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Brian chats with Donovan Oneil 7/8/2026 · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: It's seven thirty one right now. If you have KCD
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  Speaker 1: talk station, Happy Wednesday. Always pleased to have Donald O'Neil
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  Speaker 1: from Americans for Prosperity on the program, which we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: do right now, Happy Wednesday, Donald and Neil. Good to
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  Speaker 1: hear from you. Remember Buckeye Blueprint dot Com. Check it out, Donovan,
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  Speaker 1: let me at real quick here, it's good Dave back on,
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. My friend, I gotta I gotta
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  Speaker 1: hit you overhead with this one. Just what is your
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  Speaker 1: prediction on Grand platin Er? Is he gonna drop out
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  Speaker 1: before Monday? And if hold on? And if so, are
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  Speaker 1: they going to pick a moderate sort of centrist Democrat?
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  Speaker 1: The Democrat Party is going to be in charge of selection,
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  Speaker 1: people be damned kind of like Kamala Harris. Or are
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  Speaker 1: they gonna go with a grand Platiner crazy uh far left,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Democrats, socialist wing of the party. Good to
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  Speaker 1: have you back on.
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  Speaker 2: Oh great to be here. And I've only had one
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  Speaker 2: cup of coffee, But you know, I think they I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, I think you might even just stay in.
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  Speaker 1: That's what Bobby said this here. So he's gonna I mean,
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  Speaker 1: because he's law all his support I mean, Barney's walked away,
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  Speaker 1: Rocanas walked away. Everybody's asking for him to drop out
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  Speaker 1: of the race, so all of his support base is evaporated.
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  Speaker 1: So I guess he has the Nazi Party behind him left,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't know who else. But if he says no,
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  Speaker 1: that I mean Collins was already passing him up in
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  Speaker 1: the polling, so that that almost assures a victory. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know this state that the maners are going
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  Speaker 1: to hold their nose and vote for this crazy guy,
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  Speaker 1: maybe even a rapist. Allegations are pretty solid on the
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  Speaker 1: most recent one, so I just can't see that happening,
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  Speaker 1: which means the one of the key states they need
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  Speaker 1: to take over control of the Senate is evaporating in
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  Speaker 1: front of their very eyes. I don't know. You may
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  Speaker 1: be right, but I find that hard to believe. I
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  Speaker 1: think they'll pay him often and let him maybe have
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  Speaker 1: a saying who the who the next person is going
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  Speaker 1: to be to swap him out.
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  Speaker 2: With it seems more likely for sure. But you know
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  Speaker 2: that there were enough people that voted for him in
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  Speaker 2: a primary right he defeated was the incumbent governor in
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  Speaker 2: the state of Maine, and I think, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: it's the sad state of affairs.
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  Speaker 1: But that was before all these allegations were revealed. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you got a question the Democratic Party's vetting abilities because
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  Speaker 1: you know, would they really have advanced this guy with
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  Speaker 1: all of the baggage he came with. I mean, social
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  Speaker 1: media posts are are never going away. It would have
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  Speaker 1: been easy for them to find him, because the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the world found him, and it's some pretty atrocious stuff.
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  Speaker 2: He said, Well, I was, actually I've been watching some
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  Speaker 2: various YouTube videos with all this broke. I only kind
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  Speaker 2: of paid attention to him from the periphery, as you know,
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  Speaker 2: the crazy socialists from Maine, Yes, but started watching and
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  Speaker 2: listening to some of the videos and interviews he had done.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's a it's a it's a wildly different
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  Speaker 2: viewpoint on the future of the country that he holds,
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  Speaker 2: and I think a lot of it, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I think a lot of this stuff was known. People
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  Speaker 2: knew he was bad dude, but they you know, they
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  Speaker 2: they the promises that a politician can make certainly outweigh
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  Speaker 2: maybe some of the moral terms, but you know, stamina
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  Speaker 2: most people might have you know they can have a
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  Speaker 2: politician who's going to promom from the world the easy
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  Speaker 2: way to earn a vote.
