Nick Reed 03.24.26 - The Priorities Of The City Of Springfield

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For the Road Show at Scrambleers, there's one of the things that I do want to talk about

is, again, this side-by-side comparison of the Democrat victim,

whom it is amongst us that Democrats determine, deserve our sympathy and our compassion.

And you have what many people are labeling as another lake in Riley.

This college student, Chicago, she just was out with friends.

They went out, tried to see Aurora Borealis.

Saw on the news or the internet or wherever that, you know, the Northern Lights might make an appearance in Chicago

and goes to an area of Chicago that the governor did a video from, at one point,

to Mach Donald Trump when Donald Trump noted the danger it was for an average citizen in Chicago.

You might remember he went out and about and, hey, look at me, walking along the lake front,

it's safe as can be, of course, not noting the fact that he was surrounded by security,

but right along that same lake front on a legal, cold-blooded murdered, this young college student.

And she's just one of a list of so many human beings who lost their lives completely unnecessarily.

It was completely avoidable, but for the fact that the previous administration took people

who should have not been in this country.

Many of these people, they were criminals.

They came here illegally and were caught committing crimes.

And instead of being deported, the administration said, nope, this is an individual that's going to live amongst us in the community.

And then they kill people.

At the same time, video goes viral of a woman being arrested at the San Francisco airport

in what's being portrayed as ice once again tearing families apart.

This is what Trump has done by sending ice to the airports.

And that story, of course, is chock full of disinformation.

San Francisco, interestingly enough, is one of the 20 airports that actually does third party contracting for their security.

So they don't need any, these were ice individuals, but they were there because they were transporting people who had, they were being deported.

They had gone through due process.

And seven years ago, we're ordered to leave the country and had not.

And in the process, the woman escaped custody running through the airport.

And so the agents tracked her down.

And this was what was filmed by left-wing activists screaming, you should be ashamed of yourselves and, you know, you're not seasoned, the standard fare for the left.

Democrats bouncing all over the story, falsely claiming that these were ice agents that were sent by the Trump administration to fill the void left by, you know, the TSA workers not showing up for work.

I mean, none of the information was true at all.

You had postings that this was an American citizen that was just brown.

But the side-by-sides showing in this country, whom the Democrat Party represents, when Donald Trump at the State of the Union,

asked that room filled with individuals that is elected to represent Americans, whom amongst us acknowledges that that is their stand-up if you recognize that your job, your priority is to represent Americans, not people who come into this country legally and Democrats did not stand.

And that wasn't symbolic.

You can get raped, you can be tortured, you can be murdered in this country by people who are here illegally and, as far as Democrats are concerned, not even worth a mention.

In fact, one Democrat councilwoman suggested that the murder victim, the most recent in Chicago, might have startled the young man who shot her.

You know, it could have been her fault, said she was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

That's the Democrat Party today.

Is it any wonder that the cities that they run are overrun by crime to the point that the President of the United States has to send in National Guard to try and reign in the crime making it safer for the average citizen, specifically people of color?

I don't know, yeah, there is another story about in the newsletter today, upcoming No Kings protesters.

See, it's coming up, what to know, so everyone can know.

How many, is there a number I wonder? How many innocent people have to lose their lives? How many women have to be raped?

By people who are not supposed to legally be in this country before you care, is there a number, or is there no number?

It's just remarkable the fantasies of fear that the left creates while the real ones are right here in this country that they ignore.

Where are the candle light vigils for these individuals, all of these left wing nut jobs right here in Springfield that hold the candle light vigils for some random person who decided to attack law enforcement, lost his life doing it or tried to run over law enforcement with their vehicle, lost her life doing it.

A college student that just wanted to go out and look at the night sky gets murdered, not a mention, even our name, even know what happened.

Or have you so sheltered yourselves that you're blind to the carnage that gets left behind?

While you're out there virtue signaling about monsters that don't even exist.

