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Mayor Ginther's 4th term and your calls · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: I'm Chuck Douglas. Do you know that you write it down?
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  Speaker 1: If you because you know you're getting older, you forget
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  Speaker 1: these things. Eight two one nine, eight eighty six Men
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  Speaker 1: number two TV and talking about the announcement from Mayor
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Ginther that he wants to be mayor for yet
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  Speaker 1: another four years, another four year fourth term because the
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  Speaker 1: first three have gone so well, and he wants you
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  Speaker 1: to support him. And I'm saying, there's no possible way
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  Speaker 1: I can. I've lived here my whole life. I look around,
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  Speaker 1: I see, I smell, I hear what's going on with Columbus, Ohio,
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  Speaker 1: and it's all wrong. And if the Franklin County GOP
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  Speaker 1: doesn't even try, they will chase me out of my
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  Speaker 1: hometown faster than any Andy Ginther ever could. Do.
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  Speaker 2: You remember when he did that Instagram live thing. I
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  Speaker 2: think it was a year ago. We talked about it
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  Speaker 2: and there was thirty.
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  Speaker 1: People, yes, just minimal, very yeah. Half.
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  Speaker 2: It has to be his mom and his staffers. So
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  Speaker 2: you can't tell me there is somebody out there that
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  Speaker 2: could at least give a good run.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: Please try. I've had Randy and our buddy Eric Delbert
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  Speaker 1: up there at l EPD firearms arranged. Both suggest Jim
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  Speaker 1: Trestle as a possible mayoral candidate for Columbus. I think
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  Speaker 1: Jim Trustle would stand a much better chance of being
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  Speaker 1: mayor of Columbus than he does it being governor of Ohio,
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  Speaker 1: so I don't think that's necessary out of the question.
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  Speaker 1: I got a text from somebody. I mean it was
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  Speaker 1: a direct text to my phone, so they've got my
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  Speaker 1: phone number, but I have no idea who they are.
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  Speaker 1: But they said recruit Matt Mayor for mayor. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know who that is, so and I don't know who
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  Speaker 1: sent the message. And oh, I'm also texting back and
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  Speaker 1: forth here with our good close personal friend Dirk Thompson
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  Speaker 1: Hunt about the mayor situation, and it's you know, as
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  Speaker 1: I was telling him, it's not a Republican Democrat issue.
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  Speaker 4: For me.
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  Speaker 1: There have been some good Democrat mayors. Tom Moody, until
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  Speaker 1: he was inspecting the city in the middle of the night,
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  Speaker 1: didn't completely suck as mayor of Columbus. Emmy Sinson Brnner
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  Speaker 1: before him. I give his sincer Verder a great deal
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  Speaker 1: of credit for being a strategist ahead of his time,
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  Speaker 1: his his annexation of property, his his changing of the
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  Speaker 1: boundaries of the city of Columbus, assured us that the
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  Speaker 1: suburbs would never get larger than Columbus. Columbus would always
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  Speaker 1: be at the top of the heap. He surrounded Bexley
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  Speaker 1: in Upper Arlington. He made sure that they had Columbus
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  Speaker 1: all around them and could not get bigger than us.
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  Speaker 1: That was brilliant. So, no, it isn't about Democrat and Republican.
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  Speaker 1: But his is about you know, this one party rule
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  Speaker 1: which I just find not only offensive but stupid. But
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  Speaker 1: maybe that's just me. A two. I WTV and is
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  Speaker 1: my number on the Legacy Retirement Group dot com phone lines. Chris,
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  Speaker 1: you're up, hey man?
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  Speaker 5: Uh sorry. I was on my way from uh, on
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  Speaker 5: my way in the door with Bergh and I heard
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  Speaker 5: mention Mike Coleman, and I was like, is he running again?
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  Speaker 5: I thought he was an awesome mayor. I'm uh, you know,
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  Speaker 5: I'm a complete conservative and all that, but I thought
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  Speaker 5: he did great stuff for the city.
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  Speaker 1: No, not Mike Coleman. Andy Ginther is running again.
