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The Ron Verb Show - Full Broadcast from Thursday, 08/13/26 · Ron Verb

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Speaker 1: President Trump is slamming Michigan's Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate.
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Speaker 1: In a speech in Las Vegas Wednesday, Trump claimed Abdul
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Speaker 1: El-Sayed hates Jewish people and hates Israel.
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Speaker 2: Abdul El-Sayed, lovely gentleman, is a man of hate. And
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Speaker 2: now he's going around saying, no, I love everybody.
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Speaker 3: He doesn't love everybody.
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Speaker 1: He went on to predict that El-Sayed will lose the
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Speaker 1: in Tuesday's closely watched contest. In the midterms, El-Sayed will
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Speaker 1: face Republican Mike Rogers, who has Trump's backing. Primary contests
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Speaker 1: are being held in Tennessee on Thursday. The main event
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Speaker 1: is the Republican primary for governor, where Senator Marsha Blackburn,
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Speaker 1: Congressman John Rose, and State Representative Monty Fritz are running
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Speaker 1: to replace term-limited Republican Governor Bill Lee. And Acting Attorney
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Speaker 2: It's great to catch up, Jamie. How's business?
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Speaker 8: Good.
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Speaker 10: Sort of.
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Speaker 2: What's it about?
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Speaker 9: It's a new initiative to help fight crimes like money laundering, fraud,
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Speaker 11: Does that include my cafe?
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to Comerica Park in Detroit.
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Speaker 6: Jim Rosenhouse along with you on Guardian's wrap-up following a
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Speaker 6: 3-0 loss Detroit victory today over the Guardians, and the
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Speaker 6: Tigers would get the only run.
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Speaker 10: They would need in this one in the third inning.
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Speaker 6: They loaded the bases with nobody out against Parker Messick.
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Speaker 6: Dylan Dingler grounded out to the third baseman with a
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Speaker 6: run scoring on the play, and that was it. Messick
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Speaker 6: struck out the next two to keep damage to a minimum,
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Speaker 6: but the Guardians couldn't get anything going offensively against Cater Montero.
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Speaker 6: And in the sixth inning, Eduardo Valencia... The designated hitter
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Speaker 6: up from Toledo not too long ago. He hammered his
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Speaker 6: fifth home run of the year into the stands and left.
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Speaker 6: And that made it a 2-0 Tiger lead. And Detroit
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Speaker 6: added one more insurance run in the eighth inning. This
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Speaker 6: time Spencer Torkelson with an RBI single to make it 3-0.
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Speaker 6: And that was the final score. Tigers, three runs, six hits,
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Speaker 6: one error. Seven men left on base. For the Guardians,
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Speaker 6: no runs, four base hits, one error. And Cleveland stranded
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Speaker 6: five base runners. The winning pitcher, Cater Montero, now 9-7.
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Speaker 6: Kenley Jansen with save number 15. Parker Messick takes the loss,
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Speaker 6: falling to 9-7. Time of the game, 2 hours, 24 minutes.
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Speaker 6: The Guardians shut out today by the Tigers 3-0 as
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Speaker 6: Detroit takes two out of three in this key AL
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Speaker 6: Central showdown here in the Motor City. Let's head downstairs
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Speaker 6: and hear the postgame comments of manager Steven Vogt.
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Speaker 18: Great.
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Speaker 19: I thought Parker pitched excellent, did his job, kept us
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Speaker 19: in the game for six-ish innings. Obviously, we just couldn't
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Speaker 19: get anything going versus Montero.
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Speaker 7: He was pretty good today.
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Speaker 19: Did the toy tell you anything about that hit my
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Speaker 19: pitcher by where that ball hit? No, it was one
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Speaker 19: of those things that that play rarely gets overturned.
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Speaker 20: And so it was.
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Speaker 2: My fault.
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Speaker 19: I didn't get my hand up to look, but at
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Speaker 19: the same time, that play rarely gets overturned.
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Speaker 21: But again, it happened.
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Speaker 2: What is it that stood out to you?
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Speaker 19: He didn't strike anybody out, but he was able to
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Speaker 19: keep guys off the..
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Speaker 2: Really good mix.
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Speaker 19: Really didn't get into any patterns. He had a really
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Speaker 19: good slider today. He was landing the curveball, good changeup,
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Speaker 19: and it seemed like he didn't throw the fastball over
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Speaker 19: the heart of the plate.
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Speaker 2: He pitched excellent.
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Speaker 19: I actually thought we hit some balls hard. I thought
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Speaker 19: we got some things going, but weren't able to really
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Speaker 19: get much going in any particular inning.
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Speaker 2: He threw a really good game.
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Speaker 19: Did you get an explanation on the Joe.
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Speaker 22: Adele play in first base?
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Speaker 7: No.
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Speaker 19: It kind of looked like from the replay when I
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Speaker 19: saw Torvison's left foot, I said right away at the time,
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Speaker 19: I think this is going to stand.
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Speaker 2: It's tough.
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Speaker 19: It's got to be clear and conclusive, so whatever the
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Speaker 19: call was on the field was probably going to stand there.
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Speaker 19: Talking about Jose hitting balls hard, I know it's out.
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Speaker 19: That last step bat, that foul ball, hitting that ball right,
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Speaker 19: does that make.
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Speaker 2: You feel like you're getting there?
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Speaker 19: You know, again, Jose's giving us everything he has every day, and,
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Speaker 19: you know, we just appreciate him going for it.
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Speaker 2: And, you know, he gives us everything he's got.
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Speaker 19: And, again, if one or two of these balls falls,
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Speaker 19: no one's talking about it. And I feel like his
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Speaker 19: at-bats have been good. He's just missing some balls, but
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Speaker 19: that happens to any hitter.
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Speaker 7: Uh but um you know i thought.
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Speaker 19: For the most part it was really good to see
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Speaker 19: him turn on those two balls in his.
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Speaker 20: Last event our guys are showing up ready to win
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Speaker 20: every day and that's all we can do keep our
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Speaker 20: heads down keep working and show up ready to win
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Speaker 20: the winds are going.
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Speaker 19: To come uh we just we just have to stay
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Speaker 19: positive we can't allow any outside negativity to get into
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Speaker 19: our heads so for us it's uh stay positive, keep working,
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Speaker 19: and win games.
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Speaker 6: Well, with the loss today, the Guardians find themselves now
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Speaker 6: 59-63 on the season. They're a game and a half
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Speaker 6: back of the Tigers, who came into play three and
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Speaker 6: a half behind the White Sox, who are trailing their
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Speaker 6: game late in Chicago to the Reds by that score
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Speaker 6: of 9-5. Detroit now 60-61 on the season. Next up
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Speaker 6: for the Guardians, back home at Progressive Field tomorrow night.
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Speaker 6: They will take on the San Diego Padres with a
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Speaker 6: 7-10 first pitch. We'll have it for you starting with
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Speaker 6: the warm-up show at 6.35. I want to thank Al Rosenberg,
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Speaker 6: our on-site engineer here in Detroit. Also Brian Motze back
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Speaker 6: at Command Center. For Tom Hamilton, This is Jim Rosenhouse
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Speaker 6: reminding you the final score from Comerica Park in Detroit,
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Speaker 6: the Tigers 3, the Guardians nothing.
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Speaker 2: Beatrice Kopp from 5 to 6 tonight. And after that,
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Speaker 2: be talking with State Rep. Dave Thomas. He'll be calling
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Speaker 2: into the program and seeing what's going on as far
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Speaker 2: as the state is concerned with any number of issues
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Speaker 2: when it comes to electricity and more. That should be
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Speaker 2: coming up as well. So Dave Thomas will be joining us,
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Speaker 2: the hardest working state rep around. David, are you there?
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Speaker 23: Hey, Ron, how are you? I am well.
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Speaker 2: And Dave Thomas is calling us from?
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Speaker 23: The Ashtabula County Fair.
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Speaker 2: All right. Enjoying a bucket of fries, I take it?
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Speaker 23: Yeah, fries, gyros, had a stromboli, milkshakes tonight. So it's
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Speaker 23: been a good day.
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Speaker 7: All right.
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Speaker 2: You can't have a bad day when you're at a
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Speaker 2: county fair, can you? Oh, no.
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Speaker 23: No, especially our Republican booth is right along the midway,
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Speaker 23: and folks are stopping by. We're having lots of conversations.
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Speaker 23: It's been really nice.
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Speaker 2: All right, let's talk about what's going on as far
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Speaker 2: as the state is concerned these days and what some
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Speaker 2: of the latest developments are that people should know about
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Speaker 2: when it comes to property taxes, when it comes to electricity,
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Speaker 2: when it comes to our life and making it better, David.
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Speaker 23: There's a lot going on. We're on recess, so the
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Speaker 23: legislature itself isn't actually meeting or voting, but there's still
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Speaker 23: kind of a lot happening. A lot of the stuff
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Speaker 23: that we did is now kind of coming into effect.
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Speaker 23: So I know, for example, like in Trumbull and Mahoning,
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Speaker 23: those second-half tax bills are delayed. Folks will still get
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Speaker 23: them at some point. I always joke with people, though,
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Speaker 23: you should never be upset when your tax bill gets
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Speaker 23: delayed because that means that you can actually keep your
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Speaker 23: money longer. That's a good thing.
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Speaker 2: All right. Why are they delayed?
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Speaker 23: They're delayed because of our House Bill 186. that second
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Speaker 23: half decrease, a vast majority of your listeners will see
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Speaker 23: a decrease on their tax bill for the second half.
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Speaker 23: We did it midway through the year, which we knew
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Speaker 23: would be a little bit difficult to do. It's a
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Speaker 23: lot of different numbers. It's a lot of calculations. So
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Speaker 23: a lot of counties did have delays and Tremble and
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Speaker 23: Mahoning are one of them. But this just means that
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Speaker 23: a majority will actually see cuts and decreases. We're actually
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Speaker 23: getting folks coming up to the booth saying, you know,
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Speaker 23: thank you, or just asking a little more about why
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Speaker 23: their bill was lower.
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Speaker 2: And now explain to our listeners why it would be lower,
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Speaker 2: what they've got to refigure. What's going on?
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Speaker 23: So this is the difference between what you've been paying
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Speaker 23: to your school versus an inflationary cap that's now put
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Speaker 23: in place. So, you know, folks are also seeing new
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Speaker 23: values coming out. And in the last revaluation, you may
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Speaker 23: have seen a 30%, a 35% increase in your tax bill,
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Speaker 23: but most of that going to your public school. We've
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Speaker 23: now capped that increase to your public school to inflation.
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Speaker 23: And the difference between what you were paying, maybe a 35% increase,
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Speaker 23: versus inflation over the last three years being an 8% increase,
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Speaker 23: that difference is what your second half bill will actually
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Speaker 23: be decreasing by. So, for example, my second half bill
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Speaker 23: was cut by 13%. That was the difference for me.
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Speaker 23: Some folks, we've seen bills lowered as much as almost $ 900. 00.
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Speaker 23: And we've seen some bills only lower maybe $ 50 to $ 100.
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Speaker 23: It kind of depends on how much you increase, what
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Speaker 23: your value is, how much you pay. But most Ohioans
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Speaker 23: are actually going to see, especially Mahoning and Trumbull, cuts
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Speaker 23: in their second half.
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Speaker 2: And this is all because of tying the property re-evaluation
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Speaker 2: increases to the rate of inflation, not this 25% number.
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Speaker 23: Yes, the values will still go. Values will be whatever
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Speaker 23: the market is. So your value will still go up
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Speaker 23: maybe 25, 30%. But what we've done is separate out
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Speaker 23: your value increase and your tax increase. So your tax side,
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Speaker 23: that's cap to inflation. It's the value piece that can
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Speaker 23: still move with the real estate market, but no longer
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Speaker 23: just because your value went up by 35%, will your
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Speaker 23: bill go up by that much or close to it either.
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Speaker 23: We wanted to actually start cuts in bills because what
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Speaker 23: people are paying now obviously is too much from their
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Speaker 23: last revaluation. We started those cuts in the second half
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Speaker 23: of this year.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 23: That's why the delays, it's a lot to compute. You know, Ralph.
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Speaker 2: Stand by for me. Stand by. State Rep Dave Thomas
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Speaker 2: on the inline from the fair in Ashtabula. Back after this.
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Speaker 2: Stay tuned.
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Speaker 10: Hey, that's one nice new.
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Speaker 3: Bike, Josie. Yeah, birthday present.
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Speaker 24: Rides really smooth, too.
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Speaker 10: Oh, and I see.
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Speaker 2: You finally got a new helmet. I did.
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Speaker 22: Bought it cheap online.
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Speaker 25: Love those side wings.
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Speaker 23: Hey, are you hungry?
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Speaker 22: Yeah, I'm starving.
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Speaker 24: And need some water too.
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Speaker 26: Okay, follow me.
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Speaker 23: We'll turn off here.
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Speaker 10: I'm right behind you. Hey, watch the cars.
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Speaker 3: They can be crazy.
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Speaker 27: Teddy!
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Speaker 23: No!
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Speaker 18: Are you okay?
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Speaker 8: Teddy!
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Speaker 19: Somebody do something!
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Speaker 14: I called 911.
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Speaker 11: They should be here soon.
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Speaker 8: Ah!
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Speaker 28: Ah!
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Speaker 2: Was this young man hit by a car?
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Speaker 25: Yes, and I'm concerned because his helmet is smashed and
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Speaker 25: cracked open.
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Speaker 10: It's a brand new helmet!
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Speaker 2: All right, so 407 on a Thursday afternoon, News Radio
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21:45
Speaker 2: Dave Thomas. He's broadcasting live on his phone for me
21:49
Speaker 2: from the county fair in Ashtabula. Ohio. So he's making
21:55
Speaker 2: the rounds.
21:55
Speaker 10: Where were you?
21:56
Speaker 2: You were at where?
21:57
Speaker 23: The Trumbull County Fair a couple weeks ago. And I
22:02
Speaker 23: still have not made it to the Canfield Fair, but
22:04
Speaker 23: I went to this year.
22:06
Speaker 2: And so you're making the rounds of the fairs as
22:10
Speaker 2: state rep. So let's start from scratch here as we
22:15
Speaker 2: start at 4 o'clock. Some people in Mahoning and Trumbull Counties, well,
22:19
Speaker 2: we're told it's going to be late in getting your
22:22
Speaker 2: tax bills It's because Meacham and the crew have to
22:25
Speaker 2: figure out with the rules that you guys passed, which
22:29
Speaker 2: says the re-evaluations will be tied to the rate of inflation,
22:36
Speaker 2: not the 25% or 30%, correct?
22:40
Speaker 31: Yes.
22:40
Speaker 23: The tax side, what folks will see on their tax bills,
22:44
Speaker 23: is now tied to inflation. Values will still move however
22:48
Speaker 23: values move.
22:49
Speaker 2: They'll still go up.
22:50
Speaker 34: Tax increases.
22:51
Speaker 32: Yep, yep.
22:52
Speaker 23: Those are now caps. We've kind of separated values from taxes.
22:55
Speaker 23: And you start that second half of this year. So
22:58
Speaker 23: what you've been paying to your schools, now you're actually
23:00
Speaker 23: going to get money back for what I call overpaying
23:04
Speaker 23: to schools from all those huge increases over the last
23:07
Speaker 23: couple of years.
23:08
Speaker 20: Okay.
23:10
Speaker 23: It just takes a while to actually calculate. That's why
23:13
Speaker 23: they're a little bit delayed, but they will be coming.
23:16
Speaker 23: And folks will see that decrease in numbers. That's kind
23:20
Speaker 23: of just why the delay. There aren't so many changes
23:24
Speaker 23: from our bills.
23:25
Speaker 2: But even with the re-evaluations coming up, your property taxes
23:29
Speaker 2: will still go up, just not as much as before
23:33
Speaker 2: you passed this legislation.
23:35
Speaker 35: Correct.
23:36
Speaker 23: There's that concept where it will still increase with inflation. Now,
23:41
Speaker 23: Trumbull and Mahoning, their commissioners passed the piggyback for the
23:45
Speaker 23: owner-occupancy credit. So folks will see a higher... credit of
23:49
Speaker 23: their owner occupancy. We'll see more of a decrease there.
23:52
Speaker 23: So there actually is a possibility if you don't pass
23:55
Speaker 23: any new levies, which I always remind folks, vote no,
23:59
Speaker 23: then there's a good possibility that your taxes will stay
24:02
Speaker 23: relatively the same, or some it could actually even go down.
24:06
Speaker 2: Right, as long as you vote no on any additional money.
24:09
Speaker 2: That would be the key, obviously, if not. All right,
24:14
Speaker 2: so that's what's going on. Any other news with property taxes?
24:18
Speaker 23: Yeah, that's about it for right now. All the levies
24:22
Speaker 23: are certified now, so folks can actually see them. If
24:25
Speaker 23: you go to your Board of Elections website, people can
24:27
Speaker 23: start looking at what's going to be on your ballot,
24:30
Speaker 23: what will be the question in front of you. I
24:32
Speaker 23: encourage everyone, go see what levies are going to be
24:34
Speaker 23: up there, ask the questions, learn about it before you
24:38
Speaker 23: get to your ballot, and really tell other people about it.
