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ISSUE 1 AND STUFF - GUEST OH State Treasurer Robert Sprague · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: We are at six minutes past six o'clock. Greeting salutations.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of the Power Hour. I'm Chut Douglas.
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  Speaker 1: You allegedly know who you are. We take it from there.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to get one hour together, which means I
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  Speaker 1: talk really fast. You must listen even faster, especially now
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  Speaker 1: with the election coming up. As as I've been saying,
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  Speaker 1: if you can early vote, if you can get to
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  Speaker 1: the early voting center, do so. The hours for early
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  Speaker 1: voting extended today, They're open more hours. You also have
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  Speaker 1: weekend hours Saturdays and Sundays. I believe you can vote now,
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  Speaker 1: do it. Do it just in case, somehow, some way
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  Speaker 1: a hurricane manages to hit Franklin County, Ohio. I'm counting
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  Speaker 1: on nothing this year. COVID twenty seven. Who knows if
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  Speaker 1: you can early vote, early vote Conservatives, the right, the
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  Speaker 1: Republican that you've been beaten over the head with the
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  Speaker 1: early voting stick for years, start swinging it back. Or
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  Speaker 1: maybe that's just me. One of the things you will
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  Speaker 1: be voting on this year. By the way, I put
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  Speaker 1: the campaign signs in the yard this past week on
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  Speaker 1: I think it was Thursday night, and because nobody in
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  Speaker 1: my neighborhood had them except the lefties. There's the hair
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  Speaker 1: signs are out, the vote yes on one signs are out,
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  Speaker 1: the whoever is running for offices stuff is out. All
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  Speaker 1: the Conservatives just they wanted to get along with their neighbors.
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  Speaker 1: So of course I have to be the first, right,
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  Speaker 1: So I put my signs out this weekend. The guy
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  Speaker 1: down the street goes by, he's got the Trump twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty four all over his windows on his car. Had
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  Speaker 1: a guy stop this morning andaid, hey, where'd you get
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  Speaker 1: the signs? I need to get my signs. They're coming
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  Speaker 1: out of the woodwork. We got what seventeen days left?
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  Speaker 1: Is that what it is? Act seventeen or eighteen days
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  Speaker 1: till election day?
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  Speaker 2: Over two weeks seventeen days.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to start seeing more people, I think, being
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  Speaker 1: more prominent with their positions, but they, unfortunately will be
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  Speaker 1: overcome with confusion about some things too, including State Issue one,
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  Speaker 1: which is to allegedly make more fair the boundary process
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  Speaker 1: that decides our congressional districts. I have two problems with this.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, a zero accountability, which is never a
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  Speaker 1: good thing, And secondly, I don't like anything that alters
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  Speaker 1: our state constitution. I just that's forever, man, that's forever.
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  Speaker 1: This isn't a matter of passing legislation. This is a
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  Speaker 1: matter of altering the constitution. And quite frankly, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think there's been nearly enough discussion, and people aren't nearly
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  Speaker 1: as educated as they need to be to do something
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  Speaker 1: like that. You see how you boxed yourself in when
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  Speaker 1: it came to where gambling was going to happen. Right now,
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  Speaker 1: it's all over the place, but it's limited by the
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  Speaker 1: state constitution. Who can do it and where they can
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  Speaker 1: do it. Issue one same thing, and it will affect
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  Speaker 1: you in a much larger way, including the amount of
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  Speaker 1: representation you have in Washington, DC locally from our state house.
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  Speaker 1: State Senator Andrew Brinner on standby right now to hopefully,
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  Speaker 1: you know, clarify and and talk baby talk to me
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  Speaker 1: maybe to kind of get this put it out there
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  Speaker 1: in the plainest, simplest possible terms. Andrew, thanks for the
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  Speaker 1: time man tonight. I appreciate you well.
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  Speaker 2: Nice Chuck. I'm glad I could be on. Hopefully you
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  Speaker 2: can hear me. I'm at a Republican event this evening
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  Speaker 2: up here in the Mount Vernon for Mark Heiner for
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  Speaker 2: state Reps.
