Latest / Brian Thomas / Brian with Eric Conroy 7/10/2026
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- 0:02Speaker 1: It's eight oh six here at fifty five KERCD talk station.
- 0:04Speaker 1: It's Friday, and a very happy one to you coming
- 0:07Speaker 1: up bottom of the r or the Iopress networks Jack Windsor,
- 0:09Speaker 1: We've got lots of topics score with Jack Inn in
- 0:11Speaker 1: studio on the heels of Brad Weinster being in studio.
- 0:15Speaker 1: It's a pleasure to see Eric Conroy again. Eric Conroy
- 0:17Speaker 1: running for Congress. His challenger Greg Lansman. Obviously we know
- 0:21Speaker 1: who to vote for. Of course Eric Conroy is that guy.
- 0:23Speaker 1: Go to Eric E. Er I C. Conroy c O.
- 0:26Speaker 1: N ro Oi dot com, Ericconroy dot com. Start with
- 0:29Speaker 1: you meet Eric, learn about him and find about issues.
- 0:31Speaker 1: But more importantly, at least I'm concerned about the race
- 0:33Speaker 1: in November. We need great voter turnout. Please click the
- 0:37Speaker 1: donation button upper right hand corner and see that his
- 0:39Speaker 1: campaign has sufficient funds to get the message out.
- 0:42Speaker 2: Eric.
- 0:42Speaker 1: It's great to see you again, my friend.
- 0:43Speaker 2: Hey Brian, thanks for having me.
- 0:45Speaker 1: Let's just start out with the preliminary overview of the race.
- 0:48Speaker 1: Generally speaking, obviously you've got a couple of three months
- 0:51Speaker 1: here in advance in November, further time to get the
- 0:54Speaker 1: message out and an important one. It is, So where
- 0:57Speaker 1: are we in the campaign right now? Where are you?
- 0:59Speaker 1: A sh more specific say.
- 1:00Speaker 2: Well, sure, just as a bit of a review. As
- 1:03Speaker 2: your listeners might remember, Ohio went through a redistrict inge
- 1:06Speaker 2: last November, and Ohio District one where I'm running has
- 1:09Speaker 2: flipped to about a fifty three percent Republican district, which
- 1:13Speaker 2: makes it one of the few flippable districts around the country.
- 1:17Speaker 2: And with that, I was happy to be endorsed by
- 1:18Speaker 2: the President in the spring, which led to a primary
- 1:21Speaker 2: win of over seventy percent. And as we move along
- 1:24Speaker 2: here this summer, this race has been identified as one
- 1:27Speaker 2: of the top ten races in the country this year.
- 1:29Speaker 2: So make no mistake, this is no pressure, no pressure.
- 1:32Speaker 2: Right this race in this district, Brian could determine control
- 1:35Speaker 2: of the House and also whether or not the President
- 1:38Speaker 2: gets impeached.
- 1:39Speaker 1: Okay, real quick on that point, because they just got
- 1:41Speaker 1: done mentioning. Folks need to click the donation button. That
- 1:44Speaker 1: means fat sorows like money is going to be coming
- 1:48Speaker 1: to fight you.
- 1:50Speaker 2: This will be a high dollar race.
- 1:51Speaker 1: It's going to be It's going to.
- 1:53Speaker 2: Mean that, and we are we are getting all the
- 1:56Speaker 2: attention we need for the support we need. Speaker Johnson
- 1:58Speaker 2: was in town here a few weeks at holding an
- 2:01Speaker 2: event for me and advertising their race, and the Congressional
- 2:04Speaker 2: Leadership Fund has also put aside four million dollars for
- 2:07Speaker 2: TV time.
- 2:08Speaker 1: This is for Sam.
- 2:09Speaker 2: We are coming for the seat, Brian, and really not
- 2:11Speaker 2: only can control the House beat to sidet this cycle,
- 2:15Speaker 2: but we have a chance to really set a new
- 2:18Speaker 2: stage for Republican politics here in the state. The cycle.
