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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 - Brenda Marts, J.L. Wittenbraker, Yvette Serino, Seth Keshel
2w ago01:28:08Tap to summarizeGuests - Brenda Marts, J.L. Wittenbraker, Yvette Serino, Seth Keshel The Andy Biggs campaign opened Kathleen Winn's Friday with news: Biggs had named former state senator Sine Kerr as his running mate, making her Arizona's first Republican nominee for the newly created office of lieutenant governor. Winn described Kerr as the daughter of an Army combat veteran and a naturalized citizen from Mexico, a Buckeye dairy farmer of more than 40 years who represented Maricopa and Yuma counties in the state Senate, married 46 years to her husband Bill, with four children and 12 grandchildren in the West Valley. "Arizona is going to win big this November with Biggs and Kerr," she said, noting she had already put in an early request to get the ticket down to Pima County, and that the praise for Kerr was coming from both sides of the aisle — "already a good sign." With that, the show turned to its dominant subject: a county spending measure Winn wants voters to reject, and the ground game she says will decide whether Pima County matters in November.
Transcribe →Brad Thayer, Jeff Rhodes, Mark Lewis, Kelly Walker
2w ago01:30:29Tap to summarizeBrad Thayer, Jeff Rhodes, Mark Lewis, Kelly Walker On the last Thursday of July, a day after Dr. Anthony Fauci sat before a Senate committee and repeatedly declined to answer, Kathleen Winn built her show around a single organizing idea: that the contest Arizona voters are about to enter is not ordinary politics but a fight over the country's identity. A political scientist opened the hour with a book-length argument that communism never went away. A county supervisor candidate, a 48-year party veteran, and a former Tucson coffee-shop owner turned activist filled the rest — each circling back, from a different direction, to the same claim that local elections carry national stakes.
Transcribe →Guests - Ava Chen, Betsy Smith
2w ago01:30:59Tap to summarizeGuests - Ava Chen, Betsy Smith The morning Dr. Anthony Fauci sat before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment right, Kathleen Winn built her Wednesday broadcast around a single claim she and her guests have pressed for years: that the origins of COVID-19, and the response to it, were neither accidental nor benign. The hearing supplied the hook. What followed was two hours of argument — first a sweeping account of the pandemic's origins from the movement that says it warned the world in 2017, then a blistering local turn on crime, prosecution, and the Tucson officials her second guest holds responsible.
Transcribe →Guests - Daniel Butierez, Lisa Von Geldern
3w ago01:30:06Tap to summarizeGuests - Daniel Butierez, Lisa Von Geldern A week past the primary, the general election came into focus around a single dynamic: two parties both trying to hold themselves together. Kathleen Winn spent Tuesday's broadcast on the Republican side of that problem and the Democratic side of it — first with a congressional challenger absorbing an early attack from his opponent without swinging back, then with a wide-ranging conversation about the COVID reckoning set to unfold the next day on Capitol Hill. Underneath both ran the argument Winn returns to every show: that turnout, not affection, decides everything, and that a party which purges its own hands seats to the other side.
Transcribe →Guests - Joel Strabala, Joe Finn, Jay Tolkoff
3w ago01:28:45Tap to summarizeGuests - Joel Strabala, Joe Finn, Jay Tolkoff The primary is certified in all but name, and Kathleen Winn spent the last Monday of July setting the table for the hundred days ahead. The message she kept circling was turnout — Pima County Republicans came in at nearly 42 percent, above the state average, while Democratic turnout collapsed to 28 — and the argument that the county long treated as a lost cause is now the state's swing. Around that spine, the show made room for a subject with no party attached: a former big-city fire commissioner making the case that the country can track an Amazon package but not a firefighter inside a burning building. And it closed on the ballot measure Winn intends to fight all fall, a Pima County spending cap she wants voters to reject.
Transcribe →Guests - Joel Strabala, Sergio Arellano, Steve Lance, Kelly Walker
3w ago01:28:47Tap to summarizeGuests - Joel Strabala, Sergio Arellano, Steve Lance, Kelly Walker The week that Arizona held its primary ended with a number Kathleen Winn kept returning to: Pima County Republicans turned out at better than 40 percent, above the statewide average and well above the county's own history of lagging the rest of Arizona. "This is where Pima County will make the difference in these state elections," she said. The Friday broadcast moved between the granular — hand-count audits, provisional ballots, a voter turned away who shouldn't have been — and the sweeping, as a documentary filmmaker and two organizers made overlapping cases that the fight over how Americans vote is inseparable from a larger fight over what kind of country they'll live in.
