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AFP - Primary Voting and Endorsements · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Seven thirty one at fifty five KRC detalk station. Happy Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: It's that time of the week where you get the
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  Speaker 1: benefit of Donovan and Neil from Americans for Prosperity and
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  Speaker 1: welcome back Donovan Neil, get your senior advisor for AFP
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  Speaker 1: Action in Ohio hat and you can be talking about
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  Speaker 1: the primary. It's next week, Donovan. Good to have you
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  Speaker 1: on the morning show.
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  Speaker 2: Again, Brian, always a good time to be with you.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Donovan, did you know there's a primary vote next week?
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I'm well, I was just talking to
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  Speaker 2: Joe about this. I'm already tired of this election and
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  Speaker 2: we're not even into the main ticket yet. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: For the general, the question is can we get more
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  Speaker 1: than ten percent of the registered voters in Ohio to
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  Speaker 1: actually show up?
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's what we're dialed in on right now. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we endorse some number candidates. We've actually got fifteen candidates
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  Speaker 2: across the state of Ohio and the state and state
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  Speaker 2: legislative primaries, and our big push right now is out there. Yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: I'm about to jump in the car after I get
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  Speaker 2: off the phone with you here today and do more
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  Speaker 2: of it. We're out there knocking to reminded folks, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: you've got to get out and vote this primary elections
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  Speaker 2: have consequences, They matter, and we need people to get
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  Speaker 2: educated and get out to vote.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's hear about the ones that you've endorsed, Donovan
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  Speaker 1: and you o from Americans for Prosperity, because we do
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  Speaker 1: have some choices out there. I'm kind of curious as
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  Speaker 1: to a lot of these.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, one big one in out your Way is
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  Speaker 2: Zach Haynes for State Senate. Zach is a phenomenal candidate.
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  Speaker 2: We were when he came in and interviewed with us
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  Speaker 2: fill out of the survey. We were just thrilled to
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  Speaker 2: see his qualifications. You know, for one of the things
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  Speaker 2: we see often an interesting anecdote in the years I've
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  Speaker 2: been doing this I found is, you know, if you
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  Speaker 2: got somebody who wants to run for office, who has
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  Speaker 2: built a business, who has built a reputation, who has
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  Speaker 2: you know, in other words, doesn't need the job of
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  Speaker 2: elected officials, but as some real good ideas about ways
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  Speaker 2: we can improve the state, like getting rid of the
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  Speaker 2: income Acts, capping and reforming property taxes, cutting red tape
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  Speaker 2: and regulations. That's a good indicator of somebody you want
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  Speaker 2: in public service, right, they don't need it, they're not
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  Speaker 2: dependent upon the next election to make the paycheck. And
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  Speaker 2: Zach's one of those guys. So we're thrilled to support
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  Speaker 2: him in southwest Ohio. Another one, though I'll be out knocking,
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  Speaker 2: is in central Ohio, Wesleyan Davis. You know here Ohio
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  Speaker 2: have firm limits and what that results in, right is
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  Speaker 2: every so often sort of a don't have that incumbency
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  Speaker 2: advantage at play. And so we've got a three women
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  Speaker 2: primary in Union and Marion Counties for a state legislative
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  Speaker 2: can't race even doors to Wesley Davis. There again, somebody
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  Speaker 2: who doesn't need any job, but has gone in the
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  Speaker 2: trenches at with us as an AFP volunteer, knocks doors
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  Speaker 2: with us on important races. It's gone to the state
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  Speaker 2: House advocating for school choice. And I've been out there.
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  Speaker 2: I was out there yesterday. I'll be out there again
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  Speaker 2: today knocking doors for Wesley Davis to make sure that
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  Speaker 2: you know, among the three way race where you've got
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  Speaker 2: three Republicans, all can be fine people, but what you
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  Speaker 2: really need is that person is going to be that
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  Speaker 2: bold fighter. And that's what Weslyn is and why we're
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  Speaker 2: proud to give me the Buckeye Blueprint endorsement.
