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More With State Senate Candidate Denise D'angelo · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Chuck Douglas and the Power Hour 610 WTV and Denise
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  Speaker 1: D'Angelo in studio with me tonight. I'm trying my best
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  Speaker 1: to bring you, especially Central Ohio candidates and those candidates
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  Speaker 1: that many of us have not talked to, heard of,
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  Speaker 1: seen anything about before. Because it's important that I get
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  Speaker 1: you to the polls. Even if you don't vote my way,
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  Speaker 1: I need you to get to the polls. You can't
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  Speaker 1: be silent this November. You cannot be silent. This is
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  Speaker 1: a very, very important midterm election. And quite frankly, if
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  Speaker 1: you don't get off your sofa and cast a vote,
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  Speaker 1: you need to just shut up. Because if you don't participate,
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  Speaker 1: you've got no you've got no right to gripe about things.
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  Speaker 1: And and I just I want people informed. I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to meet the candidates. That's why you're here tonight. Those
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  Speaker 1: who would like to meet you. That's that's an important thing.
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  Speaker 1: Face to face. Seeing you look somebody in the eye
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  Speaker 1: and answer a question is one of the best ways
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  Speaker 1: to evaluate a candidate as far as I'm concerned. You
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  Speaker 1: have any events coming up here in the next week
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  Speaker 1: or so where people can come out and see who
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  Speaker 1: you are?
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  Speaker 2: We have some. We have some. Thank you again. And
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  Speaker 2: thank you for talking about getting out to vote. That's
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  Speaker 2: going to be huge. If there is one thing I
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  Speaker 2: want to accomplish this evening, it was talking about getting
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  Speaker 2: out to vote. That's it's huge. We need to do that.
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  Speaker 2: If you're not registered to vote, get registered to vote.
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  Speaker 2: You have until October 5th to do that. We're. We need.
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  Speaker 2: We need to make that change. It's not going to
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  Speaker 2: happen unless we vote.
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  Speaker 1: And educate yourself. That's educate and vote because stupid people
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't vote. If you don't know what you're voting for, seriously,
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  Speaker 1: don't go in. Educate yourself and then go cast your vote.
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  Speaker 2: Educate. And you can educate yourself on my website. My
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  Speaker 2: website is denisedangelo.com. Pretty easy to remember. Denise D'Angelo. It's D-A-N-G-E-L-O.com.
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  Speaker 2: And you can also email me at denise at denisedangelo.com.
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  Speaker 2: Pretty simple. I'm on Facebook. You can find my next
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  Speaker 2: events on there. It's D'Angelo for Ohio on Facebook. I'm
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  Speaker 2: in that age range where I should know to be
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  Speaker 2: honest about social media, but social media isn't my go-to.
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  Speaker 2: I don't go to social media for facts and figures
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  Speaker 2: and ideas. You know, Facebook is a way to connect
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  Speaker 2: with others. So, but a lot of folks like it,
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  Speaker 2: like that social media stuff. I do have a presence
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  Speaker 2: on there. D'Angelo for Ohio on there. And my next events,
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  Speaker 2: we have some door knocking events coming up again. Those
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  Speaker 2: will be posted on there and, You know, like you said,
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  Speaker 2: the best way to meet somebody is face to face.
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  Speaker 2: So do I have any events where you can, you know,
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  Speaker 2: pop in and grab a soda and some chips? Not necessarily.
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  Speaker 2: Most of my events, most of my things having coming
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  Speaker 2: up is getting to your doorstep. So that's my next
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  Speaker 2: thing between now and November 3rd.
