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More With Candidate For House District 6 Matthew Jackson · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Here we go. 22, yeah, make it 23 minutes away
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  Speaker 1: from the top of the hour. Chuck Douglas, Power Hour,
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  Speaker 1: 610 WTV and in-studio Matthew Jackson, who is running for
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  Speaker 1: the House of Representatives, the Ohio House of Representatives, District 6.
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  Speaker 1: His first time, his first foray into seeking political office. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he has that, honestly, that almost enthusiasm of
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  Speaker 1: a kid. It's Christmas time. He wants to know what's
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  Speaker 1: under the tree. And, man, I'm just I I hope
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  Speaker 1: when you open the first box, it's not the Grinch.
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  Speaker 1: But I've been around long enough to know that the
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  Speaker 1: Grinch is in a couple of those boxes at the
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  Speaker 1: state level. What I was asking you before we went
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  Speaker 1: into the break, as you've heard the complaints, the moaning,
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  Speaker 1: the groaning about essentially city issues. We don't have enough
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  Speaker 1: police or too much crime in our neighborhood or trash
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  Speaker 1: doesn't get picked up, blah, blah, blah. From a state
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  Speaker 1: level perspective. Has anything occurred to you, something innovative, something
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  Speaker 1: that nobody's brought up before that you think, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: from the statehouse, we can help this?
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  Speaker 2: So it was interesting on another interview, I was asked
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  Speaker 2: something on the fire standards and the policing standards and.
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  Speaker 3: I honestly think you can.
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  Speaker 2: Look at what's the federal or the organizational standards, like
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  Speaker 2: the IAFF and the unions, and what do they recommend? Like,
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  Speaker 2: if you beholden people to the standard that is proven
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  Speaker 2: to be successful, you'll actually see a change. And that's
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  Speaker 2: not even causing to put in a law in place
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  Speaker 2: that puts another law on top of another law, getting
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  Speaker 2: bogged down another committee.
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  Speaker 3: So I'll use the example.
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  Speaker 2: There is a statute for the federal level that cities
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  Speaker 2: are supposed to have a standard of where the fire
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  Speaker 2: department should be able to respond first unit on scene
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  Speaker 2: for medical or fire five minutes in an urban area.
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  Speaker 2: And last time I checked, Hilltop, Columbus, Hilliard, it's urban-suburban.
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  Speaker 2: You should be able to have those done. Also, I
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  Speaker 2: honestly think that we need to protect our firefighters, first responders. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to say when you're a firefighter, your station
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  Speaker 2: is your house. It's not a place that just to
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  Speaker 2: be tour.
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  Speaker 3: It's not.
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  Speaker 2: A place that should be dilapidated. I think that you
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  Speaker 2: should put it, I actually did a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: a kind of looking around, and the majority of budgets
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  Speaker 2: for most cities, big or small, is about 40%-ish, you
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  Speaker 2: can say. So 40% of the budget, I believe, should
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  Speaker 2: be set aside. Another thing that should always be happening,
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  Speaker 2: no matter what, is they should push forward And I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to shout out to my firefighters. They should push
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  Speaker 2: forward a firefighters academy annually without without fail, because you
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  Speaker 2: always have an attrition of people like right now, fire
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  Speaker 2: department in Columbus. I'll say that I think it's 300
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  Speaker 2: people short right now. I think on the police department side,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's about 300 vacancies. And I would be
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  Speaker 2: if I was in the city of Columbus, I would be.
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  Speaker 2: upset to have a vacancy. And when you have those
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  Speaker 2: 300 vacancies, that's just... sitting down looking at it now.
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  Speaker 2: So just that alone, there should be looking at the
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  Speaker 2: federal standards, at the researched data, and we should be
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  Speaker 2: able to put that data into a bill to say,
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  Speaker 2: if you're a city, you should be able to make
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  Speaker 2: sure that you're keeping a minimum amount of numbers. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what the minimum amount of numbers is
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  Speaker 2: allowed in the House District 6 area's And for the
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  Speaker 2: state patrols and police. But I guarantee you having 300
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  Speaker 2: vacancies on either side is pretty bad.
