Latest / Brian Thomas / Tom Zawistowski - WeThePeopleConvention.org
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- 0:00Speaker 1: 755 KRZ, the talk station. It's 730 on a Tuesday.
- 0:04Speaker 1: It's that time. WeThePeopleConvention.org. Any time of the week. Seven days, 365.
- 0:10Speaker 1: You'll find Tom Zawistowski's WeThePeopleConvention.org. You'll find his weekly podcast
- 0:14Speaker 1: and the items on his agenda that are so important.
- 0:18Speaker 1: And you'll find him every week here at Tuesdays at 730.
- 0:21Speaker 1: Welcome back, Tom, my friend. It's a pleasure to me
- 0:23Speaker 1: to be able to see you, and it's always a
- 0:25Speaker 1: pleasure to have you on the program.
- 0:27Speaker 2: Well, it's great to be with you.
- 0:28Speaker 3: And as you said earlier, there's a lot going on
- 0:31Speaker 3: and we just try to make some sense out of
- 0:33Speaker 3: it all. But, you know, it's important that we talk
- 0:36Speaker 3: about these important issues.
- 0:38Speaker 1: Well, and I agree completely. And I'm glad to have
- 0:40Speaker 1: a listening audience that cares, too. And I'm glad you
- 0:43Speaker 1: care about it, too, Tom. So please provide me with
- 0:46Speaker 1: a glimmer of positivity this morning when my executive producer,
- 0:50Speaker 1: Joe Strecker, says it's over, that Amy Acton is going
- 0:53Speaker 1: to win. I only repeat that out loud to scare
- 0:56Speaker 1: the living crap out of people so much that they
- 0:58Speaker 1: actually do what you have been telling people to do
- 1:00Speaker 1: on the morning show. And I have been telling people
- 1:02Speaker 1: to do on the morning show since this election became
- 1:07Speaker 1: even remotely close. We've been talking about it for months.
- 1:10Speaker 1: You've got to get out and vote, even if you've
- 1:11Speaker 1: got to hold your nose to do it, Tom. We
- 1:12Speaker 1: are facing the socialist nightmare. that may very well end
- 1:16Speaker 1: this country. This is not some overstatement. Listen to the politicians.
- 1:21Speaker 1: The idea, for example, pivoting over to Amy Acton, that
- 1:23Speaker 1: she could have any traction is beyond my comprehension. She
- 1:27Speaker 1: won't argue. She won't debate. She doesn't have a platform
- 1:30Speaker 1: that makes any damn sense. She's hiding. And Ramaswamy? I mean,
- 1:36Speaker 1: come on. He's brilliant. Tom, please, provide me with some
- 1:42Speaker 1: measure of hope Koushi, I mentioned Koushi, the betting site. Now,
- 1:46Speaker 1: I actually have more confidence and faith in Koushi because
- 1:49Speaker 1: people are actually betting and they're putting money on their
- 1:52Speaker 1: favorite candidate. And she's, at least in terms of Koushi betting, 61%.
- 1:55Speaker 1: I'm sorry, that's Sherrod Brown. That's even worse. But she's
- 2:00Speaker 1: at 57 to Ramaswamy's 43 on the Koushi betting site.
- 2:06Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 2:07Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 2:07Speaker 3: So, you know, these polymarkets and these betting sites are
- 2:11Speaker 3: basically echoes of of what the media propaganda is, right? And,
- 2:16Speaker 3: you know, you're seeing it here in Ohio, you know,
- 2:18Speaker 3: that Ramaswamy is not getting any positive coverage from anybody
- 2:22Speaker 3: in the state, except for talk radio.
- 2:24Speaker 2: And so it's not reality.
- 2:27Speaker 3: And, you know, one thing, you know, I think we
- 2:29Speaker 3: can all agree on that polling is dead in this country.
- 2:33Speaker 2: You don't believe a single poll. I did polling.
- 2:36Speaker 3: You can't even do a poll anymore because people lie.
- 2:41Speaker 3: They intentionally try to mislead you. So forget that.
