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Today’s Popcorn Moment: David Shelton running for Indiana Secretary of State · Tony Katz | Popcorn Moment

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  Speaker 2: It's the story that you need to hear to believe.
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  Speaker 2: Then grab your popcorn because there is more.
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  Speaker 1: And of course the story here in Indiana now that
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  Speaker 1: the race is over, it's the race for the Secretary
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  Speaker 1: of State and what's going to happen at the convention
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  Speaker 1: with the Republicans and how things are going to go.
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  Speaker 1: Diego Morales, the incumbent secretary of State. He has candidates,
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  Speaker 1: people running against him, the issues that have been surrounding him.
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  Speaker 1: Then you have this late entry into the race where
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  Speaker 1: endorsements get pulled from Diego Morales and moved to the
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  Speaker 1: candidate Max Singling. But there are still candidates out there
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  Speaker 1: who have been running since the beginning. David Shelton is
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  Speaker 1: running for a secretary of state. A Knox County clerk
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  Speaker 1: and Republican Party chairman out there.
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  Speaker 3: S H E.
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  Speaker 2: L T O N Shelton four.
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  Speaker 1: That's fr not the number four Shelton for Indiana dot Com.
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  Speaker 1: He joins us right now. And David, certainly, I've seen
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  Speaker 1: you at Republican events. We've actually sat at the same
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  Speaker 1: table and chatted a bit. It's been an interesting couple weeks.
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  Speaker 1: But let's start with the basics. Why are you running
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  Speaker 1: for secretary of State?
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  Speaker 2: David?
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  Speaker 3: David.
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  Speaker 1: I'll let producer Carl figure out that technical issue as
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  Speaker 1: we wait on David Shelton, candidate for Secretary of State
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  Speaker 1: in Indiana and has been it has been all the
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  Speaker 1: news and has been all the rages.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to continue to be. It's going to continue
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  Speaker 2: to be.
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  Speaker 1: This major story because well, there's drama and there's intrigue,
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  Speaker 1: and for the political left, they're like, ooh fighting. Allow
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  Speaker 1: me to be the first person to say out loud.
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  Speaker 1: Fights are good people engaged? Is good people letting their
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  Speaker 1: voices be heard. It's good as opposed to the monolithic
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  Speaker 1: conversations that we get from the Democrat Party.
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  Speaker 2: No dissension allowed anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see if David Shelton is back on the line,
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  Speaker 1: and David, let's talk about from the start, why are
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  Speaker 1: you running for Secretary of State?
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  Speaker 2: Well, good morning, Tony.
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  Speaker 3: I am running for office because I want the job
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  Speaker 3: to do the job, plain and simple. That's it. I'm
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  Speaker 3: not looking for fame and glory. I'm actually asking for
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  Speaker 3: additional responsibility.
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  Speaker 1: So when we talk about the responsibility, we talk about
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  Speaker 1: the job as Secretary of State with the things that
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  Speaker 1: they cover. Is there something you see not being covered
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  Speaker 1: properly or there are things that you see should be
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  Speaker 1: expanded on and that this is something that government should
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  Speaker 1: actually be doing.
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  Speaker 3: Well. The sweet spot for me will be the elections.
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  Speaker 3: That's right in my wheelhouse. I know things that need
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  Speaker 3: to be implemented to implement an asap, especially when it
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  Speaker 3: comes to administration of our elections. County clerks, your local
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  Speaker 3: election administrators, they receive no formal training whatsoever. I want
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  Speaker 3: to implement an election boot camp for new clerks given
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  Speaker 3: the hands on training they need. Unfortunately, in Indiana elections,
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  Speaker 3: the saying is there's ninety two ways of doing elections,
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  Speaker 3: and that's true, we need to establish consistency. With that consistency,
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  Speaker 3: you will eliminate many many errors that we see after
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  Speaker 3: every election. And these aren't major errors. Our General Assembly
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  Speaker 3: has done a wonderful job creating our election laws on
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  Speaker 3: the local level that allows for mistakes to be fixed.
