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Mayors Race · Chuck Douglas

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Speaker 1: Greeting salutations. Welcome my friends to another edition of The
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Speaker 1: Power Hour on six ten dou WUTV in. I'm Chuck Douglas.
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Speaker 1: You know who you are, and we take it from there.
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Speaker 1: We get one hour together, which means I talk really
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Speaker 1: fast and you must listen even faster. My number eight
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Speaker 1: two one nine eight eight six A two one WTV
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Speaker 1: in one eight hundred and six y ten WTV and
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Speaker 1: door dash bags. Apparently this this terror plot up there
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Speaker 1: in New York where apparently the idea was to leave
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Speaker 1: the bombs or bomb depending in door dash bags because
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Speaker 1: they figured, oh, they'll lean outside the legislative building there
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Speaker 1: in New York and nobody will pay attention to a
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Speaker 1: door dash bag one of the legislature members. Maybe you
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Speaker 1: ordered a sandwich or something, and that's that's how they're been.
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Speaker 1: A bomb just goes to show you take nothing for granted.
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Speaker 1: We were talking about a week ago all these you know,
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Speaker 1: false claims about oh, the suspicious package and the guy
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Speaker 1: that was in the news because he was the bomb squad.
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Speaker 1: Did you see that the bomb squad was looking at
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Speaker 1: a Duffel bag or something in the street and this
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Speaker 1: guy got tired of waiting with the street being blocked,
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Speaker 1: so he just went up and started dumping everything out
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Speaker 1: of the bag. That was stupid. That's awesome, that was
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Speaker 1: stupid moron.
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Speaker 2: That's funny though. I'm just I forget about it. If
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Speaker 2: I die, I die.
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Speaker 1: Every year I get nervous for coming up on September eleventh.
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Speaker 1: I just I feel like we as Americans, we think
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Speaker 1: in instantaneous terms. Everything is instant to us. We got
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Speaker 1: instant ramen noodles. We got microwaves to cook stuff real fast.
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Speaker 1: We got remote controls to change the channels real fast.
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Speaker 1: Everything is instant to us. We do not understand the
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Speaker 1: concept of waiting years, decades patiently to attack. And every
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Speaker 1: year on September eleventh, I worry that, you know what,
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Speaker 1: We're gonna have some terror cell here inside this country
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Speaker 1: that decides to do something again. The woman that they
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Speaker 1: are charging with this attempt to attack up there in
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Speaker 1: New York was online and apparently an ISIS sympathizer and
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Speaker 1: use several different names. Her actual name is Jessica Brown.
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Speaker 1: She's thirty five from Albany, charged with attempting to provide
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Speaker 1: material support to ISIS. The FBI says she pledged allegiance
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Speaker 1: to the terror group? How do you do that? Do
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Speaker 1: you know what the process is? I would think if
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Speaker 1: anybody in this building has pledged allegiance to a terror group,
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Speaker 1: it might be you.
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Speaker 2: No, I haven't. I haven't looked into that one. Okay,
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Speaker 2: I really don't want to google it and find out.
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Speaker 1: Either, you know, because they'd be like immediately, they'd be
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Speaker 1: at the door.
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Speaker 2: That's not even worth the joke online.
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Speaker 1: Discussing this bomb, bomb delivery bags and door dash and
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Speaker 1: so forth. Wanted to carry out the attack when the
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Speaker 1: senators were in a meeting. She converted to Islam about
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Speaker 1: five years ago and began going by the name of
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Speaker 1: Aisha Shaif. The affidavit said. On May twenty twenty six, Bowie,
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Speaker 1: using her user name now Save, I don't even want
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Speaker 1: to try that on a social media platform, told another
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Speaker 1: user in Arabic, Praise be to Allah for September eleventh,
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Speaker 1: when I can migrate, I will poison these infidels. So this,
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Speaker 1: this is, this is why I'm always saying keep your
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Speaker 1: head on a swivel. This was not somebody wearing, you know,
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Speaker 1: Muslim garb necessarily or looking as if they were from
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Speaker 1: the Middle East or or you know, anything like that.
