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Brian with Jack Windsor from The Ohio Press Network 10/9/2026 · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: 8.31, 55KRCD Talk Station. Happy Friday. Let's begin this segment
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  Speaker 1: with Jack Windsor from the Ohio Press Network with a prayer. Please,
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  Speaker 1: dear God, do not let this Zoom conference collapse. Otherwise,
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  Speaker 1: we'll lose contact with Jack Windsor. We all fly by
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  Speaker 1: the seat of our pants when Strecker's out of town.
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  Speaker 1: That is not casting aspersions on Danny Gleason. I just
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  Speaker 1: found out today, Jack, that Joe pays for the extra
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  Speaker 1: upgrade for Zoom, which allows you to do unlimited length calls.
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  Speaker 1: My employer does not pay for that service. Draw your
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  Speaker 1: own conclusion, Jack Windsor. Welcome back to the morning show.
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  Speaker 1: It's always great having you on and bookmark theohiopressnetwork.com. Where
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  Speaker 1: are we coming out of the gate on? What topic, Jack?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you what, if you want, let's talk
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  Speaker 2: about that CNN poll because CNN says Amy Acton is
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  Speaker 2: up eight in Ohio. And if you don't look at
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  Speaker 2: the polls methodology and check their sample, you might be
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  Speaker 2: running around a little bit concerned today and listeners and
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  Speaker 2: their neighbors are going to hear Acton's up eight and
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  Speaker 2: that could affect things. So if you want to start there,
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  Speaker 2: let's start there.
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  Speaker 1: Let's start there. And I can note, because I'm looking
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  Speaker 1: at it, the post from the late September, the Suffolk
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  Speaker 1: poll had Acton up nine points. So these back-to-back polls
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  Speaker 1: that make it really look bad for Ramaswamy. So what's
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  Speaker 1: the story on the CNN poll and shed some light
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  Speaker 1: on it for us, Jack?
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  Speaker 2: Yes. So Acton is up eight, Brown is up six.
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  Speaker 2: Now there's 39 pages to that poll. So I dove in,
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  Speaker 2: looked at the crosstabs, read the methodology and, And what
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  Speaker 2: I found out is about a third of the respondents
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  Speaker 2: never came off a voter file. They came off what's
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  Speaker 2: called an opt-in survey panel. So these are the people
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  Speaker 2: that are politicos, that are eager and excited to take
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  Speaker 2: these surveys. And of course, they lean left. And the
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  Speaker 2: other issue is that the weighting of the responses is
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  Speaker 2: affected by motivation. So they tell you that in the crosstabs,
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  Speaker 2: or they tell you that in the description. And the
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  Speaker 2: report shows that the most motivated respondents are Democrats. So
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  Speaker 2: they're oversampling Democrats, and then they're weighing Democrats' responses more
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  Speaker 2: than Republican responses. And the margin of error is about
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  Speaker 2: four and a half points. So that means that each
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  Speaker 2: candidate's number could be off four and a half one direction,
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  Speaker 2: four and a half the other. So it could be
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  Speaker 2: off a total of nine. So when you look at that,
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  Speaker 2: eight and six are in general within that margin of error.
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  Speaker 2: And the other interesting point is that came out early yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: And then later in the day, another poll came out
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  Speaker 2: from Coefficient. And if you put CNN next to that one,
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  Speaker 2: Coefficient screens likely voters, which matters in this case. And
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  Speaker 2: that actually has Ramaswamy up and Husted up. So voters
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  Speaker 2: are going, wait a minute, how can we be off
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  Speaker 2: that much? But those are two polls that dropped yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Now, do you scribe a nefarious intent to the way
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  Speaker 1: they sample to bring about a result that has Amy
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  Speaker 1: Acton up eight or nine points or whatever many points?
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  Speaker 2: If I weren't a member of the press, I would go,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if that's the case. Being a member
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  Speaker 2: of the press, absolutely. I do believe it. I believe
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  Speaker 2: that they find ways to serve up information that serves
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  Speaker 2: their ultimate purpose. And let's make no bones about it.
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  Speaker 2: CNN and all of the mainstream outlets certainly lean toward
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  Speaker 2: the progressive candidates and movements. The interesting thing that they do, though,
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  Speaker 2: is they show their work. And so if you're diligent
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  Speaker 2: and you look at what comes along with the final
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  Speaker 2: poll results, you can usually figure out, OK, here's how
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  Speaker 2: they oversampled. So it's almost like they're going, yeah, we're
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  Speaker 2: puffing it up a little bit, but we're going to
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  Speaker 2: give you the full Monty. That way you can do
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  Speaker 2: your own work and figure it out. But Brian, you
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  Speaker 2: and I both know most people don't read beyond the headlines.
