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Voting and your calls · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: I'm Chuck Douglass. Welcome to the Power Hour on six
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  Speaker 1: ten WTV. And I don't care what the temperature says.
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  Speaker 1: I know what it feels like out there, sixty seven
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  Speaker 1: right now at your severe weather station, although honestly, in
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  Speaker 1: my mind it feels like it's about fifty.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no son out, it's overcasting.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. I'm not liking this at all. A
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  Speaker 1: two one died at eight six A two one WTV.
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  Speaker 1: And two big things on my mind tonight the election
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  Speaker 1: coming up tomorrow, the primary and the expansion of CODO,
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  Speaker 1: which I'm sorry but I just don't get. As far
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  Speaker 1: as tomorrow's election, I'm I am lacking motivation as a
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  Speaker 1: member of citizen of the City of Columbus. Here's what's
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  Speaker 1: on the ballot for me tomorrow. One of them is
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  Speaker 1: to choose one of three Democrats for Columbus City Council,
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  Speaker 1: because of course there are no Republicans bothering to run.
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  Speaker 1: My other option, I got to choose three of ten
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  Speaker 1: Democrats for Columbus school Board because again no Republicans an.
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  Speaker 1: Then I got to vote yes or no yay in
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  Speaker 1: a up or down on a bond issue for the
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  Speaker 1: City of Columbus, so the city can borrow money and
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  Speaker 1: you can pay it back through higher fees on everything
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  Speaker 1: you pay the city for which I would vote against,
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  Speaker 1: but I know I'll be un numbered because plenty of
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  Speaker 1: people who who They're the same people who post past
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  Speaker 1: every other levee, whether it's you know, a government office
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  Speaker 1: or you know CODA or or the library, or the
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  Speaker 1: ADAM board or the Agency on Aging or whatever. They
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  Speaker 1: pass every levee. Every levee passes. So me voting no
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  Speaker 1: on that is not going to have anything to do
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  Speaker 1: with anything. I just can't see taking time out of
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  Speaker 1: my day to go do something that, honestly, I just
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  Speaker 1: feel like is pointless. So you can either you know,
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  Speaker 1: commiserate with me or tell me what a dummy I
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  Speaker 1: am and talk to me to go in a different direction.
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  Speaker 1: May two on WTV and John, thanks for holding on.
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  Speaker 1: You're on sixth WTVN.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, I'm going to try and convince you that it's
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  Speaker 2: worth going to the ballot both tomorrow. So I believe
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  Speaker 2: that the bond issue you're talking about it if it's
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  Speaker 2: issued too, it's a statewide issue, and it actually has
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  Speaker 2: to do with not schools. It doesn't create more property taxes.
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  Speaker 2: It is not a levey. And what it is is
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  Speaker 2: actually for roads, bridges, and some sanitary small sanitary super
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  Speaker 2: projects for local governments, not for o DOT. It's been around,
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  Speaker 2: this is it's going to buy up to be forty
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  Speaker 2: years now that this thing has been around. It comes
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  Speaker 2: up in about ten year cycles, and this is the
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  Speaker 2: next ten year cycle that it's come due. And it
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  Speaker 2: really I mean, if you've driven to work on local roads,
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  Speaker 2: county roads, township roads, city streets, you have reaped the
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  Speaker 2: benefits over the last forty years of this bond.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I drew it on roads all over the state
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  Speaker 1: of Ohio, and over the last three years since they
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  Speaker 1: passed that ten cent gas tax that was supposed to
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  Speaker 1: repair all the roads, it seems like they've only gotten worse.
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  Speaker 2: John Well, again, that covers everything including Odie. This does
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  Speaker 2: not include Odie. This is strictly your county engineers, your township,
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  Speaker 2: things like that. If you have a bridge as closed
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  Speaker 2: this and again, this has been gone on since like
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  Speaker 2: nineteen eighty seven, I think it was when they first
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  Speaker 2: passed it. And it runs in ten year cycles, and
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  Speaker 2: it's a bond.
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  Speaker 3: So State of.
