The Matt McNeil Show – December 6th, 2021

Hour 1 segment 1: Matt speaks with Rick Smith of the Rick Smith show (listen weeknights live from 8-10 PM on AM950). Matt and Rick talk about how Democrats need to win back working class union voters and how it’s important to focus on kitchen table issues.

Hour 1 segment 2: Why Republicans, no matter what they say, will always work to destroy unions.

Hour 1 segments 3/4: Matt’s thoughts on Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo announcing he will step down from his position.

Hour 1 segment 1: Matt talks about seeing Fiddler on the Roof over the weekend at the Ordway. The Foo Fighters announce they’ll play at US Bank Stadium. The MN COVID-19 update. And Bring Me the News reports the Minnetonka School Board will consider removing the mask mandate at the middle school level during a meeting in January.

Hour 2 segment 2: A look at how bad COVD numbers are in the counties that voted for Trump.

Hour 2 segment 3: Over the weekend hundreds of people attended a rally in Hastings to show support for an 8 year transgender child who was outed by a conservative parents Facebook group.

Hour 2 segment 4: The Minnesota Reformer reports Kim Crockett, the former vice president and general counsel of the Center of the American Experiment who was suspended from the think tank after making racist remarks about Somali refugees in St. Cloud, will announce this week she is running for Minnesota Secretary of State.