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Vivek Ramaswamy - For Ohio Governor · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Hi, it's Brian Thomas welcoming you back to the 55KRC
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  Speaker 1: Morning Show. A man we must vote for here in
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  Speaker 1: the state of Ohio. Get out and vote, damn it.
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  Speaker 1: Vivek4Ohio. com is the website where you get all the information,
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  Speaker 1: campaign pledges from Vivek Ramaswamy. Vivek, it is a pleasure
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  Speaker 1: to have you back on the 55KRC Morning Show.
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  Speaker 2: It's great to be on, Brian. How are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing fine, and I continue to pound the drum
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  Speaker 1: of get out and vote. Democrats are far ahead of
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  Speaker 1: Republicans in the state of Ohio so far, and while
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  Speaker 1: that is normally the case, they're out in volumes much
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  Speaker 1: bigger than previously. I know Republicans traditionally tend to vote
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  Speaker 1: more on Election Day, but there's no stopping anybody from
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  Speaker 1: getting out and casting their vote because the future is uncertain.
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  Speaker 1: I assume you share my concerns in that regard, Mr. Ramaswamy.
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  Speaker 2: Look, I trust the people of the state. I'm confident
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  Speaker 2: the patriots who share our values are going to show up.
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  Speaker 2: But in the end, it is up to us to
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  Speaker 2: defend our country and to defend our state and to
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  Speaker 2: defend our life and our way of living. You know,
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  Speaker 2: this is this is. a crucial election. It might be
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  Speaker 2: the most important election for governor we've ever seen in
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  Speaker 2: the history of our state. We can go the direction
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  Speaker 2: of New York City's and Los Angeles' and Minnesota's socialism,
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  Speaker 2: or we can go the direction of success for families
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  Speaker 2: in Ohio. And I know that when I get in there,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to be bringing down your property taxes. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to be bringing down your electric bills. We're going
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  Speaker 2: to be prosecuting that Medicaid fraud and putting that money
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  Speaker 2: back in your pockets. These are basic things I can
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  Speaker 2: get done as a governor. And For Cincinnati in particular,
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  Speaker 2: one of the things I'm very focused on for our cities,
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  Speaker 2: including my hometown of Cincinnati, is crushing crime in the cities.
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  Speaker 2: We need to restore the rule of law. I'm the
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  Speaker 2: only candidate in this race who's going to do that.
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  Speaker 2: My opponent compares police to the KKK. Think about that.
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  Speaker 2: Versus in my case, we're going to back the blue.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to restore the rule of law, hold activist
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  Speaker 2: judges accountable. That's the choice on the ballot. And in
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  Speaker 2: the end... We have no right to complain about what
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  Speaker 2: happens after unless we come out and vote now. So
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  Speaker 2: that's why I do want our fellow patriots to come out,
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  Speaker 2: take some time between now and Election Day. I don't
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  Speaker 2: care if you do it on Election Day or you
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  Speaker 2: do it early. But get out, get your family out,
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  Speaker 2: get your community out, and vote like your kids' future
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  Speaker 2: and your grandkids' future depends on it because it does.
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  Speaker 2: And if you don't, unfortunately, we'll all have to suffer
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  Speaker 2: the consequences of what happens to Ohio and what happens
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  Speaker 2: to our country.
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  Speaker 1: And on your law enforcement note, I will remind my
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  Speaker 1: listeners that you have a tremendous number of law enforcement
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  Speaker 1: agencies in the state of Ohio supporting you and endorsing you.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. I mean, look, my opponent is fundamentally going
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  Speaker 2: to bend the knee, already is, to the defund the
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  Speaker 2: police woke left. This is not a person who is
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  Speaker 2: suited to be the governor of Ohio. Her only qualification
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  Speaker 2: for the job is a short-lived stint as health director.
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  Speaker 2: When she shut down the economy under COVID... then quit
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  Speaker 2: when it actually came to making sensible decisions. She couldn't
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  Speaker 2: do that. She quit instead. And that's the longest job
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  Speaker 2: she's ever held, a doctor who's never been known to
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  Speaker 2: practice medicine. This is not somebody who is qualified to lead.
