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Friday Mornings with Jack Windsor - Ohio Political Shenanigans · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: The talk station.
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  Speaker 2: 830 on a Friday. It is that time of week
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  Speaker 2: I look forward to. I look forward to a lot
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  Speaker 2: of times during the week. Special guests on the program,
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  Speaker 2: but regular guests included, and thank God for them. And
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  Speaker 2: it's time for the ohiopressnetworks.com. Jack Windsor. Jack, good to
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  Speaker 2: see you this morning. I get the pleasure of seeing
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  Speaker 2: him on video, and of course my listeners get the
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to hear him talk about the issues that he
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  Speaker 2: brings up all the time on the ohiopressnetwork.com. Jack, always
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  Speaker 2: good to have you on the program.
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  Speaker 3: Brian, always an honor to be here with you and
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  Speaker 3: Joe and the listeners. And your listeners are lucky.
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  Speaker 1: They only get to hear me. You have to see me.
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  Speaker 1: I have a face for radio.
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  Speaker 2: I have one too. Although I have a new headshot
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  Speaker 2: on my blog page because the old one was like
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  Speaker 2: 10 years old. And no, I don't look like that anymore.
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  Speaker 2: So I had to update that. The prior one, I
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  Speaker 2: looked like I was 10 years old. So a little
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  Speaker 2: slow keeping things up to date, but that's about all
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  Speaker 2: anybody needs to see of me. Jack Windsor, somebody needs
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  Speaker 2: to see more of Amy Acton except on her television spots.
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  Speaker 2: And I I know she's been hiding in the basement,
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  Speaker 2: and I guess I brought this up earlier because Vivek
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  Speaker 2: Ramaswamy is on the program, and he did say out loud,
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  Speaker 2: I want to debate her. Listen, I'll debate her anywhere. CNN, NBC, MSNBC,
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  Speaker 2: basically he threw out a bunch of left-wing. He doesn't care.
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  Speaker 2: He wants an opportunity to engage in a back-and-forth, and
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  Speaker 2: who wouldn't want that opportunity? But Amy Acton's television commercials,
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  Speaker 2: her own produced television commercials, Jack, you see the one
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  Speaker 2: they run on TV? I'm just wondering, when we get that,
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  Speaker 2: and that is the best they could hopefully come up with,
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  Speaker 2: that's as polished as we're going to get, she is
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  Speaker 2: not exactly confidence-inspiring, I have to observe.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: So I say this now because someone said this to
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  Speaker 3: me earlier in the week. They said, Jack, you're not normal.
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  Speaker 3: And what they were trying to say is I'm a
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  Speaker 3: little more of a politico, I guess, and you and
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  Speaker 3: I probably fall into that same striping.
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  Speaker 2: As too many of the listeners.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we dwell on it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And so, you know, I don't know, usually after Labor Day,
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  Speaker 3: people kind of start tuning in, but we're about, you know,
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  Speaker 3: 50 plus days away from the election. And I think
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  Speaker 3: people are starting to pay more attention today than they were, say,
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  Speaker 3: 60 days ago. And I think that's bad for Amy Acton, frankly,
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  Speaker 3: is how I'm going to boil it down. I emceed
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  Speaker 3: the Ohio Christian Alliance event last night. Vivek Ramaswamy was there.
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  Speaker 3: I was able to introduce him. And he said, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I'll take a couple of questions, but we were tight
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  Speaker 3: on time. We only, only, uh, got to ask, or
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  Speaker 3: excuse me, answer to. And one of the questions was
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  Speaker 3: from somebody that was not hostile, but was basically, hey,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I voted for Trump. I'm really dissatisfied, really
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  Speaker 3: kind of pissed off. Are you going to sell this
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  Speaker 3: out like Trump, essentially? And Vivek Ramaswamy thanked him, you know,
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  Speaker 3: took the question, and he answered it.
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  Speaker 1: And I remember standing there.
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  Speaker 3: Thinking, can you imagine if Amy Acton was asked a
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  Speaker 3: question and about Joe.
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  Speaker 1: Biden or the Democrats or, Amy, are you going to
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  Speaker 1: sell us out?