Most people, well, I shouldn't say most people, once upon a time there was this cliche, people who lived in a fantasy land, it was a fantasy, it was a suggestion that they're just blissful.

They don't realize what's going on around them, they live in this fantasy world where everything's wonderful. Today we have a country in which those people instead choose a fantasy land that's horrific and unreal.

While the real horrors exist, yet they know nothing of it.

What a bizarre, self-imposed prison that these people put themselves in.

The people of Springfield are going to be voting on the imminent domain situation with a hotel of terror, get you updated on that coming up here in just a moment.

Also weather first, the latest news update.

From Ozark's first news, I'm Mike Landis.

A Springfield City Council deciding Monday to let voters eventually have the final say so on whether the city should use imminent domain to take over the hotel of terror downtown.

The city claims acquiring the property as an necessity to replace the nearby main avenue bridge.

The city leaders originally tried to negotiate with the owner to acquire the site for a different reason that being the Jordan Creek project, voters will now find the question on the August ballot.

Meantime, two new residential retail projects are given the green light by Council. Members approved a zoning change for the proposed Tribeca Park project at Grant and Grant.

Meanwhile, Council members approved a set of rezoning requests for a similar project on North Glendstone, North of I-44.

A timeline for the projects have not been announced yet by Mike Landis in the Ozark's first newsroom in Springfield.

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It might be nitpicking and the overall point is not off base is see CNN is a 24th day in a row of gas prices rising.

And I buy into 24 days of higher gas prices, but I don't think it's been every single day.

I actually forget if it's higher or lower from the day before lately.

Yeah, I don't know because it's, you know, one day it's like three 28 and then all the sudden, you know, that same gas station will be 298.

And then it's 305 and it just swings wildly.

So I don't really get the sense it's been stair stepping up consistently for 24 days in a row.

I mean, maybe I'm wrong.

Yeah, it depends on the gas station, but overall, I mean, the price still has for that many days been higher.

It just seems as if it's sort of a peaked at a point and then it, you know, it just drops and then goes up and drops and goes out.

I mean, of course, this is just because of the unknowns and, you know, one day Trump will be like, hey, we're going to start pounding them because they aren't complying.

And then because everyone freaks out the cost of a barrel goes up to 108 bucks a gallon, 128 bucks and then Trump's like, hey, we're talking to some, you know,

whomever these people are and I ran, they're called the shots.

I'm still going to be interested when it's all said and done who these people are.

And then, you know, the price drops again.

And so you get these gas prices that are somewhat in tandem with that.

And it's just these swings back and forth.

And speaking of wording, it's not inaccurate, but I do find it somewhat amusing.

It appears as if the city with this hotel of terror situation is trying to position it as if they're allowing the residents to decide the issue.

I don't know if this is deliberate or not that's a little bit of gaslighting.

They really don't have any choice other than to repeal their own decision to go after it.

The way this were, and we know this because this happened not too many years ago in which the city was like, we're going to take it.

And then the citizens were like, no, we don't think so.

There's a thing called a petition process and if we get enough signatures, then we get to vote as to whether or not we want to override you.

And when it got to that point, the city was like, you know what?

Actually, we'll just rescind our vote.

And so that way, we don't force the taxpayers to pay for a vote on this sort of thing.

And we don't want to go through it.

We heard, we hear you, all right, you win on this one.

And so then they decided we're going to do it again.

And this time instead of rescinding the vote, they are going, you know, there's the other option.

I mean, they don't really have an option in this.

They either rescind it or the people because the signatures that were gathered submitted and all verified as necessary, then it goes to a vote of the people.

Some of the wording and I think this is coming from the city.

And here's Ozarks for city officials have announced that Springfield voters will be asked to repeal an ordinance to author it.

Like the city's just being so magnanimous about this.

Like, you know what?

We'll let you guys decide is that what's happening?

It seems like a little bit of gas lighting here.

This is a situation that indicates making the process the punishment.

And I know we've been through this, but for those who maybe are just in the loop on this particular subject matter, we've been through this before.