24:42
Speaker 23: The folks don't know, or if they think, well, I
24:45
Speaker 23: don't want to vote for, you know, candidates or for
24:48
Speaker 23: the governor, I'm just going to stay home. If they
24:50
Speaker 23: don't go and vote with levies, we know what happens
24:52
Speaker 23: then with passages. That's really important too.
24:54
Speaker 2: All right. So, but they can't find out if this
24:58
Speaker 2: levy would pass what it would mean for an increase
25:02
Speaker 2: on their specific property, right?
25:05
Speaker 23: So I'm not sure if Trumbull or Mahoning has a estimator,
25:09
Speaker 23: but like Ashtabula, for example, we have a levy estimator
25:13
Speaker 23: that you can actually see For my specific property, here's
25:16
Speaker 23: how much this levy will cost me. And that's a
25:18
Speaker 23: pretty helpful tool. But one kind of rule of thumb
25:23
Speaker 23: for every one mil of a new levy, it's $ 35
25:26
Speaker 23: for $ 100, 000 of value. So if you've got a $ 200, 000 home,
25:33
Speaker 23: one mil new levy, it's going to cost you $ 70.
25:36
Speaker 23: That's a little rule of thumb, but Mahoning and Trumbull
25:39
Speaker 23: will have information that folks can reach out to their
25:41
Speaker 23: offices to it.
25:43
Speaker 2: Right. Because, I mean, people in the city of Canfield
25:46
Speaker 2: are facing a huge school levy, as well as the...
25:53
Speaker 2: MRDD levy. That's another big levy. I mean, two big
25:57
Speaker 2: levies that are going on, plus other, depending on your community,
26:01
Speaker 2: other levies that might be out there, depending on what
26:06
Speaker 2: the levy's for and what it's all about. All right.
26:08
Speaker 2: So basically, that's where we are as far as property taxes.
26:12
Speaker 2: What else is going on in the state? I mean,
26:14
Speaker 2: you got any news on other issues? Go ahead.
26:17
Speaker 7: Yes.
26:18
Speaker 23: So you probably have heard Vivek and Amy Acton both
26:21
Speaker 23: kind of released their uh, data center plan. Um, and
26:26
Speaker 23: that's kind of what they're now campaigning on for what
26:28
Speaker 23: they want to see done on, on the data center question.
26:31
Speaker 23: That's kind of, you know, being talked about a lot
26:33
Speaker 23: throughout the state. So they're very different plans. Um, and
26:37
Speaker 23: you know, we'll see kind of how folks respond to
26:39
Speaker 23: both of them and what that looks like.
26:40
Speaker 2: Have you, uh, had a chance to look at them?
26:46
Speaker 21: Yes.
26:47
Speaker 31: Yeah.
26:47
Speaker 23: So pretty much Amy Atkins plan would essentially, um, have
26:53
Speaker 23: a whole lot more regulation on them. She hasn't really
26:56
Speaker 23: changed the tax side of it. She kind of changes.
26:59
Speaker 23: They can only be put into brownfield areas. They can
27:02
Speaker 23: only have union labor. They can't shift their electricity costs.
27:08
Speaker 23: So it's pretty similar to what we were planning for
27:12
Speaker 23: House Bill 646, which was our reform bill. So Vague's
27:17
Speaker 23: plan kind of takes it a step further. And he says, hey,
27:20
Speaker 23: if you're a data center coming in, you have to
27:22
Speaker 23: benefit the community that you're coming to. This is kind
27:25
Speaker 23: of what we've been discussing. So his plan is, if
27:28
Speaker 23: they're coming in, no property tax abatements. Local government cannot
27:32
Speaker 23: provide a property tax abatement to the data center. His
27:36
Speaker 23: plan also calls for water restrictions, incentivizes for brownfields or
27:44
Speaker 23: warehouses where they would go instead of farmland or residential areas.
27:48
Speaker 23: And then the one unique thing about his plan talks
27:50
Speaker 23: about electricity and essentially says if the data center comes in,
27:55
Speaker 23: they have to provide their own power or build power
27:58
Speaker 23: to offset, and they have to make sure that the
28:02
Speaker 23: data center actually lowers people's electricity bills. That's either by
28:07
Speaker 23: them building their own power plant and supplying some electricity
28:10
Speaker 23: to the surrounding area, or he's even said they should
28:13
Speaker 23: be writing checks or some type of offset to those
28:16
Speaker 23: people people surrounding this and are in that town or
28:19
Speaker 23: township or community. So it's kind of a unique take
28:22
Speaker 23: on it. We'll see what people think of it, but
28:25
Speaker 23: I think the base plan really emphasizes we can have
28:29
Speaker 23: this and we can actually have them lower bills and
28:31
Speaker 23: benefit people and get kind of the best of both worlds.
28:36
Speaker 2: What do you make of the fact, or so the polling,
28:39
Speaker 2: and incidentally the polling was, boy, wrong in a lot
28:41
Speaker 2: of these races that we just concluded. It wasn't even
28:44
Speaker 2: remotely close.
28:46
Speaker 23: No, I think Minnesota was the big one.
28:50
Speaker 2: It's just way off a lot of this polling, so
28:53
Speaker 2: it makes you hesitant when you say, well, what do
28:55
Speaker 2: you think about the polling that shows the governor's race
28:57
Speaker 2: neck and neck?
28:59
Speaker 23: I'm not, in all honesty, too surprised by it. I
29:02
Speaker 23: think I'm very worried about this year. But if you
29:07
Speaker 23: go back to 2018 with Mike DeWine versus Richard Cordray,
29:11
Speaker 23: DeWine only won that race by maybe 2%, 3%. It
29:16
Speaker 23: was a very close governor race. And I think we're
29:18
Speaker 23: in another kind of 2018, second year of President Trump's term,
29:23
Speaker 23: voter fatigue, frustrations. And if our voters don't get out
29:26
Speaker 23: to vote, then that is going to be really tight.
29:29
Speaker 23: So I think it's going to be probably close until
29:32
Speaker 23: maybe September, early October. And hopefully it starts to separate
29:36
Speaker 23: a little bit, but I'm not too surprised by how
29:39
Speaker 23: close things are now.
29:41
Speaker 2: Why do you suspect it's so close?
29:44
Speaker 23: A handful of reasons. With me here at the fair,
29:47
Speaker 23: I love it because people come up and they talk.
29:49
Speaker 23: They share their feelings, their thoughts. Folks are frustrated. There's
29:54
Speaker 23: a lot of disappointment out there right now. There's a
29:56
Speaker 23: lot of Just feelings of, you know, hey, things aren't
30:00
Speaker 23: going the right way. And I think that then leads
30:04
Speaker 23: to our side not wanting to vote or our side
30:08
Speaker 23: maybe skipping some of those seats. Amy Acton has stayed
30:12
Speaker 23: very quiet on a lot of actual policy. She's not
30:15
Speaker 23: really out in the public much with actual voters. She's
30:18
Speaker 23: doing a lot of staged things. So unless you know
30:21
Speaker 23: of her through COVID, you probably don't have really negative
30:24
Speaker 23: feelings towards her. And so that helps her numbers kind
30:27
Speaker 23: of stay inflated. And Vivek is so public, so out there.
30:31
Speaker 23: Everyone kind of knows who he is, what he stands for. So,
30:35
Speaker 23: you know, there's a lot of negatives there, though. But
30:38
Speaker 23: I think it goes into a lot of the economy
30:40
Speaker 23: right now.
30:41
Speaker 21: For sure.
30:42
Speaker 2: What do you think with the Senate race with Sherrod Brown?
30:46
Speaker 21: Oh, yeah, that one.
30:49
Speaker 23: I am very worried about John Husted. Very worried about
30:53
Speaker 23: John Husted. Sherrod Brown is out there. I've seen his
30:56
Speaker 23: campaign ads. He's also being pretty protected right now from
31:01
Speaker 23: the public. Houston's doing a lot more interviews. He's talking
31:03
Speaker 23: to a lot more people. But if that's a vote
31:08
Speaker 23: on essentially how things are going in D.C., then it's
31:12
Speaker 23: going to be very tight. I think a lot of
31:15
Speaker 23: these will probably be decided by a point or two, 1%
31:17
Speaker 23: or 2%.
31:18
Speaker 2: Is that because of the gas prices and inflation and
31:23
Speaker 2: the Iran war? I mean, is that why you think
31:26
Speaker 2: so many of these things are going to be tight?
31:29
Speaker 2: The economy?
31:29
Speaker 23: Yeah, I think that's a big piece of it. Folks
31:32
Speaker 23: typically vote with their wallet. And if they're not really
31:35
Speaker 23: all that happy right now, if things aren't looking positive,
31:39
Speaker 23: this is not like 2020 or 2016 when we had
31:43
Speaker 23: something really positive and we were voting for and going with,
31:48
Speaker 23: and there's a lot of enthusiasm. If you look at
31:50
Speaker 23: the enthusiasm gaps, they're quite big. Democrats' side is heavily enthusiastic.
31:56
Speaker 23: Our side is not. I think a big piece of
31:59
Speaker 23: that is kind of just what's happening with the economy
32:02
Speaker 23: and gas prices, electricity. Even though a lot of that
32:05
Speaker 23: electricity especially was done under the Democrats, You know, we're
32:09
Speaker 23: in charge now, and so we own that, and we're
32:11
Speaker 23: taking steps to fix.
32:12
Speaker 22: It, but it takes time.
32:14
Speaker 23: And that's a difficult message to try to share to voters.
32:19
Speaker 2: I mean, very interesting. So when you take a look, though,
32:22
Speaker 2: if the Democrats were running stuff, do you think we
32:25
Speaker 2: would have the reforms that you were able to get
32:27
Speaker 2: through when it comes to property taxes?
32:30
Speaker 23: If Democrats were running things in Ohio, he wouldn't have
32:34
Speaker 23: a 2.75% flat tax for income. We'd have Amy Acton
32:39
Speaker 23: wants to go back to that nine-year income tax rates
32:43
Speaker 23: where the top several are above 9%. She wants to
32:48
Speaker 23: see you pay a lot more in sales tax. She
32:52
Speaker 23: wants us to spend a whole lot more. She wants
32:54
Speaker 23: no coal. She wants renewables only. It's scary what they're
33:01
Speaker 23: actually standing for. It's just all the focus is on us.
33:05
Speaker 23: And the current economy versus what they're actually and what
33:09
Speaker 23: they're pushing.
33:12
Speaker 2: So she would want to raise the sales tax? I mean,
33:16
Speaker 2: basically she would want to tax everybody more.
33:19
Speaker 22: Oh, yes.
33:20
Speaker 23: So her first year, we've kind of looked at her
33:25
Speaker 23: policies and priorities. Her first year, it's estimated that she
33:28
Speaker 23: would want to spend an additional $ 22 billion in state spending.
33:34
Speaker 23: And that is half of our state budget for the year.
33:38
Speaker 23: So she wants to spend things on, like, health insurance forgiveness,
33:43
Speaker 23: on loan forgiveness, on direct payments to Medicaid, on a
33:49
Speaker 23: whole host of things, more to governments on all different levels,
33:53
Speaker 23: more spending. So she is truly a bigger government priority person.
34:00
Speaker 23: That's who she's running as. And that's a very scary
34:04
Speaker 23: thing for our tax side because that money is going
34:06
Speaker 23: to have to come from somewhere. $ 22 billion has to
34:08
Speaker 23: come from somewhere.
34:09
Speaker 2: Now, our sales tax in Mahoning County is 7.5% now.
34:13
Speaker 2: And she would want that to go up even higher?
34:17
Speaker 17: Yeah.
34:17
Speaker 23: That or I could see her removing some of the exemptions.
34:21
Speaker 23: So we have exemptions for food. We have the sales
34:24
Speaker 23: tax holiday. We have a full host of agriculture exemptions
34:28
Speaker 23: for farmers. I could see her removing those. And I
34:32
Speaker 23: can see her trying to actually increase the sales tax.
34:35
Speaker 23: She's also talking about really opening up Ohio for gambling,
34:38
Speaker 23: online gambling, and then taking a lot of that extra
34:40
Speaker 23: revenue as well. That's not a tax, but we all
34:43
Speaker 23: know there's certain issues when you push and explode the
34:47
Speaker 23: gambling side as well.
34:50
Speaker 2: I mean, really, who could vote for that? Who would
34:53
Speaker 2: vote to say, gee, we need a higher sales tax?
34:56
Speaker 2: That affects everybody.
34:57
Speaker 23: A higher income tax, a.
35:00
Speaker 2: Higher sales tax, and we're going to just spend more
35:03
Speaker 2: money as a state on all these crazy handout programs.
35:09
Speaker 23: I tell folks, look at other states where these are
35:11
Speaker 23: being done. Look at Virginia, look at Minnesota, look at
35:15
Speaker 23: New York. This is the model that the state Democrats
35:18
Speaker 23: are following. And we don't have to wonder what they do.
35:22
Speaker 23: Just look at those states, and the Virginia governor got
35:25
Speaker 23: in as a moderate, just like Amy Acton promises to be.
35:28
Speaker 23: First thing she did, a whole slew of tax increases,
35:31
Speaker 23: restrictions on guns, restrictions on certain First Amendment rights, just
35:36
Speaker 23: really fast action to move that liberal agenda that, you know,
35:40
Speaker 23: was nowhere near her campaign, but as soon as they
35:42
Speaker 23: got in, that's what they acted on. So this is
35:45
Speaker 23: what we have to run against. This is what we
35:47
Speaker 23: have to vote for, is the, you know, the vague,
35:50
Speaker 23: and you said all those folks, We can't just become
35:53
Speaker 23: complacent because right now the economy isn't doing as.
35:57
Speaker 7: Well as it might have.
35:57
Speaker 2: All right, stand by. We'll come right back with State Rep.
36:01
Speaker 2: Dave Thomas on NewsRadio 570. Stay tuned. All right, back
36:17
Speaker 2: to it. News Radio 570. We stayed with Dave Thomas
36:21
Speaker 2: on the end of our line. I'm sorry. Any comments
36:24
Speaker 2: or questions that you might have for Dave? Let me
36:26
Speaker 2: check a few things here, Dave, and see what's on
36:28
Speaker 2: my line. Might be for you, might not be for you.
36:30
Speaker 2: You're on the air.
36:32
Speaker 36: Ron?
36:33
Speaker 2: Yes.
36:35
Speaker 31: How are you?
36:36
Speaker 32: Good.
36:36
Speaker 2: I got Dave Thomas. You want to stand by? Because
36:38
Speaker 2: I got plenty to talk to you about.
36:40
Speaker 7: All right.
36:40
Speaker 2: I'm going to put her on standby. Let me see here.
36:44
Speaker 7: Hello?
36:44
Speaker 31: Hello?
36:48
Speaker 2: I'll put them on standby. All right.
36:50
Speaker 7: All right, Dave.
36:50
Speaker 2: So what else do you have to share with us
36:52
Speaker 2: here before I..
36:54
Speaker 23: I'll leave you with a fun thing. So on Tuesday,
36:57
Speaker 23: the president was in Northeast Ohio. I don't know if
36:59
Speaker 23: you saw that or you heard about the Patriot Games.
37:02
Speaker 23: It was a super cool thing located in Ashtabula at Spire,
37:08
Speaker 23: which is an Olympic training facility. He started the Patriot
37:11
Speaker 23: Games in celebration of 250. There were high school athletes
37:15
Speaker 23: from all over the country at the competitions. Thousands of
37:18
Speaker 23: people came in from across the country. It's actually going
37:21
Speaker 23: to be broadcast live tonight on ABC at 9 o'clock.
37:27
Speaker 23: A good number of us were there on Tuesday. It's
37:29
Speaker 23: a really neat celebration. The kids were awesome. It's a
37:34
Speaker 23: feel-good thing to celebrate the 250. Northeast Ohio got a
37:38
Speaker 23: lot of publicity, a lot of positive accolades from all that.
37:41
Speaker 23: Folks should watch that tonight if they can at 9 o'clock.
37:44
Speaker 2: There's Dave Thomas, and you should make sure you appear
37:46
Speaker 2: at the Canfield Fair this year. I think people would
37:49
Speaker 2: love to meet you. You've done a lot for all
37:50
Speaker 2: of us here. We appreciate you.
37:53
Speaker 23: Thank you, Ron.
37:53
Speaker 8: Have a good day.
37:53
Speaker 2: Thank you. That's Dave Thomas. All right, here's hot off
37:57
Speaker 2: of her bowling tour last night. It's the boss lady
38:02
Speaker 2: on my line. We found out last night in an
38:05
Speaker 2: exclusive expose that the boss lady actually went bowling last night.
38:10
Speaker 2: I know what you're thinking, folks. Are you serious? Yes,
38:12
Speaker 2: she went bowling. She owns her own ball and shoes.
38:16
Speaker 2: Probably has a shirt that says, you know, Rural Market
38:19
Speaker 2: on the back of it.
38:20
Speaker 31: Lies, lies.
38:21
Speaker 2: Probably has. I know she has a shirt that's got
38:24
Speaker 2: to have the lettering for some company or organization on
38:28
Speaker 2: the back of it. She's got a great average of
38:31
Speaker 2: like 120. So she's thrown a lot of gutter balls, obviously.
38:37
Speaker 2: And she's engaging on fried mushrooms and Diet Coke.
38:43
Speaker 31: Oh, my goodness. You remembered all that.
38:46
Speaker 3: Yes.
38:46
Speaker 20: Yes.
38:47
Speaker 10: This is very good.
