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GA State Senator and Lt. Governor Candidate Blake Tillery · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews you need to start
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  Speaker 1: your day. You're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show.
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  Speaker 2: Tuesday morning, ninth day of September. I'm Wes, thanks for
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  Speaker 2: joining me. Another day back at it with a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of a rasp. I heard from some of you yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Only a couple of you could hear any difference in
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  Speaker 2: the voice. Most of you said I sounded pretty normal.
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  Speaker 2: I'll take that. I appreciate it. There is a little
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  Speaker 2: bit there. I can hear it, but I'm doing a
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  Speaker 2: good job of faking it. I guess I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: or my doctor did a great job getting me on
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  Speaker 2: the right path. But a little bit of a rasp
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  Speaker 2: going on after my surgery back on Thursday. But I
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  Speaker 2: feel like I'm in a really, really good place, considering
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  Speaker 2: the surgery was Thursday morning and it's only now Tuesday morning.
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  Speaker 2: So anyway, great to hear from some of you, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad that you were glad that I'm back, and
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  Speaker 2: I definitely appreciate that from yesterday. We have a guest
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  Speaker 2: joining us this morning. He is actually headed to Columbus
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  Speaker 2: for an event this evening with the Muscogee County Republican Party.
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  Speaker 2: It's Georgia District nineteen State Senator Blake Tillery and he's
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  Speaker 2: now a candidate for lieutenant governor for Georgia, and he
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  Speaker 2: joins us, now, welcome.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you eus, great man. Alway, let's just.
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  Speaker 2: Jump right into it. You are now a candidate for
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  Speaker 2: lieutenant governor. And why I know we're at this point
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  Speaker 2: right now in politics across the country, and I know
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  Speaker 2: we want to focus this more on Georgia because obviously
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  Speaker 2: that's where you're running. But it's sort of a weird
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  Speaker 2: time in politics, especially for I think for Republicans, just
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  Speaker 2: because we're in a little bit of a different era
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  Speaker 2: and I never would have imagined we would have had
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  Speaker 2: a time where maybe some of us felt like we
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  Speaker 2: had to hold back what we wanted to say. At times,
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  Speaker 2: we felt like we didn't know if we were going
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  Speaker 2: to be stepping on toes. We didn't want to offend people.
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  Speaker 2: All of a sudden, we have this presidential election and
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  Speaker 2: now we're at a time where you can say, again,
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  Speaker 2: what's on your mind? That feels good and it sort
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  Speaker 2: of introduces this new, I guess doorway into what's moving forward.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like for Republicans. Do you feel that way?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, well, I think you have literally taken and encapsulated
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  Speaker 3: what I've been saying for the past four months talking
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  Speaker 3: to the groups and said it in two sentences. So
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  Speaker 3: I should have called this show a whole lot earlier.
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  Speaker 2: Glad to be of service, Glad to be of service? Well,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, is that a big part of
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  Speaker 2: where we're going as Republicans now and where things are
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  Speaker 2: moving in that direction?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you've hit the nail on the head,
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  Speaker 3: at least as how people felt. I've been a Republican
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  Speaker 3: for tech. I can't remember when I wasn't a Republican.
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  Speaker 3: I was eight or ten years old and understood that
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  Speaker 3: small government principles mattered more to me. My parents are
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  Speaker 3: still hard work in ethics than me. I felt like
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  Speaker 3: my life was more like my grandma variance life in
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  Speaker 3: my friend's life. I just understood working hard matter and
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  Speaker 3: what you saw in the Republican Party for like you said,
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  Speaker 3: maybe to go back ten years, his folks thought that,
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  Speaker 3: I guess Nixon coined to as the silent majority. Right.
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  Speaker 3: They couldn't say what they thought. They just had to
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  Speaker 3: go vote, and voting was enough. What we saw over
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  Speaker 3: the past ten years is that that was not enough.