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  Speaker 2: And so I think it is a nefarious tactic.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it is. And I'm sure there's some psychological profile
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  Speaker 1: out there that says people are less inclined to go
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  Speaker 1: vote if they see that the candidate they don't want
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  Speaker 1: elected is winning or leading by a margin. Oh, what's
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  Speaker 1: the point of getting up off your butt? I don't
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  Speaker 1: share that perspective. I mean, my view is Damn it.
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  Speaker 1: I am not going to allow that to happen. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to go out and vote and prevent this large
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  Speaker 1: margin of victory. But the point I ultimately go back to,
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  Speaker 1: there's always a post-mortem analysis of these polls. And we
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  Speaker 1: even saw the one poll where they came out and
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  Speaker 1: they admitted exactly cheated or they intentionally lied in the
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  Speaker 1: polling results just to, I guess, see what happens as
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  Speaker 1: some sort of weird experiment. But this takes all of
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  Speaker 1: their credibility away, Jack. Now, if Houston wins by a
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  Speaker 1: few or if Ramaswamy wins by a few or maybe 10,
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  Speaker 1: And they're going to look back and say, how in
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  Speaker 1: God's name could CNN get it so wrong unless they
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  Speaker 1: were intentionally biased? I'm never paying attention to another damn
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  Speaker 1: CNN poll again.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and look, whether it's Suffolk, whether it's Marist, whether
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  Speaker 2: it's CNN, whether it's New York Times, Sienna, when you
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  Speaker 2: look at Ohio, Brian, and I've been saying this a lot,
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  Speaker 2: but we just have to keep repeating it. You look
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  Speaker 2: back at 2018, Cordray was up three or four over
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  Speaker 2: DeWine late in the fall. And, of course, you know,
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  Speaker 2: there was like a nine-point swing. DeWine won that. I
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  Speaker 2: think it was by four or six. And then in 2022,
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  Speaker 2: same thing. Tim Ryan allegedly was leading J.D. Vance by
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  Speaker 2: a few. Vance won by six. 2024, Sherrod Brown is
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  Speaker 2: leading Bernie Marino by two. And then Bernie ends up
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  Speaker 2: winning by almost four. So anywhere from six and a
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  Speaker 2: half to about nine points is how these polls traditionally skew.
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  Speaker 2: So if you just applied that historical pattern, set of facts,
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  Speaker 2: you'd go, okay, so if Acton is up nine, it
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  Speaker 2: might be tied. If Brown is up six, then maybe
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  Speaker 2: Husted's up three. And then when you look at this
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  Speaker 2: other poll, coefficient has Husted up 44, 43, and Ramaswamy
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  Speaker 2: up 45, 43. Just reading between the lines and analyzing this,
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  Speaker 2: if I had to give you where I think this is,
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  Speaker 2: I would say Husted's probably up three to four, and
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  Speaker 2: Ramaswami's maybe up three. Now, I've always said Ramaswami's up five,
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  Speaker 2: but I think, I think Acton's tightening that race, but
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  Speaker 2: I think that, I think Ramaswami will pull away down
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  Speaker 2: the stretch.
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  Speaker 1: Stick around for more with the ohiopressnetwork.com's Jack Windsor. Got
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  Speaker 1: lots of things to talk about before the end of
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  Speaker 1: the show. 841-55-KRCD Talk Station, theohiopressnetwork.com. Jack Windsor on the
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  Speaker 1: show every Friday between 830 and the close. I appreciate
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  Speaker 1: your thoughts and comments and insight there, Jack Windsor, and
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  Speaker 1: my listening audience does as well, and What the hell's
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  Speaker 1: with this John Kulowitz for Attorney General? You got the
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  Speaker 1: Cleveland paper endorsed this guy?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. Wait till you hear this.
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  Speaker 1: The Plain Dealer, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Cleveland Plain Dealer. Their digital property is cleveland.com. And
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  Speaker 2: by circulation, they are the state's largest newspaper. So I
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  Speaker 2: want listeners to keep that in their minds.
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  Speaker 1: So they have 5,000 people subscribing. Well played.
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  Speaker 2: John Kulowicz is the Democrat nominee for Ohio Attorney General.
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  Speaker 2: Here's what's important about this. He was endorsed by a
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  Speaker 2: group called CARE. CARE is a designated terrorist organization in
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  Speaker 2: Florida and Texas. It was named as an unindicted co-conspirator
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  Speaker 2: in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas funding case. Cleveland.com announced...
