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Hamilton County Republican GOP Party Chairman Josh Gerth · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Todd KRS The Talk Station.
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  Speaker 2: A twenty nine to fifty five KRC the Talk Station,
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  Speaker 2: have a happy Tuesday to you. We're from Judg Jennena
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  Speaker 2: Poulaitano tomorrow at this time, preceded by Jack Aviden The
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  Speaker 2: Big Picture on Wednesdays at seven oh five. In the meantime,
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back and congratulations again. He is the new Hamilton
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  Speaker 2: County Republican Party Chair. Josh Girth. It's good to have
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  Speaker 2: you here on the fifty five KRC Morning Show.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks Brian, thanks for having me back.
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  Speaker 2: Glad to do it. I'm kind of curious. It seems
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  Speaker 2: to me that a lot of this moving into November,
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  Speaker 2: we got a lot to worry about coming into November,
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  Speaker 2: is to generate some enthusiasm among the Republican Party registered voters.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I go back to the Cincinnati election, and
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  Speaker 2: I think every Republican that lives in the city is
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  Speaker 2: sin saying, has just completely given up on the idea
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  Speaker 2: that Republicans are ever going to be on the ballot
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  Speaker 2: or are even worthy of voting for because it's so
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  Speaker 2: overwhelmingly blue. But when you only get twenty five percent
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  Speaker 2: of the people to show up in an election, that's
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  Speaker 2: the motivated people the left seems to be and correct
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  Speaker 2: me if I'm wrong, if you have a different perspective,
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  Speaker 2: Young leftist leaning people seem to be very enthusiastic about voting.
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  Speaker 2: I point to New York and the election of a
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  Speaker 2: bunch of commies. Obviously, in an all Democrats city, in
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  Speaker 2: an all Democrat state, it's a foregone conclusion. You're going
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  Speaker 2: to get Democrats. But if you don't show up to vote,
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  Speaker 2: you might get a Democrat that doesn't sit well with
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  Speaker 2: your own political ideology. We've got a problems getting Republicans
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  Speaker 2: even to come out and show out to vote. Do
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  Speaker 2: you have any idea about how we generate enthusiasm to
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  Speaker 2: overwhelm the polls and show up in large numbers in November. Josh,
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  Speaker 2: that's a lot to.
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  Speaker 1: Unpack, Brian.
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  Speaker 3: I know, I it's it's but it's a great point.
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  Speaker 3: And I think I had said this before. The the
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  Speaker 3: the especially the left wing liberal Democrat party, politics is
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  Speaker 3: their religion.
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  Speaker 1: It is it is there, it is.
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  Speaker 3: Their priority, it is their number one thing in life.
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  Speaker 3: And they have they have made it their religion and
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  Speaker 3: and we simply have not. We have focused on other
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  Speaker 3: things like taking care of our families and working and
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  Speaker 3: volunteering and doing the things that a lot of.
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  Speaker 1: The people in our party do on a daily basis.
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  Speaker 3: And we have to realize and you just said it
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  Speaker 3: in your earlier segment, do we want to be North Korea?
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  Speaker 1: I mean in the sense that they to.
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  Speaker 3: Your point, they do not want prosperity, They do not
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  Speaker 3: want individual freedom. They want the control of the people.
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  Speaker 3: That is what the Democratic Party is doing that you
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  Speaker 3: can see it systematically happening in the bigger cities, of course,
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  Speaker 3: like what's going on in New York or Maine or
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  Speaker 3: some of these other things that you kind of expected.
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  Speaker 1: It's making its way here.
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  Speaker 3: It's happening in Cincinnati, it's happening in Hamilton County, it's
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  Speaker 3: happening in Anderson Township. They're taking over because they want
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  Speaker 3: control of your lives because when they control it, then
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  Speaker 3: they can do whatever the hell they want. That is
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  Speaker 3: the North Korea way. And that's what's happening in some
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  Speaker 3: of these political mindset of these people that are trying
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  Speaker 3: to take over. And are we just going to sit
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  Speaker 3: by and let it happen.