38:48
Speaker 2: This is a whole other side, folks, of the boss
38:52
Speaker 2: lady that is just shocking, I think, to most of us.
38:57
Speaker 31: I'm not very good at bowling, but I did listen
39:01
Speaker 31: to the polling meeting from last night, and there were two.
39:03
Speaker 31: And I do have a good update.
39:05
Speaker 2: All right, here's the boss of the Poland meeting. This
39:08
Speaker 2: is Poland Township with..
39:09
Speaker 22: The Poland Township.
39:11
Speaker 2: All right. Go ahead with your thoughts now. They're going
39:14
Speaker 2: to lay some people off. Give me your thoughts. What
39:19
Speaker 2: are they going to lay off? Three cops? Are these
39:20
Speaker 2: full-time cops?
39:23
Speaker 31: I don't know, but I would imagine so just because
39:25
Speaker 31: they had a big gap, quite a bit a gap
39:28
Speaker 31: that they had to close right with a remaining only
39:32
Speaker 31: what three and a half months of the year so
39:34
Speaker 31: i would imagine to get to what they needed um
39:39
Speaker 31: you remember i talked to you and told you remember
39:41
Speaker 31: you asked me what would i do yes and And
39:44
Speaker 31: it sounds they did pretty much exactly what I would do.
39:47
Speaker 31: I mean, they even are going to consider the contract
39:50
Speaker 31: of the chief police. It's the one year contract. We're
39:53
Speaker 31: going to look at that again.
39:53
Speaker 2: Well, you know, now that you mention it, you did
39:57
Speaker 2: say you'd make the administrator part time instead of full time.
40:01
Speaker 2: You look at the police chief's contract and lay off
40:04
Speaker 2: these cops. I think. Go ahead.
40:09
Speaker 31: And the one, uh, the, the, the overlap that they
40:12
Speaker 31: had in the other department and they did make a
40:15
Speaker 31: cut there as well.
40:16
Speaker 2: Zoning. Was it zoning?
40:17
Speaker 7: I think.
40:18
Speaker 22: A clerical that I referred to.
40:20
Speaker 31: I didn't know anything about zoning or that there was
40:22
Speaker 31: an opportunity there.
40:24
Speaker 2: Okay.
40:25
Speaker 31: But yeah, I mean, it.
40:26
Speaker 2: So basically they followed your game plan that you talked
40:30
Speaker 2: about on the air.
40:32
Speaker 31: Well, I mean, I don't know that they followed it exactly,
40:34
Speaker 31: but it's definitely what I said two weeks ago on
40:37
Speaker 31: the air. Um, You know, the meeting was interesting, though.
40:41
Speaker 31: And this is what I thought was very interesting about it.
40:44
Speaker 31: And I don't know if you got a chance to
40:45
Speaker 31: see it. I mean, I read the article, but then
40:47
Speaker 31: I wanted to go back and watch it so I
40:49
Speaker 31: could see the interaction. And Frank did a great job
40:54
Speaker 31: of rolling out. He came with a complete, comprehensive... basically
40:59
Speaker 31: an action plan, like did a whole thought analysis on
41:03
Speaker 31: what needed to be done, what issues that he saw.
41:07
Speaker 31: And then they went into executive session. Ungaro did not
41:11
Speaker 31: go to executive session. He didn't partake.
41:15
Speaker 2: Why not?
41:15
Speaker 31: He sat there.
41:17
Speaker 2: He's like in denial.
41:19
Speaker 31: Yeah, he wouldn't partake in it.
41:21
Speaker 22: He voted no vote.
41:24
Speaker 31: On all of the changes that needed to be made
41:26
Speaker 31: except for the clerical person.
41:28
Speaker 2: Well, what was his plan then?
41:31
Speaker 22: He didn't have one, but I thought.
41:33
Speaker 31: It was very interesting. I thought it was very, like, childish.
41:36
Speaker 8: Not..
41:38
Speaker 31: That's the part that bothered me. It was kind of, like, scorned.
41:42
Speaker 31: I didn't like his disposition. I mean, at the professional setting,
41:46
Speaker 31: if you don't want to like each other outside of
41:47
Speaker 31: there or you've got an issue, I mean, you know...
41:52
Speaker 31: But you're in, like, a professional setting.
41:53
Speaker 35: I mean, there were people in.
41:54
Speaker 31: The audience, a lot of people. Everybody seemed receptive. I
41:58
Speaker 31: like the fact that Kempers, you know, seems like he's
42:03
Speaker 31: listening to what Frank is saying. And Frank has private
42:06
Speaker 31: sector experience, and he's talking to the chief fiscal officer. So,
42:12
Speaker 31: I mean, the two of them together, you know, they're
42:14
Speaker 31: talking real problem solving. And so that was really... Good
42:20
Speaker 31: to see on one hand.
42:21
Speaker 22: On the other side, I think that, and they did say.
42:23
Speaker 31: They're going to have to revisit, right?
42:24
Speaker 22: So they're going to do all these changes. They're going
42:26
Speaker 22: to get.
42:26
Speaker 31: Through 2027, make nice, nice, balance the budget, be able
42:30
Speaker 31: to pay for what they can. And then they're going
42:32
Speaker 31: to look at, do they need to put a levy
42:33
Speaker 31: on of some sort?
42:35
Speaker 22: But, you know, and they're going to.
42:37
Speaker 31: Make the other changes. He also brought up like, listen,
42:39
Speaker 31: about these receipts.
42:41
Speaker 22: You're not going to turn in bills anymore.
42:43
Speaker 31: You need to turn in receipts. It was pretty good. But, yeah, and, Garo,
42:48
Speaker 31: this is weird.
42:49
Speaker 8: I don't know.
42:50
Speaker 31: It's weird. How do you opt out and don't go
42:52
Speaker 31: into it?
42:53
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42:55
Speaker 31: To break away from it.
42:56
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42:56
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44:47
Speaker 2: I'm going to go back. I want to address this
44:48
Speaker 2: stuff in Poland Township with the boss lady here. So
44:54
Speaker 2: my first reaction to all of this is, were any
45:00
Speaker 2: of these trustees paying attention to the finances? I mean,
45:04
Speaker 2: I'm sitting back saying, how did it get to this
45:06
Speaker 2: point in the first place? Why shouldn't they have been
45:10
Speaker 2: paying better attention?
45:12
Speaker 31: Oh, that's obvious. I think Frankie summed it up yesterday
45:15
Speaker 31: when he.
45:15
Speaker 22: Said, you know, prior years, you guys.
45:19
Speaker 31: Have done everything that people wanted. And now we're at
45:24
Speaker 31: a turning point where... We have nowhere else to draw
45:28
Speaker 31: from to give it. And so, you know, you guys
45:30
Speaker 31: are delivering on wants versus needs versus what people are
45:35
Speaker 31: willing to pay.
45:36
Speaker 2: But the reality is, is it fair for me to
45:38
Speaker 2: say that these all of these trustees weren't looking at
45:41
Speaker 2: the economics to put the township in that position to
45:44
Speaker 2: begin with?
45:45
Speaker 36: Right.
45:46
Speaker 31: Oh, I absolutely agree with that.
45:48
Speaker 2: I mean, clearly they collect a paycheck and they weren't
45:52
Speaker 2: saying where are we financially when they were doing whatever
45:56
Speaker 2: they were doing to put them in this dire situation. So,
46:00
Speaker 2: I mean, I would say all these trustees are to blame.
46:03
Speaker 2: I mean, all of these people involved in this situation,
46:06
Speaker 2: where were they prior to it being at this point?
46:10
Speaker 2: level of concern. I mean, if I back up on
46:14
Speaker 2: you and I say that would be my number one point,
46:16
Speaker 2: my number two point would be you guys couldn't even
46:18
Speaker 2: make the deadline to put a police levy on in
46:21
Speaker 2: time to get one on in November ballots. You failed
46:25
Speaker 2: to meet the deadline for a police levy. You failed
46:29
Speaker 2: to look ahead as far as where the finances were
46:32
Speaker 2: going and how the problem that you helped create for
46:36
Speaker 2: the citizens of Poland Township. Do you agree with that?
46:40
Speaker 31: I do, and I also would like to know, what
46:42
Speaker 31: was her name? Was it Wallet, or what was her name?
46:45
Speaker 31: She was the woman who was there prior. I would
46:49
Speaker 31: say the three of them with her, you know, the
46:52
Speaker 31: two current Kempers, Angaro and her.
46:54
Speaker 22: Is that her name?
46:55
Speaker 31: I think it was Wallet.
46:57
Speaker 22: Was it Wallet?
46:58
Speaker 2: Who knows?
46:58
Speaker 31: I think so. Yeah, she's the one who, Frank B.
47:02
Speaker 31: I mean, they were painting walls and doing, I mean,
47:05
Speaker 31: just spiffing up places and buying furniture and all kinds of,
47:08
Speaker 31: I mean, listen, they were, I think now we've got
47:14
Speaker 31: somebody else in there who thinks a little bit differently,
47:16
Speaker 31: who thinks more like a business person and understands that
47:20
Speaker 31: the pressure on the taxpayer at the end of the day.
47:22
Speaker 31: So hopefully it turns around here.
47:26
Speaker 2: Right, but I mean, for example, Ungaro then last night,
47:30
Speaker 2: you're saying, was, in your opinion, acting childlike, and he
47:33
Speaker 2: didn't go along with any of these cuts? I mean,
47:36
Speaker 2: he didn't vote?
47:36
Speaker 22: No. Only one.
47:39
Speaker 2: Then what was his solution to the economic problem going
47:43
Speaker 2: on right now?
47:44
Speaker 31: When you avoid executive section, which is the reason why
47:49
Speaker 31: Frank asked for the executive section— He said, we're going
47:53
Speaker 31: to break now. He left all the people who were
47:55
Speaker 31: sitting there. We're going to go into executive session. So basically,
47:57
Speaker 31: everybody out will come back, right? Or they're going to
48:00
Speaker 31: go upstairs and we'll, we're going to go upstairs and
48:02
Speaker 31: discuss and we'll come back to the public. Ungaro sat
48:05
Speaker 31: there like a child. They went up there and talked
48:08
Speaker 31: all the numbers, what all the cuts meant, how they
48:10
Speaker 31: were going to get a hole. And they made the
48:11
Speaker 31: decision on who was getting cut. Well, he didn't want
48:13
Speaker 31: to participate in that. And he sat there like a child.
48:16
Speaker 2: So he didn't want to Eric Angaro didn't want to
48:20
Speaker 2: go up in executive session with these other two. I mean,
48:24
Speaker 2: obviously the financial problem is obvious, but he didn't want
48:27
Speaker 2: to go. He didn't want to go up and sit
48:29
Speaker 2: with the other two to figure out what to do
48:32
Speaker 2: to fix the problem that he was part of creating.
48:36
Speaker 31: No, it's almost a bad joke. Like you feel even
48:39
Speaker 31: bad saying it because it's so stupid and common sense.
48:42
Speaker 22: Like, how do you not, How are you not participating
48:46
Speaker 22: in that?
48:46
Speaker 31: Like, this was under your tutelage. Like, you've been there,
48:49
Speaker 31: and you keep saying it. You keep telling everybody how
48:52
Speaker 31: long you've been in there, and then now you're just
48:53
Speaker 31: going to not go into executive sets and figure out
48:56
Speaker 31: how to solve it because you don't want your name
48:57
Speaker 31: attached to the cut? It's so immature and childish.
49:02
Speaker 2: Well, what would his answer be to the problem if
49:05
Speaker 2: he's not participating? Obviously, you're running out of money. You've
49:08
Speaker 2: got to do something.
49:10
Speaker 31: God knew something. I don't know. I mean, maybe he
49:12
Speaker 31: should have came up with a comprehensive plan and delivered
49:15
Speaker 31: it just like Frank did. I mean, if he had
49:18
Speaker 31: an idea of something to do, he probably... should have
49:20
Speaker 31: brought it to the meeting and presented it. I mean,
49:23
Speaker 31: that's what I would have done. I would have brought it...
49:26
Speaker 31: I wouldn't have sat back and waited for the other two.
49:28
Speaker 31: You got to take the bull by the horns and lead. Lead.
49:31
Speaker 31: Somebody lead. So... I was encouraged to at least, it
49:36
Speaker 31: seemed like Kempers was agreeing something needs to be done.
49:39
Speaker 31: He was agreeing.
49:41
Speaker 22: Everybody's remorseful.
49:42
Speaker 31: Look, it's not good for anybody that somebody had to
49:44
Speaker 31: lose their job. It's not at all. That's sickening. It
49:47
Speaker 31: does make me feel sick that somebody actually had to
49:50
Speaker 31: lose their job. But the private sector doesn't exist to
49:53
Speaker 31: just pay for the jobs that are not there. If
49:55
Speaker 31: they're not needed, they're not needed.
49:56
Speaker 22: They got to go. The problem is that I'm.
49:59
Speaker 31: Going to let it get to this point. They've brought
50:02
Speaker 31: these people on and they couldn't afford them. They're the
50:05
Speaker 31: reason why these people lost these jobs. They shouldn't have
50:08
Speaker 31: these jobs.
50:12
Speaker 2: They shouldn't have hired him in the first place.
50:14
Speaker 31: They shouldn't have in the first place. So you disrupted
50:16
Speaker 31: a person who was probably working somewhere else. Maybe they
50:19
Speaker 31: were happy. Maybe they're, you know, whatever they were doing,
50:21
Speaker 31: you bring them on promising you've got money to pay them, right?
50:24
Speaker 31: Isn't that a contract? If you hire me, I assume
50:27
Speaker 31: you've got money to pay me, right? Like you've already
50:29
Speaker 31: done your due diligence. You've got a long-term strategy. That's
50:33
Speaker 31: a basic assumption of when you get employed somewhere. Well,
50:37
Speaker 31: they didn't. And so I feel sorry for the people
50:40
Speaker 31: who got let go because they really have been done
50:43
Speaker 31: wrong by the people sitting in there continually expanding and
50:49
Speaker 31: didn't have the money to pay it initially. And that's
50:51
Speaker 31: not good leadership. That's not how you run a business.
50:53
Speaker 31: It's not how you run anything that has to do
50:55
Speaker 31: with taxpayer dollars. Now I want to get to one
50:59
Speaker 31: more point with you. I need your gun on there.
51:02
Speaker 2: Go ahead.
51:02
Speaker 31: So I heard Dave Thomas talking about how Amy Acton,
51:10
Speaker 31: who's a train wreck, right, that she wants to spend
51:13
Speaker 31: $ 22 billion on all this craziness and forgive this, forgive that,
51:18
Speaker 31: forgive this.
51:19
Speaker 2: And raise the sales tax.
51:21
Speaker 22: Yeah.
51:21
Speaker 31: Now, I'm going to tell you right now. I'm going
51:24
Speaker 31: to say it on air. There is no way in
51:27
Speaker 31: hell I would ever vote for Amy Acton. I would absolutely,
51:31
Speaker 31: she's a train wreck, and I will support a Republican candidate.
51:35
Speaker 31: But I say to him, Dave Thomas, if you're listening,
51:40
Speaker 31: I'd love to see the Republicans decide instead of taking
51:43
Speaker 31: the $ 22 billion and do all these social welfare programs,
51:46
Speaker 31: take the $ 22 billion abolish property taxes because obviously it's
51:50
Speaker 31: there because she's ready to do something else with it.
51:53
Speaker 31: Abolish property taxes, put $ 22 billion back in the economy.
51:57
Speaker 31: And watch the state of Ohio turn into the number
51:59
Speaker 31: one state in the union because this economy will boom.
52:03
Speaker 31: You have 22 billion. You Republicans right now could take
52:06
Speaker 31: a vote right now to change school funding. You could
52:09
Speaker 31: take a vote right now today to give the money
52:12
Speaker 31: back to the taxpayer. And every time you guys vote
52:15
Speaker 31: to increase legislation, you are literally crushing the people who
52:20
Speaker 31: you represent because it's falling on the taxpayer. It's 61, 62%
52:25
Speaker 31: of all these levies are falling on the taxpayer. So
52:27
Speaker 31: when you expand, that's what you're doing. And I'd love
52:31
Speaker 31: to hear his response to that, but I didn't want
52:33
Speaker 31: to go toe to toe with him today. I do
52:35
Speaker 31: appreciate him because you know what?
52:36
Speaker 34: He's working.
52:38
Speaker 31: At least he's working. Some of these other people aren't
52:40
Speaker 31: doing a damn thing about anything. He's at least working hard.
52:43
Speaker 31: I may disagree on what he targets. That's what he
52:46
Speaker 31: needs to target. But they won't.
52:48
Speaker 22: They won't.
52:49
Speaker 31: They have the power right now. They hold the keys
52:52
Speaker 31: to the kingdom. They should take a vote right now.
52:54
Speaker 31: This stupid school funding formula, which is a mess. That's
52:58
Speaker 31: another call for another day because I've spent a lot of.
53:00
Speaker 10: Time doing that.
53:01
Speaker 31: But if there's $ 22 billion for her to do that with,
53:04
Speaker 31: then give the money back to the darn taxpayers, abolish
53:07
Speaker 31: property taxes. And I'm telling you, this state will boom.
53:11
Speaker 31: You want $ 22 billion people stopping with? Watch what that happens.
53:16
Speaker 31: Watch what happens to this state.
