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AFP Endorsements · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Well, you got a lot of work to do this year,
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back, Donovan. It's a new year, and a happy
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  Speaker 1: new year to you, sir Brian.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be a big year, and I'm so
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  Speaker 2: excited to be back at it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's yeah, I am too, and I know we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be talking about the twenty twenty six election a
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  Speaker 1: lot this year. Of course, we've got opportunities here. I
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  Speaker 1: just a little concerned about the typical norm, which is
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  Speaker 1: the party in power loses seats in the House and
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  Speaker 1: in the Senate. And I'm not sure if that's going
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  Speaker 1: to happen this year, but what we do have that
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  Speaker 1: to face. But I'm a little concerned about this because
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  Speaker 1: one of the topics on the list you wanted to
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  Speaker 1: talk about was not returning COVID Era subsidies. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: I just had a conversation by Cincinnati's budget with the
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  Speaker 1: former Vice mayor of the City of Cincinnati. One of
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  Speaker 1: the problems we're having in the city is because the
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  Speaker 1: COVID money dried up and they don't have it to
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  Speaker 1: hang their hat on anymore, so they got a big
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  Speaker 1: hole in their budget. We weren't supposed to be relying
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  Speaker 1: on that beyond the outbreak of COVID. It's long since gone,
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  Speaker 1: and they're still talking talking about subsidies.
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  Speaker 2: Well yeah, and these in particular are these Obamacare subsidies,
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  Speaker 2: right that were enacted that funnel three hundred billion dollars
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  Speaker 2: not to patients, not to actually bring on the premiums,
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  Speaker 2: but to the health insurance companies who are lobbying like
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  Speaker 2: hell as you can imagine, Brian, to keep this in place.
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  Speaker 2: And for some baffling reason, right, Democrats are continuing their
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  Speaker 2: fifteen year march towards saying, if you just give us
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  Speaker 2: a little more time, Obamacare will work. It's not working, Brian,
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  Speaker 2: and we need to keep Republicans from signing onto this
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  Speaker 2: thing and trying to help make it happen, because it's
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  Speaker 2: it's broken, and it's making our healthcare premiums cost so
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  Speaker 2: much more. Look fraud, wasted abuse too, Brian. I'm a
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  Speaker 2: bit fired up about this one because it hit us
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  Speaker 2: instantly at the beginning of the new year. But you know, fraud,
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  Speaker 2: waste and abuse is one of the things they say, Well, hey,
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  Speaker 2: what if we root some of that out and we
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  Speaker 2: really make sure the money goes to the patients This time,
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  Speaker 2: I point to usaid, there's not enough fraud, waste and
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  Speaker 2: abuse protection you could have put into place on that
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  Speaker 2: corrupt slush fund to make it work for whatever intended purposes.
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  Speaker 2: It has the same things here with these COVID subsidies.
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  Speaker 2: There's not a fraud waste of abuse protections you could
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  Speaker 2: put in place. I just don't trust the federal government
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  Speaker 2: to be able to do it right, to make sure
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  Speaker 2: that that money actually goes for its intended purposes. It's
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  Speaker 2: just bad.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, we've been struggling with this whole concept
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  Speaker 1: of funneling money to non governmental organizations and then not
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  Speaker 1: doing any follow up work to see if what they
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  Speaker 1: promised to do is actually been done. That's one element.
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  Speaker 1: But when you talk about USA, it's not just the fraud,
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  Speaker 1: waste and abuse at the end, but it's also the
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  Speaker 1: motivation to give anyone the money in the first place. No,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to fund shrimp on treadmill research in China.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, what the hell who chose that and who
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  Speaker 1: decided that was a worthy thing to spend taxpayer dollars on.
