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State Senate Candidate Denise D'angelo · Chuck Douglas

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Speaker 1: Greetings, salutations, welcome my friends to another edition of the
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Speaker 1: Power Hour on 610 WTVN. I'm Chuck Douglas, you know
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Speaker 1: And again, we're coming up on election time. I'm trying
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Speaker 1: to bring you the candidates, trying to introduce you to them,
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Speaker 1: let you hear something from them, more than a 10-second
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Speaker 1: soundbite on the evening news or something like that. Tonight,
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Speaker 1: Denise D'Angelo, she is... somewhat it depends on where you
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Speaker 1: live if you live in uh you know the grove
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Speaker 1: city area southwestern franklin county perhaps you've heard her name
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Speaker 1: before but she's relatively new to uh to many voters
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Speaker 1: out here and i wanted to give her a chance
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Speaker 1: to introduce herself and and play with the uh the
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Speaker 1: nasty gum under the table over there by her headphones
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Speaker 1: that was hideously embarrassing and i apologize no worries welcome
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Speaker 1: to uh welcome to the studio who are i've already
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Speaker 1: said denise d'angelo but uh you're running for and you
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Speaker 1: tell me about yourself.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm Denise D'Angelo. Thank you for having me on
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Speaker 2: this evening. I really appreciate it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you covered a lot of it.
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Speaker 2: I'm running for state representative in House District 10 and
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Speaker 2: that does cover Grove City.
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Speaker 3: It covers German Village.
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Speaker 2: It covers the southwest side of Columbus all the way
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Speaker 2: down to the south end of Columbus. And I'm really
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Speaker 2: looking forward to this November and winning and making a
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Speaker 2: difference here in our district. So we have state representative
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Speaker 2: House District 10, Denise D'Angelo. I'm currently on the school
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Speaker 2: board in Southwestern City Schools. So it's led to my
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Speaker 2: passion to run for state representative. I've seen a lot
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Speaker 2: of things that need some assistance, and I'm really excited
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Speaker 2: to be that person at the statehouse.
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Speaker 1: One of the things I know you've been doing the
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Speaker 1: door knocking, you go to the neighborhoods and so forth.
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Speaker 1: The diversity of this district. I don't know if it's
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Speaker 1: a plus or a minus or frustration for you. The
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Speaker 1: south side of Columbus, you get down Parsons Avenue area,
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Speaker 1: has nothing in common with the folks in Grove City,
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Speaker 1: has nothing. Are you making that adjustment okay? Are you
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Speaker 1: finding a commonality that you can talk to everyone about
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Speaker 1: no matter where they live?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, actually I have, and I have knocked in every area.
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Speaker 2: I have been on all the sides of my district,
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Speaker 2: and there are common themes. We all want the same thing, right?
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Speaker 2: The taxes are too high. We don't want to be
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Speaker 2: taxed for our homes.
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Speaker 3: It's happening.
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Speaker 2: We want more for our public schools. And I'll tell
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Speaker 2: you what, data centers is a huge topic. And I
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Speaker 2: was actually really shocked when I was in the German
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Speaker 2: village area to hear about the data centers and how
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Speaker 2: that's affecting the folks up there with the construction of
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Speaker 2: them and the dust and the debris that's coming from them. So, yeah,
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Speaker 2: I know we have a very large, diverse district, but
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Speaker 2: it's the same issues for everybody.
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Speaker 1: Everybody's going to get this question that I talked to
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Speaker 1: this year. And that is, you know, you mentioned taxes
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Speaker 1: and property taxes and so forth. And the mantra out there,
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Speaker 1: you know, in property tax, in property tax, my constant mantra.
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Speaker 1: Reply is that we cannot until we have refunded all
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Speaker 1: of the things that are being funded by property taxes.
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Speaker 1: Where do you stand with property taxes? Do you have
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Speaker 1: a game plan? Any ideas on how we might be
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Speaker 1: able to make a transition?
