Latest / Chuck Douglas / Rep Dontavius Jarrells
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- 0:04Speaker 1: Greeting salitations. My friends, welcome to another edition of the
- 0:07Speaker 1: Power Hour. I'm set Douglas, you know who you are,
- 0:09Speaker 1: and we take it from there. We get one hour together,
- 0:11Speaker 1: which means I talk really fast and you must listen
- 0:14Speaker 1: even faster. My number eight two one nine, eight eighty
- 0:16Speaker 1: six WTVN or eight hundred six' ten WTV.
- 0:22Speaker 2: In let me read the quote to. You it goes as.
- 0:24Speaker 3: FOLLOWS i am willing to look at any, gap any
- 0:27Speaker 3: gap when it comes in, play when it comes to
- 0:30Speaker 3: how we navigate the investigation process for these cases to
- 0:34Speaker 3: get a child in a safe place because they deserve.
- 0:37Speaker 3: It we should not have children dying because the system.
- 0:41Speaker 2: Failed.
- 0:41Speaker 3: That to, THAT i, say let the church say. AMEN
- 0:45Speaker 3: i have had and continue to have an issue With children's.
- 0:50Speaker 3: Services i'm here In Franklin, county but this situation exists
- 0:52Speaker 3: all over the state Of. Ohio their stated purpose for
- 0:56Speaker 3: existing is to ensure the welfare and protect the well
- 1:01Speaker 3: being of our. Children and yet we've had five deaths
- 1:07Speaker 3: in the last fifteen months here In Franklin county of
- 1:11Speaker 3: children that were in, homes in, families in situations which
- 1:15Speaker 3: were under some sort of investigation or interaction with children's.
- 1:19Speaker 3: Services and it is much like WHEN i hear of
- 1:24Speaker 3: domestic terrorism and THE fbi, says, well.
- 1:27Speaker 2: He was on our.
- 1:28Speaker 3: Radar then why didn't you do? Something when you are
- 1:35Speaker 3: investigating these cases going into these households and allegedly protecting,
- 1:41Speaker 3: Children why isn't something? Done why are they left? There
- 1:45Speaker 3: there is an OVERBEARING i believe belief within the children's services,
- 1:52Speaker 3: community if you, will that you know it's best to
- 1:56Speaker 3: have children back with their. Families that's an, antiquated quite
- 1:59Speaker 3: frankly antiquated point of, view because when that point of view,
- 2:03Speaker 3: originated families were something much different than what they are.
- 2:09Speaker 3: Today pursuing yesterday's goals with today's realities makes no. Sense
- 2:16Speaker 3: sometimes those children are not better off in those homes
- 2:20Speaker 3: with those, families but nobody was doing. Anything and then
- 2:26Speaker 3: upsteps this young man from The Ohio, legislature representing the
- 2:31Speaker 3: district one in Our house Of. Representatives he is A,
- 2:34Speaker 3: democrat that's, RIGHT i said. IT i don't, care you,
- 2:38Speaker 3: know when it comes to doing the right, THING i
- 2:39Speaker 3: don't care what the party affiliation. Is his name Is
- 2:43Speaker 3: Dontavius gerald's people, say, ah he'll never come on, you
- 2:47Speaker 3: he'll never come on that. Station he'll never come on that.
- 2:49Speaker 3: Show oh yes he. Did let me get him on
- 2:51Speaker 3: here right now on The Legacy Retirement group dot com phone.
- 2:53Speaker 2: Lines mister gerald how are, you?
- 2:55Speaker 4: Sir i'm doing. Great how are you, Doing?
- 2:57Speaker 2: CHUCK i am.
- 2:58Speaker 3: Rather passionate about this, subject And i'm glad you are with.
- 3:00Speaker 3: Me So i'm doing. Well before we, begin let Me
- 3:05Speaker 3: i'm always a big believer in making sure that the
- 3:07Speaker 3: higher ups know what lower ups are doing YOUR i
- 3:10Speaker 3: believe she's your legislative, Assistant. Stephanie, yes she represents you,
- 3:16Speaker 3: marvelously and give her a pat right. Back the communication
- 3:20Speaker 3: with her was, tremendous And i'm very impressed by.
