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Thoughts on 2025 election results · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Well, Olympus has fallen. I don't know. For those of
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  Speaker 1: you that followed me on Facebook, you know that I did. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: I did take your encouraging words. Last night, I went
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  Speaker 1: to the polls and and did my voting for what
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  Speaker 1: it was worth, which was nothing. But but I still
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  Speaker 1: did it. Did you did you see the results of
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  Speaker 1: everything last night, Zach? You know that everything went exactly
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  Speaker 1: the opposite of how I voted, right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well that was kind of what we expected.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so yeah, uh, Mondani is the mayor of New
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  Speaker 1: York City, which, oh my gosh, I you know, I
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  Speaker 1: I I don't get it. I don't get it. He
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  Speaker 1: got he got you know, half the votes. What was it,
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  Speaker 1: fifty point two percent or something like that.
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  Speaker 2: I think, so I'll look it up real quickly.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people, you know, say, well, if Sliva
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  Speaker 1: would have dropped out, Cuomo stood a chance. Statistically, probably
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  Speaker 1: not because the people who voted for Curtis Sliwa were
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  Speaker 1: tired of Cuomo's But two, he was a third party
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  Speaker 1: option essentially, even though in New York. New York is
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  Speaker 1: an odd place because you can be on the ballot
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  Speaker 1: two or three times. I don't know if you knew
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  Speaker 1: that or not.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it depends if like a party is, if a
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  Speaker 2: party promoter or whatever the term is.
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  Speaker 1: You could be on. You could be on as a Republican,
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  Speaker 1: as a conservative. I think I think Cuomo was on
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  Speaker 1: as a pet lover, or maybe it was Sliwa that
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  Speaker 1: was on in the pet lovers party. Yes, you could
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  Speaker 1: be on the ballot three or four times for the
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  Speaker 1: same office, for the same election, for the same candidacy. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: which is I'm is there a logic to that that
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand? If you know, seriously, A two one, nine, eight,
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  Speaker 1: eight six is my number. I'd love to know the
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  Speaker 1: reasoning behind allowing someone to appear on the ballot running
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  Speaker 1: for the same office under two, three, four different party affiliations.
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  Speaker 1: Why do you not have to either pick a party
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  Speaker 1: or be an independent? How can you be three or
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  Speaker 1: four different things all on the same ballot and then
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  Speaker 1: they have to add up, Okay, all the sleeve of
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  Speaker 1: votes as a Republican, all the sleeve of votes as
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  Speaker 1: a conservative, all the sleeve of votes is a pet lover.
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  Speaker 1: To get why, what's the point of that? How does
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  Speaker 1: that make things any easier, any clearer for the voters?
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  Speaker 1: And then there was some kind of hubbub about the
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  Speaker 1: fact that I guess Cuomo Cuomo did not appear until
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  Speaker 1: like the middle of the ballot or something. Did you
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  Speaker 1: hear that he was second down?
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  Speaker 2: But if he looked at it, it looked weird there
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  Speaker 2: their ballots have been different, they have been but they've
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  Speaker 2: been the same way for fifty years. So to everybody
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  Speaker 2: else it might look weird. But I'm sure to people
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  Speaker 2: in New York who voted before, it probably looked normal.
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  Speaker 2: But ask a poll worker if you need help.
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  Speaker 1: Well do you I mean, do you have any idea
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  Speaker 1: as to why they do that with the multiple party affiliations?
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't, I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have any idea because it just it, Like
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  Speaker 1: I say, it doesn't seem like we're worried about people
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  Speaker 1: not being able to, you know, come up with an
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  Speaker 1: ID to vote if if that is a challenge. Don't
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  Speaker 1: you think it's kind of a challenge to have somebody
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  Speaker 1: on the same ballot for the same office multiple times
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  Speaker 1: under different party headings. If they don't have the IQ
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  Speaker 1: to go get an ID, how do they have IQ
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  Speaker 1: to understand that kind of thing? But anyway, Mondottie is
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  Speaker 1: now mayor of New York City. We will see how
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  Speaker 1: that goes. As I said last, if he is even
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  Speaker 1: remotely successful, I do believe that he is the best
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  Speaker 1: possible thing to help happen to the Republicans for the midterms.
