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Episode Date: April 4, 2026

Open phone topics and calls for most of the hour and then we catch up with James Rafferty, running for Josephine County Commission, Position 2, and we discuss his positions and platform.

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Okay. Let me go to Phil. Phil and Rogue River. How you doing, Phil? Welcome. Good morning. Mr. Maya. Hello.

Mr. Phil from Rogue River. Yeah. Nils Cravelli is. He's an interesting cat, isn't he, from yesterday? He is awesome. But my question is, it was kind of for your last guest, these babies that come over from communist China, when they are born here and become U.S. citizens, now a lot of those kids or babies are now coming of age to have children themselves. Yes. Now, if they have children in China, are those children now American citizens because the baby was?

Yes, I believe so. That's the way that, yeah, if you're over, as long as you have not run. announced your citizenship, if they are technically a U.S. citizen, even if they are living in China, and they have a child over in China, yeah, that would be another instant U.S. citizen, and then you could bring the whole family back. Yeah. Yeah, I guess what I'm trying to get to for everybody is that, okay, everybody's batting around this $1.5 million. But when they have children, now we've exacerbated that number to $3 to $5 to $7 million.

That's right. You're right. And so the Supreme Court has got to get this one right is all I got to say. Phil, good point. Deplorable Patrick is here. Hi, D.P. Good morning, Bill. It's a pleasure to lip off here on your program. You go ahead.

I wonder if I have time to wisecrack about birthright citizenship and about the Second Amendment. Okay. When you talk about anchor babies from Mexico, it's a different thing than it's from China. But I'm thinking that with these Mexicans coming in and having babies, I would make the distinction that they do not come here to maintain allegiances to the U.S. and to contribute to the well-being of the U.S. They come to extract benefits. That could be. You could be right about that.

Could be your future one. Of course, that could be part of the clowered pivoting of the American society where you just overload the benefit structure and then lead to the collapse. And then, well, especially from Mexico, there are groups in Mexico, though, that openly have already talked about that. What we're seeing on the West Coast is a slow motion reconquista, the reconquering movement. and they're quite open about this. This is not a conspiracy theory, Patrick. I totally see that. It's completely clear. They call it Osplon. They see that as Mexico territory goes clear up into North Dakota, stuff like that. So, but, but as to the Second Amendment, now, I just, I got to thinking about the subject yesterday, and it seemed to me that in the past,

now, if I can quote, you might have to correct me. but necessary to the maintenance of a free society, a well-regulated militia, I'm not quoting it correctly, the right of the people to be keeping bare arms. The right of the people to keep and bear arms

shall not be infringed. Yeah. Yeah, so they say a well-regulated militia, and then people get off to discussing, well, wait a minute, wait a minute, what did you talk about a militia? What is a militia? What is not a militia? What is the well, and I have begun to realize that is a distraction.

It doesn't matter what a well-regulated militia is. It says the people. That's all that matters. That's the effective part of the phrase. I would also add that the well-regulated militia is not the National Guard. Okay. It's not. The National Guard is on the whole idea of the Second Amendment, Patrick,

and I know people don't necessarily always like to say this. It is the right to revolution. It is the right to revolution. The country itself was born out of a revolution, a revolt against the existing tyranny. And that's what we technically have the right to do also. And they've tried to water this down for many, many decades in order to get us to think that, well, the government is the obvious decider of all of this.

No, the Second Amendment is so that it's not always the government in place. Okay? And that's why it says the people, and that's a standalone point. Thank you for the call. It's a good one. 770563-770 KMED. All right, Lucretia, you wanted to talk about heart attacks. I was talking about Vicki and the Apple Gates.

Husband Jim had a heart attack the other day when suffering it apparently for three, four days. Got all stinted out. It's going to be okay. What are you thinking? Well, since only work and are helpful about 18% of the time, when you do, and you check the heart, you do an EEG, electrocardigan, because the heart is our biggest electrical system in our body. And what we know is it's really the only organ that has a, quote, a tap. And what we also know is that when you get an acid condition, like a lot of,

lactic acid that comes from eating a lot of carbs and bread and cereals and, you know, yeah, just the grains especially, but that creates an acid condition and the heart can't run in that just like your car can't run on water. So sometimes you're talking about an imbalance of the electrolyte or the electrolytic balance of the body? Okay. Especially magnesium, but also, you know, even potassium is radioactive. It's partly radioactive.

