Good morning. It is Tuesday, August 29th. It's five minutes after 10 work Kendall and Casey on 93 WIBC. He's Rob Kendall. You can find him on Twitter at Rob M Kendall. My name is Casey Daniels. You can find me their Casey Daniels 317. Of course, we're both on YouTube. If you want to type in Kendall and Casey into the YouTube search bar. And this is a reminder that coming up on Wednesday, August 4th at the Indiana Historical Society brought to you by relay Indiana October 4th. What did I say August 4th? Oh boy.

That's already it's coming gone Casey. I know time is time is but a but a fleeting thing. I know. Okay. So Wednesday October 4th at the Indiana Historical Society brought to you by relay Indiana. It's WIBC night and tickets go on sale for that this morning. This always sells out usually within a day or two. Do not wait. It's a fabulous event. You get to hang out with us. We do a little glorified floor show for you. I think there's a meet and greet component to this usually.

I will be there. Casey will be there. Hammer Nigel will be there. Maybe Tony Katz will actually show up to work. Possibly. Kev will be drunk off his ass. Maybe that's what we ought to do. We ought to get Kev super liquored up and then have a skit for him and let him stumble on stage. Let's just see what happens. Maybe awesome. Oh, he's on board with it. Okay. You can get your tickets at WIBC dot com right now. Yeah. Okay. So Senator Mike Braun. He's continuing his 92 county tour.

He's a great state of Indiana. This is where he visits every county. And he was in. He was up north last week. He was in South Bend. But he says it's a great cross section. And he gets to see what people are talking about. And he gets to learn what their concerns are. And they're about 50 counties. He's trying to get to. And see what's on everyone's mind. So Mike Braun was on with Hammer and Nigel yesterday. And we're going to get to the part that I mean I about fell off my chair.

And his answer is so ridiculous. I mean, and and and really what this interview was a great insight into and Hammer and Nigel always do a phenomenal. Look, those guys get beat up as we go. They're just drunk slabs and they they're phenomenal broadcasts. And they do great jobs with their interviews. And they got more out of Mike Braun than anybody previously had. And we're going to get to his answer on property taxes in a minute. But what these interviews really show you is for the most part. And I will say this.

I think the only guy with any core set of political conviction up there right now is Curtis Hill. Now I'm not saying I agree with all Curtis Hill's course core convictions. But I'd say the only guy who when he speaks, you say, whether you like him or you don't, he means what he says. And he's actually got some ideas of what he wants to do.

And the rest of these people are just making it up as they go along, take silent Suzanne. Great example. If indeed you desired to get rid of the income tax, which she now based on the very unpopular mass unsolicited text she sent everyone she does. Yeah, wouldn't that have been you're out of the gate opening salvo. I'm Suzanne Crouch and I am running on big bold ideas and idea number one A is we are going to get rid of the income tax in the state of India.

Instead you think she released that as a counter to Curtis. Yes, because Curtis Curtis was getting a lot of great publicity about getting rid of mask mandates.

And she doesn't actually believe that she doesn't actually want to do. She has no logical way to do it based on the fact that she's not for cutting government. And so there's no way you can make that work without actually cutting government. And she certainly doesn't want to do that.

And this interview with Braun, it kind of felt like the same thing. Like when I'm listening to Mike Braun do this interview, why are you running other than you just want to be governor? Like none of these people who are running right now other than maybe Curtis, but I'm not even sure with Curtis, where you hear them speaking you go, boy, you really want to run because you really want to make just profound policy changes in the state of Indiana. I don't get that really from any of these people. And I thought this interview with Braun. It's like, I'm just going through the motions.

On this stuff. And hopefully you buy what I'm selling and I win. Yeah, saying what you want to hear. You're, I think the word you're looking for is lack of vision.

Yeah, because and this is and this is always true. And this is why I'm critical Mitch Daniels because I don't believe the Mitch Daniels Paul Bunyan legacy. It needs to be chopped down pun intended.

Because Mitch Daniels did a lot of okay things, but Mitch Daniels also wasn't this greatest politician who ever lived guy because like property taxes where yeah, you air cap, you air cap, phony cap, the taxes, well, then you raise a sales tax.

So you don't get credit for like lowering taxes because you didn't actually do that. But the point is Mitch Daniels actually in terms of a public policy perspective was the last person in the state of Indiana in an executive capacity.

Who really leaned in to the intricate details of what he was doing and understood what he was doing. Now how he sold it or whether it was actually good or not.

That's for other people to decide. I have my opinion on it. But he actually weighed in on all of these things and understood the intricacies of it because Mitch Daniels was a research guy.

Mitch Daniels was a policy walk. Mitch Daniels knew the stuff. These people running, whether it is professional air and boy Brad Chambers or silent Suzanne or Eric Dodon is even still running. I don't even know anymore or or or or brawn or to many levels Curtis.

They're not doing the work like solving tax issues is hard because you actually got to understand the budget. You've got to understand taxes. You've got to understand how to streamline and eliminate government.

Casey first year in public office. What's the number one thing I did largest municipal property tax cut in the history of the state of india and a 13.5%. Never done before. Never done sense. And I did it because I spent a year.

Understanding how tax rates work and how government spending works and how bonding works and all of these things coming together. It's hard. These people are lazy.

That it's just the lack of tax reform or vision of cutting government is just laziness. And in this Mike Braun interview. I didn't get the sense of a guy who he's saying things right. He's not understanding a lot of what he's saying. He's saying thing.

Well, the one thing that he has been consistent on is that he doesn't want to be in Washington DC anymore, which he desperately wanted to be in Washington DC just six years ago.

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