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Republicans running for office in Columbus · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Chuck Douggets in the Power Hour on six to ten WTV,
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  Speaker 1: and you're hearing noise in the background because I'm trying
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  Speaker 1: something right now. Somebody just sent me something and they said,
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  Speaker 1: you got to see this. I don't have time. They
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  Speaker 1: killed me on Facebook yesterday, by the way, it wasn't me.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody said that. They said it was a tribute to me. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I saw that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And there was an answer to the post because
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  Speaker 1: I posted, I said, I'm not dead, guys that they
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  Speaker 1: think it was a tribute to Chuck White, who was
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  Speaker 1: the public service director over there Channel ten for many
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  Speaker 1: many years and he passed away here recently. I think
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  Speaker 1: that's probably what it was. But somebody saw it on
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  Speaker 1: TV and thought it was me. Do you guys look
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  Speaker 1: not at all, not at all.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it was just a glance.
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  Speaker 1: Jeff was a very nice guy. He and my oldest
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  Speaker 1: sister were very close back in the seventies when she
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  Speaker 1: worked there as a receptionist, and I got to meet him.
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  Speaker 1: And he's also mister Tree on Lucy's Toy Shop, so
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  Speaker 1: he was the guy behind the big tree there and uh,
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  Speaker 1: genuinely nice human being. But but but he's not me.
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  Speaker 1: So I haven't passed away yet, just so you know,
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  Speaker 1: but somebody just sent me something else here during the
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  Speaker 1: break says, hey, you know whose picture comes up when
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  Speaker 1: I listen to you on iHeart. I'm like, I'm scared
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  Speaker 1: to ask who. I don't know. I haven't I haven't
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  Speaker 1: verified it yet.
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  Speaker 2: If you just if you're on the on the app.
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  Speaker 1: Or yeah, yeah, I see, I don't know. I've only
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  Speaker 1: been here. It'll be three years since I returned come August.
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  Speaker 1: That's not enough time for Yeah, they haven't even added
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  Speaker 1: me to this web page yet, so you know, somebody
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  Speaker 1: else's picture is coming up. I wouldn't be surprised. That's
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  Speaker 1: so sad. Speaking is sad. Going into the break, I
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  Speaker 1: was talking about elected offices. I went through all those
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  Speaker 1: Democrats holding electric elected office and serving in Franklin County.
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  Speaker 1: You're serving Franklin County right now. There are also a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of judges and see this is something else Supreme
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  Speaker 1: Court ruling. I think it was just yesterday, perhaps the
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  Speaker 1: day before yesterday, that said to this point, the rule
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  Speaker 1: has been that judges could not endorse candidates. But apparently
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  Speaker 1: now the court has said, yeah, that's that's an unconstitutional
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  Speaker 1: thing that that's a violation of their free speech rights
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  Speaker 1: as citizens, much less judges. And so yeah, they can endorse. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I think if that's going to be the case, we
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  Speaker 1: should judge ships should also show party affiliation. You think
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  Speaker 1: I'm crazy on this because the judges there's no party
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  Speaker 1: affiliations in Franklin County.
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  Speaker 2: No, you should be able to say, I don't see
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  Speaker 2: why not.
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  Speaker 1: I'm reading through this list here. I don't see a
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  Speaker 1: Republican Franklin County judge on here. Mark Sarah a Democrat,
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  Speaker 1: but he's a good judge. I keep him Democrat or not.
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  Speaker 1: I've watched what he does in his courtroom. He's a
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  Speaker 1: good judge. I'd keep him around. James Brown same way.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's a solid judge despite political affiliations. George Leech,
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  Speaker 1: who I believe used to be one of us and
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  Speaker 1: then became one of them, and then they, I believe,
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  Speaker 1: have endorsed somebody else over him. I'm not joking. He's
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  Speaker 1: already an elected office. He's of the party. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we don't want you, So yeah, I think they're throwing
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  Speaker 1: him overboard. But there's no affiliations next to any of them,
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  Speaker 1: and there should be there really should be judge or not.
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  Speaker 1: People need to know, you know, basically your stance from
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  Speaker 1: a political platform point of view. And of course here
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  Speaker 1: in the City of Columbus, specifically the mayor Democrat, and
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  Speaker 1: the auditor Democrat, and the city Attorney Democrat, and the
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  Speaker 1: nine members of Columbus City Council Democrats. Everybody's Democrat. And
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  Speaker 1: you sit back and go, why are there no Republicans elected?
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  Speaker 1: Especially the judge ships, especially those people are doling out
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  Speaker 1: the justice. Right, So I'm looking at my sample ballot here.
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  Speaker 1: Judge of the Court of Appeals Tenth District, No valid
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  Speaker 1: petition filed. Judge Court of Appeals Tenth District, No valid
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  Speaker 1: petition filed. Judge Court of Common please, no valid petition filed.
