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AFP 2026 Endorsements · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Donovan O'Neil from Americans for Prosperity, Welcome back to the
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  Speaker 1: fifty five KRCY Morning Show, my friend, Brian. Great to
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  Speaker 1: be with you, as always, always a pleasure. Now you've
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  Speaker 1: got some AFP has some endorsements. I mean, we're already
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  Speaker 1: talking about the November twenty sixth elections, Donovan. I know
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  Speaker 1: that comes as no shock to you. It's certainly not
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  Speaker 1: a shock to me. But it seems like we've been
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  Speaker 1: talking about it now for a couple of years. Ever
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  Speaker 1: since Trump was sworn in. Everybody's looking forward to the
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  Speaker 1: midterm elections and oh my god, the Democrats are going
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  Speaker 1: to wall up the Republicans and we'll see how that goes.
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  Speaker 1: But you've got some endorsements already. But before we get
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  Speaker 1: to that, I don't want to throw a curve ball
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  Speaker 1: your direction, Donovan, but I'm curious to know if you've
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  Speaker 1: reached any conclusion about what the hell Governor Mike DeWine's
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  Speaker 1: issue is with VvE Ramaswami and his seemingly providing some
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  Speaker 1: cover for Amy acton Amy Lockdown Acting, he said, no,
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  Speaker 1: the buck stops with me. All those decisions were mine,
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  Speaker 1: in spite of the fact he's not a doctor, and
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  Speaker 1: he didn't create the ideas of lockdowns. Those were exclusively hers.
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  Speaker 1: But why hasn't he endorsed Vvke in spite of the
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  Speaker 1: fact the Republican Party has already Can you make any
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  Speaker 1: you know, can you come to any conclusion or have
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  Speaker 1: you drawn any conclusions about that at AFP Donovan?
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  Speaker 2: My observation there, Brian is that it's a fundamental difference
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  Speaker 2: in visions for the state, and you know you have
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  Speaker 2: that in a political party, right, they're both Republicans. But
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  Speaker 2: the vision like Dwine has for the state, as we've
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  Speaker 2: seen play out over the last several years, has been
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  Speaker 2: more spending, bigger government. There've been good things done here, right,
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  Speaker 2: But I think what you see with Avak as somebody's
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  Speaker 2: bold and going to move the state in a dramatically
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  Speaker 2: different direction in my opinion, for the better. And so
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how that kind of stuff gets plays
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  Speaker 2: out in a public facing environment, but I think you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to stay the course since they focused on
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  Speaker 2: twenty six and the opportunity that presents as well as
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  Speaker 2: with the next governor, the ability to do the big,
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  Speaker 2: bold things that we've been talking about for the last
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  Speaker 2: five years in our Buckeye blueprint, or in taxes, expanding education,
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  Speaker 2: opportunity cutting or a tape. And so that's where that's
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  Speaker 2: where our focus is. And we think a new governor
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  Speaker 2: is going to provide a lot of great opportunities rather
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  Speaker 2: than a lot of really bad vetos, which is what
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  Speaker 2: we've seen this year from Governor to Wine.
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  Speaker 1: Well in the big hurdle that the facing Republicans generally speaking,
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  Speaker 1: Trump generally speaking, and of course something that might very well,
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  Speaker 1: very well impact the midterm elections and moving away from
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  Speaker 1: Obamacare and whether or not we get subsidies out there.
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  Speaker 1: But inflation, and I keep, you know, hearing, oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump, it's it's his it's his fall. Inflation, inflation, inflation.
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  Speaker 1: I just looked at something like, look at the state
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  Speaker 1: of California and compared it to you're just here in
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  Speaker 1: the state of Ohio. And in spite of what Governor de
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  Speaker 1: Wine's done here, and I know he has caused prices
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  Speaker 1: to perhaps go up because of the red tape. You mentioned.
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  Speaker 1: The more red tape, the more expensive it is. How
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  Speaker 1: much is a gallon of gas in California, It's it's
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  Speaker 1: like five bucks nationally, we're under three bucks. Wonder why
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  Speaker 1: that is. Is that inflation? No, it's California sticking it
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  Speaker 1: to their own people. It's too expensive to buy gas
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  Speaker 1: there because of all the regulatory environment. Build yourself a
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  Speaker 1: fifteen hund square foot house in California, and compared to
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  Speaker 1: building one here or pretty much any other state, not
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  Speaker 1: or any other red state, it's a fraction of the cost.