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Speaker 3: You nailed that.
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Speaker 2: Yes, we want lower property taxes. I would love to
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Speaker 2: have no property taxes, but you're right.
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Speaker 3: We have to. You can't just cut it off all
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Speaker 3: at once. There's a process to it. You need to
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Speaker 3: go slow.
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Speaker 2: There are folks already that have information about this. I've
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Speaker 2: kind of caught wind from them and talking to people.
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Speaker 2: Can I come in and tell you the formula right
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Speaker 2: this moment of what I'm going to do?
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Speaker 1: No, I'm not.
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Speaker 3: But do I know that there is a way that
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Speaker 3: we can do it and that we should do it? Yes, 100%.
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Speaker 2: So that's one thing that I really enjoy doing is
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Speaker 2: asking the questions, getting the folks together and having those conversations.
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Speaker 2: Because We should not, again, be taxing people out of
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Speaker 2: their homes to support all the things that are necessary
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Speaker 2: for us. I fully support our public schools, our police,
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Speaker 2: our fire, everybody that uses those funds.
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Speaker 3: But we need to have a conversation of. We need
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Speaker 3: to tweak it. The system's not working. It's not fair.
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Speaker 3: It needs to be better. And I know there's a
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Speaker 3: way to do it. We just have to.
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Speaker 1: As a new member of the legislature, nobody knows who
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Speaker 1: you are. They don't know anything about you. You could
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Speaker 1: become very volatile and tear their head off. So they'll
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Speaker 1: listen to you when you first walk in the door.
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Speaker 1: maybe adhering to that Ohio Supreme Court ruling that's like
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Speaker 1: a quarter of a century old now would be the
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Speaker 1: first step. Right.
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Speaker 3: I was at a door the other day and I
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Speaker 3: was like, no, I'm pretty sure.
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Speaker 2: This was already decided upon. Just no one's done anything
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Speaker 2: about it yet. Why?
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Speaker 3: Again, asking those questions. Why aren't we upholding this?
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Speaker 2: Why? Why are we still doing something that we're not
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Speaker 2: supposed to be doing? I don't I don't relate to that.
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Speaker 2: I don't understand it.
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Speaker 3: Is it working? Are people paying their taxes? Are things flowing?
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: But is it perfect?
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Speaker 1: No.
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Speaker 3: And I think we can get closer to perfect.
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Speaker 1: The idea that you continue to pay for something you
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Speaker 1: bought with your post-income tax dollars is– It's ridiculous. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: It really is. I mean you used what was left
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Speaker 1: over after the government took everything from you to buy
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Speaker 1: something and then you have to pay basically a seat
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Speaker 1: license every year to maintain ownership of what you bought–
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Speaker 1: You have to pay the government for that. And that
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Speaker 1: I just I find that whole concept offensive.
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Speaker 3: It is offensive. And we are living in an amazing
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Speaker 3: culture right now.
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Speaker 2: We have more generations alive today than there were, you know, 60, 70,
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Speaker 2: 80 years ago. We have folks who who did know
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Speaker 2: what the American dream was.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 2: And they're like, hey, I'm going to buy this home.
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Speaker 2: It meets our needs.
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Speaker 3: And, you know, it's one hundred thousand dollars.
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Speaker 2: And now out of nowhere, it's up to, you know,
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Speaker 2: they're pricing it out the wazoo at three, four hundred
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Speaker 2: thousand dollars a year. Hey, these folks, when they retired
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Speaker 2: 30 years ago, did not plan for this. And it
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Speaker 2: shouldn't be to their fault whatsoever because who would have
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Speaker 2: thought we'd be here today?
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Speaker 3: Who would have thought it would have gotten this high?
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Speaker 1: No.
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Speaker 3: When you purchase something, you own it. You don't have
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Speaker 3: to keep paying for it.