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  Speaker 1: Judge Quart of Common Please, no valid petition filed. Judge
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  Speaker 1: Quarter of Common, please, no valid petition pot None of
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  Speaker 1: these judge ships have a Republican primary candidate. No petition filed.
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  Speaker 1: We do have one in Probate Division. Chris Junga is
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  Speaker 1: running in the primary and for County commission or Bless
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  Speaker 1: your heart, David, is it Kughini or Kujenie? Do you
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  Speaker 1: have any idea?
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  Speaker 2: I haven't any clue how to but he's.
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  Speaker 1: He's running unopposed on the primary here to represent the
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  Speaker 1: Republican Party for County Commissioner. We had circle over there
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  Speaker 1: for years and then he left, and it's been.
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  Speaker 2: This is dishonest. But couldn't you just couldn't somebody do
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  Speaker 2: an Operation Chaos thing and run as a Democrat?
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  Speaker 1: You could, But see, I don't like that and many dishonest.
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  Speaker 1: I know the great Maha Rushi did a lot of
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  Speaker 1: great things. That's one thing he did that I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: crazy about at all. And I think it's one of
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  Speaker 1: the reasons people lie when they get polled and so forth,
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  Speaker 1: because they all think they're going to skew something. They're
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  Speaker 1: being smarter than the system, and it makes it more
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  Speaker 1: difficult for real information, real news to get out there
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  Speaker 1: because too many people are playing too many games. Fair
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  Speaker 1: But when for these judge ships, when we can't even
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  Speaker 1: get people to file petitions to run, not even run
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  Speaker 1: against another Republican in the primary to see if you
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  Speaker 1: can get on the ballot for November, we don't have
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  Speaker 1: anybody running for one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
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  Speaker 1: eight nine. Franklin County Judge positions in various courts, no
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  Speaker 1: petition submitted. This, this is this is sad, And of
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  Speaker 1: course nobody will run for city council. Nobody will run
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  Speaker 1: against Andy Ginter. Nobody will run. And then we wonder
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  Speaker 1: why why do they get away with this? Because nobody's
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  Speaker 1: doing anything to stop it, That's why. And the apathy
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  Speaker 1: is overwhelming at this point. It's like you got a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of people walk here. I don't care, not even
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  Speaker 1: gonna bother. Why try, We're gonna lose anyway, Why even
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  Speaker 1: bother the field of candidate. And if it's truly come
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  Speaker 1: to that point, please somebody let me know, send me
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  Speaker 1: the official memo, just so I can quit hoping for
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  Speaker 1: something better tomorrow than what I saw today. A two
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  Speaker 1: one nine six A two one WTV and number ed,
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  Speaker 1: you're on sixteen WUTV and how are you? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Not too bad, I said, you said exactly what I was,
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  Speaker 3: uh told the screen are there? I says, nobody runs
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  Speaker 3: against him? There's they unopposed every.
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  Speaker 1: Time, yep. And as long as that happens, they're going
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  Speaker 1: to win every time. Ed. That's that's the problem. And again,
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  Speaker 1: I think we've reached a point where potential candidates have
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  Speaker 1: looked at at what's going on and say, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to get any help. I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to get any backing. There's there's there's a couple of people, honestly,
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  Speaker 1: that I have talked to about running, one of which
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  Speaker 1: is way more Republican than he is Democrat. But he
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  Speaker 1: has run for office as a Democrat before. And I've tried.
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  Speaker 1: I've tried, I've tried. I've tried to convince him come
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  Speaker 1: back over you are you're electable, come back over here
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  Speaker 1: and and run as a Republican and and he said
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  Speaker 1: the party's too messed up. I can't. And I think
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  Speaker 1: that is unfortunately becoming a very widely held point of view.
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  Speaker 1: All of these judge positions are up for election, and
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  Speaker 1: we can't even we can't even get anybody to run
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  Speaker 1: in a primary, not even run unopposed in a primary.
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  Speaker 1: What's that say about the Franklin County Republican Movement Party?
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  Speaker 1: Mindset future A two one nine eight eight six. Will
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  Speaker 1: you are on the Legacy Retirement Group dot com phone lines?
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  Speaker 4: Well, Chuck, I think that part of the problem up
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  Speaker 4: there in Franklin County is it's been communist but spell
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  Speaker 4: with a D for so long that people don't want
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  Speaker 4: to waste their time and money because they know that
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  Speaker 4: they will addly get the shaft by what they thought
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  Speaker 4: was their own people.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, that's that's basically what I'm saying. Well, they don't
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  Speaker 1: feel like they've got any support, They're not going to
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  Speaker 1: get any backing, so what's the point in trying. And
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  Speaker 1: if if we truly have reached that point, you know,
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  Speaker 1: there should probably be an official announcement just just so well.
