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Friday Mornings with Jack Windsor - The Ohio GOP - Masters of the Circular Firing Squad · Brian Thomas

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Speaker 1: Hey, twenty seven to fifty five kr C DE talk station.
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Speaker 1: Happy Friday. Every Friday at this time we get to
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Speaker 1: hear from Jack Winsor, and I recommend to check out
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Speaker 1: his website, The Ohio Pressnetwork dot com. Doing a great
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Speaker 1: job reporting on matters going on in Ohio and always
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Speaker 1: interesting and insightful reporting. It is Jack Winsor, Welcome back
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Speaker 1: to the Morning Show. It's always great hearing from you, Brian.
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Speaker 2: It's an honor to be here. Thank you for having me.
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Speaker 2: Good to see you in Joe this morning.
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Speaker 1: I was gonna say hearing from you, but I also
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Speaker 1: get the benefit of seeing you. We get the zoom link,
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Speaker 1: which it makes things a lot easier. You're not in studio,
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Speaker 1: but you're the next closest thing to being in studio,
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Speaker 1: all right right there at the Ohio Press Network dot com.
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Speaker 1: You got the report here. It's a couple of days old,
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Speaker 1: but the poll that you reported on showing it's a
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Speaker 1: neck and neck race for governor. In other words, vive
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Speaker 1: Ramaswami and Amy Acton there's no space between him in polling.
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Speaker 1: And I'm sorry, I find that really really hard to believe.
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Speaker 1: And I've got some theories on that, but Amy lockdown acting.
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Speaker 1: I mean, do people have that short of memory?
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Speaker 2: You know, it is quite a pickle find ourselves in. Look,
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Speaker 2: we'll talk about how this will probably shift as we're
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Speaker 2: seven months out, as we get closer to election day.
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Speaker 2: But the lead is within the margin of error. It's
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Speaker 2: about forty six to forty five. And I think what's
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Speaker 2: really important, Brian, when you dive into the cross tabs
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Speaker 2: and see that she actually curries favor obviously with Democrats,
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Speaker 2: but not as much with Democrats as Vivek does with Republicans,
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Speaker 2: And she curries more favor with Independence, and independence in
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Speaker 2: a close election will decide the election. But what really
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Speaker 2: strengthens her position currently is that more people trust her
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Speaker 2: to bring down health care costs, and they trust her
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Speaker 2: with health care. But when you get to the matters
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Speaker 2: that I think are going to drive the election, such
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Speaker 2: as the economy, the vaik Ramaswami has about a six
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Speaker 2: to six and a half point lead where that is concerned.
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Speaker 2: More people trust him with the economy here in the
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Speaker 2: Buckeye State than acting, and they trust him more with
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Speaker 2: respect to the border and immigration.
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Speaker 1: Well, upon what do people conclude that Amy acting is
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Speaker 1: better on healthcare. I mean, healthcare is probably more appropriately
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Speaker 1: looked at as a federal problem, an entire country level problem.
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Speaker 1: And what the hell can Amy Actin do to bring
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Speaker 1: down the cost of healthcare in the state of Ohio
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Speaker 1: by itself? And what specific credibility does she have or
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Speaker 1: theories or platform proposals does she have to bring that
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Speaker 1: about or is it just something that people make up
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Speaker 1: in their head because it's doctor Amy Actin.
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Speaker 2: I think that's it. The matter that's dumb. Yeah, it
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Speaker 2: is dumb. Let's wear a lab coat, Let's put a
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Speaker 2: doctor in front of our name.
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Speaker 1: Not gonna Fauci. Anybody remember doctor Fauci? Right, Yeah he delivered,
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Speaker 1: didn't we Uh huh?
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Speaker 2: Masks and get your boost a shot.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. By the way, I just pulled that whole cloth
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Speaker 1: out of my sphincter. Yeah, ten feet meant nothing. I
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Speaker 1: just randomly grab that number or six feet or whatever.
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Speaker 2: Uh uh. So you know, Amy's gonna talk a lot
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Speaker 2: about reducing health care costs for families and in education,
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Speaker 2: economy and jobs and anti corruption. I just for me,
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Speaker 2: I think as we get closer to the election, people
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Speaker 2: are going to remember Brian. I mean a couple of
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Speaker 2: things I can pull from the top of my head.
