going to cost. I think the law is just being not enforced.

It's being defied. Really, if people knew how much something would cost, they could make rational decisions. Sure. Now we have places like the Surgery Center of Oklahoma, SurgeryCenter OK.com, that post all its prices, it's complete prices, including anesthesia, surgery facility fee, so you can decide whether you want to go there or not. And there are other places that are imitating that. And their prices are so desirable that people are buying plane tickets to go to Oklahoma, forcing their hospitals to say, look, if you don't match

this price, we're buying a plane ticket. Yeah, so you're thinking that that's really the business model, which should be encouraged out there today. Absolutely. You can find out the cost of anything else. Why can't you find out the cost of your hospitalization? Now, Any kind of reform in the health care system, isn't the real challenge here at the root of it besides the Obamacare law itself, the fact that Medicare is controlling more than half of medical care in the United States right now, that Medicare, this is no government provided health care or government paid for health care. Isn't that really our issue here? Medicare and Medicaid, they are controlling things.

They are imposing price controls, which can be completely irrational, and an invitation for fraud. And it's really disconnected the regulatory power of the free market where people have a choice, and they know what they're getting, they know what the prices are so they can make decisions. All right. So that's the big one, and it's like as Medicare goes, all the rest of us, of course, Medicare is going broke like every other government health care program, but I digress. Doctor, what do you think is the probably, you know, you folks over it,

AAPS have been working on trying to get some health care reform for a long, long time. You've been the medical freedom people. You've been the ones that have been talking about direct primary care. But what do you think is on a grand scale of the United States-wide system? Because that's probably where it's going to come from first. What is the most achievable concrete reform that could be done to start this process in your view? I know it's a big question, but I'll let you go on it. Well, we don't need a nationwide system.

We need freedom so that people can figure out what is best. You want to say, here, I'll give you a second here. You can get that coughed up. That happens with me, too, you know? Go ahead. Well, the main thing is to get rid of mandates. Get rid of mandates so that people don't have to buy insurance or so-called insurance that covers what special interest groups want to have covered

and can be tailored to what the individual needs and wants. And this even includes the insurance markets in all the individual states, like state of Oregon requires you to cover all sorts of things that maybe you wouldn't want to have covered if you bought health insurance on your own, right? That kind of thing? Yeah, exactly. Like abortions for one thing. All right.

Makes a lot of sense. First things first, get rid of the mandates. Other than that, everything else is sort of window dressing. Is that our bottom line? Is that it? Right. Okay. Dr. Jane Orient, MD, AAPS Online.org. I appreciate that. So that's the route. If you don't get rid of the mandates, nothing else going to help, huh? That's the bottom line. I think so, yes. All right. Dr. Orient, I always appreciate your take on it. Thank you. And have a good day. We'll have you back, okay? Be well.

Thank you, Bill. 749 at KMED. 770 KMED. Dr. Oriette makes it clear. As long as you have mandates, mandates of any kind, even mandated. coverage levels, nothing changes. Do you agree with her? This is the Bill Meyer show. Are you turning 65 and entering Medicare? Weekdays 9 to noon on 1063, KMED. Hi, I'm Matt Stone with Stone heating and air, and I'm on KMED. I have an author coming up at about 15. It says that America is not nearly as divided or polarized as we're told. I don't know if I necessarily agree. I don't know if I necessarily agree with him on that or not. But we'll see. We'll talk with him.

Jonathan Butcher is his name. And I know that there's a group that is kind of interesting. In San Francisco, in San Francisco, there is a telephone booth which was set up or a telephone which was set up in which you could call a Republican, right? And people are actually trying to get Republicans and Democrats talking with one another. I thought that's interesting to do that in the Bay Area here. Go ahead and call a Republican and have it out. Try to have some conversation.

talk with Jonathan about that. Coming up here at around 15 or so. Oh, boy, let's take a look at the... Now, I'm sure this is a totally legit poll. New York Times-Cena poll, January 12th through 17th, do you think the country is generally better off than it was a year ago, about the same or worse off? The total respondents, hmm, 49% of all respondents say

the country is worse off, 19% say, wait a minute, did I say that? Yeah, yeah, 19% say about the same, 32% saying worse off, or better off, rather. Democrats, only 3% of Democrats think that the country is better off, 11% kind of like, yeah, it's kind of all right. 86% say it's the worst off that the country is worse off. Republicans flip. 73% better off, 16% kind of about the same. Only 11% are saying

worse off. But needless to say, the breaking news from the New York Times. Few voters say Trump's second term has made the country better, poll fines. Oh, well, consider the source here. All right.

