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Rep Robert Sharrah · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Hey, we are back, second half of the Wednesday edition
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  Speaker 1: to the Power Hour on six to ten WUTV and
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  Speaker 1: a two one nine eight eighty six the number eight
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  Speaker 1: two one WTV and a guest in studio. The new head,
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  Speaker 1: the new leader, the new mover, the new shaker in
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  Speaker 1: the Franklin County Republican Party, and lord knows we needed it.
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  Speaker 1: Robert Schera is in studio right now and you need
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  Speaker 1: to pull that over there so everybody can hear you speak,
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  Speaker 1: speak clearly. Perhaps you'll get some endorsement work out of
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  Speaker 1: this awesome. Thank you so much for having me, Thank
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  Speaker 1: you for coming in, and congratulations. I don't even know.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know the transition had happened. How long have
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  Speaker 1: you been? What is your official title?
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  Speaker 2: Chair? I am the chair of the Executive Committee for
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  Speaker 2: Franklin County.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. You are? You are? Your outlook is hopeful. You
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  Speaker 1: are being very positive, You're being proactive. I saw you
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  Speaker 1: at a a door knock event in Hilliard a couple
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  Speaker 1: of weeks ago, and I was so pleased to hear
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  Speaker 1: you talking about we're going to back these candidates with
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  Speaker 1: door knocking and with literature, and yes, financially and I thought, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: Saints be praised, How long has it been since I've
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  Speaker 1: heard that? Who? I mean, do you have pictures of somebody? How?
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  Speaker 1: How did you get this ball rolling?
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  Speaker 2: Man? So I actually have been the treasurer for the
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  Speaker 2: county party the last two years prior to this, and
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  Speaker 2: our chairwoman decided not to rerun for different reasons and
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  Speaker 2: asked me if I'd be willing to step up for it,
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  Speaker 2: and I thought, what the hell, Let's give it a
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  Speaker 2: shot and see what we can do, because I really
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  Speaker 2: do believe in Franklin County and I think there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of ground we can make up for. And I
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  Speaker 2: were critical in the state of Ohio. So it's too
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  Speaker 2: important of a county to just give up.
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  Speaker 1: In Kyahoga and Hamilton are kind of write offs honestly
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  Speaker 1: at this point, unless something big happens that Franklin County
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  Speaker 1: is still there's a potential battleground here. And it just
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  Speaker 1: felt like for so long, for the last two decades,
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  Speaker 1: we just gave up. We just surrendered and said, eh,
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  Speaker 1: we can't do anything.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, we went through a lot of some unfortunate
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  Speaker 2: shoes here in Franklin County. Had to get our parties
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  Speaker 2: straight had to get some individuals out and you know,
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  Speaker 2: clean up our books, and we did all that and
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  Speaker 2: we're back now. You know, we're fundraising hard. You know
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  Speaker 2: the I've been in this role for three months and
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  Speaker 2: the you know, first night when I took over, I
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  Speaker 2: you know, obviously knew the finances, and I promise everybody
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  Speaker 2: we're going to double the budget for our slate cards
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  Speaker 2: this this term. They work. That's what we can do
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  Speaker 2: as a county party that is most effective to help
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  Speaker 2: support our candidates. We've got great candidates out there this
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  Speaker 2: year that match the districts that they're running in. They
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  Speaker 2: believe in what they're doing and we want to support them.
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  Speaker 2: So first thing we did is say we're going to
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  Speaker 2: double the budget. We're gonna double the amount of slate
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  Speaker 2: cards we're going to get out there. We're going to
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  Speaker 2: get them out of there in the hands of people.
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  Speaker 2: Prior to early voting this year.
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  Speaker 1: Has there been any change over in other rules? I
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  Speaker 1: mean the people, let's say, the the recruitment people that
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  Speaker 1: are going out because young people is something else we
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  Speaker 1: have been missing for a long time. Those wonderful young
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  Speaker 1: hearts will stand outside the polling place and hand out
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  Speaker 1: the cards. The other side always has them. Yeah, we
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  Speaker 1: usually have some guy that looks like a World War
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  Speaker 1: two vet. Would you take this piece of paper from me?
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  Speaker 1: We got to get some young folks in there, absolutely, so.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I am forty years old myself, so I
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  Speaker 2: like to think that I'm still on the younger side.