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  Speaker 2: And if there's any doubt about it, she's now quitting
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  Speaker 2: as a candidate by refusing to debate and hold herself
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  Speaker 2: accountable to the voters. That isn't somebody who can lead
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  Speaker 2: the state. In contrast, where I want to lead the
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  Speaker 2: state is, look, I believe in conservative governance. I believe
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  Speaker 2: it works for economic growth. I believe it works for
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  Speaker 2: bringing down your electric bills, for producing more energy. I
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  Speaker 2: believe in the rule of law. And I want to
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  Speaker 2: turn Ohio into the state that Texas and Florida look
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  Speaker 2: up to rather than the other way around. And that's
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  Speaker 2: what's going to happen in the next couple of years,
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  Speaker 2: starting with the biggest property tax cut for families this
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  Speaker 2: state has ever seen in our history. And that's coming
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  Speaker 2: right around the corner just a few months from now,
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  Speaker 2: so long as we get it right in November. And
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  Speaker 2: that requires action. every one of you listening to get out,
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  Speaker 2: take the time, and vote. In a certain sense, it's
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  Speaker 2: worth remembering our founders, Brian. They fought a revolution 250
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  Speaker 2: years ago so we could enjoy the blessings of liberty
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  Speaker 2: that we've inherited today. But that isn't automatic. We have
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  Speaker 2: to fight to preserve it. They fought a revolution. All
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  Speaker 2: we have to do is to show up and vote.
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  Speaker 2: But there is a famous saying from our founders, the
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  Speaker 2: government we elect is the government that we deserve in
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  Speaker 2: the end. So it's up to us to get out there,
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  Speaker 2: get out and vote right now, and I think that
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  Speaker 2: we do need to outpace Democrats in order to get
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  Speaker 2: this job done.
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  Speaker 1: Vivek Ramaswamy, you can find him online at vivek4ohio. com. Pivoting over,
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  Speaker 1: you mentioned electric prices a couple of times, and that's
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  Speaker 1: one of the big concerns people have as they're out
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  Speaker 1: there protesting AI and data centers. They're not going away
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  Speaker 1: in the sense that there is AI in the world,
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  Speaker 1: and it's not leaving us. The question is whether we
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  Speaker 1: can capitalize on it and resolve problems. people's concerns in advance,
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  Speaker 1: which your platform on data centers does. I got to
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  Speaker 1: point out, the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce just had this
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  Speaker 1: executive summary, or rather a summary on AI and data centers.
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  Speaker 1: They're all over the place already, but their response was, listen,
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  Speaker 1: we got to get the tax dollars. That's good. We
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  Speaker 1: got to hold the operators accountable for securing their own
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  Speaker 1: energy needs, bring their own power with you, and then
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to worry about energy bills going up.
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  Speaker 1: But in any event, Their conclusion is data centers will
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  Speaker 1: bring about growth, it'll bring about jobs, and we can
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  Speaker 1: deal with the challenges. That sounds like Vivek Ramaswamy.
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  Speaker 2: Well, look, I've gone a little further than that in
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  Speaker 2: saying there need to be some baseline standards, right, on
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  Speaker 2: data centers. Now they bring your own power, but you
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  Speaker 2: can run the math such that that means local residents
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  Speaker 2: in that area should pay free electricity, actually, if you
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  Speaker 2: look at the difference between offtake versus supply for these
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  Speaker 2: data centers. They've got to pay property taxes, no abatements,
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  Speaker 2: and that brings down property taxes for local residential communities.
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  Speaker 2: Build trees around these things. They call it vegetative insulation.
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  Speaker 2: So it's not an eyesore, so it insulates the sound.
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  Speaker 2: Extremely inexpensive and easy to do. And then focus on
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  Speaker 2: putting them on abandoned industrial sites instead of fertile farmland
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  Speaker 2: or even in residential communities. We have plenty of abandoned
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  Speaker 2: industrial sites in Ohio. So that's on that question. But
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  Speaker 2: your number one question, Brian, on electric bills. That's really
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  Speaker 2: what's hitting families hard right now. And regardless of whether
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  Speaker 2: data centers get built in Ohio or in another state,
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  Speaker 2: that still is going to result. And also energy demand
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  Speaker 2: overall is resulting in higher electric bills unless we're producing
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  Speaker 2: more energy. That's the key to the kingdom. And I
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  Speaker 2: think if you look at radicals like my opponent, she's
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  Speaker 2: been an opponent of fossil fuels. This would sense electric
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  Speaker 2: bills skyrocketing. We should instead be putting more energy into
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  Speaker 2: the grid regardless of what your policy is on data centers.
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  Speaker 2: Use natural gas. Bring nuclear energy to the state. I
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  Speaker 2: know you've been a big proponent of that, Brian. Huge.
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  Speaker 2: I think there's a huge opportunity with reforms at the
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  Speaker 2: federal level for Ohio to really put more energy into
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  Speaker 2: our grid to bring down electric bills by a lot.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you look at what you're paying now versus
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  Speaker 2: before the pandemic. It might be two or three times
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  Speaker 2: as much in electric bills.
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  Speaker 1: It is.
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  Speaker 2: I want to reset it back to where it was
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  Speaker 2: before the pandemic and then go down from there. We
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  Speaker 2: can do this. This is achievable. This is not futuristic stuff.