Let's see. Senator Christine Drazen put out a press release yesterday, too. This is back to moving that deal. She releases the following statement after Oregon legislative Democrats announcing that they're going to try to disenfranchise voters, Dodge accountability, move the gas tax referral to the May 19th election. Senator Drazen says this is what desperation looks like. Tina Kotech is afraid of being on the same ballot as her gas tax.

Yeah, Christine, we got that one right, for sure. At the end of the day, Senator Drayson says she can't avoid Oregonians. they will hold her accountable. I hope you're right about that, Senator. I really do. I really do. But if they are successful, if they are successful,

which means that, let's see, Republicans are there, provide quorum and do all the rest of it, and the Democrats are united. The Democrats are united. They could make that happen,

couldn't they? Boy, they do not want to have to run against that in November, do they, for sure. 756. Let's do some emails of the day here, too, before news time.

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Just wants to make sure you're taking care of. Get your appointment. at Central Point Family Dentistry.com. I'm going to give an email of the day to Leif. Leaf writes me, greetings. Tragic deaths, I can fully agree, talking about what happened over in Minneapolis. But does this mean that the USA government should stop the apprehensions and deportations? Something like 10 million illegal immigrants were permitted to enter the USA during the Biden years

with the blessing of Israel First Attorney General Merrick Garland. and Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayarchus. This is over twice the population of Oregon in four years. That is over three times the entire population of the state of Arkansas. Do you not sense there's something terribly naive or foolish about forgetting this event? Leave continues. Obviously, many are decent people. That's not the point.

This mass immigration was not done with the blessing of the American people. It was done in spite of the polls and sentiment of mainstream America. It was done during the Great COVID show, in spite of the flagging economy caused by it. And obviously, a number of these illegal arrivals, men and women, are hardened criminals in their home countries, led out of prisons to save money and trouble. Some might even be professional warriors here as cells capable of causing major disturbances to American domestic life. And Leif wraps up. Meanwhile, does the mainstream media put a magnifying glass on every crime committed by the illegal immigrants?

Of course not. MSM is in denial about disproportionate black-on-white violent crime in the USA too. It has been for decades. Can we trust the mainstream media to report accurately about crimes committed by illegal immigrants? Was it the mainstream media that broke the story about the Somali daycare centers, milking billions of taxpayer dollars? Of course not. Appreciate your writing there, Leif.

Hans writes me this morning, too. Bill, we consistently see that the protests are minimally attended, yet maximally covered by blue or red media. Seventy morons gather in a street where nice agents are apprehending violent criminal aliens in the media, including the beloved Fox, portray it as a national news story, when in reality it's of the same gravitas as the trash truck coming through every Wednesday. This is so stupid. No wonder I'm gravitating back to sports and systematic theology. Hans Albuquerque. All right, Hans.

I appreciate you writing this morning. Chris writes me, Chris Inclare, says, Morning, Bill, I was getting ready for work when my husband told me the great news that they're going to put back West Main to its original configuration. It'll be interesting to see how much this will cost the taxpayers,

but kudos to the mayor who was the deciding vote. I plan on finding out who the four were who voted against it. Our city council members need to listen to us, not go with their agenda. Thanks with the good news. Chris. All right, Chris, now let me just go to my notes.

I want to make sure that we get it right here. I'm going back and forth between windows on my various computers here. So there we go. Road Diet. Here it is. This is the lineup voting yes on the proposal, Keating, Quinn, Card, and Smith. And the no votes were Kevin Stein, Jessica Ayers, Kierz, Kirlinger, and. West, Mayor Zerosensky.

He wasn't really necessarily in favor of it. He was kind of, you know, kind of Vaseline saying that he thought that the, you know, the plan that was being presented, which was the third option with a buffered bike lane, one buffered bike lane instead of that two-way buffered bike lane, nonsense and the ballard thing, and then two lanes of traffic. But he said that the council deadlocked, and so he was going to go with what the people were saying, which was rather refreshing. rather refreshing. But boy, I got to tell you, the staff in the city of Medford, they were selling this. Boy, they were selling this. Oh, people are going to drive faster. Oh, it's going to be unsafe.

People are, oh, it's going to be. Oh, no. Oh, we're not following the federal suggestions or federal practices, national standards, and this and that, the other. And guess what? It is our street. Okay? You have Main Street be what it will be.

I don't know what it's going to cost all told. but I know they were talking about having to pay back the million-dollar grant. Maybe we have to find a way to pay for our own local streets and not beg the feds and state to repave our streets when needed, okay? Point well taken, Chris, thanks for emailing Bill at Billmyershow.com. We'll catch the rest of the news here on KMED, KMED, H.D-1 Eagle Point, Medford, KBXG grants pass. Harper, what should we highlight in our Gerson's home commercial?

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