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Chuck Douglas Power Hour 610 WTVN 9 25 24 Robert Knisley Conservatives of Fairfield County on Lancaster Drag Shows · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Reading salitations. Welcome my friends to another edition of The
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  Speaker 1: Power Hour on six ten double UTV, and I'm Chuck
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  Speaker 1: half hour, I will talk to the guy who's sitting
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  Speaker 1: across from me. Those of you who already guessed I
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  Speaker 1: was getting so many message because I teased it. I tease,
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  Speaker 1: I said, I'm gonna have and you'll if you've been
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  Speaker 1: with me, you know who did it? And then people,
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  Speaker 1: is it is? And yes, you were all right? You
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  Speaker 1: were all right? Is he on? Does he have? Do
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  Speaker 1: you have to turn you got a button there and
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  Speaker 1: turn yourself on? You still aud you are still on
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  Speaker 1: Young Magic, Young Corey in the house. Zach attacked back
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  Speaker 1: and it's it's a complete set tonight, And uh, I
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  Speaker 1: can't believe you have not changed one bit. Except for
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  Speaker 1: the fact that you know, you're old and a dad
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  Speaker 1: and married.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, I was gonna say, I'm starting to look
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  Speaker 2: a little more like you now. Somehow you managed to
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  Speaker 2: get balder.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not I got bolder. I actually yeah, I took
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  Speaker 1: my scalp off, shaved it from the inside and put
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  Speaker 1: it back on, just to make sure no stubble grew. No.
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  Speaker 2: But I seriously, every day the more I don't get
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  Speaker 2: sleep overnight with the baby, I'm seriously concerned I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: look like you in about thirty five years.
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  Speaker 1: It won't take nearly that long. Anyway, we will catch
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  Speaker 1: up and talk here at the second half hour. The
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  Speaker 1: first half hour, I got to talk about this situation
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  Speaker 1: down in Fairfield County, in Lecaster, Ohio, where I've started.
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  Speaker 1: I've said before I started in Lancaster. I started at
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  Speaker 1: WLO Each down in Lancaster, a little station up on
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  Speaker 1: a hill that overlooked what would become River Valley Mall.
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  Speaker 1: And it was a wonderful community. I love the old downtown,
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  Speaker 1: the historic downtown. It's like kind of miniature or San Francisco.
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  Speaker 1: It's so hilly down there, the small businesses and the
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  Speaker 1: I don't know just that that home spun mentality of Lancaster,
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  Speaker 1: the people of Lancaster, and then this, I mean, you know, yes,
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  Speaker 1: Springfield's and the news and the Haitians and the dogs
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  Speaker 1: and the cats, and did Trump say it or advance saytor?
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  Speaker 1: Who started it? Let's sue somebody. Okay. So that's what's
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  Speaker 1: occupying everybody. I not nearly enough people are talking about
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  Speaker 1: this issue in Lancaster in the public square. What was
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be or was sold, this bill of goods
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  Speaker 1: sold to the people, to the council, to the mayor,
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  Speaker 1: to the businesses that put their name on it and
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  Speaker 1: supported it as a family event if you've seen the pictures,
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  Speaker 1: anything but anything but. Robert Nisley with the Fairfield County
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  Speaker 1: Conservative Facebook group. I joined up just so I could
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  Speaker 1: keep an eye on what was going on. Robert, thank
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  Speaker 1: you very much for giving me some time this s evening.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Oh I need to push you on it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, zach Is Beeck, so I need to push
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  Speaker 1: my own buttons. This wow. I mean, it's hard to
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  Speaker 1: describe because it's such an alien occurrence. It's such an oddity,
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  Speaker 1: such a rarity for a story like this, to come
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  Speaker 1: out of legaster. I don't even know how to describe
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  Speaker 1: that that thing that we saw this past week.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I you know, this event happened on Saturday the fourteenth,
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  Speaker 3: and the only words that I can really think to
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  Speaker 3: describe it is just grotesque obscene. These were, you know,
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  Speaker 3: sexual performances that happened in the presence of minors. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: we have videos and pictures of grown men wearing nothing
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  Speaker 3: but thongs, spread eagle in front of children, collecting money
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  Speaker 3: from them and while the police watched. And it's just
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  Speaker 3: it was absolutely insane. I never I hope they never
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  Speaker 3: ever see it again. And yeah, it was absolutely disgusting.