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  Speaker 1: We can't. We simply can't. And I will say this.
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  Speaker 3: And there is one thing that's worse than a socialist,
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  Speaker 3: left wing liberal Democrat, and that is a Republican who
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  Speaker 3: doesn't go vote. And that is a problem that we
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  Speaker 3: have to emphasize and get out the message to those
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  Speaker 3: people who are sitting on the sidelines because they think
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  Speaker 3: there's no hope.
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  Speaker 2: Well in summer suggesting that no hope and that gee,
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  Speaker 2: we've been let down by the Republicans in Columbus for
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  Speaker 2: so long, why would we reward them with yet another
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to run the state House. In this Ramaswamy Amy
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  Speaker 2: Acting discussion, we have this new poll out. Acting's ahead
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  Speaker 2: of Ramaswamy by a couple points. It's within the margin
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  Speaker 2: of error, but the unfavorability rating against Ramaswami is pretty
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  Speaker 2: high compared to Amy acting. That one just puzzles the
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  Speaker 2: hell out of me. Sixteen percent of Republican voters view
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  Speaker 2: Ramaswami as unfavorable, and I struggle to find out a
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  Speaker 2: reason why anybody could view is unfavorable, most notably when
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  Speaker 2: you compare him to any lockdown acting who's never held office.
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  Speaker 2: So we don't know what she's necessarily going to do,
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  Speaker 2: but the one thing that she did do is shut
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  Speaker 2: our schools down and make life miserable for the state
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  Speaker 2: of Ohio. I mean, how can you run on a
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  Speaker 2: platform and be ahead of Ramaswami when he wants everything
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  Speaker 2: great for the state of Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: That's exactly right.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't understand it either, Brian, because here's a
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  Speaker 3: guy that is not your typical for the people that
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  Speaker 3: are complaining about the swamp and the rhinos and everything
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  Speaker 3: that's happening in Columbus.
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  Speaker 1: Fine, but so what is it?
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  Speaker 3: You're looking at a guy, a very successful, young family
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  Speaker 3: businessman who has just filled with the energy and doing
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  Speaker 3: the things and saying the things, and has proven to
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  Speaker 3: be the exact person that you say that you want,
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  Speaker 3: and you don't like him because of what one or
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  Speaker 3: two things about it. Give me a break.
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  Speaker 1: Stop it. That's crazy.
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  Speaker 3: And anyone that's thinking like that again, I put you
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  Speaker 3: in the category of being worse than the far left
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  Speaker 3: liberal Democrats.
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  Speaker 1: That's crazy.
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  Speaker 3: You cannot vote or not vote and allow someone like
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  Speaker 3: Amy act and to take over our state.
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  Speaker 1: Give me a break. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Really well, And the same thing's going on with the
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  Speaker 2: Houston shared Brown race, and that one's another one puzzler
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  Speaker 2: for me. I mean, I guess some people might have
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  Speaker 2: a bad taste in the mouth over something John Houston
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  Speaker 2: might have done. But when you're talking about against Shared Brown,
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  Speaker 2: it's against the best interest I've at least any member
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  Speaker 2: of the Republican Party, and I would argue my libertarian
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  Speaker 2: friends out there and independents are seemingly overwhelmingly are largely
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  Speaker 2: in favor of Shared Brown as well. This is a
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  Speaker 2: significant challenge.
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  Speaker 1: Josh, Yeah, no, it is.