- 2:44Speaker 1: Or they don't answer the questions. I mean, if someone
- 2:47Speaker 1: calls me on the phone and tries to get me
- 2:49Speaker 1: to participate in a poll, first off, I'm not going
- 2:50Speaker 1: to answer the damn call because I know it's not
- 2:53Speaker 1: somebody that I know. Second of all, if they say,
- 2:55Speaker 1: I'd like you to sit, do you have a few
- 2:56Speaker 1: minutes of time to answer a few questions? Like, no,
- 2:58Speaker 1: don't have it. I'm eating dinner and I hang up.
- 3:00Speaker 1: So I get that, Tom.
- 3:02Speaker 3: You did a great job of taking apart that Bowling
- 3:04Speaker 3: Green poll earlier, right? To say, oh yeah, 60% of
- 3:09Speaker 3: the people in Ohio don't like Donald Trump.
- 3:12Speaker 2: That's garbage. That's total garbage.
- 3:14Speaker 3: Yeah, 60% of people in Ohio might have a problem
- 3:16Speaker 3: with something Donald Trump is doing, but I got news
- 3:19Speaker 3: for you. There's no evidence that the MAGA base or
- 3:23Speaker 3: the Tea Party has abandoned Donald Trump whatsoever.
- 3:26Speaker 1: I'm glad to hear that.
- 3:28Speaker 3: So let me just give you some encouragement, right? So
- 3:31Speaker 3: this gas tax suspension, as you and your listeners know,
- 3:35Speaker 3: the We the People convention proposed this in May. and
- 3:39Speaker 3: begged Macaulay and Hoffman and Vivek. I said, this is
- 3:43Speaker 3: a no-brainer. You've got to do this. And finally, finally
- 3:48Speaker 3: they did it.
- 3:48Speaker 2: Because, oh, why?
- 3:49Speaker 3: Because Amy Acton, you know, the pathetic Amy Acton comes
- 3:53Speaker 3: out and says, we need to suspend the fuel tax.
- 3:56Speaker 3: And the next minute, Vivek and the Republicans say, we're
- 3:59Speaker 3: going to have a press conference and do it, right?
- 4:02Speaker 3: That's pathetic. But here's what's important. It's not the gas
- 4:06Speaker 3: tax suspension, which I think is important because guess what?
- 4:10Speaker 2: It's our money. It's not money we're taking from the roads.
- 4:14Speaker 2: It's none of that.
- 4:15Speaker 3: They have almost $ 3 billion of our money in the
- 4:19Speaker 3: state budget that they didn't budget.
- 4:21Speaker 2: For and don't need.
- 4:22Speaker 3: This freaking gas tax suspension is going to cost.
- 4:26Speaker 2: $ 640 million. It's our money. Give it back.
- 4:29Speaker 3: That's important because it does help people in a small way.
- 4:33Speaker 2: But here's what's really important, Brian. Here's what you.
- 4:36Speaker 3: Guys need to hear, what everyone needs to hear. I
- 4:39Speaker 3: said to the Vivek months ago, you need to do
- 4:44Speaker 3: this to prove to the voters that you're not just talk,
- 4:50Speaker 3: that you can actually do something, and that you can
- 4:53Speaker 3: actually get the Republican legislature to do something. This is
- 4:59Speaker 3: critically important.
- 5:01Speaker 2: At this time.
- 5:02Speaker 3: Because he can now say, this should be evidence to
- 5:06Speaker 3: every voter that the promises I'm making about reforming the
- 5:12Speaker 3: property taxes in a significant way, getting rid of the
- 5:15Speaker 3: income tax, making sure data centers are built safely and
- 5:18Speaker 3: benefit the communities, that's not just talk. Because I'm proving
- 5:23Speaker 3: to you that I can lead and I can get
- 5:26Speaker 3: this done. That's what most conservatives and Republicans want to
- 5:32Speaker 3: see and hear. I told them all, Macaulay, Huffman, all
- 5:36Speaker 3: of them, in February and March, no one believes you.
- 5:39Speaker 3: All you guys do is talk. You've got to do
- 5:42Speaker 3: something tangible. I tried to get them to do the
- 5:44Speaker 3: property tax. They made a mistake. That should have been
- 5:48Speaker 3: on the ballot this election, and we would be winning
- 5:51Speaker 3: by double digits.