Get out in the sunshine or if it's middle of the winter, get your vitamin D levels up. They say 20,000 milligrams per 25 pounds of body weight. Did you say vitamin B or vitamin D? D. Oh, D. Yeah, okay. I was going to agree with you on that. Vitamin D is kind of starting to turn into Lucretia as like the old Simpsons, quote,

vitamin D's like donuts. What can't they do? You know, vitamin D seems to be doing everything for regulating gut health to regulating heart health. It is amazing what it does. 900 to 2,000 different things, but definitely get on a species-appropriate diet. You know, Bill, you've had problems with your teeth, and the Indians didn't have problems. They ate a species-appropriate diet if you're still eating wheat, that all even the organic wheat is drenched in the glyphosate that destroys your gut flora and is known to, you know, cause cancer and everything. It's just a terrible, terrible thing to be putting in because it's so powerful that half a part per billion to destroy your gut plur.

I appreciate the suggestion. The only thing I would add just gently, Lucretia, is that you said Indians didn't have trouble with their teeth. Okay. I would dare say part of that if you didn't have trouble with your teeth is that you didn't live a long life. No, that's not true, Bill. They were strong. They weren't overweight and fat. Well, that's certainly true.

All right. You know, I'm not going to argue with you all that. that thing, but I think that I'm sure that if you went and looked at your 20-year-old caveman, a 20-year-old caveman skull, you would probably be looking at, you know, pretty good teeth, but maybe not after a while. But

the rest of it, I'll take under advisement, okay? All right, nine minutes after eight. If you are on hold, I'll get right to you. It's open phones for this segment. I'm had and proud to get to you. 770563. We have an open line. Now more with Bill Meyer. And we have open phones.

here on Find Your Phone Friday. We appreciate that. Prophet Davis standing by. I got Bob and Sam's Valley, too. Hey, Bob. You wanted to talk about... How are you doing? I'm doing fine.

You wanted to talk about the anchor baby conversation we were having with the folks from Fair. Go ahead. I found very interesting. My wife and I, over 20 years ago, had to get a flight. We were headed to Costa Rica.

And the flight went from San Francisco to San Salvador. Didn't know anything about this for the people out there. listening to that. Oh, this guy, he doesn't know what he's talking about, right? This lawyer. Well, we were on this flight, and as it filled up, we were noticing young girls, not a one over 18, not a one. And at least 20, we really didn't pay attention too much, but teenage girls, they all had young babies, not over two weeks old. And we were going, well, that's kind of bizarre.

Anyways, we took flight hours. Landing in San Salvador, and they all got off, and we jumped on a little plane to Costa Rica, had our nice vacation, came home and did some research and studied on it. 20 plus years ago, and it's like, what was this all about? We didn't get it. And then a radio host down there said, they're called Anchor Babies. And on this one flight, 20-some years ago, there was at least 20. And it's like, well, that's bizarre. So they came up here, and this was in San Francisco, and they had their whole mill going,

and they were making their kids citizens, and then eventually get everybody else in the family up here. Because it ends up leading to chain migration, which is another corrupt part of the way that our immigration system is not enforcing right now. You know, that kind of, and this is nothing new is what we're finding out. It's just like, finally there was conversation about it. and I don't know. I'm looking at this Supreme Court decision coming up later this year here, Bob, as going to be an existential one for the United States. How do you see it?

Oh, absolutely, Bill. Absolutely. After what we experienced then, and it went on for years. And, of course, now, like you say, it's getting out there now. And it was great to hear, you know, it's like, and hopefully our Supreme Court leaders there do the right thing because there is somebody call in and name one country in the world that you can do this other than this country. Thanks for the call.

Appreciate it. And you check in from Sam's Valley all you want. Let me go to Prophet Dave. Profit, you don't get into, I guess, politics as much, right? So what does you want to add to the conversation today? Is this bill? Yes, it is. Morning.

Yeah, hi. Yeah, I don't call very often because I'm not into politics. I'm more into the Bible. Okay. But we do have things in common. I got a cat and a PT Cruiser. Very good. All right.

Now then, I have to ask you, though, Prophet, Dave, does your PT Cruiser have all the clear coat flaking off on it? Is it still good? You know, it does not. It's white, and it holds its paint well. Okay. Well, I have to get mine repainted. Anyway, on to your take on things. Go ahead.

