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The "Smither-vent" - Episode 156 - Deadline to register to vote is October 5th · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: 720 here, 55KRCD Talk Station. Happy Monday. It always is
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  Speaker 1: happy Monday at this time on Monday because it's Christopher
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  Speaker 1: Smitherman with the Smith event. Welcome back. Christopher Smitherman, former
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  Speaker 1: vice mayor of the city of Cincinnati. It's always great
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  Speaker 1: having you on the program, my friend.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much. What a great letter from a
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  Speaker 2: great lawyer and friend, Stephen Gooden.
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  Speaker 1: He's a great guy.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's bold and I like that.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 2: He put it out there. And he's really talking to
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  Speaker 2: everybody in the city. He's using the hook to say
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  Speaker 2: he's talking about the possibility of another candidate, but he's
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  Speaker 2: really talking to all members of city council, the mayor,
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  Speaker 2: the city manager, the city solicitor's office. It's a flair.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know why there's this... mindset in Cincinnati
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  Speaker 2: that they don't listen to leaders like that who are saying,
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  Speaker 2: meaning he's speaking to where a lot of citizens are. Now,
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  Speaker 2: whether that translates to their voting, which is what he
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  Speaker 2: was saying, I don't know if I could win if
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  Speaker 2: I ran for dog catcher. He doesn't know whether those
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  Speaker 2: things translate to that, but he's saying these are major
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  Speaker 2: problems in a city like Cincinnati. I saw on Saturday,
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  Speaker 2: and everybody else did, hopefully. It's a shame, but a
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  Speaker 2: woman shot in the head in downtown Cincinnati. That is
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  Speaker 2: riveting that you would say, I wake up and in
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  Speaker 2: my downtown... There's a woman shot in the head. That's
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  Speaker 2: on a Saturday. And then in Price Hill last night,
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  Speaker 2: you saw a shooting. Meaning these shootings are constantly happening.
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  Speaker 2: And notice how when the city hall says, well, we've
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  Speaker 2: only had so many deaths. Look, you and I aren't
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  Speaker 2: measuring only crime by the number of people that are killed.
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  Speaker 2: That is absolutely horrible, right? We're talking about all aspects
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  Speaker 2: of crimes. And we're talking about shootings where people are shot.
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  Speaker 2: They don't die, but they're shot. They're shot in the chest.
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  Speaker 2: They're shot in the leg. They're shot in the arm.
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  Speaker 2: They make it over to university hospital. And those medical
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  Speaker 2: teams save their lives every single night. Well, guess what?
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  Speaker 2: When they do their press conferences, they say crime is
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  Speaker 2: down because, you know, we didn't have this many people
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  Speaker 2: killed this time last year. That doesn't answer the question of,
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  Speaker 2: of how people in these 52 neighborhoods, your citizens feel,
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  Speaker 2: because we are focused on shots fired. We're laying in
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  Speaker 2: our beds and bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam.
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  Speaker 2: That's a crime, right? Or somebody breaks into your car
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  Speaker 2: or somebody is assaulted, right? These are all crimes are
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  Speaker 2: all happening around us and notice how they don't put
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  Speaker 2: that information out. So they're not telling us the complete picture.
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  Speaker 2: When I was the chair of, of law and public safety,
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  Speaker 2: we would always bring the police in. And Kevin Flynn,
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  Speaker 2: Amy Murray was the vice chair, and we would go
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  Speaker 2: through every criminal area so that everybody understood where we
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  Speaker 2: were up and where we were down. They don't do
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  Speaker 2: that anymore. They're hiding the football. So I want to
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  Speaker 2: see ShotSpotter, for example. I want to see all data
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  Speaker 2: over the last three years of ShotSpotter. What you have
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  Speaker 2: city council saying is they want to get rid of ShotSpotter.
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  Speaker 2: That's crazy. Well, because they don't want to measure. They
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  Speaker 2: don't want that accountability. So they want to get rid
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  Speaker 2: of systems like that that are helping our law enforcement
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  Speaker 2: officers go to a location where shots were fired. That
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  Speaker 2: is a crime. And that's the information that I want
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  Speaker 2: to know about because that is what is making citizens
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  Speaker 2: feel paralyzed in their homes.