- 5:52Speaker 1: They didn't do it. Hold that thought, because I want
- 5:54Speaker 1: to dive into a little more details about the property
- 5:56Speaker 1: tax situation. We had a conversation earlier in the program
- 5:58Speaker 1: with a caller, Jay, about that. And Ramosomi's proposal to
- 6:01Speaker 1: roll back property taxes at 2019 levels, I suggest, is
- 6:06Speaker 1: at least a step in the right direction. Not the definitive,
- 6:09Speaker 1: this is all we're going to do, but at least
- 6:11Speaker 1: it offers a good solution. And it's obviously a willingness
- 6:16Speaker 1: to address the property tax issue, but has he gone
- 6:18Speaker 1: far enough? Can he actually enter into the realm of,
- 6:22Speaker 1: claiming to want to eradicate it completely, recognizing, I think,
- 6:26Speaker 1: the problems that might present for his campaign quickly. Hold on.
- 6:29Speaker 1: We'll continue with Tom Zawistowski. 741, 55KRCD Talk Station, every Tuesday.
- 6:37Speaker 1: Coming up after the top of the hour news, we're
- 6:38Speaker 1: going to hear from Texas Border Associate Editor Bob Price
- 6:41Speaker 1: from Breitbart News with a whole bunch of topics related
- 6:44Speaker 1: to the border. In the meantime, Tom Zawistowski from wethepeopleconvention.org
- 6:47Speaker 1: is on the program, as he is every Tuesday at
- 6:49Speaker 1: this time. I'm pivoting over to property tax. Okay, so
- 6:52Speaker 1: Ramaswamy was reactive in saying he embraces the idea of
- 6:56Speaker 1: rolling back the state gas tax to give us a
- 6:59Speaker 1: little bit of relief. But at least he's promising it now.
- 7:02Speaker 1: Of course, that would require legislative buy-in, right, Tom?
- 7:05Speaker 3: Well, they're supposed to have a press conference this morning
- 7:08Speaker 3: with Huffman and Macaulay saying, we bought in.
- 7:10Speaker 2: And again, that's what you got to have. I've said
- 7:14Speaker 2: to Vivek, you.
- 7:15Speaker 3: Can make all the promises you want, but if you
- 7:17Speaker 3: can't show that you can bring the House and the
- 7:21Speaker 3: Senate together. It doesn't matter, right? And you're fighting the
- 7:26Speaker 3: Columbus cartel who's out for their personal interests, not yours
- 7:30Speaker 3: and not for Ohioans.
- 7:31Speaker 2: So this is significant.
- 7:33Speaker 3: And I want people to understand it's significant because if
- 7:37Speaker 3: they can pull it off, if they have a press
- 7:39Speaker 3: conference today and I'm here and they're going to vote
- 7:42Speaker 3: this week because they want to start October 1st, right?
- 7:45Speaker 2: If he can do that, folks... That's telling you what
- 7:49Speaker 2: you need to know. He's not about talk.
- 7:52Speaker 3: He's not about promises, which all the Republican candidates are
- 7:56Speaker 3: always about.
- 7:57Speaker 2: I promise everything and they do nothing. This is a
- 8:00Speaker 2: down payment. And you need to see.
- 8:02Speaker 3: That for what it is, because it's really important. If
- 8:05Speaker 3: you want property tax reform, you need to believe that
- 8:09Speaker 3: the bank can pull it off.
- 8:11Speaker 2: This is a down payment on that.
- 8:14Speaker 3: And you should be very excited about this.
- 8:17Speaker 1: All right.
- 8:18Speaker 3: Now.
- 8:19Speaker 1: And I appreciate you mentioning property tax reform because I
- 8:20Speaker 1: wanted to pivot over to that. Now, I have been
- 8:23Speaker 1: defending Ramasamy's proposal to roll back taxes to 2019 levels
- 8:28Speaker 1: just because we, of course, had that insane spike from COVID-19.
