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Winn Tucson
Hosted by Kathleen Winn · EN
Kathleen Winn is the conservative host of ”Winn Tucson”, heard weekdays at 1:00 p.m. on AM 1030 KVOI.
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Guests - Jay Foard, Elijah Norton, Lisa Von Geldern
4d ago01:31:11Tap to summarizeGuests - Jay Foard, Elijah Norton, Lisa Von Geldern Jay Foard makes the case that the youth reading crisis is a culture war problem, not just an education one — and pitches his novel Rustling of the Sycamore as a deliberate antidote built around faith, family, and critical thinking. Elijah Norton fires back at attack ads from his treasurer primary opponent by leaning entirely on his own financial track record, including a $68 million accounting discrepancy he wants to dig into if elected. And Lisa Von Geldern connects a Brazilian homeschooling family's legal troubles to a much older fight over parental rights, closing the show with the genuinely moving story of Robert Taylor, a paralyzed rugby player turned motivational speaker whose mantra — "compared to what?" — gives the whole episode its emotional landing.
Transcribe →Guests - Art Del Cueto, Alex Kolodin, Warren Peterson
6d ago01:29:17Tap to summarizeGuests - Art Del Cueto, Alex Kolodin, Warren Peterson Art Del Cueto makes the case for Andy Biggs ahead of the governor's primary while warning that intra-party grudges and "RINO"-shaming are the real threat to Republican unity. Alex Kolodin breaks down the Save Act, a competing Democrat-backed ballot measure designed to confuse voters, and his unbroken win streak against Secretary of State Adrian Fontes. And Warren Peterson spends most of his segment rebutting his primary opponent's attack ads point by point, while laying out his plan to overhaul the Attorney General's office on day one.
Transcribe →Guests - Seth Keshel, Joel Strabala, Jay Tolkoff
1w ago01:30:15Tap to summarizeGuests - Seth Keshel, Joel Strabala, Jay Tolkoff Seth Keshel breaks down the midterm map with data instead of doom, arguing Arizona's two competitive congressional seats and LD17's legislative races are winnable if Republicans avoid the ballot-splitting mistakes of past cycles. Joel Strabala explains why poll observers and early ballot returns matter more than most voters realize. And Jay Tolkoff digs into Tucson's budget sleight-of-hand — a "balanced budget" that's actually draining $61 million from reserves — plus TUSD's staggering staff-to-student ratio and a critical write-in campaign for a Pima County supervisor seat that hinges on just 146 signatures.
Transcribe →Guests - Sheriff Richard Mack, Rachel Keshel, Jack Dona
1w ago01:29:59Tap to summarizeGuests - Sheriff Richard Mack, Rachel Keshel, Jack Dona Sheriff Richard Mack returns with a provocative new book co-written to influence the midterms, Representative Rachel Keshel recaps a legislative session that ended in an all-night Democrat meltdown over election integrity wins, and retired Master Sergeant Jack Dona digs into the fight over disabled veterans' tax exemptions and a contentious Attorney General primary that's already turning into a legal brawl.
Transcribe →Guests - Betsy Smith, Steve Mundt
2w ago01:30:40Tap to summarizeGuests - Betsy Smith, Steve Mundt The thwarted attack planned around last week's UFC fight at the White House held the day's first and most urgent thread. What was publicly described as a drone threat was, in Betsy Brantner Smith's telling, far more calculated and far more sinister than initial headlines suggested. Retired Brigadier General Steven D. Mundt joined the second hour to provide the military context the first hour had been building toward. He worked in Army aviation for decades, specifically on the Apache attack helicopter platform, alongside Winn's husband — which gave the conversation a particular texture of personal investment in the outcomes being discussed.
Transcribe →Guests - Ava Chen, Kenneth Abramowitz, Yvette Serino
2w ago01:28:33Tap to summarizeGuests - Ava Chen, Kenneth Abramowitz, Yvette Serino The week's conversation opened with a chilling near-miss: a plot involving drones and snipers, allegedly timed around a UFC fight and reportedly intended to target an area where members of Arizona's congressional delegation and their families were in attendance. Host Kathleen Winn described learning that people she knew personally were on-site when the scheme was uncovered. "It doesn't look like it was well conceived," she said, noting that investigators had not yet tied it to a sponsoring terrorist organization or foreign government. "We're still in the but those kinds of things," she added, crediting the FBI's vigilance for the fact that nothing happened. For Ava Chen, a commentator with the New Federal State of China who joins the show weekly for its China Watch Wednesday segment, the episode's significance ran deeper than the immediate danger. She pointed to the age of those involved — some as young as 19 — as the real warning sign.
Transcribe →Guest Host Lisa Von Geldern with Susan Ellsworth & Ron Desouza
2w ago01:31:15Tap to summarizeGuest Host Lisa Von Geldern with Susan Ellsworth & Ron Desouza While Kathleen Winn was in federal court arguing that the Elections Procedures Manual violates the First Amendment, her guest host for the morning had her own court to hold. Lisa Von Geldern — Arizona state coordinator for the John Birch Society, organizer of the Salt Lake City conference that had just wrapped, and a woman who moved from California to Arizona to escape overreach only to find it arriving close behind — spent two hours making the case that constitutional self-education is not a hobby. It is the only mechanism that actually works. Two guests joined to reinforce it: Susan Ellsworth, the Arizona coordinator for the John Birch Society, who walked listeners live through the Freedom Index scorecards for every Arizona congressman; and Ron DeSouza, a young Tucson entrepreneur whose grandfather was a John Birch Society chapter chairman decades ago, who drove to Salt Lake City and came back convinced that the right is finally starting to organize like it means it.
Transcribe →Guests - Alex Kolodin, Rodney Glassman
2w ago01:30:19Tap to summarizeGuests - Alex Kolodin, Rodney Glassman Monday on Winn Tucson opened on rain — unusual for Tucson in mid-June — and moved into the most consequential news in Arizona electoral politics in years. The legislative session ended at four in the morning. Arizona is now the first state in the country to fully conform to the Trump tax cuts. An Arizona version of the SAVE Act will go before voters in November. And for the state Senate president running for attorney general, a law that's been on the books for 40 years may have just become the most dangerous document in the Republican primary.
Transcribe →Guests - Peter Churchbourne, Joel Strabala
2w ago01:28:27Tap to summarizeGuests - Peter Churchbourne, Joel Strabala Friday on Winn Tucson opened the last weekend before ballots start dropping with two conversations that could not be more different in scale — one national, one hyper-local — and both indispensable for the moment we're in. A brand-new organization that has actually been around for 36 years announced itself to the country this week. And the man who knows Pima County's election machinery more precisely than anyone else laid out the specific vote center schedule, the Green Valley problem, the federal court date on Tuesday, and the arithmetic that makes every Republican vote count.
Transcribe →Guests - Terry Gilbert, Scott Schara
3w ago01:27:09Tap to summarizeGuests - Terry Gilbert, Scott Schara Thursday on Winn Tucson opened with breaking news from Washington and closed with something more quietly consequential: the final installment of an eight-week series by a father who turned the worst thing that ever happened to him into the most practical warning he could offer anyone who might one day need a hospital. Between those two bookends: a portrait of a changed city that neither guest could have imagined when they first came to know it, and the specific tactics of an advocacy model that might have saved one girl's life — and could save yours.
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