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  Speaker 3: I would almost fully expect her armed guard to come
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  Speaker 3: over and apprehend the person and say, no more questions.
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  Speaker 3: But one thing, regardless of where you stand with his
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  Speaker 3: political ideology and his policy positions, Vivek Ramaswamy is not
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  Speaker 3: afraid to take questions. And he's not afraid to take
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  Speaker 3: questions from people who are not just there to appease
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  Speaker 3: him or to give him praise. And I think there's
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  Speaker 3: something to say about that.
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  Speaker 1: I think voters are starting to see that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I would hope so. And who cannot see her
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  Speaker 2: outright refusal to debate him? What possible reason would a
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  Speaker 2: candidate have for not doing so? Has she articulated anything
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  Speaker 2: that she could possibly hang her hat on along those lines, Jack?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, it's a lot of political posturing. And frankly,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if it's Amy Acton doing it. You've
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  Speaker 3: heard me say, I think you and I might agree
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  Speaker 3: on this. David Pepper's running that show. If she wins,
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  Speaker 3: he's going to be running the show.
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  Speaker 2: Puppet master.
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  Speaker 3: And she's the out front dog and pony show performer, right?
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  Speaker 3: So really, Vivek said it last night. She's not afraid
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  Speaker 3: of him. I think she's afraid of voters. I think
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  Speaker 3: she's afraid of handling the hard questions. And I've got
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  Speaker 3: to give you my lived experience again. Go back six
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  Speaker 3: years to her being right in the middle of the
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  Speaker 3: state's COVID response. And on at least two occasions, I
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  Speaker 3: asked some really hard questions. And by the way, I
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  Speaker 3: wasn't mean. I just asked questions because the data and
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  Speaker 3: scoreboard that they used wasn't adding up to the policies
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  Speaker 3: and so on and so forth. And any time that
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  Speaker 3: I asked a hard question, she would miss the next
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  Speaker 3: day's press conference. And so I think that there is
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  Speaker 3: just kind of this baked-in sensitivity. I don't think she's
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  Speaker 3: cut for this. I don't think she's hardwired for it.
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  Speaker 3: And therefore, they're going with the Joe Biden strategy, keep
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  Speaker 3: her in the basement, talk a lot of smack about
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  Speaker 3: her opponent, and just hope that her likability is high
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  Speaker 3: enough that voters push the button or.
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  Speaker 1: Pull the lever for her.
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  Speaker 2: Well, she wasn't up to the task of the medical director.
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  Speaker 2: She walked off that job, Jack.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, less than 100 days in. And by the way,
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  Speaker 3: I think she's quit every job she's had. If you remember,
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  Speaker 3: she didn't want to be front and center. DeWine, during
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  Speaker 3: a state hiring freeze, hired her for $ 230, 000 a year
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  Speaker 3: as his personal advisor. That lasted not very long. And
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  Speaker 3: then she went on to some nonprofit and then another
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  Speaker 3: and then another. And if you remember, I think it
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  Speaker 3: was 2022, she was going to run for U.S. Senate
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  Speaker 3: and didn't do that. She walked out on that opportunity,
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  Speaker 3: went somewhere else, quit that job. And, you know, one
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  Speaker 3: of the things I've been trying to determine is does
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  Speaker 3: she or has she ever practiced medicine? I don't have
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  Speaker 3: any evidence to say that she has. So I'm really
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  Speaker 3: at a loss other than being a professor of public health.
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  Speaker 3: What has she done? And when she did do something
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  Speaker 3: where the going got tough, as you said, less than
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  Speaker 3: 100 days in, she quit.
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  Speaker 2: Quit and won't debate. Not exactly a profile in courage,
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  Speaker 2: Jack Winters. Don't go away. We're going to get your
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  Speaker 2: thoughts and comments on the Brown versus Husted race and
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  Speaker 2: how that one can be close is another one that
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  Speaker 2: puzzles me. Plus, the tail end of the program, the
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  Speaker 2: continuing saga of Representative Ismail Muhammad. He's got some real
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  Speaker 2: problems on his hands, and Jack has been hounding him
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  Speaker 2: and riding him like a circus pony. Don't go away.