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  Speaker 3: It was not enough simply to vote that if you
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  Speaker 3: allowed the vocal minority to rule that you would see
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  Speaker 3: gender extremism, you would see soft borders, you'd see folks
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  Speaker 3: who would literally say that we didn't need to have police.
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  Speaker 3: And that is not something that our country was willing
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  Speaker 3: to accept, our state was not willing to accept. And
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  Speaker 3: you've really seen that over the past eight years, really
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  Speaker 3: begin to reverse. So while Republicans felt in the past
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  Speaker 3: decade that they could stand on their fifty yard line
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  Speaker 3: and just catch the liberal look agenda as it was
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  Speaker 3: thrown at them and pushed back, they realized that they
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  Speaker 3: were slowly retreating. We were then on our thirty We
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  Speaker 3: were find ourselves on our twenty yard line, and woke
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  Speaker 3: up one day and realized, hey, we're on a one
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  Speaker 3: yard line. If we don't start pushing back, we're going
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  Speaker 3: to be in our own end zone and this game's over.
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  Speaker 3: So I agree with you completely what you've seen over
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  Speaker 3: the past eight years. I attributed a whole lot President
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  Speaker 3: Chunk is being able to say when the emperor doesn't
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  Speaker 3: have clothes, point that out, that's no longer considered faux
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  Speaker 3: pad to say, hey, listen, a man as a man
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  Speaker 3: and a woman as a woman. That shouldn't be contentious.
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  Speaker 3: So I think you summed it up a whole lot
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  Speaker 3: better in two sentences that I've just spent in the
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  Speaker 3: past two minutes trying today.
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  Speaker 2: Well, but you talk about that encroachment onto certain things
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  Speaker 2: and you feel like, you know, you're losing ground, and
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  Speaker 2: you're losing ground, and this has been the first time
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  Speaker 2: in a while that it felt like ground has been
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  Speaker 2: gained in all of the right ways, and we're starting
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  Speaker 2: to see things like, all of a sudden, now something
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  Speaker 2: that you just took for granted that hey, crime is bad,
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  Speaker 2: and it just felt for a long time, and it's
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  Speaker 2: still in parts of the country feels that way where
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  Speaker 2: and we had this happen in joy you know, somebody
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  Speaker 2: sits a police car on fire and they say, well,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they're just doing it to watch it burn,
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  Speaker 2: And how is that not crime? Like, at what point
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  Speaker 2: are we just sort of giving into those things and
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  Speaker 2: saying that this is something that's okay to happen in our.
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  Speaker 3: State, or you're right, you're right. And thankfully, what we've
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  Speaker 3: seen over the past eight years, six years, four years,
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  Speaker 3: is that conservatives are willing to stand up and say, hey,
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  Speaker 3: we don't have to check our comment sense at the door.
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  Speaker 3: It's okay to say what we believe. It's okay to
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  Speaker 3: call out things that aren't appropriate in our country.
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  Speaker 2: If people aren't concerned about crime on the national level.
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  Speaker 2: And I know Georgia is one of the states that
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  Speaker 2: has done a better job of this. I feel like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we're certainly ahead of some of these things.
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  Speaker 2: But the people that are saying that crime isn't a
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  Speaker 2: problem in some states, in some cities, and we've gone
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  Speaker 2: through this. We have parts of Georgia that aren't perfect, certainly,
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  Speaker 2: But I think that the people who aren't concerned about
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  Speaker 2: it or just putting their head in the sand and
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  Speaker 2: pretending that things aren't contributing to it. And one of
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  Speaker 2: those things, of course, is what was allowed to happen
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  Speaker 2: at our southern border for so long during the last administration.
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  Speaker 3: You're right, and it started before then. I can't just
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  Speaker 3: blame the past administration. We have to start back before then,
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  Speaker 3: even when Republicans were in charge. So if you're going
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  Speaker 3: to leave your front door unlocked for that long and
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  Speaker 3: think someone's not going to walk in. Eventually, you're going
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  Speaker 3: to get robbed. So a lot of the stories that
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  Speaker 3: we see now that really are their tear dirty and
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  Speaker 3: they're heart wrenching at times. Those stories can exist now
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  Speaker 3: because for forty years we didn't enforce our loss. There
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  Speaker 3: are consequences to not enforcing your loss.