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  Speaker 3: And you like.
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  Speaker 2: When you have an emergency, you want your loved one
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  Speaker 2: to be able to get that help that they need
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  Speaker 2: and not have to hear. Well, sorry, ma'am or sir,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to have to wait. I've been in that
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  Speaker 2: situation where I was on the engine. And someone needed
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  Speaker 2: an ambulance. We were able to, like in Norfolk Fire Rescue,
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  Speaker 2: everyone's an ALS engine. But if that engine shows up
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  Speaker 2: and you need an ambulance to transport them and you
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  Speaker 2: have none available, you don't want to hear that.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think anybody wants to hear that.
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  Speaker 2: Or to hear we don't have any police officers available
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  Speaker 2: and there's a riot going on. You don't want to
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  Speaker 2: hear that. And I don't think you should be happy
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  Speaker 2: about hearing that. you can put together well-crafted pieces of
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  Speaker 2: policy from that to education, to helping out with our
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  Speaker 2: children being going through depression and everything in schools. I've
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  Speaker 2: heard the argument that children are getting fed well enough.
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  Speaker 2: You can actually use the system that is in place
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  Speaker 2: and put standards that has to be kept. One thing
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  Speaker 2: that I kind of talk about is, is, when you
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  Speaker 2: have the people that are counselors, I believe the counselors
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  Speaker 2: are very important. In the military, I had a career
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  Speaker 2: counselor and I had a, what is it, a detailer.
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  Speaker 2: Just for each sailor, you had that going to where
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  Speaker 2: to guide you. Now, if that's needed for, let's just
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  Speaker 2: say jarheads or navy or marine corps how much do
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  Speaker 2: you think a child needs to guide them to prepare
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  Speaker 2: for going to college or going to techno school school
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  Speaker 2: so we got to make sure that we bolster up
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  Speaker 2: and make sure we have the standards that are there
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  Speaker 2: and then i could talk on for tons of things
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  Speaker 2: that you can put in a place to help out
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  Speaker 2: from housing to uh just to even allowing organizations to
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  Speaker 2: get tax abatements, to be able to help them out,
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  Speaker 2: to be able to help out more like feeding organizations
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  Speaker 2: that feed the children.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing that you said there is something I would say
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  Speaker 1: is bad. However, you know, funding is always going to
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  Speaker 1: come up. It's hard to save the world without a
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  Speaker 1: dollar in your pocket. Yeah. And, uh, You talked earlier
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  Speaker 1: about more fire stations, and I'm not sure how the
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  Speaker 1: state could legislate something like that for the municipalities. I
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  Speaker 1: can tell you, though, 17 and 12, the Keepers of
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  Speaker 1: the Hill over there on West Broad Street, Station 12,
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  Speaker 1: and Franklin Township 192 jumps in quite a bit, too.
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  Speaker 1: They are working all the time.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: First thing, honestly, I got in a wreck once, car wreck.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody hit me and died. they sent an ambulance and
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  Speaker 1: they hauled me in and made sure the screws in
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  Speaker 1: my spine didn't get kicked out. And there was an
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  Speaker 1: ambulance bill for the city coming to pick me up
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  Speaker 1: from the car. If you file a frivolous lawsuit, you
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  Speaker 1: face repercussions. If you call in frivolous emergency runs, I
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  Speaker 1: think you should face repercussions. That's one way to fund it.
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  Speaker 1: And I say that especially on the West Side because,
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  Speaker 1: quite frankly, I have witnessed some– some cultural situations that
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  Speaker 1: require calling an ambulance for pretty much everything. And, uh,
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  Speaker 1: that's got to get old for the paramedics and the firefighters.
