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Arguably the worst proposed legislation in Ohio history · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: A Columbus senator has introduced something that it's just I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 1: it makes no sense. I'm going to get into that
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  Speaker 1: here momentarily. Bill's been standing by here for quite a
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  Speaker 1: while though, and I want to get to him before
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  Speaker 1: we get on with the show.
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  Speaker 2: Bill, you're on six to ten WTVN.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, thanks for taking my call. You know, I think
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  Speaker 3: it's somewhat ironic that we got the left of the
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  Speaker 3: progressive and radical has all been out of shape about
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  Speaker 3: the perceived lack of funding for care causing the death
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  Speaker 3: of what sixty eight thousand people, But at the same
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  Speaker 3: time they want to advocate for the abortion of hundreds
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  Speaker 3: of thousands of children each and every year. So I
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  Speaker 3: think they again they're misplacing their priorities in a big way.
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  Speaker 3: I'll wait for yours problems.
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  Speaker 1: No, I can't disagree with you, Bill, I think you
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  Speaker 1: know they death is a matter of convenience. That's what
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  Speaker 1: it comes down to. In this case, it was convenient
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  Speaker 1: for this guy's state of mind to kill someone because
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  Speaker 1: he was upset or disagreed or was having a bad
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  Speaker 1: day or whatever it was. It's a sad thing, but
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  Speaker 1: just this is again, our priorities as people, as human beings,
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  Speaker 1: as Americans, have shifted so significantly in my lifetime. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm not one hundred and fifty years old. Man, it
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't be like this. But what used to be universally
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  Speaker 1: understood is right and wrong, good and bad is no longer.
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  Speaker 1: And no matter what you say, no matter how reasonable
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  Speaker 1: or logical you think it is, there's always someone out
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  Speaker 1: there to explain.
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  Speaker 2: To you the error of your ways.
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  Speaker 1: And that's a world where I'm just not comfortable. I
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  Speaker 1: don't like the fact that we're not all, or at
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  Speaker 1: least most of us, on the same page about things
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  Speaker 1: that I considered just be universal. It's like a cop show,
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  Speaker 1: you know, when Starsky and Hutch went through the door,
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  Speaker 1: one went high, one went low, and they knew because
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  Speaker 1: they worked together, they were a team, they were unified.
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  Speaker 1: We as people used to be that way. Occasionally there
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  Speaker 1: was some rookie that went in the door standing straight up,
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  Speaker 1: but they fell by the wayside rather quickly. The rest
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  Speaker 1: of us went high or went loow, and and we
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  Speaker 1: knew what the others were doing. Today, we don't sad thing.
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  Speaker 1: If I told you, Zachary, I will ask you specifically
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  Speaker 1: because you're twisted enough that perhaps you'll throw me a curveball.
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  Speaker 1: Here if I told you that I support a law
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  Speaker 1: that says every new car that is sold should come
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  Speaker 1: pre dented, just to keep you from putting it in
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  Speaker 1: the garage and selling it for a bunch of money
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  Speaker 1: in forty years.
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  Speaker 2: Would that make sense to you?
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  Speaker 4: It depends on what neighborhood you live in.
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  Speaker 1: Any neighborhood you want, I don't care. Okay, pre dented
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  Speaker 1: cars just to make sure that you're not going to
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  Speaker 1: sell them for a bunch of money make a big profit.
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  Speaker 5: This isn't This isn't imagined areas NOL scenario.
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  Speaker 4: That's the dumbest thing I've heard of.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, well, let's say this.
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  Speaker 1: Let's say that if let's say McDonald's goes back to
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  Speaker 1: giving away beanie babies with happy meals. You remember that
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  Speaker 1: craze when we did that all beanie babies must have
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  Speaker 1: Hamburger grease stain on them before McDonald's can give them
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  Speaker 1: away as part of a happy meal gift. Would that
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  Speaker 1: make sense to you? No?
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  Speaker 5: Okay, I don't understand what the whoever this person is
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  Speaker 5: Why are they trying to lower the value of something
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  Speaker 5: that you bought here, could resell whenever you feel like.
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  Speaker 1: That's exactly my point. Senator Bill Demora, Democrat out of Columbus,
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  Speaker 1: is a fan of bourbon.
