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Mid-Terms are Important · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Chuck Douglas, 610 WTVN, 821-9886, 821-WTVN. Apparently, Zach, apparently, I
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  Speaker 1: guess this is what I'm thinking. It's apparently I'm the
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  Speaker 1: only one who gives a damn about this whole thing
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  Speaker 1: with the election process. I guess that's it. Again, I
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  Speaker 1: am sad. You have to wonder sometimes what it takes
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  Speaker 1: to fire you people up. I'm talking to everybody. Stealing
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  Speaker 1: right in front of you. It's okay. I got a
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  Speaker 1: survivor tonight. Allison's News. Hyundai Corporation. A million dollars to
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  Speaker 1: the city of Columbus because of all the Kia boy
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  Speaker 1: Hyundai thefts that were going on. Did you hear about that?
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  Speaker 1: Guess where the million dollars is going.
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  Speaker 2: I'm afraid I'll make a joke and it'll be correct.
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  Speaker 2: So just go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: General Fund. City of Columbus. General Fund. All those people
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  Speaker 1: who had their Kias and their Hyundais stolen. When the
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  Speaker 1: key boys was in the news every day? They don't
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  Speaker 1: get any. No, no, no. Those insurance deductibles they had
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  Speaker 1: to pay? No. Nothing. Towing fees they had to pay
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  Speaker 1: if the police recovered and impounded their car until they
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  Speaker 1: can come get it? That's something else. Your car gets stolen.
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  Speaker 1: Police find it. You got to pay to get it out.
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  Speaker 1: Your stuff gets stolen, sold to a pawn shop. You
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  Speaker 1: got to pay to get it out.
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  Speaker 3: Is that true?
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  Speaker 4: Yes. Why?
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  Speaker 1: You're the victim. Yes. It doesn't matter. Pawn shop paid
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  Speaker 1: for it, so you got to pay the pawn shop.
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  Speaker 1: City towed it to the police impound lot. You got
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  Speaker 1: to pay to get it out of the impound lot.
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  Speaker 1: Then once you get it back and see all the
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  Speaker 1: damage done, you got to pay your deductible. So Hyundai's
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  Speaker 1: forking over a million dollars to the city of Columbus
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  Speaker 1: because of all the auto thefts of their cars that
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  Speaker 1: were not properly protected. And instead of compensating the people...
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  Speaker 1: who actually got their butts kicked by coming out in
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  Speaker 1: the morning to go to work and finding their car
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  Speaker 1: was gone, it goes into the city's general fund. So
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  Speaker 1: there's no way.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to go ahead and say that they're not
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  Speaker 2: going to make this information public on where this money
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  Speaker 2: is going to go specifically.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, no, no. They'll find something, you know, something fun
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  Speaker 1: to put it into. Sure. Something real fun.
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  Speaker 2: A million dollars. I mean, another million, you could put
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  Speaker 2: another toilet downtown.
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  Speaker 1: That's true. Double that and you could put a new
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  Speaker 1: toilet downtown for all the toilet people.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We still need to go down there and actually just
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  Speaker 1: do a count. Because there's only like eight people in
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  Speaker 1: downtown Columbus at any given time anyway. I had to
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  Speaker 1: stop for a red light the other day that I
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  Speaker 1: got like 10 feet, and then I had to stop
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  Speaker 1: for another because a tumbleweed was going across the street.
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  Speaker 1: It's sad. What are you chuckling about?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't go downtown, so maybe I'm
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  Speaker 2: part of the problem.
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  Speaker 1: The desolate downtown area. We're going to build more apartments
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  Speaker 1: and come to my dams. Of course, there's nothing for
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  Speaker 1: you to do down here, but we're going to build them.
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  Speaker 1: It's not working.
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  Speaker 2: You could drive somewhere and do something.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's just it. That's just it. The shopping? Gone. Entertainment? Gone.
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  Speaker 1: We are on the cusp of the onset of autumn weather,
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  Speaker 1: which means winter is just around the corner. When I
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  Speaker 1: was a youngster, you'd go downtown to the Centrum and
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  Speaker 1: do your ice skating. You can't do that now because
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  Speaker 1: they tore that out. Of course, occasionally they bring back
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  Speaker 1: a portable ice skating rink. They'll probably do that at
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  Speaker 1: Columbus Commons. They can use that million dollars from Hyundai
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  Speaker 1: to pay for the portable ice skating rink. That's what
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  Speaker 1: they can do. We've been moving forward by going backward
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  Speaker 1: for a lot of years now. And I guess it
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  Speaker 1: just kind of– I'm kind of piqued, kind of piqued
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  Speaker 1: at the moment because we're directionless. We're not bothered. And
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  Speaker 1: if we're bothered, we're not bothering. The voice are bothered.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think that part of it– when it comes
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  Speaker 2: to Franklin County and how Republican– like you said, there's
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  Speaker 2: sometimes they don't even run candidates.