Okay. Well, we're talking about rejuvant. regime change a lot. And I personally have had a regime change and internal change from being a bad guy to being a good guy when I received Christ, or he found me or I found him. So I'm thinking that what we need to do with Iran and other countries is use our military to bomb Bibles, New Testament especially, on top of these people in their cities and so forth. and Israel could use a few New Testament Bibles bombed on them, too. So what do you think? So you're thinking it instead of just talking about regime change, you're talking about religion or changing the heart is what you're hoping to do that. There you go.

That's what's real regime change has to take place before anything else. And I wonder in Iran, is Iran one of those countries, do you know that even if you have the Christian Bible, that you're in big trouble? because I know there are some lands that's very, very, very, very problematic for you if you even possess them. Well, if we dropped them, they probably, it'd be, they couldn't blame the people because we dropped them in. But, you know, there'd be a lot of people that would be converted, and that's the only way we're going to change anything, is if they're converted to Christianity, and that's what, then we'd have something in common in this country and that country. It's the way I see it anyway.

Well, I know Islam, of course, is looking at the opposite. it they'd like to convert us, whether voluntarily or by the sword. All right. Prophet Dave, I appreciate the call. Thanks for calling on Good Friday, that you're a good guy. We go to Logan. Hey, Logan. What's on your mind today, huh?

Go ahead. Hey, Bill. I'm not sure if any of your listeners were lucky to enough to get registered for the Asante roundtable that they're having tomorrow. Oh, these are the ones that you are not allowed to say anything. You can't report. If you're a member of the media, you can't go. These ones?

Those ones? Well, yeah. Yeah, my wife and I got registered to go, you know, and we were all ready to go, and I get a call from the head of security of Assante. His name, I guess, is Ben, yesterday saying that if my wife and I show up, we will be arrested for trespassing. How is that? You can, you're, that's why I'm throwing this out. Okay, now, was there a, now your wife used to work there, didn't she? She was there faithful employee for nine years and was granted, during COVID time, she was granted a religious exemption for not taking the vaccine, but then was yet terminated for not taking it.

So I don't know what this has to do with that. But from what the security guy, the head of security said, Logan, if you, I said, so my wife can't even go, he said, well, Logan, we know who you are. You're outrageous. We've seen you at public meetings. and you just get outrageous. Well, I think by, I can understand people saying that about you, Logan. I can't. Well, you know, I asked him to. Logan, Logan, Logan, you're the only guy that calls my show regularly who called me once from Two North, okay?

It's true. You're the only one that I've known for all years that called me from Two North. Now, we can sit around and argue about that, but I can see why people might say that, you know, about you. It's true. I ran for political office, and they threw me in for delusions of religious. geosity. It is what it is. I mean, everyone knows this now. My charge is where my trial was set for one week after the election and then the charges dismissed the morning of. It is what it is. Okay. So even Asante doesn't want to deal with it. They're not even looking for someone who might potentially, well, maybe they're figuring since you call the show that you would talk about what you saw too. Could that be it? Well, that, you know, that's the whole point. I want to know what's going on. And the fact that they are weeding through, it's like, You have to be a deaf-blind mute grandmother to come into one of these meetings. And it's just, you know.

Well, but you see you're the perfect Asante meeting attendee. If you are deaf-blind and not able to, you know, not able to communicate. You're perfect. If you can, they don't want you to know, all right? I can't really understand how they are getting away with this. I mean, we have a lot of listeners. Well, I can tell you why or how they're getting away with it. It's not technically a public meeting.

It is a private meeting at the nonprofit, right? Yeah, I mean, they were signed up. You know, my wife, I mean, my wife's not outrageous. Why can she go? You know, it's wild. And the fact that it was arrested with arrest. I get it. I'm sympathetic to you, but it's guilt by association, all.