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  Speaker 1: Well, isn't that also one of the mechanisms by which
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  Speaker 1: the police decide to allocate police resources? In other words,
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  Speaker 1: Shot spotters going off like 10 times more in this
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  Speaker 1: neighborhood than that one over there where we hardly have
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  Speaker 1: any instances of gunshots ringing out. So we need to
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  Speaker 1: put the police where the gunfire is. Doesn't that make sense, Christopher?
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  Speaker 2: A hundred percent.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it seems simple.
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  Speaker 2: It helps you allocate your resources, right? And you're sitting
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  Speaker 2: in a room with all collaborating law enforcement, which includes
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  Speaker 2: the judicial system, which I've never seen anything like this,
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  Speaker 2: where Someone with a gun is let out the next day,
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  Speaker 2: like the guy over at UC, right? He's got, I think,
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  Speaker 2: a $ 1, 000 bond at the end of the day. He's
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  Speaker 2: back on the street. This scares and terrorizes people in
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  Speaker 2: neighborhoods because they know, they call them shooters, Brian. They
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  Speaker 2: know that the shooter is out the next day. So
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  Speaker 2: why would they want to go and testify against somebody
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  Speaker 2: that a judge let out the next day? scary for
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  Speaker 2: people that are in the neighborhoods. And they say, oh,
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  Speaker 2: we want everybody in the neighborhood to cooperate. Right. We
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  Speaker 2: need our judges to cooperate and support our police officers
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  Speaker 2: and support our parole officers out there that are putting
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  Speaker 2: their lives on the line by arresting these people. You
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  Speaker 2: could at least keep them in jail for a while
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  Speaker 2: so that we can find out what happened and the
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  Speaker 2: neighborhood isn't feeling terrorized, Brian Thomas.
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  Speaker 1: Good point, Christopher Smithen.
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  Speaker 2: Pause.
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  Speaker 1: We will bring Christopher back with more of the event
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  Speaker 1: this morning here on the 55 KRC Morning Show.
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  Speaker 2: KRC, the talk station.
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  Speaker 1: It is 7.30, 55 KRC, the talk station. Brian Thomas
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  Speaker 1: with Christopher Smithman. Christopher, real quick here, I just want
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  Speaker 1: to interject this because my friend, Cribbage Mike, Submariner Mike,
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  Speaker 1: just sent me a photograph from the mayor's press conference
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  Speaker 1: at the Tauber House after that shooting. And right there,
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  Speaker 1: city manager Cheryl Long. And who is that standing next
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  Speaker 1: to her? Oh, Iris Rowley. How about that? Why would
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  Speaker 1: she be at a press conference involving a shooting?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. I have no idea. What I
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  Speaker 2: will say is the penicillin to all of this is voting.
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  Speaker 2: And we're down to the last days for people to
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  Speaker 2: register to vote, to participate in the November election, because
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  Speaker 2: early voting starts here in the first week of October.
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  Speaker 2: And so I registered an 18-year-old a week ago. Dave
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  Speaker 2: Backer of Auto Backer over on the west side called
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  Speaker 2: me up saying he had a young man that wanted
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  Speaker 2: to register to vote. It's a very empowering situation to
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  Speaker 2: register someone to vote who's never voted before. And as
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  Speaker 2: I registered him, I said, look, young man, do your homework.
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  Speaker 2: Have your own mind. Make sure that you understand the
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  Speaker 2: issues prior to going to the polls. Don't go to
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  Speaker 2: the polls and just grab a sample ballot and just
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  Speaker 2: vote down in a mindless way what everybody else is
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  Speaker 2: telling you to do. This is a very important, sacred
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  Speaker 2: thing that you have here. that so many people died
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  Speaker 2: for and fought for. You have to make sure that
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  Speaker 2: you exercise this with doing your basic homework. And so
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  Speaker 2: that's my message to everybody out there. First, there are
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people listening to this show who have
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  Speaker 2: never voted before. They're in their 50s and 60s. That
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  Speaker 2: is a mistake. And they still have the opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: turn that around and register to vote. There are people
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  Speaker 2: that are 18 years old right now. who can register
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  Speaker 2: to vote and participate. And there are people that are
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  Speaker 2: 17 who will be 18 by the November election, and
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  Speaker 2: they can register and vote. So we have to, as
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  Speaker 2: a people, as citizens, look around us in our neighborhoods,
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  Speaker 2: have a voter registration card, and spend the next few
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  Speaker 2: days registering one person and then make sure that that
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  Speaker 2: person has the information. You don't have to direct them
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  Speaker 2: who to vote for, but help that person providing them
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  Speaker 2: information so that they participate in the process as an
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  Speaker 2: informed voter.
