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Eric Conroy for Congress · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Five K the Talk station.
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  Speaker 2: Hey forty five if you got KRC the talk station,
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  Speaker 2: very happy Monday to you.
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  Speaker 1: MLK Junior Day.
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  Speaker 2: And if you didn't hear Christopher Smithvin heed his advice,
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  Speaker 2: do what Christopher said during the hour long spleen vent.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the fifty five Kresday morning. Sure, Eric Conroy,
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  Speaker 2: somebody's got to beat Greg Landsman District one. Can it
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  Speaker 2: be Eric Conroy? You can find them online in ericconroy
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  Speaker 2: dot com just like it sounds.
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  Speaker 1: Eric.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much for coming to the studio today.
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  Speaker 2: It's a real pleasure to see you again. Brian, thanks
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  Speaker 2: for having me. Happy New Year and it is always
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  Speaker 2: Happy New Year to you too, sir. And let me
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  Speaker 2: just thank you for your service to our country. You
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  Speaker 2: went to the US Air Force Academy and then you
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  Speaker 2: ended up in the CIA. So how was your time
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  Speaker 2: at the State Department. I'm just kidding me, but I
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  Speaker 2: appreciate and my listeners appreciate your service to our country.
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  Speaker 2: By way of background, what is your what do you
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  Speaker 2: do for a living? What's your you know, sort of
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  Speaker 2: qualifications to run for pregnant spot.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so a little bit about me.
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  Speaker 3: I was born and raised on the West Side, went
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  Speaker 3: to Utter High School and then the Air Force Academy
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  Speaker 3: for college. Yeah, seven years active duty in the Air Force,
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  Speaker 3: mostly in special operations. And then I did another seven
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  Speaker 3: years in the CIA where I served in war zones
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  Speaker 3: and in Europe overseas.
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  Speaker 2: Living and shipping containers in Martinia.
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  Speaker 1: Huh something like that. Yeah, I got.
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  Speaker 2: I got a State Department relative.
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  Speaker 3: After that, wrapped up a master's in economics and work
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  Speaker 3: in finance right now and investing in so on the side,
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  Speaker 3: I help invest in defense and aerospace companies, of which
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  Speaker 3: we have plenty in the area, with you know, larger
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  Speaker 3: companies like GE and right Pison Air Force base up
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  Speaker 3: the road. So but now you know, my main focus
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  Speaker 3: is this campaign and defeating the radical leftists that we
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  Speaker 3: know of Greg Lansman.
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  Speaker 2: And he is and there's a million places we could start.
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  Speaker 2: But giving your you know, your data background and all that,
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  Speaker 2: let's just look at the sorry ass situations going on
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  Speaker 2: in Minneapolis. Our federal tax dollars. I don't think any
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  Speaker 2: human being on the left side of the political ledger
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  Speaker 2: cares a whit what happens with our dollars. They are
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  Speaker 2: clearly not responsible stewards with our money. And as we're
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  Speaker 2: learning more and more billions of dollars being thrown out
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  Speaker 2: in fraud, waste and abuse just in minutes, Soda haven't
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  Speaker 2: moved over to California or New York yet or even
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  Speaker 2: here in Ohio where we know we have tons of fraud,
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  Speaker 2: waste and abuse. This is an area that really means
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  Speaker 2: a lot to me, sir.
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  Speaker 1: It does to me as well, right.
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  Speaker 3: And I worked in two large government bureaucracies, in the
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  Speaker 3: Air Force and the Intelligence community, and I've seen that fraud,
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  Speaker 3: waste and abuse first have and that is your tax
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  Speaker 3: payer dollars, Brian, right, And that is your money being waste.
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  Speaker 3: So that is your hard earned money being wasted. And
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  Speaker 3: I'm very big on fiscal cuts and downsize in our
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  Speaker 3: government because that is what's best for the everyday American.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and I'm glad to hear you say that because
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  Speaker 2: you know someone who served in his military. Proudly, I
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  Speaker 2: am the first person to guess nothing concrete to go on,
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  Speaker 2: but any trillion dollar military budget, there's got to be
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  Speaker 2: a lot of fraud, waste and abuse in that too.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there's definitely inefficiencies. Rum.