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  Speaker 3: And I realized that, and I knew when you took
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  Speaker 3: the job and ran for the job that we do
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  Speaker 3: have these challenges. But what are we going to do
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  Speaker 3: just not do anything and give up and throw our
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  Speaker 3: hands and say, well, right, I guess it's over for
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  Speaker 3: Hamilton County, over for the state of Ohio. Absolutely not.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not willing to do it. And I think there's
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people out there that are also willing
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  Speaker 3: to get behind the cause. And that's what I've seen
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  Speaker 3: over the last couple of weeks since I've been in
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  Speaker 3: this office, is there is a lot of energy in
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  Speaker 3: people that do want to fight for common sense and
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  Speaker 3: it starts right here in Hamilton County. And I think
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  Speaker 3: the biggest thing that we have to focus on. Here
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  Speaker 3: is what's happening in our backyard. And it starts, and
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  Speaker 3: you mentioned it earlier with the judges, the nine judges
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  Speaker 3: that we have running on the ballot this year.
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  Speaker 2: All right, We're going to stop right there because I'm
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  Speaker 2: staring at it, and I want to applaud you in
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  Speaker 2: the Hamilton County Republican Party for getting the slate out early.
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  Speaker 2: I'm staring at it right now. You've got a Facebook
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  Speaker 2: post at least one place I've seen it, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure it's being widely circulated, the list of the judicial candidates.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to talk about that with Josh Girth. Let's
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  Speaker 2: take a quick pause the station A thirty eight to
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  Speaker 2: fifty five Kris the Talk Station, Brian Thomas with Hamilton
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  Speaker 2: County Republican Party President or chair rather it chairman Josh
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  Speaker 2: Girth and Josh pivoting over to the judicial races. We
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  Speaker 2: have a real problem with crime in downtown Cincinnati, MAB.
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  Speaker 2: I think everybody's noticed that, maybe Hamilton County generally speaking,
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  Speaker 2: the failure seems to me to be the judicial brand.
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  Speaker 2: Although some people have criticism for the Prosecutor's office, but
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  Speaker 2: the refusal to even go after juveniles to put them
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  Speaker 2: through the court system to make straighten up and fly right,
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  Speaker 2: or you're gonna have even bigger problems down the road.
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  Speaker 2: No one wants to create a record for a juvenile
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  Speaker 2: in spite of how heinous some of the crimes are,
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  Speaker 2: and a lot of judges letting them go, not prosecuting them.
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  Speaker 2: No bond, no bail. It seems to be the real
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  Speaker 2: problem right there in the front end. If you can't
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  Speaker 2: get the judges or to sentence and hold accountability, then
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  Speaker 2: even if you have a great prosecutor's office and wonderful police,
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  Speaker 2: which I would argue we do in the city of Cincinnati,
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  Speaker 2: the whole thing falls in on itself. Punishment is the
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  Speaker 2: key element of the criminal justice system. You know, the
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  Speaker 2: whole idea that I'm going to be held accountable for
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  Speaker 2: any crime I commit. A warning, it's a deterrence. I
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  Speaker 2: know what's going to happen to me, because it happened
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  Speaker 2: to my friend. He got locked up. No one seems
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  Speaker 2: to appreciate that anymore. We got to do something about
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  Speaker 2: the judges. Josh Girth, I see the list, one of
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  Speaker 2: the most important ones on there right now. Given our
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  Speaker 2: juvenile problem is Susan Lucan.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, who's a new candidate, a great person, great fit
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  Speaker 3: for that role, has the experience as a magistrate. She's
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  Speaker 3: exactly the kind of person that we want to recruit
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  Speaker 3: to run for these positions. And you hit the nail
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  Speaker 3: on the head. There is a real problem in Hamilton
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  Speaker 3: County with crime, and it's not being dealt with, plain
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  Speaker 3: and simple, it's.
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  Speaker 1: Not being dealt with.
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  Speaker 3: And let's just take Republican and Democrat monikers off everybody
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  Speaker 3: for now, and let's just talk about common sense. Let's
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  Speaker 3: talk about nothing happens without law and order, period, end
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  Speaker 3: up story. That's a problem in Hamilton County, and it's
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  Speaker 3: a problem because of the people that were elected to
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  Speaker 3: represent the bench and keep law and order, which they
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  Speaker 3: are not doing. So we have nine judges, six of
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  Speaker 3: which who are on the bench now, three who are new.
