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Columbus City Counsel talk and your calls · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Chuck Douglass and The Power Hour on six ten WTV
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  Speaker 1: eight two one WTV or one eight hundred six to
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  Speaker 1: ten WTV. And yes, I'm a little off the rails again. Personally,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's justifiable. I mean, you know, our local
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  Speaker 1: media and I include our own folks in that they
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  Speaker 1: report on stupidity, insanity, ridiculousness as if it's just you know,
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  Speaker 1: a matter of fact, it's just it is objectionable so
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  Speaker 1: many times, on so many levels, from so many places,
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  Speaker 1: for so many reasons. Yeah, we just meeet this gay.
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  Speaker 1: Here is what happened, and we move on. Columbus City
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  Speaker 1: Council not being the least of my considerations in that arena.
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  Speaker 1: It's not city council. Columbus City Council, it's not their
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  Speaker 1: place to tell the county how to run anything. It's
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  Speaker 1: not their place to tell the duly elected sheriff how
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  Speaker 1: to run the sheriff's department. But that that seems to
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  Speaker 1: be what they think they are there for. They had
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  Speaker 1: to vote to pay the sheriff's department two million dollars,
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  Speaker 1: which they know they're going to have to pay should
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  Speaker 1: have been a budget item, should have just been paid
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  Speaker 1: immediately when the budget was passed, But they held the
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  Speaker 1: money back because they had concerns that the sheriff's department
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  Speaker 1: might call ICE if they had an illegal immigrant in jail.
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  Speaker 1: Columbus just can't stand for that. It's not your business.
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  Speaker 1: Let the sheriff be the sheriff. You try being city
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  Speaker 1: council for a while. A two one night six is
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  Speaker 1: my number. Let's go to the phones. Bob, you're on
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  Speaker 1: six ten doable E TV in Hi. You're with me, Bob, Zach,
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  Speaker 1: I think you gotta push a Bob button because I
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  Speaker 1: don't have a Bob over here. If everything's on, Bob,
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  Speaker 1: did we turn you on? Zach wore that nice dress
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  Speaker 1: and everything all right? Well, putting back on hoole, Bob
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  Speaker 1: might have had to go pee or something, for all
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  Speaker 1: I know. I don't want to say, well, Bob, you
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  Speaker 1: had to go, so okay, just we'll leave him on
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  Speaker 1: hold and I'll go back and try him that. Jeff,
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  Speaker 1: you're on sixte n WTVN.
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  Speaker 2: Talk show hosts have to pee too, You know.
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  Speaker 1: I never pee. I just consume coffee.
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  Speaker 2: Oh gosh, okay, listen up. Here in Mansfield. Great topic
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  Speaker 2: about fighting the fighting the man the utilities. I'm I'm
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  Speaker 2: fighting the city of Mansfield right now. Got issue up
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  Speaker 2: here that's really been in my craw When we used
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  Speaker 2: to live in Worcester, we used to pay our water
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  Speaker 2: bill based on the amount of water usage to calculate
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  Speaker 2: the amount of sewer usage. They didn't rent your meter
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  Speaker 2: and you couldn't buy it from them. Here in Mansfield
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  Speaker 2: they charge you twenty two dollars a month if you
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  Speaker 2: do not use one drop of water.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, I think sixty.
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  Speaker 2: And to make things interesting, I said, well, I'd like
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  Speaker 2: to buy that from you rather than rent it from you.
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  Speaker 2: They will not sell it to you. They will come
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  Speaker 2: out and take your water, turn your water off, and
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  Speaker 2: then you have no water at all. Yeah, what is that?