- 8:31Speaker 1: Everybody knows the market forces behind that. So bad timing
- 8:35Speaker 1: in terms of the property valuations. But rolling back to 2019,
- 8:38Speaker 1: that's fine. What about the idea of eradicating it or
- 8:41Speaker 1: eliminating it? Now, we could talk conceptually about that and say, hey,
- 8:45Speaker 1: Florida doesn't have a property tax or Texas doesn't have
- 8:48Speaker 1: a property tax. How is it that they can be
- 8:49Speaker 1: so wonderful in terms of their budgeting and they don't
- 8:54Speaker 1: seem to be underwater? They're not screaming about deficits. Why
- 8:57Speaker 1: can't we have that here in Ohio? What would that
- 9:01Speaker 1: invite if Ramaswamy went full on eradication right now? Because
- 9:05Speaker 1: I think that would probably cause a lot of stomachache
- 9:07Speaker 1: for a lot of even Republicans here. in Columbus because
- 9:11Speaker 1: they're going to have to wrestle with the aftermath and
- 9:13Speaker 1: unfolding the fiscal realities of finding revenue sources for all
- 9:18Speaker 1: those areas of government that rely on property taxes. Tom,
- 9:20Speaker 1: where are you on this one?
- 9:22Speaker 2: Yeah, so I've had extensive talks with the bank about this.
- 9:26Speaker 3: And what everyone needs to understand, the reform of property
- 9:31Speaker 3: tax or the repeal completely of property tax is isn't
- 9:36Speaker 3: just about cutting your property taxes and saving you money.
- 9:40Speaker 3: It's really about reforming Ohio's bloated government.
- 9:46Speaker 2: The point is this.
- 9:48Speaker 3: We have too big a government from the dog catcher
- 9:52Speaker 3: and the libraries to these counties, to the cities, to everything.
- 9:57Speaker 2: We are grossly overtaxed. You know why? There's been no
- 10:01Speaker 2: checks on it for decades. So what I've said to
- 10:04Speaker 2: the fake is.
- 10:05Speaker 3: The repeal, the reform of the property tax, where you
- 10:09Speaker 3: basically give everybody like a 9% haircut, Brian, you can't say, oh,
- 10:15Speaker 3: you won't have any police.
- 10:16Speaker 2: You won't have any fire if you cut 9%.
- 10:19Speaker 3: You can't say that if you roll it back to
- 10:21Speaker 3: 2020 before the 30% increases in private taxes, when they
- 10:25Speaker 3: had a police department, they.
- 10:27Speaker 2: Had a fire department, you can't say they're all going
- 10:29Speaker 2: to be gone. You know what you can do?
- 10:31Speaker 3: You can make every one of those government agencies have
- 10:36Speaker 3: to look at their spending and stop duplication of services,
- 10:41Speaker 3: stop paying overtime like crazy, and start giving us taxpayers
- 10:47Speaker 3: what we want for our money.
- 10:49Speaker 2: It's about reforming.
- 10:51Speaker 3: Government, not just property tax, cutting property tax.
- 10:55Speaker 2: Did you get the message?
- 10:56Speaker 3: That's more important than anything, because if they can't do
- 10:59Speaker 3: any of what he's promising, unless he gets everybody else
- 11:03Speaker 3: to go along, and they ain't going along, Brian, unless
- 11:06Speaker 3: you take some of their damn money because they have
- 11:08Speaker 3: no reason to go along.
- 11:10Speaker 2: Screw you.
- 11:11Speaker 3: We're not going to go from 640 school districts to
- 11:15Speaker 3: 88 because you asked me, but we might do that
- 11:18Speaker 3: because we just lost 9% of our budget and we
- 11:22Speaker 3: won't have to cut teachers' salaries if we merge our
- 11:25Speaker 3: school districts.
- 11:25Speaker 1: Well, Tom, you know, the answer to the fiscal problems
- 11:28Speaker 1: in any given school district are answered by just not
- 11:31Speaker 1: having school. You saw they did it with Sensei Public Schools.
- 11:34Speaker 1: Five furlough days. They got a $ 58 million shortfall. Just
- 11:37Speaker 1: don't educate the children for five days. Don't go away, Tom.