- 3:22Speaker 4: Her oh thank. You she's one of the. Best she
- 3:25Speaker 4: in fact worked at The White, house so she's she's
- 3:28Speaker 4: the best of the.
- 3:28Speaker 2: Best hotly. Smokes you did, WELL.
- 3:31Speaker 4: I think. SO i think, So Dan Tavius.
- 3:34Speaker 3: Geralds tell me right off the, bat what was your inspiration?
- 3:38Speaker 3: Here was it just a matter of seeing the stories
- 3:40Speaker 3: in the news as it experiences in the past that
- 3:42Speaker 3: you've had with these. Organizations what inspired you to decide
- 3:45Speaker 3: to take this bull by the horns and try to do?
- 3:47Speaker 2: Something?
- 3:48Speaker 4: Yeah, so this is not the first time that we've
- 3:51Speaker 4: Seen charnabese cases rise up In Franklin. County you, know
- 3:56Speaker 4: the truth is every day across this great, state there
- 4:00Speaker 4: are children that are in homes where the abuse neglect
- 4:03Speaker 4: that are happening in real, time and whether it is
- 4:08Speaker 4: by the system or by, people, unfortunately these kids never
- 4:14Speaker 4: get the justice they. Deserve and, so you, know WHEN
- 4:17Speaker 4: i heard AND i was hearing, about you, know the
- 4:20Speaker 4: depths over, time but WHEN i heard that it was
- 4:24Speaker 4: five over the last fifteen, MONTHS i started to really
- 4:27Speaker 4: look back at some of the LEGISLATION i was working
- 4:30Speaker 4: on related to a youth out bolz of in office
- 4:32Speaker 4: and thinking about what do we what can we do
- 4:35Speaker 4: as a state to address child abuse neglects in a
- 4:37Speaker 4: more intentional way and give support to our. Counties and
- 4:42Speaker 4: it just kind of took a life of his. OWN
- 4:44Speaker 4: i really started looking, into you, know what the current
- 4:48Speaker 4: system is and how can it be? Better because no
- 4:51Speaker 4: child should be dying because the system failed, them and
- 4:54Speaker 4: that is essentially what happened to these poor young. Souls
- 4:57Speaker 4: AND i think we can be better as a.
- 4:59Speaker 3: State the process, here because this is a work in
- 5:03Speaker 3: process or in, progress is putting it. Together are you
- 5:07Speaker 3: planning on doing any sort of public town hall type
- 5:11Speaker 3: things where people can bring to your your staff their
- 5:14Speaker 3: personal stories to give you maybe a wider view of
- 5:17Speaker 3: the things going.
- 5:18Speaker 4: On, absolutely absolutely mean what the intention? IS i think
- 5:22Speaker 4: it's twofold. One i'm being really intentional about meeting with
- 5:26Speaker 4: all of the system to the local, system the, county
- 5:30Speaker 4: our CC, cps, so The Protective SERVICES, tasa meeting With
- 5:37Speaker 4: Job Family, services meeting with our county. OFFICIALS i, mean
- 5:40Speaker 4: really being intentional about understanding what. Happened AND i get
- 5:45Speaker 4: that there are some pieces of these cases THAT i
- 5:48Speaker 4: might not get informational on because there could be some
- 5:50Speaker 4: legal proceedings following these. Cases but WHAT i want to
- 5:55Speaker 4: see in a, real true fashion is where did the system?
- 5:59Speaker 4: Fail and, then to your, Point, chuck have a real
- 6:04Speaker 4: honest conversation with our community residents about what else is
- 6:09Speaker 4: going on That i'm quite frankly maybe. Missing and then
- 6:12Speaker 4: through those two, conversations we're going to craft a bill
- 6:16Speaker 4: that's really going to, ADDRESS i, believe and provide support
- 6:20Speaker 4: to the counties and ultimately save lives for our young,
- 6:23Speaker 4: babies because, again, no the systems should not be selling
- 6:26Speaker 4: our young kids and the type.
- 6:27Speaker 3: Rote that you have to walk here because you know
- 6:29Speaker 3: there is themblem that there is there's the possibility of
- 6:33Speaker 3: some legal culpability on behalf of these government, agencies and
- 6:37Speaker 3: nobody's going to want to talk about, it but that
- 6:39Speaker 3: is a reality of what you're.