Guilt by association, all. Thanks, Logan. I got to go. Yeah, that's wild. Yeah. We want people to go to the Asante meeting, but we don't want too much. many people, we certainly don't want people paying attention going to the Asante meeting. We would just like people who are supporters of Asante going to the meeting and ask no serious questions,

I think. Wild Sam and Steve is here. I don't know if he's been thrown out of the Asante meeting yet, but welcome to the show. Morning. No, I've been there a few times, but Jim was for them trying to help me. Okay, good. I'm going to have to pass on that. All I can say is that it looks awfully bad when Asante says, hey, we'd like to tell you more

about this Asante hospital. closing, but, you know, NDA, don't talk to anybody, no media. It gets me a little suspicious, that's all. I understood, understood. And it's a real issue because our healthcare system is really challenged as it is, and I don't know if it closed

the Asante system, you know, I keep losing doctors, and, you know, we're just losing that facility that we've had forever here and our health care is going downhill. And I understand what I understand what's going over there because everybody has decided that health care, Steve, is to be provided by everybody else's expense, except that everybody

else's expense is starting to run a little low. The hospitals don't get, the hospitals don't get paid enough, the insurance companies don't pay well. Well, the insurance companies pay themselves pretty well, I think, you know, for the most part. And when you're at the point where, you know, you're, you know, look at a standard person and a family. I mean, I know of insurance company buildings per month in the neighborhood of $15, $1,700 a month, you know, for a family.

It's unsustainable. It's an unsustainable cost on people. I don't argue with you there. It is a real challenge. And on the other end, the people, except if you're a nurse and you're, you're, you're, union member, the doctors don't get paid enough, so they keep looking for new things to do. One doctor went out and started his own practice and seems to be doing pretty well, built a big building, just because that's an opportunity, but you've got to have money to be able to do that.

Yeah, and I think that that's really going to have to be the future. It's going to have to go to some version of more private care rather than government subsidized. But I don't think that's what you called about. I didn't mean to, you know, get you away from that. But what did you call for, huh? Just another point on that. I'm old. I'm close to 80 years old and on Medicare.

And I've kept Part A, which is a better deal. But Medicare is putting the health care industry out of business because they don't pay enough. And the Oregon Health Plan is even worse. So that's where the problem is coming. So let's move on. Lucretia was talking about Stone Age people having better teeth. Well, she was talking about Indians, actually. Indians, right?

Well, Stone Age Indians, basically before the introduction of weapons from the Europeans. back in the 13, 14, 15th century, North America was populated somewhere around 10,000 years ago, arguably. But the people who lived during that time died early because for men who hunted, hunting was a very dangerous business because you're trying to kill wild animals and there were predators and stuff out there. You know what ended up killing women at that time? I bet it was childbirth.

No, well, childbirth had a big part to it, but it was teeth. They wore their teeth out because in those prehistoric times, leather was the only material that you could make clothing out of that was durable enough. and they made leather by chewing brains into the rawhide, and they wore their teeth out. That's an interesting story. I didn't know that. We don't have to look that up, Steve. Yeah. Well, that was what happened. You know, every animal's brain is sized about perfectly to produce leather because they have just the right amount of brains. Steve, I appreciate the call. Thanks for making that. I'll grab one more on the open segment here on Find Your Phone Friday.

Hi, good morning. Who's this? Hello, this is Minor Dave. Minor Dave, you get to swing for the hills. Okay, go ahead. What do you say? Tuesday was my mother's birthday. She would have been 96 years old.

I know you were very close, weren't you? Yeah, but you know, I was sitting thinking when she was, She was born in a little house in the prairie in North Dakota, but during the Dust Bowl, they moved to Raymond Washington. And during World War II, she had a top secret job working at a plight mill because the plywood was the national secret. Really? Because it was made from U.Wood. What was significant about the plywood being made from U.Wood? I'm not familiar with this.

It resisted rot because it's a toxic substance. it kills insects. And, you know, it's very toxic. It kills mosquitoes, all kinds of things. But the significance was, is we wouldn't add to you boats. I mean, you know, the boats that they made for the Pacific Ocean that helped us win World War II. Oh, were those the PT boats that we were talking about? And were not.

Is that what you're speaking toward? Yeah, because those were wooden haul boats, if I recall, right? Yeah, and they were made from plywood. from a plant in Raymond Washington made from you. Thanks for the education, Minor Dave. And good memories to your mother this weekend, too. Thank you. All right. Thank you.

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we can get the tuna closer to our shore? Isn't that what that means? Yes, you'll see a lot of good southern water fish coming up after the red crab and things like that. So there's one positive thing about it. I know it's a negative for us up here in Oregon. Well, it's kind of a negative, I guess, when it comes to getting snow and getting a good snowpack and so well i mean there's there's good weather there's bad weather there's good

climates there are not so good climates but it's all something that we probably don't have a whole lot of power over so we just got to take it right yes it's weather changed not climate yes and learn how to adapt all right army great to hear from you thanks for the call 770 kmd we'll grab one more before news and then we're going to talk with jim rafferty running for a josephine county commission hi good morning Who's this? Hello? Okay.