- 11:41Speaker 1: We'll dive into that a little bit more and some
- 11:43Speaker 1: other issues with wethepeopleconvention.org. Tom Zawistowski, 55KRCV Talk Station, Tuesday.
- 11:48Speaker 1: Happy Tuesday. Inside Scoop with Breitbart News Tuesday. That's coming
- 11:52Speaker 1: up after the top of the hour news with the
- 11:53Speaker 1: Daniel Davis Deep Dive at 830. And in the meantime,
- 11:57Speaker 1: Tom Zawistowski from We The People Convention. What other issues
- 12:00Speaker 1: we need to deal with here? touched upon the property
- 12:02Speaker 1: tax issues, the difference between, and I don't know where
- 12:05Speaker 1: Acton is on that one, Tom. Do you have any
- 12:08Speaker 1: information on the Acton side of the ledger about property taxes?
- 12:11Speaker 1: Because at least you know.
- 12:12Speaker 3: She says that we shouldn't raise them anymore and we
- 12:16Speaker 3: shouldn't cut them, but we should just give the school
- 12:18Speaker 3: districts all the money they want from the legislature, just
- 12:21Speaker 3: from the state budget.
- 12:22Speaker 2: That's her proposal. She literally said that.
- 12:24Speaker 3: She goes, I'm for freezing property taxes or even cutting
- 12:28Speaker 3: them but not cutting anything from the school budget. In fact,
- 12:32Speaker 3: we need to give them more, don't you know, because
- 12:34Speaker 3: they're so good at educating our kids.
- 12:35Speaker 2: They're so successful. So, you know, forget Amy Acton. She's
- 12:38Speaker 2: a joke.
- 12:39Speaker 3: But we got to, you know, make sure that people
- 12:42Speaker 3: understand that.
- 12:43Speaker 2: That's the kind of policies Democrats... are going to put forward.
- 12:47Speaker 2: So don't buy it.
- 12:48Speaker 3: You know, Vivek is just showing you now that he's
- 12:52Speaker 3: going to actually do the things that are going to
- 12:55Speaker 3: make life better for all Ohioans. That's what you want.
- 12:59Speaker 3: And you need to tell other people about this and
- 13:03Speaker 3: why it's important. Now, I want one more thing. Brian,
- 13:06Speaker 3: you talked about why are gas prices so high? This
- 13:09Speaker 3: guy on Facebook, his name is Brian McKee, wrote this
- 13:13Speaker 3: post yesterday that someone shared to me, and I put
- 13:16Speaker 3: it at wethepeopleconvention.org. It's, I want to know why your
- 13:20Speaker 3: gas prices are so high? Go to wethepeopleconvention.org and read
- 13:24Speaker 3: this guy's thing. It will open your eyes. It isn't
- 13:28Speaker 3: about the war, right? It's not, they're not high because
- 13:31Speaker 3: of the war. This has been a plan for like
- 13:34Speaker 3: 30 years. And it's all because the oil companies have
- 13:38Speaker 3: been buying favors from all the elected officials to rig
- 13:42Speaker 3: the prices, read that article.
- 13:45Speaker 2: It will blow your mind.
- 13:48Speaker 1: Rig the prices.
- 13:51Speaker 3: They literally are shutting down refineries on purpose.
- 13:55Speaker 1: Well, that's California, isn't it?
- 13:56Speaker 2: To make sure that the prices would go up.
- 13:58Speaker 1: Well, and they can get away with it, assuming it's
- 14:00Speaker 1: something nefarious, as you're suggesting. And I have no reason
- 14:03Speaker 1: to counter you because I haven't read the article or
- 14:04Speaker 1: the information you provided. But shutting down the refineries, oh, gosh,
- 14:08Speaker 1: that's in the name of getting rid of carbon dioxide,
- 14:11Speaker 1: isn't it, Tom? Can they justify it because of green
- 14:14Speaker 1: energy and the climate change nonsense?
- 14:17Speaker 3: Yeah, well, they can play both sides of that, can't they?
- 14:20Speaker 3: And the oil and gas people, they can figure out, hey,
- 14:24Speaker 3: how do we leverage this to make things so we're
- 14:27Speaker 3: basically making it scarce? And if you make things scarce,
- 14:31Speaker 3: the price goes up.