- 6:41Speaker 2: Pursuing.
- 6:41Speaker 4: Now, YEAH i, mean WHAT i would say is anytime
- 6:45Speaker 4: you're looking at a system or systemic, issue that's always
- 6:49Speaker 4: going to be part of the. Calculus but WHAT i
- 6:53Speaker 4: will say, is at the end of the, DAY i
- 6:55Speaker 4: just want the system to be right right because these
- 6:59Speaker 4: children lie are at. Stake AND i say a lot
- 7:02Speaker 4: When i'm in The State. House the work that we
- 7:04Speaker 4: do in The State house is literally the difference between
- 7:06Speaker 4: life and. Death and the work THAT i think needs
- 7:10Speaker 4: to be done not just In Franklin, county but really
- 7:12Speaker 4: all Across ohio to protect children from abuse and neglect
- 7:16Speaker 4: of the highest. Order it's not a democratic issue that
- 7:19Speaker 4: A republican issue is a human, issue AND i believe
- 7:21Speaker 4: that we can really get this done when we all work.
- 7:23Speaker 3: Together do you say, this by the, Way Dantavius, gerald
- 7:27Speaker 3: he's a Representative house Of representatives here in the state
- 7:29Speaker 3: Of ohio for district.
- 7:30Speaker 2: Grow where Is district, one by the, way what does that?
- 7:32Speaker 4: Encompass, yeah So district one is all Of columbus or Downtown,
- 7:37Speaker 4: Columbus and so you know every district has about one
- 7:41Speaker 4: hundred and twenty thousand. Residents and SO i have the
- 7:44Speaker 4: most centered part of the district Of. Ohio SO i
- 7:47Speaker 4: actually have where the rep where The State house. Is
- 7:50Speaker 4: and if you're in my, office for folks who are,
- 7:51Speaker 4: Listening i'll, say look out the. Window everything that the light,
- 7:54Speaker 4: touches symba's, mind anything that shadow, touches don't, go there's
- 7:58Speaker 4: not my. District and SO i represent the most center
- 8:01Speaker 4: part Of. Ohio if the MIND i like.
- 8:06Speaker 3: That are we at the stage right now where where
- 8:12Speaker 3: people can do?
- 8:13Speaker 2: Anything is?
- 8:13Speaker 3: There is it just kind of a standby know this
- 8:16Speaker 3: is going on and wait for that call to action
- 8:18Speaker 3: or is there anything that the public can do right
- 8:20Speaker 3: now to help you move?
- 8:21Speaker 4: Along, Chuck that's a great. Question WHAT i will tell
- 8:24Speaker 4: you is and this is something that everyone can do
- 8:28Speaker 4: right now in their own respective. Communities see, something say.
- 8:32Speaker 4: Something you are not a. Stitch if there are children
- 8:36Speaker 4: that are being neglected or abused right in front of,
- 8:39Speaker 4: you you have to show. Up there is top lines
- 8:44Speaker 4: and we can always share those with. You chuck to
- 8:46Speaker 4: let folks know that you're seeing something that just does
- 8:51Speaker 4: not look. Right child abuse is. Changing you, know these
- 8:55Speaker 4: individuals are getting smarter on how they abuse. Children and
- 9:00Speaker 4: unfortunately you may not see marks on a child's, body
- 9:05Speaker 4: but you definitely will understand if the certain actions from the,
- 9:08Speaker 4: child if you're looking at them like there's something. AMISS
- 9:11Speaker 4: i just want folks to recognize that they have power
- 9:14Speaker 4: and there are hotlines and places to call and to
- 9:20Speaker 4: fiul complaints so that we can ultimately intervene if that
- 9:24Speaker 4: is a childhood abused and neglect, occurring to get these
- 9:28Speaker 4: children in places that are safe and ultimately save their.
- 9:31Speaker 3: Life and in beating the child is not necessarily what abuse.
- 9:35Speaker 3: Is our abuse has the definition has evolved over the.
- 9:39Speaker 3: Years you, know domestic violence used to be a man
- 9:42Speaker 3: getting drunk beaten up on his. Wife well now it's
- 9:44Speaker 3: all kinds of, things including some wives that can beat
- 9:46Speaker 3: up on their. Husbands and child abuse is the same.