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  Speaker 1: Why is that regulatory hurdles, impositions of costs and fines
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  Speaker 1: and all other form of government control to make it
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  Speaker 1: impossible to buy something. You know, we do it to ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: The green energy policy, I mean Barack Obama set it
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  Speaker 1: out loud. The price of gas will necessarily increase, not
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  Speaker 1: naturally based upon the laws of supply and demand, but
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  Speaker 1: the regulatory environment that choked the oil and gas industry
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  Speaker 1: to the point where it became too expensive. These are
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  Speaker 1: self created problems that are easily solvable by getting rid
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  Speaker 1: of the red tape.
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  Speaker 2: Oh totally. Well, there was an opportunity to do that
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  Speaker 2: included in the most recent state budget. It was vetowed
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  Speaker 2: by the governor. We've got a handful of property tax
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  Speaker 2: reform bills, right, folks. That's been the number one issue
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  Speaker 2: for Ohioans for the last several years, as their property
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  Speaker 2: taxes have spiked. Those bills are still setting on a
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  Speaker 2: desk and the governor's mansion awaiting signature. But beyond just
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  Speaker 2: governor one. I agree with you, Brian, like I typically do,
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  Speaker 2: which is that you know, a lot of the problems
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  Speaker 2: our nation faces are state faces, are problems created by
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  Speaker 2: government allowing bureaucrats and elected officials to take and these
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  Speaker 2: so called experts right to take and control our lives
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  Speaker 2: and control the regulatory environment that we have to live in.
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  Speaker 2: And it doesn't have to be that way. We don't
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  Speaker 2: have to have leaders who look to take our freedoms
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  Speaker 2: and liberties from us. We kind of like leaders who
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  Speaker 2: are going to protect us from government. And that's what
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  Speaker 2: you know, you and your listeners know we at AFP
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  Speaker 2: Ohio are working to do every day.
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  Speaker 1: And that's because and that's you vetted candidates which you're
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  Speaker 1: going to talk about here in the next segment that
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  Speaker 1: you know obviously are in line with what you and
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  Speaker 1: I are talking about tomorrow. So we'll find out about
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  Speaker 1: these endorsed candidates for Americans for Prosperity with Donald and
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  Speaker 1: Neil pause from Roman, let me first mention plumb type
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  Speaker 1: plumbing plumbing station. Happy Wednesday. Brian Thomas here with Donovan
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  Speaker 1: and Neil from Americans for Prosperity. You can probably get
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  Speaker 1: some tips here at the end of the segment with
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  Speaker 1: Donovan on how we can get involved and getting involved
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  Speaker 1: in advance of November of next year is really important
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  Speaker 1: thing to do. Get to know your candidates and the
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  Speaker 1: endorsed candidates from Americans for Prosperity. We've got a few
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  Speaker 1: of them to talk about this morning in advance of endorsing,
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  Speaker 1: in particular candidate Donovan. Do you sit down with them
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  Speaker 1: face to face and talk with them? You just look
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  Speaker 1: at their campaign materials, what they've said before, their record.
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  Speaker 1: How does that all go? Or is it a multitude
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  Speaker 1: of all the four going?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's a multitude of all of those, right. It's
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  Speaker 2: not something that we just pass out, you know, Party
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  Speaker 2: designation doesn't weigh in, you know, do these days? Isn't
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  Speaker 2: an automatic qualifier. We have a policy survey that we
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  Speaker 2: we pass out to folks. We then have them sit
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  Speaker 2: down and we spend time talking through these things with them.
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  Speaker 2: And it's a long process. Right where we've got a
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  Speaker 2: great member of our team. Tim Ross, our deputy state
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  Speaker 2: director or political director, brought him on a few years back.
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  Speaker 2: Because you know, good policy doesn't just happen out of
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  Speaker 2: thin air. It happens because we have good elected officials
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  Speaker 2: who folks who want vote for send to Washington or Columbus,
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  Speaker 2: and when they get there, instead of just going along
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  Speaker 2: to get along, they help enact a bold policy agenda.