Counting down, I will try one more time. Maybe I didn't do it right. Hi, good morning. Who's this? Welcome. This is Brad. Brad. Oh, how are you, Brad?

It's good to hear from you. We've got to have your theme now that we know you're there. What's going on? Brad. Much for all you do, buddy. Oh, thank you, Brad. What's on your mind today? Hey, real quickly, are we going to hold these people in Minnesota accountable

that has cleaned our clock? with all these federal funds? I don't know if we will be holding them accountable. I think it's going to be really whoever takes over the DOJ that will be doing most of that holding accountable. Would that be fair to say? Gersh. I'm sorry. Yeah.

It's just very frustrating when there's so many of us as taxpayers that are busting our hump just to survive. Yeah, look at what happened even within our own audits. Did you hear about the audit of the Oregon Health Authority that came out this week? Brad, I think we're losing you. You must be in a bad cell phone area there. Well, thank you for the call, Brad, and I'll just tell the story, but the Oregon Health Authority ended up having an audit conducted by the Secretary of State.

So Tobias Reid's people end up releasing this this week. And there was $15 million flushed down the toilet having been given to people who had no business getting the health insurance subsidies. Now, that's just one audit of one agency. And they actually, you know, fell on their sword about this. And we're not even talking about the kind of fraud that ended up being done with, you know, over in Minnesota, with the Learing Center. You know, that story. Everybody knows all about that.

But it exists in all the agencies. And, hey, I'll give gratitude to Tobias for at least releasing this. Yeah, yeah, we didn't follow the rules. We just didn't follow the rules. Oregon Health Authority just didn't follow. the rules and people ended up getting subsidies for their health insurance and they made plenty of money and they made more money than what the rules allowed. You would think that that was something that's pretty simple but, uh, well, this is Oregon after all. KMED and KVXG, Jim Rafferty next.

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It's been, what, 20 years or so since she came in studio last time. I think that was the first time you ran? Yes, it was, Bill, and I really appreciate you having me on again. You know, this has been a real difficult time as far as the number of candidates and also the method that we became candidates. I don't know if you know much about that. Well, explore it with me if you don't mind. Okay.

Well, as you know, position one was recalled, and then position two was recalled. who was recalled as well, and I won't get too much into that. But what happened was because there's only one commissioner left, there was not a quorum. And because there's not a quorum, it had to establish a temporary board, which was made up of all the elected officials. I was going to ask you, did that, or was that done correctly in your view?

No. Why? The county charter, which I have a copy here, indicates that that board is supposed to select, a commissioner to create a quorum, which would mean one commissioner. So the commissioner that was left and the commissioner that the board would select would create a quorum. And then the two commissioners would then create the third position. Now the commissioner refused to do this, though.

Well, okay, the original commissioner refused to do that. Now, be that as it may, it still doesn't mean that, the board, the temporary board, should have actually selected another commissioner. Now, if the commissioner decided to refuse again, then the board would reconvene and select a temporary or select a commissioner that would be put into that office for the duration of the term. Okay, so you're not happy with any of the way that this was done that? I actually emailed the people involved. That temporary board.

Well, the person that I talked to in the temporary board, he had to share all the emails with everybody else. So now what happened was because it is now a two-year term that's taking up the balance of the four-year term, somewhere along the line they decided to have an election. And that's why I am here. Okay. Why would you want to join this after all the drama?

And it seems like nobody becomes a county commissioner without being recalled, I think, six months later. At least it seems that way. Why do you want to? Yeah, the current environment has been a recall is successful. The past environments recalls were not successful. What changed? I think what's changed is the voters and the citizens have waken up to a degree to where they're just not going to take it anymore. But take what, though, I guess is what I want.

Well, in my opinion, the communication, there's a communication gap between government and the electorates of citizens, the residents, you know, whatever you want to call the voters, if you will, the taxpayers, if you will. There's a communication gap there. And that gap is not being addressed the way I think it should be addressed. All right. Now, by the way, in your day job, you manage Selma hardware store. That is correct. And you used to run the wood shop. I forget the name of that. Hardwoods Plus. Yeah, Hardwoods Plus there.