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  Speaker 1: I just would And I don't know what the voter
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  Speaker 1: turnout was for the primary. I appreciate that they selected
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  Speaker 1: him over the other options that they had, but I
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  Speaker 1: also am painfully aware of the low information voter out there,
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  Speaker 1: and that low information people quite often will still vote
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  Speaker 1: for someone and not really fully knowing who that person is.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's what happened to the voters in
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  Speaker 1: Maine with this crazy guy. Anyway, I'm sorry to hit
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  Speaker 1: you with that. It's just dominating the news, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: I think it it's an important topic to talk about
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  Speaker 1: because he represents the shift, the far leftward shift from
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  Speaker 1: the Democrat Party, and if he is leaving, then this
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  Speaker 1: gives the Democrats an opportunity to go that direction again
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  Speaker 1: or offer up someone who's like a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: palable even among their own Democrats, or of a centrist,
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  Speaker 1: someone who's not as radical. And that's the that's the
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  Speaker 1: moral struggle the Democrats are dealing with right now. That's
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  Speaker 1: sort of where is our party truly going? And what
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  Speaker 1: does our party truly stand for? Because a lot of
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  Speaker 1: this socialist stuff does not sit well with the vast
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  Speaker 1: majority of American people. Donovan, Well, I think it's the
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  Speaker 1: socialist stuff, it's the woke stuff, it's.
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  Speaker 2: The you know, it's just going off the deep end
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  Speaker 2: and lose and focus on where you know, most Americans
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  Speaker 2: are really interested in, right, the cost of living conversation,
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  Speaker 2: the freedom and liberty conversation, the ability to you know,
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  Speaker 2: do the things that so many Americans have been able
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  Speaker 2: to do for last two hundred and fifty years. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I just have a strong family unit, a strong sense
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  Speaker 2: of community, a good job. Those things are in question
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  Speaker 2: every day. You just look at the polling data and
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  Speaker 2: how people feel about this stuff, the sentiment, and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you know, these these big government promises sound like a
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  Speaker 2: nice solution to some of the problems, but we know
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  Speaker 2: they don't work. They're why we are It's the problem
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  Speaker 2: that we're in right now, the same you know with uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, so the thing with the wokenism that has
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  Speaker 2: permeated that that party, and you know, you get at
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  Speaker 2: some point, you get thoroughly vanilla individuals where you don't
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  Speaker 2: know where they stand, so you send in the Washington
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  Speaker 2: they do even worse stuff. But it's quite a conundrum.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, we're a voter here in this country. It's
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  Speaker 2: important that you're paying attention, getting involved and actually doing
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  Speaker 2: the research. Because we can also tell you the TV
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  Speaker 2: ads and mail don't always add up that's entirely factual
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  Speaker 2: and accurate picture either.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let us pause, We'll bring Donald Neil back to
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  Speaker 1: maybe we can solve the problem the importance of volunteering
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  Speaker 1: and maybe setting the record straight for low information voters
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  Speaker 1: more with Americans for Prosperity Donovan Neil did about cares
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  Speaker 1: the talk station Donald and Neil for Mercicans for Prosperity
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  Speaker 1: Buckeye Blueprint dot com. Check it out. The importance of volunteering,
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  Speaker 1: I can't I think that can't be understated. We need
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  Speaker 1: massive voter turnout this November to counter this left to
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  Speaker 1: shift in the nation and a lot of people aren't
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  Speaker 1: paying attention. So what do we do. Does volunteering enter
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  Speaker 1: this equation?
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  Speaker 2: Donovan and Neil, Yeah, absolutely, It's what we do every
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  Speaker 2: day at AFP. It's our bread and butter. And I
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  Speaker 2: know you know that, Brian, but you know, maybe some
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  Speaker 2: of your listeners right are tuning in after a week
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  Speaker 2: of patriotism. I'm a week of reflecting on the greatest
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  Speaker 2: nation on Earth, the two hundred fifty years birthday right
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  Speaker 2: we celebrated this past weekend. So what can I do
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  Speaker 2: to give back? And you know, that's what we do
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  Speaker 2: at America's for Prospery. We inspire people to take one
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  Speaker 2: small step in their community for their country, whether it's
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  Speaker 2: policy issue you care about our political campaign, getting involved
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  Speaker 2: is just oh so important to make sure that you
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  Speaker 2: know this, this republic we have, we get to keep it,
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  Speaker 2: and most importantly, we are next the next generation gets
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  Speaker 2: to enjoy it as well.
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  Speaker 1: Fair enough when you're going door to door, is property
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  Speaker 1: at tax still one of the issues that people are
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  Speaker 1: talking about in Ohio? I know, I saw this article
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  Speaker 1: this morning. Florida is considering a massive property tax reduction.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to increase the homestead exemption really substantially, resulting
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  Speaker 1: in millions and millions of dollars perhaps being withheld from
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  Speaker 1: the various counties. And the counties are already stepping up,
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  Speaker 1: starting to come up with action plans to deal with it.