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  Speaker 1: When you endorse, and obviously I appreciate the you know,
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  Speaker 1: the type of candidate you're looking for, and I support
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  Speaker 1: exactly what you just articulated. Do you look at the
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  Speaker 1: opposition the Democrats that are running when just trying to
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  Speaker 1: match up a better candidate in other words, someone who
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  Speaker 1: can you know, survive whatever challenge their best person has
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  Speaker 1: and like for a debate or on the issues, or
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  Speaker 1: do you just look at the Republican side of the ledger.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there's a couple of different things you look at there. One,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we always look at whether you know, we
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  Speaker 2: have an actual champion in the race. Right. We don't
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  Speaker 2: just endorse because you have an R after your name, right,
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  Speaker 2: say you're conservative. We actually are looking if there's a
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  Speaker 2: champion at someone we believe is going to be able
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  Speaker 2: to get stuff done. It often helps when you've been
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  Speaker 2: volunteering with us and we've seen you, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: when you're you know, you're just volunteering like the rest
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  Speaker 2: of us are. That makes a big difference. The other
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  Speaker 2: thing we do look at is the electability you know,
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  Speaker 2: can we make a difference. You know, in primaries, especially
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  Speaker 2: where these districts are plus twenty are right plus twenty Republican.
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  Speaker 2: The primary is where the election happens. And so we
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  Speaker 2: take a look at that and we say, look, you
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  Speaker 2: if you want there are lots of kinds of Republicans,
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  Speaker 2: lots of kinds of conservatives, and if you want the
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  Speaker 2: kind that is going to do the big bull transformative
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  Speaker 2: things that AFP advocates for, we got to get involved
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  Speaker 2: in those races. And then yeah, we also look for
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  Speaker 2: some of these at the general election. Like in Zach
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  Speaker 2: Haynes's case, we're going to want to be there for
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  Speaker 2: him in the general because we know he's the kind
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  Speaker 2: of guy that Columbus needs, or Columbus needs, the district
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  Speaker 2: needs representing him in Columbus and we'll be able to
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  Speaker 2: make a compelling case will be a strong fighter against
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  Speaker 2: that progressive left message that so many of our friends
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  Speaker 2: in the Democrat Party have embraced these days.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's a time take a pause, bring Donald Neil
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  Speaker 1: back talk about some of the other coursements for Americans
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  Speaker 1: for prosperity. I'm also interested Donovan Ishen seven forty if
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  Speaker 1: you have KCD talk station very Happy Wednesday to you're
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  Speaker 1: talking about Donovan and Neil from Americans for Prosperity and
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  Speaker 1: some of the AFP endorsements, and I wanted to get
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  Speaker 1: to gauge the temperature out there as you go knocking
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  Speaker 1: door to door and talking about the candidates Donovan, Neil
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  Speaker 1: and everybody else with AFP. What do you get? You know,
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  Speaker 1: what's the the temperature out there? What are people complaining
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  Speaker 1: about are most worried about as you as you talk
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  Speaker 1: with them.
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  Speaker 2: Well, one of the first things is what you find
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  Speaker 2: is a lot of folks do not know who their
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  Speaker 2: state representative is, so who represents them in Columbus They
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  Speaker 2: don't know. I think about it. You get a lot
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  Speaker 2: of time while you're out there walking and knocking Brian
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  Speaker 2: to think about these things, and you begin to recognize, well,
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  Speaker 2: you know what, most people are living their lives right
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  Speaker 2: They're trying to make meet in the bills, get the
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  Speaker 2: kids to the soccer practice, and aren't really dialed in
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  Speaker 2: all of that. So the work we do is incredibly impactful.
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  Speaker 2: Our volunteers, our staff, our activists who get to do
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  Speaker 2: this stuff, you can see the movement happen when you
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  Speaker 2: can connect the dots for a voter at the door
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  Speaker 2: on what a candidate stands for and why they should
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  Speaker 2: vote for him. Secondly, I won't mince words on this.
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  Speaker 2: Folks are struggling with affordability. Yeah, you see gas prices
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  Speaker 2: at four to twenty nine gallon back to Biden era levels.
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  Speaker 2: When you continue to see in the nightly news, we're
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  Speaker 2: in We're further engaged in i Ran, We're disengaged from Iran,
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  Speaker 2: confusion about what's going on in the Middle East, the
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  Speaker 2: lack of Congress to be able to fund DHS and
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  Speaker 2: do the essential functions that Congress should be doing. There's
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  Speaker 2: a real problem out there, Brian or Brian, if we
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  Speaker 2: don't we the larger conservative right a center movement doesn't
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  Speaker 2: get some of this stuff on track and our leadership
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  Speaker 2: both Congress and the White House go dial in and
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  Speaker 2: start getting focused on what matters here. People were promised
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  Speaker 2: that prices would come down, we'd only sh energy abundance
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  Speaker 2: in this country, we'd rain in the out of control
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  Speaker 2: federal spending. We'd get this country back on track. I
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  Speaker 2: think last year we were largely in the right direction.