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  Speaker 2: Bite them a baby here. So you know, we're bringing
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  Speaker 2: a lot of energy. We've got some new faces as
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  Speaker 2: officers of the party. We've got a lot of good,
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  Speaker 2: brand new first time Central Committee members that got excited,
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  Speaker 2: that wanted to vote that are you know, willing to
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  Speaker 2: get out there and do the work? You know, that's
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  Speaker 2: the one thing I ask of all Central Committee members.
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  Speaker 2: If you're gonna go out and pull about and get elected,
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  Speaker 2: then you need to show up and you need to
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  Speaker 2: s wore our candidates.
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  Speaker 1: Is there an actual written policy set of rules and
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  Speaker 1: expectations for Central Committee members, because that's another gripe I've
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  Speaker 1: had for a very long time. Sure.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So I have been going through our bylaws and
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  Speaker 2: reviewing them and taking a lot of advice from I've
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  Speaker 2: never talked to so many lawyers in my life since
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  Speaker 2: taking on this. But yeah, so our by laws do
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  Speaker 2: have guidelines. We are looking for, you know, just basic
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  Speaker 2: changes to them. We're gonna, you know, tackle I get
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  Speaker 2: through this election, and then we want to tackle a
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  Speaker 2: few things in our by laws. And that's definitely one
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  Speaker 2: of the area's requirements for our central commander.
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  Speaker 1: I've never met mine. Yeah, I mean ran against me.
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  Speaker 1: That's what got people go it's sour grapes, because what
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  Speaker 1: is is I don't care it happened. I ran, I lost,
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  Speaker 1: he won, but never seen him, never heard from him,
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  Speaker 1: never a mailer, never a knock on the door. During
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  Speaker 1: the last two campaigns. He didn't even have a yard
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  Speaker 1: sign in his yard. I'm like that that's what you
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  Speaker 1: wanted over me. Really, I think the central committee members,
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  Speaker 1: I mean that's your your neighborhood liaison, if you will.
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  Speaker 1: They ought to be the flag bearer, They ought to
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  Speaker 1: be the one out there for your community, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Leading the charge. They should be the first ones picking
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  Speaker 2: up the phones calling our candidates that are running in
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  Speaker 2: their districts. You know, they they need to you know, uh,
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  Speaker 2: that's that's unfortunately not uncommon. A lot of people can't
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  Speaker 2: tell you who their central committee member is or if
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  Speaker 2: they even have one. So we've been working very hard
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  Speaker 2: with the y r S. I'm working with a lot
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  Speaker 2: of We got a new political director, young man Jordy.
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  Speaker 2: He's a great guy. He's in contact with a lot
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  Speaker 2: of the younger Republicans and he's helping us bring them in,
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  Speaker 2: bring them part of the fold.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not going to be doing this job
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  Speaker 2: forever and I want to you know, a big part
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  Speaker 2: of what I want to do is bring up that
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  Speaker 2: next generation.
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  Speaker 1: And did young young Republicans just had a change over
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  Speaker 1: in their leadership? What two nights ago they announced? Yet? Nice?
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  Speaker 2: They go Jacob, he got it. And he's going to
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  Speaker 2: come and be my guest at our Slate card dinner
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  Speaker 2: next month, and we're going to have him up there
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  Speaker 2: to kind of speak to Franklin County and tell us
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  Speaker 2: what they're working on and what we can do to
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  Speaker 2: work together and support them. You know, that's a statewide organize.
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  Speaker 2: They can help us. You know, we have the largest
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  Speaker 2: university in the state of Ohio is in my backyard,
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  Speaker 2: and there's tons of Republican students out there that are
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  Speaker 2: looking to get involved. And you know, if you're listening,
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  Speaker 2: please call our office. You know, contact us on Facebook. However,
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  Speaker 2: we're looking for people that want to get involved. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's not just money, it's time, it's passion, it's
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  Speaker 2: skill set, whatever you can do, you know, the a
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  Speaker 2: couple of minutes a week or a couple hours phone banks, anything.
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  Speaker 2: We're always open, you know, and looking for people to
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  Speaker 2: get involved and you know, maybe we can convince you
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  Speaker 2: to come and run in our county sometimes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well yeah, and you mentioned Central Committee seats. If
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  Speaker 1: you have a member, how does the Central Committee look
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  Speaker 1: because we had I want to say last time I
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  Speaker 1: looked eighty some unfilled seats on the Franklin County Central Committee.
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  Speaker 1: Is has that improved?
