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Mayor Ginther running for a third term · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Greeting's my friends, who welcome to another edition of The
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  Speaker 1: Power Hour on six ten Double UTV, and I'm Chuck Douglas.
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  Speaker 1: You know who you are. We take it from there.
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  Speaker 1: We get one hour together, which means I talk really
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  Speaker 1: fast and you must listen even faster. My number eight
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  Speaker 1: two one nine eight eight six eight to one WTV.
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  Speaker 1: And continuing the conversation from the Blazer Show on Endo
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  Speaker 1: The Power Hour regarding Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther, who says
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  Speaker 1: he's going to run again in twenty seven according to
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  Speaker 1: the Columbus Patch and other media sources around town. And
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  Speaker 1: if if I'm not going to be one of those,
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  Speaker 1: you know, those people that go, well he's elected, I'm
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  Speaker 1: leaving because I don't want him, to admit. No, but
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  Speaker 1: there's a pretty good chance I will leave not because
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  Speaker 1: of him, but because of because of a lack of effort.
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  Speaker 1: If I don't see an effort from the Franklin County
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  Speaker 1: GOP in fielding a feasible, reasonable, possible ability to run
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  Speaker 1: against him, if we just surrender again and allow him
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  Speaker 1: to run unopposed, then I'm done. I'm finished, and I
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  Speaker 1: mean this sincerely. It's it's not about him winning. It's
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  Speaker 1: about us not trying. Tired of the excuses, constant excuse. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the Democrats have everything wrapped up. There's a shut up.
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  Speaker 1: Well you know we don't have the resources. Yes, you do,
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  Speaker 1: and what you don't have here. You go to the
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  Speaker 1: Ohio GOP and say, hey, we've got a legit chance,
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  Speaker 1: we got a legit candidate. We need to do something
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  Speaker 1: with the capital city of this state. Give us money,
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  Speaker 1: help us, we need manpower, we need dollar bills, let's roll.
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  Speaker 1: You go to the RNC, you tell them the same thing. Hell,
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  Speaker 1: you go to the Trump campaign and say, look, we
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  Speaker 1: saw what you did. They said you couldn't be president,
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  Speaker 1: and you were. They say there's no way you'll win again,
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  Speaker 1: but you did. There's no way you can do it.
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  Speaker 1: But you do the audacity of a man to believe
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  Speaker 1: he can win and then actually go out and do it.
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  Speaker 1: Are we not learning anything? Are we not inspired by anything?
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  Speaker 1: I've heard excuse after excuse as to why we don't
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  Speaker 1: run anybody, and why we can't win if we do
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  Speaker 1: run somebody. I've heard nothing when it comes to strategy
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  Speaker 1: about how we do win. I'm not necessarily looking for
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  Speaker 1: domination here. I don't want an all Republican anything, but
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  Speaker 1: I want some balance. For God's sakes, there's nothing. What
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  Speaker 1: do we got one one elected county wide office that's
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  Speaker 1: a Republican held office. Now, I don't know. It's something dismal,
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  Speaker 1: and it shouldn't be with this one party rule thing
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  Speaker 1: just does not work for me. One party rule that
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  Speaker 1: is that is handed over to that party is distressing,
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  Speaker 1: depressing and unacceptable. Or again, maybe that's just me. A
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  Speaker 1: two one nine eight eight six A two one WTV.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're looking forward to another four year term
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  Speaker 1: from Mayor Andrew Ginther, I'd love to hear from you.
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  Speaker 1: Two A two one WUTV. And is the number ten
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  Speaker 1: you're on? Six to ten WUTVN Hello there, Hello, Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Got an idea for the candidates to try to take
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  Speaker 2: on this mess we've gotten Columbus. Put more than one
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  Speaker 2: person on the ticket. Put a mayor and a couple
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  Speaker 2: councilmen on the ticket. One vote gets all three.
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  Speaker 1: No, I've been saying for a long time we need
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  Speaker 1: to run we need to run six feasible council candidates
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  Speaker 1: just to try to get three or four of the seats.
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  Speaker 2: Well, but put them on tickets together, one vote gets
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  Speaker 2: all three votes. That's an old school way that you
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  Speaker 2: used to be done in Ohio a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the slate. The slate thing hasn't been tried in
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  Speaker 1: quite a few years. There was a group of people,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe twenty years ago, called themselves a
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  Speaker 1: rescue team Bravo or something grandiose like that, and that failed.