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Speaker 1: Her name is Denise D'Angelo. She is running for the
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Speaker 1: state legislature as a state representative. In the beginning times,
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Speaker 1: a long time ago, everybody had very– idealistic beliefs of
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Speaker 1: what was to come, how we were going to be living,
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Speaker 1: how we were going to develop as a society. And
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Speaker 1: we've taken a left turn. You are running as a Republican.
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Speaker 1: What kind– I used to ask this to libertarians all
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Speaker 1: the time. What kind of Republican do you consider yourself?
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Speaker 3: Oh, that's a good question.
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Speaker 2: There are so many kinds of Republicans these days. I've
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Speaker 2: heard there's Lincoln Republicans, moderate Republicans, far-right Republicans. I want
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Speaker 2: what everybody wants. There's nothing that I want for Ohio,
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Speaker 2: for anybody that's going to cause harm to anybody else.
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Speaker 2: I'm not sure which category you're going to put me in.
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Speaker 2: I'm not one for labels. What kind of Republican am I?
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Speaker 1: Do you consider yourself a hardline right person? Do you
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Speaker 1: consider yourself to be a more moderate person? Are there
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Speaker 1: things where perhaps you might find agreement? Working with the
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Speaker 1: other side is going to take something we can agree
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Speaker 1: on and then we start from there.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 2: Exactly. And that's how it should be, right? There's people
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Speaker 2: from all walks of life and all different backgrounds. I mean,
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Speaker 2: if you came in and said, hey, you're not where
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Speaker 2: I'm at, I'm not going to talk to you or
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Speaker 2: agree with you.
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Speaker 3: That's ridiculous.
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Speaker 2: You know, you don't go to the grocery store and
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Speaker 2: pick people.
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Speaker 3: Out by their R's or D's, do you? I mean,
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Speaker 3: that would be absolutely insane. No, we do need to
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Speaker 3: work with everybody. You know, you can't.
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Speaker 2: Yes, there are there are topics or there are certain
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Speaker 2: reasons why I do align with Republican Party 100 percent
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Speaker 2: that there's. Very little on the other side, I will
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Speaker 2: align myself with. Does that make sense?
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Speaker 3: Like there's. I don't have to phrase this.
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Speaker 1: Democrats are disappearing in favor of Democratic socialists. And that's
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Speaker 1: I think that's a line for all of us.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, 100 percent.
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Speaker 2: No, there are, you know, and, you know, I believe
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Speaker 2: in God.
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Speaker 3: I'm a Christian.
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Speaker 2: And there are so many things that, you know, you
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Speaker 2: have in your life when you have him in your
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Speaker 2: life and you can't. It's really hard to comprehend things
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Speaker 2: that some people believe in and the way they live
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Speaker 2: their life and the things they fight for.
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Speaker 1: Most of the time when somebody runs for something, it's
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Speaker 1: not only because they want to paint pretty pictures and
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Speaker 1: make sure flowers grow everywhere, but it's because what they're
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Speaker 1: running for, they've looked at and they said, oh, that
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Speaker 1: is very wrong. I've got to do something to change this.
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Speaker 1: What's happening with or what's come out of our legislature
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Speaker 1: that you feel like you've got to get in there
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Speaker 1: and right or wrong?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a lot.
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Speaker 2: Like I said, I'm kind of a policy Ohio Revised
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Speaker 2: Code person. Again, that's one reason why I'm running for
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Speaker 2: state representative is because as a school board member, I
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Speaker 2: want to accomplish things. I wanted to come in and
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Speaker 2: get a whole bunch of stuff done, do all these things.
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Speaker 2: And I was told no. You can't because of a
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Speaker 2: higher vice code. Oh, well, who makes these Ohio vice codes?
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Speaker 3: Okay. I want to go there. I want to make
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Speaker 3: these codes or I want to go in and change them.
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Speaker 3: We have Ohio.