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  Speaker 2: These last several months have been rocky and rough, and
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  Speaker 2: we really are going to need to turn the page
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  Speaker 2: here if we're going to make sure that we, you know,
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  Speaker 2: sort of askew the historical trend of midterm elections and
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  Speaker 2: maintain conservative control of Washington.
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  Speaker 1: Well, your door to or knocking illustrates and the fact
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  Speaker 1: that people don't even know who their representatives are. I've
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  Speaker 1: been talking about this a lot lately because it didn't
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  Speaker 1: just dawn on me, but the literally it's and it's
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  Speaker 1: global money, if not all the money from across the
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  Speaker 1: United States, which even goes into some pretty local elections
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  Speaker 1: anymore so, the money equals influence and power because they
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  Speaker 1: buy advertising, advertising which is serving to and I use
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  Speaker 1: this term very loosely, educate people who have no concept
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  Speaker 1: of politics, who don't bother paying attention to it because
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  Speaker 1: they are going about with their lives. So the money
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  Speaker 1: that goes into these these just awful bias and quite
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  Speaker 1: often filled with prevarication campaign ads while you're watching Wheel
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  Speaker 1: of Fortune or whatever, they do, tend to pay off
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  Speaker 1: because nobody knows the reality of what's going on behind
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  Speaker 1: the scenes. If you go door to door, that's got
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  Speaker 1: to be far more impactful than any thirty second commercial
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  Speaker 1: for people to process. They can ask questions of you.
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  Speaker 1: You can explain to them why you know your side
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  Speaker 1: of the equation is right and why they need to
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  Speaker 1: disregard some nonsensical ad they see you're being. You're better,
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  Speaker 1: You're in a better position talking face to face to
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  Speaker 1: actually provide legitimate information that's important.
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  Speaker 2: Nearly every day where I know, joking, I'm out every day,
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  Speaker 2: I'm out there knocking doors talking to a voter. One
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  Speaker 2: out of well knock one hundred doors each supposed to
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  Speaker 2: knock a hundred doors or something like that a day, right,
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  Speaker 2: so one out of one hundred. Let's say there is
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  Speaker 2: some voter I run into who says, you know what,
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  Speaker 2: I've gotten so much of this mail. I've seen so
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  Speaker 2: many ads. I don't know. I don't know what the
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  Speaker 2: truth is here, and the impact you're able to have
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  Speaker 2: by being one human talking to another one Ohio and
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  Speaker 2: talking to another and saying, well, here, look, this is
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  Speaker 2: why I'm out here in this beautiful weather knocking these
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  Speaker 2: doors rather than doing anything else right now, Because you know,
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  Speaker 2: somebody like Larry Kid, who's in southern Ohio. Larry Kidd
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  Speaker 2: had built a business he cares about lowering taxes. He's
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  Speaker 2: seeing where the red tape and regulations run against entrepreneurship
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  Speaker 2: and prosperity and job creation. He's the kind of guy
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  Speaker 2: that when he gets to Columbus, he's going to make
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  Speaker 2: a difference and pry. Those kinds of conversations only happen
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  Speaker 2: at the door. They don't happen on the phone. They
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  Speaker 2: don't happen with the mail piece, they don't happen with
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  Speaker 2: the you know Wheel of Fortune tv ad in thirty seconds.
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  Speaker 2: They happen between two Ohilands, two Americans talking to each
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  Speaker 2: other about what matters and what's at stake in this election.
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  Speaker 2: It's powerful stuff, and it's what makes our organization AFP
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  Speaker 2: so impactful and our endorsements so desired by by candidates
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  Speaker 2: in these races.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and it's also a reason why to try to
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  Speaker 1: help encourage my listeners to get in touch at AFP
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  Speaker 1: Action dot court dot com and get engaged themselves to
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  Speaker 1: help do this very important work and counter this outside
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  Speaker 1: money influence. It really does have a profound effect. And
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  Speaker 1: I think that's just it tells such a sad tale
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  Speaker 1: from my perspective. I mean, the decisions these elected officials
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  Speaker 1: make and how much impact they have on our day
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  Speaker 1: to day lives. Just to me, demands paying attention to
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  Speaker 1: it throughout the year. And I know that just runs,
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  Speaker 1: you know, runs a foul what people's perceptions happen to be.