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  Speaker 1: That failed miserably. I honestly, it sounded too much like
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  Speaker 1: a comic strip to be taken seriously I think by
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people.
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  Speaker 2: But the I'm thinking the Democrats did it years ago
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  Speaker 2: to us concerning the school board. Uh that there might
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  Speaker 2: have been a guy named Bill Moss involved in that.
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  Speaker 1: No, Uh what what would refresh my memory there?
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 1: What was Bill doing?
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  Speaker 2: He?
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  Speaker 1: See?
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  Speaker 2: I think he was running he was running for uh
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  Speaker 2: for school board, Columbus City school Board. Yeah, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: thinking he took a couple more candidates with him.
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  Speaker 1: He might have. But but here's party loyalty. When Bill
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  Speaker 1: ran for mayor of the City of Columbus, he basically
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  Speaker 1: ran his campaign on public access cable television because he
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  Speaker 1: couldn't even get any local Democrat support to run a campaign.
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  Speaker 1: It was sad.
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  Speaker 2: I know, yeah, but he took they put it on
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  Speaker 2: when they took their petitions up to the Board of Elections.
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  Speaker 2: They did it, a group of them did it together,
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  Speaker 2: and that just shakes them up. Let me tell you,
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  Speaker 2: if more and it's more ways formed to earn money,
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  Speaker 2: maybe one of them is real good at earning money
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  Speaker 2: and one of them isn't real good at earning money.
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  Speaker 1: Now you might find a group of people that are
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  Speaker 1: willing to run as a slate that are all viable.
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  Speaker 1: But in order for them to do that again, they're
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  Speaker 1: going to have to see some action from the county Party.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to have to see some backup, some support
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  Speaker 1: from the County Party. As long as the party just
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  Speaker 1: lays down, nothing's going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: That's well, and they've been doing that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, over and over again. I appreciate you, Tim,
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  Speaker 1: Thanks very much for the call to nine eight six
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  Speaker 1: eight two on WTV. And by the way, while I'm
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  Speaker 1: thinking about the Franklin County Republican Party, let me I
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  Speaker 1: just mentioned here my condolences to the friends and the
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  Speaker 1: family and all those who are acquainted with Jack McGee
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  Speaker 1: who apparently passed away here over the Memorial Day weekend
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  Speaker 1: and Jack was a member of the Central Committee. He
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  Speaker 1: was he was kind of a lightning rod. He was
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  Speaker 1: one of those people that was the full ideas, always
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  Speaker 1: fired up, always motivational. And I met him several years ago.
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  Speaker 1: He was pushing me hard to run for Central Committee
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  Speaker 1: and he was just a basic guy. But he was
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  Speaker 1: a basic guy with some definite dedication to his beliefs
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  Speaker 1: and his calls, and far too young to be gone.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what the story was. I just just
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  Speaker 1: got word a couple of days ago on the actually
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  Speaker 1: the Facebook page Louis Skill, I believe it was who
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  Speaker 1: mentioned that he had passed away. And that's not a
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  Speaker 1: good thing either, I mean, aside from the fact that
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  Speaker 1: death is rarely a good thing. As we lose those
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  Speaker 1: people who have known victory, who have known success and
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  Speaker 1: dedication in the central Ohio political arena as Republican candidates,
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  Speaker 1: there are fewer people left to remember that it can
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  Speaker 1: be done. It can be done. As they fade off,
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  Speaker 1: you're left with this. And just as we have a
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  Speaker 1: whole generation, a generation and a half out there of
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  Speaker 1: adult voters Obama Erat voters who believe government will take
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  Speaker 1: care of you and pay your bills and give you
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  Speaker 1: insurance and have a program for everything under the sun.
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  Speaker 1: And your parents have to keep you on their insurance
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  Speaker 1: till you're twenty six because you're not a grown up
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  Speaker 1: at that point. Although you couldn't get an abortion when
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  Speaker 1: you're fourteen, I guess choose to be the opposite sex.
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  Speaker 1: When you're like in the womb, you're not a grown
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  Speaker 1: up till you're twenty six. When it comes to insurance.
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  Speaker 1: That's their reality. That's what they know as their reality.