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Speaker 2: Vice codes been around since what, like 1950, 1960s and
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Speaker 2: hundreds of thousands of Ohio vice codes are dictating what
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Speaker 2: we're doing every single day. We're putting a bunch in,
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Speaker 2: we're taking very little out and it's getting a little redundant.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, there's, If there's one thing that's like, what
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Speaker 2: do you want to do?
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Speaker 3: What do you want to change?
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Speaker 2: You know, my focus right now is a lot on
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Speaker 2: education and that it's so important, right?
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Speaker 3: Our public education. It's all tied together.
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Speaker 2: We have schools to, in my opinion, to educate these
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Speaker 2: students to become productive members of society, right? That's what
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Speaker 2: we want. But, you know, when I'm out talking to businesses,
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Speaker 2: out doing things, I'm hearing that, you know, students, kids
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Speaker 2: aren't showing up to work.
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Speaker 3: They're not dressing appropriately. You know, they think they can
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Speaker 3: still get paid. even though they didn't show up to work.
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Speaker 2: Whoa. You know, these are basic fundamentals that they should
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Speaker 2: have already learned in school. Like, how can we as
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Speaker 2: a society keep expecting something to improve? if we're not
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Speaker 2: making those improvements where they need. I believe every school
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Speaker 2: should be a safe, effective environment for students to learn
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Speaker 2: and be that effective individual once they graduate. I think
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Speaker 2: that is a huge area that we can work on
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Speaker 2: because once you have the students graduating ready to be
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Speaker 2: in that workforce or ready to go to college or
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Speaker 2: ready to be in the armed services, that's going to
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Speaker 2: create a different environment for everybody. You know, we're not
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Speaker 2: going to have this AI takeover when we're going to places.
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Speaker 3: We'll have employees.
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Speaker 2: We'll have that person, wherever job you feel like going into,
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Speaker 2: there will be somebody there. You know, I was at
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Speaker 2: a store recently and people are just wandering around wondering,
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Speaker 2: you know, they asked me if I work there. We
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Speaker 2: couldn't find anybody that works. Like, why don't we have
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Speaker 2: people that want to work? Why don't we have people
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Speaker 2: that want to interact with customers? It's a small part
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Speaker 2: of society, but it has a big impact on everyone.
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Speaker 1: You mentioned AI, data centers. Do you have a position?
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Speaker 1: Do you know what your position is on it? Or
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Speaker 1: is this Because honestly, it's evolving to the point where
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Speaker 1: I don't know– until I know the rules of their existence,
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Speaker 1: I don't know how I feel about their development. Are
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Speaker 1: you more definitive than I am?
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Speaker 2: On data centers, I'm kind of where you are. I
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Speaker 2: think there's– I don't believe in the tax abatements that
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Speaker 2: they were receiving. I think that was ridiculous. I think
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Speaker 2: that there does need to be more transparency as to
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Speaker 2: why do we have so many, why do we need
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Speaker 2: so many data?
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Speaker 3: Technology has come so far. You can store.
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Speaker 2: Data in all kinds of different ways now. You know, storage,
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Speaker 2: we have, you can have a cell phone now that
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Speaker 2: can have, what, 256 megabytes or gigabytes of storage on there, where,
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Speaker 2: you know, 20 years ago, if you had, what, 256 megabytes,
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Speaker 2: that was a lot. So we're finding ways to store
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Speaker 2: data in smaller spaces. Why do we need these big
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Speaker 2: data centers? Why is there a need? You know, do I,
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Speaker 2: I do not feel like we should go into green space.
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Speaker 2: you know, viable farmland and build data centers. So that's
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Speaker 2: really hard for me to think about taking over viable farmland.
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Speaker 2: Do I understand the, there's a part of the conversation
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Speaker 2: where data centers are part of national security. You know,
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Speaker 2: if we're not storing our data here, then who's storing
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Speaker 2: our data? So that's another angle to data centers. It's
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Speaker 2: not just taking over our spaces, but it's, again, why
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Speaker 2: do we need to have them? So I don't want
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Speaker 2: Ohio to become the the mecca of data centers, right?
