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Vivek Ramaswamy -- 4/16/26 · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: friend Christopher Smith. I'm gonna be speaking with my favorite
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  Speaker 1: candidate here in the state of Ohio. We have a
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  Speaker 1: locke Win, a dynamic person who's I believe going to
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  Speaker 1: to the thirty five KCY Morning Show. Next Governor of
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  Speaker 1: the State of Ohio. VvE Ramaswami. It's a pleasure to
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  Speaker 1: have you call in. Thanks for your willingness to join
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  Speaker 1: the show late in the game today.
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  Speaker 2: Good to be on. I like to play things by
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  Speaker 2: ear and I'm glad to s worked that this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks man, and I don't even I'm reluctant to even
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  Speaker 1: bring his name into the equation, but you know, sometimes
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  Speaker 1: you give people enough for open they hang themselves. Sometimes,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you don't even have to campaign against somebody,
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  Speaker 1: They campaign against themselves. And of course the challenger you
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  Speaker 1: have in the upcoming primary. Casey putch running into a
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  Speaker 1: few problems, including asking you if you want to play
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys versus Indians while firing a gun several times, saying then,
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  Speaker 1: got an event canceled by a restaurant that didn't want
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  Speaker 1: to be affiliated with him because of some rather strange
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  Speaker 1: and disturbing comments about Nazis. You don't even have to
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  Speaker 1: concern yourself with this guy, do you. Vvek and I again,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry to even bring it up, but here we are.
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  Speaker 2: A well, frankly right, it's a free country that people
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  Speaker 2: are always free to express their opinions, however however foolish
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  Speaker 2: they may be. I love that about our countries. We
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  Speaker 2: have the freedom of speech, but you know, it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: have to mean that every person exercises their freedom of speech.
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  Speaker 2: Is worth responding, So I think we've probably talked about
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  Speaker 2: more productive things.
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  Speaker 1: More productive things like your ideas about property tax in
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  Speaker 1: the state of Ohio. We've got a problem here. You
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  Speaker 1: know it, I know it. You have proposals to deal
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  Speaker 1: with the property tax issue, and how is it going
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  Speaker 1: to play out? Because I had Donald and Neil from
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  Speaker 1: Americans for Prosperity on just the other day, and they're
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  Speaker 1: of course advocating for property tax reform in Ohio. I
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  Speaker 1: think you have the best idea, and we can talk
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  Speaker 1: about your plan, but it boils down, at least in
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  Speaker 1: his mind, in the minds of a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: who've looked at this. Reducing property tax may have an
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  Speaker 1: impact on local governments, but here in the state of Ohio,
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  Speaker 1: we have a ton of local governments. When I asked
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  Speaker 1: the question, how does Florida get away with no property
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  Speaker 1: tax and no income taxes still manage to thrive as
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  Speaker 1: a state. Well, one of the reasons is they have
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  Speaker 1: about a quarter of or half of the local governments
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  Speaker 1: that we have. There's going to be a big turf battle.
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  Speaker 1: I anticipate if the amount of funds available under your
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  Speaker 1: proposal reach these local governments. So how do we deal
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  Speaker 1: with that? Because yours is to roll back to pre
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  Speaker 1: COVID tax levels and then cap them and inflation right.
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  Speaker 2: So look, I would say, yeah, I mean, look, let's
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  Speaker 2: roll it back as that's step one of reform. That's
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  Speaker 2: as table stakes. And the reason why is, think about
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  Speaker 2: this issue of property taxes, Brian, Nobody was really concerned
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  Speaker 2: about it in a significant way before the pandemic. You know, sure,
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  Speaker 2: no one loves paying the tax build, but this is
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  Speaker 2: not a top issue before the pandemic. It's the pandemic
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  Speaker 2: era policies, including inflationary Biden.
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  Speaker 3: Policies, including pro lockdown policies, and a lot of other
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  Speaker 3: policies that contributed to, among other things, rising property tax rates,
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  Speaker 3: rising property tax valuations, and that made this.
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  Speaker 2: A top issue. I think it is arguably the top
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  Speaker 2: issue in this state that needs to be addressed. It
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  Speaker 2: demands to be addressed. And so what I'll bringing to
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  Speaker 2: the table is a common sense solution. If it was
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  Speaker 2: a problem after the pandemic, as step one, roll it
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  Speaker 2: back to where it was before the end of the pandemic,
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  Speaker 2: all right, that's basic common sense. It will be the
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  Speaker 2: biggest property tax relief package in the history of Ohio,
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  Speaker 2: and I believe it will be the largest property tax
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  Speaker 2: cut anywhere in the fifty states of the United States
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  Speaker 2: of America in recent years. And Ohioans deserve it. That
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  Speaker 2: money belongs in your pockets, not in some layer to
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  Speaker 2: government bureaucracy. But I'll take what you said as a
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  Speaker 2: challenge and pose it actually as a positive opportunity. Brian,
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  Speaker 2: we have too many layers of government in Ohio compared
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  Speaker 2: to Florida, compared to other states. That's true. It's just
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  Speaker 2: a fact. And is that making Ohio more or less competitive?