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  Speaker 1: And then they have kids, and that's the kids know
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  Speaker 1: what mom and dad know, and eventually nobody remembers once
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  Speaker 1: upon a time what was There've got to be some
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  Speaker 1: others out there now. Granted, Greg Lashutka was not he
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  Speaker 1: was not a bolt of lightning, but he got the
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  Speaker 1: job done. I always admired him, being a big guy.
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  Speaker 1: Former OSU football player Greg Lashutka was one of the
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  Speaker 1: best disappearers that I've ever seen. He could be. He
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  Speaker 1: could be on stage, You're looking right at him, and
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  Speaker 1: somebody would be introduced and they'd come up and they'd
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  Speaker 1: start speaking. You look over and the Shutka was gone.
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  Speaker 1: He was just really good at that. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how a man that size was able to up to
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  Speaker 1: maneuver the way he did, but he was very good
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  Speaker 1: at it. Buck Reinhardt. In my lifetime, buck Reinhart was
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  Speaker 1: was it when it came to being mayor. He had
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  Speaker 1: his buck line. And that was something else I mentioned.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when I was a younger man, I thought
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to be mayor of Columbus. I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: do a chuck line, much like the buck line, and
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to be crazy enough to actually go down
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  Speaker 1: and you know, be there to sometimes answer those calls
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  Speaker 1: when that little old lady calls up, because these kids
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  Speaker 1: on my street and they right here in front of
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  Speaker 1: my house every night and they're selling drugs and they're
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  Speaker 1: whooping it up. You know, back then, James Jackson was
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  Speaker 1: still with us, he was Chief of Police. I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to be able to call him and go, hey, Chief,
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  Speaker 1: I need say bad attitudes with badges, meet me in
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  Speaker 1: front of city Hall. In ten minutes. We got somewhere
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  Speaker 1: to go and show up at that little old lady's house.
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  Speaker 1: Because ultimately, what does Columbus need? Neighbors and neighborhoods. That's
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  Speaker 1: that's step number one. Not a bunch of strangers in
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  Speaker 1: abandoned houses that the city sezes and puts orange stickers on,
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  Speaker 1: but neighbors and neighborhoods. Police more police, with backup from
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  Speaker 1: city Hall, from the Mayor's office, from the city council,
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  Speaker 1: so that they can go out and be police less
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  Speaker 1: talk more action. Every time somebody runs, well, well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the neighborhoods are my first priority, and yet the neighborhoods
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  Speaker 1: don't see your ass until it's time to come get
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  Speaker 1: votes again. You run, you get their vote, and then
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  Speaker 1: you disappear. Get out there. Stop spending money on two
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  Speaker 1: million dollar toilets and start spending money on things that
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  Speaker 1: matter to the people of Columbus. Stop giving away development
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  Speaker 1: money to people that want to come in and build
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  Speaker 1: one point five million dollar condos, and start putting people
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  Speaker 1: back into all of these abandoned homes in our Innish
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  Speaker 1: City neighborhoods. Years ago, when a child was attacked in
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  Speaker 1: a school auditorium, you might recall, then Mayor Michael Coleman
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  Speaker 1: got on the air with Glenn Beck. Glenn was still
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  Speaker 1: relatively new, and he announced that, you know, the City
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  Speaker 1: of Columbus, city government, City Hall is going to be
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  Speaker 1: more involved with the running of Columbus City schools. We
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  Speaker 1: really haven't seen that come to fruition. Schools continue to decline,
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  Speaker 1: Attendance es to decline, academic performance continues to decline. There
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  Speaker 1: are those little cubby here and their success, but for
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  Speaker 1: the most part it's been dismal. Build our schools back up,
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  Speaker 1: Advocate for neighborhood schools again. Quit spending all this money
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  Speaker 1: on buses, fuel for buses, purchasing of buses, maintenance on buses,
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  Speaker 1: drivers for buses, and let kids go to schools in
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  Speaker 1: their neighborhoods again where they get to see the people
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  Speaker 1: they live among, the kids that they play with on
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  Speaker 1: their street. Stop spending all that money to do other stuff.
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  Speaker 1: The days of desegregation are over. Neighborhood schools when people
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  Speaker 1: call answer, it's not that hard. You just need somebody
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  Speaker 1: who's willing to say it and then do it, And
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  Speaker 1: that do it part is always the hard part.