- 9:51Speaker 3: Way it's not just beating on the. Child it is
- 9:53Speaker 3: it is the, treatment the verbal treatment of the. Child
- 9:57Speaker 3: it is allowing a child to live in. Film when
- 10:01Speaker 3: there are, options when you can get help to get
- 10:04Speaker 3: cleaned up if you got bugs in your, house or
- 10:06Speaker 3: whether they trust me called. Account there's some program that
- 10:10Speaker 3: will help you do. That but when you allow it to,
- 10:11Speaker 3: continue that in itself is, abuse and, unfortunately too many
- 10:15Speaker 3: times they don't recognize. That i've even had A columbus
- 10:19Speaker 3: firefighters to run paramedic units that have told me they've
- 10:23Speaker 3: gone into houses before crawling with, bugs no running water
- 10:26Speaker 3: and have Called children's, services And Children's services still doesn't
- 10:29Speaker 3: feel it's necessary to take children out of that. Environment
- 10:33Speaker 3: AND i don't get. That we've got to expand what
- 10:35Speaker 3: we see as a bad environment and stop limiting to
- 10:40Speaker 3: these nineteen fifties notions of what a family is and what's.
- 10:43Speaker 4: Okay, Well, chuck let me tell you. This you, know
- 10:46Speaker 4: we have one of the oldest of hidvice cooled in the,
- 10:49Speaker 4: nation and there are laws that are still on the
- 10:52Speaker 4: books that were from the early nineteen. Hundreds and the truth,
- 10:56Speaker 4: is we don't live in early nineteen hundreds. Anymore we
- 10:59Speaker 4: live in twenty twenty. Five and WHAT i plan to
- 11:01Speaker 4: do with my legislation is to update the code so
- 11:05Speaker 4: that it tells the real experiences of our children today
- 11:09Speaker 4: In ohio and not of the fault foregone, past because
- 11:13Speaker 4: that's the only way that we're going to save lives
- 11:15Speaker 4: and really build a system that includes every Single. Ohioan
- 11:19Speaker 4: and so we got work to, do but you got
- 11:22Speaker 4: the right man for the.
- 11:23Speaker 3: Job you spoke this to life within the halls of
- 11:26Speaker 3: The Ohio. Legislature do you are you feeling like you've
- 11:29Speaker 3: got some? Backing are you automatically seeing some walls in
- 11:33Speaker 3: front of? You how is it being?
- 11:34Speaker 4: Received, no no, Walls no. Listen i'll tell you for
- 11:37Speaker 4: folks who are watching, Before i'm sorry folks who are.
- 11:40Speaker 4: Listening you, KNOW i believe this is a bipartisan. Issue
- 11:44Speaker 4: and AS i said, earlier this is not About republicans Or.
- 11:48Speaker 4: Democrats this is about doing what's right for. Children and
- 11:51Speaker 4: when it comes to children and mental health and, addiction
- 11:55Speaker 4: like you rarely see lots of. Polarization is more, so
- 12:00Speaker 4: how can we get this? Right how can we make
- 12:02Speaker 4: sure that we're supporting our, Communities but most, importantly how
- 12:05Speaker 4: are we making sure we're saving children's lives for the
- 12:08Speaker 4: better so that they can really be productive citizens of the,
- 12:11Speaker 4: State because that's where we want.
- 12:12Speaker 2: Them to grow up to Become, yeah and you're absolutely,
- 12:14Speaker 2: right there is no.
- 12:15Speaker 3: Politics you AND i probably agree on about ten percent
- 12:17Speaker 3: of the things they are to.
- 12:18Speaker 2: DISAGREE i agree all but from.
- 12:21Speaker 3: This saying you've GOT i got your back, completely AND
- 12:24Speaker 3: i appreciate IF i can do anything to promote, it push,
- 12:27Speaker 3: it publicize Whatever i'm at your disposal for that BEFORE
- 12:31Speaker 3: i have to say goodbye to. You is there ANYTHING
- 12:33Speaker 3: i am not asking you about that you feel the
- 12:36Speaker 3: need you want to make sure you get said?