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  Speaker 2: And we're seeing. I mean, we just in Georgia now,
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  Speaker 2: and I said, you know, as far as crime goes,
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  Speaker 2: we can say George has done a good job. But
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  Speaker 2: we just had this Hyundai plant and we know this
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  Speaker 2: is now a big story right now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it certainly is. And I down here in my
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  Speaker 3: neck of the woods in southeast Georgia, I had a
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  Speaker 3: bill this year that would work to hold elected officials
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  Speaker 3: and sanctuary cities accountable for their actions. And we see
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  Speaker 3: now that had employers doing the same. Georgia law also
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  Speaker 3: prohibits employers from hiring people who aren't in our country. Legally,
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  Speaker 3: we have to enforce all the laws, not just those
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  Speaker 3: that we want to when we want to. And I
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  Speaker 3: hope I had you kind of gave me some segue here, Wes.
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  Speaker 3: And the bill I had last year on sanctuary cities,
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  Speaker 3: we've already set in Georgia that if you're a sanctuary
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  Speaker 3: city or you're not following Georgia immigration laws, that you're
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  Speaker 3: not eligible for state funding. We've already said that, but
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  Speaker 3: we found that that wasn't enough, so I dropped this
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  Speaker 3: bill last year that said, if you're an elected official
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  Speaker 3: or a sanctuary city that's not enforcing Georgia's immigration laws
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  Speaker 3: and people are hurt because of it. I think case
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  Speaker 3: in point would be Lake and Riley. She was hurt
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  Speaker 3: because at this part county was not enforcing Georgia immigration laws.
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  Speaker 3: Then that family should be able to recover from that city.
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  Speaker 3: There's only two or three things that are ever going
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  Speaker 3: to move a local government to action. One is the
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  Speaker 3: threat of not getting reelected. Then it happens they're going
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  Speaker 3: to get re elected. Another is the threat of going
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  Speaker 3: to jail. We're never going to throw a city in jail.
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  Speaker 3: But the third is their pocketbook. And if we can
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  Speaker 3: take these cities that are not following Georgia law and
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  Speaker 3: say you now are going to be held financially responsible
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  Speaker 3: for the crimes you've called or the harms you've caused
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  Speaker 3: because of it, I do think that's a way that
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  Speaker 3: we can again advance across the fifty yard line with
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  Speaker 3: our policy and our beliefs on the illegal immigration.
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  Speaker 2: All right, here's one I'm really anxious to hear you
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  Speaker 2: talk about because I know it's something that's close to
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  Speaker 2: you or close for you in a big issue for you.
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  Speaker 2: But let's talk about state income tax.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir well, I chair the Budget the Senate of
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  Speaker 3: Proparations Committing and so I've been looking at this for
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  Speaker 3: several years of how can we continue to lower and
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  Speaker 3: Governor Kimpston really good job with Speaker Barnes and Liutenant
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  Speaker 3: Governor Jones of reducing our state income tax. We've reduced
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  Speaker 3: at fifteen percent since I've been Chairman of the Senate
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  Speaker 3: of Preparations Committee. But that's just a darn good start.
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  Speaker 3: We can take our state income tax to zero. You
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  Speaker 3: know that we have two neighboring states that have already
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  Speaker 3: done that. It's Florida and Tennessee. We also have North
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  Speaker 3: Carolina and South Carolina that are rapidly approaching zero with
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  Speaker 3: their income tax. And then you've got some blue states too.
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  Speaker 3: They're not always conservatives, but blue states like Washington and
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  Speaker 3: New Hampshire that have also taken their state income tax
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  Speaker 3: to zero. So we've been looking at this for a
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  Speaker 3: while to figure out how we can do it. Lieutenant
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  Speaker 3: Governor Jones thankfully is tasked me as the chair of
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  Speaker 3: the committee to figure out not how we do it,
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  Speaker 3: rather but not sorry, I apologize, not if we do it,
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  Speaker 3: but rather how and when we do it. And I
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  Speaker 3: think that this is the year. We've already started some
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  Speaker 3: of the subcommittee processes on that. There'll be another one
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  Speaker 3: just next week looking at other states. And this is duiful.