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  Speaker 2: And that's you know, a big part of our process
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  Speaker 2: when we're talking with these folks and getting under getting
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  Speaker 2: to know them, and talking to our activists about the
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  Speaker 2: people they see leading in their community. We're looking for
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  Speaker 2: folks right who are going to go to Columbus and
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  Speaker 2: help move Ahi thos Yer percent income tax, help empower
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  Speaker 2: families with true universal school choice and opportunity, going to
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  Speaker 2: cut the red tape and modernize Ohio's broken government system.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot to be done, and it takes bold,
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  Speaker 2: committed leaders to get up, get out there and get
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  Speaker 2: it done. Now.
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  Speaker 1: I've got advocates for folks getting involved with Central Committee,
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  Speaker 1: and then i have people who's say, oh, the Central
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  Speaker 1: Committee's a waste of time. We get nothing but garbage
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  Speaker 1: from them. Do you talk with the Republican Central Committee
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  Speaker 1: or even the highest state Republican party sort of the
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  Speaker 1: alex chrematafila when you're talking about these different endorsements, or
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  Speaker 1: you just leave them out of the equation and do
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  Speaker 1: your own thing.
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  Speaker 2: Well, to be clear, we were an independent organization, right
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  Speaker 2: and we make our own decisions about the kind of
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  Speaker 2: the folks we're going to endorse and put our Buckeye
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  Speaker 2: Blueprint support behind. But we don't. We have a lot
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  Speaker 2: of coalition partners and so folks from you know, the
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  Speaker 2: regular political infrastructure of the county parties, state party political parties,
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  Speaker 2: to the grassroots organizations and clubs across the state. There
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  Speaker 2: are a lot of folks who recognize the impact that
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  Speaker 2: our activists at afp Ohio have and they like to
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  Speaker 2: share their opinions. At the end of the day, we
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  Speaker 2: make these decisions based on how we're going to advance
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  Speaker 2: our policy agenda, the policy agenda that is built through
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  Speaker 2: the buck Blueprint listening tours that we do around the
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  Speaker 2: state to hear from the grassroots activists who want to
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  Speaker 2: see a Boulder, better buck Ice state for all hilands. Great.
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  Speaker 1: So you have just established your independence, you are not
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  Speaker 1: driven by what they tell you to do or what
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  Speaker 1: they say you do your own thing, and perhaps then
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  Speaker 1: you influence the Central Committee of the Republican Party in
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  Speaker 1: Ohio through your endorsements, which many would argue you have
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  Speaker 1: more credibility. All right, moving over, let's talk about some
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  Speaker 1: of these folks. How about Mike Caho. This is District
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  Speaker 1: thirty one with that out that's outside of Akron.
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  Speaker 2: Right, that's right, it's outside of Akron. Mike is great
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  Speaker 2: a former local elected official, school board member. Part of
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  Speaker 2: that was a member of Lieutenant Governor Houston's team on
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  Speaker 2: the Ohio Common Sense Initiative, which is dialed in on
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  Speaker 2: finding and reforming broken regulations here in the city of
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  Speaker 2: ohow the regulations that hold folks back. And so Mike
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  Speaker 2: is a great guy and somebody who when we look
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  Speaker 2: at cutting red tape and reforming government, I think is
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  Speaker 2: going to have a fresh look at these things and
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  Speaker 2: is driven to see those reforms happen. He's seen the
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  Speaker 2: problems on the executive side of the equation, and I
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  Speaker 2: think as a legislator he's going to help dial in
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  Speaker 2: on bills and reforms that are going to help ensure
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  Speaker 2: that the power isn't with the bureaucrats and big arcane
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  Speaker 2: government buildings, but rather with the people by way of
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  Speaker 2: the legislature, the folks who are supposed to make the
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  Speaker 2: laws that govern our state and our people.
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  Speaker 1: Fair enough. Vic sand Whu from Ohio House District thirty five,
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  Speaker 1: which looks like it's one of the suburbs of the
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  Speaker 1: greater Cleveland area, very blue area. But do we have
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  Speaker 1: some hope that we can sway some of the folks
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  Speaker 1: outside of Cleveland.
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  Speaker 2: Vic's actually a longtime activist with us. He'm a business owner.
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  Speaker 2: He opened up a gas station for one of the
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  Speaker 2: gas price rollbacks we did to highlight the impact of Bidenomics.
