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I've watched her this morning, and she w- she had already improved, so I, I, I don't think we judge her on whether she can do the job or not do the job as it relates to the attorney issue.

I, people may not know this, and it really doesn't matter, but when I was commerce secretary, I decided I needed a little credentialing, so I went and got my real estate license, and then I got a broker's license.

Did you know that you cannot call yourself a realtor in the State of Wisconsin unless you are a member of the local realtors association? That is a criteria.

So I can't...

I am not currently a member, so I can't refer to myself as a realtor.

The same applies to attorneys.

All right, Bill, what is in your grab bag today?

That's a basic question.

Well, stupidity.

There's no reason to have these hearings 32 days from the election.

This election is about affordability, number one.

Immigration's a distant second, which Republicans are winning on.

Uh, there would be no reason to have this hearing.

Do I think Jack Smith went way too far? Absolutely, I do.

Where should we start? What were your biggest takeaways? Bill, we'll start with you.

So where do you kind of see the the what ifs and the what could have been for all of the campaigns involved here?

Well, it was messy down the stretch, right? We had David Crowley get out and then we had it appeared that Sarah Rodriguez was going to be the candidate that everyone was going to coalesce around the non-Hong factor.

And then her campaign literally imploded and she had to get out.

And then David Crowley was recruited and got back in three weeks after he got out.

I mean, we've never seen anything like this.

And I think the other candidates decided, well, listen, I've put 10 or 12 months of my life into this.

I'm gonna see it through to the finish.

And I think that's worth repeating and people learning.

And you may think it's offensive the way I put this, but beyond the partisan BS, what really happened in Madison this week with the vote? Bill.

I, I don't, I don't think that's an unfair question.

The, the reality is that taxpayers ended up being the biggest losers that this thing did not happen.

We, you know, if you look at any statewide poll, doesn't matter who conducts it, voters in the state of Wisconsin like bipartisanship.

They want both sides to work together to solve big problems.

That's what we had this week.

We had an opportunity to return $1.8 billion of the state surplus, uh, to taxpayers directly and, um, through the school aid formula to increase special education funding, property tax relief through buying down, uh, the 400-year veto.

Bill, are, are you still feeling like we need troops on the ground and just to bomb them?