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BET WTF? with Christa Moseng


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Christa Moseng is a career public servant and first time candidate running for the Minneapolis Board of Estimate & Taxation. The BET is a line on your ballot that may have confused you in prior years. I ask Christa to explain what the BET does and why she's qualified for this obscure role. We talk about the two elected members of the BET, their conservative approach, and what role ideology should play on a body with such limited scope. I ask Christa what it means that she has a .bet domain name (Is she a bingo parlor?). We commiserate over how hard it is to get people to call in to a pre-recorded podcast. Christa's campaign manager, Pine, tries and fails to join the conversation from a ten year old laptop. 

And we have fun with BET President Carol Becker (who has said she's not running for reelection), who once tried (and failed) to steal the Wedge LIVE trademark and use it to start a podcast. We play audio of the time Becker repeatedly shouted "have the balls" at other public officials. And I talk briefly about the time Becker lied about city debt refinancing for the sake of TV news cameras.

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