- 2:21Speaker 2: We've got a governor on the ballot. We have a
- 2:23Speaker 2: senator on the ballot in addition to my race. So
- 2:25Speaker 2: not only do we have a chance to kick out
- 2:27Speaker 2: left US Greg Landsman here locally, but across the state,
- 2:30Speaker 2: we have a chance to really set policy here for
- 2:32Speaker 2: the next decade. So we need everyone to come and
- 2:34Speaker 2: turn out if they can.
- 2:36Speaker 1: Indeed, and you know, on the heels of the conversation
- 2:38Speaker 1: I had with brad Winstrip about the nefarious goings on
- 2:43Speaker 1: behind the scenes, you know, the the like labeling the
- 2:47Speaker 1: COVID nineteen is coming from a nature that was the
- 2:50Speaker 1: nefarious element of Fauci and the minions around him who
- 2:54Speaker 1: served that narrative. Going over to the baseball game, they
- 2:57Speaker 1: were the gunning down to Stevescalise. No, it wasn't suicide
- 3:01Speaker 1: by cop because he didn't even know there were cops there.
- 3:03Speaker 1: He was intentionally targeting members of Congress and then wanted
- 3:06Speaker 1: to kill them. It was a plot and they lied
- 3:09Speaker 1: about that. It was a whole group in the FBI
- 3:11Speaker 1: that were behind that nefarious conclusion. No suicide by cop.
- 3:15Speaker 1: So that's the kind of stuff at least this administration.
- 3:18Speaker 1: Say what you want about evil Orange Man. He's trying
- 3:20Speaker 1: to ferret it out. Get rid of that, and let's
- 3:22Speaker 1: bring back some respect and for the for the lettered
- 3:25Speaker 1: agencies we have, because right now they seem to be
- 3:27Speaker 1: weaponized against some segment of the American people.
- 3:30Speaker 2: Right well, I will say I think the tenor in
- 3:34Speaker 2: this country right now has been concerning over the last
- 3:36Speaker 2: couple Yes, yes, And I think really we need to
- 3:38Speaker 2: get back to the basics of governance. And as you
- 3:42Speaker 2: know from my background, I spent fourteen years in the
- 3:44Speaker 2: Air Force and the CIA and really just dedicated my
- 3:47Speaker 2: life to service, and I view this this journey as
- 3:50Speaker 2: that next chapter in a life of service. There's a
- 3:52Speaker 2: lot of local problems we need to handle and also
- 3:54Speaker 2: federal issues issues we need to handle too, and here locally,
- 3:58Speaker 2: I don't think the incumbent Great Landsman is addressing any
- 4:01Speaker 2: of those issues and really is anything but common sense. Right,
- 4:03Speaker 2: This is a guy who supports open borders, men and
- 4:07Speaker 2: women's sports, and voter for the largest tax increase in
- 4:10Speaker 2: American history. And this is not what's going to make
- 4:12Speaker 2: good policy and successful families here in Ohio.
- 4:16Speaker 1: Okay, well, let's go to open borders in eradicating ice
- 4:18Speaker 1: of if he's embraced those positions, because I want to
- 4:21Speaker 1: put it up put that in the context of the primary.
- 4:24Speaker 1: You won overwhelmingly in the primary, with seventy percent of
- 4:27Speaker 1: the Republican's going with you, Eric Conroy. That's great. Now,
- 4:30Speaker 1: over on the Democratic side, they had a primary. Greg
- 4:33Speaker 1: Landsman won, but his margins a lot slimmer.
- 4:36Speaker 2: You know, we look at the Democrats right now and
- 4:38Speaker 2: their approval rating of their own party is lower than
- 4:40Speaker 2: ours as Republicans. Right, I think it shows that they're
- 4:43Speaker 2: without leadership, they're without ideas, and they're really a rudderless
- 4:47Speaker 2: ship in the night without much guidance in the ocean.