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  Speaker 2: He's somebody who has actually sought us out and it's
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  Speaker 2: wanted to help understand how he can make an impact
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  Speaker 2: after hearing our message and being involved a leader in
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  Speaker 2: his own right. But we're really excited to get behind
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  Speaker 2: Vic Sandu, business owner, get school choice and really importantly
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  Speaker 2: understands that folks shouldn't be forced to pay dues to
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  Speaker 2: a union, something not a lot of people get.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, amen to that, my friend, if you might, well,
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  Speaker 1: we'll pause. We're bringing back talk about the balance of
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  Speaker 1: candidates and we'll get the Harry eyeball from Joe for
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  Speaker 1: one far too over time. It is seven forty six
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  Speaker 1: already more with Seed the talk station seven fifty fifty
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  Speaker 1: five KCV talk Station Americans for Prosperity, always providing tools
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  Speaker 1: for you and I to engage in a little baby
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  Speaker 1: step towards a better future here in Ohio, or you know,
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  Speaker 1: get actively involved. Anything in between is great from Donovan
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  Speaker 1: and Hill's perspective, at my perspective. So we're walking through
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  Speaker 1: some of the already endorsed candidates for coming up in
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  Speaker 1: November of next year. We've done District thirty one and
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  Speaker 1: thirty five. How about Jesse Styles for House District fifty seven.
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  Speaker 1: I am busily trying to find fifty seven on my
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  Speaker 1: district map. I can't find it. I understand it's outside
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  Speaker 1: of Columbus or around Columbus. Am I right on that one?
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  Speaker 2: I don't go a few hours northeast Lake County, but
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  Speaker 2: you're you're headed in the right direction.
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  Speaker 1: It's up there north somewhere.
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  Speaker 2: There you go. Yeah, it's well. Jesse's great. He a
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  Speaker 2: business owner Lake and Lake County father, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: and talking with him, He's built a business. He's created jobs,
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  Speaker 2: he's paid taxes and felt the burdens of red tape
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  Speaker 2: and regulations, and so from education, opportunity for families again
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  Speaker 2: as a father, to make sure we get Ohio as
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  Speaker 2: yeero percent income tax to taking a hard look at
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  Speaker 2: the red tape and regulations. He's dialed in on the
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  Speaker 2: things that you know, we believe are going to help
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  Speaker 2: move Ohio forward. And has the real world experience. So again,
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  Speaker 2: when you go into those legislative committees, you're not just
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  Speaker 2: trying to figure out from the lobbyists what's truth and
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  Speaker 2: not truth. You actually have lived it and can pass
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  Speaker 2: laws and vote on things and and argue in favor
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  Speaker 2: of policies They're gonna actually unleash opportunity and abundance for
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  Speaker 2: Ohioans across the state.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, I regularly describe Columbus as dysfunctional. We have
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  Speaker 1: State Senator Andrew Brenner running for Ohio House District sixty one.
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  Speaker 1: I guess he has a record which proves him to
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  Speaker 1: be worthy of AFP's endorsement.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Senator Brenner, currently Senator Brenner, hopefully future state Representative
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  Speaker 2: Andy Brenner with our support, Andy is one of those
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  Speaker 2: folks who has been tireless in the trenches for education, opportunity,
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  Speaker 2: school choice. If there is a number one enemy of
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  Speaker 2: the public teachers' unions, it's Andy Brenner. We're proud to
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  Speaker 2: stand alongside him with that distinction because he's focused on
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  Speaker 2: opportunity outcome. I've been in his office many times talking
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  Speaker 2: about school choice and education, and he consistently points to
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  Speaker 2: the amount of money we spend, yet how bad a
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  Speaker 2: results we get in our public education system. So supports
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  Speaker 2: empowering families first and foremost, and I think should he
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  Speaker 2: be elected to the state legislature, he's going to continue
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  Speaker 2: to work to form the system in bold, meaningful ways.
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  Speaker 1: All right, how about Patty Rocky House District eighty one.
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  Speaker 1: Where's that one to start with?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's out northwest Ohio, replacing current Representative Jim Hoops
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  Speaker 2: who's term limited out. Patty is a long time fixture
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  Speaker 2: in northwest Ohio, a local elected official. She's seen the
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  Speaker 2: need for local government reform work in Northwest Ohio in
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  Speaker 2: that capacity. So when we look at modernizing Ohio government reforming,
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  Speaker 2: you know, our state has the sixth most political subdivisions.