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  Speaker 2: More with Jack Windsor after these words. 55KRC.
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  Speaker 3: Nope.
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  Speaker 1: 839-55KRC, the talk station.
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  Speaker 2: It's a new talk this morning. I think it is.
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  Speaker 2: I really think it is. I had someone in my
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  Speaker 2: studio earlier in the week, a Republican strategist by the
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  Speaker 2: name of Bob Clegg. And because, by the way, there
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  Speaker 2: are some accusations floating around on social media that.
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  Speaker 3: From people on the left who say, well, why are
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  Speaker 3: you so mad that Amy Acton isn't going to debate?
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  Speaker 3: Because John Husted is not going to debate. His campaign
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  Speaker 3: has not told me that. There just is not something scheduled.
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  Speaker 3: We'll probably get into this. There was a poll, two
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  Speaker 3: polls that came out recently, one last night, one earlier
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  Speaker 3: in the week. And I'm trying to find it here.
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  Speaker 3: A good number of people, a majority of people say
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  Speaker 3: that a debate is important. 55% say a televised governor's
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  Speaker 3: debate is very important. 87% say it is at least
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  Speaker 3: somewhat important. So I'm assuming there may not be that
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  Speaker 3: much crossover for U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Senate.
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  Speaker 3: But my guess is a majority of people probably say, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's important to hear from the candidates directly on certain
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  Speaker 3: issues and to allow them to address issues. some of
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  Speaker 3: the skeletons in their closet, if you will, the stuff
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  Speaker 3: that always comes out down the stretch here.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and that's exactly why you would want to debate.
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  Speaker 2: If a candidate is being targeted and attacked in these PAC,
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  Speaker 2: political action committee ads can be really harsh. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: if a candidate doesn't have to approve them, they can
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  Speaker 2: pretty much say anything because these folks are public figures,
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  Speaker 2: you get away with a lot. So with that stated,
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  Speaker 2: if I am running for office and I'm being publicly attacked,
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  Speaker 2: and I know that these are demonstrably false claims, or
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  Speaker 2: at least, you know, hiding the reality of what is
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  Speaker 2: being asserted, I would like to get out in the
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  Speaker 2: open and talk about it. You know, I mean, why
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't you avail yourself to any possible opportunity to do
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  Speaker 2: exactly that? So in what other conclusion can one draw
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  Speaker 2: is maybe perhaps the candidate that doesn't want to debate
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  Speaker 2: perhaps is concerned about the truth of some of these
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  Speaker 2: allegations being stated. There's an option.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: And, you know, some people would argue that Sherrod Brown
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  Speaker 3: has some stuff But he's had some stuff for several decades.
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  Speaker 3: He continues to carry it with him every election cycle.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, you and I both know what John.
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  Speaker 3: Husted would be attacked on, the House Bill 6 stuff.
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  Speaker 3: So that would be fresh. Well, that might be tricky
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  Speaker 3: there for him.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead. Sorry.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's the Larry. Just to remind my listeners, that's
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  Speaker 2: the whole energy Larry Householder thing.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: OK.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. And I don't know, by the way, if if
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  Speaker 3: if those there are certain investigations on a on a
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  Speaker 3: state level that are still going on. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: if John Husted would be able to comment on some
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  Speaker 3: of that, frankly. I know that he had been subpoenaed.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know where that is in the process. That
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  Speaker 3: might make it a little trickier. But going back to
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  Speaker 3: the polls, what we're seeing, other than the Fox poll
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  Speaker 3: that came out late in the summer that had Brown
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  Speaker 3: plus eight, this latest series of polls has Brown somewhere
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  Speaker 3: between three and four. So You had the Bowling Green
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  Speaker 3: State University poll earlier in the week with YouGov. And
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  Speaker 3: then last night, Trafalgar, which I think most people consider
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  Speaker 3: a little bit right-leaning, also had Brown between 3% and 4%.
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  Speaker 1: And a couple of interesting things in both of those polls.
