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Hamilton County Republican GOP Party Chairman Josh Gerth · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: It's 8.05 here at 55KRC, the talk station. Very happy Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the 55KRC morning show. Head of the
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  Speaker 1: Hamlin County Republican Party, Josh Gerth. Josh, it's a pleasure
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  Speaker 1: to have you on the show today, my friend.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for having me, Brian. Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning. And I truly appreciate your response to the
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  Speaker 1: North College Hill superintendent, Eugene Blaylock, posting the entire Democratic
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  Speaker 1: ticket of the North College Hill City Schools website. We'll
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  Speaker 1: get to that in a moment, but your post from
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  Speaker 1: several days ago under the Hamilton County Republican Party chair,
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  Speaker 1: you just outline a whole bunch of illustrations of, well, lawbreaking, perhaps,
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  Speaker 1: if I can call it that, shenanigans, maybe if you
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  Speaker 1: want to take the lawbreaking edge off of it, done
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  Speaker 1: by Democrats. And there's a whole list if we can
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  Speaker 1: go through it. My reaction to that, because I lived
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  Speaker 1: in Chicago for eight years where it is always, always
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  Speaker 1: all blue, and you are surrounded by overt illustrations of corruption.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody seems to care. And the reason is it sort
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  Speaker 1: of acknowledged, well, it's our corruption, so why would we
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  Speaker 1: want to stop it? It's helping out us, the Democrats
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  Speaker 1: being the us, our reference. But that was kind of
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  Speaker 1: the attitude about it. Ah, don't worry about it. We're
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  Speaker 1: getting the benefit of the corruption, so just shut up
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  Speaker 1: and sit down and let us do business the way
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  Speaker 1: we always do. That seems the way it's become in
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  Speaker 1: Hamilton County, Josh.
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  Speaker 2: You're exactly right.
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  Speaker 3: And someone needs to call it out, and I think
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  Speaker 3: that's my job to do it. I did list, you know,
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  Speaker 3: a half a dozen or so things that, to your point,
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  Speaker 3: may be considered shenanigans. And, you know, everyone's like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: it's not that big of a deal if the Anderson
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  Speaker 3: Township trustees break the law by holding a meeting they
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  Speaker 3: shouldn't have and getting fined $ 10, 000 or the city not
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  Speaker 3: picking up your trash or, you know, a judge mouthing
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  Speaker 3: off about certain party that are inhumane. Active judge, might
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  Speaker 3: I say. It just, you know, but this is the
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  Speaker 3: kind of stuff that people don't really pay attention to.
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  Speaker 3: And it's the reason why we are where we are
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  Speaker 3: in this county. But you know what?
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  Speaker 2: Here's the big thing.
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  Speaker 3: All those things aside, let's focus on what the real
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  Speaker 3: problem is here. And last night in Anderson Township, we
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  Speaker 3: had our Anderson Republican Club meeting where we had Steve Misla,
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  Speaker 3: who the owner of the Norwood Skyline. Does anybody remember
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  Speaker 3: what happened in the Norwood Skyline a few months back?
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  Speaker 3: Does that even cross anyone's mind anymore when it comes
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  Speaker 3: to the fact that we have an election starting in
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  Speaker 3: a few days? where a young woman was killed in
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  Speaker 3: broad daylight in a Norwood skyline because of a man
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  Speaker 3: who was let out of jail, had 19 arrests, 19 arrests,
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  Speaker 3: and still was walking the street and able to walk
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  Speaker 3: in and murder his ex-girlfriend in broad daylight because of
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  Speaker 3: the fact that a liberal judge let him out of jail.