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  Speaker 5: I know, I know, but I heard you mention his name,
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  Speaker 5: and I just and I was walking in I didn't
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  Speaker 5: know what was going on, and I was like, oh, wow,
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  Speaker 5: that that means if he came up against Andy Ginther.
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  Speaker 1: No, he's I don't even know if he's alive. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's alive and doing quite well in the private sector.
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  Speaker 1: And although he and I disagreed on many many things
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  Speaker 1: as far as his leadership in the city of Columbus
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  Speaker 1: and his his uh putting Columbus ahead of political ambitions,
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  Speaker 1: I give my Colon credit for that. I think that
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  Speaker 1: was he was. He was much bigger.
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  Speaker 5: I thought he cleaned it up. He cleaned it up
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  Speaker 5: all nice, and we had the Santa Maria and I
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  Speaker 5: don't know he he brought like attractions here and uh,
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  Speaker 5: it seemed like he gave it crap. And then the
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  Speaker 5: sacond thing I wanted to say is and you kind
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  Speaker 5: of threw that in there. I remember when I was
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  Speaker 5: a little kid riding with my dad and I saw
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  Speaker 5: a bumper sticker about the Mooney and He's like, I'm
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  Speaker 5: not drunk, I'm looking at the city.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, those those bumper stickers were. We had
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  Speaker 1: a slew of those things for a while there. I
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  Speaker 1: appreciate you, thanks very much for the call. Chris.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. We had a county commissioner that was shortly thereafter
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  Speaker 1: in trouble for driving drunk in the middle of the
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  Speaker 1: night in Tom Moody. Of course, that pretty much ended
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  Speaker 1: his political career. But you know, people mess up. People
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  Speaker 1: mess up, even mayors, even county commissioners. And thank goodness,
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  Speaker 1: nobody was hurt in either case, but it made him
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  Speaker 1: look bad. Two one WTV and Frank, you're on six
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  Speaker 4: You mentioned my idea for Mayor Eric Delvert with his
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  Speaker 4: trusted mentor pop off.
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  Speaker 1: Trouble is they don't live in columb Us.
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  Speaker 4: A sergeant of arms big ed, we need to we
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  Speaker 4: need to annex, we need the annex Perry Township.
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  Speaker 3: Hey.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well you know that that's probably not out of
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  Speaker 1: the scope of possibility either for the future. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure Eric is thrilled that you think so highly of him,
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  Speaker 1: and on the other hand expects it. So I will
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  Speaker 1: let me.
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  Speaker 4: Ask you this. Yeah, what about what about some type
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  Speaker 4: of voter reorganization because the state went wildly for Trump? Okay,
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  Speaker 4: and then you have pockets that you can't even get
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  Speaker 4: a Republican voted in.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the big cities Columbus, Cleveland, Dayton, and Cincinnati. That's
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  Speaker 1: they're they're Democrat strongholds. But uh so was much of
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  Speaker 1: New York. So was the Latino vote. So is the
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  Speaker 1: Black vote. It can be done with the right candidate
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  Speaker 1: and the right the right exuberance.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, I'm back to bring on Chuck, Come on, Chuck.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate you, Frank, thanks very much. A two nine
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  Speaker 1: You're on six d WTV at height?
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  Speaker 6: Hi Chuck, Hey, I'm calling from the beloved West Side here,
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  Speaker 6: bless your heart. Yes, I think I would vote for you.
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  Speaker 6: I definitely would vote for you also, but I wanted
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  Speaker 6: to know where how the mayor could spend a quarter
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  Speaker 6: of a million dollars to figure out what to do
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  Speaker 6: with our Columbus Christopher Columbus statue and all that study
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  Speaker 6: they've done, and then we're paying all that money to
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  Speaker 6: store it somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well he made the statue disappear in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the night before making the quarter million disappear. That
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  Speaker 1: was kind of cool.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, definitely, And the man mentioned the Santa Maria. Where's that?
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  Speaker 1: Uh, you know, That is a good question. It's probably
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  Speaker 1: somewhere behind brushstrokes in flight. I don't know where any
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  Speaker 1: this stuff is. And honestly, those are taxpayer owned properties.