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  Speaker 1: I truly mean that. I don't know how successful ultimately
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  Speaker 1: he will be, but I guarantee you he's going to
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  Speaker 1: He'll go in their great guns and executive orders trying
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  Speaker 1: to accomplish stuff. It'll be challenged in court by one
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  Speaker 1: person or another, or one organization or another, and it'll
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  Speaker 1: wash out. But in the meantime, he will make changes.
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  Speaker 1: How you can give free buses, free bus rides for everybody,
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  Speaker 1: rent control, thirty dollars minimum Did you hear that thirty
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  Speaker 1: dollars minimum wage. He wants to raise income taxes on
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  Speaker 1: the one million dollars in over income earners in New
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  Speaker 1: York City, so you know they're gonna leave. He wants
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  Speaker 1: to raise the corporate income to from seven point five
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  Speaker 1: to eleven point five percent, so you know the corporations
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  Speaker 1: are going to leave. Why would they do business there
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  Speaker 1: when you're going to you know, add another what third,
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  Speaker 1: a little more than a third to their taxes thirty
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  Speaker 1: eighty five thirty six percent tax increase over what they're
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  Speaker 1: already paying. Why would they stay? So if the corporations
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  Speaker 1: leave and the wealthy people leave, the people that are
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  Speaker 1: remaining have to make thirty dollars an hour, but there's
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  Speaker 1: no corporations there to hire them. The remaining corporations are
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  Speaker 1: going to have to raise the prices of everything they
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  Speaker 1: sell because they now have to pay a minimum wage
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  Speaker 1: of thirty dollars an hour, And then nobody can afford
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  Speaker 1: to buy their stuff, so they go out of business.
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  Speaker 1: And somehow, some way this makes sense to people. The
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  Speaker 1: whole concept, the whole idea of a minimum wage is
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  Speaker 1: silly to me. I've been saying that for years. They
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  Speaker 1: used to be living wage. We need a living wage. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's fifteen dollars an hour. Why isn't it twenty five?
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  Speaker 1: Why isn't it thirty? Why isn't it fifty dollars an hour.
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  Speaker 1: Let's make the minimum wage for the living minimum wage
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  Speaker 1: fifty dollars an hour. Why not? Well that's too much?
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  Speaker 1: Wait wait wait, wait, wait wait wait, why is it
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  Speaker 1: too much? You see, you can't have that argument if
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  Speaker 1: you support a government mandated value to an employee. And
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  Speaker 1: then you want to argue that there is a value
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  Speaker 1: that's too high, you're arguing against yourself. One time, one
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  Speaker 1: time in my life, and I've shared this before, I
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  Speaker 1: worked for minimum wage one time, and it's because the
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  Speaker 1: trade off was I got to be on the air
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  Speaker 1: in Columbus, and I wanted to be on the air
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  Speaker 1: in Columbus. So I left a job back in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety that was paying me six dollars an hour is
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  Speaker 1: a part time radio guy to come to Columbus for
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  Speaker 1: four fifty an hour. But I was leaving a small
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  Speaker 1: AM station to come to an FM station in the
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  Speaker 1: capital city. So that was the trade off that was
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  Speaker 1: worth the buck and a half hour difference. That had
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  Speaker 1: its value too, and I knew what it was, and
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  Speaker 1: that was a stepping stone to bigger and hopefully better things.
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  Speaker 1: I did not take that job in nineteen ninety with
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  Speaker 1: the assumption that I would continue working for minimum wage.
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  Speaker 1: It was a stepping stone to something more. That's what
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  Speaker 1: it's supposed to be a starting point, a beginning. And
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  Speaker 1: people who say I can't I can't pay the bills,
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  Speaker 1: I can't support a family on minimum wage, You're not
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  Speaker 1: supposed to. Ideally, you start a family when you can
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  Speaker 1: start a family, not because you got drunk one night.
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  Speaker 1: You take the minimum wage job to get yourself started.
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  Speaker 1: You want to be in the corporate world. They offer
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  Speaker 1: you a minimum wage to work in the mailroom. You
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  Speaker 1: take it, and you'll work your way up to an
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  Speaker 1: office job sitting at a desk somewhere. Maybe it pays
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  Speaker 1: a minimum wage plus forty percent. And you show that
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  Speaker 1: you're good at that, and they say, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna give you a We're gonna give you a
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  Speaker 1: management position here in the department, and that's that's minimum
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  Speaker 1: wage plus one hundred percent. Well, we're gonna make you
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  Speaker 1: a senior management in this department because you're really showing off. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that's a minimum wage plus two hundred percent. And then
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  Speaker 1: you think, okay, you know it's it's uh, I've got
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  Speaker 1: some money coming in, I've got some I've got some substantiabilities.