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  Speaker 1: And it's a waste of time while they're coming to
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  Speaker 1: do your 15th maternity check for the month. Somebody is
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  Speaker 1: having a heart attack and they can't get to them. And, uh,
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  Speaker 1: I think that, uh, that kind of frivolous use of
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  Speaker 1: public services should come with a cost at just, just
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  Speaker 1: my thought.
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  Speaker 2: Um, And I believe a lot of firefighters, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of fire chiefs will 100 percent agree with you.
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  Speaker 1: Have you have you found anything? I ask you any
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  Speaker 1: bad stuff. Have you found any surprising good within this district,
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  Speaker 1: District 6, in talking to people? Wow, I didn't even
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  Speaker 1: know that about this area or something that just kind
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  Speaker 1: of really enthused you, lit your fire about the district?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I find a lot of good in just the
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  Speaker 2: people themselves. I mean, I just did the Trunk or
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  Speaker 2: Treat the other day in Prairie Township, and I believe
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  Speaker 2: that probably spills over to the Hilltop area and some
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  Speaker 2: of Hilliard. And I mean, you should have seen all
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  Speaker 2: the positive that the community can do, and the community
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  Speaker 2: cares about the community.
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  Speaker 3: There were, I mean, we ran out of candy. It
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  Speaker 3: had to be at least 2,000 plus candy.
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  Speaker 2: Children walking through and, you know, getting to see the
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  Speaker 2: smiling faces and the parents that support them and the
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  Speaker 2: grandparents that support them.
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  Speaker 3: And, you know, the community is there.
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  Speaker 2: It's and, you know, it brings you to tears just
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  Speaker 2: to see how great they are. You know, like I
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  Speaker 2: even told one couple, I said, you know, I just
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  Speaker 2: got married this year and I told him I can't
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  Speaker 2: wait till me and my wife have.
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  Speaker 3: A little one. So that way we get to come
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  Speaker 3: to the community events together.
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  Speaker 2: And, you know, it's it's the hope that you see
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  Speaker 2: is what's amazing is no matter how hard times are,
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  Speaker 2: bills rising, gas rising, you know, not have people not
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  Speaker 2: having the transport, but they still somehow have a smile
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  Speaker 2: on their face. They still somehow have hope, even though
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  Speaker 2: it is. I got to admit, it seems like there
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  Speaker 2: is no hope to them. And I'm not putting the
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  Speaker 2: blame on anyone for that, but. it's amazing to see
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  Speaker 2: them get the out there. I mean, one, one kid
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  Speaker 2: had the coolest mask that was a homemade out of
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  Speaker 2: a paper plate. And I guess he was a clown
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  Speaker 2: or something. And he laughed and I said, that's the
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  Speaker 2: best costume. You know, it's just, I see hope. I
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  Speaker 2: see hope in the people from district six and, and
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  Speaker 2: I see people that are positive. They're like, Hey, thank
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  Speaker 2: you for running. Thank you for doing. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: to anybody that's willing to put themselves out there to
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  Speaker 2: get beat down and berated and told off running for office,
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  Speaker 2: when you hear that just one thank you or that
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  Speaker 2: one thing, you know, that it means a lot. Because,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'd say on all sides, a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people are doing grassroots.
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  Speaker 3: Some people aren't.
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  Speaker 2: But I'll tell you what, my– My campaign bank account
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  Speaker 2: isn't looking pretty fat.
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  Speaker 3: I wish it was.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Traditionally here with everybody that I've had in
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  Speaker 1: the last couple of minutes or so, I just get
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  Speaker 1: out of the way, give you a couple of minutes
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  Speaker 1: to make your case, tell people how to contact you,
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  Speaker 1: social media, websites, appearances, anything like that, and just kind
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  Speaker 1: of sum up. My name is Matthew Jackson. I'd like
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  Speaker 1: your vote for me for House District 6 because, and
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  Speaker 1: you roll with it from there.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad you guided me on the best way to
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  Speaker 2: do that. My name is Matthew Jackson. I'm running for
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  Speaker 2: Ohio House District 6. And also, when I get in,
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  Speaker 2: I'm also going to be open to hearing from anybody
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  Speaker 2: in the entire state of Ohio. If you're visiting, you
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  Speaker 2: want to be able to come and meet me, I'm
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  Speaker 2: all for it. And, you know, a very wise man
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  Speaker 2: told me communication is key. You're able to get to
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  Speaker 2: me on Facebook, Instagram. You can message me at any time.