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  Speaker 1: So good turnout. You got a good turnout of people
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  Speaker 1: up there.
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  Speaker 2: They got a good turnout. I have a bunch of
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  Speaker 2: good people up here. Lieutenant Governor's up here. Even the
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  Speaker 2: Senate President, the future Speaker of the Ohio House, Matt Huffman, is.
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  Speaker 1: Up here excellently. If anybody from the audience, if anybody
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  Speaker 1: in the audience yells Jesus is Lord, the appropriate response
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  Speaker 1: is not, You're in the wrong.
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  Speaker 2: Rally, and s amen is what it is. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that was the dumbest comment I've heard her say. But
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  Speaker 2: no State Issue one. To simplify it. If you want
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  Speaker 2: a California Ohio pass and vote for State Issue one,
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  Speaker 2: if you want to protect the Second Amendment, if you
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  Speaker 2: want to protect school choice, if you want lower taxes
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  Speaker 2: and fewer government regulations, then your only option is to
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  Speaker 2: vote no on State Issue one. And it's not a
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  Speaker 2: question of if this entire and I've got the twenty
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  Speaker 2: six pages of constitutional amendment. Our Bill of rights is
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  Speaker 2: only a couple pages this one constitutional amendment, not the summary.
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  Speaker 2: The full amendment is twenty six pages actually, and about
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  Speaker 2: an eighth of a page So for those that are
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  Speaker 2: out there on the left, they're saying I'm lying about
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  Speaker 2: the number of pages or something.
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  Speaker 1: Misleads audience on number of pages.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, but I mean it's very simple. This
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  Speaker 2: amendment is bad. It will eliminate what we just did
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  Speaker 2: six years ago that the left wanted. They wanted us
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  Speaker 2: to hold intact cities, municipalities, they wanted us to hold
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  Speaker 2: intact counties, try to do as few of cuts as
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  Speaker 2: possible to townships. This amendment throws all that out because
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  Speaker 2: guess what we did exactly what they said they wanted
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  Speaker 2: that It was overwhelmingly passed six years ago by bipartisan support.
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  Speaker 2: I supported it. This version is going to require jerrymandering.
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  Speaker 2: It is going to override the district boundaries specifically so
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  Speaker 2: that they can make them proportional to the number of
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  Speaker 2: people and the way they vote in the state of Ohio,
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  Speaker 2: whether they're Republican or Democrat. And so what you'll see
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  Speaker 2: is you'll see a hub and spoke system. You will
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  Speaker 2: see districts coming out of Franklin County, Cuyahoga County. They'll
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  Speaker 2: sprawl into suburban areas, rural areas in order to hit
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  Speaker 2: the proportionality number, which is what the Constitutional Amendment proposal says.
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  Speaker 2: So if you want to make sure that the Ohio
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  Speaker 2: House of Representatives in the Ohio Senate becomes Democrat, then okay,
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  Speaker 2: go ahead and vote for State Issue one. If you
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  Speaker 2: want to continue to reduce taxes, if you want to
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  Speaker 2: continue to reform Ohio and bring businesses like Intel in,
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  Speaker 2: then you have to vote no. It's just that simple,
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  Speaker 2: you know, And I would encourage everybody. I mean, this
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  Speaker 2: is just twenty six pages of I mean, this is
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  Speaker 2: legislation being put into the constitution because the far left,
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  Speaker 2: the people like George Soros and company, and all this
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  Speaker 2: out of state money. I mean, you have less than
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  Speaker 2: one percent of the donations that were most recently reported
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  Speaker 2: I think that was to the end of July, came
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  Speaker 2: from individuals. The rest of it came from big leftist
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  Speaker 2: organizations who are specifically doing this to take over our
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  Speaker 2: state government because they know that they've not been they
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  Speaker 2: have not wanted the ballot box. They put their progressive
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  Speaker 2: candidates up and they lose to our candidates. They lose
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  Speaker 2: to our modern candidates. We've got great candidates like Stephanie Coinsey.