- 4:50Speaker 2: And if you see the primary results from the Democratic side,
- 4:53Speaker 2: Damon Lynch without hardly spending any money, took almost thirty
- 4:57Speaker 2: five percent of the vote. That's wild. It's an incumbent
- 5:01Speaker 2: Democratic congressman. I think it really just goes to show
- 5:04Speaker 2: the division not only nationwide but also here locally. And
- 5:07Speaker 2: I think it also gives us on Avenue that people
- 5:10Speaker 2: are looking for sensibility, right, They're looking for maturity, and
- 5:14Speaker 2: they're looking for someone to bring real, practical solutions to
- 5:18Speaker 2: problems here in southwest Ohio. And I hope to do
- 5:21Speaker 2: that well.
- 5:21Speaker 1: I guess before I ask you a question about Greg Lansman,
- 5:25Speaker 1: do you promise to as a campaign pledge to be
- 5:28Speaker 1: relentless in pursuit of fraud, waste, and abuse of American
- 5:32Speaker 1: taxpayer dollars?
- 5:33Speaker 2: Eric Conroy Absolutely, Brian, And you know, as I mentioned
- 5:36Speaker 2: my fourteen years in the federal government, there are plenty
- 5:38Speaker 2: of ways to get more efficient and save those taxpayer dollars.
- 5:42Speaker 2: I saw it. I worked at the Pentagon, and you know,
- 5:44Speaker 2: military policy is important and it protects our not just
- 5:48Speaker 2: our security interests, but our economic interests as well. But
- 5:50Speaker 2: it doesn't mean we can't get more efficient and save
- 5:53Speaker 2: the tax payer money. You know, we're not in the
- 5:55Speaker 2: same economic situation as a country that we were thirty
- 5:58Speaker 2: and forty years ago, and we have to get smarter
- 6:01Speaker 2: about how we spend tax payer money. And I think
- 6:04Speaker 2: part of that is holding people accountable, but also modernizing
- 6:07Speaker 2: some of these agencies so that we are more mature
- 6:11Speaker 2: and responsible with people's money. Well, they deserve that.
- 6:13Speaker 1: It's almost as if you know, JD. Vans and those
- 6:15Speaker 1: folks that are currently working on fraud just recently discovered
- 6:19Speaker 1: that computers exist. I mean when you see I mean,
- 6:21Speaker 1: just talk about a red flag, a seven one hundred
- 6:25Speaker 1: percent increase in a particular medical cover of claims being
- 6:29Speaker 1: made under that I think it was the Medicare program
- 6:32Speaker 1: that's got to be just immediately flagged and pushed out,
- 6:34Speaker 1: something's wrong here, something is going on. It turns out
- 6:37Speaker 1: it was fraud. Wow, shocking that we could jump that
- 6:40Speaker 1: much in a couple of three years. And they but
- 6:43Speaker 1: only because they went out and actively started looking for it.
- 6:46Speaker 1: That's something you could build into the system to flagging
- 6:49Speaker 1: it automatic with computers.
- 6:51Speaker 2: And Look, the government is not a for profit business,
- 6:54Speaker 2: right and it doesn't have the urgency or the detail
- 6:58Speaker 2: of a for profit business, and we need to start
- 7:00Speaker 2: reinstalling that urgency and that accountability and accountability in these bureaucracies,
- 7:05Speaker 2: because it's your money, Brian, and it's the people's money.
- 7:08Speaker 2: And if we start increasing that accountability in that urgency,
- 7:11Speaker 2: and maybe that means modernizing them a little bit to
- 7:14Speaker 2: make sure that they can actually track records and claims
- 7:17Speaker 2: more efficiently than we should do that.
- 7:19Speaker 1: Yeah, And isn't it odd that the vast majority of
- 7:21Speaker 1: states refusing to comply with records requests from the federal
- 7:25Speaker 1: government seeking to make sure that people who are not
- 7:27Speaker 1: eligible to vote Democrats. Why it's because, going back to
- 7:32Speaker 1: the fraud waste abuse of American tax payer money, the
- 7:35Speaker 1: money comes from people of all political stripes. If you
- 7:38Speaker 1: got a job, you're paying. So everybody should be pissed
- 7:40Speaker 1: off about that. But everybody should also be pissed off
- 7:43Speaker 1: about the integrity of the election, because you know, if
- 7:45Speaker 1: someone can vote who's not eligible to vote, I don't
- 7:47Speaker 1: care if it's one person they found a mechanism to
- 7:50Speaker 1: vote illegally, So why not plug that hole. That's all
- 7:54Speaker 1: that's going on. It's not disenfranchising anyone, But they stand
- 7:58Speaker 1: there and they cling to these nuts on sensical arguments
- 8:01Speaker 1: like it's racist or something. No, the federal law says
- 8:04Speaker 1: you need to be a US citizen to vote in
- 8:06Speaker 1: federal elections. It's the law of the land. This is
- 8:08Speaker 1: a way of enforcing the law of the land. Let
- 8:10Speaker 1: me see what your documents say about who's registered to vote.
