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Elections on 11-04-2025 · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Tomorrow, of course, is election day. I don't think in
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  Speaker 1: looking over my ballot for the city of Columbus, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think there are any Republicans running for anything, and
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  Speaker 1: most most of the Democrats are unchallenged. So basically all
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  Speaker 1: you have is what one, two, and then five six,
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  Speaker 1: seven eight nine issues on there, which are two taxes
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  Speaker 1: and uh and the bond All right, then you're you're
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  Speaker 1: not in Columbus proper, Zach. Do you have anything more
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  Speaker 1: interesting on your ballot than what I've got on my No.
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  Speaker 2: Really, it's the same type of Yeah. I mean there's
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  Speaker 2: a there's a levy and uh. Yeah, that's about There's
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  Speaker 2: nothing else super duper important, So.
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  Speaker 1: Dad, gone it. I just I wish there was something
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  Speaker 1: to get people out there, but really there's not. I
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  Speaker 1: expect turned out to be pretty low on the five six, seven,
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  Speaker 1: eight nine the bond issues. As always, I'm gonna know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm always a no simply because of you know, what
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  Speaker 1: I think about the way the city is run and
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  Speaker 1: and what I consider to be a disregard for the
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  Speaker 1: wants the needs of the people of the city, and
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  Speaker 1: the fact that I don't like the I don't like
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  Speaker 1: the used car salesman mentality that they have at city
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  Speaker 1: Hall for selling people on bond issues. This is not
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  Speaker 1: a tax. Remember, this is not a tax. It's not
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  Speaker 1: you're paying it back, therefore it's a tax. It's money
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  Speaker 1: that eventually comes out of your pocket in one way,
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  Speaker 1: shape or form. Well, we're not raising taxes that No,
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  Speaker 1: you're selling bonds. Bonds. Bonds are loans, that's what they are.
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  Speaker 1: What you are doing is you are authorizing the City
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  Speaker 1: of Columbus to take out loans and you will be
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  Speaker 1: the co signer. Now we have a triple A rating.
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  Speaker 1: That means that you know, our bond rating is great,
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  Speaker 1: and that's a wonderful thing. But while your taxes, your
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  Speaker 1: city taxes may not go up. Your water bill, your
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  Speaker 1: sewer bill, city permits, traffic fines, parking fees, costs to
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  Speaker 1: file any paperwork you need to file with the city,
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  Speaker 1: all of those are subject to increase because they've got
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  Speaker 1: to collect the money to pay back the bonds. People
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  Speaker 1: buy the bonds and then they appreciate they make money
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  Speaker 1: on the bonds. We have to pay them back. Whether
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  Speaker 1: it's done through income tax or not, you will pay it.
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  Speaker 1: Does that not make sense to you? Is that. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I think that's a pretty pretty concise, easy way to
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  Speaker 1: understand this thing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they just don't want to use the word tax
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  Speaker 2: because people don't want to hear it.
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  Speaker 1: And I think it's disingenuous. I think it takes advantage
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  Speaker 1: of the ill informed.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I've repeated more than well, maybe this is just
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  Speaker 2: me that one of the massive problems we have with
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  Speaker 2: voters in this country is the lack of are uninformed
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  Speaker 2: voters not intelligence? But people are busy and they work
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  Speaker 2: and they don't have time to read past the headlines
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  Speaker 2: on a local or national level, and it causes a
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  Speaker 2: massive problem.
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  Speaker 1: Right. And then another problem we have at the polls
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  Speaker 1: actually is the the little descriptive of what something is.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think you know, they are not nearly as
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  Speaker 1: thorough as I would like them to be. And so
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  Speaker 1: you see something that says, you know, this is a
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  Speaker 1: renewal of a previous levy and the millage will not
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  Speaker 1: go up, and well, here's the problem. The value of
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  Speaker 1: what is being taxed at that millage has gone up,
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  Speaker 1: so it cost you more money. But you're sold this
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  Speaker 1: bill of goods is if it's not going to cost
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  Speaker 1: you anymore? Yes, indeed it will. I just I uh man.