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  Speaker 3: Folks are going to say, oh, well, you know income
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  Speaker 3: tax makes up forty to fifty percent of Georgia's revenue. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: it does, it does. But other states have been able
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  Speaker 3: to do this, so we can do it too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, And you know, it feels like this is
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  Speaker 2: the time, and I think that's kind of and as
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  Speaker 2: you point out neighboring states and others that are trying
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  Speaker 2: to do the same thing, this feels like the time
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  Speaker 2: I told you i'd give you an opportunity to kind
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  Speaker 2: of introduce yourself a little bit to the folks outside
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  Speaker 2: of District nineteen, specifically here in my area. And I
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  Speaker 2: know family is a big component about the reason why
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  Speaker 2: you decided to run for lieutenant governor, So if you
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  Speaker 2: could just talk a little bit about that and your
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  Speaker 2: family and what yeah this would mean.
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  Speaker 3: So sure, thanks very I guess we'll back up into it.
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  Speaker 3: We jumped right into the issues, and those excite me.
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  Speaker 3: It excites me what opportunities we have here in Georgia.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm glad we jumped right into that, but we
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  Speaker 3: probably did skip some of the introduction part. Well. I
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  Speaker 3: got elected to the County Commission about twelve years ago,
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  Speaker 3: fourteen years ago, and then I've been in the Senate
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  Speaker 3: for about the past eight or nine. My Senate district
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  Speaker 3: is centered around my hometown by Bylia. It goes from
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  Speaker 3: roughly Soberden to Hinesville to jess Up to Douglas. If
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  Speaker 3: you know much of Southeast Georgia, eleven counties down there,
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  Speaker 3: it's been an honor to represent them. I'm married to
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  Speaker 3: a physician, Ashley Nicole, she's an OBG I M and
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  Speaker 3: we have two little boys, William and John, they're four
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  Speaker 3: and one. And then we have two foster kids that
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  Speaker 3: live with us right now. One of them turns sixteen
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  Speaker 3: this week, so pray for us. You think it's hard
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  Speaker 3: to teach somebody how to drive. I mean, try to
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  Speaker 3: teaching somebody how to drive when they haven't always lived
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  Speaker 3: in your household. It's a little bit more difficult. So
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  Speaker 3: we're learning. But our hearts are just full with those
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  Speaker 3: little boys in our house, and really I just have
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  Speaker 3: an amazing family.
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  Speaker 2: And you are headed to Columbus this evening for an
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  Speaker 2: event with the Muscogee County Republican Party.
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  Speaker 3: That's correct on I sixteen right now, headed that way
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  Speaker 3: and we'll be meeting with other folks out the day
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  Speaker 3: as well. But this evening speaking at the Muskoge County
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  Speaker 3: Republican Party and just again talking about issues that we
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  Speaker 3: think matter to Georgia. It's about fighting extreamism, having strong,
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  Speaker 3: secure borders, and reducing taxes. It's a very simple platform.
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  Speaker 3: It's a platform I ran on when I ran for
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  Speaker 3: County Commission of saying, let's keep taxes love. We delivered
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  Speaker 3: on that when I ran for the State Senate saying
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  Speaker 3: and again and delivered on that one. And it's a
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  Speaker 3: platform that I feel I can deliver on again if
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  Speaker 3: the people of this state in trust me as they
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  Speaker 3: were next Lieutenant Governor.
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  Speaker 2: Georgia State Senator Blake Tillery, thanks for joining us this morning.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you so much, less have a great day.
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  Speaker 2: health threat to others and isn't a disturbance due to
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  Speaker 2: things like, you know, loud barking. That would be a
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  Speaker 2: problem if you're trying to study and dogs are barking.