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  Speaker 2: It has improved, so we had they got re elected
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  Speaker 2: at the midterm. We have about forty five vacant seats
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  Speaker 2: right now. I've been working the last three months to
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  Speaker 2: find individuals. We formed a committee to go out and
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  Speaker 2: interview because one of the things that we can do
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  Speaker 2: is we can appoint. So we have found six individuals
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  Speaker 2: that will be presented at our Central Committee meeting next
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  Speaker 2: month that have interviewed and screened with the committee, and
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  Speaker 2: I've met with personally that are they are ready, They're eager.
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  Speaker 2: They're fired up, you know, to get involved and do things.
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  Speaker 2: So we're going to appoint them and we'll be we'll
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  Speaker 2: be back up to about one hundred and thirty seats filled.
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  Speaker 1: That's great, that's great, And that's one of the reasons
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  Speaker 1: I guess I wanted you in here tonight was so
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  Speaker 1: that people knew there was some for momentum here. Oh absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: there has not been. And I under there are people
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  Speaker 1: who said, I'm not going to go down. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: gonna you know, don't want to be on Central Committee.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody does anything anyway. I've talked to many people over
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  Speaker 1: the last few years that you say, you know what
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  Speaker 1: you need to run, you could do this. No, not
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  Speaker 1: running as a Republican. They're too unorganized, they don't back
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  Speaker 1: anybody that I believe. With you involved here, a new
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  Speaker 1: era is beginning, and I just I wanted people to
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  Speaker 1: know that, you know, maybe it's time to pay attention again.
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  Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, it's it's we are. We are vital to
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  Speaker 2: the state of Ohio. You know, I've you know, my
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  Speaker 2: account my accounting nerdy side is going to come out
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  Speaker 2: here a little bit. But you know, I was running
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  Speaker 2: the numbers and looking at them when I was looking
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  Speaker 2: at doing this. And in Franklin County, not only are
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  Speaker 2: we the largest county, we have more Republican votes for
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  Speaker 2: our statewide than the twenty four smallest counties in Ohio.
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  Speaker 2: So if we don't deliver thirty five percent or higher
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  Speaker 2: in Franklin County for Republican turnout, every county has to
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  Speaker 2: go up by one percent, and it takes if we
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  Speaker 2: go down by five percent, it will take six sixty
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  Speaker 2: four of the smallest counties to offer set that loss.
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  Speaker 2: So we are critical to our state wise, to our Senator.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we know that, Yes, it's hard to be
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  Speaker 2: a Republican in Franklin County, but you know we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna turn this back to a purple county. And
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  Speaker 2: it's absolutely possible to do that because you know, the
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  Speaker 2: Democrats have their problems too, And you know, I always
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  Speaker 2: say there's two Democratic parties in Franklin County. You've got
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  Speaker 2: the mayor and city council and and they seem to
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  Speaker 2: be running and they want to be the next New
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  Speaker 2: York in Chicago style, just crazy off off the reservation type,
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  Speaker 2: you know. And and I have to believe that people
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  Speaker 2: are getting tired of that and the games that they're playing,
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  Speaker 2: you know. But there are good Democrats out there that
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  Speaker 2: can work with us. You know. The Michael Stinciano has
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  Speaker 2: always been a fair level minded individual that they absolutely
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  Speaker 2: and he you know, he will work with you. And
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  Speaker 2: they're out there, you know, And that's what people have
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  Speaker 2: to understand. Franklin County is a different county than other counties.
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  Speaker 2: You know. We are a mixed we're not the far right.
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  Speaker 2: We can't run far right candidates in Franklin County.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm glad. I'm glad you said purple, because that's
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  Speaker 1: all I think any reasonable person is asking for shared
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  Speaker 1: responsibility and authority in the governance of what's going on
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  Speaker 1: around us. You know. It's just it's ridiculous that everything
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  Speaker 1: is Democrat in this county. Oh yeah, it's ridiculous. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying I want to, you know, Democrats under
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  Speaker 1: seage and Republicans running everything, but we need to have
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  Speaker 1: some seats at the table so we can exchange ideas
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  Speaker 1: and come to conclusions. And if that means banging your
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  Speaker 1: fist and late night meetings, that's how this country was founded.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we're supposed to do.