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Speaker 1: This This was Jessica Brown, thirty five years old from Albany,
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Speaker 1: New York. Probably a very suburban looking soccer mom type
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Speaker 1: of person. There's no story or picture with the story
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Speaker 1: here on Fox News, but I just I picture her
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Speaker 1: in that way. News conference on Thursday afternoon, FBI officials
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Speaker 1: said Bowie's alleged plans extended beyond an attack at the
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Speaker 1: state capitol, included ambitions to carry out additional violence after
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Speaker 1: fleeing the country. Keep your head on a swivel. Where
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Speaker 1: are we the Is this the twentieth twenty for what
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Speaker 1: day is it? It's twentieth twentieth of August YEP, So
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Speaker 1: we got roughly twenty one days until that that sad
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Speaker 1: anniversary comes up again. The loonies are still out there.
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Speaker 1: People don't think they're not. Keep your eyes open. Door
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Speaker 1: dash bags, door dash bags, things that we don't even know.
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Speaker 1: Who would have thought, you know, planes just taken off
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Speaker 1: in the morning, would have brought down buildings, would have
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Speaker 1: done what we saw happened in New York City. Nobody
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Speaker 1: thought that, and nobody thinks anything of a door dash bag.
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Speaker 1: So as annoying as the suspicious package searches are. Don't
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Speaker 1: go out there and open the package and dump it
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Speaker 1: out on the street, just dumb. Here in the City
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Speaker 1: of Columbus, you have the opportunity, finally, because I know
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Speaker 1: many people have been chomping at the bit, Finally you
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Speaker 1: can vote vote for Shannon Harden for mayor of the
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Speaker 1: City Columbus. Have you already signed up for that, Zach.
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Speaker 2: I already signed on mailing list.
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Speaker 1: Everything you got your I voted for Shannon. Sticker put
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Speaker 1: on your shirt.
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Speaker 2: No, I got the whole shirt. Your shirt says I
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Speaker 2: voted for.
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Speaker 1: Oh, you had a graphic shirt done? Yeah, making my own.
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Speaker 2: It's gonna be pretty.
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Speaker 1: Exciting, probably so stick on letters from the hobby store.
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Speaker 2: Ky that it costs tens of dollars.
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Speaker 1: Tens of dollars, Okay, yeah. Shannon Harden, council president, has
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Speaker 1: announced that he is running for mayor of the City
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Speaker 1: of Columbus. Andy Ginther, current mayor of the City of Columbus,
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Speaker 1: also announced he is running again for mayor of the
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Speaker 1: City of Columbus. Both of them Democrats, and Columbus. Columbus
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Speaker 1: is screwed up in this way because everything is nonpartisan.
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Speaker 1: Although everything's partisan, but everything is nonpartisan. So we may
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Speaker 1: very well all have a primary in May. If a
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Speaker 1: primary is triggered by three or more declared candidates, Okay,
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Speaker 1: if it's just Harden and Ginther, then there's no primary
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Speaker 1: and they run against each other in November of next year.
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Speaker 1: If it's Hardened Ginther and heaven forbid three or four
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Speaker 1: other people, there will be a primary. Party affiliation in
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Speaker 1: that primary does not matter. So if you are a
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Speaker 1: Republican and you want to vote for Harden, you can
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Speaker 1: still do that. However, if the Republicans feel a candidate,
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Speaker 1: which on Facebook today I called it out, I said,
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Speaker 1: it's time, this is now, is the time. Gentther will
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Speaker 1: get some votes hard and we'll get They're gonna split
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Speaker 1: that vote in the primary if another Democrat enters the Fray,
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Speaker 1: which I think is entirely possible. In fact, I think
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Speaker 1: it's entirely possible too good one member of city council
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Speaker 1: that I would not be supper if they declared for mayor.
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Speaker 1: And I think it's also entirely possible that this group
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Speaker 1: of people, which is largely Democrat, but in this case,
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Speaker 1: they're on the right track as far as i'm concerned
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Speaker 1: that are pushing for the the amendment to the City
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Speaker 1: Charter to expand city council. And this is something where
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Speaker 1: you know Joe Motil, who has run for mayor before,
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Speaker 1: he's he's behind them. I would not be surprised to
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Speaker 1: perhaps see him run. And I don't know if he
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Speaker 1: run as a Democrat or not. I know he is,
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Speaker 1: but he may choose to run independent. If we get
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Speaker 1: a council member and Joe or someone else from this
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Speaker 1: group of people that want us to go to a
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Speaker 1: ward system in city council that could be for Democrats
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Speaker 1: all splitting the vote, one loan Republican could run an
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Speaker 1: actual make the cut. The top two people from the
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Speaker 1: May primary are the ones that move on to November.