I believe that the likelihood of the city being overridden by the voters here is probably even greater than whatever the likelihood would have been last time.

Now again, they rescinded their own vote last time.

So we don't know how it would have gone to the general public.

But I suspect that the general public, of course, you know, depending on how many people get out to vote and so forth, that you're going to have the city lose on this.

One because of the adversarial relationship that the city has created with the citizens.

This isn't the first time in somewhat recent history in the last decade that the city has refused to listen to what the citizens want.

And so then a citizen petition came along and you know, the citizens ended up winning.

But you're also talking about a hotel of terror.

This is a thing that is for a lot of people synonymous with Springfield, like Bass Pro and you know, Springfield cashew chicken and you know, the pineapple whip and while it may not necessarily be on the same broad scale, it's just it's a known part of Springfield.

It has been for generations and for a lot of people, it's the one thing a year that they do as a family together.

As increasingly, we all know the digital divide and how people, you know, even groups of kids because of their communication on social media don't get together.

Like, you know, when I did once upon a time where you just get together, go cruise and go walk around them all because that's, you know, that that was what being together meant.

And if you've ever been to the hotel of terror for me anyhow, that's one of the greatest things about it is just seen lines of people, whether it's family or friends that are together, a lot of them don't even have their phones out, they're hanging out, they're talking.

I just, you know, I think that aspect, that offering for the people of Springfield of all things that the city wants to take that away, I just, I could be wrong on this.

I was wrong on the convention center tax, but this just does not seem like the sort of environment in which the city is going to win.

And I think that they also believe that, which is why I believe this is about punishing. It's the, it's the, it's the using the process is punishment.

And it is we are just going to break you financially. We are going to drain you. We are going to force you now to go out to campaign to use your time and resources in order to try to lobby people to vote for this.

And, and then who knows what lies around the corner after the people win if they do win on this one.

I suspect that at that point, the city, see they have unlimited funds. They have your, they have the tax dollars of the hotel of terror to use against them.

So they can throw up one thing after another and it's sort of like going after Trump. It, it isn't relevant whether they believe it'll actually stick.

They know that in order for it to get overturned. Well, there's a whole process, you know, Trump would have to hire attorneys and even if they got some left wing judge to go their way and they, they, you know, would know that once it got to a higher court, it would at some point get overturned and so many of the left wing judges would know this too.

But that wasn't the point. The point is to punish the point is to drain resources. The point is to get these, you know, get Trump bogged down so that he can't do what it is that he otherwise would be doing.

And that appears to be the city's approach when it comes to the owners of the hotel of terror. It's just to make their life miserable.

To try and break them and to do it on full public display before the community so that any other business that ever thinks about speaking up or criticizing or going against the city in any way that this is going to be a message to them.

And they can hear it loud and clear. And even if you're right, even if you have the people on your side, even if you win in court, you win at the ballot box, is it really worth it?

And this is the same city that wonders why it is that all these surrounding communities continue to have these businesses pop up instead of coming to Springfield. They just can't get it through their thick skull.

It's because you have created a relationship in which the average person does not like you Springfield's talk 101. I'm Nick Reed coming up Friday.

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So the vote that the people have initiated through the signature process to overturn the council's decision to eliminate hotel of terror will be August 4th.

And there is going to be a degree of misinformation put out there, and I suspect that the city's position is going to be, hey, we offered him all this money and he just turned it down.

When the reality is, and we've talked with the owner before, had the owner on the program, and this has been documented, this isn't any sort of secret.

When at one point, there was a financial offer made to move the facility, and the owner said, okay, the city then came back and began jacking up the, you know, what would be the cost of it.

Now, by the way, I forgot to tell you I got to do this upgrade, you got to do that upgrade, you have to do this.

And so suddenly, in what most people would consider to be a bait and switch, the cost that the city offered up or the payment for the move, they jacked up what the cost of the move would be, so that it no longer covered it.