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  Speaker 2: I think in the modern era today, where we are
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  Speaker 2: with two thousand plus taxing authorities, I don't think that's
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  Speaker 2: serving anybody well in Ohio. And so we have an
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to make some positive changes, to cut red tape,
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  Speaker 2: to delayer the what I call the wedding cake of
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  Speaker 2: overlapping jurisdictions, and to bring some common sense governance to
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  Speaker 2: the table. And that allows us to at once deliver
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  Speaker 2: that massive property tax relief package while also making sure
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  Speaker 2: that police, fire, and our schools are still able to
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  Speaker 2: perform at the highest quality. In fact, I have a
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  Speaker 2: plan to make sure our schools perform even better than
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  Speaker 2: they were before the pandemic, even better than they were
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  Speaker 2: during and after the pandemic, because if you think about it,
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  Speaker 2: property tax receipts went up by forty percent. Our enrollment
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  Speaker 2: in our schools didn't go up by forty percent. It
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  Speaker 2: was down by seven percent over the same period, which
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  Speaker 2: means taxpayers are paying over forty percent more per pupil
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  Speaker 2: after the pandemic than before the pandemic, which is nuts.
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  Speaker 2: Academic performance has declined while we're paying more. Taxpayers are
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  Speaker 2: paying more and getting less. That's not right, it is.
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  Speaker 2: I do think it's going to take a business oriented leader,
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  Speaker 2: somebody who's an entrepreneur at the top to fix it.
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  Speaker 2: I will, we have a clear plan. We're going to
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  Speaker 2: win this thing in November, get in there in January,
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  Speaker 2: and deliver that property tax cut the education reform immediately
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  Speaker 2: in office.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I suppose the decline in the enrollment in public
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  Speaker 1: schools may be a reflection of the failure of public
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  Speaker 1: schools to deliver on the promise of educating our children.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a frightening reality the way that this
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  Speaker 1: sort of woke mentality has crept into the education system, where,
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  Speaker 1: in the name of we don't want to hurt Johnny's
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  Speaker 1: feelings or something, they advance someone in the to the
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  Speaker 1: next grade when they have not achieved the level of
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  Speaker 1: performance to satisfy the needs of the grade that they're in.
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  Speaker 1: That is a recipe for epic failure. And it's somewhat
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  Speaker 1: and part of me wants to think that's almost baked
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  Speaker 1: into the equation they intend to do. That maybe the
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  Speaker 1: dumb down the American people, I don't know, but that's
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  Speaker 1: exactly where we find ourselves these days.
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  Speaker 2: Look, I think you make some good points. The participation
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  Speaker 2: trophy culture has not served our kids well. We need
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  Speaker 2: to bring standards back to our schools. Kids need to
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  Speaker 2: be able to read by the end of third grade.
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  Speaker 2: At minimum, that's when they make the transition from learning
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  Speaker 2: to read to reading to learn. And if they make
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  Speaker 2: that transition by the end of third grade, most of
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  Speaker 2: those kids are going to be in great shape. If
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  Speaker 2: they don't make that transition, you're six times more likely
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  Speaker 2: to end up in prison. Ryan. So that's unacceptable. And
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  Speaker 2: yet the Big Ohio eight, the Big eight Ohio public
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  Speaker 2: school districts, end of third grade literacy is now forty
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  Speaker 2: five percent. That number should be one hundred percent. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: there's no excuse for it, and we're gonna get it done.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to get it done by bringing those standards
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  Speaker 2: back literacy coaching where needed. Set expectations for the parents
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  Speaker 2: as well. I mean, these schools need to be setting
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  Speaker 2: standards of what's expected of those parents, even in inner cities,
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  Speaker 2: even in rural communities. It's an all in effort to
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  Speaker 2: make sure that our kids are graduating not just with
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  Speaker 2: a participation trophy or a diploma that's a piece of paper,
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  Speaker 2: but a diploma that means something that makes them ready
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  Speaker 2: to be useful, productive, and hopefully wealthy members of the
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  Speaker 2: workforce themselves, building financial independence for themselves rather than ending
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  Speaker 2: up on the welfare state. That's what I want to
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  Speaker 2: create in Ohio, and it's very personal to me, Brian,
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  Speaker 2: You know this for me. I grew up in Cincinnati.