53:19
Speaker 2: But what he was saying is Amy Acton wants to
53:23
Speaker 2: increase taxes. She wants to increase the sales tax.
53:26
Speaker 22: That's why she's a bad choice.
53:28
Speaker 31: There's $ 22 billion for the cake. Where's it at?
53:30
Speaker 2: Go get it. But she wants to take... increase the
53:34
Speaker 2: sales tax, which is already 7.5%. She wants to increase
53:38
Speaker 2: it and potentially increase what you put the sales tax on,
53:41
Speaker 2: like groceries and stuff. But she wants to raise the
53:44
Speaker 2: sales tax, expand maybe what you put a sales tax on.
53:49
Speaker 2: She wants to up the income tax.
53:53
Speaker 3: I'm not for her.
53:54
Speaker 31: You ain't going to get me to argue against her.
53:56
Speaker 2: No, but I mean, so her first plan is raising
54:00
Speaker 2: taxes so that you can take this money from everybody
54:03
Speaker 2: that's paying enough in taxes and dole it out for
54:07
Speaker 2: all these government programs that she wants to start.
54:10
Speaker 31: They have at least $ 40 billion in the general fund.
54:14
Speaker 31: What is the general fund for? All your grants, all
54:18
Speaker 31: your nonprofit donations, all this crap. Give the $ 22 billion.
54:24
Speaker 31: You guys have the power. They're sitting in office right now.
54:27
Speaker 31: They have the power to do it. That's what I
54:30
Speaker 31: want to say. Honestly, it sickens me because I have
54:33
Speaker 31: to draw it out because it is something.
54:35
Speaker 22: That they could do right now.
54:37
Speaker 31: And I hate to go against them because the alternative
54:40
Speaker 31: is absolutely worse. I will say the alternative is worse, people.
54:44
Speaker 22: So am I going to vote for these Democrats?
54:46
Speaker 31: Heck no, never. But these guys have the power to
54:49
Speaker 31: change it right now, and they're not.
54:51
Speaker 2: All right, but it's going to be interesting to see what— I.
54:54
Speaker 31: Get an aye-aye, Captain. I get an aye-aye, Captain.
54:57
Speaker 22: I do.
54:58
Speaker 2: The whole Ungaro thing is weird. That's just weird.
55:01
Speaker 31: It's so weird.
55:03
Speaker 34: I know.
55:04
Speaker 31: Well, maybe somebody else will call in and give their take.
55:06
Speaker 2: I mean, why wouldn't you participate? Why wouldn't you go
55:09
Speaker 2: up and, for whatever position you have, be a participant
55:12
Speaker 2: in it? I don't understand that mentality at all. I
55:16
Speaker 2: really don't. All right, so with that being said, what
55:19
Speaker 2: did you bowl last night?
55:22
Speaker 31: If you want to know the worst part about it,
55:23
Speaker 31: is I rushed to bowling. It was our banquet night,
55:26
Speaker 31: and I thought we were bowling prior. And here, we
55:29
Speaker 31: all got it wrong. That was our last bowl was
55:31
Speaker 31: the week before. So I can't even brag to you
55:33
Speaker 31: that I bowled a 165. It was just our banquet.
55:37
Speaker 2: So you went there with..
55:38
Speaker 31: My team came in fifth place, though. I did tell
55:40
Speaker 31: you that.
55:41
Speaker 2: You went there with ball in hand and shoes.
55:44
Speaker 22: Ball and shoes.
55:45
Speaker 31: And my girlfriend is waving to me as I'm carrying
55:47
Speaker 31: it all in the door. She goes, put it all back.
55:49
Speaker 31: We messed up. We don't even bowl tonight. I'm like, what?
55:52
Speaker 2: It was a banquet for being in fifth place?
55:55
Speaker 22: It was a banquet for all the bowlers.
55:59
Speaker 2: But you were in fifth place.
56:01
Speaker 31: That's a lot. That's good.
56:03
Speaker 2: Out of how many teams?
56:05
Speaker 36: Six?
56:05
Speaker 31: Oh, no, over 20.
56:09
Speaker 2: Really?
56:09
Speaker 34: Yeah, it was in fifth place.
56:12
Speaker 31: You know, my winter league, we were in second place
56:14
Speaker 31: for the second half of the year.
56:15
Speaker 2: On your bowling team, is it comprised of men and
56:19
Speaker 2: women or just women?
56:20
Speaker 31: No, just women.
56:22
Speaker 2: Is there, like, any good bowlers on your team that
56:25
Speaker 2: carry the load?
56:26
Speaker 27: No.
56:29
Speaker 31: Yeah, honestly, we all can bowl really well. They're more
56:34
Speaker 31: consistent than I am, I think. Sometimes, you know, he's
56:39
Speaker 31: like a 160 or I don't know, I think her
56:41
Speaker 31: average is maybe a 150, 148. He's the best bowler
56:45
Speaker 31: we have.
56:46
Speaker 2: Do you try to sabotage your competition? Like when they're
56:49
Speaker 2: standing at the line, do you fake a sneeze or
56:52
Speaker 2: anything or a cough to try to distract them from
56:56
Speaker 2: their bowling?
56:58
Speaker 36: No, no, no.
56:59
Speaker 2: By the way, did you happen to see on the
57:02
Speaker 2: news that the Patriot building was rented by, oh, I forget,
57:07
Speaker 2: some government organization? Well, some school, I should say, or something.
57:13
Speaker 2: I forget. They rented the Patriot building out.
57:17
Speaker 31: Oh, really?
57:18
Speaker 7: Yes.
57:20
Speaker 22: The Patriot building.
57:21
Speaker 2: So, yeah, I was watching the news last night, and
57:23
Speaker 2: they said all this talk about– the bottom dollar store
57:29
Speaker 2: when it comes to the board of election location. Well,
57:32
Speaker 2: the news last night, uh, was saying it's, I guess
57:36
Speaker 2: they got an offer from potential developments to buy the
57:40
Speaker 2: bottom dollar store. And then, uh, the Patriot building, which
57:45
Speaker 2: was so foolishly, uh, given back, uh, was rented out to, uh,
57:50
Speaker 2: I forget what organization it was. I don't know if
57:54
Speaker 2: it has something to do with, uh.
57:57
Speaker 31: That Patriot building would have been great for the Board
57:59
Speaker 31: of Elections.
57:59
Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely.
58:01
Speaker 31: It was a fantastic building. I mean, I was in
58:04
Speaker 31: that building for years. Fantastic building. Great parking. Handicap accessible.
58:13
Speaker 31: To me, there's no excuse in the world how they
58:15
Speaker 31: did that.
58:16
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't get this idea that the Board
58:20
Speaker 2: of Elections for the county, I don't think everything, we
58:23
Speaker 2: should say everything's got to be in Youngstown when it
58:26
Speaker 2: comes to the county. I think this is just ridiculous.
58:29
Speaker 31: I'd like to know how many people in the city
58:31
Speaker 31: of Youngstown actually are voting. Why are we making all
58:35
Speaker 31: these accommodations? What percentage is actually voting that we need
58:38
Speaker 31: to accommodate to put in there? Because I vote downtown
58:40
Speaker 31: in the city of Youngstown every year for everything. I
58:43
Speaker 31: go downtown because I love early voting. I vote early
58:46
Speaker 31: so I don't have to go in the lines on
58:48
Speaker 31: election day. I vote in person early. It takes me
58:52
Speaker 31: five minutes in and out.
58:55
Speaker 2: Are you nervous that it might be on your bowling
58:57
Speaker 2: night or something, the election? I'm just checking. Just checking.
59:03
Speaker 31: All right. I like early vote, but yeah, that's a
59:07
Speaker 31: haul for me. What about all these other people in
59:09
Speaker 31: all these other areas?
59:10
Speaker 10: Aren't we more than..
59:13
Speaker 2: Can't we put some of this stuff in Austintown and
59:15
Speaker 2: in Boardman? Or frankly, in some of the other areas
59:18
Speaker 2: in the county? I mean, it is the Mahoning County
59:21
Speaker 2: Board of Elections. Doesn't mean it has to be in
59:23
Speaker 2: a city of Youngstown. I mean, Monning County, what about
59:27
Speaker 2: all these other areas here?
59:28
Speaker 31: Austintown, Boardman would be a great spot. I don't think,
59:32
Speaker 31: and I honestly don't think Beatrice, and I would never
59:34
Speaker 31: speak for an attorney, but I feel like he doesn't
59:37
Speaker 31: really want to stay in the city of Youngstown. He
59:39
Speaker 31: will if he can.
59:40
Speaker 2: No, I think he said last night on the news
59:42
Speaker 2: he wanted to. Yeah, I just, yeah, I just, I
59:46
Speaker 2: don't get the mentality of it, but that's me. I mean,
59:49
Speaker 2: I would like to see it. spread out, let's put
59:52
Speaker 2: it that way. I mean, it was so convenient to
59:55
Speaker 2: get to the Patriot building in and out, easy parking
59:58
Speaker 2: and that kind of stuff. Would have been a great location,
1:00:00
Speaker 2: but somebody snagged that building and apparently potential developers are
1:00:04
Speaker 2: going to buy the bottom dollar store, which didn't have
1:00:06
Speaker 2: enough parking and that kind of stuff anyway.
1:00:08
Speaker 22: See, Ron, here's what we need to do.
1:00:10
Speaker 31: When you retire and you lay down your mic, we're
1:00:14
Speaker 31: going to run you for commissioner.
1:00:17
Speaker 2: I'll be tough on crime and I'll lower your taxes.
1:00:20
Speaker 31: Exactly.
1:00:21
Speaker 22: I already know what you're going to say.
1:00:23
Speaker 36: Let's go.
1:00:24
Speaker 10: Let's go.
1:00:25
Speaker 2: And guess what? I will have the Mahoning County Commissioner
1:00:29
Speaker 2: Bowling League. Yes, that's right. We will have shoes, bowling balls,
1:00:37
Speaker 2: and it will be a mixed league, men and women,
1:00:40
Speaker 2: and qualifying rounds for the Mahoning County Commissioner Bowling League.
1:00:44
Speaker 2: All right. Thank you, Auslady. Appreciate it. All right. You're
1:00:48
Speaker 2: on the air.
1:00:51
Speaker 35: Hello?
1:00:54
Speaker 2: Well, I guess you're not. You're on air.
1:00:56
Speaker 4: Hello?
1:00:59
Speaker 2: Hello? Come on, speak. Come on.
1:01:06
Speaker 35: Hey, how's it going, Ron?
1:01:06
Speaker 2: Good, go ahead.
1:01:08
Speaker 28: Hey, I just want to say, like, I'm in total
1:01:10
Speaker 28: disagreement with doing away with the property tax and replacing
1:01:13
Speaker 28: it with the state sales tax. I don't think people
1:01:17
Speaker 28: realize how much people, when they cut the state income tax,
1:01:20
Speaker 28: if you're going to do a property tax, I would
1:01:23
Speaker 28: say you don't raise the sales tax. You raise the
1:01:26
Speaker 28: state income tax. Like, I'm going to use myself as
1:01:29
Speaker 28: an example. So let's just say, like, I do pretty well. Like,
1:01:33
Speaker 28: my family does pretty well. We were making like 600
1:01:35
Speaker 28: grand a year. I don't think people realize that, like,
1:01:38
Speaker 28: it was 9% and now it's 3%. So people like
1:01:39
Speaker 28: us are saving $ 6.
1:01:40
Speaker 22: 000 per $ 100, 000 we make.
1:01:40
Speaker 28: So on an annual basis, every year since they've done this,
1:01:42
Speaker 28: $ 36, 000 to the good, $ 36, 000 to the good, $ 36, 000 to
1:01:53
Speaker 28: the good that I'm not paying. So if my property
1:01:56
Speaker 28: tax goes up a couple thousand dollars, I don't care
1:01:58
Speaker 28: because I'm up, okay, I'm still up $ 34, 000, $ 34, 000. Raise
1:02:02
Speaker 28: it again, whatever. I'm still up $ 32, 000, $ 32, 000.
1:02:05
Speaker 35: $ 32, 000.
1:02:06
Speaker 28: But if you raise the state sales tax, everyone, if
1:02:10
Speaker 28: you're making $ 50, 000 a year, you're paying that money as
1:02:14
Speaker 28: opposed to just raise the state income tax, maybe not
1:02:17
Speaker 28: where it was if you don't want to, But you
1:02:19
Speaker 28: could raise it a little bit. I mean, like, if
1:02:21
Speaker 28: I'm saving $ 5, 000 or $ 4, 000 per $ 100, 000 make, I'm still
1:02:26
Speaker 28: doing really well. Why should you, and I don't mean you,
1:02:29
Speaker 28: Ron Verb, but in this instance, you, Ron Verb, are.
1:02:32
Speaker 36: Making $ 40, 000?
1:02:33
Speaker 28: You shouldn't be burdened with that because I'm saving so
1:02:38
Speaker 28: much money because I'm lucky enough, you know, I do well.
1:02:42
Speaker 28: I'm saving $ 6, 000 per $ 100, 000 I make because that's what
1:02:43
Speaker 28: people voted for. And now I want you to pick
1:02:48
Speaker 28: up the slack because of the property tax. They should
1:02:51
Speaker 28: just tax them back onto the state income tax. And then, like,
1:02:55
Speaker 28: we're already making and saving so much money.
1:02:57
Speaker 7: It's ridiculous.
1:02:58
Speaker 28: Like, why should you be burdened with that when you
1:03:00
Speaker 28: only make 50 grand?
1:03:01
Speaker 2: So do you say to yourself, you don't want to
1:03:03
Speaker 2: eliminate property taxes?
1:03:04
Speaker 36: Is that accurate?
1:03:12
Speaker 28: I would never vote to eliminate property taxes, but if
1:03:15
Speaker 28: they are eliminated, then I would say don't raise the
1:03:17
Speaker 28: state sales tax, raise the income tax.
1:03:21
Speaker 2: Okay, just to clarify one thing, when Dave Thomas was
1:03:24
Speaker 2: talking about Amy Acton wanting to raise the state sales tax,
1:03:27
Speaker 2: it had nothing to do with the property taxes. She
1:03:30
Speaker 2: wanted to raise it for other stuff.
1:03:31
Speaker 28: I wouldn't raise the sales tax, I would raise the
1:03:33
Speaker 28: income tax. And I know people are against that, but
1:03:36
Speaker 28: I just, in the long run, I don't think they
1:03:38
Speaker 28: realize how much people with money are saving every year
1:03:41
Speaker 28: on an annual basis. It's not, like, a big deal.
1:03:43
Speaker 28: That's why, like, I don't think a lot of people
1:03:46
Speaker 28: are going to vote to do it. They couldn't even
1:03:47
Speaker 28: get it on the ballot. Like, I don't think anyone
1:03:50
Speaker 28: doing well... Even if you're making $ 200, 000 a year, you
1:03:53
Speaker 28: know you're saving $ 12, 000 every year compared to what you were.
1:03:57
Speaker 28: So even if they take $ 2, 000, you're still up $ 10, 000.
1:03:59
Speaker 28: They take two more four years from now, you're still.
1:04:01
Speaker 21: Up $ 8, 000.
1:04:02
Speaker 28: You're still to the good. You're not going to vote
1:04:04
Speaker 28: to change a system that's working for you.
1:04:06
Speaker 3: Like, I just..
1:04:07
Speaker 34: I would never..
1:04:09
Speaker 28: I just don't understand the sales tax. Why are you
1:04:11
Speaker 28: going to burden people not making money when you could
1:04:14
Speaker 28: just put it on the people that are making money?
1:04:16
Speaker 28: And if you don't want to go back to 9%, great.
1:04:18
Speaker 28: Go back to 7%. But for the people... And I'm
1:04:21
Speaker 28: not bashing your last caller. I'm just saying I disagree
1:04:24
Speaker 28: with her for the simple fact that if she's saying, okay,
1:04:27
Speaker 28: do away with property tax, the state will be booming
1:04:30
Speaker 28: because everyone's going to have all this money. Well, everyone
1:04:32
Speaker 28: that was paying 9% that is paying 3%, we have
1:04:35
Speaker 28: all this money.
1:04:36
Speaker 17: And..
1:04:37
Speaker 28: You see what I mean? I just think that argument
1:04:40
Speaker 28: is flawed because we have an example of, okay, if
1:04:43
Speaker 28: I give a bunch of people money back, is the
1:04:45
Speaker 28: state going to be booming? Well, you gave people back
1:04:47
Speaker 28: all this money years ago. So why if you give
1:04:51
Speaker 28: me $ 4, 000 more a year back in my property tax,
1:04:54
Speaker 28: do you think the state is going to be booming
1:04:56
Speaker 28: when you're already giving.
1:04:58
Speaker 21: Me $ 30, 000.
1:04:58
Speaker 28: Back compared to what I used to pay? Like that
1:05:01
Speaker 28: extra $ 4, 000, okay, great, I'll take it if you're going
1:05:04
Speaker 28: to give it to me, but it's not going to
1:05:06
Speaker 28: like make my life different that $ 4, 000.
1:05:08
Speaker 21: Okay, great.
1:05:10
Speaker 28: I have four more thousand dollars that not being mean,
1:05:13
Speaker 28: but I don't need it.
1:05:14
Speaker 31: Why?