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  Speaker 3: So I can make fun of these little incidents that
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  Speaker 3: I did on my face plant page a few days ago,
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  Speaker 3: But that just is the underbelly of what's really the
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  Speaker 3: problem in this county. And it's lawlessness and it's lack
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  Speaker 3: of common sense and it's destroying our county within.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the solutions to these problems seem so simple. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I have, you know, Corey Bowman on yesterday. He lives
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  Speaker 1: in the West End, a neighborhood that has a tremendous
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  Speaker 1: number of black people, all of whom seem to be
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  Speaker 1: clamoring for more law enforcement. Law enforcement officers are a
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  Speaker 1: little shall we say, have a morale problem because they
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  Speaker 1: engage in law enforcement efforts only to have these young people,
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  Speaker 1: most notably juveniles, let out of the criminal justice system,
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  Speaker 1: what we regularly refer to as the revolving door, making
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  Speaker 1: them view their jobs as absolutely pointless. And of course,
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  Speaker 1: those young people getting let out time and time and
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  Speaker 1: time again, they build this massive juvenile court record, but
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  Speaker 1: no accountability. They don't think they're ever going to be
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  Speaker 1: held accountable. That's why they go out and end up
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  Speaker 1: being recidivist criminals. The answer to the problem is simple.
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  Speaker 1: You know, strict law enforcement and, of course, punishment in
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  Speaker 1: the judicial system. So we have illustrations and examples to
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  Speaker 1: hold out to everybody else what not to do or
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  Speaker 1: you're going to suffer consequences. That leg of the criminal
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  Speaker 1: justice system has been kicked out. It's simple to understand.
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  Speaker 1: It's easy to solve. But going back to your initial comment,
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  Speaker 1: people don't pay attention. They don't connect the dots. And
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  Speaker 1: they go back to doing the same thing over and
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  Speaker 1: over again. Well, you know, I'm going to vote Democrat. Right.
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  Speaker 3: Well, or they're paying attention to national politics or things
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  Speaker 3: outside of their backyard, which is amazing to me.
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  Speaker 2: And that is exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Why if you don't go vote in November, well, actually
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  Speaker 3: starting on Tuesday, if you don't go vote and you're
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  Speaker 3: one of these people that complains about what's going on.
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  Speaker 3: and especially if you're a Republican in this town and
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  Speaker 3: you don't go vote, you are worse, worse than the
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  Speaker 3: Democrat socialist agenda candidates and elected leaders around this county
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  Speaker 3: that are destroying it.
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  Speaker 2: You are the problem if you don't go vote.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm glad you had me on today because yesterday,
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  Speaker 3: speaking of law and order, our judicial candidates were overwhelmingly
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  Speaker 3: endorsed by the FOP. And if that, again, another example
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  Speaker 3: of why it is so important to go vote, We
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  Speaker 3: have the backing of the FOP, and I know you're
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  Speaker 3: having Ken Cobra on later, but that is a huge
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  Speaker 3: endorsement for our candidates and another reason why people need
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  Speaker 3: to pay attention.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and maybe they're not paying attention to the endorsements either, Josh.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought them up. But, you know, you
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  Speaker 1: and I are weed dwellers. We live in the political environment.
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  Speaker 1: We pay attention to these things all day long. And again,
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  Speaker 1: for us, it seems so obvious, but we're facing a
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  Speaker 1: massive uphill challenge in the divided world we find ourselves
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  Speaker 1: in in this social media age. People... wall themselves off
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  Speaker 1: in echo chambers. They don't listen to the facts or information.
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  Speaker 1: They're not willing to listen to a position that runs
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  Speaker 1: contrary to what they think they believe. And I'm not
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  Speaker 1: even quite sure they know specifically what they believe. Plus,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you're competing for valuable hours, entertainment hours. I
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  Speaker 1: got binge watching I got to do. I can't be
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  Speaker 1: bothered with politics. I got a family to run. I
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  Speaker 1: got select soccer games I got to toll my kids
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  Speaker 1: off to. There's a multitude of reasons people don't pay attention.
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  Speaker 1: And I think a lot of people, and this is
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  Speaker 1: the sad thing, think it's a pointless gesture. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I've been doing this for years and I get more
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  Speaker 1: and more of the same, but we are at a
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  Speaker 1: crossroads in America, given the current socialist wave that's washing
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  Speaker 1: across this country. The Democrats have capitulated to it. So
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  Speaker 1: really any Democrat that you vote for is going to
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  Speaker 1: be governed and directed by the far left wing of
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  Speaker 1: their party. And they're not going to buck the trend.