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  Speaker 3: Those are our focus for the next five months. We
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  Speaker 3: it's just like when Massy and Gallerin ran and everyone
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  Speaker 3: was so sick and tired of seeing those ads. Our
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  Speaker 3: goal between now and then is to make you so
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  Speaker 3: indotrinated with these names that you go into the polling
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  Speaker 3: place starting in October and you know them without even
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  Speaker 3: having to pick up that's a card.
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  Speaker 2: But that's the good part about it. If people are
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  Speaker 2: rolling their eyes going, oh no, no, I don't want that,
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  Speaker 2: yes you do, because the judicial races are the hardest
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  Speaker 2: races to get people to, yeah, maybe even to pick
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  Speaker 2: someone because they're not they don't have a party candidate
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  Speaker 2: after them, so you neither your pink or your blue
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  Speaker 2: slip to know which party they're basically affiliated with. But
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  Speaker 2: no one or fewer people spend any time in the
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  Speaker 2: court system to have any concept of what these people
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  Speaker 2: are about, or maybe even what their job is. So
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  Speaker 2: finding out about judicial candidates and knowing which one you
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  Speaker 2: want to vote for is a bit of a challenge.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm glad to hear that you're planning on rolling
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  Speaker 2: out this this carpet bomb effort.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's exactly what we're doing. I mean, is
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  Speaker 3: it is important to get this out now and for
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  Speaker 3: it to become commonplace everywhere we can put it. And
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  Speaker 3: there's things you know you mentioned earlier.
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  Speaker 1: What can people do? How are we going to get
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  Speaker 1: people energized?
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  Speaker 3: And there's a number of things we can do, and
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  Speaker 3: so I'm going to give you four things that people
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  Speaker 3: can do starting now, and the first thing is go
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  Speaker 3: to our website, go to our Facebook page, take that
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  Speaker 3: judicial slate, save it and then post it on your
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  Speaker 3: website or I'm sorry, your Facebook page, pin it to
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  Speaker 3: the top. If you care about the future of this party,
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  Speaker 3: do that simple step today. Take that slate. Pin it
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  Speaker 3: to the top of your Facebook page so that when
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  Speaker 3: anybody visits there any time you're on activity wise, people
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  Speaker 3: see that card. That is important. That's the easiest thing
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  Speaker 3: someone can do right now. There's also a couple of
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  Speaker 3: events coming up this month that I want to make
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  Speaker 3: sure people know about. One is a big but we
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  Speaker 3: call fundraiser Judicial Salute that is going to be on
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  Speaker 3: July twenty third downtown to Queen City Club. All the
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  Speaker 3: informations on our website. If people want to get involved
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  Speaker 3: from a donation standpoint, that's a great spot to do
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  Speaker 3: it because we're going to have a lot of people
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  Speaker 3: at that event. We're going to have a Supreme Court
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  Speaker 3: judges there as honorary guests, all kinds of excitement around that.
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  Speaker 3: But then for the ones that just want to activate
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  Speaker 3: and do something more of a grassroots and volunteer, we're
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  Speaker 3: going to have a volunteers for Victory rally, and that's
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  Speaker 3: on Tuesday, July twenty eighth. It'll be in Anderson Township
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  Speaker 3: at the American Legion Hall.
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  Speaker 1: Again, information on our website.
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  Speaker 3: And then we're going to do another one a couple
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  Speaker 3: weeks later on the west side of town. Those type
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  Speaker 3: of events are what we're going to do to try
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  Speaker 3: and gather people and say, look, we need a couple
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  Speaker 3: hours of your time this election season to help us win,
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  Speaker 3: help us put these judges in the place that they
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  Speaker 3: need to be, which is on that bench.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and I would think you know, most folks, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I Alwuyds like to refer to people to pay attention
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  Speaker 2: to politics as close as as close as you and
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  Speaker 2: I do. We're weed dwellers, and you and I and
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  Speaker 2: everybody else in my listening audience knows full well that
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  Speaker 2: the vast majority of folks out in the world really aren't.