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  Speaker 1: No question about it. Most notably in the judicial races, Christopher,
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  Speaker 1: we obviously have quite a few judges on the bench
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  Speaker 1: in Hamilton County that are really, really soft on crime.
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  Speaker 1: And most notably, Judge Carrie Bloom in the juvenile court.
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  Speaker 1: She's head of the juvenile court. Man, she has got
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  Speaker 1: some weird, weird perception of the criminal justice system. I
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  Speaker 1: think if she could eradicate it completely and let all
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  Speaker 1: these young people out on the street without any repercussions
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  Speaker 1: at all, she'd go down that road.
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  Speaker 2: And black Americans who... In some of these situations where
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  Speaker 2: crime is hurting their property values, putting their own children
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  Speaker 2: and grandchildren and nieces and nephews, their lives on the line,
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  Speaker 2: they can't just go down there and vote the Democratic
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  Speaker 2: ticket because the Democratic Party tells them to vote for
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  Speaker 2: somebody who's letting shooters out. Very, very dangerous. And so
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  Speaker 2: I encourage all of us to take this under consideration.
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  Speaker 2: But as a black American who wants my neighborhood safe, right?
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  Speaker 2: Number one, I want grandma and grandpa to be able
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  Speaker 2: to sit on their front porch and drink their minted
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  Speaker 2: tea and not have a sense that they're going to
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  Speaker 2: be shot or shot at or anybody that they love
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  Speaker 2: is shot. So you just can't go down there and
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  Speaker 2: vote down that ticket. You have to vote. and do
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  Speaker 2: your homework. And this has nothing to do with race.
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  Speaker 2: It has nothing to do with a party. It just
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  Speaker 2: has to do with making sure that your neighborhood is safe.
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  Speaker 2: And so when you ask me about what Irish Rowley
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  Speaker 2: is doing, I have no idea. All I'm saying to
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  Speaker 2: voters in this city who live and pay taxes, we
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  Speaker 2: deserve safe neighborhoods. And I would never vote for a judge.
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  Speaker 2: that let shooters, people with guns who shoot people, out
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  Speaker 2: the next day without bonds. That's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Well, do you get the impression that Judge Bloom perception
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  Speaker 1: on that? You got a juvenile in juvenile court in
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  Speaker 1: front of her. He was picked up on a gun charge.
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  Speaker 1: That's a person should never have a gun. It's not
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  Speaker 1: lawful for a non-emancipated minor to have a firearm. So
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  Speaker 1: let's start from there. Wouldn't you want that person to
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  Speaker 1: be held accountable? Why? And you said it doesn't even
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  Speaker 1: do with about race. I think it really is. I
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  Speaker 1: think that they do not want Carrie Bloom, for example,
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  Speaker 1: she perceives it to be racist to hold black people
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  Speaker 1: accountable for committing crimes. But it's so appalling when black
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  Speaker 1: people are killing black people. You've talked about this before.
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  Speaker 1: It's mostly black on black crime in these gunfire incidents
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  Speaker 1: that happen in downtown Cincinnati. That's not an indictment of
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  Speaker 1: black people. It's an indictment of the criminal element within
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  Speaker 1: that community who would kill their own people. It's awful
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  Speaker 1: to even think about it, Christopher.
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  Speaker 2: As we talk about this, because millions of black Americans
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  Speaker 2: are listening to this. I don't know about that. Look, 99.9%
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  Speaker 2: of black Americans are like you and I, get up
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  Speaker 2: every day, go to work, pay their bills, raise their children.
