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Pat Kreitlow: “People who are losing their jobs to AI or who have seen…”

Featuring: Pat Kreitlow, Democratic | Former Candidate, U.S. House Wisconsin, District 7

Flipping the Script: Pat Kreitlow Takes the Hot Seat

Published November 30, 2025 | Video Starts at 21:23

No, they just, they want to know, where's the guy that said he was going to lower prices on day one? And instead we're, we're bombing fishing boats in … People who are losing their jobs to AI or who have seen their benefits cut, who have seen their rural hospitals close. … they sure don't. I am talking with Pat Kritlow, my friends. He is the host of Mornings with Pat Kriitlow on civic media and the founding editor of Up North News. (21:23–21:28)

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Asserts that people are losing jobs to AI, experiencing benefit cuts, and witnessing rural hospital closures.

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“I was a page in the Minnesota legislature.”
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“I was an intern in middle school because they needed to get me out of the classroom to do something.”
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“I would take a city bus every Thursday across from one side of St. Paul to the other on my own and work at my state legislator's office.”
Flipping the Script: Pat Kreitlow Takes the Hot Seat | Uploaded November 30, 2025 | 05:01-05:11
“Shortly after the 2004 election, in fact, when I watched John Kerry get swift voted, I said, well, wait a minute, maybe we need people in…”
Flipping the Script: Pat Kreitlow Takes the Hot Seat | Uploaded November 30, 2025 | 06:36-06:49
“The Great Recession was, by and large the work of a lot of people who the Tea Party are now trying to put back into office.”
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“Scott Walker got elected and Ron Johnson got elected, and we've been in a weird, weird place ever since.”
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“Trickle down economics doesn't work.”
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“I think I'm the one paying for these tariffs. I don't think these are really helping our farmers at all.”
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“In a year where Tammy Baldwin was elected to the Senate that year in 2012, Barack Obama was reelected in 2012. And I lost to Sean Duffy.”
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“In all of the races since up here in the 7th congressional district, nobody has come closer than I did.”
Flipping the Script: Pat Kreitlow Takes the Hot Seat | Uploaded November 30, 2025 | 13:33-13:40
“There are still some close congressional districts in [Wisconsin] compared to other states.”
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“Because of new, fairer maps for the legislature, we now have in several state senate districts, seats that are now in play that weren't for…”
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“We want our kids to have a good education. We want our taxes to be affordable. We want to have the opportunities that come with job growth.”
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“People are seeing the reality of the economy compared to the rhetoric.”
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“News sites had to give everything away to get Internet traffic, whereas, you know, we all learned how to play 99 cents for music and then…”
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“Newspapers couldn't compete. They've been folding up and going out of business.”
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“The media is more small d democratic than ever before.”
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“Conflict is the business model of media.”
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“Every election matters. And when it's. When you take an election off that you look back and go, oh, why didn't, why didn't I, why didn't I…”
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“People are getting the message. You got to show up for every one of them. That's, that's the only way this country is going to work with the…”
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“I am a radio kid by nature. It was the thing that I grew up with, listening, as I mentioned, to WCCO radio.”
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