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  Speaker 2: Ohio issues bonds. Investors can invest in them their tax
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  Speaker 2: free and that's where the money comes from. It's not
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  Speaker 2: a property tax or anything like that. But it really
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  Speaker 2: does help, especially the local counties and townships to pave road,
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  Speaker 2: put in bridges, things like that. In some cases where
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  Speaker 2: these unfunded mandates come down from the fests on sanitary
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  Speaker 2: sewer projects and they have to they say you either
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  Speaker 2: are going to do this or we've got to We're
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  Speaker 2: gonna see you. A lot of times, that's where the
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  Speaker 2: only place they can get the money for these projects,
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  Speaker 2: and and they're locally decided, they're they're they're very competitive.
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  Speaker 2: You can go to the meetings and talk to the people,
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  Speaker 2: and you can look on the Hile Public Works website
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  Speaker 2: to see what projects have been approved, what projects haven't.
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  Speaker 2: You can go back four years if you want. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's very open in your face. It's it's easy to access.
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  Speaker 2: You can see where this money has gone, specifically project
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  Speaker 2: by project.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'll go back and read the synopsis because as
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  Speaker 1: you're again, I'm still I'm a bit confused on this
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  Speaker 1: because I'm wondering, Okay, why is the state level then
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  Speaker 1: sponsoring this on the on the ballot when it's counties
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  Speaker 1: and cities, why would individual counties and cities not not be.
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  Speaker 2: Going because they realize, they realize that, you know, we
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  Speaker 2: send gas and packed so forth to the Feds. We
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  Speaker 2: collected here at the pump, we send it up to
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  Speaker 2: the Feds. The Feds take their cut, they send some
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  Speaker 2: back to us to the ODOT. ODAT takes their cut,
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  Speaker 2: and it's a trickle down. And you know, ODATT has
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  Speaker 2: a lot more heavily traveled roads and a lot bigger bridges.
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  Speaker 2: But when you get down to the local county level
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  Speaker 2: and township level and city level, not necessarily Columbus or
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  Speaker 2: Cincinnati or Cleveland, but I mean some some of those too.
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  Speaker 2: But they they have a lot more needs than what
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  Speaker 2: they have money. And especially with inflation. I mean inflation
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  Speaker 2: has hit everyone, especially in the last several years, but
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  Speaker 2: it's really hits the construction industry. So a mile of
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  Speaker 2: ass paving, a mile of asphalt is a lot more
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  Speaker 2: expensive than it was even three years ago.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate the input. I'll go back and take a
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  Speaker 1: look at it. I did not understand it to be
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  Speaker 1: a state wide issue, and that's just because it kept
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  Speaker 1: talking about all the local road work. But I'll go
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  Speaker 1: back and look. If it's a state issue, I don't know. Again,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to have to think. I'm a thinking person,
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  Speaker 1: That's what I do. I'll have to think about it.
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  Speaker 1: I get what you're saying. However, you know the state,
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  Speaker 1: the state is still government. The state is still you know,
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  Speaker 1: past the lottery in we'll fund the schools. There's always
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  Speaker 1: smoking mirrors at every level, and past the gas tax
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  Speaker 1: and the roads will be better. These are the same people,
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  Speaker 1: even if it's different projects, different levels of management, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's you know, counties, townships, whatever. That was what we
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  Speaker 1: were sold and I have not seen it happen since
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  Speaker 1: we have sold it. But as usual, we bought it.
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  Speaker 1: We always do, don't we A two on nine eight six,
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  Speaker 1: A two on WTV and Jerry, you're up. How are you?
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  Speaker 3: I'm good. Hey, I'm calling about the I'm in District
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  Speaker 3: seven and we have three candidates for city council there.
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  Speaker 3: It's like the primary, so one of them we're gonna win.
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  Speaker 3: And they got this tire of ross. She's raised like
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  Speaker 3: one hundred and eighty thousand dollars and half of the
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  Speaker 3: money she raised was donated by council members. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: they're all voted poor. They were all back in her.
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  Speaker 3: I said, well, then they had this court, this case that,
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  Speaker 3: and found out that she's been driving around with a
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  Speaker 3: suspended license. She's had almost four thousand dollars in unpaid
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  Speaker 3: parking tickets and speeding tickets yep, and just having oh
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  Speaker 3: just hap me all they found out. So now she's
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  Speaker 3: gonna she's paid her ticket and she's got her license
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  Speaker 3: re instated. Down.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what you got to do that we
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  Speaker 1: will somebody give me a hundred and eighty thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: of their money. I pay my tickets too.