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Speaker 2: Remember she came out with the wrong curve altogether, that
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Speaker 2: University of Washington curve that showed everybody was going to die,
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Speaker 2: didn't matter if you were aged, didn't matter if you
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Speaker 2: were co morbid, and certainly overstated deaths for people who
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Speaker 2: were healthy and not at greater risk, and fear mongered
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Speaker 2: every day. If you remember, she used phrases like category
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Speaker 2: five hurricane and horrors and hell and shut down schools.
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Speaker 2: And I think the other thing that really pissed people
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Speaker 2: off she chose winners and losers among businesses, and the
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Speaker 2: choices were extremely arbitrary. Big box stores. You could go
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Speaker 2: get a jewelry piece of jewelry at a big box store,
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Speaker 2: but Jane and Jim's jewelry store in downtown Ashland was
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Speaker 2: closed because Amy Acting said so canceled a primary election.
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Speaker 2: And frankly, I think she really tried to mitigate things
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Speaker 2: with the wrecking ball instead of instead of a scalpel,
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Speaker 2: and we had it. And here's the lie that we
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Speaker 2: have to remember. People said, well, we didn't know later on,
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Speaker 2: or we didn't know early on what we knew later on,
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Speaker 2: bunk we knew when the numbers came out from overseas
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Speaker 2: that it was the aged and it was the people
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Speaker 2: with comorbiditness for the greatest risk. Yep, all right, well no,
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Speaker 2: so she she just operated with the wrecking ball, guilted
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Speaker 2: and shamed people, and she and Governor Dwine did a
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Speaker 2: hell of a job of creating two groups of people,
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Speaker 2: the maskers and the anti maskers, the vaxers and the
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Speaker 2: anti vaxers, and the press ran with that. And if
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Speaker 2: you were not on team Dwine and Acting, they shamed
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Speaker 2: you and acted like you were stupid. As it turns out,
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Speaker 2: the people who didn't believe, but Amy Acting believed were right.
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Speaker 2: So I think people will remember that as we get
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Speaker 2: closer to the election.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that'd be the vast majority of my listening audience.
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Speaker 1: So there you have it. I don't think they're going
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Speaker 1: to have short memories when it comes to Amy Act
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Speaker 1: and is she the one that came up with you
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Speaker 1: can stay in the bar, but you're not allowed to
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Speaker 1: drink after ten. That's been my favorite illustration of just
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Speaker 1: epic stupidity. On its face, it just sounds dumb.
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Speaker 2: Yes, because COVID comes out after ten. It's like a
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Speaker 2: bad guy just comes out after ten. No, but only if.
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Speaker 1: You're drinking jack, but only if you're drinking.
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Speaker 2: Only if you're drinking. And I'm a little bit on
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Speaker 2: the shorter side. My argument used to be, and people
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Speaker 2: would get mad because I always thought masks for a joke.
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Speaker 2: I talked to an industrial hygienis he told me masks
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Speaker 2: or a joke. I was short, and I would I
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Speaker 2: would just say if somebody approached me and say, hey,
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Speaker 2: I don't have to wear a mask, because me standing
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Speaker 2: up is like you sitting down, and when you sit
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Speaker 2: down you can take your mask off, so I don't
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Speaker 2: need a mask. I mean, the rules were arbitrary, they
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Speaker 2: were insane, and I think a lot of people as
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Speaker 2: it went on saw through it, and I think they're
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Speaker 2: gonna remember it well.
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Speaker 1: I'd like to think so. And of course, once the
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Speaker 1: advertising campaigns kick in and earnest this, of course will
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Speaker 1: be after the primary, you're gonna get Ramaswami's full on assault,
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Speaker 1: reminding everyone of that who have short memories, and of
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Speaker 1: course contrasting where she is and her actual ability to
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Speaker 1: do anything, like, gee, what do you think Amy Act
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Speaker 1: can actually do to bring down the cost of health care?
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Speaker 1: She's going to lay hands or something. And finally you
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Speaker 1: said in connection with education. I don't know where she is,
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Speaker 1: but I'm a huge fan of school choice, and I
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Speaker 1: think most of my listening audiences it's a great opportunity
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Speaker 1: for us to make our own choices. Who knows better
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Speaker 1: than a mom or dad or family members about the
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Speaker 1: best place for any child to be or at least
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Speaker 1: to have options when you know your public school options
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Speaker 1: sucks based upon test scores alone. Where is she relative
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Speaker 1: to the teachers' unions and her position on some sort
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Speaker 1: of choice for us.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, So I'm going to go back and I'm going
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Speaker 2: to punch on one topic and then flip forward to that.