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  Speaker 3: There are very few things, very few mistakes that can't
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  Speaker 3: be fixed by a comp an election administrator.
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  Speaker 1: Talking to you, David Shelton, as candidate for Secretary of
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  Speaker 1: State for the Republicans, he will be there at the convention.
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  Speaker 1: When you decided to run, and you decided a while ago,
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  Speaker 1: and you knew that Diego Morales, the current Secretary of State,
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  Speaker 1: was there. Clearly you looked at something and said, either
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  Speaker 1: there's something that could be done better, or there's an
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  Speaker 1: issue with the current person, which one was.
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  Speaker 2: It was a little of both.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of issues that I saw that just turned
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  Speaker 3: my stomach was the current office holder taking victory laps
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  Speaker 3: on things that your local administrators have been doing for
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  Speaker 3: a number of years. You know, he made the claim
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  Speaker 3: that he removed over seven hundred thousand voters from our
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  Speaker 3: voter rules. Well, that's a biennial process called voteralist maintenance.
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  Speaker 3: We've been doing it for a number of years. There's
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  Speaker 3: no hands on involvement by the Secretary of State's office.
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  Speaker 3: The aforementioned training, you know, he promised to train clerks,
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  Speaker 3: that never materialized. I received phone calls every single day
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  Speaker 3: from county clerks, from county chairmen, from county election board members,
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  Speaker 3: from all over the state every single day. I feel
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  Speaker 3: like at times I'm already to depack those Secretary of
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  Speaker 3: State when it comes to knowledge and education on our
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  Speaker 3: election process.
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  Speaker 2: So now you head in into the convention and so
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  Speaker 2: we're all we all understand each other. David, it just
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  Speaker 2: got wild. I mean, it's going.
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  Speaker 1: To be a very very interesting show goes on here.
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  Speaker 1: First to the idea of the endorsements. Now you have
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  Speaker 1: the endorsement of a county lawson, the former Secretary of State.
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  Speaker 2: You have that endorsement.
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  Speaker 1: I believe you still have that endorsement's there on your
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  Speaker 1: website Shelton sah G L t O N Shelton Findiana
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  Speaker 1: dot com.
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  Speaker 2: But you've seen a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Of endorsements get pulled from Diego Morales and moved to
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  Speaker 1: a competitor, Max signaling what is your story for the delegates?
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  Speaker 3: Well, my sources of the delegate says, you know, I
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  Speaker 3: have been running for over a year now, I'm running
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  Speaker 3: a marathon. I'm not going to parachute in for a
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  Speaker 3: last minute sprint. If you have questions about who you
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  Speaker 3: think would be best to administer your elections, talk to
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  Speaker 3: your local election administrator. I have the endorsement of over
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  Speaker 3: half of the Indiana Republican clerks, over one hundred overall
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  Speaker 3: of local elected officials. Far too often local government experiences
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  Speaker 3: is discounted on a state level or even a national level.
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  Speaker 3: But that's where you learn how things actually work. I
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  Speaker 3: have that experience. That's what I bring to the table.
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  Speaker 1: But we're we're not having a conversation for the general electorate.
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  Speaker 1: We're having a conversation for the delegates. And if I've
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  Speaker 1: learned anything it's that the delegates are different.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: The way they approach it is different, the way they
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  Speaker 1: engage is different. This is you know, this isn't a
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  Speaker 1: conversation about the general public. What do you believe is
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  Speaker 1: moving them in your conversation. And how with all now
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  Speaker 1: the new scrutiny, the new press on this convention and
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  Speaker 1: on this race, how do you convince the delegates that
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  Speaker 1: the hot hands should be with you?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you just have to convince them that I am
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  Speaker 3: the one with the actual knowledge and experience. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: going to gaslight them on button emotional issues. I can
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  Speaker 3: either have a plan or can come up with a
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  Speaker 3: plan very quickly. I'm very thoughtful, and I am very
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  Speaker 3: what's my train of thought there? I am thoughtful of
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  Speaker 3: my deliberations when it comes to coming to resolutions to
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  Speaker 3: issues that may arise. I pride myself in being a
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  Speaker 3: problem solver, and that's a message I'm going to try
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  Speaker 3: to convey to the delegates.
