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Chucks ashtray Ayanna Pressley from MA and putting The Columbus statue back up · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Three things.
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  Speaker 2: We got to take on a Democratic congresswoman in Massachusetts
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  Speaker 2: I gotta talk about. And also the Christopher Columbus Statute.
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  Speaker 2: We gotta have some conversation about that. First though, I
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  Speaker 2: must chastise missed the producer, missed the produce.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna call you, mister producer. Now, missed the producer. Zach,
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  Speaker 1: what if I I'm going to start calling you missus producer?
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  Speaker 1: Can I do that? Okay, okay, take that down.
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  Speaker 2: I just saw what you did if you were not
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  Speaker 2: here during the Blazer Show. The first hour at the
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  Speaker 2: Blazer Show, I was talking about the fact that some idiots,
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  Speaker 2: some most likely some drug riddled zombie, got into my
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  Speaker 2: car overnight, and of all the things they could have done,
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  Speaker 2: all the things they could have done, they stole my
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  Speaker 2: rickety old used nasty five year old dollar tree ash
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  Speaker 2: tray out of my car, which I didn't notice until
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  Speaker 2: I went to flip an ash and I went, hey,
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  Speaker 2: there's nothing there, And so really, of all the things
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  Speaker 2: they could take, But then Zach Moron I said, I
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  Speaker 2: jokingly said, yeah, I'm going to need to GoFundMe. He
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  Speaker 2: actually put up a GoFundMe page to raise money for
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  Speaker 2: an ashtray and then Mitch. Mitch replied to it because
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  Speaker 2: he put it on Facebook. Mitch replied to it, I
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  Speaker 2: don't think it's a two hundred dollars asstray. You value
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  Speaker 2: your asstrays how you want to, Mitch, Mine was worth
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  Speaker 2: two hundred.
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  Speaker 3: But anyway, trying to help, so to put.
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  Speaker 2: Take that down before somebody says that I'm trying to
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  Speaker 2: scam people.
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  Speaker 4: I can't even believe that you got something stolen it
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  Speaker 4: out of the bottom of my heart, I went to
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  Speaker 4: all this trouble to put that up.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and then you're like, take it down.
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  Speaker 1: Believe me.
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  Speaker 2: There are times when I wanted to start a GoFundMe.
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  Speaker 2: It just, you know, because times are rough for everybody
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  Speaker 2: sometimes and I've thought about but I'm like, you know what,
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  Speaker 2: as long as there is air in my lungs and
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  Speaker 2: the blood is flowing and I wake up in the morning,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna find a way, man, no matter how hard
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  Speaker 2: I have to work, how many hours I have to
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  Speaker 2: put in, how many phone calls I got, I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to make it work.
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  Speaker 1: Unless I was hurt.
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  Speaker 2: Or something like that. I just can't ever see myself
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  Speaker 2: doing that. But it seems to be. You know, that's
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  Speaker 2: the way everybody does it. Anything that happens to anybody today,
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  Speaker 2: the first thing they do is a gofund me.
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  Speaker 3: You do know that I would never actually take money.
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  Speaker 1: I would hope not. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I've already raised one seventy ft dogs.
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  Speaker 2: Kids, even wealthy people. I've seen people who have money,
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  Speaker 2: and the first thing they do, we're collecting GoFundMe for
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  Speaker 2: the you know, the funeral arrangements or something. Really really
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  Speaker 2: you're well off.
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  Speaker 3: Stop that tugging on the heartstrings too.
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  Speaker 1: Stop it. I just say, you know, we're just right.
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  Speaker 1: Is right and wrong as well.
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  Speaker 2: I've often said. In fact, Marke and I back when
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  Speaker 2: they had the billion dollar power Ball and we were
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  Speaker 2: all promising we'd give each other a million dollars if
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  Speaker 2: we won, and Mark and I were talking off the
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  Speaker 2: air about that. I said, you know, I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if I can opt out of things like social Security
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  Speaker 2: and so forth, but if I can, I would. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: there's no point in if I've got hundreds of millions
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  Speaker 2: of dollars, there's no point in me taking that money.