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  Speaker 3: I spent some time at the Pentagon, And there's a
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  Speaker 3: great story I remember for my time there. General Flynn
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  Speaker 3: was there. This is before his administration time, this is
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  Speaker 3: some time ago, and he gives this great story that
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  Speaker 3: he used to go around and just knock on the
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  Speaker 3: doors in his command at the Pentagon, just to say
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  Speaker 3: hello to people, and when they would open the door,
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  Speaker 3: they would be spooked. And he asked people finally, like,
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  Speaker 3: why are people spooked when I come around and knock
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  Speaker 3: on their door, Like they're in my command, they're in
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  Speaker 3: my unit. And finally the assistant went to the general said, General,
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  Speaker 3: they're scared because they're afraid that they're going to find
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  Speaker 3: out that their jobs are useless. Right, Yeah, I think
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  Speaker 3: it's about trimming the fat and making everything more efficient
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  Speaker 3: in our government, whether that's the Department of War, whether
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  Speaker 3: that's the IRS, whether that's the Department of Energy. We
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  Speaker 3: can definitely downsize and save your tax Paramney.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know, it just reminded me of the
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  Speaker 2: story that guy was getting paid eight hour workdays to
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  Speaker 2: sit and literally surf point. That's what he did, and
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  Speaker 2: it was known and he kept his job. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I'm missing some of the details, but that is pretty
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  Speaker 2: much a boiled down synopsis of what was going on.
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  Speaker 2: So maybe that's what they're doing, or they're playing video games,
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  Speaker 2: or they're surfing YouTube or whatever, not doing something. It's
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  Speaker 2: beneficial for the American people.
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  Speaker 3: A review is definitely needed, right, And this is what
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate about the Trump administration, as they're not afraid
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  Speaker 3: to take a hard review of how your money's being spent.
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  Speaker 3: And that means our bloated government bureaucracy, whether it's Defense, Intel,
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  Speaker 3: IRS or otherwise.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Chucky Schumer just came out the other day, I
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  Speaker 2: think it was yesterday, saying that when they take back over,
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  Speaker 2: they're going to undo all of the DOGE cuts that
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  Speaker 2: Elon Musk and the Doge Department put in. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: we're talking, can he be serious about that?
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  Speaker 1: Look?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the Democrats, including my opponent Greg Lanceman, have
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  Speaker 3: never been serious about your money or about the operation
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  Speaker 3: of the federal government. And this is why I think
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  Speaker 3: the administration's approach of taking a hard look and looking
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  Speaker 3: at some cuts is needed.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, maybe thirty years ago you needed more
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  Speaker 3: more personnel to handle paperwork and all that, but we're
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  Speaker 3: we're in the digital aged officer, right, we do not
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  Speaker 3: have to have these massive government bureaucracies. Department of Education
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  Speaker 3: is a great example too. We have a massive, bloated
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  Speaker 3: bureaucracy in DC where the money's going, and that money
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  Speaker 3: should be going to parents and teachers here at the
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  Speaker 3: local level for the education, right. And these are the
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  Speaker 3: common sense policies that we as the Republican Party are promoting,
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  Speaker 3: and my opponent Greg Lansman and his party members do not.
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  Speaker 3: They want to waste their money at the highest level.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and I go back to the whole immigration thing.
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  Speaker 2: They're protesting because our government is trying to get rid
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  Speaker 2: of some criminals that are hardened discussing subject to the
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  Speaker 2: detainer orders, rapists of children, murderers, and there are people
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  Speaker 2: standing in the way of that. And I think about that,
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  Speaker 2: and I asked out loud this morning, as I have before,
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  Speaker 2: sort of like, does anybody really believe that is the
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  Speaker 2: recipe for success in this country, that abusing ice agents
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  Speaker 2: and trying to prevent the elimination of dangerous criminals in
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  Speaker 2: our communities is somehow a bad thing that should be stopped.
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  Speaker 2: I can't buy that. That is a topic that resonates.
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  Speaker 2: I feel the same way about the education that you
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  Speaker 2: were just talking about. What parent doesn't want to control
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  Speaker 2: where their child goes. Go ahead, go to the traditional
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  Speaker 2: public school if you want. But if you want to
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  Speaker 2: go someplace else, that a good thing.
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  Speaker 1: You're right, And back to Minnesota.
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  Speaker 3: Right, Look, this situation is concerning right, and anytime there's
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  Speaker 3: a loss of life, it's very tragic. And this is
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  Speaker 3: a very fast moving situation. But I think it's it's
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  Speaker 3: important for all of us to just tone down the
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  Speaker 3: rhetoric a little bit. Let's some of these investigations play out.
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  Speaker 3: And if you disagree with the policies, that's fine, but
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  Speaker 3: you need to protests smartly, and that doesn't mean interrupting
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  Speaker 3: law enforcement operations or causing violence in Mayhem, These are
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  Speaker 3: not protests at this point, right. And I think the
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  Speaker 3: saddest part about this Minnesota situation of the last week
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  Speaker 3: is the lack of cooperation that we've gotten from city
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  Speaker 3: and state governments. And this once again goes to show,
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  Speaker 3: as we saw this summer here with our brawl downtown,
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  Speaker 3: the lack of seriousness, the lack of fortitude in democratic leaders,
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  Speaker 3: including Greg Landsman. Right when I saw Greg's interview for
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  Speaker 3: the braw last summer. You know what you said? On
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  Speaker 3: Channel five, the interviewer asked them, Hey, what are you
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  Speaker 3: doing at the federal level to solve the crime issue here?