So that's what you do in your day job. So you think there's a communication problem. I'm thinking, gosh, you know, anybody can watch what goes on in the meetings in the, you know, online. Or they can actually be there in person when they have their meetings in person. So where's that communication lack and how would you fix that, Jim? Okay, the communication lacks, in my opinion now, that the day meetings, the business meetings that's being held at Ambasker once a week is open to the public and the public has three minutes to speak. Right. Okay.

That's okay. The evening meeting is also at Ambasker. So I would propose or suggest to the board, if elected, to open up the meetings. to Whiff Creek, alternating with Cave Junction. Oh, so reaching out in the hinterlands that may feel a little disconnected? Is that kind of how you're saying? Yes, exactly. And that would be my first step.

The second step is a little more complicated, and that is I would suggest to the board again that a single commissioner would go out into the community twice every other week, and I would suggest to use the precincts as a location to have, and I'm calling a town hall meeting, to where the citizens, and this meeting is for the commissioner to listen,

to record and then report, back to the board. In other words, taking the job of the commissioner outside of just being at the meetings at Ann Basker. And out of the office. Out of the office, okay. And, you know, the commissioner, job is

administration primarily. We administrate or they would, I would administrate the funds, I would administrate the everybody, other commissioners apparently have a liaison

department that they go to. So it would be a situation where the commissioner would then, the single commissioner because it wouldn't be a quorum, wouldn't have to go through the meeting loss, would go

to the different precincts and listen to whatever concerns, comments, or whatever. Kind of take notes. Well, couldn't the commission also get the same thing from just people addressing the full board? Absolutely. You have three minutes. Okay. In my opinion, and if I was elected, and if I was chair, I would allow the three-minute person, and the first one to talk for three minutes to then, if they don't use all their time,

to give the rest of their time to another person. So you can yield it. Can you do, can you not do that right now? To my knowledge, you cannot do that right now. The other thing is the way the people are being, the people that like to speak are being selected is like being in school. You have to raise your hand to do something. And I disagree with that. I think it's discouraging and also.

detrimental to the people that may want to talk because you can't talk in an order of anything. Okay, yeah. Well, I was looking at your website, and let's see, we are for a constitutional government, was the name of that site. So what's the web address again? Because you have this whole information up there. The shared web address, excuse me, is W4ACG.com. And it stands for we're for constitutional government.

I'm using that website for my campaign mainly because of cost. Okay. Well, hey, you already got it. It's fine. It saves you some money. What are your thoughts, though, on the fiscal soundness of Josephine County? There have been some real challenges, and there, of course, was efforts from the last board to lean the staff out somewhat, which have been controversial.

It's almost like the empire struck back, I think. Which is another reason why I was not real happy when just me personally, Jim, Jim Rafferty with me, I was not real happy with the fact that you had staff members that were openly hostile, I think, to the county commission in charge of choosing a temporary county commission. And I wasn't real happy with that part of it. Well, Bill, I wasn't really privy to that portion of it. I looked at the process of the alternative, and I was online with it. And, you know, I watched the whole process.

And that's what we talked about earlier is I didn't really agree with the way the process. In fact, when human resources got involved, it went from a appointee to an employee. Yeah, and that's just it. And that's not what the purpose of a county commissioner is. By my point, though, let's go back to what if you are elected, and like I said, this is a jungle. You'd have to make it at least to the top two to make it to the general election. What would you change then about perhaps staffing? How would you deal with the funding?

Have you taken a look in these nuts and bolts aspects of this? Because this would be your first elected position, correct? Yes, it would be. And as far as the staffing goes, I really don't have any comment on that at this moment in time. But as far as the funding goes, I will suggest. propose to the board, if elected, to either roll back their salary 30% or donate the 30% of their salary to the general fund. I believe that would come to about, if everybody did it, that would come to about $88,000 a year. Yeah, and figure more than $100,000 once you include

the PERS costs and all the rest of it. Okay. So, Is that real or is that kind of symbolic, Jim? Why would you want to do that? Well, the county charter indicates $30,000. And that has been deemed an administrative function. And I have in front of me here the state constitution section where it's Article 6 under administrative department section 10

and it also indicates that a county charter can do a number of things and one of those things is the qualification tenure which is money and compensation so how

the amendment to the charter was deemed inappropriate or deemed irrelevant I really don't know because it's state constitution. Well, we also have the state constitution, well, there's the board which supposedly you know, sets compensation around the state. You know how that goes. And

you'll always hear this talk, Jim, in which well, you know, Wally Hicks has to get this much money because other county attorneys are getting this much money around here. That seems to have superseded that somehow. It has. It has. and as far as the CEO concept of a county commissioner goes a CEO is responsible to stockholders primarily

a county commissioner is responsible for the funds of the funding the county and also reports supposedly reports to the residents okay so you're You pledge then more communication with the outer county cities, okay? And you also want to ask the board to take a pay cut among all three. That's correct.