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  Speaker 2: Uh well, I don't blame in there.
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  Speaker 1: He seeks out rare bottles. The State Liquor Agency sends
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  Speaker 1: out a notice when a limited supply of these highly
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  Speaker 1: sought after bourbons, whiskeys, and other spirits that's just tequila
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  Speaker 1: are made available for purchase at certain stores. De Mora
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  Speaker 1: and others wait in line for the chance to get
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  Speaker 1: a bottle. Okay, I'm good with that, you know, some specialty,
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  Speaker 1: limited edition whatever.
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  Speaker 2: Demora said.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just trying to look out for all the regular
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  Speaker 1: bourbon lovers like myself. When I get noticedes of the
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  Speaker 1: bourbon I want, I stand in line. I've been successful twice.
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  Speaker 1: I've been unsuccessful a dozen times. The problem, Demorris said,
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  Speaker 1: is that people who he refers to as flippers quickly
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  Speaker 1: buy up all the allocated bourbons and illegally resell them
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  Speaker 1: on a secondary market for significantly more than what they paid.
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  Speaker 1: Let me say that again, they illegally resell them. Problem
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  Speaker 1: solved right there, Senator, enforce the law that already exists.
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  Speaker 1: They illegally resell them on the secondary market, but in
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  Speaker 1: typical Democrat fashion. I'm sorry to say that, but this
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  Speaker 1: is how they seem to think as a unit. Here's
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  Speaker 1: the solution. Senator Morra has introduced Senate Bill three twenty.
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  Speaker 1: The bill would require liquor stores to open the bottle
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  Speaker 1: and reseal it upon sale, which in most instances would
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  Speaker 1: involve removing any plastic and a cork, then putting a
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  Speaker 1: sticker on the cork and placing it back in the bottle.
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  Speaker 1: He believes this would help put an end to the
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  Speaker 1: secondary market by reducing reseller's demand. Murder is illegal, but
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  Speaker 1: let us make your thirty Round magazine illegal drugs, heroin,
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  Speaker 1: coca illegal. But let us come up with programs instead
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  Speaker 1: of penalizing people who break the law.
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  Speaker 4: Did they ever think about, like the people who sell heroin,
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  Speaker 4: if they just tear a rip in the bag, that
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  Speaker 4: could devalue it.
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  Speaker 1: It would devalue it. Nobody would pay for heroin. That's
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  Speaker 1: does it still come in a bag? I don't those
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  Speaker 1: I have.
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  Speaker 4: No idea, but I mean that could help the illegal market.
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  Speaker 1: It would devalue heroin on the resale market. They illegally
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  Speaker 1: resell the liquor. The problem is solved in existing law,
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  Speaker 1: but this senator feels it is necessary for us to
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  Speaker 1: open the bottle and reseal the bottle upon sale. He says,
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  Speaker 1: if someone's charging you two thousand dollars for a bottle
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  Speaker 1: of bourbon and it's already been opened, unless you know
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  Speaker 1: that person very well, you're not going to buy that
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  Speaker 1: bourbon because you don't know what's in it, because once
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  Speaker 1: the seal is off, someone can put some or all
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  Speaker 1: of it in cheaper stuff, and you have no idea
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  Speaker 1: what's actually in there. Really, in Ohio, liquor prices are fixed,
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  Speaker 1: meaning the same bottle costs the same price no matter
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  Speaker 1: where it's purchased, and reselling alcohol outside of the state's
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  Speaker 1: system is illegal, finds in jail time or possible punishments
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  Speaker 1: for those who resell the spirits. That story I took
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  Speaker 1: from the website of who was that? Who had that
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  Speaker 1: the market so website? No, okay, it was NBC four.
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  Speaker 2: There we go. I'm sorry. I just think that's stupid. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: every you know what.
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  Speaker 1: You might buy that corvette and then try to make
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of money off of it. But so we
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  Speaker 1: need to we need to do some damage to it
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  Speaker 1: and then once you uh, once you buy it will
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  Speaker 1: fix the damage. But there will be a car Fax
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  Speaker 1: now that says the car was damaged, so you can't
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  Speaker 1: resell it for a high dollar amount.
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  Speaker 2: That's just silly, or maybe that's just me.