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  Speaker 2: They're not involved. It's a very small cancer in the
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  Speaker 2: black community, and they tend to be the same shooter.
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  Speaker 2: Meaning this person is shooting three or four people. They're
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  Speaker 2: doing multiple crimes. The problem is those kinds of judges,
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  Speaker 2: like you're describing, they let those people out. They then
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  Speaker 2: go and commit another crime while they're out. While they're
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  Speaker 2: out on their own bond, they commit another crime. The
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  Speaker 2: bottom line is, no, we don't want to vote for
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  Speaker 2: judges like that. You know, Leah Dinkinlocker is an example
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  Speaker 2: of somebody that I want to see get reelected. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: And I encourage people to vote for her. This is
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  Speaker 2: not some hardcore, I'm going to put you under the
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  Speaker 2: jail kind of judge. But it is a judge that
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  Speaker 2: if you come in her court, you got a gun,
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  Speaker 2: you shot at somebody, you shouldn't have had the gun.
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  Speaker 2: She's going to hold you accountable. We've got to have
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  Speaker 2: judges out there operating differently. in the best interest of
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  Speaker 2: keeping all of us safe. And by the way, when
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  Speaker 2: we come back, I'm going to talk a little bit
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  Speaker 2: about the governor's race because it's important to me. But
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  Speaker 2: what I want to say is people will go in, Brian,
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  Speaker 2: and they'll just vote for the governor and walk out.
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  Speaker 2: They can't do that. You've got to vote down the
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  Speaker 2: entire ballot. All of the judges, all of the congressional races,
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  Speaker 2: all of the Senate races, all the way down through
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  Speaker 2: all of the issues, vote your entire ballot. There's so
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  Speaker 2: many ballots where we call undervoting. Don't do that.
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  Speaker 1: Don't do that. Vote for everything. We'll bring Christopher back
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  Speaker 1: for some more comments on the one more segment with
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  Speaker 1: the Spleen event this Monday morning at 737 right now,
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  Speaker 1: 55 KRC, the talk station. 7.41 at 55KRCD Talk Station.
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  Speaker 1: Christopher Smithman on the program as he is every Monday
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  Speaker 1: for a few segments. Christopher, you have the floor.
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  Speaker 2: Brother, I'm not voting for anybody who I think is
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  Speaker 2: a socialist or a communist, period.
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: So anybody who has any kind of pronouncement or shows
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  Speaker 2: support for other candidates who are socialist or communist, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not supporting those candidates either. So people, when they go
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  Speaker 2: in and vote, you've got to really think about the
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  Speaker 2: direction of the state of Ohio. Vivek Ramaswamy is and
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  Speaker 2: should be, by a landslide, the next governor of the
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  Speaker 2: state of Ohio. I don't even see, seriously, I don't
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  Speaker 2: even see how there's even a big choice here between
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  Speaker 2: these two candidates. One candidate won't even debate the other candidate. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: meaning Vivek Ramaswamy's competitor won't even stand at a podium.
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  Speaker 2: She's so disrespectful that she believes, like Biden, get in
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  Speaker 2: my basement. I don't have to talk to voters. I
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  Speaker 2: don't have to go and have my ideas with the
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  Speaker 2: other candidates so we all can pick. She won't even
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  Speaker 2: provide us that opportunity. That, to me, just hurts her.
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  Speaker 2: of being the next governor. Just that one action is crazy.
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  Speaker 2: And I told you in one of my shows, Brian Thomas,
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  Speaker 2: I said if I were running for mayor and I said,
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  Speaker 2: Brian Thomas, I'm not going to debate the other person,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think you let me get away with that.
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  Speaker 1: Hell no.