Now, someone who is cynical might look at that and think that the city never intended, they don't want to pay anything out, they just want to mow the thing down and destroy this guy's livelihood, so they made him an offer not believing that he would come anywhere close to accepting it.

And then once it appeared as if, uh-oh, this guy might actually accept this thing, they began changing the dynamic of everything and the requirements so that the offer they made no longer came anywhere close to covering what the cost would be so that he would have to reject it.

Then the bonus points as they couldn't, you know, dishonestly, market it as, hey, we offered it, you know, and he turned it down, we just don't know why.

It's not good faith.

There's another component to all of this that I believe the city fails to recognize, and that is although it is not directly connected, it is the impact this has on the convention vote, the convention tax vote.

The fact that this hotel of terror situation continues to be in the news because of the city's approach and their insistence on this at the same time that they are, you know, asking the citizens to trust them, to see them in the best light possible and, you know, allow them to move forward with this massive financial project.

I think they failed to understand how bad that is for them.

I think some of its arrogance and a complete detachment from the understanding of how the average citizen views the city leaders.

The city has spent a very long time developing a reputation of not giving a crap with the citizens believe.

And they can claim that that's unfair. They can claim that's not true, but it's just reality.

I hear it all the time. I hear it from business owners. I hear it from citizens.

And a lot of it's just about priority that they may not even necessarily care themselves about hotel of terror, but they feel that there are all these problems that are currently being unaddressed in the city while the city and their perspective is focusing on stuff like that going after some small business owner.

And so you've got a city that has viewed, and this goes back again. I've referenced a number of these different issues, situations.

One of them was the attempt to ban certain breeds of dogs. And that was one in which, you know, again, the city they were showing up.

You had these citizens that were, you know, opposed to this and they eventually got the city to back down. There's just been a number of instances in which the people have viewed the behavior of the city as we don't care what you think we will run right over you if we have the ability to do it.

And the only way that will be stopped is if you use the initial the petition process.

And so when you have that sort of, I don't know that I'd call it a toxic relationship, but it certainly isn't a pleasant one.

It is one in which the citizens feel ignored. They feel dismissed. They feel disrespected. And then that same city at the same time, again, while this hotel of terror stuff is in the news, they're out here trying to, you're playing the trust me game on hundreds of millions of dollars for a convention center that, that a lot of people in Springfield don't really understand the need for.

And so again, for them, you've got a couple of categories of people here. You have the category of people that just feel consistently disrespected by the city.

You know, and then how like you're really now going to come to me and say, oh, trust me, we're the nice guys. Are you serious?

Then you have those that may not necessarily feel the level of disrespect, but it is for them again, it's a priority situation.

Look at all the things that are going on in the city. You know, crime, of course, is a big one. You got potholes in the street. A lot of things that may not even necessarily be the direct responsibility of the city.

But the perception is when the city demonstrates where its priorities are, it isn't anything that really has much to do with what is important to the average citizen or business owner.

And going after hotel of terror falls into that category and getting this convention center done is also falling into that category for a lot of people. They're like, why?

And then you add on top of it the fact that you hear this all the time. And so did we just vote on this and say, no.

And while I understand the city's perspective is, hey, maybe we didn't present it properly. So we just wanted to have a better job, a second crack here at, you know, maybe changing some things up to the city.

It's once again, they're totally ignoring us. Just like so many other things hotel of terror. Didn't we vote on that thing already? Or weren't we, you know, we got the votes to vote on it? I mean, have we not been down this path before here yet? Again, the city is totally ignoring the people.

I believe that there, I think there's a lot of reasons and I've been hearing them increasingly.

And we'll, you know, in fact, tomorrow, what time do we have? We've got the mayor on mayor Shragg and Bob Dixon on the county, the seven o'clock hour. I think I think the seven o'clock hour.

So yeah, it's a seven o'clock hour. So they're going to come in. It's not going to be a pounding or anything. I'm just going to, you know, I mean, a lot of the questions I have for them are the questions I'm hearing from people.