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  Speaker 1: If in fact, the voters embraced this on the ballot initiative,
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  Speaker 1: so they're at least taking steps to deal with it.
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  Speaker 1: That's the kind of what I like to call Charlie
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  Speaker 1: foxtrot our elected officials and Columbus are going to have
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  Speaker 1: to deal with if we end up voting property tax
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  Speaker 1: out in the ballot insue that's being circulated. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know where the petition is in terms of getting signatures,
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  Speaker 1: but that's a real challenge we face here. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: just kind of wondering what you're hearing from the folks
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  Speaker 1: that you're talking with in Alio if that, in fact
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  Speaker 1: is something that's high on their attention level.
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  Speaker 2: You know, honestly, the property tax issue will still out there.
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  Speaker 2: I think has folded into the larger tax cost of
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  Speaker 2: living conversation less so as a prominent item that our
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  Speaker 2: team's hearing out there on the doors. I'm hearing in
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  Speaker 2: the conversations I have knocking doors around you candidly, mid Ohio.
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  Speaker 2: But I think you know, the conversation is still at
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  Speaker 2: the place of what is being done to bring down
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  Speaker 2: the cost of everything from gasoline to grocery store items.
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  Speaker 2: The problems and challenges right that developed out of the
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  Speaker 2: Bidenomics era where we saw massive government spending four trillion
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  Speaker 2: dollars in new federal spending inflationary policies that made everything
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  Speaker 2: cost more. And it's why you know, these ideas going
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  Speaker 2: back to para sigma right, ideas like those from Bernie
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  Speaker 2: Sanders and Graham Plattner are also appealing because they're easy solutions. Right,
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  Speaker 2: give me power, give me control, and governmental take care
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  Speaker 2: of it. Right, I'll go to Washington and vote you
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  Speaker 2: in more more free stuff. What they failed to talk
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  Speaker 2: about is that say, those are the same policies that
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  Speaker 2: made things the way they are to day, and it's
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  Speaker 2: why we need you know, folks like John Houston and
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  Speaker 2: others in Washington, right who are fighting back against that
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  Speaker 2: tide of progressivism that is that is, you know, pushed
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  Speaker 2: into this country in a significant way.
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  Speaker 1: Are you hearing the word fraud come up much? Because
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  Speaker 1: you know, this is one of those bipartisan issues. Taxpayer
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  Speaker 1: dollars should not be thrown to criminal enterprise, period. I
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  Speaker 1: don't see a partisan stripe on that one. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: angry as hell about all the fraud that's been uncovered, well.
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  Speaker 2: A lot, and especially in that Medicaid healthcare space. Right,
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  Speaker 2: people want it's an interesting I mean, it's not too surprising, right,
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  Speaker 2: people want to make sure that you know, you know,
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  Speaker 2: senior citizens, young kids, folks who need healthcare, folks who
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  Speaker 2: you know are somehow falling through the cracks, are taken
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  Speaker 2: care of. But at the same time, they look around
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  Speaker 2: and they hear these reports and they read the news
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  Speaker 2: and see these programs are are broken. They're not serving
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  Speaker 2: the people that need to serve. They're serving fraudsters. You know,
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  Speaker 2: folks who you know haven't paid a dime into a
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  Speaker 2: system that was designed to protect the folks who you
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  Speaker 2: know were investing in it and supporting it, and so
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  Speaker 2: getting that fraud, waste and abuse. But again, I think
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  Speaker 2: what we find with that too, sort of a double
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  Speaker 2: edged sword here is there's just a lack of faith
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  Speaker 2: in the system. So we'll find that from time to time.
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  Speaker 2: It's why our canvassing efforts, I think matters so much,
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  Speaker 2: is so many low information voters, disengaged voters who just say,
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  Speaker 2: look at the cost of living, the broad waste and
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  Speaker 2: abuse that has existed in the system for decades, are like,
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  Speaker 2: why do we even does my vote even matter here?
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  Speaker 2: Does that even make a difference? And is it going
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  Speaker 2: to make a change in the world For the better
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  Speaker 2: if I if I actually go do that thing in
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  Speaker 2: November and what we push back against.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, got to get our listeners engaged and involved.
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  Speaker 1: You make it so easy to do with Americans for Prosperity.
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  Speaker 1: What do my listeners need to do?
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  Speaker 2: Go to Bucket Blueprint dot com. So I feel like
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  Speaker 2: the last you know, sixty to ninety seconds, Brian, it's
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  Speaker 2: People are hurting, but that's why we do what we do.
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