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  Speaker 2: I think you have a comment about it. I think
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  Speaker 2: you would say, Christopher, this is the wrong decision. You
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  Speaker 2: should be debating the other person. So I don't know
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  Speaker 2: why the media, right, in a big way, well, I
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  Speaker 2: know why, because they're very liberal and they're down for
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  Speaker 2: this stuff. but they're not across the state of Ohio
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  Speaker 2: demanding that Amy Acton show up and do a debate
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  Speaker 2: with Vivek Ramaswamy. I find it incredibly disrespectful to voters
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  Speaker 2: and I encourage them to put that in their decision-making
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  Speaker 2: on who they're going to select to be the next
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  Speaker 2: governor of the state of Ohio, period. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I agree with you completely disqualifies her. I've been calling
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  Speaker 1: her a coward ever since she's been saying it out loud.
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  Speaker 1: She won't, she wouldn't debate him. I, Has she ever
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  Speaker 1: offered any explanation as to why she continues to hide
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  Speaker 1: in her basement and won't debate?
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  Speaker 2: She says that she is offended by the things that
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  Speaker 2: the Vivek Ramaswamy campaign is saying about her. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know what those things are that are being said that
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  Speaker 2: she's offended by, but that's what a debate is for.
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  Speaker 1: We also have to analyze who is saying it about her.
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  Speaker 1: Political action committees can say any damn thing they want.
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  Speaker 1: If it doesn't say, I'm Vivek Ramaswamy and I endorse
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  Speaker 1: this message, he didn't. So if I came up with
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  Speaker 1: a gazillion dollars and I wanted to run any damn
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  Speaker 1: ad I wanted, Amy Acton couldn't stop me and Vivek
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  Speaker 1: Ramaswamy couldn't stop me. I bought the airtime. I'm entitled
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  Speaker 1: to my say. So that's what's going on. If she
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  Speaker 1: wants to get to the bottom of this and find
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  Speaker 1: out what these evil things are saying, maybe she'd ask
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  Speaker 1: the political action committees or Go ahead and debate Vivek
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  Speaker 1: Ramaswamy and have him explain very clearly to the voters
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  Speaker 1: that I didn't say that. That was them.
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  Speaker 2: But how can you be the governor, Brian Thomas, if
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  Speaker 2: your feelings can be hurt so easily? How can you
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  Speaker 2: be the next governor if you're wearing your feelings like that? Oh, man,
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  Speaker 2: I really am hurt by and offended by. What are
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  Speaker 2: you talking about? The things that people say about any
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  Speaker 2: politician on any given day or any public figure is
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  Speaker 2: ten times worse than anything they've said about her. The
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  Speaker 2: question is, are the things that are being said true? Right.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what a debate would do. What she doesn't
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  Speaker 2: want to do is get on the podium and debate him,
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  Speaker 2: because if he says, hey, here are some things that
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  Speaker 2: I know about you. Right. She doesn't want to say, oh,
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  Speaker 2: those things aren't true because maybe some of them are true.
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  Speaker 2: At the end of the day, we deserve in the
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  Speaker 2: state of Ohio a debate. And it's a shame that
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  Speaker 2: the Amy Acton team, our campaign will not provide that.
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  Speaker 2: I've never seen anything like it, but I can tell
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  Speaker 2: you the state of Ohio makes presidents. Many presidents come
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  Speaker 2: from the state of Ohio. I don't want a governor
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  Speaker 2: who's unwilling to debate who might be one click away
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  Speaker 2: from the presidency of the United States of America, period.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, wow, that's a bold leap, and I don't even
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  Speaker 1: want to live in a day where she's viable as
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  Speaker 1: a candidate for presidency, but here I am. Staring at, yes,
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  Speaker 1: I know how we feel about polls, but polls that
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  Speaker 1: suggest she's ahead of Evie Agrama, so I'm here in
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  Speaker 1: the state of Ohio, which still is red. That's frightening. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the other thing component of this, is this
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  Speaker 1: part of an M.O. in terms of Amy Acton? She
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  Speaker 1: walked off the job of medical director, right? She quit.
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  Speaker 1: And if you can't stay out of the kitchen, well,
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  Speaker 1: apparently she couldn't handle the heat of being the medical director,
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  Speaker 1: so she quit the job. And now she won't debate.
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  Speaker 1: She wants to be the governor of the state of
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  Speaker 1: Ohio and won't even enter into a debate about her policies,
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  Speaker 1: contrasting herself live with Vivek Ramaswamy. I think it speaks volume.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't it like taking the fifth? Isn't it like taking
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  Speaker 1: the fifth?