A lot of them are business people and business owners are saying these, it's just doesn't add up. This thing isn't adding up. Aside from whether a convention center's cool and awesome, the numbers don't add up. They're just worried that that component to it.

You know, it's just the numbers don't make sense. And so, you know, I'll give them the opportunity to address those concerns. And you can text in your specific questions as well. If you have any for that discussion tomorrow.

But, you know, just back to the original point.

You've got the people that think this doesn't add up. You have the people who think we've done this before. This is once again, you're just asking for something that we've already told you know on.

And you have this sense of disrespect for the citizens. And here you're coming with your handout asking for something. I believe that there's a very good chance if the city was had a different just overall relationship with the people.

And the people felt as if they were listened to and they were respected. This thing could very well have passed the first time around.

The problem that the city has at this point, if my assessment is accurate, which I believe it is, is that is not something you can just change.

You can't just put some marketing campaign on. You can't say, well, we'll change trust us this time or tell people, oh, no, you're wrong. We do care.

That long-term creation of a relationship takes an extremely long time to turn around.

And I'm telling you, I've lived in two types of communities, one in which people feel because of the behavior of council members, that their council members really truly are a representation of them, that they're one of us, this is my neighbor, this is my friend, and they're up there sometimes battling against the city government.

Sometimes the city government itself, the way it functions like we need this, and it's the council people that are like, I don't think so, you're going to have to listen to my people.

I'm here representing this area, this district, and they say they've had enough of it, so we're not going to be able to raise taxes. I can't ask my citizens to the people I represent to raise taxes because that's what they're telling me.

And then there is this sort of community that Springfield is, in which the council members are viewed as representing the city.

They always talk about, well, we just listen to the experts, the department heads, and well, they tell us what we need, and if we have to come to you to get it, we will.

So when the government says, we need this new thing over here, or we need more money over here, our job is to represent them and to tell you why it is you need to pass it.

And that's the perception people have of the city of Springfield, which in all honesty is generally the way that it works in city government, but not always.

So we'll see the vote for the hotel of terror will come up on August 4th. Of course, the convention center votes coming up in a few weeks.

And I just, I don't know, the whole environment and the complete total lack of goodwill that the city has, well, they've not earned.

Because of situations like hotel of terror, that works against them so drastically when it comes to an ask like the convention center.

And I just don't think that they realize that.

And perhaps to their demise, at least for this particular desire. Springfield's talk, 1041, I'm Nick Reed.

I really believe if those of us who are just outside the city limits could vote, things would be different.

Yeah, maybe. And I know that one of the complaints a lot of people have, particularly if they own a business in city limits, but live outside is that they don't have a vote.

And listen, I understand that frustration, but I also understand why it doesn't work that way. And that's because well, then where do you draw the lines?

Is it, you know, well, people in the county, but then people who are right outside the county are like, well, I'm affected by this too.

Okay, well, we'll do that. And so the boundaries have to exist somewhere. And people in the right outside of whatever boundaries exist could always argue in some capacity that they are impacted by the vote.

Ultimately, the thing that just makes the most sense is, okay, well, who are the people that are represented by these individuals and those are the people who get to vote?

Now, while, and again, I get it, people say, well, if you've got a business though in Springfield, then you don't really have representation.

Well, and that is true. The arguments would then be, don't open a business in Springfield, have it where you live if that's at all possible.

So that you do have a vote for the people that are, you know, within the municipality of where it is that you work or you can move in the city of Springfield.

If you live outside the city, but you own a business in the city of Springfield, and you find frustration because you can't vote for these people moving the city.

And, you know, I know a lot of people don't obviously want to do that, but these are the decisions that we have to make in life.

Let's see here.

Okay. There's some other texts coming in, but I don't want to sit here and read them.

While on air, just not knowing whether they're all related to the topic matter or not.

But tomorrow with the mayor coming in and the county, Bob Dixon coming in, if you do have questions that you want to ask regarding the convention center,

that's, that's what we're going to be talking about. Please feel free to go ahead and text those into the parent-roofing company, Textline 447KSGF.

