Wake Up Live W/ Christopher DeSimone Ep. 337 - Ted Maxwell, CJ Hamm, Shaun McClusky

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
You're listening to Wake Up with Christopher DeSimone on the Live The Dream Media Network. Southern Arizona's premier live talk and online radio.

**Christopher DeSimone** (0:20)
Hey, you're on the Live The Dream Media Network, Christopher DeSimone. Hold on, you know, I've been talking to Ted. Hold on, hold on. I didn't get my sign up, this is ridiculous.

**SPEAKER_4** (0:33)
I wanted you to come to Virginia.

**Ted Maxwell** (0:37)
Perfect.

**Christopher DeSimone** (0:39)
I got talking to Mr. Maxwell, and I got distracted, and then I found out I had to make coffee. Anyway, welcome back to Live The Dream Media Network. Good morning to Ted Maxwell.

**Ted Maxwell** (0:49)
Good morning, Chris. How are you doing?

**Christopher DeSimone** (0:51)
Good to see you, sir.

**Ted Maxwell** (0:52)
Six o'clock in the morning.

**Christopher DeSimone** (0:53)
You were on with...

**Ted Maxwell** (0:54)
Always good to watch you come in and do your magic. I just love that. I mean, obviously, you've been doing this for a long time, so you're so smooth at it. You're just walking around, ratting, and all of a sudden, sit down, plop, start.
There you go.

**Christopher DeSimone** (1:04)
And then unprofessionally walk off screen to get my Christopher DeSimone for Oro Valley sign.

**Ted Maxwell** (1:10)
You run for office?

**Christopher DeSimone** (1:11)
I have chrisforov.com. I don't know if you guys know that or not. So, but yeah, we're getting up. End of the month will be everyone will have their early ballots in their pockets.

**Ted Maxwell** (1:21)
And it's getting closer. I mean, there's so many races that are so tight. It's there's, as with everything, you know, for you, your your position specifically, that will be decided in the primary. Yeah. But so many of the other districts, 25 of the 30 districts throughout the state will be decided pretty much in the primary.
And the scary part to me is the ones that won't be are going to be the ones where the party, whether it's Democratic or Republican, it's probably more than likely going to be the Republican ones that get in trouble. Put a candidate out there that just isn't going to set with all the independents. Ten districts now in the state of Arizona, ten, ten of our 30 districts, independent or unaffiliated as the number one registered voter.

**Christopher DeSimone** (2:08)
Wow. And do we know how some of those independents lean in those districts? We do.

**Ted Maxwell** (2:12)
I mean, a lot of times they lean. You've got some districts. You look at LD 16, which is the one that TJ Shope and Teresa Martinez, and it's three Republicans in those seats. But the interesting thing is they're getting attacked more and more by what you'd call more the progressive left. You're seeing that not necessarily declared the Democratic Socialists of America, but you are seeing a lot more on both sides of the aisles where the edges of the party are winning more and more of those races and have more and more control inside the PCs as well.

**Christopher DeSimone** (2:50)
Again, both parties have their problems.

**Ted Maxwell** (2:54)
Oh yeah.

**Christopher DeSimone** (2:55)
But one does coalesce better after the general than the other.

**Ted Maxwell** (2:59)
And that tends to be some of the challenge. I mean, but we're seeing Moran has got interesting and those elections will also be side in the primary.
So primary turnout is never good. So many people say, oh, I'll just wait to vote to the general.

**Christopher DeSimone** (3:12)
Watching this all out of salt on the town of Moran by Pima County is unbelievable.

**Ted Maxwell** (3:17)
Yeah.

**Christopher DeSimone** (3:18)
So Jen Allen is unbelievable.

**Ted Maxwell** (3:20)
Well, I mean, Jen's political leanings have been pretty well known and by herself as well.

**Christopher DeSimone** (3:26)
But at the same time, you have a successful community inside your district and there's a dysfunctional community inside your district. But I know it's run by your team. Go help them figure that out. So I remember sitting with, I think it was Gilbert Davidson years ago when there was a-

**Ted Maxwell** (3:44)
Where's Gilbert now? I know you know, you followed him. Yeah, he's still up in Prescott Valley. That's somebody we need to get back to this region.

**Christopher DeSimone** (3:49)
Well, his town attorney is now our attorney in Oro Valley. So Mr. Strake, who I do like so far.

**Ted Maxwell** (3:55)
Okay.

**Christopher DeSimone** (3:57)
But what happened was, we're having lunch one day, and I said, we're thinking about- this is- Huck was still around, but there was the idea of Jan taking Chuck's place. We were talking about how I said, Jan's not as-