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  Speaker 1: But it's just a long or one of a long
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  Speaker 1: long list of stupid programs we're paying for, and whether
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  Speaker 1: or not they bore any fruit seems immaterial. The idea
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  Speaker 1: that it even started in the first place is backcrap insane.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, thing with these Biden era COVID subsidies that
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  Speaker 2: Greg Landsman, Congressman Greg Landsman is very likely going to
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  Speaker 2: vote on extending for three more years tomorrow. We don't
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  Speaker 2: need this money going to the insurance companies that annually
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  Speaker 2: jack up premium prices and do nothing, nothing, Brian, to
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  Speaker 2: actually bring down the cost of healthcare. They're incentivized with
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  Speaker 2: this program to enroll people who don't even need health insurance. Right,
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  Speaker 2: we need to just end those programs and focus on
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  Speaker 2: policies that are going to empower patients, for programs like
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  Speaker 2: HSA's that are going to bring price transparency. There's a
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  Speaker 2: lot that can be done, and it doesn't involve just
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  Speaker 2: shoveling billions upon billions of taxpayer dollars over to the
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  Speaker 2: insurance companies continue a failed Obamacare Biden COVID era program.
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  Speaker 1: Well, honestly, all those subsidies do is mask the failure
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  Speaker 1: of Obamacare. The premium dollars cover the money that goes
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  Speaker 1: out the door to cover claims. That's an obvious thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's the way the private insurance market because they so
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  Speaker 1: many people who are sick, and on Obamacare, the expended
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  Speaker 1: goes through the roof. But if you give someone a subsidy,
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  Speaker 1: it masks the actual cost of that by hiding the
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  Speaker 1: increase in premium that would necessarily follow a massive influx
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  Speaker 1: of claims on the program. I mean, it's just the
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  Speaker 1: whole thing was designed to fail from.
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  Speaker 2: The get go. Well, you know, and that's funny you
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  Speaker 2: say that, because that is that we were saying that
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  Speaker 2: fifteen years ago, right when Obamacare is going in it
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  Speaker 2: is too break. It is to go to house of
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  Speaker 2: cards because you know this, right, Progressives Democrats, the ends
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  Speaker 2: justify the means for them in this case, right, and
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  Speaker 2: so making people pay more in premiums, hurting families with
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  Speaker 2: rising costs to in that march towards a single payer
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  Speaker 2: healthcare system is what they're in the pursuit of here.
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  Speaker 2: And if we extend the subsidies, we're just further fueling
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  Speaker 2: that dysfunction and broken policy making that's going to lead
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  Speaker 2: us to that eventual conclusion. We don't have to go there, though, Brian.
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  Speaker 2: We can turn the page, rechart the course, and actually
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  Speaker 2: enact policies that we know as conservatives are going to
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  Speaker 2: unleash abundance in the healthcare space, again most importantly by
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  Speaker 2: bringing down costs and empowering patients.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, reducing the regulatory burden on the healthcare industry
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  Speaker 1: generally speaking, Michael, A long way to reduce overall costs
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  Speaker 1: of healthcare generally. But who am I to say on that?
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  Speaker 1: Moving over to candidates, we had talked about some of
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  Speaker 1: the statewide candidates that AFP was supporting going into the
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  Speaker 1: November election. How about Zach Haynes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, really excited to break the news on this one
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  Speaker 2: here this morning with you. We're going to have a
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  Speaker 2: larger announcement probably next week with a few more races
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  Speaker 2: around the state. But I feel like I come on
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  Speaker 2: your show, Brian, and I tell your listeners about all
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  Speaker 2: these other races we're working on in Toledo and Cleveland
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  Speaker 2: and Columbus, and we've got a real winner here in
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  Speaker 2: southwest OHIOA Zach Haynes. We're excited to endorse him. He's
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  Speaker 2: running for State Senate in the seventh Senate district that's
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  Speaker 2: going to be per State Senator Steve Wilson's being term limited.