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  Speaker 1: The idea, I mean, and people go, well, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: what do you mean by what he was wing? If
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  Speaker 1: you're familiar with Rocky horror picture Frankenfurter, Tim Curry's character. Seriously,
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  Speaker 1: this is what was all over the street. And the
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  Speaker 1: one video the kid with the dollar man, what is
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  Speaker 1: that all about? What I mean, that's a strip bar
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  Speaker 1: in the public square. And how this does not violate
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  Speaker 1: some sort of I don't know decency laws, but public
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  Speaker 1: exposure laws. Something Is there nothing legal that is within
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  Speaker 1: the boundaries of some sort of recourse here or do
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  Speaker 1: they get free reign.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, it's interesting that you bring that up, because, Chuck,
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  Speaker 3: because there's a House bill actually right now at the
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  Speaker 3: Ohio House. It's called House Bill two forty five. It's
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  Speaker 3: called the Adult Cabaret Act. It's it's being sponsored by
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  Speaker 3: Representative Anjie King and Representative Josh Williams. That I was
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  Speaker 3: just actually brushing up on this bill right before, right
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  Speaker 3: before I came on here tonight. But you know, this bill,
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  Speaker 3: it's closing a loophole that's currently in the law right
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  Speaker 3: now where these things are are technically legal, even though
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  Speaker 3: we have obscenity laws already on the books, just like
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  Speaker 3: we protect children from being in side strip clubs and
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  Speaker 3: protect miners from being exposed to pornography and things like that.
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  Speaker 3: But somehow, in the public square this is legal. It's
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  Speaker 3: a loophole that exists. There is legislation to try to
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  Speaker 3: stop this. But you know, even furthermore, I've been doing
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  Speaker 3: some digging into cities Home rule authority, and I believe
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  Speaker 3: there may be an avenue for cities to address this
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  Speaker 3: on their own because this because the state law does
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  Speaker 3: not address this particular activity. So I think there may
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  Speaker 3: be an avenue there that we're going to pursue further.
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  Speaker 1: And this is something that that whole cabaret thing, this
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  Speaker 1: is years in the making. I can't believe that has
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  Speaker 1: not been settled at this point. And absolutely and is
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  Speaker 1: actually in fact a young Coreo's odd that he is
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  Speaker 1: in here because you and I were looking at each
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  Speaker 1: other through a pane of glass. The last time this
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  Speaker 1: came up because children were participating, was an indoor venue
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  Speaker 1: and children were participating in this kind of stuff, which
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  Speaker 1: is why this whole cabaret bill was supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: going before the legislature. And I can't believe it has
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  Speaker 1: not been settled at this point.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I want to say that the the hearing, the
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  Speaker 3: last hearing that happened on this bill was back in November.
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  Speaker 3: It was it was only one hearing and they haven't
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  Speaker 3: had any any further once since. But you know, this
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  Speaker 3: is an issue that is it's happening in cities around
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  Speaker 3: central Ohio, around the state in general. You know, we're
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  Speaker 3: not talking about German Village, We're not talking about the
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  Speaker 3: Short North. We're talking about Lancaster, Ohio, where we have
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  Speaker 3: a Republican mayor, and we have all an entirely republican
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  Speaker 3: city council, a republican city attorney, and in a county
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  Speaker 3: where Democrats can't get elected period. So if it can
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  Speaker 3: happen here, it can happen anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Let's let's go to that Robert Robertnisley by the way,
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  Speaker 1: with Fairfield County Conservatives. You can find them on Facebook.
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  Speaker 1: It is an open group if you want to see
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  Speaker 1: what's going on down there. Uh what I mean, what
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  Speaker 1: what does the mayor and council have to say about this?
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  Speaker 1: Just the we don't know nothing about notting or what.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's interesting, Chuck, because there was a city council
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  Speaker 3: meeting in Lancaster this past Monday, and of which you know,
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  Speaker 3: I got up and spoke. There were a lot of
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  Speaker 3: people that did, but it was it was only a
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  Speaker 3: public comment period. The city council members really didn't have
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  Speaker 3: anything to say. There was no question and answer period.