1:05:15
Speaker 28: Like, I just think it's, I think that's the wrong
1:05:17
Speaker 28: way to go about it. You should be helping the
1:05:19
Speaker 28: people at the bottom and in the middle that are
1:05:22
Speaker 28: struggling to not become the people at the bottom, as
1:05:25
Speaker 28: opposed to like, Hey, you already got so much money.
1:05:28
Speaker 28: I'm gonna give you four more thousand and then have
1:05:30
Speaker 28: some fantasy that like, now you're going to spend so
1:05:33
Speaker 28: much more than you already do. Like, We can only
1:05:36
Speaker 28: spend so much money. You just use your money to
1:05:39
Speaker 28: make more money to make more money in the market
1:05:42
Speaker 28: every year. So I just think that's a flawed argument
1:05:45
Speaker 28: that if I give you more money back, it's going
1:05:48
Speaker 28: to make the state better.
1:05:49
Speaker 2: What advice would you give our listeners or younger people
1:05:53
Speaker 2: that are out there? You became a successful person. What
1:05:57
Speaker 2: advice would you give them on how they can become
1:06:00
Speaker 2: successful like you?
1:06:03
Speaker 28: I don't know if I would call myself successful. Fortunately,
1:06:07
Speaker 28: I had a great job.
1:06:09
Speaker 34: I got lucky. I got a great job.
1:06:11
Speaker 28: Put money away as early as you possibly can and
1:06:13
Speaker 28: let your money make money for you. We did really well.
1:06:18
Speaker 28: Every year the market does well. It doesn't matter if
1:06:20
Speaker 28: it does bad. Just keep on putting it away, putting
1:06:23
Speaker 28: it away in the market. I would never pull your
1:06:25
Speaker 28: money if you get scared, especially if you're young. The
1:06:29
Speaker 28: younger you are, who cares? You want the money to
1:06:31
Speaker 28: be high when you retire. And just get it in
1:06:34
Speaker 28: there as young as you can. I don't care if
1:06:35
Speaker 28: you have to work overtime. Get it in there like
1:06:38
Speaker 28: your 401k or your Roth or whatever.
1:06:40
Speaker 6: Just grow and grow.
1:06:42
Speaker 28: And later on, you're going to be making more money
1:06:44
Speaker 28: like I did, more money in the market than you
1:06:47
Speaker 28: will be making as your salary at work. And you're
1:06:50
Speaker 28: going to see me back laughing like, okay, great. This
1:06:53
Speaker 28: is how it's supposed to be. I'm supposed to make
1:06:55
Speaker 28: three times my salary in the market every year. You know,
1:06:58
Speaker 28: just fictional money.
1:06:59
Speaker 35: The market does well. I do well.
1:07:00
Speaker 31: Okay, great.
1:07:01
Speaker 28: Now, whatever. Like, you know, like that's the way you
1:07:04
Speaker 28: want to live. Just invest as much.
1:07:06
Speaker 31: Money as you can.
1:07:07
Speaker 28: And just, you know, like, don't, don't.
1:07:12
Speaker 2: Did somebody guide you in that so that you are,
1:07:15
Speaker 2: that you started doing that at an early age?
1:07:18
Speaker 28: Of course, Ron.
1:07:19
Speaker 35: Like, I don't know about a young age, but I
1:07:21
Speaker 35: probably do.
1:07:22
Speaker 21: What you do.
1:07:23
Speaker 28: My wife said we're putting money away and I put
1:07:24
Speaker 28: money away.
1:07:25
Speaker 32: So there you go.
1:07:27
Speaker 2: Then somebody did guide you. The woman you live with. Yeah.
1:07:32
Speaker 34: All right, buddy.
1:07:33
Speaker 7: You take care.
1:07:34
Speaker 2: Thank you. News Radio 570 WKBN. You're on the air. Hey, Ron.
1:07:39
Speaker 34: Just got one quick question for you today.
1:07:41
Speaker 22: Yes, sir.
1:07:41
Speaker 34: I was getting off Route 11 on Mahoney Avenue here
1:07:44
Speaker 34: in Austintown, and I noticed a county vehicle pulling off
1:07:47
Speaker 34: in front of me. But lo and behold, now we
1:07:50
Speaker 34: live in the state of Ohio where most agencies, cities, governments,
1:07:54
Speaker 34: any place, they all go through the state of Ohio's
1:07:56
Speaker 34: procurement board, and they buy fleet vehicles through the state
1:07:59
Speaker 34: of Ohio. why would one of our county vehicles be
1:08:03
Speaker 34: a Tesla? Those aren't your average $ 20, 000, $ 25, 000 car to
1:08:08
Speaker 34: be riding around in. So my question would be, why
1:08:11
Speaker 34: would the county be buying Teslas?
1:08:15
Speaker 2: I don't know. It's probably not a bad idea with
1:08:19
Speaker 2: gas at $ 4. 50 a gallon that they did it, though.
1:08:22
Speaker 2: I mean, actually, some of those Teslas, depending on the model,
1:08:26
Speaker 2: weren't that expensive.
1:08:28
Speaker 21: Right?
1:08:29
Speaker 2: I mean, it depends on which model you get.
1:08:31
Speaker 34: We try to support manufacturing in our state of Ohio, too.
1:08:35
Speaker 34: We have Ford. We have General Motors. We have no
1:08:38
Speaker 34: Tesla manufacturers in the state of Ohio.
1:08:40
Speaker 2: Well, isn't that interesting?
1:08:45
Speaker 34: That's something I thought you should ponder.
1:08:47
Speaker 2: I'm going to ponder it. All right, thanks. I'm going
1:08:50
Speaker 2: to ponder it. I'm jealous of everyone in a Tesla
1:08:53
Speaker 2: when I pass a gas station at $ 4. 50 a gallon.
1:08:57
Speaker 2: You're on the air.
1:08:57
Speaker 36: Hello.
1:08:59
Speaker 34: Mr.
1:08:59
Speaker 36: Burr.
1:09:00
Speaker 38: Are you having for dinner tonight?
1:09:03
Speaker 2: I don't know yet. I don't know. How about yourself?
1:09:09
Speaker 38: I got some nice buffalo party wings ready. I'm putting
1:09:14
Speaker 38: them in the oven right now.
1:09:16
Speaker 27: They look delicious.
1:09:18
Speaker 2: Buffalo party wings. You're going to have wings.
1:09:22
Speaker 22: Yep, we're going to have some nice wings tonight.
1:09:25
Speaker 2: Now, are you a wingman or a dingman?
1:09:28
Speaker 38: I'm a swingman.
1:09:31
Speaker 2: Oh, you're a swinger.
1:09:32
Speaker 31: Okay.
1:09:33
Speaker 2: You old guys like that. Isn't that interesting? All right,
1:09:37
Speaker 2: so you're making wings. Well, it sounds like it'd be
1:09:40
Speaker 2: pretty good to me.
1:09:41
Speaker 27: I just wanted to know. I've been talking about..
1:09:47
Speaker 12: All the ills of the day.
1:09:49
Speaker 38: I just thought I'd say how you're doing.
1:09:51
Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate just basic friendly conversation for a change.
1:09:55
Speaker 2: You took some heat yesterday.
1:09:57
Speaker 38: I noticed that last week you were talking to somebody
1:10:00
Speaker 38: that was down in the Carolinas.
1:10:02
Speaker 7: Yes.
1:10:02
Speaker 38: You were talking about how nice it was down there
1:10:05
Speaker 38: and all this.
1:10:08
Speaker 2: It's the hottest selling area for property in the country
1:10:11
Speaker 2: is North and South Carolina.
1:10:13
Speaker 33: I know.
1:10:14
Speaker 38: I read up on it also, and it's a very
1:10:16
Speaker 38: nice area, but I think you're kind of setting the
1:10:19
Speaker 38: scene for yourself when you finally pull the plug on
1:10:24
Speaker 38: doing whatever you're doing. Are you planning on moving down
1:10:27
Speaker 38: that area?
1:10:29
Speaker 2: Carolinas? No. I like it here, and I like it
1:10:33
Speaker 2: in Florida. My brothers are in Florida, but I like
1:10:38
Speaker 2: it here as well. When you talk about pulling the
1:10:42
Speaker 2: plug at my age, it usually means that when you
1:10:46
Speaker 2: say pull a plug, it usually means take him off
1:10:48
Speaker 2: life support. He's dead. That's what you meant.
1:10:53
Speaker 38: I know once you do that, you're not going to
1:10:59
Speaker 38: spend an hour waiting to call a talk show host
1:11:02
Speaker 38: on the phone. I know that.
1:11:04
Speaker 2: I'm going to track you down and sit on your
1:11:06
Speaker 2: back patio and wait for lunch or dinner at your
1:11:09
Speaker 2: house is what I'm going to do.
1:11:11
Speaker 7: Okay.
1:11:12
Speaker 2: That's what I'm looking forward to. It's always good to.
1:11:15
Speaker 22: Hear your voice.
1:11:15
Speaker 38: I know you're not going to spend an hour trying
1:11:17
Speaker 38: to find out this and that from some talk show host.
1:11:19
Speaker 38: You're going to be gone.
1:11:21
Speaker 2: Well, that's talk show host loves hearing from you, and
1:11:23
Speaker 2: you make him feel good, and I appreciate it. I've
1:11:25
Speaker 2: got to pause for the legal show. Thank you, my friends.
1:11:27
Speaker 2: All right, Mr. Fifth Avenue, NewsRadio 570 WQEN. And Ron Furb,
1:11:31
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1:11:33
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1:11:36
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1:11:40
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1:11:44
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Speaker 8: And should I pick up the phone and they ask
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Speaker 10: How do you detect Medicare fraud?
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Speaker 9: Scammers can get a hold of your number, order medical
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Speaker 2: Call your senior Medicare patrol.
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Speaker 25: An accused killer due back in court on Lisa Brady,
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Speaker 29: Mangione faces two federal interstate stalking charges resulting in UnitedHealthcare
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Speaker 25: Fox's Brian Yenis, a guilty plea could scuttle his upcoming
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Speaker 25: 1996 killing of rapper Tupac Shakur. Two Senate Democrats want
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Speaker 25: sailors trying to jump from the ship.
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Speaker 10: Both U.S.
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Speaker 26: Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Senator Ruben Gallego of
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Speaker 26: Arizona are now demanding answers from Pentagon officials about the
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Speaker 26: lengthy deployment of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. They're
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Speaker 26: both raising concerns about living conditions aboard ship following 250
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Speaker 26: consecutive days at sea with repeat activities in the Iran war.
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Speaker 26: The senator's demands come after a report said In the
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Speaker 25: Fox's Evan Brown, the acting Navy secretary, holding a town
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Speaker 25: Fox Weather's Mike Seidel in Hilo. A rare Hawaiian landfall
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Speaker 17: From the NASCO Roofing and Construction News Center, NASCO, the
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Speaker 37: Many people in central Ohio are still without power this
1:15:16
Speaker 37: morning following Tuesday's severe storms. Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther declared
1:15:21
Speaker 37: an emergency for the city, giving officials more flexibility and
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Speaker 37: securing resources for storm recovery. Ohioans who need assistance recovering
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Speaker 37: or by calling the organization by August 28th. An Elyria
1:15:43
Speaker 37: police officer who shot and killed a suspect will not
1:15:47
Speaker 37: face criminal charges.
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Speaker 24: It was back in January when Elyria police were trying
1:15:51
Speaker 24: to capture an armed robbery suspect. That man, John Johnson,
1:15:54
Speaker 24: drove into Cuyahoga County, crashed his car, then held a
1:15:58
Speaker 24: woman at gunpoint in an apartment. Officer Ali Sabaya shot
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Speaker 24: and wounded Johnson, who died at the hospital. A Cuyahoga
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Speaker 24: County grand jury looked at the case. They've returned a
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Speaker 24: no bill, meaning no criminal charges against Officer Sabaya, and
1:16:11
Speaker 24: they believe he acted reasonably in response to a deadly threat.
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Speaker 2: I'm Tom Moore.
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Speaker 37: The Environmental Protection Agency is approving more than $ 32 million
1:16:19
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1:16:23
Speaker 37: from the Maumee River. The project will involve the dredging
1:16:26
Speaker 37: of sediment that has been found to have high levels
1:16:29
Speaker 37: of chemicals linked to cancer, cardiovascular issues, and developmental defects.
1:16:34
Speaker 37: And the funding was announced Wednesday at the National Museum
1:16:37
Speaker 37: of the Great Lakes in Toledo. And in the meantime,
1:16:40
Speaker 37: Akron police are continuing to investigate the The fatal shootings
1:16:43
Speaker 37: of a former local high school football star, 19-year-old Jier Bell,
1:16:47
Speaker 37: played quarterback at North High School. Police say two people
1:16:50
Speaker 37: from another vehicle shot into a vehicle in which Bell
1:16:53
Speaker 37: was a passenger on Sunday.
1:16:55
Speaker 2: He died at the scene.
1:16:57
Speaker 37: Anyone with information on the shooting is asked to please
1:17:00
Speaker 37: contact the local police department.
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Speaker 2: I'm Brady Hopkins.
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Speaker 33: Now, Ron Verb on NewsRadio 570 WKBN.
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1:18:44
Speaker 2: go to the kingmaker himself, the dean of the firm,
1:18:48
Speaker 2: the namesake. of the firm, Attorney David Beatrice. Hello.
1:18:53
Speaker 3: Hi, Ron. How are you? I'm going to take a
1:18:55
Speaker 3: quick roll call if I could. Do you mind if
1:18:57
Speaker 3: I do that?
1:18:58
Speaker 2: Ron is here. Go ahead. I'll be first.
1:19:00
Speaker 8: Here.
1:19:01
Speaker 7: All right.
1:19:01
Speaker 8: Ron.
1:19:02
Speaker 27: Here.
1:19:03
Speaker 3: Frank Cassis. Tali Arengia. Ryan Kopp. Jim Melfi. How shocking.
1:19:18
Speaker 3: I'm solo again, Ron.
1:19:20
Speaker 2: You know what always makes for a great..
1:19:22
Speaker 3: It's always Mr. Dependable.
1:19:24
Speaker 2: Give me the ball.
1:19:25
Speaker 3: Send me up the middle. Get three yards and a
1:19:27
Speaker 3: cloud of dust. That's me.
1:19:28
Speaker 2: Welcome, welcome, welcome. Have you had a good weekday before
1:19:32
Speaker 2: we get to phone calls? I mean, your life is
1:19:34
Speaker 2: very troubling at times.
1:19:36
Speaker 36: It is.
1:19:37
Speaker 3: It was a... Busy week. I finally got through all
1:19:42
Speaker 3: my emails because they were just backing up. I finally
1:19:46
Speaker 3: got through all my emails. And then I woke up
1:19:50
Speaker 3: this morning. I mean, it took me like two and
1:19:52
Speaker 3: a half, three hours to get just all my backlog emails.
1:19:56
Speaker 3: The ones I haven't even looked at, right? I got
1:20:00
Speaker 3: up this morning. I had 50 emails from yesterday at
1:20:04
Speaker 3: four o'clock till now.
1:20:05
Speaker 2: Clients.
1:20:07
Speaker 3: Yeah. So it was crazy.
1:20:11
Speaker 2: Well, you got caught up. I'm proud of you. Let
1:20:13
Speaker 2: me put it that way. It's a good week. You
1:20:15
Speaker 2: didn't blow out a tire. You didn't have any traffic problems.
1:20:19
Speaker 3: No, I had some tire problems today, yesterday.
1:20:23
Speaker 2: What happened?
1:20:24
Speaker 3: My right rear tire was a little low, so I
1:20:28
Speaker 3: took it to the tire shop, and they said that
1:20:32
Speaker 3: there's a hole in it, and they plugged it, and
1:20:36
Speaker 3: they said if If this doesn't work, you'll have to
1:20:38
Speaker 3: replace the tire. I said, just order me the tire
1:20:41
Speaker 3: because you know how I am with cars and tires
1:20:44
Speaker 3: and stuff. So that's how it went.
1:20:47
Speaker 2: So you got a new tire pending.
1:20:51
Speaker 3: All right.
1:20:51
Speaker 2: Well, that's the way it goes. It's always some expense
1:20:55
Speaker 2: with you, Dave. You're never going to get ahead. You
1:20:57
Speaker 2: just never.
1:20:58
Speaker 18: No.
1:20:58
Speaker 2: Get ahead. You've got a wedding to plan for, not yours,
1:21:01
Speaker 2: your son's, obviously. So you've got to start saving some money.
1:21:04
Speaker 2: Just plug the tire and make good with the day.
1:21:06
Speaker 3: I'm going to try. And then now my daughter's talking
1:21:09
Speaker 3: about getting married.
1:21:12
Speaker 21: Really?
1:21:13
Speaker 2: Yeah. What do you think of the guy?
1:21:16
Speaker 3: I like him.
1:21:17
Speaker 2: What do you like about him?
1:21:18
Speaker 3: I think of my daughter off my hands. What is it?
1:21:20
Speaker 3: I call him St.
1:21:21
Speaker 32: Paul.
1:21:23
Speaker 27: Really? I do.
1:21:27
Speaker 3: When they're up on the boat, I take them out
1:21:28
Speaker 3: for beers. I go, dude, you are the best. God
1:21:31
Speaker 3: bless you.
1:21:33
Speaker 2: So you like him?
1:21:35
Speaker 3: Oh, please.
1:21:36
Speaker 2: Good guy?