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  Speaker 2: its endorsement of Kulawix. And again, Kulawix was endorsed by
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  Speaker 2: CARE in the primary. They announced the endorsement of Kulawix
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  Speaker 2: on October 7th, the anniversary of Hamas's 2023 massacre of
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  Speaker 2: 1,200 people in Israel. So, Brian, the question is, of
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  Speaker 2: 365 days, why the hell did Cleveland.com pick October 7th
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  Speaker 2: to announce the endorsement of an attorney general candidate that
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  Speaker 2: is backed by a group tied to Hamas?
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  Speaker 1: I'll let my listeners draw their own conclusions, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure its conclusion will all draw together, Jack. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's either complete lack of awareness or something extraordinarily nefarious. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the Democrats are the party of anti-Semitism. We all know that,
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  Speaker 1: don't we? Hasn't the memo gotten out, Jack?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, look, they're the party that fought to
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  Speaker 2: preserve slavery. They're the party that established the Ku Klux Klan.
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  Speaker 2: They are the party that wants you to think that
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  Speaker 2: the radical Islamists are the oppressed and Israel and Jewish
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  Speaker 2: people are the oppressors. And so, yes, they are anti-Semitic.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, it's real interesting. The same newspaper back
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  Speaker 2: during Ohio's COVID response, there was a state senator. He's
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  Speaker 2: still a state senator. He's finishing his term out. Andrew Brenner,
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  Speaker 2: his wife made some comment about Amy Acton requiring papers. Remember,
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  Speaker 2: she said, I'd love to have immunity certificates to go
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  Speaker 2: back to normal life. Well, his wife called that out,
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  Speaker 2: and he kind of retweeted it or republished it. Every newspaper,
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  Speaker 2: including Cleveland.com, gave him flack and said that those comments
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  Speaker 2: smacked of anti-Semitism. Well, here we are six years later,
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  Speaker 2: and you have the same run-of-the-mill mainstream press endorsing a
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  Speaker 2: guy that is endorsed by people tied to Hamas. You
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  Speaker 2: can't make this stuff up.
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  Speaker 1: No, you can't. And you can't really read it in
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  Speaker 1: most places. As he pointed out, Cleveland.com gave the guy
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  Speaker 1: an endorsement. That's why you need to bookmark the OhioPressNetwork.com
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  Speaker 1: and find out what's really going on. Don't go away,
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  Speaker 1: Jack Windsor. I know we've got more to talk about.
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  Speaker 1: I've got to take a quick break here. 850 at
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  Speaker 1: 55K or CD Talk Station. Happy Friday. Brian Thomas here
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  Speaker 1: with Jack Windsor from the Ohio Press Network, again, at OhioPressNetwork.com. Hey, Jack,
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  Speaker 1: it's early voting. You can go out and vote today,
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  Speaker 1: can't you, Jack?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: I'm taking every opportunity at every turn. I can just
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  Speaker 1: remind people we need to do this. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we do for a couple of reasons. Number one,
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  Speaker 2: if you're like me, I, you know, you have a
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  Speaker 2: busy life and I know you do. And then we
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  Speaker 2: also have kids. I have two. bonus kids and my daughter.
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  Speaker 2: So I have three kids. We're running all over the
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  Speaker 2: place and it's not uncommon for something to come up.
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  Speaker 2: And so if you wait until election day and things
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  Speaker 2: go sideways, then maybe you miss the chance to vote.
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  Speaker 2: So vote early for that reason. Then the second reason
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  Speaker 2: is These are close races. Again, I think Vivek Ramaswamy
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  Speaker 2: is up a few. I think John Husted is up
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  Speaker 2: a couple or a few. But at the end of
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  Speaker 2: the day, people are still going to be knocking doors.
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  Speaker 2: They're still going to be sending campaign material. So if
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  Speaker 2: you vote early, they can check you off the list
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  Speaker 2: and then they can go spend their time and resources
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  Speaker 2: with other people who are still undecided or who have
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  Speaker 2: not yet gone to the polls. So help out your
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  Speaker 2: team by voting early.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and I don't want you to lie to the
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  Speaker 1: listening audience. I really don't have a busy life, Jack.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of boring. Yeah. I, I, I do a
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  Speaker 1: lot of naval contemplation to be quite honest with you. Anyway, Jack,
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  Speaker 1: I know you didn't want to end on that particular topic.
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  Speaker 1: I just threw it out there because I randomly remind
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  Speaker 1: people that they can get out and vote. So what
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  Speaker 1: do you want to conclude with topic wise?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I, you know, we're going to write a story today.