- 8:13Speaker 1: We've got all the cross reference we can do. It's
- 8:16Speaker 1: not going to harm anyone. It'll benefit society, no, say
- 8:19Speaker 1: the Democrats.
- 8:21Speaker 2: Yeah, and you have to show ID for just about anything,
- 8:23Speaker 2: Elsey thing in our society, in our life. Right. And
- 8:26Speaker 2: the last sat I saw is over eighty percent of
- 8:29Speaker 2: Americans agree with showing.
- 8:31Speaker 1: ID to vote.
- 8:32Speaker 2: Yes, sir, So this is not even a partisan issue.
- 8:34Speaker 2: This is a bipartisan issue. And you're right, Brian. If
- 8:37Speaker 2: we want the integrity of our election system upheld, we
- 8:40Speaker 2: need to have voter ID.
- 8:42Speaker 1: Yeah. And you know it's one of those questions thought questions.
- 8:45Speaker 1: Why would the Democrats be against something that is merely
- 8:49Speaker 1: designed to ensure that people who cannot vote don't Huh?
- 8:53Speaker 1: Why are they against that? Eight fifteen right? Now more
- 8:55Speaker 1: with Ericconroy Ericconroy dot com. Help them out and get
- 8:59Speaker 1: the word out. Got to get this man elected in November.
- 9:01Speaker 1: I'm going to ask him the question about the going
- 9:03Speaker 1: back to the primary and Greg Landsman take nineteen right
- 9:07Speaker 1: now if you have KC detalk station Ericconroy dot com,
- 9:13Speaker 1: we'll talk about the first district. Greg Lansman is in
- 9:15Speaker 1: the role, and we need to get somebody better than
- 9:16Speaker 1: Greg lands We need a Republican in there. We need
- 9:18Speaker 1: someone who's not as far left as as Greg Landsman.
- 9:20Speaker 1: Someone's going a demonstrable job for all Americans looking out
- 9:23Speaker 1: for the bottom line, looking out for fraud, waste and abuse,
- 9:26Speaker 1: understanding the risks and issues that this country faces. And
- 9:29Speaker 1: Eric Conroy's got a lot of good experience, having worked
- 9:32Speaker 1: in US Air Force as well as his time with
- 9:34Speaker 1: the CIA. He knows where a lot of the skeletons
- 9:37Speaker 1: are buried and where to ferret out some of the
- 9:38Speaker 1: problems that he knows about. But before we talk about
- 9:41Speaker 1: where you want to go as an elected official, Eric
- 9:44Speaker 1: I got to double back on the primary outcome with
- 9:46Speaker 1: Lansman not having nearly as much support among his Democrat
- 9:50Speaker 1: cohorts as name of Lynch. But what about now, because
- 9:56Speaker 1: the Democrats seem to be in this sort of challenge
- 9:59Speaker 1: on where they're party is going to go. You go
- 10:01Speaker 1: back to the socialists, the communists that were elected in
- 10:04Speaker 1: New York City and elsewhere in this country. They're electing
- 10:07Speaker 1: really hardcore leftists, people who want to end borders, people
- 10:12Speaker 1: who want to get rid of ice, people who want
- 10:17Speaker 1: to have actually even transform our government. You can't swear
- 10:22Speaker 1: a note to up hold the Constitution United State of
- 10:24Speaker 1: America if one of your DSA talking points is having
- 10:27Speaker 1: Congress elected senators and elect the president itself. I mean
- 10:31Speaker 1: that is, you have to amend the constitution or outright
- 10:34Speaker 1: throw it out. So that's a stumbling block. But more
- 10:36Speaker 1: and more of them are embracing this heavy, heavy taxation,
- 10:40Speaker 1: wealth redistribution, you know, rent controls. It's just I feel
- 10:45Speaker 1: like I'm hearing a speech from Chairman Mao or something.