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  Speaker 2: But hey, it's dorm life, right gen Z putting down
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  Speaker 2: their phones and picking up crochet needles, craving connection. Young
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  Speaker 2: adults are gathering for craft nights and game nights. We've
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  Speaker 2: talked about this a few times over the past year
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  Speaker 2: or so. Supper clubs also popular. The hobbies aren't just
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  Speaker 2: about making stuff, they're about slowing down, being present, and
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  Speaker 2: actually talking to people face to face. One craft club
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  Speaker 2: founder called it medicine and science. Backs are up. Studies
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  Speaker 2: show creative hobbies can boost life satisfaction and help regulate
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  Speaker 2: stress can The household thermostat has long been a source
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  Speaker 2: of fighting for couples who can't quite agree on comfortable temperatures,
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  Speaker 2: but a proposed bill in the Ohio General Assembly may
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  Speaker 2: be putting an end to the bickering by taking away
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  Speaker 2: a homeowner's ability to set their own thermostat. House Built
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  Speaker 2: four twenty seven would give energy companies the ability to
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  Speaker 2: temporarily adjust to home's thermostat and water heaters during periods
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  Speaker 2: of high demand in order to reduce the strain on
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  Speaker 2: the state's power grid. The program is voluntary, residents would
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  Speaker 2: sign up for it and could possibly receive some sort
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  Speaker 2: of compensation for their cooperation. Careful now, careful now. You
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  Speaker 2: can't give up any ground. You give up a little ground,
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  Speaker 2: they're going to take as much as they can take,
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  Speaker 2: even if it's initially voluntary. So if you've ever dealt
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: with nagging lower back pain, there's some good news. Taking
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  Speaker 2: a long walk every day might help keep it at bay.
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  Speaker 2: A study out of Norway followed over eleven thousand adults
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  Speaker 2: who have back pain and found that over four years,
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  Speaker 2: a walk of about one hundred minutes a day was
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  Speaker 2: linked to a twenty three percent lower risk of developing
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  Speaker 2: chronic lower back pain. What's interesting is that how long
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  Speaker 2: you walk matters more than how fast. Researchers used motion
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  Speaker 2: sensing devices to track people's actual movement, not just self reporters,
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  Speaker 2: and they found that the benefits leveled off after about
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  Speaker 2: one hundred minutes of walking each day, so you don't
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  Speaker 2: need to power walk. Just consistent movement seems to be
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  Speaker 2: a big help. The study also showed that walking could
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  Speaker 2: be broken up throughout the day, so think short walks
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  Speaker 2: to the store, a lunchtime stroll, an evening walk around
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  Speaker 2: the neighborhood. It's just about cumulative. You want to add
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  Speaker 2: up the time. It doesn't have to all be in
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: one stretch. So that also helps as well. If you're
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: a parent and you get the sense that raising kids
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: feels more expensive than ever you're not imagining at a
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: new survey found eighty three three percent of parents say
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  Speaker 2: that the cost has gotten out of control. Seventy seven
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  Speaker 2: percent of parents said that they feel pressure to keep
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  Speaker 2: up with other families by spending more than they should.
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  Speaker 2: Between inflation, social media pressure, and endless stream of kid
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: related expenses, families are feeling the squeeze. But it's not
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: all doom and gloom. Parents are battling back just a bit.
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  Speaker 2: Compared to non parents, they're more likely to set budgets,
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  Speaker 2: create financial plans, and work with advisors to work their
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: way through bumpy economic times. So there you go. September
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  Speaker 2: means people are already talking about holiday shopping, and a
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: new survey predicts that spending will dip five percent this year.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: Gen Z is driving pullback and spending with a dramatic
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: twenty three percent cut in budgets compared to last season.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of factors at play. Rising call, smaller paychecks,
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: love for experiences instead of stuff, are changing how younger
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: shoppers are approaching the holidays. So if you're gift list
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  Speaker 2: is looking leaner this year, you are not alone. That'll
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