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Speaker 2: We cannot forget Ohio was among the first states to
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Speaker 2: close all schools statewide. So if Amy Acton cared about schools,
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Speaker 2: she could have showed us that in twenty twenty excellent,
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Speaker 2: and they prolonged the remote hybrid learning, which contributed to
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Speaker 2: documented learning loss, mental health crisis among youth, and certainly
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Speaker 2: widened achievement gaps, particularly in poorer districts. So we can
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Speaker 2: never ever forget about that. So that's number one and
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Speaker 2: number two what Amy Acting believes in which is exactly
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Speaker 2: what teacher unions believe in. They want students locked into
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Speaker 2: a zip code or a district. And when you widen
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Speaker 2: learning gaps, when you create environments where students are not
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Speaker 2: able to uptake education the way that they can in
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Speaker 2: other schools, why do you want to lock them into
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Speaker 2: those districts? And that's the great thing about school choice.
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Speaker 2: Some students have particular supports that they need that certain
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Speaker 2: districts don't provide. As a parent, why would I not
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Speaker 2: want my kid to go to a school where he
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Speaker 2: or she can get the proper support. And why do
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Speaker 2: I want my kid locked into a zip code? And
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Speaker 2: I'm going to go here East Cleveland? Why would I
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Speaker 2: want my kid locked into a zip code at East
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Speaker 2: Cleveland or Columbus City schools? If they can go get
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Speaker 2: a better education somewhere else, why would you not be
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Speaker 2: in support of that.
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Speaker 1: Listen, We've got since any classical academy here, and they
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Speaker 1: got people wned up for a mile and a half
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Speaker 1: to try to get into that place. And they do
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Speaker 1: not have a jurisdictional limitation. You can come from miles
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Speaker 1: and miles away. If you can make that trip, work
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Speaker 1: things out with your neighbors, maybe ride share otherwise come
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Speaker 1: up with a transportation of comindations. You're in the best
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Speaker 1: possible hands and who wouldn't want that for their child?
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Speaker 1: So remember that, we'll fast forward real quick before part
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Speaker 1: of a company on that particular topic. We'll bring it
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Speaker 1: back to talk about what the hell is House Bill
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Speaker 1: three forty seven. I noticed viv Ramaswam he's been running
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Speaker 1: a lot of ads lately, television ads. Is this because
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Speaker 1: of the primary Is he concerned that this putsch guy's
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Speaker 1: got a chance? He had a melt down on my show,
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Speaker 1: and I've kind of not been a fan of the
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Speaker 1: guy since then. But I know I have been told
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Speaker 1: time and time again people in the know and people
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Speaker 1: heard direct comments to the effect that they're not voting
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Speaker 1: for Vva Ramaswami because brown Hindu man and weird name.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I am disgusted that anyone would come to
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Speaker 1: that conclusion because it sounds horrifically racist and glad we
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Speaker 1: don't live in a theocracy. And I know mister Ramaswami
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Speaker 1: can't make me worship any particular religion, But is that
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Speaker 1: a real factor, Jack Windsor from what you've been hearing.
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Speaker 2: Republicans are master marksman in the circular fire squad. I'll
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Speaker 2: keep it at that. And in a primary election, you're
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Speaker 2: going to find a chink in anyone's armor. And I
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Speaker 2: think Casey push appeals to certain people, and I'm going
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Speaker 2: to say certain people like the Joe Blistone audience, people
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Speaker 2: who want an outsider, people who want somebody who says, hey,
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Speaker 2: I'm not a politician, I'm an auto mechanic, or I'm
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Speaker 2: a farmer. Listen. I've had Casey on my show twice.
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Speaker 2: I've given him a fair opportunity. I think that he
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Speaker 2: really appeals to people who want somebody from the outside.
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Speaker 2: But I don't think I think he's quasimoto. I think
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Speaker 2: he's a guy who just says I want something done differently.
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Speaker 2: And outside of that, I've not seen him form a
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Speaker 2: very cohesive, strong foundation upon which he could run and
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Speaker 2: win a primary election.