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  Speaker 1: When you're knocking on doors, do you have a list
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  Speaker 1: from like the GOP that says you got voters or
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  Speaker 1: you just knock on all the doors in the neighborhood?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. You know, there's, There's a couple different ways, a
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  Speaker 2: couple different theories of doing this. There's different ways. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: with technology now, there is a list that I've been
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  Speaker 2: given that really helps with that door knocking. You know,
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  Speaker 2: the last few years I've been knocking indoors, we have
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  Speaker 2: a clipboard and it gets wet when it rains and
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  Speaker 2: you lose it when you toss it in the car.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, now there's an app for that. There's an
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  Speaker 2: app for everything. And it's been very useful with the
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  Speaker 2: door knocking because it keeps you so you don't get
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  Speaker 2: lost when you're out looking down and walking around. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Two weekends ago, I had a great conversation with a
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  Speaker 1: Democrat that was knocking on doors. Didn't have a candidate
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  Speaker 1: with him. He was knocking on behalf of a candidate.
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  Speaker 1: And he walked by the house. And I said, how
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  Speaker 1: are you doing? He said, fine. I said, Democrat, huh?
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  Speaker 1: He goes, why? I said, because you're not coming to
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  Speaker 1: my house.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: He said, oh, yeah. So I engaged him in conversation.
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  Speaker 1: And I think I have him on the verge of converting.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. He's a young man, young black guy.
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  Speaker 1: And we talked for probably about 20 minutes.
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  Speaker 2: Oh. Isn't that wonderful?
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  Speaker 1: And I didn't force anything down. I just asked him questions,
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  Speaker 1: got him to be philosophical about some things. And he
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  Speaker 1: really seemed to be considering things. And again, a great conversation.
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  Speaker 1: When you're young, you're naturally leaning toward Democratic voting and
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  Speaker 1: being a liberal. And when you get a little bit older,
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  Speaker 1: you accumulate a few things and you'd actually like to
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  Speaker 1: keep them. You have a tendency to become more of
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  Speaker 1: a conservative. So he's right on the verge of that.
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  Speaker 1: But I, yeah, I'm like, you never know what you
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  Speaker 1: can do if you engage somebody who you don't think
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  Speaker 1: is on the same page.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. Which is why it's important to be out
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  Speaker 2: there and to be in the communities and to be
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  Speaker 2: on all the streets, to being available for everybody to
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  Speaker 2: come and talk to. It's important.
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  Speaker 1: Have you been surprised? Has anybody, have you talked to
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  Speaker 1: people in any area and they brought something to your
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  Speaker 1: attention that you didn't even think was an issue that,
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  Speaker 1: You said, wow, this is something I wasn't aware of.
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  Speaker 1: Now you feel like you've got to be on a
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  Speaker 1: mission to do something about it?
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  Speaker 2: That's a really great question.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: No, I feel like I've got a good beat on
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  Speaker 2: what's concerning folks right now and everything. When I was
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  Speaker 2: running for school board, it was my first time running
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  Speaker 2: for an elected position. And then I was shocked and
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  Speaker 2: I was learning things. When I knocked on doors and
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  Speaker 2: I learned that a school board member can actually you know,
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  Speaker 2: dictate your income taxes, right. For the, for the district
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  Speaker 2: and the community that was new for me. And that
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  Speaker 2: was interesting. And I went down and learned even more
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  Speaker 2: about that. So I'm, I'm hoping, I do hope that
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  Speaker 2: I do knock on a door and someone asked me
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  Speaker 2: a question that I, that not somebody has asked before,
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  Speaker 2: but as of yet, no, everyone's there's again, it's those,
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  Speaker 2: it's that it's the tax stuff. It's the taxes. It's
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  Speaker 2: the education. Those are big things. And it's the transparency piece, right?
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  Speaker 2: Where transparency, that word's used a lot. These days, right? Like,
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  Speaker 2: what does transparency mean to you? You do a great job.
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  Speaker 2: You have a radio station. You're very transparent. You're always
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  Speaker 2: giving out the information to everybody. But how do we
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  Speaker 2: be transparent at the next level?