1:21:37
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a good guy. I like him because, you know.
1:21:42
Speaker 2: Is he a lawyer?
1:21:44
Speaker 3: No, he was an Army Ranger. That's where my daughter
1:21:47
Speaker 3: met him when she'd go visit my son. She was
1:21:50
Speaker 3: visiting my son a couple times down in Savannah, Georgia.
1:21:53
Speaker 3: And then I'm on a safe. Four years ago, I
1:21:56
Speaker 3: noticed she started visiting a lot more. So I'd call
1:21:59
Speaker 3: Joseph and I'd say, hey, what are you and Rose doing?
1:22:03
Speaker 3: He goes, I haven't seen Rose all weekend, Dad. I go, oh, interesting. So,
1:22:08
Speaker 3: you know, me being the father and the logical person
1:22:12
Speaker 3: that I am, I use my analytical skills saying maybe
1:22:15
Speaker 3: she met someone down there. My suspicions turned out to
1:22:18
Speaker 3: be correct. So she met a soldier. He was an
1:22:21
Speaker 3: Army Ranger. He got out of the Army. And on
1:22:26
Speaker 3: the GI Bill, he's attending the University of Notre Dame.
1:22:29
Speaker 3: So my daughter and him moved to South Bend, Indiana
1:22:33
Speaker 3: and bought a home and got a good gig. I mean,
1:22:38
Speaker 3: and we should take care of our veterans. He's going
1:22:40
Speaker 3: to school on the GI Bill.
1:22:42
Speaker 2: What's he want to be, though? He's going to Notre Dame.
1:22:45
Speaker 3: Yeah, he got an undergraduate degree, and he's going to
1:22:48
Speaker 3: get an MBA from the Notre Dame University.
1:22:53
Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
1:22:54
Speaker 2: Not a lawyer.
1:22:55
Speaker 3: So there we go.
1:22:57
Speaker 18: Couldn't he at least go to law school? We're not
1:22:58
Speaker 18: asking him to take the bar. At this point in
1:23:01
Speaker 18: my life, no. No one needs to be a lawyer.
1:23:05
Speaker 18: They had their chance at the bat.
1:23:07
Speaker 2: We built this big firm up. Beatrice Kopp, the big firm.
1:23:11
Speaker 3: And I have lawyers that are going to come in.
1:23:14
Speaker 2: Yeah, but where's the children, Dave? Where are the children
1:23:17
Speaker 2: that we... That we fostered there.
1:23:20
Speaker 3: I have no idea in the world where my son
1:23:22
Speaker 3: is right now.
1:23:24
Speaker 2: I mean, they didn't become lawyers and take after their father.
1:23:28
Speaker 3: Well, I have money in law schools, but neither one
1:23:31
Speaker 3: of them became a lawyer. Oh, I have money in
1:23:34
Speaker 3: law school education. So they're pretty hefty sum.
1:23:38
Speaker 2: Wasn't it Tim Ryan? Didn't Tim Ryan go to law school,
1:23:40
Speaker 2: but he never took the bar?
1:23:41
Speaker 3: Yeah, he never took the bar.
1:23:42
Speaker 7: Right.
1:23:43
Speaker 2: But you can learn a lot from just going to
1:23:44
Speaker 2: law school. I mean, it's a good education. You can.
1:23:46
Speaker 3: It's a very versatile degree.
1:23:48
Speaker 10: It is.
1:23:48
Speaker 2: Absolutely is. All right. So you want to take some calls?
1:23:52
Speaker 40: Sure.
1:23:53
Speaker 3: Let's light them up and knock them down.
1:23:54
Speaker 2: All right. With Attorney David Beatrice, you're on the air tonight. Hello. Well,
1:23:59
Speaker 2: they hung up. With Attorney David Beatrice, you're on the
1:24:01
Speaker 2: air tonight.
1:24:02
Speaker 22: Hello.
1:24:02
Speaker 4: Hello.
1:24:03
Speaker 34: Hello?
1:24:04
Speaker 13: Yes.
1:24:05
Speaker 34: I got a question.
1:24:06
Speaker 7: Yes.
1:24:08
Speaker 35: Okay.
1:24:09
Speaker 7: I got a friend who bought some property and the
1:24:13
Speaker 7: lady that had the property put a clause in there
1:24:18
Speaker 7: that she had a year to get out of the house. Well,
1:24:22
Speaker 7: she moved out of the house within like six months'
1:24:25
Speaker 7: time and then shortly after she moved out, she passed
1:24:29
Speaker 7: away and he's trying to get possession of everything and
1:24:34
Speaker 7: the woman had one daughter who wants to go with
1:24:38
Speaker 7: the clause that her mother had a year is that
1:24:41
Speaker 7: clause still good for for the daughter.
1:24:43
Speaker 3: Without looking at the contract i couldn't tell you but
1:24:47
Speaker 3: if it didn't say your heirs executors the signs then
1:24:50
Speaker 3: no but you'd have to look at the language of
1:24:53
Speaker 3: the contract.
1:24:55
Speaker 7: Okay yeah i'll let him know that then because it's
1:24:57
Speaker 7: not me yeah he has to look at.
1:24:59
Speaker 3: The contract he signed with that woman And if there's
1:25:02
Speaker 3: language in there like, well, this inures or goes to
1:25:06
Speaker 3: the benefit of my signs, my children, my estate, blah, blah, blah,
1:25:13
Speaker 3: then she's probably on solid ground. If it doesn't have
1:25:16
Speaker 3: a clause like that, then she's just a squatter on
1:25:19
Speaker 3: the property and he needs to evict her.
1:25:22
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, she's not even living there. She just has
1:25:24
Speaker 7: the place locked up and it's like a hoarder's house
1:25:26
Speaker 7: that's full of all her mother's stuff.
1:25:28
Speaker 3: Well, he just needs to serve her. With forcible entry
1:25:32
Speaker 3: and detainer action.
1:25:34
Speaker 7: Okay, I'll let them know that. Thank you very much.
1:25:36
Speaker 2: Thank you. All right. With Attorney David Beatrice, you're on
1:25:39
Speaker 2: the air tonight.
1:25:40
Speaker 10: Welcome.
1:25:43
Speaker 2: Are you there, caller? Apparently not. With Attorney David Beatrice,
1:25:49
Speaker 2: you're on the air.
1:25:49
Speaker 7: Hello.
1:25:52
Speaker 2: I'm trying here. I hope my phones are working good here.
1:25:57
Speaker 2: Let me try to just speak up.
1:25:58
Speaker 3: I got my dog here. Leo and I are throwing
1:26:00
Speaker 3: him the ball. He'll go crazy. We'll throw him the
1:26:03
Speaker 3: ball a hundred times. He just never wears out.
1:26:06
Speaker 2: There you go. You're on the air. Hello.
1:26:07
Speaker 35: Hi, how you doing, Ron?
1:26:10
Speaker 22: Good.
1:26:11
Speaker 35: Good, okay. I have this incident that occurred. It's minor,
1:26:15
Speaker 35: but I just need some direction. Okay, I rent an
1:26:18
Speaker 35: antique boot at an antique mall.
1:26:21
Speaker 3: All right.
1:26:22
Speaker 35: And we paid to rent it, so... we have to
1:26:26
Speaker 35: work six hours a quarter, okay, or pay 50 bucks. So,
1:26:31
Speaker 35: and what we basically do is help the cashiers check out,
1:26:33
Speaker 35: open up stuff for people and help people out. So,
1:26:37
Speaker 35: the other day I was working and, you know, the
1:26:40
Speaker 35: boss sent me up to a parking lot where they
1:26:42
Speaker 35: were having a fundraiser. It was a tent sale. You know,
1:26:46
Speaker 35: they had a lot of stuff. It had nothing to
1:26:48
Speaker 35: do with, you know, with the secondhand store that I
1:26:51
Speaker 35: was at, but they had like a big tent sale. So,
1:26:54
Speaker 35: so anyhow, He sends me up there, you know, he says,
1:26:56
Speaker 35: go up and get these boxes that I bought and
1:26:59
Speaker 35: some wrapping and some bags. So I take the cart
1:27:01
Speaker 35: up there, and I load the bags on the cart,
1:27:04
Speaker 35: but the bag rips. So I tape up the bag,
1:27:07
Speaker 35: and then as I'm taping the bag up, the parking
1:27:11
Speaker 35: lot goes up pretty slant. So what happened was the
1:27:14
Speaker 35: cart twisted around, went forward, and hit a vehicle. So
1:27:19
Speaker 35: I grabbed the cart on the bounce, and I didn't
1:27:22
Speaker 35: really see any damage.
1:27:23
Speaker 2: Wait a minute.
1:27:23
Speaker 36: Wait a minute.
1:27:24
Speaker 3: Wait a minute.
1:27:25
Speaker 11: Hold on.
1:27:27
Speaker 3: Repeat what you just said. He sent you up to
1:27:30
Speaker 3: a lot adjacent to the antique mall?
1:27:34
Speaker 35: Well, it was in a big parking lot. Yeah, they
1:27:36
Speaker 35: were having, like, a benefit.
1:27:40
Speaker 36: Tent sale.
1:27:41
Speaker 3: Okay.
1:27:42
Speaker 35: I think it was for dogs or something. Nothing to
1:27:45
Speaker 35: really do with the... antique booth or mall. So anyhow,
1:27:51
Speaker 35: so he sends me up there, and the bag was heavy,
1:27:54
Speaker 35: so I ripped. So somebody gave me some duct tape.
1:27:56
Speaker 35: So while I was taping it, because it probably weighed
1:27:59
Speaker 35: 40 pounds. What was in the bag? I'm in my 60s.
1:28:03
Speaker 2: What was in the bag?
1:28:03
Speaker 35: As I was picking up the bags, as I was
1:28:06
Speaker 35: duct taping the bags to put them on the bottom
1:28:08
Speaker 35: of the cart, the cart just slid back, spun around,
1:28:12
Speaker 35: and the front of the cart hit a vehicle. So
1:28:17
Speaker 35: I caught the cart on the bounce and I looked
1:28:19
Speaker 35: at it. I didn't see any marks at all. But
1:28:21
Speaker 35: the owner came up to us later and says, you know,
1:28:24
Speaker 35: she came in the store and says, yeah, there's a dent.
1:28:27
Speaker 35: So we went out to take pictures. You can hardly
1:28:29
Speaker 35: see it, but there was a dent and a scratch. So,
1:28:31
Speaker 35: and it was my fault. So anyhow, in a nutshell,
1:28:35
Speaker 35: so we talked to the owner and he says, well,
1:28:37
Speaker 35: I'll call my insurance company and then, we'll see what
1:28:40
Speaker 35: we can do. Well, the lady gets an estimate and
1:28:43
Speaker 35: calls him and says the estimate was $ 1, 000, and then
1:28:46
Speaker 35: he told me that the insurance company won't cover it
1:28:49
Speaker 35: because he has.
1:28:51
Speaker 3: A $ 250 deductible. Now, the $ 250 deductible applies to collision coverage,
1:28:57
Speaker 3: not liability coverage.
1:29:01
Speaker 35: Okay, well, that's what he told me. I mean, because
1:29:04
Speaker 35: this was the guy that owned the..
1:29:07
Speaker 3: I understand that's what he told you. I doubt he.
1:29:10
Speaker 10: Turned it into his insurance company.
1:29:11
Speaker 21: So then he says that I'm responsible for it.
1:29:14
Speaker 3: Well, no, you were a servant of his.
1:29:16
Speaker 35: Now, I'm an agent of him, and I'm not a
1:29:18
Speaker 35: law enforcement cop, but I'm just donating my time. So
1:29:21
Speaker 35: am I responsible, or is he responsible for the value dollars?
1:29:24
Speaker 3: You're both responsible. Both of you are.
1:29:27
Speaker 8: Okay.
1:29:28
Speaker 35: Okay, now should the owner of the car have to
1:29:31
Speaker 35: get three estimates or you just go with one?
1:29:34
Speaker 7: No.
1:29:35
Speaker 3: First of all, do you own an automobile?
1:29:39
Speaker 34: Yeah.
1:29:40
Speaker 3: And do you have insurance on that automobile?
1:29:43
Speaker 36: Yeah.
1:29:45
Speaker 3: I turn that in as a claim. You were driving
1:29:48
Speaker 3: a cart and you hit someone and see if they
1:29:49
Speaker 3: cover it. They may or they may not.
1:29:52
Speaker 35: I was pushing a cart. What do you mean you
1:29:55
Speaker 35: were pushing a cart? It's a shopping cart.
1:29:58
Speaker 3: Oh, I thought you meant like a golf cart.
1:29:59
Speaker 2: Shopping cart.
1:30:00
Speaker 3: Shopping cart.
1:30:01
Speaker 36: Oh, no, I'm sorry.
1:30:02
Speaker 35: It's a shopping cart. And this one didn't have the
1:30:06
Speaker 35: rubber bumpers on it.
1:30:08
Speaker 3: So that would be more of a premises liability claim.
1:30:12
Speaker 3: He should have insurance on the property, and that's who
1:30:16
Speaker 3: should cover that claim.
1:30:18
Speaker 35: Because he's telling me that he called his insurance agent
1:30:21
Speaker 35: and they said..
1:30:22
Speaker 3: He's lying to you on a liability claim. There is
1:30:25
Speaker 3: no deductible. There may be, but I doubt it.
1:30:31
Speaker 35: I mean, I'm willing to pay my part because it
1:30:33
Speaker 35: was my fault. You know, the cart got away from me.
1:30:35
Speaker 35: You know, I ain't as fast as I used to be.
1:30:39
Speaker 3: Is he willing to split it with you?
1:30:42
Speaker 35: Yeah, I think so, yeah.
1:30:45
Speaker 3: He should pay the whole thing. You were doing a
1:30:47
Speaker 3: job for him. You wouldn't have been pushing a cart
1:30:50
Speaker 3: but for him asking you to do that. So he
1:30:53
Speaker 3: should pick up everything.
1:30:56
Speaker 35: All right, but you should have me check with the property.
1:31:01
Speaker 3: It's his property, right?
1:31:03
Speaker 35: Well, I mean, he doesn't own the building. He just
1:31:05
Speaker 35: rented the building off of a company.
1:31:09
Speaker 3: Okay, does he have insurance on the building?
1:31:13
Speaker 35: No, the company probably does that owns the building.
1:31:17
Speaker 3: Well, I don't know how you can have $ 250 deductible
1:31:22
Speaker 3: and him not have insurance.
1:31:23
Speaker 34: No, $ 2, 500 inductible.
1:31:24
Speaker 35: $ 2, 500 deductible. And the claim was $ 1, 000 to fix the vehicle,
1:31:31
Speaker 35: which I thought was kind of high.
1:31:34
Speaker 3: So he has insurance. What kind of insurance does he have?
1:31:40
Speaker 35: He didn't really say because I talked to him over
1:31:42
Speaker 35: the phone, but he said he's going to have a
1:31:44
Speaker 35: meeting with the car people that I did the damage to.
1:31:47
Speaker 35: And he hasn't called me back, but he just said
1:31:49
Speaker 35: he called his insurance company. So I'm assuming.
1:31:52
Speaker 3: Let's see what happens and let me know, would you?
1:31:56
Speaker 22: Okay.
1:31:56
Speaker 35: Hey, I appreciate you guys helping me out because I
1:31:59
Speaker 35: can breathe a little easier now.
1:32:01
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's only $ 1, 000. I know it's easy for me
1:32:03
Speaker 3: to say only $ 1, 000, but luckily it wasn't a lot
1:32:06
Speaker 3: more than that. And you were doing a job for him.
1:32:10
Speaker 3: You are his agent, and under the doctrine of respondeat superior,
1:32:15
Speaker 3: you're both liable. But you were doing his work, so
1:32:20
Speaker 3: he should pay it.
1:32:23
Speaker 2: All right. There you go. With Attorney David Beatrice, you're
1:32:25
Speaker 2: on the air. Hello.
1:32:27
Speaker 22: Yes.
1:32:27
Speaker 36: Yes, Ron.
1:32:28
Speaker 34: How are you doing?
1:32:29
Speaker 36: Good.
1:32:29
Speaker 7: Go ahead.
1:32:30
Speaker 34: Good.
1:32:31
Speaker 22: Yes, David.
1:32:32
Speaker 36: Just a quick question, my friend.
1:32:34
Speaker 22: My father passed away the end of May.
1:32:39
Speaker 3: Sorry to hear that.
1:32:40
Speaker 35: So my sister and.
1:32:41
Speaker 34: I, thank you.
1:32:42
Speaker 22: Thank you so much. So my sister and I, obviously,
1:32:46
Speaker 22: we've been going over to the house. We're in process
1:32:49
Speaker 22: of selling the house.
1:32:50
Speaker 35: So we check his mail.
1:32:52
Speaker 22: We check the mail.
1:32:53
Speaker 35: There was a bill from the ambulance.
1:32:56
Speaker 22: Company stating that my dad owed $ 1, 780. Are my sister
1:33:04
Speaker 22: and I liable.
1:33:05
Speaker 10: And responsible for that bill?
1:33:08
Speaker 3: No, the estate is. Did he leave? You have to
1:33:12
Speaker 3: open up an estate.
1:33:15
Speaker 22: Okay, so my sister and I are liable. The beneficiaries
1:33:20
Speaker 22: for my dad's estate, yes.