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  Speaker 2: She's a moderate Republican, but she's reasonable and does a
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  Speaker 2: really good job representing her constituents. They want to throw
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  Speaker 2: her out and put in a far leftist so that
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  Speaker 2: they can push their basically socialist agenda. They want to
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  Speaker 2: aoc Ohio about night what they're.
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  Speaker 1: Doing about ninety eight percent of the or ninety eight
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  Speaker 1: point four percent or something like that, of the funding
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  Speaker 1: behind the effort is from outside of the state of Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't think that is being pushed to the
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  Speaker 1: people who are proud buck eyes, proud citizens of the
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  Speaker 1: great state of Ohio. I don't think that's being pushed.
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  Speaker 1: Tarted up. Man, When ninety eight point four percent of
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  Speaker 1: the money to change your mind is coming from someplace
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  Speaker 1: other than within your state, that should be a giant
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  Speaker 1: red flag.
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  Speaker 2: And that's exactly what happened to Michigan, and the Michigan
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  Speaker 2: General Assembly has flipped from Republican to Democrat. And the
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  Speaker 2: only reason that happened is because they passed essentially the
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  Speaker 2: same thing up there, you know, the Citizens Committee. These
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  Speaker 2: people are not going to even be qualified. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: what this does is it says if you've run for
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  Speaker 2: office at the state, federal, or local level, so if
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  Speaker 2: you've run for a local school board and lost anytime
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  Speaker 2: in the last six years, you cannot serve on their
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  Speaker 2: commission because you're apparently overqualified or you would be too biased.
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  Speaker 2: So what they want to do is they want to
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  Speaker 2: put in essentially initially fifteen people, five Republicans, five Independents,
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  Speaker 2: and five Democrats to create this one hundred and forty
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  Speaker 2: percent and commission, who will then turn around and draw maps.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to get a bunch of people who aren't
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  Speaker 2: experts in anything, are then going to have to rely
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  Speaker 2: on what they think are experts. And they'll have an
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  Speaker 2: unlimited budget because the constitutional amendment says, guess what they
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  Speaker 2: get whatever they want to spend, So they will go
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  Speaker 2: They will hire probably college professors because those are the
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  Speaker 2: ones who usually go to the reapportionment board meetings, and
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  Speaker 2: those people will be the ones drawing the maps. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, darn well, and if you saw the posts
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  Speaker 2: that just went out the other day, almost all the
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  Speaker 2: college professors vote to the far left on almost every
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  Speaker 2: major thing, including political science. And those will be the
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  Speaker 2: people drawing the maps. You know darn well. They will
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  Speaker 2: not be fair. They will be designed specifically to put
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  Speaker 2: more Democrats into the State House. And that's what this
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  Speaker 2: is about.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that there is a way, by the
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  Speaker 1: way the state Senator Andrew Brinner joining me right now,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that there is a way to do
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  Speaker 1: this in a way that everyone of all political ILKs
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  Speaker 1: feels is fair. You just can't unless you get all
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  Speaker 1: Democrats to live in one section of the state and
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  Speaker 1: all Republicans to live in another section of the state.
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  Speaker 1: It's very difficult to try to draw lines that don't
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  Speaker 1: look like a messed up Jakesaw puzzle and make everybody happy.
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  Speaker 1: And it's you know, typically the party in power at
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  Speaker 1: the time draws lines that benefit them. The Republicans do it,
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  Speaker 1: the Democrats have done it. That's kind of part of
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  Speaker 1: the machinery that we call politics.
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  Speaker 2: Yep. And here's the other thing. If you think people
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  Speaker 2: asking you for money for your campaign and the one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and fifty text messages you're getting a day right
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  Speaker 2: now asking you for money, I'll give a dollar to
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  Speaker 2: this or that is going to be reduced, it's not.
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  Speaker 2: Because what will happen is these seats will be so
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  Speaker 2: much closer that we're going to have to spend boatloads
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  Speaker 2: more money than we're spending right now to win any
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  Speaker 2: of these seats, and that is going to drive up
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  Speaker 2: the cost of running for office, and it's going to
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  Speaker 2: cause more special interests to get involved because they'll be
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  Speaker 2: the only ones that will be able to fund it.