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  Speaker 3: It was just you know, citizens of the community and
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  Speaker 3: taxpayers getting up and saying they're you know, giving their
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  Speaker 3: two cents about what happened and their concerns. So the
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  Speaker 3: I guess the the the the matter is that we
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  Speaker 3: don't really know what the council thinks. The only person
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  Speaker 3: from behind the podium in front, in front of the podium,
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  Speaker 3: I should say that was that said anything was the
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  Speaker 3: city Law director. Her name is Stephanie Hall, and uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, she seemed very reluctant to uh to and
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  Speaker 3: basically shot down any efforts whatsoever for the city to
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  Speaker 3: act upon this u citing federal law and the Supreme
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  Speaker 3: Court precedent on the you know, something called the Miller test.
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  Speaker 3: But you know there are bills, like I said, Housewell
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  Speaker 3: two forty five that the sponsors say are fully within
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  Speaker 3: the Miller test guidelines. So I think that there are
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  Speaker 3: avenues for city councils, not just in Lancaster but across
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  Speaker 3: the state to exercise their home rule authority to be
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  Speaker 3: able to put a stop to stuff like this. They
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  Speaker 3: just have to have the gumption to do it.
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  Speaker 1: And is I mean, is anybody on council or the
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  Speaker 1: Mayor's office saying that they were misled about what this was?
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  Speaker 1: Was there permitting process required to take up the public
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  Speaker 1: square like this? Yeah? So you know, how how did
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  Speaker 1: they did they lie on the application? I just don't
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  Speaker 1: understand how this, how this happens without somebody going, hold on, no,
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  Speaker 1: we can't do this kind of thing. How did it
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  Speaker 1: even get this far.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the groups that were sponsoring the event, they did
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  Speaker 3: get the permit, everything was above board. They claimed on
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  Speaker 3: the event that this was going to be a family
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  Speaker 3: friendly event with vendors and speakers and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 3: They didn't mention the drag performers at all, Chuck, There
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  Speaker 3: was no mention of drag performers at this event until,
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  Speaker 3: I want to say, it was only about a week
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  Speaker 3: or two out when they started advertising drag performances. Before
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  Speaker 3: that they were saying it was just vendors and speakers
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  Speaker 3: and that was it.
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  Speaker 1: And I feel bad for many of the businesses down
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  Speaker 1: there that, you know, they've heard family friendly event, opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to get in front of people, and so forth. Many
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  Speaker 1: of the businesses down there, those that we would consider
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  Speaker 1: to be kind of traditional Americana tight businesses, put their
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  Speaker 1: their name and their logos and their dollars behind this thing.
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  Speaker 1: Is there any is there any outreach effort from the
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  Speaker 1: Fairfield County Conservatives Group anybody to try to get the
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  Speaker 1: record straight and find out who feels like they were
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  Speaker 1: misled and who was willingly participating.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely. We have had members of our group reaching
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  Speaker 3: out to some of these businesses directly, and I will
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  Speaker 3: say that there are quite a few of them actually
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  Speaker 3: that said, look, we were misled, We're terribly sorry this happened.
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  Speaker 3: We will not be sponsoring this event in the future.
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  Speaker 3: Should they Should they do this again? You know? And
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  Speaker 3: then of course there are some that are that have
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  Speaker 3: doubled down, so of course that exists as well. But
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  Speaker 3: the reception that we've been getting has been very overwhelmingly positive.
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  Speaker 3: I think, you know, any any rational person that takes
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  Speaker 3: a look at the pictures and videos that we have
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  Speaker 3: that we have documented from that event, I can look
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  Speaker 3: at that and say that is not acceptable and that's
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  Speaker 3: not something that we want happening in our public square
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  Speaker 3: in the daytime period.
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  Speaker 1: Is this a one off? Or will they be back?
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  Speaker 1: But what do you do? Do you know anything?