- 10:48Speaker 2: Like it's right out of the poll up Bureau.
- 10:50Speaker 1: It is.
- 10:51Speaker 2: It is, And you know, this is what happens when
- 10:53Speaker 2: we entertain the far left in our political system right.
- 10:56Speaker 2: And you know, to me, it's also a larger, a
- 10:59Speaker 2: larger cultural move to right. I feel like a lot
- 11:02Speaker 2: of the younger generation has understood that the economic situation
- 11:06Speaker 2: is not the economy of their parents, and they either say, hey,
- 11:09Speaker 2: the solution of this is to move to the far
- 11:12Speaker 2: left and be socialists and communists, but the solution to
- 11:14Speaker 2: it is moved to the right and be capitalists. And
- 11:17Speaker 2: I think we're seeing that bigger split nationwide in terms
- 11:21Speaker 2: of a young generation understand that there's an issue and
- 11:24Speaker 2: how they solve it with solutions they look to solve it.
- 11:27Speaker 2: So I think it's on us as Republicans, yeah, to
- 11:29Speaker 2: really pitch those practical solutions like we saw with the
- 11:31Speaker 2: Big Beautiful bill, no taxes on tips, no taxes on overtime,
- 11:36Speaker 2: using pel grants for trade schools. These are terrific practical
- 11:39Speaker 2: solutions that we're proposing in the Republican Party to solve
- 11:43Speaker 2: a lot of these economic and affordability issues for our youth,
- 11:45Speaker 2: to hopefully get them away from some of these wild
- 11:48Speaker 2: ideas on the left.
- 11:49Speaker 1: And such easy talking points. You know, someone's got to
- 11:52Speaker 1: generate the income. Someone's got to generate income that's got
- 11:55Speaker 1: to be taxable so that they can take it and
- 11:57Speaker 1: put it into whatever they want. They being the government
- 12:00Speaker 1: and socialists don't really seem to realize that if you
- 12:03Speaker 1: don't provide the incentive of making money and building something
- 12:07Speaker 1: better and becoming wealthier and perhaps maybe wealthier than your neighbor.
- 12:11Speaker 1: It's an incentive to work hard. If you take away that,
- 12:13Speaker 1: you take away the work incentive, and the whole thing
- 12:14Speaker 1: collapses on itself. And you don't have to study history
- 12:17Speaker 1: for this. Even though there are multitudes of examples of
- 12:19Speaker 1: collapsed and failed economies thanks to socialism, Venezuela was one
- 12:23Speaker 1: of them before we decapitated them. I don't know what's
- 12:25Speaker 1: going to happen to them now, but look here within
- 12:27Speaker 1: the United States of America. What happened. People woke up
- 12:30Speaker 1: and realized they can remote work. So they're not stuck
- 12:32Speaker 1: in California, they're not stuck in Chicago, they're not stuck
- 12:35Speaker 1: in New York City. They packed up in mass quantities
- 12:38Speaker 1: and move where two more capitalists, regulation free, lower taxation states.
- 12:45Speaker 1: That's where business makes money, and that's what generates the revenue.
- 12:48Speaker 1: So you know what, there's your illustration right now. What
- 12:51Speaker 1: do people want? What are the real generators of revenue want?
- 12:53Speaker 1: What are the real producers of jobs want? They want
- 12:56Speaker 1: lower taxes and lower regulations, and it's a bit of
- 12:58Speaker 1: more freedom.
- 13:00Speaker 2: And this is why these midterms are so critical. Right,
- 13:04Speaker 2: we win these midterms, we keep the House, we keep
- 13:07Speaker 2: Senator Houston in office, and we elect Vivek as governor,
- 13:10Speaker 2: and then we have a presidential cycle in twenty eight
- 13:12Speaker 2: where we have a deep bench of candidates on the
- 13:14Speaker 2: Republican side and there's virtually none on the Democratic side.