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  Speaker 3: Democrats are more motivated almost by a two-to-one ratio. And
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  Speaker 3: I think that's going to be the tale of the tape, Brian.
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  Speaker 3: Are Republicans going to get off the couch? Are they
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  Speaker 3: going to go pull the lever? And what we're hearing
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  Speaker 3: a lot now, and I say this all the time,
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  Speaker 3: you say it, if you're 80% aligned with somebody... don't
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  Speaker 3: wait until you're 100% aligned. It's never going to happen.
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  Speaker 3: To allow socialism to continue to creep, and make no
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  Speaker 3: mistake about it, that's what Republicans are up against.
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  Speaker 1: You're dealing with creeping socialism.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and, you know, Sherrod Brown's a liberal guy. He
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  Speaker 2: isn't on record with radical, you know, let's destroy the
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  Speaker 2: Constitution policies. But his voting record suggests that it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: matter what they're voting for. If it's Democrat-inspired, he's going
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  Speaker 2: to vote for it 99% of the time. He never
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  Speaker 2: bucks the system. And this is where I worry. The
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  Speaker 2: DSA is making great inroads in the Democratic Party. They're
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  Speaker 2: taking over. They're running the show. They've got regular mainstream
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  Speaker 2: Democrats running scared, with the exception of Fetterman. Where do
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  Speaker 2: you think Sherrod Brown would vote on this? And if
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  Speaker 2: you're concerned about the DSA, and you should be, a
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  Speaker 2: vote for Sherrod Brown would be a vote for these
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  Speaker 2: damn policies.
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  Speaker 3: You're 100% accurate. That is the part about Sherrod Brown
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  Speaker 3: that I think is really tricky. He has political acumen.
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  Speaker 3: I always say campaign Sherrod is wholly different than D.C.
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  Speaker 1: Sherrod.
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  Speaker 2: Perfect way to put it. D.C.
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  Speaker 1: Sherrod votes with the radical left.
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  Speaker 3: If the DSA takes over the party, Sherrod Brown's going
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  Speaker 3: to stamp it with approval by voting yes. And by
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  Speaker 3: the way, I thought this was interesting. One of the
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  Speaker 3: polls that came out, you may find this a little comical,
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  Speaker 3: one in four voters actually still believes that Sherrod Brown
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  Speaker 3: is the incumbent.
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  Speaker 2: Holy cow.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't that crazy?
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  Speaker 2: Well, he's been in politics for 50 years.
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  Speaker 3: I might ride that pony for a while if I
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  Speaker 3: were Houston and say, I haven't even been here long
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  Speaker 3: enough to find the bathrooms. A quarter of you still
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  Speaker 3: think that Sherrod's the guy, so I need some more
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  Speaker 3: time here.
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  Speaker 2: That's a very good point. Man, that is a reflection
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  Speaker 2: of political ignorance that I don't think I can quite
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  Speaker 2: cope with, Jack.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's a little unnerving, isn't it?
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  Speaker 2: Well, when half of our school children in K-12 can't
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  Speaker 2: identify the three branches of government, we know we've got
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  Speaker 2: problems on our hands. That just illustrates it even further
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  Speaker 2: to a specific race point. Speaking of specific races, Jack
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  Speaker 2: Windsor from the Ohio Press Network is going to shed
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  Speaker 2: some light on State Representative Ishmael Muhammad, who's been struggling
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  Speaker 2: with Jack Windsor's questioning of late. Also has some residency problems.
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  Speaker 2: We'll learn about that with the Ohio Press Network's Jack
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  Speaker 2: Windsor next. Don't go away. 55 KRC Detox Station. It's
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  Speaker 1: It's Friday.
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  Speaker 2: I hope you've got some great plans for the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to be at the Parkinson's Steady Stride event
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  Speaker 2: at the Linder Family Tennis Center tomorrow beginning at 8 o'clock.
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  Speaker 2: It's a great event. The biggest fundraiser for the Parkinson's
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  Speaker 2: Wellness and Support Group that they have all year. Fun
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  Speaker 2: and games, food, music, and activity. It's good for Parkinson's.
