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COTA Taxs and Be Careful On Social Media · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: On check Douglas. This is the Power Hour on six
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  Speaker 1: to ten WUTV. And big thanks by the way to
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  Speaker 1: the Gehannah Republican Club for having me out last week.
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  Speaker 1: That was a blast to really enjoyed that good people
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  Speaker 1: out there and hopefully some of them got motivated that
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  Speaker 1: night and will be moving forward and participating in the process. Also,
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  Speaker 1: the Stay Awake America tour this weekend had a good
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  Speaker 1: time up there as well. In Delaware. It's always appreciated
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  Speaker 1: this time of year. People say, hey, can you come
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  Speaker 1: out and speak to us or me? And I love it.
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  Speaker 1: I love it. If I can accommodate it, I most
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  Speaker 1: definitely do, just because that whole face to face interaction thing.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's pretty cool. A two one, nine eight
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  Speaker 1: six minut of Very two one WTV and talking about
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  Speaker 1: the the sales tax goes up tomorrow another half percent,
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  Speaker 1: so we'll be at eight percent here in Franklin County
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  Speaker 1: because a Kota Central Ohio Transit Authority Koda Levy passed,
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  Speaker 1: which I just I don't know. I have a philosophical
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  Speaker 1: problem with it. I don't think the service is utilized
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  Speaker 1: enough that the general public ought to be subject to
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  Speaker 1: paying for it because they have the audacity to go
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  Speaker 1: and buy a non grocery item. Too many buses have
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  Speaker 1: too few riders, and I say, if nothing else, scale
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  Speaker 1: back those routes where I see buses going up and
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  Speaker 1: down the street with nobody on them in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the day. Stop running those routes. Limit them to
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  Speaker 1: once every two hours or something. You're wasting fuel, you're
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  Speaker 1: paying for drivers, you're paying for maintenance cost, and then
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  Speaker 1: you're raising the sales tax. Well maybe that's just me
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  Speaker 1: A two N WUTV and data you're on six TENU
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  Speaker 1: WUTVN And I agree with ally.
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  Speaker 2: They used to be heavily usilized when downtown was really
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  Speaker 2: a downtown. I liked going to City Center Lazarus, and
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  Speaker 2: now I don't even go to that place anymore. There's
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  Speaker 2: such barren and despot You're right, But remember the people
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  Speaker 2: voted that taxed in and always you can get rid
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  Speaker 2: of everybody. They vote it out, and I don't know
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  Speaker 2: what they're going to do with the money, and so
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna need to tulate keep an eye on them
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  Speaker 2: to see what that money's going for.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I agree with you, we want to if you're
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  Speaker 1: going to spend it. You need to know what it's
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  Speaker 1: going for, Dana. That's it like Columbus City Schools when
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  Speaker 1: they passed that thirty eight million dollars and then what
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  Speaker 1: they say after after they passed it, Oh, we won't
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  Speaker 1: be changing anything. This is just to keep going at
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  Speaker 1: our current raid. So you raised your taxes past the
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  Speaker 1: school levy and then you found out you're getting nothing new,
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  Speaker 1: no bonus material, no no extra learning, no new resources
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  Speaker 1: for the kids, just to keep going what we already have.
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  Speaker 1: Well that was kind of insulting. I don't think most
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  Speaker 1: people thought they were voting for a new tax levee
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  Speaker 1: to keep what they already had with the old stuff. No,
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  Speaker 1: they're trying to help children. Yeah, most likely is what
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  Speaker 1: people were thinking.
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  Speaker 3: But I also remember that they passed it in like
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  Speaker 3: eleven seconds after it passed.
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  Speaker 1: Oh here's our report cards. Oh yeah, for the for
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  Speaker 1: the they weren't going to show you that up front
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  Speaker 1: they did. No, I want you to know that A
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  Speaker 1: two one WTV and Doug, you're on the Legacy Imagroup
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  Speaker 1: dot com phone lines.
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  Speaker 4: Height, HEYU, I'm Doug. Is that me that you? Oh? Hey,
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  Speaker 4: I just wanted to make a point. You know, I
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  Speaker 4: don't take the bus, but I have a coworker. Every
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  Speaker 4: day he takes this thing from High Street over to
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  Speaker 4: East and uh and where we work, and he's got
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  Speaker 4: a story every day about this. And last week he
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  Speaker 4: had some uh corporate types on the bus with laptops
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  Speaker 4: and they were taking surveys like you know, and what
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  Speaker 4: he thought of the bus. And of course this guy
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  Speaker 4: could write a book about the thirty four the line
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  Speaker 4: I said, he should write this book, you know, because
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  Speaker 4: every day it's like people are are are running off
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  Speaker 4: the bus and uh robbing people and I mean just
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  Speaker 4: crazy stuff. And these corporate types were asking what he
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  Speaker 4: thought of the bus system and he goes, you know,
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  Speaker 4: this is an insane asylum on wheels. It really is.