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  Speaker 1: Ohio has been, since COVID, less than impressive as far
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  Speaker 1: as I'm concerned when it comes to the concept of
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  Speaker 1: freedom and liberty. I just, I feel like we really
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  Speaker 1: have become kind of a nanny state nation. And it
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  Speaker 1: bugs me. It bugs me a lot. And that includes
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  Speaker 1: our Republican governor. You know, Uncle Mikey seems to know
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  Speaker 1: what's best for all of us. And I just I
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  Speaker 1: don't I don't care for that. Where are we on
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  Speaker 1: the same page there? Do you feel like you're walking
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  Speaker 1: into someplace? I would be completely uncomfortable walking into a
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  Speaker 1: building with a group of people that really has allowed
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  Speaker 1: this to evolve to where it is now. I would
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  Speaker 1: have to have a little attitude when I walked in
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  Speaker 1: that building. Does it bother you or do you think
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  Speaker 1: things are relatively okay?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'm excited, I have to say. I'm really
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  Speaker 2: looking forward to being that new kid on the block, right,
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  Speaker 2: to walking in there. And I don't have the same
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  Speaker 2: outlook as everybody else does that would be there for
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  Speaker 2: longer than I have, obviously, right? I'm going to be
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  Speaker 2: the newbie. But, no, I'm not– I'm not worried when, again,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to go back to the school board again.
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  Speaker 2: When I was first on the school board, we were
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  Speaker 2: relatively new. We were new school board members. We had
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  Speaker 2: three new board members at the time. One was sworn
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  Speaker 2: in in December. Two of us came on in January.
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  Speaker 2: And the other two board members had only been on
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  Speaker 2: there for two years. We were new. And we even
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  Speaker 2: got a new superintendent for the first time in 17 years.
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  Speaker 2: We got a new superintendent within, was that like six
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  Speaker 2: to nine months after we were on the board? And
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what, we were thrown into the fire.
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  Speaker 2: We had a lot going on, and I think that
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  Speaker 2: that experience has prepared me as much as I can
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  Speaker 2: for this next experience. Did I want to come in
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  Speaker 2: as a new board member and flip tables and get
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  Speaker 2: stuff done and solve all the problems? Yeah, I did.
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  Speaker 2: Are we solving problems? Yeah, we are. We took cell
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  Speaker 2: phones out of our classes before it even became a law.
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  Speaker 2: That was huge. We're already seeing it in the scores
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  Speaker 2: in our report card, how well students are doing, the
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  Speaker 2: graduation rate, reading scores are up, all of those great things.
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  Speaker 2: But taking the experiences that I already have, so going
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  Speaker 2: to that next level, walking in there to the Statehouse
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  Speaker 2: in Columbus here in just a couple of months, it's
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  Speaker 2: going to be fun. I'm going to sit back, listen,
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  Speaker 2: and absorb and see what's happening and insert my own
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  Speaker 2: two cents here and there.
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  Speaker 1: Before we have to end here, I'm going to ask you,
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  Speaker 1: you used the phrase, so I'm going to use the phrase.
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  Speaker 1: And I want you to think of yourself from outside,
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  Speaker 1: somebody who sees you in action, who knows you well.
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  Speaker 1: When they think of you, are they going to think
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  Speaker 1: of a bridge builder or a table flipper?
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm a bridge builder. Definitely a bridge builder. You know, again,
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  Speaker 2: I'm an American, right? I'm an American through and through.
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  Speaker 2: And we have expectations and we want to see results, right?
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  Speaker 2: And unfortunately, the government, I don't want to downplay the government,
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  Speaker 2: but sometimes it moves at a snail's pace. Once you
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  Speaker 2: figure out that it, you know, I'm not a, three
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  Speaker 2: to five business day kind of person.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: But that's how things operate. The government operates on this
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  Speaker 2: three to five year sort of thing. I know we
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  Speaker 2: can't turn things around on a dime, so I can
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  Speaker 2: pace myself. I don't have to flip any tables. We
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  Speaker 2: can have those conversations. We can go at a nice,
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  Speaker 2: decent pace. So we don't skip any of those teas. Right.
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  Speaker 2: Went across them all. So yeah, I'm a bridge builder.
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  Speaker 2: I'll have the conversation.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a table flipper. I'm proud of it. I'll tell
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  Speaker 1: you that.