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  Speaker 2: It's good for the organization. So join me there tomorrow
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  Speaker 2: after 8. And Jack Windsor, you can join him online
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  Speaker 2: every single day, and I recommend you do. Bookmark the site, theohiopressnetwork.com,
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  Speaker 2: where you can read about the antics of State Representative
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  Speaker 2: Ishmael Muhammad. What's with this guy, Jack?
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  Speaker 3: Well, he has a bevy of issues, Brian. One is
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  Speaker 3: a home. By the way, let me go back. State
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  Speaker 3: Rep Ishmael Muhammad is a Democrat. He represents House District 3,
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  Speaker 3: which covers Linden, part of the University District, for those
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  Speaker 3: of you in Cincinnati, northern Columbus, okay? It's all in
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  Speaker 3: Franklin County, his district. Well, Delaware County auditor records show
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  Speaker 3: Muhammad and a woman named Hoda Adhiz bought a nearly
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  Speaker 3: $ 587, 000 home on Heather Ridge Drive in October 2025. And
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  Speaker 3: the records list an owner occupancy credit. And that credit
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  Speaker 3: applies to a person's main residence. That's problematic because Delaware
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  Speaker 3: County is not in his district. So His opponent, Bernadine
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  Speaker 3: Kennedy Kent, challenged his voter registration. And the week before
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  Speaker 3: the hearing, Muhammad changed his registration from one in-district address
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  Speaker 3: to another. And the challenge named the old address. So
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  Speaker 3: on Monday, the Franklin County Board of Elections dismissed the
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  Speaker 3: case unanimously. Kent's attorney, Kurt Hartman, came on my show.
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  Speaker 1: We talked.
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  Speaker 3: He says he will refile. He has refiled. against the
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  Speaker 3: new address. The hearing is scheduled for September 28th. Muhammad
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  Speaker 3: and Adhiz were both in the room, sat on opposite
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  Speaker 3: sides in that hearing. His office will not comment. I've
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  Speaker 3: sent them two series of questions, about 20 questions total. Now,
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  Speaker 3: here's why this is problematic. The law, two separate rules.
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  Speaker 3: Article 2, Section 3 of the Ohio Constitution says a
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  Speaker 3: representative must live in the district for one full year
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  Speaker 3: before the election. Ohio Revised Code Section 3.15 says He
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  Speaker 3: must stay a resident for the whole term or forfeit
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  Speaker 3: the seat. The house was bought October 2025. The election,
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  Speaker 3: of course, is November 3rd of this year. He has
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  Speaker 3: a money problem, too, but I'll let you marinate in
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  Speaker 3: that for just a minute.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I want to understand, the first filing shows him
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  Speaker 2: outside of the district. The second, the revised filing, is
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  Speaker 2: it also outside of the district, the second residence he identified?
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  Speaker 1: So his.
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  Speaker 3: Initially, the contest was against an address that he had
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  Speaker 3: on record. He said it was address A, and they said, well,
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  Speaker 3: you signed documentation saying that this Delaware County residence is
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  Speaker 3: your residence, which is it.
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  Speaker 2: You only get one primary residence.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Like if you have a summer home in Florida, you
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  Speaker 2: either pick Florida as your domicile state, you pick Ohio,
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  Speaker 2: but bottom line, you only have one. So the filing,
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't in his filing to state his declaring for
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  Speaker 2: the race or- It was independent of that. So in
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  Speaker 2: one record, he says he's in the district, and in another,
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  Speaker 2: he has identified it as his primary residence outside of
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  Speaker 2: the district.
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  Speaker 1: Correct.
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  Speaker 3: And to make matters more confusing, when the complaint came
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  Speaker 3: to the Board of Elections, he listed in a third address,
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  Speaker 3: a separate address in the district, not tied to that.
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  Speaker 1: Home, that $ 587, 000.
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  Speaker 3: Home that he bought in Delaware County. So- The contest
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  Speaker 3: now is against that new address that he listed, and
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  Speaker 3: they're contesting that he lives in Delaware County. And oh,
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  Speaker 3: by the way, I should mention this, because he is
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  Speaker 3: required to file paperwork with an ethics committee on his
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  Speaker 3: assets as a lawmaker. The last time that he did that,
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  Speaker 3: he did not list the home in Delaware County on
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: the form. The only time that you don't have to
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: do that is if that home is your primary residence. His...