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  Speaker 1: We probably should know where they are, what condition they
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  Speaker 1: are in, and whether or not they're being kept up
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  Speaker 1: and guarded and that kind of thing. Or are they
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  Speaker 1: just sitting in a farm field somewhere rotting away.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. I think that's so sad and we need Christopher
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  Speaker 6: Columbus back.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely. I agree with you. I don't think that
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  Speaker 1: statue ever should have been taken down. And I have
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  Speaker 1: even less pleased with the fact that, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: cranes went in there at four am and took them
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  Speaker 1: down while nobody was looking, and people Columbus just woke
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  Speaker 1: up to that surprise the next morning. That's bs.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, and I do. And I missed a Veterans memorial,
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  Speaker 6: the Veterans Memorial.
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  Speaker 1: H Have you been in the new one?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 1: I had, Oh my gosh, Mary, I'll tell you what it's.
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  Speaker 1: It's a bit of a walk up that up that
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  Speaker 1: incline from the parking lot for my legs. But once
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  Speaker 1: I got in there, it is, Uh, you talk about
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  Speaker 1: an inspirational place. I would encourage you to go down
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  Speaker 1: there and and and spend an afternoon walking through and
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  Speaker 1: just looking at all of the various displays and memorabilia.
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  Speaker 1: It's something else. I got to run here. I want
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  Speaker 1: to get to this. I don't have a name on
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  Speaker 1: my screen here. So whoever you are, aligned for you
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  Speaker 1: on six to n WTVN this is.
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  Speaker 3: Kurt So a couple of things. Chuck talking about Mayor
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  Speaker 3: Dinter getting rid of the statue in the middle of
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  Speaker 3: the night reminds me of Mayor Daily getting rid of
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  Speaker 3: Migsfield up in Chicago in the middle of the night
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  Speaker 3: when he took in the bulldozers and and just completely
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  Speaker 3: plowed up the entire entire airport.
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  Speaker 1: The problem is, unfortunately, the Columbus and Chicago comparisons are
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  Speaker 1: not all that rare anymore.
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  Speaker 6: I know.
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  Speaker 3: And and that's the problem. And and like you were
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  Speaker 3: mentioning with Frank, it's it's the demographics. You know that
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  Speaker 3: the the strongholds of the of the Democrats are in
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  Speaker 3: the big cities, And between the demograph in the big
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  Speaker 3: cities and the apathy in the big cities, it's going
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  Speaker 3: to be really difficult to be able to get rid
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  Speaker 3: of the one party rule in Columbus.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, the demographics I think can be more
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  Speaker 1: overcome than the apathy. Apathy is just you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: voter laziness is what it is. But the demographics, honestly,
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  Speaker 1: I think if you can get any candidate who can
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  Speaker 1: come in I don't care what their color is, with
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  Speaker 1: their gender is, they come in there and say, look,
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  Speaker 1: I know what's going on. Mothers of murdered children, I
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  Speaker 1: know what's going on. One Linden, I know what's going
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  Speaker 1: I see it. I want to do something about it.
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  Speaker 1: I will do something about it, and I will haul
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  Speaker 1: my political butt out here with the police to do
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  Speaker 1: something about it until we chase them somewhere else. And
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  Speaker 1: wherever they go, we're gonna follow them there, and we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna chase them out of there too, until they go
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  Speaker 1: to Cleveland or Cincinnati or any place but Columbus, Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: Those voters, I think they are more motivated by wanting
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  Speaker 1: their kids to be safe in their houses not to
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  Speaker 1: get shot up in the middle of the night that
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  Speaker 1: they will say, you know what, I will vote for
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  Speaker 1: you Republican because I actually believe maybe somebody has a
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  Speaker 1: plan and the guts to pull it off this time.
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  Speaker 3: Well, i'll tell you what, you have more a lot
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  Speaker 3: more faith than I do.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, sometimes that's all you got left.
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  Speaker 3: I know. Well, and that's what it takes.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate the call, buddies, Thanks very much,