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  Speaker 1: It's ridiculous Columbus And I'm incorrect, Columbus. Isn't sixty. It
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  Speaker 1: was sixty dollars a quarter because I got a bill
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  Speaker 1: for sixty dollars and I said, nobody's used any water
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  Speaker 1: in the house. I'm not there now, and everybody they said, well,
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  Speaker 1: there's still that twenty dollars a month charge. Is when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to sixty dollars every three months, just be
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  Speaker 1: for having the service. Well, that's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 2: Now I have asked my city councilman for an accountancy
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  Speaker 2: of this from the City of Mansfield. The City of
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  Speaker 2: Mansfield has not responded to me or my city councilman,
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  Speaker 2: and I haven't anything in the mail about where does
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  Speaker 2: that twenty two dollars times all the people in Mansfield
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  Speaker 2: go to government, and that is what's also interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there's something, and hopefully I'm going to have him
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  Speaker 1: on tomorrow. One of our state representatives, a man to
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  Speaker 1: whom I've never spoken, however, I invited him over the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: He's one of two legislators behind a House bill that's
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  Speaker 1: going to jump on these third party suppliers, and I
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  Speaker 1: want to talk to him about bridging this out to
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  Speaker 1: accommodate things just like what you're talking about, where there
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  Speaker 1: are just these arbitrary fees for no reason, for no use,
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  Speaker 1: but just because you have the service, and that kind
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  Speaker 1: of mess the utilities. I have a problem with them
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  Speaker 1: being a profit center to begin with, but especially those
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  Speaker 1: that are municipally provided, like the water and sewer services,
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  Speaker 1: they should. I appreciate you, Jeff. Thanks very much, and
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  Speaker 1: keep listening because hopefully i'll have this this member of
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  Speaker 1: our legislature on his name's text by the way, he's
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  Speaker 1: an Ohio legislator. His name's Tech. But we've been going
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  Speaker 1: back and forth and I'm going to try to get
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  Speaker 1: him on here to talk about how spilled two sixty five.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a very positive thing. I think people
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  Speaker 1: need to get behind it and be loud about it.
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  Speaker 1: A two one nine eight eighty six, A two one
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  Speaker 1: WTV and Frank, you're up, hey suck.
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  Speaker 3: I guess I guess that kind of blends into what
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  Speaker 3: I want to to say was, Okay, there's certain things
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  Speaker 3: in the US Constitution or the Ohio Constitution, and if
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  Speaker 3: you want to change those, you can't just pass a
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  Speaker 3: law like PISA. They're like, well, we're going to redo PISA.
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  Speaker 3: We can search anybody anytime we want, as long as
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  Speaker 3: we don't even need a warrant. I'm like, well, wait
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  Speaker 3: a minute. The Fourth Amendment says you have to have
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  Speaker 3: a warrant issued by a judge to clearly state what
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  Speaker 3: you're looking for, you know, and oaths and all that,
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  Speaker 3: And I'm like, how can they just pass a PISA bill?
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  Speaker 3: Totally going around the Fourth Amendment. If you want to
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  Speaker 3: go around it, that's fine, But don't you have to
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  Speaker 3: introduce a new amendment and get it ratified by two
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  Speaker 3: thirds of the states.
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  Speaker 1: So it sounds to me like a reasonable process.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, And so I don't understand how can they even
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  Speaker 3: just say this? And there's other things in Ohio that
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  Speaker 3: you know, I don't want to get into it, but
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  Speaker 3: there's other things in Ohio where they have the Supreme
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  Speaker 3: Court said well, yeah, that's reasonable. Yeah, that's okay, No,
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  Speaker 3: you gotta you got to amend the constitution.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, you want to.
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  Speaker 1: See that's and that's frank This is where I become
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  Speaker 1: kind of a hard ass. Quite frankly, I don't care
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  Speaker 1: if the courts think it's reasonable. That's subjective, is it
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  Speaker 1: or is it not constitutional? If it is, then I
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  Speaker 1: got to shut up. If it's not, then it's got
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  Speaker 1: to stop. Or you've got to change the constitution one
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  Speaker 1: or the other. Those are your options. But reasonable doesn't
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  Speaker 1: work for me.
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  Speaker 3: Well, there's right, right because who yeah, okay, reasonable free
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  Speaker 3: speech or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So back in Sodom and Gomorrah, which I know
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  Speaker 3: it's a long time ago, but there were corrupt judges
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  Speaker 3: there that said all kind of crazy stuff was legal
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  Speaker 3: out in the street, which is immoralis. I'll get out.