1:33:22
Speaker 32: Okay.
1:33:23
Speaker 3: How did he leave the property he's living on? Did
1:33:28
Speaker 3: he leave it to you with joint tenants with right
1:33:30
Speaker 3: of survivorship?
1:33:33
Speaker 22: He left it, what's it called, time of death?
1:33:40
Speaker 3: Okay, joint tenancy with right of survivorship. So the property
1:33:45
Speaker 3: automatically transfers to you. Did he leave any, there's a
1:33:49
Speaker 3: difference between probate property and non-probate property.
1:33:54
Speaker 22: Yes, this is not probate at all.
1:33:56
Speaker 35: I know that for a fact.
1:33:57
Speaker 3: All right, so he does not have any property to probate.
1:34:02
Speaker 22: Okay.
1:34:03
Speaker 3: I'm asking you.
1:34:05
Speaker 22: No, he does not, no.
1:34:07
Speaker 3: Okay, and no, you and your sister are not responsible
1:34:09
Speaker 3: for that bill.
1:34:11
Speaker 36: Okay.
1:34:12
Speaker 3: All right.
1:34:13
Speaker 11: Okay.
1:34:14
Speaker 35: So what do we do in a case?
1:34:16
Speaker 22: Do we even attempt to mess with it, David, to
1:34:19
Speaker 22: even call?
1:34:20
Speaker 3: No, it's not your bill. Why would you respond to
1:34:24
Speaker 3: something that's not your bill? It's a bill of the estate.
1:34:28
Speaker 3: And if there's no estate opened, then they could try
1:34:32
Speaker 3: to force an estate open. But you told me there's
1:34:35
Speaker 3: no probate property to put in the estate. So there's
1:34:38
Speaker 3: nothing there. Did he have any insurance or Medicare or
1:34:41
Speaker 3: Medicaid that would pay for that?
1:34:44
Speaker 22: He would have had to. He passed away 91 years old.
1:34:48
Speaker 22: I know for a fact he had the Medicare and Medicaid.
1:34:51
Speaker 3: And did he have a..
1:34:52
Speaker 10: I'm sorry?
1:34:55
Speaker 3: Did he have a policy on top of the Medicare?
1:35:00
Speaker 34: What's that?
1:35:00
Speaker 3: Did he have a policy on top of the Medicare? I..
1:35:06
Speaker 22: See, David, I 100% don't know. I mean, my dad
1:35:10
Speaker 22: lived on his own, you know, so I truly don't know.
1:35:13
Speaker 3: Okay, but you're able to get into the house where
1:35:15
Speaker 3: he lived?
1:35:16
Speaker 36: Absolutely, yes.
1:35:18
Speaker 3: Okay, so check and see if he had, you know,
1:35:21
Speaker 3: did he leave a bank account?
1:35:24
Speaker 22: Well, that's the kicker, yes.
1:35:26
Speaker 36: So he actually left.
1:35:31
Speaker 22: An account that my sister and I were beneficiaries on.
1:35:36
Speaker 22: But what we did was we were told that her
1:35:40
Speaker 22: and I should close that account and divvy up what's
1:35:45
Speaker 22: in my dad's savings and checking account. So we did that. Okay?
1:35:52
Speaker 3: Before he died or after he died?
1:35:55
Speaker 22: This was after he passed away.
1:35:57
Speaker 10: Hold on a second.
1:35:58
Speaker 3: Did the bank let you do that?
1:36:05
Speaker 22: The bank absolutely let us do that, yes, because we
1:36:09
Speaker 22: brought in the death certificate and we brought in the
1:36:12
Speaker 22: paper stating that my sister and I are both the
1:36:16
Speaker 22: beneficiaries on my dad's will. Yes.
1:36:20
Speaker 3: Quit saying beneficiary because.
1:36:23
Speaker 2: There's no estate.
1:36:24
Speaker 22: Well, that's what was on the paper, my friend.
1:36:26
Speaker 3: No, what was on the paper was a payable on
1:36:28
Speaker 3: death bank account. So when you took that in, that
1:36:32
Speaker 3: automatically went to you and your sister, just like the
1:36:35
Speaker 3: home automatically goes to you and your sister.
1:36:39
Speaker 7: Okay.
1:36:40
Speaker 3: Okay, so there is no probate property that you've told
1:36:44
Speaker 3: me about. There's nothing that he owns that you'd have
1:36:47
Speaker 3: to open up an estate, okay, and then pass it
1:36:50
Speaker 3: to you and your sister.
1:36:52
Speaker 35: Okay.
1:36:53
Speaker 40: Correct?
1:36:54
Speaker 8: Correct.
1:36:55
Speaker 22: You know, here's what we needed to do. I need
1:36:58
Speaker 22: to be specific with you, David, is that once he passed,
1:37:01
Speaker 22: we made sure that we took the house out of
1:37:04
Speaker 22: his name and insurance off of him because he passed away.
1:37:09
Speaker 22: And we ended up going down to downtown Warren and
1:37:15
Speaker 22: they ended up transferring the deed to his house into
1:37:20
Speaker 22: my sister and I's name.
1:37:23
Speaker 3: And you know how that occurred? It wasn't because you
1:37:25
Speaker 3: were named in a will. It's because it was deeded.
1:37:29
Speaker 3: Either he deeded himself a life estate with the remainder
1:37:32
Speaker 3: to you and your sister, or he deeded it to
1:37:35
Speaker 3: himself and you and your sisters as joint tenants with
1:37:39
Speaker 3: writer survivorship. And that's the same thing he did with
1:37:42
Speaker 3: the bank account. So he has no probate property that
1:37:45
Speaker 3: you've told me about, stocks, bonds, anything like that.
1:37:51
Speaker 22: Well, he does have a lot of annuities that my
1:37:54
Speaker 22: sister and I are actually getting funds from my dad's
1:38:00
Speaker 22: annuities because he had us both down, I got to
1:38:04
Speaker 22: say it, as the beneficiary to the annuities that are
1:38:07
Speaker 22: coming in my sister and I's nest.
1:38:10
Speaker 3: In other words, non-probate properties.
1:38:13
Speaker 7: All right, stand by.
1:38:13
Speaker 3: Everything you've described to me, he's avoiding probate.
1:38:16
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1:38:50
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1:39:02
Speaker 2: are you ready?
1:39:02
Speaker 34: I'm ready.
1:39:03
Speaker 2: Did you finish with that guy? I mean, do you
1:39:05
Speaker 2: have anything more to say to him or not?
1:39:06
Speaker 3: No, no. It wasn't because he's the beneficiary of the state.
1:39:11
Speaker 3: It was because the father made the bank accounts payable
1:39:16
Speaker 3: on death. The father made the property transfer on death.
1:39:23
Speaker 3: We'll say transfer on death. That's not technically the right
1:39:26
Speaker 3: legal terminology, but we'll just say transfer on death. So
1:39:29
Speaker 3: he has no probate property. And neither he nor his
1:39:34
Speaker 3: sister are responsible for that bill. It's not their bill.
1:39:39
Speaker 2: All right. There you go. I hope that answered for you, caller. Okay.
1:39:44
Speaker 7: All right.
1:39:45
Speaker 2: So let's move along here. Let me see where I'm at.
1:39:47
Speaker 2: You're on the air.
1:39:50
Speaker 36: Yes, Ron.
1:39:51
Speaker 2: No, he answered your question. Okay. I got to move along.
1:39:54
Speaker 2: I appreciate it. You're on the air.
1:39:58
Speaker 8: Yes, I have a question. I called a few months
1:40:01
Speaker 8: ago about this, and I have a son that lives
1:40:03
Speaker 8: in California. I don't know if you can help me
1:40:05
Speaker 8: on this one. We've been supporting him for many years.
1:40:11
Speaker 8: I'm on Social Security.
1:40:12
Speaker 40: I have no retirement.
1:40:14
Speaker 8: And we're out of money completely as far as helping him.
1:40:18
Speaker 8: He's bipolar, and I have experience with bipolar. But he's
1:40:26
Speaker 8: never been diagnosed. He won't go to the doctor's. And
1:40:28
Speaker 8: he also is very violent.
1:40:30
Speaker 3: This is your brother?
1:40:32
Speaker 8: My son.
1:40:33
Speaker 3: Your son, okay.
1:40:35
Speaker 8: So I'm out of money. I want to give him, like,
1:40:39
Speaker 8: 60 days. And we've already, you know, this has been
1:40:42
Speaker 8: going on for years. I just want to give him, like,
1:40:44
Speaker 8: maybe 60 days and 30 days to do this, 60
1:40:47
Speaker 8: days to do this, to find work, whatever it takes.
1:40:53
Speaker 8: Can he, if he goes, gets evicted from his apartment..
1:40:59
Speaker 22: Can he sue us in any way?
1:41:02
Speaker 8: Because he has mental problems.
1:41:06
Speaker 3: What did you do wrong? How old is he? Can
1:41:08
Speaker 3: he do anything? How old is he? 39.
1:41:13
Speaker 40: He's an adult.
1:41:16
Speaker 3: You're not responsible for him.
1:41:20
Speaker 8: Even if he gets evicted and that's paying all these years...
1:41:23
Speaker 8: And all of a sudden, we're out of money. We
1:41:24
Speaker 8: can't pay no more. He can't do anything.
1:41:26
Speaker 3: You were paying out of the goodness of your heart.
1:41:28
Speaker 3: You had no legal or contractual obligation to make those payments.
1:41:33
Speaker 2: Okay.
1:41:34
Speaker 3: Gotcha.
1:41:35
Speaker 27: Okay.
1:41:35
Speaker 34: All right.
1:41:36
Speaker 8: Thank you.
1:41:37
Speaker 2: Good luck. You're on the air. Wait a second. I
1:41:40
Speaker 2: appreciate your call. You're on the air tonight with Attorney Beatrice.
1:41:44
Speaker 2: Hello there.
1:41:44
Speaker 4: Hello?
1:41:47
Speaker 27: Yes.
1:41:47
Speaker 2: Go ahead, please.
1:41:50
Speaker 22: Hi. Hi.
1:41:52
Speaker 42: A couple months ago, my son's father had passed, and
1:41:58
Speaker 42: there was a will that was made out, and he
1:42:00
Speaker 42: let his son owe his son's beneficiary. His son is
1:42:05
Speaker 42: now being bombarded by all of his debts. Now his
1:42:10
Speaker 42: son is calling me because my son is collecting for security,
1:42:14
Speaker 42: and he's asking me questions I don't feel comfortable answering.
1:42:18
Speaker 22: Hold on a second.
1:42:19
Speaker 42: He wants to know how much my.
1:42:20
Speaker 36: Son is getting.
1:42:21
Speaker 3: It's none of his business. Let me answer some questions
1:42:24
Speaker 3: for you.
1:42:25
Speaker 36: Okay.
1:42:26
Speaker 3: Your son is not responsible for your father's bills.
1:42:31
Speaker 42: Yeah, my 13.
1:42:33
Speaker 3: He's not responsible for your father's bills.
1:42:36
Speaker 28: Okay.
1:42:36
Speaker 3: And the other son doesn't have a right to know
1:42:39
Speaker 3: what your son is earning in Social Security benefits. It's
1:42:42
Speaker 3: none of his business.
1:42:43
Speaker 17: Yes.
1:42:45
Speaker 3: So what's your question?
1:42:47
Speaker 42: He's saying what I'm asking is... They took all the
1:42:52
Speaker 42: money out of his father's account, every account that he had,
1:42:56
Speaker 42: pay off some debts. He still owes debts. And they
1:43:00
Speaker 42: cleaned out one of his son's accounts for that debt.
1:43:04
Speaker 42: Now he's telling me that I should be getting a
1:43:07
Speaker 42: letter from his attorney stating that they're going to start
1:43:11
Speaker 42: taking my 13-year-old son's security.
1:43:13
Speaker 3: I don't think that's going to happen.
1:43:16
Speaker 31: Okay.
1:43:17
Speaker 3: Wait until you get the letter. I don't think that's
1:43:19
Speaker 3: going to happen.
1:43:20
Speaker 7: Okay?
1:43:20
Speaker 27: Okay.
1:43:21
Speaker 31: Okay.
1:43:22
Speaker 42: It's a different state. He's in Kentucky, and I'm in Ohio.
1:43:26
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just don't think that's going to happen. He's
1:43:30
Speaker 3: just trying to get money.
1:43:30
Speaker 34: Out of you.
1:43:32
Speaker 10: Yeah, he's trying to get money.
1:43:34
Speaker 3: You're under no obligation to take his calls, even.
1:43:38
Speaker 22: Oh, okay, good.
1:43:39
Speaker 42: So I can keep ignoring his calls?
1:43:41
Speaker 3: Yeah, look, absolutely. Is he your son, too, or is
1:43:44
Speaker 3: he your stepson?
1:43:46
Speaker 42: No, no, he is my stepson. He is my stepson.
1:43:50
Speaker 42: We already married. We've never married. He said he still
1:43:53
Speaker 42: wants to see my son.
1:43:58
Speaker 3: No, he's going to have to go to court and
1:44:00
Speaker 3: get an order for that.
1:44:03
Speaker 31: Okay.
1:44:04
Speaker 42: Yeah, he has called me three times already this week
1:44:08
Speaker 42: and sent me text messages.
1:44:10
Speaker 3: Just block his number. Okay, have him hire a lawyer.
1:44:14
Speaker 3: That's good. Block his number. He's obviously causing you stress.
1:44:19
Speaker 2: Okay?
1:44:19
Speaker 31: Yes.
1:44:20
Speaker 36: Yes.
1:44:21
Speaker 31: Yes.
1:44:22
Speaker 42: Thank you so much for your time.
1:44:23
Speaker 35: All right.
1:44:24
Speaker 32: Sure.
1:44:25
Speaker 2: All right. With Attorney Beatrice, you're on the air. Hello. Yeah.
1:44:32
Speaker 21: Thank you for taking my call. A question for you.
1:44:36
Speaker 21: My son was picked up Friday night in Pennsylvania, lives
1:44:41
Speaker 21: in Ohio for DUI. He did the physical test. The
1:44:48
Speaker 21: cop had one of those cameras on his chest. He
1:44:52
Speaker 21: told my son that he passed. My son said, great.
1:44:57
Speaker 21: And then he told my son, would you blow into
1:45:01
Speaker 21: the thing, whatever you.
1:45:04
Speaker 34: Do to blow.
1:45:05
Speaker 21: And my son refused to do that. When my son
1:45:08
Speaker 21: refused to do that, he arrested him for DUI. My son,
1:45:12
Speaker 21: directly after he told him, that he would get arrested
1:45:16
Speaker 21: for DUI if he didn't blow. I'm sorry, my son
1:45:22
Speaker 21: offered to blow afterwards, and they denied him to do that.
1:45:26
Speaker 21: Does he have any legal stand?
1:45:27
Speaker 22: Is there any.
1:45:29
Speaker 21: Advice you can give?
1:45:30
Speaker 3: Well, you've mixed up a lot of different concepts here.
1:45:35
Speaker 3: So here's my suggestion. Your son needs a lawyer. Is
1:45:39
Speaker 3: this your son's first DUI?
1:45:42
Speaker 21: It is actually his second, but the first one got
1:45:45
Speaker 21: reduced to bad driving, whatever it was.
1:45:51
Speaker 3: Reckless operation?
1:45:53
Speaker 21: Reckless operation, correct.
1:45:55
Speaker 3: And how long ago was that?
1:45:58
Speaker 21: Approximately two years ago.
1:46:00
Speaker 3: Okay, and did he take the breathalyzer in that case?
1:46:05
Speaker 31: No.
1:46:06
Speaker 21: He refused everything, and the judge just gave him the
1:46:10
Speaker 21: reckless operation.
1:46:12
Speaker 3: We had a very good attorney at the time, that's why.
1:46:16
Speaker 3: Your son needs a lawyer.
1:46:18
Speaker 34: Okay.
1:46:18
Speaker 3: How old is your son?
1:46:19
Speaker 7: 24.
1:46:20
Speaker 10: Yeah, he needs a lawyer.
1:46:22
Speaker 7: Okay.
1:46:23
Speaker 3: And he needs to quit drinking and driving.
1:46:26
Speaker 34: Of course.
1:46:27
Speaker 21: Actually, he wasn't drinking. He had one beer, and he
1:46:29
Speaker 21: was a designated driver, and he refused to take the test.
1:46:34
Speaker 3: Well, look, if he subjected himself to the field sobriety tests,
1:46:40
Speaker 3: Which you're saying he did, correct?
1:46:42
Speaker 2: And passed.
1:46:42
Speaker 10: Yes, he agreed to do it.
1:46:43
Speaker 35: He passed it.
1:46:44
Speaker 3: Well, how do you know he passed it?
1:46:47
Speaker 21: I'm going by what he told me.
1:46:49
Speaker 3: Of course you are. You have to see what's on
1:46:52
Speaker 3: that body-worn camera.
1:46:55
Speaker 21: Say that again, sir?
1:46:56
Speaker 3: You have to see what's on that body-worn camera. You
1:46:59
Speaker 3: have to see what the police officer wrote up in
1:47:01
Speaker 3: the report.
1:47:03
Speaker 35: Okay.
1:47:05
Speaker 3: Your son needs a lawyer.