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  Speaker 2: We can't be part of the change if we don't
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  Speaker 2: get a seat at the table. You know, City council.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Columbus City Council right now is scrambling because
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  Speaker 2: there's a ballot initiative to go back to the traditional
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  Speaker 2: ward system, and there's a group that got it on
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  Speaker 2: the ballot and they're not negotiating with city Council. They
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  Speaker 2: want to go back to the at large. So City
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  Speaker 2: Council has until I believe Monday next week to get
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  Speaker 2: their own initiative on the ballot.
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  Speaker 1: If the simple solution, and I said this on the
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  Speaker 1: air two nights ago, I think it was, we already
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  Speaker 1: have divisions in the City of Columbus for the creation
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  Speaker 1: of these useless, pointless toothless area commissions. There are your
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  Speaker 1: wards right there, yep. One representative from each one of those,
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  Speaker 1: one from the downtown area to serve the special interests
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  Speaker 1: of the Columbus Partnership and all that crap, and bring
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  Speaker 1: those to the table. There are your wards. That's the
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  Speaker 1: place to start. It's the easiest possible way to do it.
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  Speaker 1: But they're going to fight it because having somebody in
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  Speaker 1: the neighborhood fighting for the neighborhood is something that's completely
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  Speaker 1: unacceptable to ninety West Broad Street.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, you know it's crazy, right. I
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  Speaker 2: met with some of the group leaders that are leading
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  Speaker 2: this initiative right now to and got it on the ballot,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, ninety percent of the issues they would
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  Speaker 2: not be in line with the Republicans at all on.
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  Speaker 2: But they understand, you know, and we understand together. You
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  Speaker 2: know that's Hey, this is a very one sided, corrupt
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  Speaker 2: system and we need to work together to change it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, award system will work in the City of Columbus.
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  Speaker 1: We will.
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  Speaker 2: That's the only way that we're going to represent the
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  Speaker 2: people of Columbus is by award system. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: as soon as the city councilman, you know, saw it,
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  Speaker 2: they immediately wanted to add in all these at large seats.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what they're going to try to do. And
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna do We're gonna fight them, We're going to
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  Speaker 2: do what we can. Uh. You know, it's I believe
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  Speaker 2: balot issue for for us is going to be the
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  Speaker 2: the award system. But you know, city council is going
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  Speaker 2: to try to get a fifth one on and if
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  Speaker 2: they're both on there, then whichever one gets the most
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  Speaker 2: votes wins. So you know, it's uh, it's playing politics
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  Speaker 2: and it's playing games, you know, and it doesn't serve anybody.
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  Speaker 2: It's we're just serving special interest groups. And to be
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  Speaker 2: honest with you, you know, I I long for the
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  Speaker 2: days of the you know, Greg Lasheka, the even Michael Coleman,
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  Speaker 2: when Columbus was a better place. You know, I used
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  Speaker 2: to live down now and I used to walk around downtown.
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  Speaker 2: I used to at night and all that, and I
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  Speaker 2: missed those days. You know, I am not going to
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  Speaker 2: do that now. And that should be the number one
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  Speaker 2: priority for city council needs to be taking care of
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  Speaker 2: the citizens, making sure that we're safe.
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  Speaker 1: Amen. Robert Share is Franklin County GOP breath of life.
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  Speaker 1: And I am so happy we're out of time. But
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  Speaker 1: I just website. Can people? Is there a new revamped website.
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  Speaker 2: Where we are working on the new website and all that.
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  Speaker 2: We're like everybody right, we're on Facebook, social media and
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  Speaker 2: all that stuff. I don't know it off the top
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  Speaker 2: of my head. I did it all together and put
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  Speaker 2: it up. Yeah, please do that. And like I said,
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  Speaker 2: you know, if you have ideas. If you have frustrations,
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  Speaker 2: if you want to reach out, you know we have.
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  Speaker 2: Jordi is in the office twice a week. We're manning
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  Speaker 2: the phones constantly. We are a larger team now than
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  Speaker 2: we've ever been. We heard you, guys, when when you
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  Speaker 2: told us we need candidates. We filled as many candidates
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  Speaker 2: every house, every Senate district. This time is full and
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  Speaker 2: we've got great candidates. So I encourage all of you
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  Speaker 2: to look at them and be on the lookout for
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  Speaker 2: your slight card.
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  Speaker 1: All right, music's play in time for Me to Fly.
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  Speaker 1: Fly back with Blazer tomorrow with three on six to
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  Speaker 1: ten w TV and