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  Speaker 3: But there is a point of getting a new astra
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  Speaker 3: I need.
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  Speaker 1: I need an astray. Yeah, I gotta have that.
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  Speaker 3: What are you complaining about?
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  Speaker 2: Did you put up a go fundme for an I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna go to the dollar store after I get out
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  Speaker 2: of here and and pick up an astray.
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  Speaker 3: My last name is Schwartz.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to go.
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  Speaker 2: To my Facebook page, you are so goofy.
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  Speaker 3: You can friend me and help Chuck get a stolen.
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  Speaker 2: Astra whatever whatever, whatever, All right, So let me see
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  Speaker 2: what am I gonna talk about. Let me do this
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  Speaker 2: Democratic congress woman first out of Massachuset.
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  Speaker 1: I like saying that name, Massa.
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  Speaker 2: Are you familiar with a congress woman Ayana Presley?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we go, we go way back.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you very much, thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Uh she is one who uh she she? You know,
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  Speaker 2: it's we're a racist country and blah blah blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 2: And the debate over Columbus Day, which was made Indigenous
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  Speaker 2: People's Day, which Donald Trump made back to Columbus Day,
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  Speaker 2: she felt the need to, you know, to speak out
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  Speaker 2: on that, and she got on her social media and
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  Speaker 2: she says, we are all on stolen land. And while
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  Speaker 2: Republicans try to whitewash American history, we acknowledge our country's
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  Speaker 2: role in listening trauma on our indigenous neighbors. The Boston
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  Speaker 2: congresswoman wrote this on x She added that we'll keep
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  Speaker 2: collaborat or celebrating their contributions and centering Native voices and
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  Speaker 2: are policy making and building more just just an equitable future.
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  Speaker 1: So now there are calls for her to sell.
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  Speaker 2: Her one point one million dollar home in Martha's Vineyard
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  Speaker 2: because you know, she's on stolen.
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  Speaker 3: Land, stolen hair too. Somebody took it.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't that that's very meducis anti or what's the word
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  Speaker 2: of a reverse medusation. She also owns a couple of
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  Speaker 2: investment properties in Mattapan, low income area in South Boston
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  Speaker 2: that earns she and her husband between fifty thousand and
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  Speaker 2: one hundred thousand dollars in twenty twenty four. She often
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  Speaker 2: speaks about inequality and the rights of the poor. Her husband,
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  Speaker 2: Canaan Harris, along with her purchased their three bedroom house
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  Speaker 2: in Martha's Vineyard in twenty twenty three. New York Post
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  Speaker 2: reported that Harris her husband spent ten years in prison
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  Speaker 2: for drug trafficking. I mean she's making one hundred and
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  Speaker 2: seventy four thousand dollars a year, and she bought up
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  Speaker 2: one point one million dollar house. Her husband did ten
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  Speaker 2: years for drug trafficking. I'm just saying, no accusations. I'm
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  Speaker 2: just saying the Democrat owns four rental properties in Massachusetts,
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  Speaker 2: all together earned her as much as three hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 2: thousand dollars in profit in twenty twenty four, according to
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  Speaker 2: her annual financial disclosure, a significant profit increase for Presley,
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  Speaker 2: who in twenty twenty declared a riddle income of fifteen
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  Speaker 2: thousand dollars. So in four years she went from fifteen
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  Speaker 2: thousand dollars in rental income to three hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 2: thousand dollars in rental income. What's she charging for rent?
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  Speaker 3: Is that not normal?
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  Speaker 1: Is she? Is she a predatory landlord? I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe they knocked down a wall and it seemed more
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  Speaker 4: spacious and it just looked better.
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  Speaker 2: So, but maybe there were calls in Columbus, Ohio, largely
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  Speaker 2: I believe from the Italian American community to put the
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  Speaker 2: damn statue back where.