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  Speaker 4: I know that one guy said they're security on them
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  Speaker 4: that I have a similar story where I took my
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  Speaker 4: daughters downtown years ago at to the Capitol. If he
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  Speaker 4: wanted to ride the bus, and that's what it was.
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  Speaker 4: It was a bunch of drunks. Literally the driver would
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  Speaker 4: not stop them, he change shifts. We were stuck on
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  Speaker 4: the bus with these these routies. You wouldn't you wouldn't
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  Speaker 4: want to take kids on this thing. It's it's not
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  Speaker 4: family friendly. It's it's terrible, and you know you're you're
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  Speaker 4: on your own.
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  Speaker 1: I absolutely agree with that, Doug. It's not family friendly,
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  Speaker 1: and your family's going to pay the price, because if
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  Speaker 1: you buy your kids Christmas gifts, you're paying for the buses.
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  Speaker 1: If you buy your kids' school clothes, you're paying for
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  Speaker 1: the buses. If you buy your kids a haircut, you're
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  Speaker 1: paying for the buses. Not family friendly, but your family
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  Speaker 1: flits the bill. Something very wrong with that. As far
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  Speaker 1: as I'm concerned.
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  Speaker 4: With the thirty Like we've had thirty percent inflation in
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  Speaker 4: the last years. You can imagine how much more income
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  Speaker 4: they've been getting just on their regular taxes. Yeah, but
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  Speaker 4: then they want to increase it. I mean really yep.
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  Speaker 1: I remember years ago when they thought they were going
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  Speaker 1: to save the bus system with the grumming flexible buses,
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  Speaker 1: which had like an accordion section in the middle. The
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  Speaker 1: bus was supposed to go around corners better then the
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  Speaker 1: kneeling busses, the hydraulic buses, so that they would go
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  Speaker 1: and kneel down for somebody if they were like they
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  Speaker 1: had some sort of problem with their mobility, could not
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  Speaker 1: get on the bus. The bus would kneel down to
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  Speaker 1: allow them easier access to the bus. Those things, those
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  Speaker 1: things seemed okay, that's that's reasonable. Now now you've got
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  Speaker 1: if you're in a wheelchair, though, they have the locks
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  Speaker 1: up front where they had the bus driver has to
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  Speaker 1: stop the bus and come back and like lock down
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  Speaker 1: the wheelchair until you bring the thing to say it's
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  Speaker 1: time to get off. They got the racks on the
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  Speaker 1: front for people who can take a bicycle only so far,
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  Speaker 1: and that once they get to a bus, stuff say, man,
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  Speaker 1: I'm bushed. So they get on the bus with their
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  Speaker 1: bicycle and tape. And frankly, I think the bicycle would
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  Speaker 1: probably be faster as compared to what I see out
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  Speaker 1: of buses. What I'm in traffic, but we're all paying
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  Speaker 1: for it, and I just I just I'm you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's not a hill I'm gonna die on, but it's
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  Speaker 1: an observation. I absolutely have to make a two WTVN
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  Speaker 1: and Kevin, you're on six to ten, do WUTVN.
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  Speaker 4: He Hey, I'll tell.
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  Speaker 5: You what the city is run by democrats. We know
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  Speaker 5: that Democrats have been stealing social security, all this stuff
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  Speaker 5: from the federal government. So someone needs to audit CODA
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  Speaker 5: and make sure they spend the money on what they
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  Speaker 5: say they they're going to and not put it in
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  Speaker 5: somebody's pocket.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, yeah, we need to doze everything, Kevin, thanks
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  Speaker 1: for the call. We need to doze the taxpayer funded organizations.
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  Speaker 1: We need to doze in the city Hall, we need
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  Speaker 1: to doze the state House. You know, let's not stop
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  Speaker 1: the ball in Washington, DC. Accountability what I was on
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  Speaker 1: with earlier with Blazer, Jim Jordan was on. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: get a chance to ask him, but I'll send him
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  Speaker 1: a note later and ask I, ere, are we making arrangements?
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  Speaker 1: And I mean this sincerely because I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: buy or any partisan crap coming out of this. Are
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  Speaker 1: we making arrangements for hearings whatever? To end real, real
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  Speaker 1: serious contra or consequences if we find members of Congress
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  Speaker 1: have been bidgeonholing money, taking money that four thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: government toilet seat was actually a ten dollars government toilet
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  Speaker 1: seat in thirty nine hundred ninety dollars went into their
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  Speaker 1: campaign fund, and you know that's it just disappeared. If
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  Speaker 1: members of Congress. I don't care what party they are in,
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  Speaker 1: were using these as slush funds, they need to be
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  Speaker 1: held accountable, publicly humiliated, and they need to pay a
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  Speaker 1: price for it. And I hope, I hope that both
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  Speaker 1: the House and the Senate are making preparations for such
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  Speaker 1: because I think it's a pretty dagone sure bet that
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  Speaker 1: that has been the case. Maybe I'm wrong, but not likely. Bruce,
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  Speaker 1: you're on six to ten WTV and high Hi juck,
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  Speaker 1: How you doing fine, sir? How are you good?
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  Speaker 4: Just a point?