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  Speaker 4: And then but at first the party designation. They can't
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  Speaker 4: put that on there. Now that used to be a
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  Speaker 4: thing that I guess if if there was primaries, you know,
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  Speaker 4: and maybe smaller counties or less one lopsided counties, you
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  Speaker 4: might have a couple of Republicans running against each other,
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  Speaker 4: a Democrat running each other. And in the primary ads,
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  Speaker 4: especially when you're talking at Peels Court and Supreme Court,
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  Speaker 4: you know, they would put a D or an R
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  Speaker 4: or Republican Democrat with in their primary literature. But in
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  Speaker 4: the general election they always left that off. That was
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  Speaker 4: that was a state law thing. Now they have the
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  Speaker 4: option of doing that if they choose to do so.
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  Speaker 1: Right well, as I said, the Supreme Court now says
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  Speaker 1: that a judge can do an endorse candidate or an
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  Speaker 1: issue or whatever. If they can do that, then then
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  Speaker 1: we should just make it a practice to put their
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  Speaker 1: put their affiliations next to them. People right, people need
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  Speaker 1: to know this kind of stuff. I appreciate you will,
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  Speaker 1: thanks very much for the call. The frustration for me
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  Speaker 1: isn't even that I don't want to take over. This
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  Speaker 1: isn't about going We need Republicans in charge. What we
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  Speaker 1: need We need a big old maga fly flying over
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  Speaker 1: the State House. That's what we need right there. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: push them, push them hot noggs on the fire out there,
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  Speaker 1: broad and high. No, No, that's not what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: What I'm saying is we are the blasting capital of
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  Speaker 1: the state of Ohio. Ohio is not not a liberal
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  Speaker 1: overall state. We are a diverse state. We can go
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  Speaker 1: either way on a lot of issues. Having one party
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  Speaker 1: rule in Franklin County, home of Columbus, Ohio is bs.
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  Speaker 1: But I can't blame the Democrats for winning elected office
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  Speaker 1: because they bothered to run somebody. That's stupid. If I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna sit here and be mad at them for winning
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  Speaker 1: they field candidates. We don't even bother. How can you
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  Speaker 1: be mad at somebody for winning because you didn't try this? Seriously,
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  Speaker 1: this has got turned around. I don't know. I haven't
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  Speaker 1: even looked at the Democrat By the way, if you
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  Speaker 1: go to Ohio votes dot com and you put your
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  Speaker 1: name and information in there, it'll pull up your sample
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  Speaker 1: ballot now down at the bottom. You can pull various ballots,
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  Speaker 1: even like I'm registered as a Republican. However, I can
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  Speaker 1: pull up the Libertarian ballot is in there. Yeah, the
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  Speaker 1: Libertarians are running some people. I think they got what
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  Speaker 1: eight candidates around the state this year, which is the
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  Speaker 1: largest number that they've had in a long time. And
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  Speaker 1: I heard one of their spokespeople on the news the
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  Speaker 1: other day saying that the party donations have actually doubled
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  Speaker 1: over the last year. So I don't know. Maybe the
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  Speaker 1: Libertarians are going to make a move because they're fielding people.
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  Speaker 1: You can look at the Libertarian ballot, the Republican ballot,
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  Speaker 1: and the Democrat vot. I guarantee you the Democrat ballots
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  Speaker 1: probably gonna have a lot more names on it than
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  Speaker 1: the Republican does. But you don't have to be of
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  Speaker 1: those parties in order to see the sample ballots for
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  Speaker 1: their May fifth choices. I haven't bothered to look, but
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  Speaker 1: I bet you, I bet you I won't see all
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  Speaker 1: these no petition filed notices on all of the available offices.
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  Speaker 1: And that is a that is a sad thing. There
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  Speaker 1: was a time, Zach, believe it or not, there was
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  Speaker 1: and I was very sincere. I was probably, I'm gonna say,
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  Speaker 1: I was probably about twenty five the first time I
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  Speaker 1: said it out loud, and up until I was probably
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  Speaker 1: around forty five, I stuck by. I said, I want
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  Speaker 1: to be mayor of my hometown.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you've mentioned it to me more than once. I
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  Speaker 2: thought you could do some good, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly, and I was I was enthusiastic to say it.
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  Speaker 1: But that's when I thought, you know, winning was possible
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  Speaker 1: because of a winning mentality. And I'm sorry, but I
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  Speaker 1: just I don't see a winning mentality. I don't even
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  Speaker 1: see it an effort mentality coming out of Franklin County
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  Speaker 1: Republicans anymore. This makes me so sad that stuff I
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  Speaker 1: still have to vote on. So I'll go to the
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  Speaker 1: polls May fifth, But man, I wish I was pushing
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  Speaker 1: buttons next to a whole bunch of stuff that there's
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  Speaker 1: no one to push buttons for music's playing already. This
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  Speaker 1: hour goes by so quickly.