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Speaker 1: And if you've got three or four Democrats all splitting
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Speaker 1: up that vote, it's not impossible that a Republican can
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Speaker 1: make it to the November ballot to be mayor of
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Speaker 1: the City of Columbus. I know it's unheard of, but
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Speaker 1: it could happen. So as I was posting about that
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Speaker 1: today on Facebook, I'm going to tell you something that
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Speaker 1: I don't mean to sound mean or angry or this
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Speaker 1: is not a negative comment This is an honest comment
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Speaker 1: from me. Human beings, as a general rule, have some
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Speaker 1: common traits. One of the traits that is a major
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Speaker 1: annoyance for me is those who give up before the
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Speaker 1: fight begins. Has the Franklin County Republican Party been in
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Speaker 1: just an embarrassing state of disarray for years? Yep? Have
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Speaker 1: we failed to field candidates for offices throughout the county? Yep?
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Speaker 1: When people who do run for something as a Republican,
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Speaker 1: has the party failed to back them with effort and dollars? Yep.
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Speaker 1: But I had Robert Scherer in here last night, and
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Speaker 1: I'm telling you if you didn't hear that, it's available
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Speaker 1: on the podcast page, just go to six ten WTV
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Speaker 1: in search Chuck Douglas and there's a podcast up there
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Speaker 1: with Robert Serrah from the Franklin County Republican Party. There's
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Speaker 1: a renewed sense of possibility right now. And he's got
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Speaker 1: some staff members now, and he's taking very seriously his
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Speaker 1: talk about doing something and not just laying there waiting
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Speaker 1: for them to cover you with dirt. And I feel
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Speaker 1: a sense of promise there. And if I'm wrong, then
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Speaker 1: i'm wrong. But I refuse to lay back and say, Okay,
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Speaker 1: I don't believe it. I can't till I see it.
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Speaker 1: I just can't believe it's gonna happen. You gotta have faith.
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Speaker 1: If there is no faith, if there is no promise
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Speaker 1: of possibility, there is no point in getting out of
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Speaker 1: bed in the morning. And this isn't just about politics.
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Speaker 1: This is about life in general. If you feel like
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Speaker 1: there is no way to win, you're not going to fight.
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Speaker 1: And if you don't fight, you lose. By default. Man,
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Speaker 1: there's no way I can get all those bills paid.
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Speaker 1: Maybe not, but get your butt out of bed and
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Speaker 1: go to work. Find a way to do whatever it
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Speaker 1: is you can do. You don't have to turn the
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Speaker 1: mountains into mole hills, but you can turn them into
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Speaker 1: smaller mountains. And while it's not exclusively political, politics is
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Speaker 1: not excluded from what I'm saying. We have new leadership.
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Speaker 1: What I believe is a new sense of purpose and
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Speaker 1: stop being negative long enough to see the possibility of
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Speaker 1: the positive. Just maybe, just maybe, after all of these years,
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Speaker 1: it's time for the time time to turn a little bit.
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Speaker 1: And I told Robert last night, I'm not looking for domination.
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Speaker 1: I don't need Republicans in charge of everything. No, I
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Speaker 1: just just some seats at the tables. You got nine
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Speaker 1: council members at the moment, be great to have maybe
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Speaker 1: four of them at least non Democrat. You got three
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Speaker 1: county commissioners. Having a Republican county commissioner be nice. We
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Speaker 1: didn't even run anybody for county auditor. But that's okay
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Speaker 1: because Mike Stinziano is an incumbany and he's he's a
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Speaker 1: good guy. We talked about him last night too. I've
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Speaker 1: got some pretty strong candidates for the state legislature. I'm
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Speaker 1: liking our chances on quite a few seats actually around
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Speaker 1: the state and central Ohio. I think is going to
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Speaker 1: bode well. There's a lot of possibility right now, a
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Speaker 1: lot of possibility, and I'm asking you to have some
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Speaker 1: faith get involved. I don't have money to donate, ok,
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Speaker 1: you got some time? Can you do some yard sign
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Speaker 1: passing out? People call and say I need yard signs?
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Speaker 1: You want to deliver some yard signs? You could do that.
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Speaker 1: Answer phones, make some outgoing calls. Find somebody you really
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Speaker 1: want to support, go help them at their campaign, knock
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Speaker 1: on some doors, hand out some flyers. Whatever. But you
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Speaker 1: have to believe, you have to have faith, otherwise just
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Speaker 1: stay in bed. Or maybe that's just me.