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  Speaker 1: And I just wish more people would just come to
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  Speaker 1: grips with that reality because it is certainly true.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You know, and I would say to some people, and
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  Speaker 3: we had a couple of new people at the meeting
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  Speaker 3: last night, and I said, you know, why aren't you– or,
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  Speaker 3: you know, why did you come tonight? They're like, well–
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  Speaker 3: You know, I'm finally starting to see some things that
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  Speaker 3: I'm concerned about. I said, you're finally starting to see them.
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  Speaker 3: But I think the whole reason why I even ran
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  Speaker 3: for this spot. I mean, yeah, I mean, I've got
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  Speaker 3: another job. I've got a family.
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  Speaker 2: But if not you, who? And that's what I.
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  Speaker 3: Like to tell people who are like, I don't know, politics,
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  Speaker 3: not really my thing. If not you, who is going
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  Speaker 3: to help change what's going on? And I know social
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  Speaker 3: media gets, I mean, it's just, you know, it kind
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  Speaker 3: of gets lost with people. And look, my social media
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  Speaker 3: following isn't exactly robust. That's why we have to do
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  Speaker 3: other things. We actually have a group in town from Alabama,
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  Speaker 3: of all places, in town this week, walking door to door.
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  Speaker 3: They're going to hit thousands of doors in heavy Republican areas.
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  Speaker 2: And you go, what? Why Republican areas?
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  Speaker 3: Because half of those Republicans are the same people that
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  Speaker 3: didn't vote last year, that voted in the presidential year,
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  Speaker 3: but sat it out, and why we are in the
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  Speaker 3: positions that we are. There are places on the West Side,
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  Speaker 3: for instance, in like Delhi or Coleraine, people that will
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  Speaker 3: vote Republican areas.
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  Speaker 2: They just need a little encouragement.
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  Speaker 3: That's what going door-to-door, getting down to the grassroots level does,
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  Speaker 3: and that's what we're trying to do.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and with early voting, it's time we just dropped
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  Speaker 1: the whole idea of voting on Election Day because I
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  Speaker 1: think that ship has sailed. We do have a huge
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  Speaker 1: amount of time here, again, getting next Tuesday. Why not
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  Speaker 1: take advantage of it? The Democrats do, and if you
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  Speaker 1: don't want to allocate time on Election Day to go
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  Speaker 1: do it, Hamilton County Board of Elections is so easy
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  Speaker 1: to get in and out of. Parking is great, and
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  Speaker 1: it's very efficient. I voted there before early voting, and
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  Speaker 1: I voted there. I mean, why not? Just get it
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  Speaker 1: out of the way. And that way you don't have
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  Speaker 1: to listen to the complaints of folks like us begging
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  Speaker 1: people to get out and vote. It's simple to do.
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  Speaker 2: Just do it.
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  Speaker 3: And if you do it early, then all the mail
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  Speaker 3: and stuff that shows up at your house every day stops.
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  Speaker 2: The calls stop. The texts stop.
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  Speaker 3: Everything stops because everyone's like, oh, I keep so many stuff. Well,
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  Speaker 3: go vote and it'll stop.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's a poster child for voting right there, Josh.
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  Speaker 2: How about that?
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  Speaker 1: Get the damn phone calls. I get like a half
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  Speaker 1: a dozen of those every single day by way of
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  Speaker 1: text messages and phone calls. And then, of course, the
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  Speaker 1: political ads, which we can't escape. And I suspect people's
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  Speaker 1: eyes have already glazed over with the political ads that
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  Speaker 1: are running seemingly 24-7, Josh.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it is a lot. There's no doubt.
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  Speaker 3: But, you know, when you spend $ 195 million for the U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Senate race, I mean, you're going to see a few ads.
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  Speaker 1: There's some big fat left-wing donor money in there. It's
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  Speaker 1: amazing the Democrats don't go after the multi-billion dollar left-wing
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  Speaker 1: donors like George Soros, but they attack anybody else who's
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  Speaker 1: throwing money at a campaign. Josh Gerth, head of the
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  Speaker 1: Hammond County Republican Party. Pause, because I want you to
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  Speaker 1: dive into the specifics on this North College Hill superintendent
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  Speaker 1: posting the entire.