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  Speaker 3: Or are you just I don't know anything. I can't
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  Speaker 3: tell you definitively check. But I do. What I can
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  Speaker 3: say though, is that, you know, like I said earlier,
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  Speaker 3: I think this is this is a problem that's going
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  Speaker 3: to keep continuing in other cities across the Central Ohio
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  Speaker 3: area and across Ohio in general, I think that especially
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  Speaker 3: if if we do nothing, if our city council does nothing,
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  Speaker 3: if the state legislature does nothing, I think that the
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  Speaker 3: people behind the event will feel emboldened and they'll come
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  Speaker 3: back and they'll make it nastier next time.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it seems to me the city council. Being in Columbus,
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  Speaker 1: I watched the city council do things that I think
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  Speaker 1: flies in the face of state law as well as
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  Speaker 1: constitutional law at a national level, but for some reason,
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  Speaker 1: the municipality is allowed to do it. So I would think,
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  Speaker 1: considering what I'm seeing here, the city council in Leicester
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  Speaker 1: could do something along the same lines to say, you
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  Speaker 1: know this, if this is going to happen, it's not
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  Speaker 1: going to be in an open, outdoor public venue where
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  Speaker 1: children have access to it. That's my big problem with it. This.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if I was down there and walking the
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  Speaker 1: grandkids around or something and this was going on on
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  Speaker 1: the street, that's not something I'm good with. If they
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  Speaker 1: want to do it in a closed venue or some fine,
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  Speaker 1: more power to you do what you want to do.
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  Speaker 1: If you take your kids there, I think you're nuts,
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  Speaker 1: But that your kids, you got your rights I got mine.
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  Speaker 1: I just can't see the city council not actively working
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  Speaker 1: right seriously around the clock to uh, to keep this
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  Speaker 1: from happening again and to keep up a very nice
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  Speaker 1: town from blowing up into a bunch of people that
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  Speaker 1: are mad at each other.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree, check, I agree with you one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 3: And I said this at the council meeting on the
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  Speaker 3: public record, and I'll say it again. You know, at
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  Speaker 3: that I was there for the entire event. Uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the beginning of the event, it was it was just vendors.
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  Speaker 3: It was people, you know, fellowshipping talking with one another,
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  Speaker 3: enjoying food from vendors, hearing speakers talk. And uh, nobody,
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  Speaker 3: nobody had an issue with that. You know, I didn't
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  Speaker 3: know one in my group had an issue with that.
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  Speaker 3: It was only when they started bringing out the drag
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  Speaker 3: performers that were you know, some of them wearing hardly
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  Speaker 3: scant clothing or you know, just gyrating with thongs on.
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  Speaker 3: Did it did did it get you know, just out
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  Speaker 3: of control? And uh, and to the level of obscenity
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  Speaker 3: that I think should not be allowed in the public square.
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  Speaker 1: Before I have to go, let me ask you, is
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  Speaker 1: this an organized group. Is it a club of some
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  Speaker 1: sort or is it just a bunch of people that
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  Speaker 1: came together to do this.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're we're just we are just a group of
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  Speaker 3: concerned citizens, parents, conservatives, Christians, anyone who's just concerned about
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  Speaker 3: what's happening in our community, in our town that want
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  Speaker 3: to do something about it. We are not a formal
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  Speaker 3: organization as of yet, but we do have plans to
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  Speaker 3: become a formal organization in the future to try to
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  Speaker 3: affect change in Lancaster and Fairfield County in general.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Robert Nisley is a man's name. I appreciate
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  Speaker 1: you taking some time tonight. If you're on Facebook, go
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  Speaker 1: to Fairfield County Conservatives. As I said, it is an
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  Speaker 1: open group, and not so that you can come in
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  Speaker 1: there and snake your way in and cause problems, but
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  Speaker 1: for people, whether you live there or not, if you
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  Speaker 1: have an attachment and affection a concern for Fairfield County
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  Speaker 1: and for Lechester, Ohio, you want to keep your eyes
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  Speaker 1: on what's going on, and you're welcome to do that.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Robert. You've got my contact info now. If
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  Speaker 1: anything blows up any under the radar stuff, please get
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  Speaker 1: in touch. We'll get this back on the air.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Chuck, appreciate it, God blessed.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for YouTube, buddy, thank you. We are twenty past
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  Speaker 1: six at sixt en WTV and it's time for traffic
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  Speaker 1: and whether together