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Speaker 1: Fair enough, we'll pause, bring Jack Windsor back to talk
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Speaker 1: about House Bill three forty seven. We'll also be talking
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Speaker 1: a little bit later about club Is trying to act
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Speaker 1: what is described on my sheet here as a side
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Speaker 1: hustle tax More with Jack Hey forty one, I vidabout
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Speaker 1: KERCD talk station. You can find Jack Winsor online if
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Speaker 1: you o high pressnetwork dot com reporting there, hell says
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Speaker 1: the Windsor Report, you can find the Windsor Report. He's
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Speaker 1: the host of that on Zoom. And he also is
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Speaker 1: following something we have to learn about Ohio House Bill
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Speaker 1: three forty seven. Jack, where is that?
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Speaker 2: Well?
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Speaker 1: First off, what is this about? And where is it
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Speaker 1: in process?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? I hope that I'm giving you the right one here.
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Speaker 2: This would be the bill that would require a twenty
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Speaker 2: four hour waiting period for abortions. Is that the right
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Speaker 2: one that we're talking about?
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Speaker 1: I do believe it is.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, perfect, perfect. So I put out a quick
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Speaker 2: survey I think that's always important for me the people
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Speaker 2: who follow me on social media, and the question was
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Speaker 2: do you support a twenty four hour waiting period for
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Speaker 2: an abortion? And eighty five point seven percent do, eight
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Speaker 2: point two percent don't, and then the rest are filtered
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Speaker 2: in between unsure and other. And so what this bill
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Speaker 2: does is it promotes It says that it promotes informed
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Speaker 2: consent and reflection. So if somebody wants an abortion, they
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Speaker 2: must wait twenty four hours. The idea is, according to
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Speaker 2: bill sponsors, this will reduce regret. Proponents claim the mandatory
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Speaker 2: pause allows individuals to think through long term implications, possibly
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Speaker 2: leading some to choose continuation of pregnancy or other options
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Speaker 2: after reflection. And they say that it aligns with other
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Speaker 2: medical procedures. So there are elective cosmetic surgeries, for example,
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Speaker 2: sterilization or certain cancer treatments that require you to wait
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Speaker 2: twenty four hours. And the important part I think too,
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Speaker 2: that they'll talk more about the proponents that is, is
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Speaker 2: that it protects against coercion and impulsivity. There are women, unfortunately,
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Speaker 2: who might be trafficked and they're under pressure, or there
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Speaker 2: are women who are in abusive relationships and the father
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Speaker 2: of the child says, look, you're going to get that abortion.
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Speaker 2: And the belief is this twenty four hour waiting period
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Speaker 2: might save some lives, and it might help women who
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Speaker 2: are being coerced or doing it impulsively from not doing it.
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Speaker 2: Those are the pro sides of the build and certainly
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Speaker 2: factors have a laundry list of things like it would
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Speaker 2: create unnecessary barriers for timely care, that it would disproportionately
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Speaker 2: impact vulnerable groups low income individuals, for example, that it
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Speaker 2: conflicts with Ohio's constitutional reproductive Rights Amendment. That's what the
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Speaker 2: ACLU is arguing, and that there's little evidence of medical
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Speaker 2: benefit and that increases cost and logistical challenges, saying, hey,
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Speaker 2: this mom might have to take off work, and so
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Speaker 2: she goes to one appointment, can't get the abortion, will
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Speaker 2: have to take off work again. It will be a
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Speaker 2: hotly contested and debated bill. But as I kind of
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Speaker 2: put my or finger in the air, it looks like
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Speaker 2: there's a lot of support for a twenty four hour
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Speaker 2: waiting period as it sits right.
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Speaker 1: Now, Okay, the twenty four hour waiting period is to
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Speaker 1: prevent women from making hasty decisions that will result in
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Speaker 1: perhaps regret over terminating a life. Right fair enough, aren't
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Speaker 1: the left wingers who are all about abortion and abortion
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Speaker 1: on demand and abortion at like eight and a half
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Speaker 1: point nine months or whatever pregnancy. They're probably the same
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Speaker 1: folks that would demand a weight period for the purchase
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Speaker 1: of firearms, because quite often people will hurry up and
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Speaker 1: run out and get a firearm because they want to
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Speaker 1: kill themselves. So we can prevent a suicide from happening
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Speaker 1: or maybe a murder by preventing someone from requiring a handgun.
