Jay Weber Show transcript 8-25-22 7:10am
A very good TV ad- the Tim Michels campaign rolled out on the anniversary of the Kenosha riots.
I am really hoping that the people of Wisconsin remember the ugly racial and political games that Tony Evers and Mandela Barnes played after the Jacob Blake shooting-instead of stepping up and being leaders and calling for calm.
Well, this ad uses tony Evers’ own words to prove that he ignored the calls for the national guard and ignored the help offered by president trump...and for two days.... quote...allowed room for leftist rioting.
This week, Gov Evers is calling it a lie that he acted irresponsibly and refused to immediately react to the rioting’- but this is all well-documented-
From his nearly immediate- wildly irresponsible smearing of law enforcement after the shooting- to his refusal of Kenosha officials to send immediate help-
And as you heard-right from his mouth-in the ad: Evers’ refusal to accept help from president trump, who -did-react immediately to a request from congressman Brian Steil.
This is in Steil’s congressional district, and we had him on the show at the time, detailing how he called the white house in desperation-and at the urging of Kenosha leaders who were begging him for help-
Steil called the white house switchboard-not having a direct line to trump- and figured he’d never get thru, directly. He was just ‘some guy’ claiming to be a congressman, calling the White House.
Buy. Within a few minutes...he was on the phone with Trump, and trump ordered his team to act immediately. They called Evers and offered immediate law enforcement help to quell the rioting-on night one- and Evers refused.
On day two, he finally agreed to send a small number of national guardsmen who, i don’t believe, were even available for the second night of rioting. There might have been a few out there...but then...only on day three...did Evers finally order a more enough guardsmen...and it wasn’t until day four- after Kyle Rittenhouse had shot rioters on night three-
It wasn’t until night number four that gov Evers had enough guardsmen on the ground and there was enough of a law enforcement presence to stop those riots.
That was the real timeline...and it left Kenosha’s elected officials begging for help-for days.
As Matt Kittle reminds us: the Kenosha County board of supervisors wrote to Evers in urgency:
Remembering the Kenosha riots: ‘It didn’t have to be this way’
Nope. Evers wasn’t taking any help and he wasn’t done aiding and abetting the rioters, no.
That is the-real-timeline. And enough people remember it-vividly- that Evers cannot get away with his lies-today-about how, I immediately did everything that was asked of me.