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  Speaker 2: Doesn't seem to me you lost your train of thought there?
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  Speaker 2: It was just fine.
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  Speaker 1: But we are talking a lot about elections talking to
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  Speaker 1: David Shelton, candidate for Secretary of State in Indiana Shelton
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  Speaker 1: for Indiana dot Com.
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  Speaker 2: But there are other things to say, acutea state does.
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  Speaker 1: Is this all about election integrity, which certainly is fine,
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  Speaker 1: or are there other things that you want to see
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  Speaker 1: handled and fixed?
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  Speaker 3: Well? Absolutely, I mean you have oversight over business filings
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  Speaker 3: and into your entity reports over auto dealerships. You have securities,
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  Speaker 3: you have the notaries, licenses are issued at office. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I am becoming the best informed candidate on all of
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  Speaker 3: these issues. You know. Here lately, we're seeing a lot
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  Speaker 3: of chatter online about trucking companies in Indiana and what
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  Speaker 3: can be done. I mean, there's a lot that can
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  Speaker 3: be done, but as of right now, as we are speaking,
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  Speaker 3: the Secretary of State's Office has no real investigation investigative authority.
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  Speaker 3: They have no enforcement authority whatsoever. You know, we could
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  Speaker 3: go and partner with our federal partners, the Federal Motor
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  Speaker 3: Carrier Safety Administration, the Commercial Safety Administration.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot that.
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  Speaker 3: Can be done to help protect hoosiers, but as of
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  Speaker 3: right now, we don't have the authority to do anything
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  Speaker 3: about it. I mean, I wish there was something we
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  Speaker 3: could do, maybe another department. Well, yeah, there is another
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  Speaker 3: office that can do that. It's called the Attorney General's Office.
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  Speaker 3: They handle consumer complaints. They have that investigative, that enforcement authority.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, I'm seeing a lot of these topics
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  Speaker 3: being brought up. They're trying to gaslight us again, Tony.
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  Speaker 3: They're they're they're trying to pander to the base. I
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  Speaker 3: want to stick to the facts. I know what the
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  Speaker 3: job requires and that's what I want to do. Now,
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  Speaker 3: if the will of the people is they want additional oversight,
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  Speaker 3: additional regulations, well we'll do that. But you know, sometimes
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  Speaker 3: you need to take taking a consideration. You know, be
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  Speaker 3: careful what you what you ask for. You know political physics,
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  Speaker 3: every action has an opposite and equal reaction to it.
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  Speaker 3: You know, every every state in the nation is competing
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  Speaker 3: to lower regulations to attract businesses. Are we closing Indiana
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  Speaker 3: to potential businesses?
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  Speaker 2: Now?
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  Speaker 3: Do we have a problem with the trucking industry? Absolutely
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  Speaker 3: we do. We need the General Assembly to pass loss
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  Speaker 3: you can only have one trucking company registered to a
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  Speaker 3: physical address. I think that's a reasonable solution, or part
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  Speaker 3: of a solution to the bigger problem. There's a lot
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  Speaker 3: that can be done, Tony. I'm not going to tell
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  Speaker 3: you I know everything about everything. All I can tell
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  Speaker 3: you is I will learn about all the issues as
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  Speaker 3: they come. I will surround myself with the best people
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  Speaker 3: possible who aren't related to me.
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  Speaker 2: David Shelton, that was a good line.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, David Shelton Shelton for Indiana dot Com
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  Speaker 1: running for a Secretary of State.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate you taking the time to be with us. Matt Beart,
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  Speaker 2: do we have time? Can we hit a quick traffic
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  Speaker 2: right now with the producer Carl