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  Speaker 1: But man, it's it's just a sorry state of affairs.
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  Speaker 1: But Donald and I, do you have more endorsements you
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  Speaker 1: want to talk about?
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know the other one. I kind of hinted
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  Speaker 2: at it, but I just want to just want to
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  Speaker 2: touch on it again here, you know, with Larry Kidd
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  Speaker 2: in southern Ohio, little maybe just outside of your listenership area,
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  Speaker 2: maybe not so much, but you know, Larry is running
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  Speaker 2: against incumbent state Representative Jason Stevens, former speaker. Maybe some
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  Speaker 2: of your listeners remember the Blue twenty two saga. He
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  Speaker 2: was at the center of that. And you know, every
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  Speaker 2: part of the state deserves good representation, deserves a representation
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  Speaker 2: that shows up and is effective in the committee process,
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  Speaker 2: is effective in the caucus process, and they're not getting
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  Speaker 2: that with with Representative Stevens. And somebody like Larry Kidd, right,
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  Speaker 2: who again built a business, has seen where the government
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  Speaker 2: runs amok with our entrepreneurs and job creators in the state.
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  Speaker 2: He's the kind of guy who's going to come to Columbus.
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  Speaker 2: I'm convinced of this. He's going to come to Columbus.
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  Speaker 2: He's going to get on impactful committees, and he's going
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  Speaker 2: to do big, bold things that state of Ohio deserves.
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  Speaker 2: Too many people in Southern Ohio are paid lip service
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  Speaker 2: by their representatives saying we're not represented well in Columbus. Well,
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  Speaker 2: those folks need to take a look in the mirror
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  Speaker 2: because they've been representing southern Ohio for so long. It's
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  Speaker 2: signed for some fresh blood. Larry Kid's going to help
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  Speaker 2: deliver that. We've knocked over five thousand doors in that district,
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  Speaker 2: and if you know anything about Apple h Ohio, these
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  Speaker 2: doors aren't clustered into small developments. They're spread out the
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  Speaker 2: hills and valleys of southern Ohio. Our team's been doing
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  Speaker 2: phenomenal work to help put this one over the top,
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  Speaker 2: and I think we're going to be pretty pleased next
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  Speaker 2: Tuesday when the results start coming in.
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  Speaker 1: Well, one final comment before we part company, Donald O'Neill,
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  Speaker 1: have you chimed in as AFP chimed in on the
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  Speaker 1: Secretary of State election. We've got Robert Spragg and Marcel
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  Speaker 1: Sturbridge on the Republican side. A choice to be made there.
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  Speaker 2: We have not. You know, we try to keep our
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  Speaker 2: races to the areas that kind of fit with on
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  Speaker 2: our core bucket blueprint. While elections are important, election integrity
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  Speaker 2: is important. That race, along with the other hot one
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  Speaker 2: that people are watching to just anticipate the next question
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  Speaker 2: you might have the state Treasurer's race. Those are races
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  Speaker 2: we've stayed disengaged on to be able to focus on
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  Speaker 2: the state legislatives primaries fifteen of which, as I mentioned,
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  Speaker 2: we've got out there across the state.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, I know that Keith Fabers one for
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  Speaker 1: Ahio Attorney General. He's going to be joining the program
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  Speaker 1: off the top of the Arron News. Looking forward to
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  Speaker 1: talking to him. He he's running unopposed, isn't he.
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  Speaker 2: That's my understanding. He's been doing a great job as
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  Speaker 2: auditor and I think, you know, makes a lot of
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  Speaker 2: sense for attorney general, especially when you look at the
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  Speaker 2: kind of folks the Democrats have on the other side
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  Speaker 2: of the equation there in November.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Donald and Neil Afpaction dot Com, get engaged,
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  Speaker 1: get involved, They make it easy to do, and keep
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  Speaker 1: up the great work, Donovan. We'll talk again next week.
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  Speaker 1: After the primary Ty eight fifty five Kerosene talk station,
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