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Speaker 1: A'spite to the Second Amendment. On the day they want
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Speaker 1: to buy one, you have to wait. There's a cooling
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Speaker 1: off period. That's for the purpose of saving lives, right Jack.
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Speaker 2: It is. And I'm glad you're going down this road
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Speaker 2: because this is a topic that I get passionate about.
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Speaker 2: I'm a firm believer in pro life, and I don't
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Speaker 2: think the thing that gets talked about as much as
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Speaker 2: it should is getting talked about here, and that is
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Speaker 2: the mental health impact on women of killing a child
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Speaker 2: in her fetus. That is a significant issue, and it
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Speaker 2: is a weighty issue, and it's an issue that I've
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Speaker 2: talked to women who have aboarded children who come back
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Speaker 2: and say, you know, I really underestimated how this would
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Speaker 2: impact me later on in life. That's number one. And
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Speaker 2: here's the other irony, Brian, if we're going to just
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Speaker 2: talk very candidly about it, the same group of people
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Speaker 2: who call a pregnancy a clump of cells are now
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Speaker 2: up in arms because we want to wait twenty four
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Speaker 2: hours to eliminate a clump of sales. Why is that?
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Speaker 2: Because they know it's not a clump of sales, they
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Speaker 2: know it's a human life.
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Speaker 1: Good point in for whatever reason, the a gender transition surgery.
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Speaker 1: Immediately popped into mind about people living with regret for
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Speaker 1: making that knee jerk reaction at the behest of some
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Speaker 1: crazy doctors out there. Let's pause. We'll bring back on
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Speaker 1: that final editorial comment, Jack Windsor to talk about the
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Speaker 1: side hustle tax more with the Ohio Press Networks Jack
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Speaker 1: Windsor after these brief words, fifty five KRC Thanks to you.
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Speaker 2: You're a seed the talk station.
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Speaker 1: A fifty if you I have KRCD talk station. Very
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Speaker 1: Happy Friday, first day of spring. I'm enjoying my conversation
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Speaker 1: as I always do every Friday for a few segments
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Speaker 1: with Jack Windsor, editor in chief the Oio Press Network
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Speaker 1: online at the Ohio Pressnetwork dot com. Also check them
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Speaker 1: out on zoom for the Windsor report keeping tabs on
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Speaker 1: what's going on in the state of Ohio, including what
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Speaker 1: is the side hustle tax, Jack Windsor, did you call
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Speaker 1: it that or they actually saying it out loud?
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Speaker 2: I think they're saying it out loud. I actually had
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Speaker 2: the co sponsor of the bill on my show yesterday
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Speaker 2: and my producer said, is this the side hustle tax?
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Speaker 2: So I think that's what they're calling it, rightfully. So
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Speaker 2: it's Ohio house built one sixty one. And what it
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Speaker 2: would do is it would add a sales and lodging
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Speaker 2: occupancy tax to people who put their homes on Airbnb
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Speaker 2: or vrbo. Those are the apps, by the way, that
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Speaker 2: allow you to use your home or your property for
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Speaker 2: what are known as short term rentals. And so what
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Speaker 2: it is, in my opinion out of the gate is
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Speaker 2: it's a cash grab by the state government trying to
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Speaker 2: give municipalities, local governments the authority to grab some more
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Speaker 2: money in the name of sales and lodging occupancy taxes.
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Speaker 2: But my initial heartburn on it, Brian was who's going
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Speaker 2: to pay the tax, how much is the tax going
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Speaker 2: to cost, and what is the unintended consequence of the tax.
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Speaker 2: So State Representative Adam Bird came on my show through
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Speaker 2: it a little bit. I've got some of the details.
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Speaker 2: If you want me to.
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Speaker 1: Unpack them, I do because I'm glad you I might.
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Speaker 1: The first thing I wrote downhen you mentioned it, I said,
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Speaker 1: interference with property rights. Now, I am not a huge
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Speaker 1: fan of Airbnb rentals. I sure as hell don't want
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Speaker 1: mine one next door to me with all the you know,
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Speaker 1: the different people coming in and out, and there's certain
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Speaker 1: restrictions that can be put in place there, homeowners restrictions
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Speaker 1: and homeowners but you know, maybe you get a vote
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Speaker 1: on that, maybe you can have an argument with your
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Speaker 1: homeowners association about whether you want one of these things
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Speaker 1: in place. But I don't like the rentals, but I
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Speaker 1: do believe in the rights of property owners to do
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Speaker 1: with their property what they want. So what is I
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Speaker 1: guess break it down for us? I guess I'm curious
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Speaker 1: to know what's the proposed tax, what's the percentage of
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Speaker 1: the rental fee or obviously I think the renter is
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Speaker 1: going to be paying it like hotel taxes.