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  Speaker 3: You guys got that eight percent sales tax downer, Rakoda?
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  Speaker 3: Why don't they take that money and build a light
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  Speaker 3: rail system to come in from the suburb to go
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  Speaker 3: downtown and places instead of wasting it on buses.
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  Speaker 1: Because you would have to convince too many people that
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  Speaker 1: light rail was a good idea, and in forty years
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  Speaker 1: of hearing that, nobody in Columbus seems to want to
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  Speaker 1: buy it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they should have done that forty years ago.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. You can't, I mean, telling somebody that
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's twenty twenty five, we need to invest
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  Speaker 1: in some nineteen forty technology is not a strong selling case.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, I agree, Hey, thank you. I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate you, Bruce, Thanks very much. Yeah, hopping on
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  Speaker 1: a train. And they had street cars, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: Columbus had street cars went up and down Broad Street,
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  Speaker 1: Livingston Main Street out on my beloved west side. There
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  Speaker 1: was one that went up and down hagu Avenue. How
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  Speaker 1: do I know that because when they repaved hag Avenue
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  Speaker 1: a few years ago, so they took up all the pavement,
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  Speaker 1: and beneath it, beneath it, there were the bricks, the
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  Speaker 1: old hag Avenue bricks. And in those bricks were the
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  Speaker 1: tracks from the street car that went up and down
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  Speaker 1: hagu Avenue. And I remember once when Mayor Coma was
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  Speaker 1: still mayor and I was representing the west side of
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  Speaker 1: Columbus and some business downtown, and I asked him about,
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  Speaker 1: you know, can we take up the payment. Can we
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  Speaker 1: put this in you know, our future development plan, to
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  Speaker 1: take up the pavement. We've got all this classic architecture,
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  Speaker 1: just like German village, just like Marion Village. Can we
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  Speaker 1: take up the payment? Slow people on the streets, because
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  Speaker 1: on those brick streets, they're not going to drive as
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  Speaker 1: fast through the neighborhood as they're driving now. And the
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  Speaker 1: mayor told me that they couldn't do that because it
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  Speaker 1: would be a problem for the city. Snowplows. Speaking on
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  Speaker 1: behalf of the west side of Columbus snow plows, we
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  Speaker 1: have snowplows. So yeah, I thought it was a ridiculous,
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  Speaker 1: ridiculous concept. And then everywhere that's a hoity toity, German village,
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  Speaker 1: Italian village, Victorian village, there's bricks. But you know, the Hilltop,
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  Speaker 1: the greater Hilltop area didn't merit that kind of consideration.
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  Speaker 1: Before I get out of here, there's something floating around
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  Speaker 1: on social media, and we've all been bitten by these
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  Speaker 1: kind of things at one time or another. Zach, I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure you probably probably instigate them more than fall for them.
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  Speaker 1: But these fake posts, not the ones where the martian
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  Speaker 1: is shaking hands and accepting an Academy award, but those
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  Speaker 1: posts that look like they are real. And then you
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  Speaker 1: try to be a good person to go I need
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  Speaker 1: to share this, oh that that child is missing or what,
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  Speaker 1: and you find out it's garbage. Yeah, that's all me mostly.
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  Speaker 1: I have thousands of accounts. Well that's why you get
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  Speaker 1: that second house in Nigeria. Gotta be careful, so there
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  Speaker 1: is one that's been floating around very heavily over the
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  Speaker 1: weekend about a Columbus police officer missing. Have you seen
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  Speaker 1: that one, Catherine something or other? I have not. I
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  Speaker 1: haven't seen it twenty eight year old Catherine Something. But now,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, here was my first clue. It was
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  Speaker 1: shared from a community group here in Columbus on their
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  Speaker 1: Facebook page. When I looked at this officer, I zoomed
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  Speaker 1: in on the uniform. That's not City of Columbus, Ohio
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  Speaker 1: Police Department's badge. So then I googled, and it turns
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  Speaker 1: out this is a hoax. Different officers are used, but
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  Speaker 1: they have these missing posts that are going right, and
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  Speaker 1: people are forwarding these things and posting these things, sharing
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  Speaker 1: these things thinking you know a police officer in trouble
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  Speaker 1: and bless your heart, bless your heart for caring enough
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  Speaker 1: about our men and women in uniform serving our cities
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  Speaker 1: that you would do that. But it's fake. So if
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  Speaker 1: you have posted that, please go into your account take
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  Speaker 1: it down, whether it's on your Twitter or your Instagram
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  Speaker 1: or your Facebook or whatever. It is fake. And you
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  Speaker 1: know when all those fails. If you see something like
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  Speaker 1: that about a police officer, go to the police department's
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  Speaker 1: social media page. I think they have them, trust me.
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  Speaker 1: If a Columbus, Ohio police officer was missing, there'd be
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  Speaker 1: post on their account about ten seconds afterward. So thank
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  Speaker 1: you for trying to be good human beings, but in
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  Speaker 1: this case, you were taken. Because Zach has a second
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  Speaker 1: home in Nigeria, I need it.