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: Wife slash girlfriend, we have not been able to determine
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: which she is because she lists herself as both, sent
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: a letter to the Board of Elections and said, this
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: is my boy, or says that she's a girlfriend, that
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: she lives in a separate place and that Delaware County
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: is an investment property. Well, if that were the case,
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: he would have and should have and must have listed
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: that property as an investment property on his financial filings,
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: and he didn't do that. So he has a lot
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: of things going on where he says one thing here,
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: another thing there. They're not adding up, and it could
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: be extremely problematic.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: Well, I imagine this all would impact his taxes too,
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: would it not, Jack?
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: Okay. So there's a tax, there's an IRS person out there,
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: maybe somebody within the state of Ohio that's responsible for
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: collecting Ohio taxes, property as well. You know, you get
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: a substantial discount primary residence, like the homestead exemption, Jack.
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: I mean, that comes into play, doesn't it? Are there
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: school districts and teachers unions out there wondering why in
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: the hell you didn't pay? This is a complicated mess.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: Well, hold your beer.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: Oh, good.
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: It's worse. So, yeah. So there's a campaign finance complaint
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: that was filed by Lisa Chafee. She's secretary of the
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: Franklin County Republican Party. Per the complaint in the filings,
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: the committee, his committee. reported a balance of $ 97, 000 in
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: change on a 2024 post-general election report. The 2025 annual
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: report carries forward only $ 3, 000. So now the question is,
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: where did $ 94, 000 or $ 93, 000 plus dollars go? By the way,
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: this is the same time that if you look at
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: his mortgage documentation, he put $ 58, 700 cash down.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: On the payment for the Delaware County house. So people
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: are going, okay, we're.
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: Not saying that some of that money came from the
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: campaign coffers, but they have not accounted for the money
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: in the campaign coffers.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: What's going on here.
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: And I will remind you if you're buying an almost
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: $ 600, 000 house, you can run the mortgage calculation on that. Brian,
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: what is that? 4,000, $ 5, 000 a month, probably just ballparking it. Uh,
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: if you're, if you're a state representative, what do you
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: make 70? So the math ain't math in there. Hmm.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: Maybe he's a Nepo baby.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: Well, perhaps.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm just throwing it out there.
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: You know, I got to be careful what I say,
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: but when you talk Nepo baby and you're talking about
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: the Somali community, there is a lot of money sharing
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: that has gone on in other parts of the country.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: Not saying that's going on here, but if it were
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: going on, it might make a lot more sense.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: Well, this all seems at least worthy of investigation. Jack,
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: when's he been trying to? He just won't answer any questions.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: Do you know if any authorities are involved in this
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: by any chance?
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: Yes, they are.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: I can say now here's the part, the campaign finance part.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: I will tell you this.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: The secretary of state has an investigative unit. Generally, though,
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: they work with candidates and committees to bring them into compliance.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: They're not trying to do a gotcha. They're trying to say, listen,
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: here's how you have to do it. If you're going
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: to do it, if you can account for it, this
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: is what you need to do. But the Secretary of
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: State's office is looking into this matter. The Board of
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: Elections is looking into this matter. I have every indication
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: now that the mortgage company is looking into this matter
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: because when he signed the mortgage document, he pledged to
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: be in that home within 60 days in order for
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: that mortgage to be in effect and that it would
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: be a primary residence. If he's saying it's not his
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: primary residence, he now has a problem with the mortgage company.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: I just wrote attorney general down. So you may have
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: a problem with the attorney general too, Jack Windsor. And
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: maybe the FBI. There you have it. We'll get everybody involved.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Ishmael Muhammad, state representative, state of Ohio. Jack Windsor, the
• 20:08
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• 20:11
  Speaker 2: can read more about Mr. Ismail or Mr. Muhammad down
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: the road because I'm sure Jack will answer all the
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: questions that are pending. Jack, we'll do this again next Friday,
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: my friend. Have a wonderful weekend.