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  Speaker 2: We can deliver this in my first term if we
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  Speaker 2: have the right governor on top who actually sets the
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  Speaker 2: energy table properly for Ohioans. And there's one piece of this, Brian,
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  Speaker 2: which is that we're part of a 13-state network, PJM.
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  Speaker 2: Ohio needs to be more assertive in standing for common
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  Speaker 2: sense and our interests at PJM. And I think historically
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  Speaker 2: we've been more passive. That's going to change when I'm governor.
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  Speaker 2: And I think the antifossil fuel agenda, the really– some
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  Speaker 2: of the unproductive decisions that are made from out-of-state actors
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  Speaker 2: that affect Ohio, that's going to change when I'm governor
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  Speaker 2: of this state. But it does require a common sense
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  Speaker 2: businessman at the top. rather than a failed bureaucrat whose
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  Speaker 2: failure she seeks to reward now with a promotion to governor.
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  Speaker 1: Who would also champion policies, which is the design of
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  Speaker 1: the Green New Deal crap that would cause gasoline to
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  Speaker 1: go up. That's what their desire was. I mean, this
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  Speaker 1: is what she stands for. We're angry at gas prices.
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  Speaker 1: You want to blame Donald Trump for that?
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  Speaker 2: Fine.
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  Speaker 1: The war, there is a line you can draw between
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  Speaker 1: the war and the increase in gas prices. But Ultimately,
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  Speaker 1: the supply issues will go down. If you go with
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  Speaker 1: the Democrats, they're going to put in place regulations and,
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  Speaker 1: you know, self-inflicted wounds to keep the price up. So
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  Speaker 1: you go green. It's just insane.
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  Speaker 2: And you saw it happen under Biden, by the way. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: The peak gas prices were higher under Biden than they
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  Speaker 2: are right now in the state of Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 2: Because of those very policies that Biden and by the way,
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  Speaker 2: Amy Acton, right along with them. Yes. supports the exact
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  Speaker 2: same thing. And just like Biden tried to hide from
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  Speaker 2: a debate because he didn't want to answer these questions,
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  Speaker 2: Amy Acton is now hiding from that debate because they
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  Speaker 2: don't want to answer to the voters. They're really afraid
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  Speaker 2: of the voters because they know that they're responsible for
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  Speaker 2: the policies that are wrecking your life. You think about
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  Speaker 2: the property tax crisis. God forbid Amy Acton's ever elected governor.
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  Speaker 2: Those property taxes are going to continue to double. She
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  Speaker 2: has no plan to address it other than to grow
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  Speaker 2: government and government spending. The income tax will double in
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  Speaker 2: this state to pay for her I would say, boneheaded
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  Speaker 2: plan to forgive all medical debt without offering a way
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  Speaker 2: to actually fix the underlying health care system. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: this is a economic blow to Ohio if this woman
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  Speaker 2: comes anywhere near the levers of power. Brian, there's CEOs
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  Speaker 2: who have already said that if they're considering coming to Ohio,
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  Speaker 2: they're going to another state if she's elected. That's already
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  Speaker 2: crystal clear. And I worry about an economic devastation to
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  Speaker 2: a state that's now headed in the right direction again.
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  Speaker 2: We can't afford to see another wave of entire industries
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  Speaker 2: leaving our state, communities gutted. That's what's coming if a
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  Speaker 2: far leftist– and I would say even somebody who doesn't
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  Speaker 2: have the competence as an executive comes to power. But
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  Speaker 2: the good news is we don't have to go that way.
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  Speaker 2: There's a better way for the state, which is choose
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  Speaker 2: economic success. Choose economic freedom. Choose the rule of law
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  Speaker 2: in our cities from Cincinnati to Cleveland. to Columbus to
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  Speaker 2: Toledo and everywhere in between. It's common sense, but all
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  Speaker 2: it requires is us coming out and voting for common sense.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what I stand for.
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  Speaker 1: I implore my listeners to heed your warning and heed
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  Speaker 1: your advice. Do you want incompetence and cowardice? Or do
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  Speaker 1: you want a demonstrably successful businessman who has a passion
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  Speaker 1: for the state of Ohio and, of course, the Cincinnati
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  Speaker 1: area where he grew up? BeVakeForOhio.com is the website. Check
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  Speaker 1: it out. Get involved. Donate. And put a yard sign
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  Speaker 1: out in your yard. BeVake, you are always welcome here
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  Speaker 1: on the 55KRC Morning Show, sir. I appreciate your passion,
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  Speaker 1: and I wish you all the best of luck. You
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  Speaker 1: certainly have my vote, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. We'll get out and vote, and we're going
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  Speaker 2: to get this job done and win this thing.