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  Speaker 2: 818 here at 55KRC, the talk station. On the phone?
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  Speaker 1: Chairman of the Hamilton County Republican Party, Josh Gerth, going
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  Speaker 1: through the issues and pivoting over to one particularly egregious effect.
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  Speaker 1: Although I didn't mean it. I didn't know this was
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  Speaker 1: a violation of law. Eugene Blalock, Jr., the superintendent of
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  Speaker 1: the North College Hill City Schools, posted the entire Democratic ticket. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I know they want the levy to pass.
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  Speaker 2: And I did.
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  Speaker 1: Are the Democrat is the blue ticket or rather does
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  Speaker 1: the blue ticket contain a recommendation to vote for this
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  Speaker 1: particular levy? Or is it silent on that issue?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good question. I don't know that and
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  Speaker 3: like the CPS tax levy. I don't know if that's
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  Speaker 3: on their endorsement card or not.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I know the teachers unions, for example, have endorsed
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  Speaker 1: Amy Acton, and I strongly, I get a strong indication
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  Speaker 1: based upon history. In fact, I would bet all of
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  Speaker 1: my life savings on it that the teachers unions are
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  Speaker 1: backing all of the Democrats to the extent they endorse them.
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  Speaker 1: But so... The expectation is presumably the Democrats want you
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  Speaker 1: to vote for the levies. But you're not allowed to
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  Speaker 1: engage in politics on taxpayer-funded websites like the North College
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  Speaker 1: Hill City School website, are you, Josh Gerth?
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  Speaker 2: No, you are not. That is a clear violation of
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  Speaker 2: the Ohio Revised Code 9.03. Anyone can... Google that and
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  Speaker 2: look it up.
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  Speaker 3: And you'll see what comes up that you specifically cannot
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  Speaker 3: do exactly what he did. And someone alerted me to it.
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  Speaker 2: And I said.
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  Speaker 3: There's no way, there's no way that a superintendent posted
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  Speaker 3: a endorsed slate card from a political party on the
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  Speaker 3: public Facebook page of the school.
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  Speaker 2: And sure enough, not only did he do it, he
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  Speaker 2: left it up for at least a full day, if
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  Speaker 2: not more.
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  Speaker 1: Any accountability? Will there be any action filed? Will there
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  Speaker 1: be any fines levied or repercussions? I know you demanded
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  Speaker 1: that he resign from his position. And honestly, Josh, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to hold my breath waiting for him to
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  Speaker 1: do that. But no, no.
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  Speaker 3: Or, you know, I assume North College Hill has a
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  Speaker 3: school board. And I mean, is the board going to
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  Speaker 3: do anything? And the answer is probably no. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know what the the repercussions will be. I know a
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  Speaker 3: report was filed with the auditor. um, of the state, uh,
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  Speaker 3: a complaint was filed. So we'll see if that goes anywhere. Um,
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  Speaker 3: and yes, I know to your point earlier, he went on,
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  Speaker 3: he's like, oh, I'm sorry. I didn't, you know, whatever
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  Speaker 3: he said, uh, to try and walk it back. Well,
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  Speaker 3: first of all, either he did it blatantly knowing what
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  Speaker 3: he was doing, or if he didn't know that he
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  Speaker 3: couldn't do that, isn't that just as bad?
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  Speaker 1: Well, ignorance of law is no excuse. We all know that,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, I mean, you'd think, Hmm, I don't see, uh, uh, uh,
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  Speaker 1: school websites, you know, engaging in politics, uh, anywhere around
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  Speaker 1: me maybe it's not legal to do that maybe i
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  Speaker 1: should run it by a lawyer or check with someone
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  Speaker 1: who's a little bit better in the know than i
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  Speaker 1: am as a superintendent.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah and of course i'm certainly not a lawyer although
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  Speaker 3: i did sleep in anderson township last night which is
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  Speaker 3: run by a very smart lawyer who just got busted
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  Speaker 3: for the sunshine violation but it seemed it seems to
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  Speaker 3: me that this was a completely illegal act if not
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  Speaker 3: the very least an unethical.