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  Speaker 2: Say it again.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't it like asserting your Fifth Amendment right to be
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  Speaker 1: free of self-incrimination? We all draw conclusions about that. She
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: does not have to debate. You do not have to
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: answer the question if it might incriminate you. So you
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: don't have to debate. Maybe it's the same argument can
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: be made because it might incriminate her if she has
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: to enter into a discussion with Vivek.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: She doesn't even present herself to media outlets anymore. that
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: are conservative, are libertarian, are independent. She only goes to
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: those safe places for people to ask her those softball questions.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: So we don't know where her positions are on things
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: like property taxes. I don't know what she's thinking about
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: on things like school choice, meaning I support school choice.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: I want to make sure that a person who's living
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: in a specific neighborhood in Cincinnati and wants to send
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: their kid to St. X that they have that as
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: an opportunity for them to do that. Right. And so
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: I don't know where she is on school choice. And
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: I would prefer I'd like to know there are a
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: lot of Democrat black Americans that use school choice and
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: would appreciate knowing where she is prior to voting for her,
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: because it's a it's a nonpartisan issue. There are Republicans,
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: Democrats and independents out there who use school choice. I
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: know that Vivek Ramaswamy supports school choice. I don't know
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: whether she does.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: Well, I do know she was endorsed.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: I can't find out the answer unless she sits down.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: Why don't you take a look at her endorsement page?
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Go to Amy Acton's website and check out her endorsement.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: She is endorsed by virtually all of the unions in
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: the state of Iowa, most notably the Teacher Union. And
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: if you think the Teachers Union is all about school choice,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: I've got a bridge I want to sell you, and
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: I know you know they're not. Interestingly enough, didn't you
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: find it interesting that Eugene Blaylock, the superintendent of the
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: North College Schools, who are looking for a levy to
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: be supported, posted the entire Democratic ticket on the North
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: College Hill Schools official webpage. What does that say? The
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: entire ticket.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: It tells you a lot. It tells you a lot.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: And there are some very important races outside of the
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: gubernatorial race, and I just continue to encourage people. I
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: know that this spleen bit has been more about educating, encouraging,
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: because the time to register to vote, by the time
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: I'm on the air with you next Monday, would have passed.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: So this is that last window, that last push for
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: someone who hasn't registered or someone who has not updated
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: their registration. That's another important one before we get off, Brian.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: If someone has moved and gone to another address, they
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: are still a registered voter in Hamilton County, as an example,
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: but their vote will be provisional and that vote won't
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: be counted. So people need to go and update their addresses.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: If they've had a health thing where maybe they have
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: Parkinson's and they're signature now has changed. They need to
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: go and update their signature so that when they sign,
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: their vote is counted. These are basic things that we
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: can do between now and that early first week October deadline.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: Then it's over. Those people who are registered are those
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: that will be counted, and then it's all about who's
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: going to show up. Right now, we can still register
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: you and get you into the fight. after that deadline
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: is just about who's in there and who's going to
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: show up to vote. And I am very concerned that
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: conservative Republicans, independents, who believe in law and order in
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: our state, who believe in access to good education to
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: get into the middle class, for an example, that those
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: people are being told that the polls they're losing. This
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: is a strategy, Brian Thomas, in order to tell voters
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: don't show up, the election is already over. How many
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: polls have you seen in your lifetime that were so wrong?
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: These polls are wrong. Right. Vivek Ramaswamy will be the
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: next governor of the state of Ohio. And then we'll
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: look back at these polls and go, wow, these were
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: just Democrat polls that we're putting out here. They're not
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: even really polling areas or polling sweet spots for them.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Then come back to tell you and I coming back
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: to tell you and I that our candidates that we
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: like and we support are actually losing when the reality
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: is they are winning and winning big.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: Christopher Smitherman, excellent points as always. Love having you on
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: the morning show. We'll do this again next Monday at 7.20,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: and I hope you have a wonderful week, my brother.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: It is 7.51 right now, 55 KRC, the talk station.