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  Speaker 2: No, well, no, you, you gotta, what is it? You get, uh,
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  Speaker 2: More bees.
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  Speaker 1: More honey with bees. Yeah, something old people say. I
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  Speaker 1: just like see tables upside down.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: The last two minutes here. Tell me, make your case.
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  Speaker 1: Why should people go out and vote for Denise D'Angelo?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're going to like me. You're going to like me.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to want to meet you. Once you meet me,
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  Speaker 2: you're going to know why you're going to vote for me.
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  Speaker 2: I care about what everybody cares about. not, not one thing,
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  Speaker 2: you know, what was it we all talked about in
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  Speaker 2: school and you heard all the time is, you know, there,
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  Speaker 2: there's no stupid question. There's no dumb thing, right? If
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  Speaker 2: it's important to you, it's important to me. And chances
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  Speaker 2: are that there's going to be a solution and it's
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  Speaker 2: going to cover more than just one category, right? So
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  Speaker 2: you want to vote for me because I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: be a part of that majority and my voice is
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  Speaker 2: going to carry so much weight once I'm there. So
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  Speaker 2: a vote for me is a louder voice for you
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  Speaker 2: at the state house. That's going to be major, right?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you can vote for everyone. You can do
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  Speaker 2: whatever you want, but if you want to have the
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to see real change, my vote can do that, right?
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  Speaker 2: Your vote for me will make that happen. Um, Why
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  Speaker 2: vote for me? Why not? Why not vote for me?
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  Speaker 2: There's– I can't think of a reason why you wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: want to vote for me. That's a little arrogant though,
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  Speaker 2: isn't it?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I'd say it.
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  Speaker 2: Would you say it?
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you make a living saying things on– so I'll
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  Speaker 2: say that too. But what's really important, like you said,
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  Speaker 2: doesn't matter who you're going to vote for come November.
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  Speaker 2: Get out and vote. It's going to be big. You–
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  Speaker 2: These midterms are going to decide so much that happens
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  Speaker 2: in Ohio's future. It's big. It's important. Get out and vote. Again,
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  Speaker 2: if there's anything that I can encourage today besides voting
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  Speaker 2: for me, because that is going to be really amazing,
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  Speaker 2: but getting out to vote. Starting on October 3rd, you
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  Speaker 2: can go up to Morse Road. You can vote there.
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  Speaker 2: You can start voting by mail, absentee ballots. Get out
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  Speaker 2: and vote and do the right thing.
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  Speaker 1: All right. People heard you tonight. They have a question
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  Speaker 1: for you. How do they email?
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  Speaker 2: Denise at DeniseD'Angelo.com.
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  Speaker 1: And the website?
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  Speaker 2: Is www.denisedangelo.com.
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  Speaker 1: And the social media monikers?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, D'Angelo for Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: That's it?
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  Speaker 2: D'Angelo for Ohio. Again, I'm not a social media person.
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  Speaker 2: I'm supposed to be like little dots and HTTs. No,
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  Speaker 2: D'Angelo for Ohio. You'll find me.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, just wanted to make sure we got it all
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  Speaker 1: out there.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate you coming in tonight, and hopefully it did
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  Speaker 1: you some good and some ears know about Denise D'Angelo
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  Speaker 1: that did not know about her before. Music is playing.
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  Speaker 1: That means it is indeed time for me to fly.
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  Speaker 1: I cannot believe how quickly these things go.
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  Speaker 2: Really.
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  Speaker 1: What is this, Wednesday? Okay, so that means no power
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  Speaker 1: hour tomorrow night because Bucks line will be on the
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  Speaker 1: air beginning at 6 p.m. So you will enjoy that
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  Speaker 1: as we get ready for game day Saturday. hopefully putting
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  Speaker 1: a stomp in on the fighting Illini. They won't have
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  Speaker 1: much fight in them when they leave Columbus, right? I hope.
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  Speaker 1: I hope. We'll see what happens.