- 14:32Speaker 2: You've got to read his score.
- 14:33Speaker 3: He talks about every refinery that closed, why it closed,
- 14:37Speaker 3: and then wait until you read the donations that oil
- 14:41Speaker 3: and gas have been making over the years. They used
- 14:43Speaker 3: to donate like $ 53 million a year for lobbying. In 2024,
- 14:48Speaker 3: they did $ 211 million. And this year, they're doing like
- 14:52Speaker 3: $ 219 million, 88% of it going to Republicans. And what
- 14:57Speaker 3: are they getting for that? They're getting no investigations in
- 15:00Speaker 3: Congress at all. As to why gas prices are so high.
- 15:03Speaker 3: The only guy that's saying anything is Donald Trump who said, Hey, you're, you're, you.
- 15:07Speaker 2: Got all kinds of oil. Why are the prices so high?
- 15:10Speaker 3: Yeah. The price is so high because they're greedy and they're,
- 15:14Speaker 3: they're just sticking it to us.
- 15:15Speaker 2: Don't read that article. Don't believe me.
- 15:17Speaker 1: Isn't that the capitalist model? Are you are advocate, you're
- 15:20Speaker 1: advocating for price controls. Are you Tom?
- 15:25Speaker 3: Yeah, or let's regulate AI through the government too. That
- 15:29Speaker 3: would be good. Let's give those guys immunity.
- 15:32Speaker 2: From any damages they do to us so they can
- 15:35Speaker 2: help us beat China, right?
- 15:37Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I guess maybe there isn't enough competitive forces
- 15:40Speaker 1: in the oil production industry to allow for maybe competition.
- 15:45Speaker 3: How about that for a concept? This is, again, I've
- 15:48Speaker 3: said this, you and I have talked. We're older. Many
- 15:51Speaker 3: of your listeners are older. We grew up in a
- 15:54Speaker 3: time when the federal government broke up monopolies. They broke
- 15:57Speaker 3: up AT & T. They broke up the oil companies.
- 16:00Speaker 3: But we're living in the last 25 years where the
- 16:03Speaker 3: federal government has created monopolies. Amazon, Meta, they've been able
- 16:09Speaker 3: to buy all their competitors with impunity, and we're left
- 16:12Speaker 3: with two choices, Walmart or Amazon. The capitalism is about competition.
- 16:21Speaker 3: Our government, our federal government has destroyed competition.
- 16:25Speaker 2: And boy, did it start with COVID. Remember that?
- 16:27Speaker 1: Oh, COVID.
- 16:28Speaker 2: We need to regulate the food industry.
- 16:30Speaker 3: So, you know, the food board in Ohio is going
- 16:33Speaker 3: to decide what you have to do to be open
- 16:36Speaker 3: during COVID. Except for one thing. The people on that
- 16:39Speaker 3: board were Burger King, Applebee's, all the big ones. And
- 16:42Speaker 3: all the mom and cops couldn't live up to those standards.
- 16:45Speaker 2: And they closed.
- 16:48Speaker 1: Lots to unpackage here, Tom Zawistowski. Sadly, we're out of
- 16:51Speaker 1: time in the segment. We're going to have to dive
- 16:53Speaker 1: further into these details, as you do throughout the week. WeThePeopleConvention.org.
- 16:56Speaker 1: Check it out. Bookmark it. Check out Tom's weekly podcast
- 16:59Speaker 1: and tune in every Tuesday here on the 55KRC Morning
- 17:01Speaker 1: Show for more of the good information. Tom, a little frightening,
- 17:05Speaker 1: but got to let people know what the truth is,
- 17:07Speaker 1: don't you?
- 17:08Speaker 2: Absolutely. Just keep fighting. Never give up.
- 17:11Speaker 3: And don't doubt the American people.
- 17:13Speaker 2: They can figure this out. Just keep providing them with information.
- 17:18Speaker 1: Thank you for doing just that, Tom Z. We'll talk
- 17:20Speaker 1: next Tuesday. Have a great week between now and then. 756,
- 17:22Speaker 1: don't go away.