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  Speaker 1: People get apathetic.
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  Speaker 2: Once apathy sets in about something, it's very difficult for
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  Speaker 2: some people to get out of that.
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  Speaker 1: It could be because there's a lot of people walking
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  Speaker 1: around with their heads down. Well, we never win nothing anyway.
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  Speaker 1: We don't even run nobody.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: What's the point of even caring or whatever?
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  Speaker 1: There's new leadership and they need to feed off of
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  Speaker 1: your energy. And if it's not there, they're going to
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  Speaker 1: give up too. So do you want to motivate them
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  Speaker 1: or do you want to just let them die on
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  Speaker 1: the vine? We are a circle. Everything is connected to
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  Speaker 1: something else. And if you don't play your part in
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  Speaker 1: the circle, the circle falls apart. It collapses. Do something.
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  Speaker 1: Say something. Or just let it happen and shut up
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  Speaker 1: when you're dissatisfied with what comes to you. If you're
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  Speaker 1: not involved, if you don't voice an opinion, if you
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  Speaker 1: don't take any kind of action, how do you say, well,
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  Speaker 1: I don't deserve this? Yeah, actually you do. Actually you do.
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  Speaker 1: And if it's okay with you that our state legislature
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  Speaker 1: has an incumbent who is running again who doesn't even
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  Speaker 1: live where they're supposed to be representing and the Board
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  Speaker 1: of Elections votes three to one to let them continue
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  Speaker 1: on the ballot, if that's all cool with you, You know,
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  Speaker 1: grab the remote. Enjoy whatever's on TV tonight. I can't
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  Speaker 1: live that way.
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  Speaker 4: 821-9886.
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  Speaker 1: 821-WTV. And, Mike, you're on the LegacyRetirementGroup.com phone lines.
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  Speaker 2: Hi.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, Chuck.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think this is a couple things. This residency thing,
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  Speaker 3: I think we've had that a couple times. I think
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  Speaker 3: the wife of Kevin Boyce, her name is Alicia Sykes,
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  Speaker 3: she's a congresswoman now. She represents Akron and Canton, so
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  Speaker 3: I'm not sure what her address is, but I don't
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  Speaker 3: really think it's where she lives. Then there was rumor,
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  Speaker 3: it was discussed, that former Governor of Kentucky Ted Strickland
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  Speaker 3: really lived in Kentucky on his wife's farm. But that's
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  Speaker 3: nothing new with these guys. But with Doug Price, I
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  Speaker 3: think there was a deal a while ago that somehow
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  Speaker 3: the Democrats wouldn't run judges anymore. And Republicans wouldn't run
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  Speaker 3: anybody else.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's been the rumor for a long time. That's
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  Speaker 1: been the rumor for a long time. We won't run
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  Speaker 1: judges if you don't run anybody on the municipal level.
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  Speaker 1: That has been rumored for a very long time. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I don't want to believe that of my
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  Speaker 1: own party leadership, but daggone it, Mike. You know, what
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  Speaker 1: I see makes me tend to believe it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I was, I ran, let's see, I applied for
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  Speaker 3: an open position on Columbus City Council a couple times.
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  Speaker 3: I got an interview once. They'd never, they'd never contacted
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  Speaker 3: me to say, Hey, would you want to run for
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  Speaker 3: another office?
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  Speaker 4: Never.
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  Speaker 1: Hmm. The Republican party, you mean?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: The Frankenstein Republican party. Never caught. My name was in
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  Speaker 3: the paper.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be honest with you. I actually went down when
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  Speaker 1: he was, uh, I think he was in his second
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  Speaker 1: year as chair. I actually went down there and interviewed
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  Speaker 1: for a, uh, Columbus city council, uh, uh, planning to
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  Speaker 1: run for Columbus city council. And, uh, I left there
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  Speaker 1: with a distaste, just the feeling I got. It was
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  Speaker 1: so slimy that I was very, very dismayed when I
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  Speaker 1: walked out of that room. And the member of the
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  Speaker 1: central committee that had encouraged me and took me down
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  Speaker 1: there to meet with him, I said, so what do
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  Speaker 1: you think? I said, principles, I'm good. With the people
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  Speaker 1: that I'm seeing, not so much. And that's been a
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  Speaker 1: long time ago.
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  Speaker 3: Well, there's also... I ran to be one of these
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  Speaker 3: precinct people for the Franklin County Central Committee.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: There were probably 120 people in the Franklin County Central Committee.
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  Speaker 3: And so I ran. I ran for my precinct. The
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  Speaker 3: state Republican Party gave money to the incumbent I was
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  Speaker 3: running against so he could send out flyers.