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  Speaker 1: What sort of a sustainability to my job here, something
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  Speaker 1: substantial in the bank. I'm ready to take on a spouse,
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  Speaker 1: take on a family, have some kids, buy a house,
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  Speaker 1: do that kind of thing. That's how ideally life works.
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  Speaker 1: But people come out of high school and they think
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  Speaker 1: they should be the CEO and make enough money before
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  Speaker 1: their twenty first birthday to raise fifteen children and live
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  Speaker 1: in a six bedroom house. No, no, that's not realistic.
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  Speaker 1: That's idealistic, that's utopian. It's not the way things work
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  Speaker 1: unless your name is Mondani and you have managed to
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  Speaker 1: convince a whole bunch of people in what was and
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  Speaker 1: soon will not be the greatest city in the United States.
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  Speaker 1: And when I say great, I don't mean like a
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  Speaker 1: you know, wonderful, I mean great, like large, eight million people,
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  Speaker 1: financial companies, Wall Street, Broadway, so much to offer. How
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  Speaker 1: much of that will be there in two years? The
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  Speaker 1: Trump backed governor candidate in New Jersey lost. I'm pretty
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  Speaker 1: sure Prop fifty passed in California, right. I gave up last.
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  Speaker 1: I could only watch coverage for so long then I
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  Speaker 1: had to, you know, get silly in sleep. But the
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  Speaker 1: margin for a Proposition fifty in California I think was
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  Speaker 1: fairly substantial, wasn't it.
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  Speaker 2: Act Yeah, it passed too.
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  Speaker 1: What was the plus and minus on that.
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  Speaker 2: Prop fifty?
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  Speaker 1: Hang on? Even Schwarzenegger, who has become more and more
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  Speaker 1: liberal since leaving office, he was governor of California as
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  Speaker 1: a Republican. But even he said, you know, this proposition,
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  Speaker 1: it's a terrible idea. Look, when you've got a state
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  Speaker 1: like Massachusetts, Massachusetts where forty percent of the vote in
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  Speaker 1: the presidential election went for Donald Trump, and you have
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  Speaker 1: no representatives in the House of Representatives representing that state
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  Speaker 1: that are Republicans, You've got a problem. We have a
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  Speaker 1: state like New Mexico, forty five percent of the vote
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  Speaker 1: goes for Trump, you have zero, zero Republicans as representatives
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  Speaker 1: of that state where Trump had a forty five percent
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  Speaker 1: majority of the vote. This this is what jerry mandering does.
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  Speaker 1: And when Democrats are in control, they jerrymandered the hell
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  Speaker 1: out of the state.
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  Speaker 2: California. Proposition fifty seventy five percent of the vote is
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  Speaker 2: in It passed sixty three to thirty six.
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  Speaker 1: There will be no Republican representation in the House of
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  Speaker 1: Representatives from the state of California in two years. You
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  Speaker 1: think I'm joking, It's already there in front of you.
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  Speaker 1: It's already being done in other states. And I'm not
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  Speaker 1: saying it's exclusively to you know, a Democrat thing. Republicans
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  Speaker 1: will do the same thing. Man, if they've got control
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  Speaker 1: of drawing the lines, they'll do the same thing. The
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  Speaker 1: problem is that right now we're in a situation where
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  Speaker 1: the Democrats around the country you said, Republicans are Republicans
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  Speaker 1: are Republicans, will do the same thing you're doing, using
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  Speaker 1: the system as it exists to draw boundaries that create
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  Speaker 1: advantage for their party period. I admit to being blatantly disappointed,
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  Speaker 1: not only in the losses, but in there's a margin
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  Speaker 1: of the losses, both on the candidates and at Prop
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  Speaker 1: fifty in California or what we would call an issue
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  Speaker 1: here in Ohio. I don't know where. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: where it's going to take us, but I fear it
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  Speaker 1: takes us somewhere negative. And I don't know quite frankly,
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  Speaker 1: that once people figure out how negative their position has become,
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  Speaker 1: that there's enough time to bail them out. Because Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump has gone in twenty eight who's going to fix it?
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  Speaker 1: When you see everything can't be free and wages can't
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  Speaker 1: be artificially created, who's going to fix it? Because it
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  Speaker 1: won't be him? Or again, maybe that's just me