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  Speaker 2: Good or bad comments, I'm willing to hear you out
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  Speaker 2: because we're in this together. My wife, who is near
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  Speaker 2: and dear to my heart, helps me out with making
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  Speaker 2: the website. The website is VoteMatthewJackson. Again, it is VoteMatthewJackson.com.
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  Speaker 2: You can actually go there. There's a link somewhere in
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  Speaker 2: the page. I should have updated soon to donate to
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  Speaker 2: the campaign. And I'll tell you what that money goes to.
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  Speaker 2: It goes to yard signs. It goes to paying for
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  Speaker 2: people to door knock. It goes to a very specific
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  Speaker 2: budgeted item. And if you want to know what your
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  Speaker 2: money's going to, just ask me. If you want me
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  Speaker 2: to show up to an event... or just to come
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  Speaker 2: out and greet and talk to people, I'd be more
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  Speaker 2: than glad to do it. My saying is, when invited,
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  Speaker 2: I'll show up. I believe in showing up and talking.
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  Speaker 2: Not showing up and showing out, but showing up, talking,
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  Speaker 2: and being able to hear everybody's voice. And when I'm
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  Speaker 2: in the office, I still want you to get that,
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  Speaker 2: get out to me from the website and everything. But
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  Speaker 2: like I said, I believe in safer communities is one
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  Speaker 2: of my major things, affordable housing, lower taxes. As we know,
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  Speaker 2: there's going to be something coming up very soon. Axe attacks,
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  Speaker 2: that's going to be a very big issue. Attacking that
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  Speaker 2: from getting on the ballot and in the House, that's
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  Speaker 2: going to be a very big issue. And I believe
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  Speaker 2: I have some very unique ideas that can try to
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  Speaker 2: rein that in and give us a patchwork for each
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  Speaker 2: and every city to follow. We have stronger schools, which
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  Speaker 2: schools are the bedrock, a good education to make sure
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  Speaker 2: children can think on their own. more job opportunities, and
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  Speaker 2: also near and dear to my heart, veterans and first responders.
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  Speaker 2: I am going to help out veterans and first responders
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  Speaker 2: because that is a group of people that I near
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  Speaker 2: and dear can relate with. I mean, I've been in
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  Speaker 2: the firehouse where you have 24 hours where you barely
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  Speaker 2: get to eat, or if you're eating, you have the
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  Speaker 2: plate in your hand and you're putting it on the
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  Speaker 2: top of the dashboard because you're going to a call. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, there's some thankless jobs out there also that
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  Speaker 2: I won't be able to get all to. But one
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  Speaker 2: thing I want to say is thank you to everybody
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  Speaker 2: for what you do and who you do it for.
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  Speaker 2: And thank you for being the greatest part of Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: All right, sir. His name is Matthew Jackson. He's running
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  Speaker 1: for the Ohio House of Representatives in District 6. Coming
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  Speaker 1: up tomorrow night, because I'm a numerical kind of guy,
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  Speaker 1: Bill Mercer will be joining me. He is running for,
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  Speaker 1: guess what, Ohio House District 7. You know, it's like
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  Speaker 1: Sesame Street when you listen, man. I like to keep
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  Speaker 1: things in order. And that'll be the end because, of course,
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  Speaker 1: Buck's Line on Thursday night. I'm out of here on
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  Speaker 1: Friday night. And that will be the end. Next Tuesday
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  Speaker 1: is voting day. The weather still looks like it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be nice. There's no excuse. Get to the polls.
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  Speaker 1: Early vote. I don't care. Just make sure you educate
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  Speaker 1: yourself and participate.