And I want to note also that my assessment, my belief of the poor relationship between the city of Springfield and the citizens, and that being a direct result of the behavior of the city of Springfield.

I'm talking largely about elected officials.

It doesn't mean that these are inherently bad people. The vast majority of them, I don't know.

You don't have to be a bad person to have a misunderstanding as to what your role is supposed to be.

We saw this and continued to see it with school boards and prior to COVID, it was the absolute standard people that would get elected to school boards felt that their job was to represent the school district, not the citizens.

The only time that anyone would really hear much from school board members was if the school needed more money and then the school board members would go out on behalf of the school district and lobby the citizens for it.

And it was just the wrong mindset. Now the government loves it because they've wrestled away control from the people.

Instead of the people controlling them and being in charge of the government, the government has flipped the script by creating that environment to where you all work for them.

We need more money so get to work. We need more money so get ready for it to come out of your paycheck. Go vote.

And that again is the environment that's been created. I'm telling you that they may say, I'll give you a perfect example.

I talked last week of the week before about that venue that the city was boxing into a corner regarding the alcohol sales and all these arbitrary rules regarding alcohol sales and telling them you can't sell alcohol because you're within 200 feet of two businesses that do.

And they noted, well, one of them were not within 200 feet. We measured and the city's like, well, we'll send out measuring experts in order to dispute that if you want.

And then the other venue had a license to sell, but they're like, yeah, we don't even sell alcohol anyhow, but the city's like, well, too bad so sad. And one of the people that is involved with the business did have a member of the council a conversation with a member of the council that said, oh, yeah, this is wrong.

Well, don't worry. This doesn't make sense. And then I'll take care of it. Came back the day later and it's like, oh, sorry, the city told me that there's nothing that can be done. Now, who got represented there?

Who was it that that council member went to bat four?

It wasn't the business owner because as soon as they went to the city and the city's like, no, that's not how it worked.

What did the council member do? They acted on behalf of the city and went back like a good, good little council member and told the citizen business owner, oh, sorry, that's just the way it is.

Sort of like a messenger for the government. That's the mindset that these people have.

That is the mindset of the elected representatives of the city of Springfield. They work for the government not for you.

And their job is to do like what they're doing now. It is to tell you why you need to pass a tax increase so that they can get this convention center underway.

And aside from whether the convention center is a good idea or bad idea, if they really represented the people, what would they do?

They would say, hey, my constituents already voted on this.

They already spoke. Their tax dollars were spent to answer this question.

Now, their mindset is, well, yeah, but see the people didn't understand. Well, whose perspective is that? It's the city's perspective. Once again, they're representing the government, not the people.

And it is a world of difference. You can see it as clear as day if you've ever lived in a community that had council members that were the opposite.

Listen, you're almost always going to have some council members that are part of the inner group, part of the elite, and so they consider themselves to be representatives of the government.

But oftentimes you'll have a council that, and this is where the battle in the divide is, you'll have somebody that sees themselves as a person that is actually of the community.

The angel, Romine was an example of that. Christy Filnecki was an example of that. Well, you see how that clashes. That's how you know.

But once you, once you see and experience a government that has one or more individuals that have the perspective of representing the people, all of this becomes very clear. And this behavior becomes very clear.

A traffic update now. I'm Nick Reed off topic question on the pyramid roofing company text line asking if there's a great escape plan for this year, getting ready to retire.

I thought it'd be a great way to celebrate retirement with my wife. It doesn't look like it will be this fall is normal. And the reason being is all of the stars aligning do not allow for us to do a trip to anywhere other than Cancun.

Which is great. But that's what we've done that two or three times in a row now. And so it looks like it'll probably be like around this time maybe of next year, so about a year from now.

That way we have some other options that are available to us other than Cancun. So that's a while things can always change. That's pretty much where things are right now on the great escape news in 60 seconds. I'm Nick Reed.

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