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  Speaker 2: They don't spend a whole lot of time paying attention
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  Speaker 2: to politics. So weed dwellers, people who care are motivated
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  Speaker 2: to vote, get in touch with someone one of your
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  Speaker 2: neighbors who you know is not inclined to go out
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  Speaker 2: and vote, and try to convince them all the reasons why,
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  Speaker 2: you know, not voting or sitting on your hands is
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  Speaker 2: guaranteeing that you're going to get some terrible result here
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  Speaker 2: when the election could come rolling around. So at least
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  Speaker 2: get up off your butt and do one thing, and
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  Speaker 2: that's go in and vote.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely And the other thing you can do is reach
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  Speaker 3: out to me. I am here to help, i am
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  Speaker 3: here to talk. I'm here to meet with anybody that
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  Speaker 3: wants to meet. Send me an email chairman at Hamilton
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  Speaker 3: County Republicanparty dot org and let me know how you
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  Speaker 3: want to help, or ask me questions or invite me
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  Speaker 3: to places.
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  Speaker 1: We will show up. That's the one thing.
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  Speaker 3: That we will do a better job than we've ever
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  Speaker 3: done before is showing up. We're gonna make it fun.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna give people a reason to get out and vote.
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  Speaker 3: Just like you said, the number one priority that has
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  Speaker 3: to happen in November is people have to go out
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  Speaker 3: and vote for common sense, law and order candidates.
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  Speaker 2: No question about it, and those include let's just run
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  Speaker 2: down real quick. We'll start here in letting people start
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  Speaker 2: assuming or absorbing the information. The judicial candidates in Hamilton County.
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  Speaker 2: Judge Ralph Winkler, demonstrably awesome guy right there. Susan Lucan,
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  Speaker 2: absolutely for juvenile he's here for probate court. Susan Lucan
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  Speaker 2: for juvenile Court. Roger Bouchard, and feel free to chime
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  Speaker 2: in if there's any extra fun facts you want to
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  Speaker 2: add about any of these individuals. I've had the pleasure
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  Speaker 2: of meeting most of them. Roger Bouchard, Judge Katie Cash,
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  Speaker 2: Judge Leah dink Locker. She's a real nice lady and
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  Speaker 2: seems to be a great jurist as well. Judge Robert Gerring,
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  Speaker 2: we all know him. Dennis Charles mahoney, Judge Chris McDowell,
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  Speaker 2: and Judge Betsy's Sunnyman. Betsy's been on the program quite
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  Speaker 2: a few times over the years, and she is out
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  Speaker 2: outstanding as well and has demonstrated it.
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  Speaker 1: Gosh, yep. Absolutely great slate, great slate indeed.
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  Speaker 2: Great slate indeed, and we'll be hearing more from you regularly,
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  Speaker 2: I hope here in the Morning Show. And as so
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  Speaker 2: far as the Facebook page is concerned, just search for
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  Speaker 2: Hamilton County Republican Party. The website is Hamilton County Republicanparty
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  Speaker 2: dot org and you can reach Josh at just at
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  Speaker 2: at Hamilton Countypublic dot org. Is it a chairman, you said, correct, chairman.
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  Speaker 3: Chairman chairman at Hamilton County Republican Party dot org.
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  Speaker 2: There you go, send him an email if you know
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  Speaker 2: how to help out fun ways of moving forward and
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  Speaker 2: having success in November. Bet it would be a glorious
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  Speaker 2: thing if Hamilton County went red in November. Josh, let's
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  Speaker 2: all pray for that and I'll wish you all the
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  Speaker 2: best and making that happen. And you always have the
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  Speaker 2: morning show here to help get the information out