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  Speaker 3: Ant sir was, I'm working with Honda and Kia to
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  Speaker 3: make sure their cars are less stealable. Like, does that
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  Speaker 3: sound like a serious representative? Is that someone you want
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  Speaker 3: as your congressman? Brian, No, that's what I thought. I
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  Speaker 3: don't even recall him sick. I believe you all day long,
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  Speaker 3: but that sounds like a well backcrap insanity. Now he
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  Speaker 3: ends up he got us a million dollars apparently in
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  Speaker 3: some bill that was passed so we can buy cameras
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  Speaker 3: or something. Wow, okay, cameras that were promised by city
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  Speaker 3: government years and years ago and for which they have
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  Speaker 3: the money, apparently because they're installing him right now before
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  Speaker 3: Greg's money even lands in the neighborhood. What we should
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  Speaker 3: be doing is focusing on how we get additional funding
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  Speaker 3: to increase our police force. Right we have a shortage
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  Speaker 3: of course officers. There are ways to get DHS and
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  Speaker 3: DOJ grants to help supplement the police force downtown, whether
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  Speaker 3: that's hopefully in personnel, but in other ways too.
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  Speaker 2: You got to get people that want to sign up.
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  Speaker 2: They had thirty open spots for laterals. They had I
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  Speaker 2: believe it was nine according to ken Co fops seven.
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  Speaker 2: Joe says seven spots. Seven people for thirty open spots.
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  Speaker 2: So all the money in the world is not going
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  Speaker 2: to draw people to a career in law enforcement if
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  Speaker 2: you have elected officials that regularly demonize them and tell
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  Speaker 2: them that they're all racists.
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  Speaker 3: And we need to get back to the basics right,
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  Speaker 3: common sense law and order. The laws matter and they
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  Speaker 3: need to be enforced right. And this is what we've
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  Speaker 3: gotten away from, not just here in Cincinnati, but in
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  Speaker 3: Minneapolis and on their places. And if we want to get
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  Speaker 3: back to a common sense society, it starts there.
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  Speaker 2: Indeed, any of the hot topics you wanted to touch upon,
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  Speaker 2: we've of course dealt with the corruption in Minnesota as
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  Speaker 2: well as elsewhere. The immigration problem. I got a comment
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  Speaker 2: on that, where were all of these leftist protesters when
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  Speaker 2: Barack Obama was kicking millions of people out of our country?
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  Speaker 2: Or Bill Clinton was kicking millions of people, or even
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  Speaker 2: Bush when he kicked millions of people out of our country.
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  Speaker 2: Not a peep, not a word and here we are.
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  Speaker 2: It's evil Orange man. It's only because it's Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 3: You're exactly right, Brian. And what's even worse now is
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  Speaker 3: they're talking about abolishing ice or potentially trying to do
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  Speaker 3: some kind of shut down the government ploy to the
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  Speaker 3: ice operations in Minnesota. And this is absolutely absurd. And
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  Speaker 3: this is how they try to screw over Ohioans every day.
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  Speaker 3: Ohioans to shut down the government whenever they get what
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  Speaker 3: they don't want. There's this tendency on the left when
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  Speaker 3: they don't get what they want, they want to burn
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  Speaker 3: down the farm. And I think this is that selfish
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  Speaker 3: mentality that we've seen in Greg Landsman and in some
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  Speaker 3: of his party mates that just totally totally throws to
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  Speaker 3: the win what public service is, see right, And this
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  Speaker 3: is why we need to change.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like a petulant child putting the hands over
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  Speaker 2: the ears and going L L with their eyes closed
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  Speaker 2: and trying to prevent you know, content from entering into
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  Speaker 2: their brain and resisting all the common sense reforms. It
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  Speaker 2: you and I can embrace all day long, which Eric
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  Speaker 2: Conroy does. Embrace Solid Man Ericconroy dot com. That's where
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  Speaker 2: you find him online. Look there's a little donate button there.
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  Speaker 2: You help him out with his campaign action center. You
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  Speaker 2: can learn about his issues. It's all right there, Ericconroy
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  Speaker 2: dot com. Eric, I'm sure you and I be talking
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  Speaker 2: a lot before now in November. I look forward to
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  Speaker 2: it again.
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  Speaker 3: Well, love to please send me on any time. And
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  Speaker 3: we're going to defeat Greg Lands when this fall. I'm
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  Speaker 3: very excited.
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  Speaker 2: I sure hope so