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  Speaker 3: No, but then they Vogel. It's another guy. Of course,
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  Speaker 3: she's a Democrat, and Vogel is a Democrat, and he's
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  Speaker 3: backed by LGBQ Stone Wall Union and all that. Well
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  Speaker 3: kind of know where he's coming from.
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  Speaker 4: But they got to the other.
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  Speaker 3: Lady and all she's she's able to raise eight thousand
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  Speaker 3: dollars and she's an independent, which you know she's gonna
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  Speaker 3: get massacred, but that she's hitting.
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  Speaker 4: My vote just because she's got enough courage.
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  Speaker 3: Well she's the female, so we can't say the other part.
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  Speaker 3: So so she's able to actually try to get an
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  Speaker 3: independent voice in there, and it says that she's going
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  Speaker 3: to be fighting against you know all, it's crazy. Everything
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  Speaker 3: is Democrat in this city, everything.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I've listened to what she's had to say,
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  Speaker 1: and I looked at who is supporting her and so forth.
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  Speaker 1: She's running as an independent, but she's a very liberal
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  Speaker 1: left independent.
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  Speaker 3: So I know, I realize that too. The thing is
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  Speaker 3: that they've got all this backing, And then where is
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  Speaker 3: the Republicans. No candidate, nobody who runs the mayor is unopposed.
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  Speaker 3: When he runs, who's unopposed? You got all these other
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  Speaker 3: if be unopposed, Where the heck is all the Republicans?
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  Speaker 3: Why can't they put him somebody up? Even if they
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  Speaker 3: get massacred, at least have somebody a Republican name on
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  Speaker 3: the ballot.
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  Speaker 1: I agree, I agree, Jerry. I've been saying it for years.
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  Speaker 3: Man.
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  Speaker 1: People don't care if you lose. They just want you
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  Speaker 1: to go down swinging. We just surrender the ship. We
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  Speaker 1: don't even bother to show up for the fight.
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  Speaker 4: Well, do't even.
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  Speaker 3: Show up, Like I say that, And that's for all
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  Speaker 3: these offices, and oh, Zach Klein is back in there.
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  Speaker 4: Of course.
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  Speaker 3: You know he's an attorney, geral or the general or whatever.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he's the attorney. Yeah, and he's been backing there.
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  Speaker 3: But she got all these unpaid tickets and all this,
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  Speaker 3: and she was just she.
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  Speaker 1: Was working for him in the prosecutor's office where they
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  Speaker 1: prosecute people for that kind of stuff, when she got
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  Speaker 1: these tickets, she got all that. Now, yeah, it's ridiculous, Jerry,
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  Speaker 1: I'm with you, buddy. Let me try to get Will
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  Speaker 1: in here before we have to say goodbye. Will you're
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  Speaker 1: on six to NATVN Yes, Chuck on the.
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  Speaker 4: State issue too, as what I would very very much
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  Speaker 4: for you to vote no on that, and I am
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  Speaker 4: a counselman in the village of Carroll. Now we are
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  Speaker 4: benefiting from the last batch of the same thing as
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  Speaker 4: issue to the two six point two million dollars for
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  Speaker 4: a sewer system. But when we get that money, we're
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  Speaker 4: going to have to give five thousand to the County
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  Speaker 4: Commissioners of Fairfield County just so we can administer it
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  Speaker 4: ourselves the grant money and use our engineer at his
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  Speaker 4: people to book the job. They get five grand for nothing,
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  Speaker 4: absolutely nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's got their healed in the POSH gets to it,
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  Speaker 1: there's nothing left.
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  Speaker 4: So I say vote no on those will.
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  Speaker 1: Is that the way it's structured or is that just
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  Speaker 1: the way they managed to insert themselves.
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  Speaker 4: That's that's the way it's structured.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: And the other thing with that is I've always had
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  Speaker 4: the view and I have never in my entire life
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  Speaker 4: voted yes on a bond issue, a tax, property tax levy,
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  Speaker 4: an increase in sales tax ering. Because there is so
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  Speaker 4: much waste in the government at all levels. Cut the waste,
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  Speaker 4: then talk to me about an increase.
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  Speaker 1: Amen, Will. If I lived in Carroll, I'd vote for you, buddy.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate the call.