Okay, to make that part of it. Is there any other things that you would like to do as elected? Oh, boy. Give me your top three here. I'm just running out of time here. I just want to make sure you get it. I'll give you the top three. In my opinion, the top three I have.

right here. Okay, the rising cost of government. And now we talked about the rollback. So you want to roll back the salary? And that would help out. And other department heads or other elected officials may seem to do the same thing. Communication between citizens and government. We've talked about that. Illegal dumping of trash. Josephine County is turning into a trash dump. I will agree with you. As someone who goes out on the public lands, I've got to tell you. It's like you got an RV. You're type. of it, burn it on a forest road. That's right. That's what you do. And I don't really have a definite solution, but I would approach the board and talk

to the board or propose to the board to talk to the southern Oregon sanitation and see if we can't do something about that or create a landfill like we had in Kirby that we can have in Josephine County. Lower cost, maybe a lower cost another way, maybe even have like a holiday where I know that there are counties around the country that sometimes do this. We have one day a year in which, okay, here it is. You know, get your junk, bring it in. There you go. That kind of thing. All right. And the last item would be the growing homeless population that we have here in Josephine County, the state, and probably the government, the United States as well. I believe it's a issue for the Senate or issue for the legislators

of Oregon to solve, although I'm afraid it's going to come down to a county commissioner. But those are the up top four that I have. I do have a suggestion for Josephine County. Yeah, go ahead. And that is, I know Jackson County has a justice of the court system, justice of the peace court system. I think Josephine County would benefit by that. Okay, well, so.

I'm trying to think of how Jackson County pays for that. I might have to get back to you on that one, but yeah, it does take care of a lot of those kind of code enforcement, minor offenses, things like that. And the other thing that I would do on that, on that same line, is rather than having

a stationary location, have a mobile. Oh, make the court move from place to place. Correct. It's a big county. Yes. Area-wide. All right. James Rafferty, once again, running for position to Josephine County Commission. James, I appreciate you coming in. Hopefully it's not 20 years until I see you next time. Exactly.

A lot of is going on since 2006. It has. Okay. Thank you. James, we'll put all your information up. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. 854 at KMED in 993 KBXG in Grants Pass.

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but his reason was most concerning. His resignation statement summarized that the rot inside the FBI and the DOJ, is so deep that it cannot be rooted out from within, which says that Cash Patel is a dead man walking like Bondi was this week, Bill. Doesn't it make you all warm and fuzzy? The body count is high. Bongino Bondi Wise. Hans, I appreciate the email and the opinion about this. Randy writes from Ashland Bill, the harder someone fights to support something we all know is wrong, the more it reveals those fighting benefit from doing the wrong thing. Forget free and fair elections. nothing is free and fair and is subject to opinion.

Voters want honest elections. We want the votes we cast to determine the makeup of our government. Democrats run states relying on manipulating votes to steal elections. If Democrats really believe they can honestly win elections, they wouldn't fight so hard to keep fraud-prone vote by mail in place. Point well taken. I really appreciate that. The Reverend David kicks in with me about Islam.

Bill, I keep saying that people have to come to grips with the fact that we're in the middle of the Ninth Crusade, what I'm most concerned with is that the Islamists seem to be winning. I really dislike it being termed Islamophobia to Islamophobia, David, because, you know, it's like just what? Is it fear of Islam or is it fear of the system that tends to come with that? I think that's another way of looking at it. Charles writes, Bill, I believe this is the Charlie Kirk conversation yesterday. I do believe Charlie is dead. I believe the story has holes.

but to date, the only reasonable answer is Tyler Robinson did it. The questions are plentiful like the 30-od. Six has enough power to blow out the bones in the collar, as Dr. Chris Robinson demonstrated in multiple tests and loads. The bullet found in the body does not pass this test. And I kind of wondered about that, too. Charles, I appreciate you writing, okay? My email, Bill at Billmyershow.com,

have a good, good Friday. Happy Easter, and we will talk again this coming Monday morning, live and local right here.