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  Speaker 1: I wish we were better as voters, I really do.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, you get the you get the government
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  Speaker 1: that you vote for, and you get the results that
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  Speaker 1: you allow. That's just how I see things. Maybe that's
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  Speaker 1: just me. I don't know. A two one nine eight eighty
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  Speaker 1: six eight two one WTV and is the number I
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  Speaker 1: see Pat is standing by on the Legacy Retirement Group
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  Speaker 1: dot com phone line. So let's get the Pat. You're
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  Speaker 1: on six to ten WUTV. And how are you?
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  Speaker 3: I am fine, Chuck. What they're doing is they're taking
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  Speaker 3: out loans and the money they should have been using
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  Speaker 3: to pay for expenses they now give back to their
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  Speaker 3: social programs. So this is all pocket money for the
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  Speaker 3: people downtown. You're loaning them money for good stuff, and
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  Speaker 3: they're taking this stuff they should have been spending money on,
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  Speaker 3: and they're taking that money and putting on social programs.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that makes sense to you. And the thing of
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  Speaker 1: it is is to be honest with you've got. There
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  Speaker 1: are some social programs I've got no problem with. We
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  Speaker 1: absolutely need. I'm good with it. But again, I'm just
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking for some truth in advertising. And uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm okay with feeding hungry people and taking care of
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  Speaker 1: elderly and disabled people, and I'm good with there are
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  Speaker 1: things that we do as a society that we're expected
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  Speaker 1: to do, and I'm okay with it. But too much
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  Speaker 1: smoke and mirrors going on.
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  Speaker 3: Well did you know they had a mobile produce stand
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  Speaker 3: to drive around from the food mank And of course
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna give him a million dollars pretty quick.
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  Speaker 1: So I have not heard about the most it was.
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  Speaker 3: It was on the news. It was on the news
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  Speaker 3: just before you came in.
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  Speaker 1: Funny, really, I mean there's again, there are there are
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  Speaker 1: agencies organizations all over this city that, especially with the
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  Speaker 1: food stamp situation, have really stepped up in the last
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  Speaker 1: week and uh and are doing everything that they can
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  Speaker 1: to and I you know, God bless them. Many of
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  Speaker 1: them are doing it with absolutely no no government funding,
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  Speaker 1: volunteers and donations and so forth only. And I again,
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  Speaker 1: that's one of the things that makes me proud to
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  Speaker 1: be an American and and part of Columbus, Ohio. But
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  Speaker 1: we we you know, we don't always need government to
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  Speaker 1: step in and solve anything. Just fix what you messed up.
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  Speaker 1: That would be easier.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just laughing. Do your job. You do a good
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  Speaker 3: job on this, but you know it's a shell game
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  Speaker 3: and we get stuck.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, Pat, I appreciate you, buddy, Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 1: A two one nine eight eight six A two men WTV.
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  Speaker 1: If you have any other thoughts, feel free to jump
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  Speaker 1: in there on tomorrow's election. In the bond issues and
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  Speaker 1: uh and you know the tax levy requests, it's you know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to sound hopeless. I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: sound like, you know, like I'm in great despair or anything.
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  Speaker 1: It is what it is. I wish it was something better,
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  Speaker 1: but it's not. And all of those Democrats that are running,
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  Speaker 1: they'll get elected because nobody's running against them. And that
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  Speaker 1: I laid firmly at the feet of Franklin County GOP even.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, look a look at what Mandani is doing
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  Speaker 1: in New York. You know, he came in there. He
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  Speaker 1: calls himself a Democrat, socialist. There's something that want to
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  Speaker 1: label him communist. I just I think he's the worst
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  Speaker 1: possible thing that could happen for New York City. But
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  Speaker 1: projections are what forty four percent will end up voting
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  Speaker 1: for him, thirty nine percent will end up going for
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  Speaker 1: Cuomo and fifteen percent I believe it was for Sliwa.