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  Speaker 1: Mike, you and I have the same story to tell
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  Speaker 1: because I ran as a Central Committee person in my
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  Speaker 1: ward as well.
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  Speaker 4: And.
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  Speaker 1: I got word that about 90 minutes after I put
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  Speaker 1: my petition in at the Board of Elections that someone
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  Speaker 1: got a call from the party telling them to get
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  Speaker 1: a petition filled out to run for the ward. And
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  Speaker 1: I also was told that an email went out the
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  Speaker 1: night before the election letting people know we need you
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  Speaker 1: to support our candidate. They didn't want– they want a
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  Speaker 1: yes man in there. They didn't want me. And the
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  Speaker 1: guy who had held it left the county and he
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  Speaker 1: called me and said, hey, I'm going to be moving
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  Speaker 1: to another county. I think you need to do this.
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  Speaker 1: So I thought I would step up and do my part.
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  Speaker 1: My own party ran against me. So you and I
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  Speaker 1: have the same story to tell.
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  Speaker 3: Well, there's another even worse story. And our bar intentor
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  Speaker 3: is a guy that you may have remembered him, but
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  Speaker 3: he ran for central committee. He won. Then the next
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  Speaker 3: year he ran again. And Deborah Price got involved on
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  Speaker 3: the party inside her. And a lot of these things
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  Speaker 3: worked their way through. She got involved to help defeat
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  Speaker 3: this guy. Yeah. We're fighting the wrong people.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly, Mike. We are fighting the wrong people. I appreciate you, buddy.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you very much. 821-WTVN is the number. Deb, you're
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  Speaker 1: on the LegacyRetirementGroup.com phone lines. Hi.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, Chuck. Sounds like you're having a pretty hard day there, buddy.
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  Speaker 1: I am just– I'm not happy at all with this, Deb.
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  Speaker 1: This is just wrong. It doesn't matter. what party you're in.
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  Speaker 1: This is just wrong.
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  Speaker 4: It is. And you and I, you know, our politics
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  Speaker 4: are not adjacent. But, man, you got to call. a
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  Speaker 4: spade a spade, and you know the old saying. But look, man,
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  Speaker 4: this is crazy. I can't vote in Columbus anymore because
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  Speaker 4: I live in the Grove City area, and I can't
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  Speaker 4: do that, but it's just right is right and wrong
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  Speaker 4: is wrong. And it doesn't mean that every party is
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  Speaker 4: right or wrong, but this guy trying to do what
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  Speaker 4: he's What you say, and I trust you. I trust
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  Speaker 4: your instinct. This is not... I don't care what side
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  Speaker 4: of the aisle you go on. You're either for good
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  Speaker 4: or you're not. For the people that you represent, and
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  Speaker 4: trying to be politically powerful is not a good way
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  Speaker 4: to go. I mean, we just had the harvest moon.
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  Speaker 4: You reap what you sow. It should remind everybody hey, man,
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  Speaker 4: we're all in this together. And I have folks around
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  Speaker 4: me that are just like, oh, I don't vote anymore.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm like, well, OK, whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, we've been seeing this kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: John McCain, they said he lived in one state. He
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  Speaker 1: was running as senator in another state. Hillary Clinton was
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  Speaker 1: living in Arkansas. Then she moved to D.C. and suddenly
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  Speaker 1: she was a senator from New York. People either falsifying
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  Speaker 1: or you know, renting something and claiming to live there
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  Speaker 1: so that they can get elected there. That's crooked. That's crooked.
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  Speaker 4: It is, Chuck. And I agree with you on this.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I love you, man. I just want to
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  Speaker 4: give you a radio hug through the radio because you're
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  Speaker 4: having a hard day. And, man, you and I are
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  Speaker 4: like butt heads. You don't realize it sometimes, but I
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  Speaker 4: listen to you, and I'm like, oh, my God, I
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  Speaker 4: can't believe it.
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  Speaker 3: What the hell?
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  Speaker 1: Same here, Dad. Same here.
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  Speaker 4: But you know true people when you hear them and
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  Speaker 4: what they say. Just because we don't agree doesn't mean
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  Speaker 4: that we're not working towards the same goal.
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  Speaker 1: I agree completely, Debbie. Sincerity is way more important than
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  Speaker 1: anything else. Thank you very much for the kind words. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I will disagree with an honest person all day long
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  Speaker 1: and be fine with it. When you find that you
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  Speaker 1: were gullible and you ended up agreeing with somebody who
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  Speaker 1: was a liar, a manipulator, not only do you dislike them,
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  Speaker 1: but you pretty much hate yourself for falling into the
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  Speaker 1: hole that they put in front of you. People, there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of holes in front of us right now.
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  Speaker 1: Pay attention. Walk around them. And help some other people
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  Speaker 1: avoid them, too.