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  Speaker 2: I was born and raised in a middle class household
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  Speaker 2: to parents who came halfway around the world with nothing
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  Speaker 2: to their name as legal immigrants from India. And in
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  Speaker 2: a single generation, I've had a chance to found multiple
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  Speaker 2: successful companies. The largest one is Roysmentt, a twenty billion
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  Speaker 2: dollar company on the Nasdaq that has developed life saving
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  Speaker 2: medicines five FDA approved medicines for patients. I also co
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  Speaker 2: founded a company that delivered medicare plans to seniors, helping
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  Speaker 2: them navigate a complicated process. More simply, that's a company
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  Speaker 2: called Chapter now in a position to lead the very
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  Speaker 2: state where I was born and raised. That is the
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  Speaker 2: beauty of this country. That story is only possible in
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  Speaker 2: the United States of America. And to me, I'm grateful
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  Speaker 2: to Cincinnati. I'm grateful to Ohio for giving me those opportunities,
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  Speaker 2: going to public schools through eighth grade, then going to
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  Speaker 2: say for High School, where I've got a great education,
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  Speaker 2: including a moral foundation in education, which is something I'm
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  Speaker 2: happy to talk more about, something I'm grateful to say
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  Speaker 2: next forgiving me the school who's creed it was men
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  Speaker 2: for others, the idea of the Majus, that Jesuit idea
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  Speaker 2: of pursuing them more, being ambitious about what you can
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  Speaker 2: contribute and achieve. Those were feared into my psyche, my upbringing,
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  Speaker 2: and into my spirit. And I'm grateful to this state,
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  Speaker 2: to the city of Cincinnati, to Ohio for giving me
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  Speaker 2: those opportunities. I feel a moral duty to pass those
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  Speaker 2: same opportunities, that same quality of education, and that same
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  Speaker 2: American dream on to our kids and to their generation
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  Speaker 2: in this state. And when I'm leading Ohio, I will
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  Speaker 2: tell you the state of Ohio, including my hometown of Cincinnati,
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  Speaker 2: will once again be the cradle of that American dream.
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  Speaker 2: And this is probably the most consequential election in Ohio's
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  Speaker 2: history to determine whether that happen. In me, we have
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  Speaker 2: the most unapologetically pro conservative and I will even say
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  Speaker 2: proudly capitalist governor of our state. And in my opponent,
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  Speaker 2: any acting, we have the first socialist governor this state
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  Speaker 2: will ever have. There has never been a greater contrast
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  Speaker 2: between two candidates, and as Thomas Jefferson famously said, he's
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  Speaker 2: the man who admitted Ohio to the Union, the man
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  Speaker 2: who signed the Declaration of Independence two hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 2: years ago. This year, Thomas Jefferson warned us, the government
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  Speaker 2: we elect is the government we deserve. And so this
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  Speaker 2: is a year where it is in our hands to
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  Speaker 2: make that choice to which Ohio we want to wake
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  Speaker 2: up to this fall. And that starts with showing up
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  Speaker 2: in the primary. We've got a primary on May fifth.
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  Speaker 2: I want everyone to show up, not because I have
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  Speaker 2: any concern about the outcome, but because if you show
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  Speaker 2: up in the primary, then you're going to show up
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  Speaker 2: in the general. Yes, sir, And if you show up
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  Speaker 2: in the primary, I want you to vote ten times.
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  Speaker 2: Not the way that our opponents might mean it, but
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  Speaker 2: vote ten times in the sense you vote once and
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  Speaker 2: bring nine other people with you to the polls who
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  Speaker 2: otherwise might not have shown up to a primary, because
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  Speaker 2: if they show up to the primary, they're going to
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  Speaker 2: show up at the general. So you guys do your part,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm going to do mine, and I am confident
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  Speaker 2: on the good news High Brian, is that once we
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  Speaker 2: take office in January, we will turn Ohio into the
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  Speaker 2: state that Texas and Florida look up to. We will
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  Speaker 2: be the envy of the country rather than the other
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  Speaker 2: way around.
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  Speaker 1: Always inspiring significant confidence. Vvake Ramaswami, I want to say
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  Speaker 1: few politicians when he spoke you actually believed him, inspired
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  Speaker 1: by him, thought positively of the future. And every time
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  Speaker 1: that I've heard you speak, I've been at events where
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  Speaker 1: you've spoken, or you've been on the morning show, I
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  Speaker 1: always walk away with that very confident feeling. And I
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  Speaker 1: believe you, sir, and I know we're heading in the
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  Speaker 1: right direction. Primary first vote, Bring friends, get November vote,
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  Speaker 1: and of course let's set ourselves on the right path
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  Speaker 1: with Governor V. Vike Ramaswami. Thank you, sir for joining
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  Speaker 1: the program late. You're always welcome here on the fifty
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