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  Speaker 1: I like Curtis Sliwa, but for again, this is what
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  Speaker 1: I talked about this the other night, the greater good,
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  Speaker 1: thinking about the greater good, those eight million people that
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  Speaker 1: call New York City home, thinking about them. If I
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  Speaker 1: were Kurtis Sliwa, yes, I would have backed out of
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  Speaker 1: the race. Cuomo is Nobody's Nobody's good boy. I there's
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  Speaker 1: a whole lot better. But you know what, sometimes it's
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  Speaker 1: better to jump into a cage with I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what's What's something that kill you? But you might get
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  Speaker 1: away from a brown elephant, Okay, a brown elephant instead
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  Speaker 1: of a hungry tiger, because the tiger will eat your butt.
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  Speaker 1: You will Maybe with the elephant, you got a chance. Man,
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you can get away, get into a nook or
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  Speaker 1: a cranny the elephant can't get I don't know, but
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  Speaker 1: this that's the situation they're in. Cuomo is the lesser
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  Speaker 1: of two evils. One of the evils is going to win.
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  Speaker 1: Do you want the communist evil or do you want
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  Speaker 1: or do you want the known evil? And if Sliwa
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  Speaker 1: were to back out of the race, and that fifteen
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  Speaker 1: percent would go to Cuomo, or at least fifty percent
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  Speaker 1: of that fifteen percent, he'd stand a good chance of
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  Speaker 1: beating Mandani. If Mondani becomes mayor of New York City,
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  Speaker 1: mark my words, the former fat Man is telling you
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  Speaker 1: right here, right now, right straight to your ears. One
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  Speaker 1: year from now, New York City will be in complete
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  Speaker 1: turmoil economically, and when it comes to crime in the streets,
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  Speaker 1: New York City will be in turmoil.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think everybody who could think it. You take
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  Speaker 2: all the stats, the crime now, gas prices, now, all
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  Speaker 2: the statistics that you could take that could somewhat or
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  Speaker 2: impartially be imparted on the mayor of New York City,
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  Speaker 2: and just see where they are in a year now.
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  Speaker 2: Your prediction might be one hundred percent correct, might be
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  Speaker 2: ninety eight percent correct. But people never like like with
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  Speaker 2: presidential politics, as soon as somebody becomes president, the day after,
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  Speaker 2: they're like, a crime happen, it's president's fault, it's the
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  Speaker 2: gas price is a president's fault. Like it takes some
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  Speaker 2: time to see what happens. So the year thing, I
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  Speaker 2: agree with you. I'm very interested to see what happened.
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  Speaker 1: Well. The nor O'Donnell last night pointed out that there
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  Speaker 1: are some people who uh equates Mondannie to Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 1: except on the opposite side of the political spectrum. And
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  Speaker 1: I agree with that. I agree with that he does
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  Speaker 1: have the the uh the showmanship, if you will. He
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  Speaker 1: does have this likability that people are responding to. I
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  Speaker 1: believe he also has that walk in the door and
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  Speaker 1: start changing everything immediately. That's why I say within one year.
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  Speaker 1: If it were someone who were not as much like
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump, I'd say maybe give him halfway through his term. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: that makes sense. But Mondannie, I think we'll walk in
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  Speaker 1: there on day one and executive New York City into
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  Speaker 1: the sewer.
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  Speaker 2: Did you did you see any of the debates with
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  Speaker 2: Clomo Madami and.
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  Speaker 1: No, I have not watched any. I've just I've just
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  Speaker 1: seen footage of their various interviews. Whatever you he destroyed
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  Speaker 1: Sleewan and Clomo just he's articulate. Yeah, yeah, he's a
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  Speaker 1: very articulate, charming person. He's much like Barack Obama. Frankly,
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  Speaker 1: he just he's one of those people that he plays
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  Speaker 1: well to the audience, and the audience responds, well, correct, Yep.