1:47:07
Speaker 21: Okay. And we have not, he did not issue him
1:47:10
Speaker 21: a ticket on the spot. He told him it will
1:47:12
Speaker 21: be in the mail. So we're patiently waiting. This is
1:47:15
Speaker 21: from last Friday. We still haven't got it.
1:47:18
Speaker 3: Well, I would wait.
1:47:20
Speaker 36: Okay.
1:47:20
Speaker 3: And if he mails him a ticket, you get a lawyer.
1:47:24
Speaker 3: I would get a lawyer now.
1:47:26
Speaker 31: All right.
1:47:26
Speaker 21: Thank you very much.
1:47:28
Speaker 2: You do that, don't you, Dave?
1:47:29
Speaker 3: Yes, I do.
1:47:31
Speaker 35: Okay.
1:47:32
Speaker 2: So you might want to call their firm. Okay.
1:47:35
Speaker 21: Absolutely. Thank you very much.
1:47:37
Speaker 2: Thank you. So did I hear him right where he
1:47:42
Speaker 2: claims he passed the roadside test, you know, put your
1:47:45
Speaker 2: stand on one foot and all that kind of stuff.
1:47:47
Speaker 2: Then he refused to do the breathalyzer. And then the
1:47:51
Speaker 2: guy said, well, I'm going to do this. And then
1:47:53
Speaker 2: after he refused, and the cop said he was going
1:47:57
Speaker 2: to give him a DUI or something, I thought the
1:47:59
Speaker 2: caller said he then said he would be willing to
1:48:01
Speaker 2: take it. But it was too late. Does that sound right?
1:48:04
Speaker 22: Yeah.
1:48:06
Speaker 3: He's basing everything he's saying to us on what his
1:48:10
Speaker 3: son told him.
1:48:11
Speaker 2: Okay.
1:48:12
Speaker 3: There are two people involved in that conversation, a police
1:48:15
Speaker 3: officer and his son and a body-worn camera. So we
1:48:20
Speaker 3: don't have to guess what was said. It'll be on
1:48:22
Speaker 3: the body-worn camera. When he says my son passed the
1:48:27
Speaker 3: field sobriety test, that will likewise be on the body-worn camera.
1:48:33
Speaker 3: The police officer has to have probable cause to arrest
1:48:36
Speaker 3: you for a DUI. So when he said he didn't blow,
1:48:42
Speaker 3: I'm assuming he had already taken him to the station,
1:48:45
Speaker 3: which means he had already placed him under arrest. And
1:48:50
Speaker 3: he was at the station that he refused to take
1:48:52
Speaker 3: the breathalyzer. Well, you don't get to the station by
1:48:55
Speaker 3: driving there. You get to the station because you get
1:48:57
Speaker 3: in the ride of the back of a police officer's
1:48:59
Speaker 3: car handcuffed. That's how you get to the station.
1:49:05
Speaker 2: Got it.
1:49:06
Speaker 3: So the question becomes, at the time, did he have
1:49:10
Speaker 3: a reasonable, articulable suspicion to pull him over? Look, I've
1:49:16
Speaker 3: done so many of these. I don't even have to
1:49:18
Speaker 3: read that report. I can tell you what's in that
1:49:20
Speaker 3: police report.
1:49:22
Speaker 25: Okay?
1:49:22
Speaker 2: I'm ready.
1:49:24
Speaker 3: I got behind this car. It crossed the double yellow line.
1:49:27
Speaker 3: I initiated a traffic stop. I walked up. I smelled
1:49:30
Speaker 3: a strong odor of alcoholic beverage. I observed the... Defendant
1:49:35
Speaker 3: to have glassy eyes and slurry speech. I asked him
1:49:39
Speaker 3: if he had anything to drink, and he said, I
1:49:41
Speaker 3: only had two beers. He said, where are you coming from?
1:49:44
Speaker 3: He said, I'm coming from a bar. Where are you
1:49:46
Speaker 3: going to? I'm heading home or whatever. You want to
1:49:49
Speaker 3: submit to a field sobriety test?
1:49:51
Speaker 2: Yes.
1:49:52
Speaker 3: Submits to a field sobriety test. So chances are he
1:49:56
Speaker 3: admitted to drinking, he smelled of alcohol, he committed a
1:49:59
Speaker 3: traffic offense, and he failed the field sobriety test. Guess
1:50:01
Speaker 3: what that's called? Probable cause.
1:50:06
Speaker 2: And isn't that, it's like you're visionary. It's like you're
1:50:09
Speaker 2: psychic here.
1:50:10
Speaker 18: Well, it's almost like you've done this before, like for
1:50:13
Speaker 18: 40 years.
1:50:14
Speaker 40: 41.
1:50:14
Speaker 20: Okay.
1:50:16
Speaker 3: Let me tell you what body worn cameras have done.
1:50:21
Speaker 3: They have kind of evened out the field because I
1:50:25
Speaker 3: have a case. What was on the police report and
1:50:29
Speaker 3: what I witnessed on the body worn camera, I was like,
1:50:34
Speaker 3: I said, I want to make sure I'm not, have
1:50:37
Speaker 3: a jaundiced eye looking at this. All the other lawyers
1:50:40
Speaker 3: look at it and they go, yeah, that report looks
1:50:42
Speaker 3: nothing like that body camera.
1:50:48
Speaker 2: So it benefited you.
1:50:51
Speaker 3: It benefits you and it hurts you. I mean, everything
1:50:53
Speaker 3: you say gets picked up. So here, look, when you
1:50:58
Speaker 3: get pulled over, okay, you're only obligated to do four things.
1:51:05
Speaker 3: First of all, What you should not do is argue
1:51:08
Speaker 3: with a police officer on the side of the road
1:51:10
Speaker 3: about your constitutional rights. Because you're not going to win.
1:51:15
Speaker 3: That's not where you litigate that issue.
1:51:19
Speaker 36: Okay?
1:51:20
Speaker 3: If he asks for a driver's license, you've got to
1:51:22
Speaker 3: give him a driver's license. If he asks for your registration,
1:51:24
Speaker 3: you've got to give him the registration. If he asks
1:51:26
Speaker 3: for your insurance, you've got to give him the insurance.
1:51:28
Speaker 3: And if he asks you to get out of the car,
1:51:30
Speaker 3: get out of the car. And if you don't get
1:51:32
Speaker 3: out of the car, you're coming out of that car
1:51:34
Speaker 3: one way or another. voluntarily or involuntarily, okay? Now, once
1:51:39
Speaker 3: you're out of the car and he starts questioning you,
1:51:43
Speaker 3: people think they have to be like an altar boy
1:51:45
Speaker 3: and tell the truth about everything. You're not allowed to
1:51:48
Speaker 3: lie to a police officer, but you can invoke your
1:51:51
Speaker 3: right to remain silent. Have you been drinking, sir? Officer,
1:51:56
Speaker 3: I invoke my right to remain silent. Where are you going? Officer,
1:52:01
Speaker 3: I invoke my right to remain silent. At that point,
1:52:06
Speaker 3: the police officer has to make a determination, if you've
1:52:08
Speaker 3: not subjected yourself to field sobriety tests, as to whether
1:52:12
Speaker 3: or not there's probable cause to arrest you for a DUI.
1:52:17
Speaker 3: And it's a scale. So the judge looks at a
1:52:21
Speaker 3: number of things. Refusing the field sobriety test is one
1:52:25
Speaker 3: thing the judge can look at. But the judge also
1:52:28
Speaker 3: could see the body-worn camera. Now, I'm going to tell
1:52:32
Speaker 3: you something.
1:52:34
Speaker 27: Sober.
1:52:35
Speaker 3: You'd have a hard time passing those field sobriety tests.
1:52:39
Speaker 3: I'm not kidding you.
1:52:40
Speaker 2: Particularly at my age.
1:52:41
Speaker 34: Stand up.
1:52:41
Speaker 3: Put your legs together. Put your arms down. Hold your
1:52:44
Speaker 3: foot up for six inches and see if you don't sway.
1:52:50
Speaker 22: Sober.
1:52:52
Speaker 3: Okay? So they're designed to make you fail. I mean,
1:52:57
Speaker 3: right now, Ron, stand up. Put your feet together. Put
1:53:01
Speaker 3: your arms down to your side and raise your foot up.
1:53:03
Speaker 3: six inches and count and start counting 1,000, 2,000. I
1:53:07
Speaker 3: got to a client that got to 14,000. He goes,
1:53:10
Speaker 3: keep counting. I'm going, how long did you have to
1:53:12
Speaker 3: stand on one foot? Then he put down, she failed
1:53:15
Speaker 3: the test. I want you to walk heel to toe
1:53:26
Speaker 3: on a line and not sway.
1:53:30
Speaker 2: No, I agree. I agree with everything you're saying. It
1:53:32
Speaker 2: would be hard. At my age to pass one.
1:53:35
Speaker 3: It'd be hard at any age. Especially if you're nervous.
1:53:41
Speaker 27: Okay?
1:53:42
Speaker 3: Or you've been in an accident. Look, you get pulled over,
1:53:46
Speaker 3: you're very nervous. That's going to affect your balance. It's
1:53:49
Speaker 3: going to affect your judgment. When you're stressed. Okay?
1:53:55
Speaker 36: So..
1:53:58
Speaker 3: The minute they smell alcohol, they jump to the immediate
1:54:03
Speaker 3: conclusion that you are drinking and driving. The law prohibits
1:54:09
Speaker 3: you from impaired driving. It does not prohibit you from
1:54:13
Speaker 3: drinking and driving. You just cannot be over the legal
1:54:16
Speaker 3: limit or be an impaired driver. And a minor traffic
1:54:21
Speaker 3: offense with an odor of alcohol and not much else,
1:54:25
Speaker 3: it's a 50-50 call. as to whether or not he
1:54:28
Speaker 3: has probable cause. When he's talking to you and you're
1:54:33
Speaker 3: admitting to drinking, you're giving him the probable cause he
1:54:37
Speaker 3: needs to arrest you.
1:54:42
Speaker 2: So maybe you shouldn't say that.
1:54:44
Speaker 3: I invoke my right to remain silent. It is not
1:54:48
Speaker 3: the government's business where you are at. It is not
1:54:51
Speaker 3: the government's business where you are going. You have freedom
1:54:55
Speaker 3: of travel in this country. Most crimes. Do you know
1:54:59
Speaker 3: how police officers solve most crimes? Someone takes their upper
1:55:03
Speaker 3: lip and their lower lip and they start talking.
1:55:09
Speaker 4: All right.
1:55:11
Speaker 3: May I search your car? No, you do not have
1:55:13
Speaker 3: consent to search my car, okay? I had a client
1:55:18
Speaker 3: who he gave the officer consent to search his car
1:55:20
Speaker 3: and they found drugs. I said, Did you know the
1:55:23
Speaker 3: drugs are in there? And he goes, yeah. I go,
1:55:24
Speaker 3: why did you give him consent? He goes, well, he
1:55:27
Speaker 3: was going to search it anyhow. I go, well, why
1:55:29
Speaker 3: did he ask consent if you felt he was going
1:55:31
Speaker 3: to search it anyhow? Why did you make it easy
1:55:34
Speaker 3: on him? Well, I thought if I agreed to it,
1:55:38
Speaker 3: he wouldn't do it. Oh, so he was just asking
1:55:41
Speaker 3: you a perfunctory, like a perfunctory question like, hey, what
1:55:45
Speaker 3: day is it?
1:55:46
Speaker 2: Is it Wednesday?
1:55:47
Speaker 3: I mean, it's amazing. And then people are ignorant with
1:55:55
Speaker 3: police officers. You could be respectful, okay? Because when you're
1:56:01
Speaker 3: in a courtroom, when you're in this sterile courtroom, that
1:56:05
Speaker 3: tape looks a lot different than when you're on the
1:56:08
Speaker 3: side of the road.
1:56:10
Speaker 2: I mean, it does.
1:56:11
Speaker 3: So when you're shitty to the cop, excuse my mouth,
1:56:15
Speaker 3: it doesn't look good. You could be respectful and still respect.
1:56:21
Speaker 3: Exercise your right to remain silent.
1:56:25
Speaker 17: Okay?
1:56:26
Speaker 3: And if they're good, trained officers, they will respect that right.
1:56:32
Speaker 3: I just had a case recently. They cuffed my client,
1:56:34
Speaker 3: threw him in the back of the car, took him
1:56:36
Speaker 3: to the police station, never read him his rights. They
1:56:39
Speaker 3: get him to the police station, they start questioning him.
1:56:43
Speaker 3: Never read him his rights. That's a custodial interrogation. Every
1:56:48
Speaker 3: answer is suppressible.
1:56:52
Speaker 42: All right.
1:56:53
Speaker 2: Let's take some more calls with Attorney Beatrice. You're on
1:56:55
Speaker 2: the air. Line one. Hello.
1:57:00
Speaker 36: Hello.
1:57:01
Speaker 2: Yeah. What's your question, please?
1:57:03
Speaker 7: Quickly.
1:57:05
Speaker 36: Yeah. If I invite you onto my property and I
1:57:10
Speaker 36: have insurance and you get hurt, is it my fault?
1:57:19
Speaker 36: I mean, do I have to pay?
1:57:22
Speaker 3: Okay, this is the biggest misnomer. This is the biggest
1:57:29
Speaker 3: misnomer in the law.
1:57:31
Speaker 2: Go ahead.
1:57:32
Speaker 3: Just because someone gets hurt on your property doesn't mean
1:57:36
Speaker 3: you're liable. Just because you fall at a business does
1:57:41
Speaker 3: not mean they're liable. They have to have done something
1:57:45
Speaker 3: that fell below a standard of care. So if someone
1:57:50
Speaker 3: gets hurt on your property... And you've not done anything.
1:57:53
Speaker 3: It is not your fault.
1:57:56
Speaker 2: All right. How'd they get hurt? Call her real quick here.
1:58:02
Speaker 36: Well, yeah. No, the reason why I ask is..
1:58:06
Speaker 3: Do you like how you get an answer to your question, Mark?
1:58:09
Speaker 2: Yeah.
1:58:10
Speaker 36: An advertised auction and down at the bottom of the
1:58:16
Speaker 36: auction it gives the auctioneer's name and then it says
1:58:21
Speaker 36: we're not responsible for accidents. Well, if I'm invited onto
1:58:28
Speaker 36: your property... I think you should be responsible if I
1:58:33
Speaker 36: get hurt.
1:58:34
Speaker 3: I'm glad you think that, but that's not the law.
1:58:36
Speaker 2: Thank you for your call. Okay. Appreciate it. With Attorney Beatrice,
1:58:39
Speaker 2: you're on the air.
1:58:42
Speaker 3: Oh.
1:58:42
Speaker 36: Yes.
1:58:43
Speaker 2: What's your question, please?
1:58:45
Speaker 40: I live in a neighborhood, a private drive, and the
1:58:49
Speaker 40: lots are approximately 100 feet. My neighbor built a garage.
1:58:54
Speaker 40: The building code says garages are supposed to be built
1:58:56
Speaker 40: behind doors. the living quarters, or not any further than
1:58:59
Speaker 40: the living quarters, and 10 feet off the property line. Well,
1:59:03
Speaker 40: my neighbor built a garage about 30 feet from the road,
1:59:07
Speaker 40: the private road, and 18 inches off my property line.
1:59:11
Speaker 3: I try not to be.
1:59:14
Speaker 40: Rude or cause a neighborhood problem over it because we
1:59:18
Speaker 40: are friends.
1:59:19
Speaker 11: All right.
1:59:20
Speaker 2: Do you have zoning where you live?
1:59:23
Speaker 17: Yes.
1:59:24
Speaker 36: Okay.
1:59:25
Speaker 21: David?
1:59:26
Speaker 40: Yeah, zoning requires 50 feet back, or at least 50
1:59:30
Speaker 40: feet off the road, or no closer than the living
1:59:34
Speaker 40: quarters of the house.
1:59:35
Speaker 3: For what? 50 feet off the property line.
1:59:38
Speaker 2: For a garage.
1:59:39
Speaker 40: For a garage. He's 18 inches off the garage, off
1:59:43
Speaker 40: the property line, and no more than 30 feet from
1:59:45
Speaker 40: the road.
1:59:46
Speaker 2: Doesn't sound like the zoning. He meant zoning, David.
1:59:49
Speaker 31: Well, he never got permits.
1:59:50
Speaker 40: He never did get permits.
1:59:53
Speaker 3: You're not allowed to build stuff without getting... permits. You
1:59:57
Speaker 3: have to get permits to build on your property.
2:00:00
Speaker 7: He didn't.
2:00:01
Speaker 40: He didn't. And now we look at a garage.
2:00:04
Speaker 2: Okay, just hang on. I'm running out of time. Dave,
2:00:06
Speaker 2: what should he do?
2:00:06
Speaker 3: Okay, so he didn't follow the law. There's going to
2:00:08
Speaker 3: be consequences to that.
2:00:10
Speaker 2: So call the zoning office. Right, Dave?
2:00:12
Speaker 3: Well, I think he should..
2:00:17
Speaker 2: Quickly. Get a lawyer.
2:00:22
Speaker 3: How about that?
2:00:23
Speaker 2: Get a lawyer.
2:00:23
Speaker 5: All right.
2:00:24
Speaker 3: Put a building up. Spent all that money and didn't
2:00:25
Speaker 3: get a permit. Now they're Now they're citing him for something.
2:00:29
Speaker 2: Thank you, David.