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  Speaker 1: One Without question unethical. Well, pivoting over to Anderson Township,
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  Speaker 1: I had a conversation with your former co-trustee, Drew Pappas,
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  Speaker 1: not that long ago, about the change in direction of
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  Speaker 1: Anderson Township. I mean, I always just perceived Anderson Township
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  Speaker 1: to be just a diehard conservative town, economically doing great,
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  Speaker 1: business and industry are welcome, beautiful neighborhoods, taken care of
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  Speaker 1: wonderfully well. But you go from, you know, you, Josh
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  Speaker 1: Gerth and Drew Pappas, and you get Lexi Lawson, who
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  Speaker 1: obviously was a terrific, terrific candidate and a great trustee,
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  Speaker 1: to now you're completely run by Democrats. Is that kind
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  Speaker 1: of an illustration of what happens if you don't show up?
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  Speaker 1: Or has Anderson Township really gone that far to the left?
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  Speaker 2: No, that's exactly what happens when you don't show up.
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  Speaker 3: Because in 2024, Anderson overwhelmingly voted for Donald Trump. And
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  Speaker 3: then the next year, 5,000 of those people didn't even
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  Speaker 3: bother to vote.
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  Speaker 2: And this is what we end up with.
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  Speaker 3: Um, and, and so there again is just one more
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  Speaker 3: illustration of the apathy of our party.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's a shame. Well, I'd like to think that
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  Speaker 1: word gets out and that people will not sit on
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  Speaker 1: their hands for this election. I know everybody's upset, uh,
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  Speaker 1: Josh Gerth, but I mean, the, the alternative is just,
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  Speaker 1: it's bad crap insanity. It absolutely is. And people don't
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  Speaker 1: see it. I, I don't know. Maybe we're lost as
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  Speaker 1: a society if, if we end up going blue in November.
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  Speaker 3: Listen, you're exactly right, and I don't know what's going
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  Speaker 3: to happen, but the Democrat Party today does not care
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  Speaker 3: about rules, laws, ethics, providing basic services, not the least
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  Speaker 3: of which is law and order and public safety. They
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  Speaker 3: care about one thing and one thing only, and it's
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  Speaker 3: wielding their socialistic power to suppress their voter base, preying
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  Speaker 3: on that base's ignorance and, of course, our apathy as
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  Speaker 3: GOP voters, to mask their blatant overreach and incompetency. That's
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  Speaker 3: exactly what's going on. The headlines will continue. They will
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  Speaker 3: get more prevalent. They will get worse. And they will
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  Speaker 3: impact your wallet, your family, and your life unless you
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  Speaker 3: go vote to change it.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, next week, start October 6th. Get over there at
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  Speaker 1: Hamilton County Board of Elections. Cast your vote. Get it
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  Speaker 1: out of the way. And reminding you, thank you, Josh Gerth,
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  Speaker 1: for pointing it out, the end of mailings and the
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  Speaker 1: end of phone calls, that's worth it, isn't it? Come on.
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  Speaker 2: Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: The amount of time it's going to take you to
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  Speaker 1: go vote and get it out of the way versus
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  Speaker 1: the amount of time you'd have to be dealing with
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  Speaker 1: even just deleting text. Probably just a wash at minimum, Josh.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, probably.
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  Speaker 1: Hamilton County Republican Chair Josh Gerth. Keep up the great work, Josh.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll encourage my listeners to engage in some measure
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  Speaker 1: of outreach. And of course, ending the point. Get out
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  Speaker 1: and vote. Start next Tuesday and take advantage of early voting.
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  Speaker 1: Josh Gerth, you're always welcome here to provide updates and
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  Speaker 1: information about what's going on, and I welcome you being
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  Speaker 1: on the program again real soon, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Go to GOPjudges.com, and thank you, Brian, as always.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my pleasure, man, my pleasure. I'm voting in all
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  Speaker 1: of our best interests, and that's why I'm so adamant
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  Speaker 1: about my listeners voting. Come on, if you don't do it,
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  Speaker 1: we're screwed.