- 12:37Speaker 4: Today, NO i just want folks to recognize that the
- 12:41Speaker 4: legislature is an, important important place of government where it
- 12:46Speaker 4: truly changes the material conditions of. People and SO i
- 12:49Speaker 4: would love to come back On chuck when we have the,
- 12:51Speaker 4: bill to walk through the tenants of the bill and
- 12:54Speaker 4: give people a real sense of the work that we
- 12:57Speaker 4: do in the State. House it's going to save. Families
- 12:59Speaker 4: and SO i work for, you AS i like to
- 13:01Speaker 4: say regards of Your republican or A, Democrat we're all
- 13:04Speaker 4: public service at, heart and at the end of the,
- 13:06Speaker 4: day this time we build To ohio that we all.
- 13:07Speaker 2: Deserve State representative Of.
- 13:10Speaker 3: Geralds you are welcome here absolutely anytime and when it's
- 13:12Speaker 3: time to discuss this.
- 13:13Speaker 2: Further if we need a.
- 13:15Speaker 3: Lot of, time because it's very, involved we'll do some
- 13:17Speaker 3: of it on the, air do the rest of us
- 13:18Speaker 3: as a. Podcast put it up on the websites and
- 13:20Speaker 3: the socials and everything so people can hear it in.
- 13:22Speaker 3: DEPTH i truly appreciate your willingness to be here, tonight
- 13:26Speaker 3: AND i truly appreciate what you're trying to.
- 13:28Speaker 4: Accomplish thank, you, sir appreciate, you and thank you all for.
- 13:31Speaker 2: Listening we will talk.
- 13:32Speaker 3: Again, Soon thank you very, much. Sir we're twenty minutes
- 13:35Speaker 3: past the hour, Now travick And weather together from day,
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- 13:40Speaker 3: Going johnny still to come on The Power hour this.
- 13:46Speaker 3: Evening remember the big shooting up there in The Short
- 13:48Speaker 3: north to ten people that were shot and the reason
- 13:50Speaker 3: we can't get brought worst after ten pm in The Short.
- 13:53Speaker 3: North the guy who was driving the getaway car was
- 13:56Speaker 3: caught and he's been. Sentenced and you will not believe
- 14:00Speaker 3: what they call a. Sentence, plus you know the borders
- 14:02Speaker 3: are completely. Safe yeah, Right we've got a man illegally
- 14:06Speaker 3: in THE us arrested in Western, ohio for a Deadly columbus.
- 14:09Speaker 3: Shooting we've also got a couple of people here THAT
- 14:11Speaker 3: ice is Telling Franklin county to detain after stealing hundreds
- 14:17Speaker 3: of thousands of dollars in snap benefits while Eligible americans
- 14:21Speaker 3: are looking at cuts to THEIR ebt. Benefits, YEAH i,
- 14:24Speaker 3: know can't believe. That and, last but not, Least Ridgeview Middle.
- 14:28Speaker 3: School remember the bomb. Threat the police show, up the
- 14:31Speaker 3: secretary and the principal won't let the police officers. In
- 14:33Speaker 3: they got a bomb, threat they, said the bit Death Thank.
- 14:35Speaker 3: Pola they, Well Columbus City schools has come to a.
- 14:38Speaker 3: Conclusion they've issued a statement and once again you're not
- 14:42Speaker 3: going to believe what they had to. Say that is
- 14:43Speaker 3: all still to come in The power hour right now
- 14:45Speaker 3: eight two one, nine eight eighty six my number eight
- 14:47Speaker 3: TWO mewtv in And, diane you're on The Legacy Retirement
- 14:50Speaker 3: group dot com phone line tight hi.
- 14:52Speaker 5: Check appreciate the. Subject, SO i think a lot of
- 14:57Speaker 5: this abuse is instill from the fact that we've been
- 15:03Speaker 5: desensitized due to aborting. Babies the fact that you know
- 15:10Speaker 5: when you can go in and literally kill a nine
- 15:15Speaker 5: month old baby before it is. DELIVERED i think that
- 15:19Speaker 5: just naturally tells, people those that are inclined to do,
- 15:25Speaker 5: that that it's okay to kill your, children or you,
- 15:28Speaker 5: know to treat your children that.