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  Speaker 1: It belongs in front of city.
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  Speaker 2: Hall, and the city has announced previously a plan to
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  Speaker 2: construct a park somewhere where they want to display it.
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  Speaker 2: My question for you, and I mean this sincerely. Would you,
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  Speaker 2: as they said, asen as a voter, is it an
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  Speaker 2: involved member of our city, would you vote in favor
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  Speaker 2: of a referendum on the ballots that would say the
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  Speaker 2: mayor made an arbitrary decision to remove this statue citing
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  Speaker 2: his beliefs that Christopher Columbus did not represent our values
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  Speaker 2: of the city which is named Columbus, and remove the
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  Speaker 2: statue in the middle of and it should go back
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  Speaker 2: because there was no public input, no notice, no public speaking,
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  Speaker 2: no council meeting, nothing. He just decided to do it
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  Speaker 2: and around four am one morning it was done. If
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  Speaker 2: that was on the ballot to put that statue back,
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  Speaker 2: would you vote yes? Put the statue back. And it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't matter whether you're an Italian American or white or
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  Speaker 2: black or Asian or whatever. I'm just I think the
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  Speaker 2: people of Columbus would vote in favor of this. Look,
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  Speaker 2: you take down the statue, but we're still Columbus, Ohio.
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  Speaker 2: Where's the referendum to change our name to Flavortown. How
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  Speaker 2: can we continue to be Columbus when a statue of
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  Speaker 2: Columbus doesn't reflect our values? This just doesn't make sense.
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  Speaker 2: It was a stupid decision, a stupid move offensive to
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  Speaker 2: some and as far as I know, while maybe not illegal,
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  Speaker 2: definitely unethical. You don't take down the city's namesake statue
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  Speaker 2: from in front of the people of Columbus's house. That's
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  Speaker 2: what city Hall is. It's ours, our city hall. That's
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  Speaker 2: where our business is conducted. Just like the State House
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  Speaker 2: belongs to the state, US capital belongs to the United States,
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  Speaker 2: city Hall belongs to the people of Columbus. And that statue,
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  Speaker 2: that statue was I mean, my whole life, it's been there.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't even look right having the building there without
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  Speaker 2: the statue, as far as I'm concerned. There was another
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  Speaker 2: one too, that was on the wod. They had that
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  Speaker 2: on the Siota down by the Santa Maria, which is
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  Speaker 2: also somewhere in storage.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why.
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  Speaker 2: There's not a whole heck of a lot of doo
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  Speaker 2: you can do with that shallow water down there. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: the Santa Maria was at least a little attraction. Not
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  Speaker 2: sure why they pulled that out, same brain trust that
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  Speaker 2: tore down the Centrum, I guess, but I think I'm
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  Speaker 2: ready for it. I would like to see this and
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure how it would be done. I know
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  Speaker 2: I've got two or three people from the Board of
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  Speaker 2: Elections that listen pretty regularly. Maybe they're listening tonight and
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  Speaker 2: could tell me. I don't know how it would be done,
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  Speaker 2: but it seems to me that something like this, this
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  Speaker 2: is exactly what the democratic process is all about. How
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  Speaker 2: would you bring that kind of thing to the ballot?
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to know how that's done, and i'd like
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  Speaker 2: to know if you'd be supportive. Let's put that statue back.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I say, A two one nine, eight eighty six,
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  Speaker 2: the number eight two one WTV and and you're welcome
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  Speaker 2: to say I don't think it should go back.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, you don't have to. I'm unlike some people.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have to agree with me and go, oh chuck,
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  Speaker 2: you're exactly right. If you think I'm wrong, I'll listen
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  Speaker 2: to you.
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  Speaker 1: We may not agree, but I'll listen to you. That's
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  Speaker 1: always been my rule.
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  Speaker 2: Debate, discussion, disagreement with respect.