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  Speaker 3: But they said, yeah, it's fine, put out couches, benches, whatever,
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  Speaker 3: bend somebody over a tree, whatever. But it doesn't make
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  Speaker 3: it right just because the judge says it doesn't make
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  Speaker 3: it right. And I guess and I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: Frank thank you very much for the call. It's it's
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  Speaker 1: one of those things again. You know, you want to
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  Speaker 1: be subjective. Let's be subjective. Our Declaration of Independence assures
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  Speaker 1: me that I have the right to life, liberty, and
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  Speaker 1: the pursuit of happiness. Too many of the laws invoked,
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  Speaker 1: too many of the actions taken are interfering with my
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  Speaker 1: pursuit of happiness. Therefore they should be illegal or I
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  Speaker 1: should just be able to avoid them and ignore them,
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  Speaker 1: right right, I mean, the founding documents of this country
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  Speaker 1: guarantee me my life, my liberty, and my pursuit of happiness.
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  Speaker 1: And quite frankly, y'all getting in the way. You'd have
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  Speaker 1: to have a fortune to take it to court because
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  Speaker 1: you have to fight it forever. But honestly, I think
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  Speaker 1: that's a winnable lawsuit. Right there after that woman got
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  Speaker 1: three million dollars for the hot coffee. Anything's possible. You
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  Speaker 1: cannot deny me as the government of my life. You
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  Speaker 1: cannot legally deny me my liberty. Let's define liberty, my
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  Speaker 1: freedom of movement, going where I want to go, when
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  Speaker 1: I want to go, there being with whom I want
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  Speaker 1: to be. You can't deny me that liberty. You try,
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  Speaker 1: but you can't in my pursuit of happiness. If I
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  Speaker 1: am so busy conforming to and dealing with your stupidity,
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  Speaker 1: I do not have the time, the energy, or the
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  Speaker 1: inclination to pursue happiness. Therefore, you are denying me one
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  Speaker 1: of the essential rights I have as a citizen of
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  Speaker 1: this country. While cowtowing to the non citizens and making
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  Speaker 1: sure they're safe and the sheriff doesn't call immigration on them, Columbus,
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  Speaker 1: you become sad. You become very sad. When I was
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  Speaker 1: looking on the outside, or from the outside to the inside,
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  Speaker 1: and looking at San Francisco and going yards sad, looking
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  Speaker 1: at California City's over all yours sad, Chicago sad. Now
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  Speaker 1: we're just as sad as they are. Man, we are
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  Speaker 1: just as sad as they are, and yeah, it does
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  Speaker 1: make me sad. We should be better. But Councilman Remy,
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  Speaker 1: you're wrong. Members of city council who who withheld this
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  Speaker 1: money in the first place, you're wrong. Council person die
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  Speaker 1: Padilla who voted no last night on giving them their
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  Speaker 1: money finally after making them wait, you're wrong. Your job
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  Speaker 1: is to serve the citizens of Columbus, Ohio. It is
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  Speaker 1: that damn simple. Maybe you're too simple. I'm not being mean.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you just don't understand it. Maybe you don't grasp it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe ignorant. Your job is to serve
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  Speaker 1: the people of this city, not the people of some
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  Speaker 1: other city that are hiding in this city and watching
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  Speaker 1: out for them is garbage. You want to form a
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  Speaker 1: nonprofit find you want your own illegal immigrant underground railroad,
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  Speaker 1: Go dig that trench, baby. But as long as you
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  Speaker 1: are above ground and you are making money from me,
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  Speaker 1: your salary is paid by the people that you're refusing
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  Speaker 1: to represent. My God, how hard is that to understand.
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  Speaker 4: The people of this city who paid into the income
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  Speaker 4: tax in this city, they are paying you to represent them,
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  Speaker 4: and you're ignoring them and representing people who aren't even
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  Speaker 4: from me here, don't have citizenship here, don't have rights here.
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  Speaker 4: You are making sure they are protected while saying, by
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  Speaker 4: the way, forget all you.
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  Speaker 1: I swear, I wish, I wish we could just, oh,
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  Speaker 1: just wipe the slate clean and start over.
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  Speaker 3: This.
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  Speaker 1: This is embarrassing. We are the they that I used
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  Speaker 1: to grape about. We have become them. How when did
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  Speaker 1: this happen? We were poisoned with political correctness and left
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  Speaker 1: wing stupidity a teaspoon at a time. Pretty much every
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  Speaker 1: elected office in Franklin County is occupied by the prescribing physicians.
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  Speaker 1: What happened? Man, music's playing? Time for me to fly?