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  Speaker 2: Out covers upper north East Hamilton County and all of
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  Speaker 2: Warren County. I don't know if you've had an opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to talk with Zach before, but when he came to
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  Speaker 2: our office, sat down talk with him about some of
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  Speaker 2: the things we need to do to move Ohio in
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  Speaker 2: a big, bull transformational way. I was blown away with
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  Speaker 2: his passion, energy, and I think he's going to be
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  Speaker 2: a real fighter should the voters decide to send him,
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  Speaker 2: to send him to Columbus later this year.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I know Joe Strecker, Executive Executiveroducer will work hard
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  Speaker 1: to get Zach on the program to talk about that,
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  Speaker 1: and I appreciate your endorsement of him and pivoting over.
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  Speaker 1: One more thing to talk about. V v Ramaswami, of course,
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  Speaker 1: currently running unopposed. He's already received the statewide Republican endorsement.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's a lock for v VAK. He has
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  Speaker 1: selected a running mate. What do you know about Rob McCauley.
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  Speaker 2: So actually, personally, I've known Rob McCauley since he was
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  Speaker 2: a state representative in northwest Ohio and my wife and
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  Speaker 2: I lived up there.
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  Speaker 1: Uh uh.
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  Speaker 2: Rob is a phenomenal conservative. He is somebody who, through
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  Speaker 2: the years that I've known him, being a legislator in
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  Speaker 2: both the House and the Senate and most recently the
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  Speaker 2: Senate president, fight to lower taxes. In fact, his chamber
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  Speaker 2: was the chamber that moved that introduced an amendment to
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  Speaker 2: the state budget that made ohioi flat tax state. That
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  Speaker 2: was the Senate Chamber led by him currently, that got
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  Speaker 2: that into the budget and made it happen. Lowering taxes,
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  Speaker 2: cutting red tape, curbing spending, empowering families with school choice.
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  Speaker 2: Rob McCauley is the true conservative. I mean, he's the
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  Speaker 2: real deal. If you get a meet him, you get
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  Speaker 2: to talk to him, you'll realize that very quickly. And
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  Speaker 2: there were a lot of good folks floated to be
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  Speaker 2: of a Vakes running mate, but I think Rob McCauley
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  Speaker 2: is top tier and is going to be the kind
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  Speaker 2: of guy right if the VEK is that visionary who's
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  Speaker 2: going to chart a bold course for the state. Rob
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  Speaker 2: the kind of guy who understands what it's going to
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  Speaker 2: take to work with the legislature to get that agenda
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  Speaker 2: passed and through, which isn't always a guaranteed thing, even
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  Speaker 2: in a super majority Republican state like Ohio. So I'm
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  Speaker 2: really excited about Rob, not just as a friend of mine,
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  Speaker 2: but as somebody who I've seen legislate, I've seen in
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  Speaker 2: Satin interested party meetings in Columbus with legislators and lobbyists.
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  Speaker 2: He's a real deal and Vivek's lucky to have them.
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  Speaker 1: As I pointed out when we started talking again, Donovan,
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  Speaker 1: Americans for Prosperities provides an opportunity for the listeners to
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  Speaker 1: really get engaged and get involved. Call to action, Donovan,
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  Speaker 1: where do we need to go to keep up with
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  Speaker 1: things if we want to help out.
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  Speaker 2: Buckeye blueprint dot com. We're going to have a lot
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  Speaker 2: of updates at Buckeye blueprint dot Com over the next
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  Speaker 2: few weeks as we get things fired up for this year.
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  Speaker 2: It's a big year and we're going to need as
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  Speaker 2: many people as we can to lockshields with us and
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  Speaker 2: help make this happen.
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  Speaker 1: Be part of the solution. Buckeye blueprint dot Com work
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  Speaker 1: with AFP Donovan O'Neil. I enjoy our discussions. I'll look
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  Speaker 1: forward to next week with another one. Keep up the
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  Speaker 1: great working again to you and everyone at AFP. A
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  Speaker 1: very happy new.
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  Speaker 2: Year you as well. Brian, Take care.
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