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Speaker 2: But where are we That was my hope, that was
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Speaker 2: my guest. When I asked Bird yesterday what the range was,
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Speaker 2: he said he didn't have the numbers in front of him,
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Speaker 2: so I went and looked at places like Florida and Tennessee,
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Speaker 2: which are two states that he mentioned, so I would
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Speaker 2: get us we're probably going to be between ten to
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Speaker 2: fifteen percent, and that tax would be paid by the consumer.
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Speaker 2: So if I you know, if you had an airbnb
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Speaker 2: Brian and I paid you for your Airbnb, I would
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Speaker 2: pay that tax, and so that helps from because I'm
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Speaker 2: looking at it as you are as a property owner.
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Speaker 2: If I want to use my home for an airbnb,
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Speaker 2: I'm first I'm going to be responsible because that's who
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Speaker 2: I am. And two, I don't want to pay the
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Speaker 2: damn tax. And so the party that pays the tax
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Speaker 2: would be the consumer. And the way that Bird pitched
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Speaker 2: it is, Look, these are the tourists, these are the
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Speaker 2: people who are coming in. I get it in New
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Speaker 2: Richmond where he is, He's down there on the river.
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Speaker 2: He says, this is an opportunity for us to bring
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Speaker 2: in some revenue because we don't have hotels, motels, that
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Speaker 2: kind of thing in large number. Okay, I get that.
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Speaker 2: Here's my concern. What does this doe to Airbnb and
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Speaker 2: vrbo and most importantly, what does this do to a homeowner?
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Speaker 2: Because I know a lot of people who have homes
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Speaker 2: and they use those homes accasionally, not all the time. Right,
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Speaker 2: here's the bad here's the bad news. There is a
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Speaker 2: high price elasticity for demand. So every one percent effective
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Speaker 2: price increase in tax leads to two dollars or to
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Speaker 2: a two percent to two point sixty five percent in
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Speaker 2: fewer bookings. So in Boston in twenty twenty, they looked
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Speaker 2: at this type of tax and it caused about a
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Speaker 2: fourteen point nine to five percent and see tax at
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Speaker 2: twenty five percent drop. Yep, that's exactly right. Well, Chicago's
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Speaker 2: same thing.
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Speaker 1: Is maybe that's the intended goal. They want to make
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Speaker 1: it a new since so fewer people rent airbnbs. I mean,
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Speaker 1: we'd be honest, because let's face it, uh, last time
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Speaker 1: I checked, the airbnb rental fee that the owner is
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Speaker 1: charging is going to be income reportable income, which means
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Speaker 1: it's going to be taxed under the income tax bracket
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Speaker 1: of the owners. So they're still going to get taxes
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Speaker 1: out of it.
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Speaker 2: Right, that's exactly right. There's income tax, there's property tax.
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Speaker 2: And the people who are gonna lose. The people who
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Speaker 2: are gonna lose here are the casual individual hosts. People
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Speaker 2: who are doing this professionally and have multi properties. They're
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Speaker 2: not going to be hurt as much. It's going to
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Speaker 2: be the smaller mom and pops who have, like I said,
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Speaker 2: that one home and they're doing this is maybe make
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Speaker 2: a few extra hundred dollars a month. Those are the
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Speaker 2: people who are going to lose the most on this, Brian.
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Speaker 1: All right, So is this a foregone conclusion or is
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Speaker 1: it still in the discussion phase. It's still in the
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Speaker 1: discussion phase. And I'm a hard no. I'm a hard
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Speaker 1: no on this. You convinced me of that already, Jack
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Speaker 1: Winsor God bless you. The how press Networks where you
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Speaker 1: find them online, a high Pressnetwork dot com and again
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Speaker 1: on Zoom the Windsor Report. Jack, I'm looking forward to
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Speaker 1: Friday already.
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Speaker 2: Next week