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  Speaker 2: I'll just give you a little teaser here. Uh, It
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  Speaker 2: appears yesterday at the Statehouse, Auditor of State Keith Faber
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  Speaker 2: was with U.S. Undersecretary of Education Kent, and they announced
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  Speaker 2: a Jefferson County grand jury indictment. Three people in the
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  Speaker 2: theft of roughly $ 20 million from Eastern Gateway Community College
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  Speaker 2: there in Steubenville. Now, the school is defunct, and one
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  Speaker 2: of the three is Michael Geoghegan of Cincinnati, Eastern Gateway's
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  Speaker 2: former CFO. who became its president, nine felony counts. There's
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  Speaker 2: aggravated theft over 1.5 million, theft in office, bribery, telecommunications fraud,
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  Speaker 2: engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity. And really how
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  Speaker 2: this worked is Pell Grants from eligible students were applied
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  Speaker 2: across other students, including ineligible ones. And that's what triggered
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  Speaker 2: this federal government to start questioning the college's participation in
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  Speaker 2: the Pell Grant and other federal aid programs. And what
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  Speaker 2: they uncovered is allegedly, got to be careful, over $ 20
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  Speaker 2: million of inappropriate use of taxpayer dollars. And the sad
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  Speaker 2: part is that school was intended for people who maybe
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  Speaker 2: can't get out of the area to go to other
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  Speaker 2: colleges or area folks who graduated high school and need
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  Speaker 2: a degree. And that school is now gone.
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  Speaker 1: That's a shame. When did this conduct start, this alleged
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  Speaker 1: criminal activity start?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a great question. So back in 2023, there
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  Speaker 2: were indictments against two earlier administrators over roughly $ 43, 000 in
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  Speaker 2: credit card misuse. Those charges were dismissed. This is a
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  Speaker 2: separate racketeering case, 40 times the dollar amount, but it
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  Speaker 2: was built with the Department of Education's program review. My
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  Speaker 2: guess is, Brian, this probably came on the right about
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  Speaker 2: that time. So looking back at 23, 24, and then
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  Speaker 2: the school closed in 25. But I think this is
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  Speaker 2: over a series of years.
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  Speaker 1: Well, fraud is a real big topic for my listeners
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  Speaker 1: and me. Governments rarely care a whit about how efficient
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  Speaker 1: the taxpayer dollars are used, as we well know. But
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  Speaker 1: we find that people are being ripped off. And how
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  Speaker 1: easy it is to discover it, Jack, that's the thing
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  Speaker 1: that I wanted to know. That's why I asked you,
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  Speaker 1: how long was it going on until somebody up there
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  Speaker 1: finally said, you know what, we've got to do an
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  Speaker 1: investigation on this. Oh, wow, this was so easy to
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  Speaker 1: perpetrate this fraud because of the way the system was
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  Speaker 1: set up. Time to fix the system. Best practices across
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  Speaker 1: the board, Jack.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so here's what I'll say about that. A lot
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  Speaker 2: of my pals in the press love to write about
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  Speaker 2: the fact that Republicans have been in control for so
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  Speaker 2: many years. Why are we just finding all this fraud now?
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  Speaker 2: People need to understand an elected official is wholly different
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  Speaker 2: than the administrative state. The administrative state generally is run
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  Speaker 2: by people who tend to be on the left and
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  Speaker 2: by people who are in public unions. And frankly, they
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  Speaker 2: protect themselves. There's a ton of waste, fraud, and abuse
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  Speaker 2: going on. They just don't want to call the money back.
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  Speaker 2: They don't want indictments because then they're hurting their fellow
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  Speaker 2: union members, their friends that vote the same way that
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  Speaker 2: they do. The reality is Ohio has gotten more serious
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  Speaker 2: about this. And Vivek Ramaswamy said several months back, he's
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  Speaker 2: going to continue to push waste, fraud, and abuse discoveries
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  Speaker 2: in Ohio's Medicaid system And he's actually working with the
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  Speaker 2: federal government to make sure that Ohio would get 65
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  Speaker 2: cents of every dollar it claws back. Right now, we
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  Speaker 2: would get 35 cents. And his pitch to D.C. is, hey,
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  Speaker 2: if you get 35 cents, that's better than 65 cents
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  Speaker 2: because nobody's doing it now anyway. And so I think
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  Speaker 2: that if we continue down the road of getting people
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  Speaker 2: in key positions that want to prosecute waste, fraud and
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  Speaker 2: abuse and call back taxpayer dollars, I think we're on
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  Speaker 2: a good path.
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  Speaker 1: We're on a good path, a path to begin today.
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  Speaker 1: If you haven't voted yet, get out and vote. Jack Windsor, theohiopressnetwork.com.
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  Speaker 1: We'll do this again next Friday. I hope you have
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  Speaker 1: a fantastic weekend, a week between now and then.
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  Speaker 2: You too, brother. Thank you so much.
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