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Speaker 2: We shouldn't be there. So I don't want to see
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Speaker 2: that happening. I think it definitely needs more conversation than
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Speaker 2: what we're having right now. But I have seen, again,
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Speaker 2: for full transparency, I have heard about communities where data
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Speaker 2: centers move in and the communities say, hey, if you're
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Speaker 2: going to come into our area, you need to do X, Y,
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Speaker 2: and Z for us, which is great because then it
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Speaker 2: brought wealth into those communities that needed it. So- Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I guess I'm wishy-washy on that as well.
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Speaker 3: It's like, yeah, I can see where they can be.
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Speaker 2: Beneficial to some, but I don't think that we need
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Speaker 2: to have them mass building like we are.
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Speaker 1: I think most people, if I'm reading the world right,
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Speaker 1: most people are concerned about the water consumption, making sure
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Speaker 1: they recycle their water and don't continue to pull on
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Speaker 1: the public water sources, and secondly, providing their own electricity
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Speaker 1: because that's– The grid can only handle so much as
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Speaker 1: it stands right now. We're already probably over where we
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Speaker 1: should be in many parts of this country. And I
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Speaker 1: don't need my bill going up because, you know, Bill
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Speaker 1: Gates and Zuckerberg want to put a data center in
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Speaker 1: where I just– Exactly. And it shouldn't.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: They should be self-contained.
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Speaker 2: You know, the water usage, the electricity, the amount of
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Speaker 2: pollution they put off, the noise, the noise pollution they
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Speaker 2: can put off.
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Speaker 3: Have you been by data centers recently?
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Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 1: Have you seen any? No, I have not been near
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Speaker 1: one that's functioning. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: No, there's a lot. You know, there's one just over
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Speaker 3: here in Hilliard, and it's loud.
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Speaker 1: It's loud.
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Speaker 2: You can hear it far. And I think that's ridiculous.
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Speaker 2: It is a huge concern. You shouldn't just be putting
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Speaker 2: data centers wherever they feel like just because they can.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And what was it, 20 years ago? Is that when
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Speaker 2: they put one in down there in Virginia and it
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Speaker 2: sucked up all the river and everything down there?
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Speaker 1: That was– And I've already seen speculation that 20 years
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Speaker 1: from now, they'll be vacant hulks because our data is
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Speaker 1: going to be stored in space.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 1: Which, yeah.
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Speaker 3: It's hard to think about. But yeah, no, exactly.
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Speaker 2: If you're going to, you know, again, I grew up
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Speaker 2: with West of the Mall, East of the Mall, right?
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Speaker 2: I grew up with places and they thought we needed more.
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Speaker 2: So we have Tuttle and we have Polaris and Easton.
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Speaker 1: Wait, what? Okay.
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Speaker 3: I know you have money.
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Speaker 1: They could put a data center in Tuttle because it's empty.
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Speaker 3: They could. And they have that little fountain there in front.
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Speaker 3: Is that still functioning?
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Speaker 1: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: You know, remember that? That was like a ball.
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Speaker 2: But I don't agree with how the data centers are working.
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Speaker 2: I think it does need to be a larger, broader conversation.
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Speaker 2: You know, it's caused some controversy in Grove City.
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Speaker 3: Have you heard about the.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they put a moratorium on it for a while.
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Speaker 3: It's a moratorium.
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Speaker 2: And now they're trying to put an amendment on the
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Speaker 2: Ballot for this November that anybody who wants to come
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Speaker 2: at any business that meets a certain criteria needs to
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Speaker 2: pass this criteria before they can be in our community.
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Speaker 3: And it's it's pretty wild.
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Speaker 1: She wants you to send her to the statehouse. She's
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Speaker 1: on the ballot come November. Her name is Denise D'Angelo.