- 15:30Speaker 3: Way, well the devaluing of life, OVERALL i, agree abortion
- 15:33Speaker 3: is one of those. Things the fact that we so
- 15:35Speaker 3: readily easily accept homicides and gun violence in our streets.
- 15:39Speaker 3: Anymore we don't even flinch when we hear those stories. Anymore,
- 15:43Speaker 3: now the video game crap that we allow young minds
- 15:48Speaker 3: to soak in and it becomes their. Reality we're doing everything, Wrong,
- 15:52Speaker 3: diane and trying to figure out why the result is
- 15:55Speaker 3: a wrong. Result we're creating.
- 15:57Speaker 5: This, YES i, agree and there is something that can be,
- 16:01Speaker 5: done especially now and the big beautiful bill they. Are
- 16:07Speaker 5: what was included in that bill is to defund Plan.
- 16:11Speaker 5: Parenthood and if now that it's, passed if everybody will
- 16:18Speaker 5: call their senators and ask them to approve this version
- 16:24Speaker 5: of the, bill it will Defund Planned. Parenthood and already
- 16:30Speaker 5: those People Planned parenthood is already protesting and doing all they,
- 16:36Speaker 5: can and we need to do our. Part that's over
- 16:39Speaker 5: four hundred million dollars they get every. Year they get
- 16:42Speaker 5: forty percent of their funding from. Us the, Taxpayers and
- 16:49Speaker 5: if we want to really make a, difference we can call,
- 16:53Speaker 5: two you, know the two senators in our, state and
- 16:56Speaker 5: everybody needs to do this across the. Country call Their
- 16:59Speaker 5: wishington offices and their local offices and encourage them to
- 17:06Speaker 5: approve This house version of the big beautiful, bill and
- 17:11Speaker 5: it will Defund Planned. Parenthood AND i appreciate the.
- 17:15Speaker 3: Time you're very, Welcome. Dianea The Planned parenthood money has
- 17:18Speaker 3: always been something that you, know when it comes to
- 17:21Speaker 3: decisions and actions between a woman and her, doctor that's
- 17:27Speaker 3: a much larger. Debate but when it comes to government
- 17:30Speaker 3: funding of what essentially is an extermination, machine And i'm,
- 17:33Speaker 3: sorry it bugs me that the whole, purpose the whole
- 17:37Speaker 3: purpose Of Miss sanger founding the organization was to exterminate black.
- 17:43Speaker 3: Folks that's why it. Existed there's too many of. Them
- 17:47Speaker 3: let's give them this so they can go down there
- 17:49Speaker 3: and get rid of the babies for their born so
- 17:51Speaker 3: there won't be so. Many that's exactly what her racist
- 17:54Speaker 3: behind was attempting to. Accomplish and now we fund it
- 17:57Speaker 3: through our, government and, yeah that's. Distasteful i'm. Concerned the
- 18:01Speaker 3: bigger question of abortion and medical rights and you, know my,
- 18:06Speaker 3: body my choice and so. Forth i've also got issues with,
- 18:11Speaker 3: that but though that's you, KNOW i need a six
- 18:13Speaker 3: hour show to talk about. That every time THAT i
- 18:18Speaker 3: hear you're a, man you don't have any, vote, Yes i'm,
- 18:20Speaker 3: sorry but YEAH i do have a vote because as a,
- 18:22Speaker 3: MAN i would be a. Father and IF i want
- 18:25Speaker 3: to be a father and you don't want to be a,
- 18:27Speaker 3: mother do you have more of a right to kill
- 18:31Speaker 3: the child that you created with me THAN i have
- 18:34Speaker 3: to clean the child THAT i created with. You and
- 18:37Speaker 3: if you decide you don't want to have the, child
- 18:39Speaker 3: THEN i lose my chance at being a. Father but
- 18:42Speaker 3: if you decide you do want to have the child
- 18:44Speaker 3: AND i don't want to be a, Father i'm going
- 18:46Speaker 3: to be paying for what you do want for the
- 18:48Speaker 3: next eighteen. Years so, YES i do Believe i've got
- 18:51Speaker 3: a dog in that, hunt if you know WHAT i.
- 18:53Speaker 2: Mean