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  Speaker 2: I think someone like Patty is going to be able
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  Speaker 2: to come to Columbus and help drive the conversation on
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  Speaker 2: what it's going to take to streamline this massive amount
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  Speaker 2: of government we have at the local level, ultimately resulting
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  Speaker 2: in lower property taxes and better return on the taxpayer
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  Speaker 2: dollars we all send, not to Columbus, but just down
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  Speaker 2: the street to our county treasurer County auditor's office.
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  Speaker 1: Sounds like a fairly consistent lineup so far, Donovan. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to end with wesleyan Davis represent or who may
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  Speaker 1: represent Ohio House District eighty six.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we supported her last year last cycle in the
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  Speaker 2: primary election, came up short, but we're proud to stand
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  Speaker 2: beside her again. You know, she's worked with us, another
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  Speaker 2: one of those folks who's been an activist and a
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  Speaker 2: volunteer with us. She's gone to the State House testified
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  Speaker 2: in support of school choice and education opportunity and when
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  Speaker 2: we you know, we remain focused on that issue as
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  Speaker 2: a top tier priority for us. Wesley's somebody were proud
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  Speaker 2: to endorse once again, and we'll look forward to being
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  Speaker 2: successful in May in her race, ultimately getting her to
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  Speaker 2: Columbus so we can we can make sure all child,
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  Speaker 2: every child, every family has the education opportunity that they deserve.
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  Speaker 1: Fantastic, and she's just she represents the area surrounding Marysville,
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  Speaker 1: which is a north west of Columbus. So, now, Donovan,
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  Speaker 1: the importance to my local listening audience that we you
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  Speaker 1: mentioned these various candidates from around the state, just to
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  Speaker 1: sort of show what you're doing. By way of vetting,
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  Speaker 1: is there some way we can get involved in these
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  Speaker 1: seemingly very local issues. What's the call to action today?
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  Speaker 1: Donovan and Neil Americans for Prosperity.
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  Speaker 2: Call to action is good At Buckeye blueprint dot com.
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  Speaker 2: We have full profiles of each of these candidates that
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  Speaker 2: we've endorsed that you could check out learn more. If
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  Speaker 2: you want to get involved, there's a way to take
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  Speaker 2: action there. We'd love to have you join us. It's
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  Speaker 2: going to take a lot of doors, a lot of calls,
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  Speaker 2: and a lot of volunteer activism to help make this
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  Speaker 2: these races successful. This is only the first trunch though
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  Speaker 2: as well, Brian, we're not done yet. We're announcing these
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  Speaker 2: ones now. We'll have more early in twenty twenty six,
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  Speaker 2: including many races in Southwest Ohio that we're looking forward to.
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  Speaker 2: There's a ton of opportunity in twenty six from the
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  Speaker 2: State House to the congressional races. AFP AFP Action, our
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  Speaker 2: team is going to be involved in all of them,
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  Speaker 2: and we need your listeners, Brian to join alongside us.
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  Speaker 2: Give an hour two hours on a Saturday, knock some doors,
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  Speaker 2: remind people to be out and vote. Because the headwinds
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  Speaker 2: are there. We've got to push back against the policies
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  Speaker 2: and the ideas that the Democrats, progressives in Washington and
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  Speaker 2: Columbus are advancing, the big government Republicans alike. But it
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  Speaker 2: takes grassroots action to make that work.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, it does get involved. AFP makes it so easy
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  Speaker 1: to do. Donovan Eilie has always thank you for the
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  Speaker 1: tireless efforts on behalf of the Ohio voters and the
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  Speaker 1: economy here in the state of Ohio. We're looking forward
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  Speaker 1: to having some better opportunities November, and I hope you
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  Speaker 1: and I be talking throughout the county year twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: I know this list of endorsed candidates from AFP is
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  Speaker 1: going to grow and looking forward to having you let
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  Speaker 1: my listeners know about who you have endorsed because of course,
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  Speaker 1: that independent endorsement and policies that you're pushing I think
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  Speaker 1: are all very very welcome within my listening audience. My friend,
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  Speaker 1: and merry Christmas do you and everybody at AFP, you
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  Speaker 1: and your family, Donovan, it's always a pleasure talking with you.
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  Speaker 2: Have a merry Christmas, a happy New Year break. I
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  Speaker 2: look forward to a great twenty twenty six and sharing
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  Speaker 2: a lot of it with you and your listeners on
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  Speaker 2: the show.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: Looking forward to that already, Donald and Neil, take care
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: of yourself. Seven fifty