Councillor

First off, congratulations on your win last night.

You returned as Councillor for North Middlesex.

Help me understand, what was your experience on the election cycle this time around on the ground during the campaign?

Well, you know, it's a rural riding, a village.

A ruling is expected tomorrow.

In Los Angeles, Councilwoman Nithya Raman's campaign for mayors filing an ethics complaint against a super PAC.

Daniel Martindale explains.

Thrive LA PAC, a conservative super PAC backing Mayor Karen Bass, is accused of using an AI-generated voice of Raman.

The Raman campaign says the group is using AI to impersonate the Councilwoman, generate fabricated responses, and mislead voters.

Thrive LA has placed signs around the city directing voters to call a phone number advertises belonging to Nithya Raman Realty.

Callers get an AI-generated voice that speaks in the first person as Raman and responds to questions.

I'm Chris Eddy, good to have your company, whether you're watching on YouTube or listening to our podcast.

This week on the program, I'm joined by Councillor Katie Clements from the rural city of Mildura.

to talk about her council's recognition as a gender equality champion in this year's Mary Rogers Awards and her thoughts on the safety and security of elected members at the local level in light of that terrible news we've all been following this week.

We look also today at the infrastructure needs and priorities of Melbourne's Eastern Region group of councils, where nearly half a million more people are expected to call home within 25 years.

They resolved to stand with her, her family and her staff and they commended local business owner Ricky Jeffries who intervened.

MPs, mayors and CEOs from across the Indi electorate also attended that meeting in a show of solidarity.

Ghana-Warashai Council has elected Councillor Ross Stanton as mayor at its meeting in Kerrang on Wednesday.

Councillor Stanton, who served as deputy mayor, replaces Councillor Garner-Smith, who stepped down from the role at the end of September after nominating as a candidate for Murray Plains at November's state election.

Thank you so much for joining us as we continue to drive home on the Patti Vasquez Show on Heartland Signal.

Joining me in studio are my guests, my guest co-host, a candidate for McHenry County Board District 5, Austin May, and Councilwoman Natalie Ziemba of Woodstock, Illinois.

And, folks, you know, we talk a lot about what's going on nationally.

And Kankakee County went for Trump by more than 20 points in 2024.

This way I say it several times.

Getting it wrong means I say it over and over again.

And joining me in the studio is Councilwoman Natalie Ziemba.

Ziemba.

You can find me on Twitter arguing with everyone who's ever been through Y Combinator and trying to figure out which one of them actually read the Harry Potter fan fiction or who just stuffed that shit into an LLM and told it to summarize it for them.

with you as almost always this is the councilman you can find me on blue sky you can find me in public comment just about any time you like and these days you can find me asking the terrible toddler to hold it till we get to school and she did it she did it success um so anyway yeah very nice um you're also carrying the bad baby around because that baby just doesn't like to be left alone for one second very very attached velcro baby we got a velcro baby producer dave Did you try using Velcro? I mean, it actually does work.

We've got like 15 million carriers, like one of those, you know, strap on things, right? Because when you have a baby and you have other friends who've had babies, you inherit all their baby shit, right? because they've been trying desperately to get rid of the baby shit and you know they can't sell it you like there's consignment sales but they can't really get rid of all the baby shit so they're just like so overjoyed that you have a baby now and they can dump all their baby shit on you and you're the first time through You're like totally unaware.

You're like, yeah, sure.

I don't want to think about it yet.

So did you factor all this bullshit into the timing that you put on the docket for how much time we should be spending on all this stuff? Are

you kidding? Nowadays, ever since the councilman and the good wife had kids, the docket has become a creature.

The length of the docket has become a creature of either how much time we have to put it together or how much time I know I have before bad baby or the terrible toddler or the good wife, frankly, starts screaming and crying.