- 13:17Speaker 1: That's true.
- 13:18Speaker 2: And even looking out further, and Speaker Johnson mentioned this
- 13:21Speaker 2: in his remarks when he was in town a few
- 13:23Speaker 2: weeks ago, then we get to a new census data
- 13:26Speaker 2: redraw after the next presidential and we're going to find
- 13:29Speaker 2: that people are actually moving to red states and we're
- 13:32Speaker 2: going to get more house seats in those states.
- 13:34Speaker 1: That's in a student observation.
- 13:35Speaker 2: And now we're having now we're talking about a ten
- 13:38Speaker 2: year plan. But right now, the bridge is winning these
- 13:41Speaker 2: mid terms, is it's staving off the Democratic Party, right
- 13:44Speaker 2: And as long as we win these midterms, I think
- 13:47Speaker 2: the world is our oyster as a Republicans, and we
- 13:49Speaker 2: can really push those practical solutions that we need.
- 13:51Speaker 1: And I truly believe unless you can come up with
- 13:53Speaker 1: something different, the Democrats are running purely on TDS anti Trump.
- 13:58Speaker 1: This is all they've got. If you vote for Eric Conroy,
- 14:00Speaker 1: you're voting for evil Orange man. That certainly is not
- 14:03Speaker 1: the case, but that's the platform they run on.
- 14:05Speaker 2: It's because they have no plans, no plans, they have
- 14:08Speaker 2: no ideas to actually propose to solve problems. And what
- 14:11Speaker 2: my race is about is this is a referendum on
- 14:13Speaker 2: a far left, out of touch failed congressman and Greg Landsman.
- 14:17Speaker 2: And does this community wants someone who actually represents the
- 14:21Speaker 2: values of this district or someone who's using a Southwest
- 14:24Speaker 2: Ohio's seat to push those leftist ideas from California?
- 14:28Speaker 1: Has he gone full on far left woke from your perspective,
- 14:31Speaker 1: because he's got a challenge on his hands. He doesn't
- 14:33Speaker 1: alienate his own Democrats and maybe keep them on the
- 14:36Speaker 1: couch rather than going out and vote.
- 14:37Speaker 2: What Greg Lin's to do is he campaigns as a
- 14:40Speaker 2: moderate back here in the district, but then he votes
- 14:42Speaker 2: as a leftist in DC. If you really start looking
- 14:44Speaker 2: at those votes that he's taking in DC, they're getting
- 14:48Speaker 2: pretty far to the left, certainly far too left for
- 14:50Speaker 2: this district.
- 14:51Speaker 1: Okay, So he's a perhaps Democrat, so wolf and chiefs clothing.
- 14:56Speaker 1: He's embraced the DSA wing of the party, but he
- 14:59Speaker 1: just doesn't say it or it out loud proudly like
- 15:01Speaker 1: someone like zoron Mondami.
- 15:03Speaker 2: He's deceiving this to shirk when he campaigns as a
- 15:05Speaker 2: moderate and then goes to DC and votes as a leftist.
- 15:09Speaker 1: Eric Conroy, this has been great. We should make this
- 15:11Speaker 1: a regular thing.
- 15:11Speaker 2: I would love that.
- 15:12Speaker 1: I think Joe It might even talk to you about that.
- 15:14Speaker 1: So we'll bring Eric Conroy back, maybe regularly from here
- 15:17Speaker 1: to to the election in November. Ericconroy dot com help
- 15:21Speaker 1: him out, meet him. I'm sure he'll be all over
- 15:23Speaker 1: the place in town between now and November. And Eric,
- 15:25Speaker 1: you got an open spot here in the fifty five
- 15:27Speaker 1: Carceay Morning Show, my friend. Hope you have a wonderful weekend.
- 15:29Speaker 2: Hey Brian, good to see you and thanks for having
- 15:31Speaker 2: me as usual, my distinct pleasure.