Transcribe →Guests - Jeff Rhodes, Dave Smith
3w ago01:31:09Tap to summarizeGuests - Jeff Rhodes, Dave Smith Two days after Arizona's primary, with roughly 20,000 Pima County ballots still uncounted, Kathleen Winn opened with a result nobody expected her to get: for the first time in years, Republicans have fielded a candidate in Supervisor District 5. Jeff Rhodes needed 143 write-in votes to make the November ballot. He appears to have cleared it comfortably. "The good news is in November, it'll be pre-printed on the ballot," Winn said — which means voters in a district that has effectively had no choice will have one. The rest of the morning worked outward from there: what a second conservative vote on a five-member board actually buys, why a felon with a prior aggravated assault conviction was out at two in the morning with a gun, and — with former county chair Dave Smith — the uglier question of how a party that just finished beating itself up intends to unify before October.
Transcribe →Guests - Ava Chen, Alex Kolodin, Jeff Rhodes, Joel Strabala, Yvette Serino
3w ago01:28:13Tap to summarizeGuests - Ava Chen, Alex Kolodin, Jeff Rhodes, Joel Strabala, Yvette Serino The morning after Arizona's primary, Kathleen Winn opened with the scoreboard and moved quickly to the harder question: what the results mean, and what still has to be fixed before November. Andy Biggs took the Republican nomination for governor with something north of 70 percent, setting up a general election against Katie Hobbs, who had no primary opponent. "Two very different forms of leadership and government," Winn said. "Katie Hobbs is running as the candidate for all Arizonans. I would argue that Andy Biggs is that person — but they're going to have to make their case to the people of Arizona." Down the ballot, Alex Kolodin advanced to face Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, a matchup Winn expects to be "one of the most contentious and interesting races that we have in the state," noting the two have met in court repeatedly with Kolodin coming out ahead. Elijah Norton won the Republican nod for state treasurer, the seat Kimberly Yee is vacating, and will face an unopposed Democratic nominee. Yee, meanwhile, appears to have defeated Tom Horne for superintendent of public instruction, setting up a race between two women — with the future of Arizona's ESA program riding on it. And Senate President Warren Petersen will take on Attorney General Kris Mayes, who Winn argued "has pretty much spent her whole four years suing Donald Trump. I don't think there's an appetite for just that." The Republican registration advantage is real, Winn said, but it doesn't help if those voters stay home — which made the rest of the morning a post-mortem on why some of them couldn't.
Transcribe →Guests - Lea Marquez Peterson, Cheryl Caswell, Derek Weech, Eileen Wilson
4w ago01:30:30Tap to summarizeGuests - Lea Marquez Peterson, Cheryl Caswell, Derek Weech, Eileen Wilson It’s Election Day in Arizona! Kathleen Winn's phone started before dawn. By the time the microphones opened on primary morning in Pima County, the reports were already stacking up — the most urgent one out of Marana, where voters were being handed ballots printed on ordinary copy paper rather than the heavier stock the tabulators require. Sixty-odd calls would come in before the show ended. Against that backdrop, the morning ran on two tracks at once: the long-horizon questions of what Arizona's utilities, water, and legislature will look like for the next decade, and the immediate, unglamorous work of getting a legally cast ballot into a machine that will read it.
Transcribe →Guests - Betsy Smith, Greg Wrightstone, Rodney Glassman, Joel Strabala
4w ago01:30:10Tap to summarizeGuests - Betsy Smith, Greg Wrightstone, Rodney Glassman, Joel Strabala The day before Arizona's primary opened with news from 2,400 miles away: an explosion at the Manhattan federal building housing ICE, the FBI, and other federal offices. Kathleen Winn scrapped her planned opening and called the National Police Association's Betsy Brantner Smith, who traced a line from that attack to the rhetoric being used in Pima County's own races. From there, the morning ranged across a downtown Tucson mass shooting, the Canadian smoke drifting over half a continent, the science being invoked to explain it, an Air Force reflagging at Luke, the attorney general's race, and — running underneath all of it — the mechanics of getting a ballot counted before polls close Tuesday night.
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