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  Speaker 1: The thing of it is is you're so enamored with
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  Speaker 1: how he's saying things that you forget to listen to
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  Speaker 1: what he's saying. We did that with Barack Obama. When
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  Speaker 1: someone walks into the greatest country ever, the best country,
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  Speaker 1: the best economy, the best military, the best opportunity for success,
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  Speaker 1: and everything that you would want. When somebody walks in
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  Speaker 1: and they say, we're going to fundamentally transform. Did you
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  Speaker 1: hear those words? No, you were so busy going well,
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  Speaker 1: he sounds really good. He look at him, he's he says,
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  Speaker 1: folks a lot we like him. You fundamentally transformed. That
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  Speaker 1: means taking something for what it is and making it
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  Speaker 1: something different. But nobody bothered to pay attention to that.
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  Speaker 1: They just paid attention to the way he was saying it.
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  Speaker 1: Same thing's happening with Mondnnie. He's telling you what he's
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  Speaker 1: going to establish as a little communist nation in the
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  Speaker 1: form of New York City. But he's saying it so well,
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  Speaker 1: and he's smiling so nice when he says it, that
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  Speaker 1: nobody's thinking about that, and that's uh, oh, that's not
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  Speaker 1: just New York, that's us as a whole This has
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  Speaker 1: been basically since I think John F. Kennedy. John F.
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  Speaker 1: Kennedy was kind of the beginning, because you know, presidents
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  Speaker 1: before John Kennedy could be as ugly as they wanted
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  Speaker 1: to be and still become president. JFK introduced that wavy hair,
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  Speaker 1: those beautiful eyes, those wonderful catch phrases. Ask not what
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  Speaker 1: your country can do for you, ask what you can
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  Speaker 1: do for your country. People went write that down, put
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  Speaker 1: it on a coin or something. Well didn't.
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  Speaker 2: Most people who who watched the debate said that Kennedy won,
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  Speaker 2: but listen on the radio said Nixon killed.
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  Speaker 1: Those who watched it said Kennedy was the winner of
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  Speaker 1: the debate, and those who listened on the radio said
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  Speaker 1: Nixon trounced him. Which is why I've said before many
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  Speaker 1: times when something important is coming up, a presidential debate
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  Speaker 1: or whatever, I listened to it. I turned on six
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  Speaker 1: to ten WTV, and I listened to it. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to watch. I don't want to see who makes
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  Speaker 1: the funniest face or who's standing. I want to hear
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  Speaker 1: the words they say. I'll go back and watch later.
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  Speaker 1: I'll see the tape delay later. But JFK was I
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  Speaker 1: think the beginning of that. Nixon, although in his older
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  Speaker 1: years kind of looked like a hound dog, he wasn't
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  Speaker 1: too terrible in his early years. Lyndon Johnson President by default, Carter,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, he was a charming man with a smile.
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  Speaker 1: Gerald Ford President by default, Bill Clinton. That's where Rush
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  Speaker 1: came in. The arousal factor. George h W I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: terrible looking, but you know, I think poking fun at
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  Speaker 1: him on Saturday Night Live Dana Carvey, I think that
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  Speaker 1: I think that helped George h W. I really do.
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  Speaker 1: I think that helped him because even he got.
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  Speaker 2: A kick out of the White House to do, he
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  Speaker 2: even got.
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  Speaker 1: A kick out it, and that made him more of
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  Speaker 1: a human being to people. George w sincerity was there,
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  Speaker 1: new killer.
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  Speaker 2: His goof ups were.
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  Speaker 1: But people just people. People just saw him as a
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  Speaker 1: sincere guy. You know. They wanted to do his best.
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  Speaker 1: And uh and that's that's what got him elected. Uh
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  Speaker 1: Barack Obama articulate in intelligent and unfortunately we had that
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  Speaker 1: you know, that whole race thing going on. Well, it's
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  Speaker 1: I guess it's time America had a black president. That
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  Speaker 1: in itself, that statement is a problem. Even Colon Powell
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  Speaker 1: said that, which was heartbreaking to me. The color of
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  Speaker 1: your skin shouldn't have anything to do with anything in
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  Speaker 1: this country, including the office of the President. Again, maybe
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  Speaker 1: that's just me.