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  Speaker 2: And so you're going to see more you know, third
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  Speaker 2: party packs and organizations like you know back by George
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  Speaker 2: Soros at all get involved. They'll be coming from out
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  Speaker 2: of state in order to try to control our General Assembly.
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  Speaker 2: And that's exactly what's going to happen. So I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to tell you if your listeners aren't scared now, they
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  Speaker 2: should be because if they think that their taxes and
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  Speaker 2: their property taxes are too high now, and I believe
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  Speaker 2: they are, they're not going to go down under a
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  Speaker 2: change in this because all this can do is move
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  Speaker 2: us to the far left. And I just I will
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  Speaker 2: tell you this does not have any bipartisan support. This
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  Speaker 2: is totally a partisan effort. I mean, when you've got
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  Speaker 2: the League of Women Voters and every progressive organization out
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  Speaker 2: there backing it and no conservative organizations are backing it,
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  Speaker 2: that should tell you something. And I think that you know,
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  Speaker 2: six years ago we had why bipartisan support. I even
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  Speaker 2: supported it because I felt that the district that I
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  Speaker 2: represented and I currently represent the nineteenth Senate was gerrymandered
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  Speaker 2: in a way that was I mean, it didn't hold
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  Speaker 2: communities intact. I mean I was representing it at the
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  Speaker 2: time in Franklin County all over the place, and it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't fair to the constituents because they didn't get somebody
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  Speaker 2: that would represent their values. And that's the other thing.
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  Speaker 2: The way this is designed, everybody will be upset at
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  Speaker 2: their state representative. You won't get a state representative that
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  Speaker 2: will be supporting your position. So I'm up here in
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  Speaker 2: Mount Vernon. The city of Mount Vernon is a little
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  Speaker 2: more liberal than the rest of the county, but this
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  Speaker 2: is a red county. Imagine that this county potentially is
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  Speaker 2: then represented by a Democrat. None of the constituents are
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  Speaker 2: going to like it. But even worse, the people in
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  Speaker 2: Clintonville are going to get potentially somebody that's more watered
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  Speaker 2: down too and will be less inclined to support their issues.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, the voter is better be careful for
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  Speaker 2: what they wish for because they might get it. But
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  Speaker 2: in this case, if you're a Republican. I would definitely
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  Speaker 2: strongly encourage you to vote now. If you're an independent
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  Speaker 2: and you think you want to see Ohio succeed, continue
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  Speaker 2: to grow, bring in businesses and jobs, then you should
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  Speaker 2: also be voting now.
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  Speaker 1: That shouldn't shouldn't take a whole lot for people to
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  Speaker 1: figure this out. But I appreciate you giving me some
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  Speaker 1: time to, I guess just kind of reiterate what I
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  Speaker 1: consider to be the obvious. It's a bad idea, The
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  Speaker 1: concept is bad. The way that it's set up is bad,
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  Speaker 1: and once it becomes part of our constitution, it is
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  Speaker 1: what it is. Sit down and shut up. Vote No.
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  Speaker 1: You want to talk about legislation down the line, fine,
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  Speaker 1: but this is not the way to do it. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad to know I'm not alone. Andrew BRINNERD, thank
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  Speaker 1: you very much.
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  Speaker 2: Go back.
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  Speaker 1: Are you having the rubber chicken? Are you going with
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  Speaker 1: the fish tonight?
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  Speaker 2: By the way, I don't know. I think they've got
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  Speaker 2: probably just our DRBs. Oh man, if we're getting close,
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  Speaker 2: we're getting close to we're getting close to Halloween, so
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  Speaker 2: they've got some Halloween candy out here, so I'll have
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  Speaker 2: some of that.
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  Speaker 1: We'll have the Halloween. Case'll let me energize everybody I said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll talk again. I'm sure here real soon as
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  Speaker 1: election time approaches.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I appreciate it. Thank you very much for having
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  Speaker 2: me on check.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for being there. I appreciate you at six
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  Speaker 1: twenty now, which means traffic and weather together