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Soccer Stadium and McCoy park · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Greeting. Salitation's welcome, my friends. Do another edition of the
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  Speaker 1: Power Hour on six ten WTV and on Chuck Douglas
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  Speaker 1: you know who you are, and we'd take it from there.
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  Speaker 1: We get one hour together, which means I talk really
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  Speaker 1: And so very much to talk to you about, so
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  Speaker 1: little time. First of all, I want to tell you
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  Speaker 1: about are you a big fan? Do you? You don't.
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  Speaker 1: You're not a coffee person at all?
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  Speaker 2: Right, No, which is ironic because I drink a ton
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  Speaker 2: of caffeine.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I drink excuse me, a ton of pop. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: But if I drink.
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  Speaker 2: Coffee, it feels like I'm setting here vibrating and I
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  Speaker 2: could just launch through the roof.
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  Speaker 1: I have to wonder seriously what I would be like
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  Speaker 1: if I did not drink coffee. Because I'm relatively calm,
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  Speaker 1: and yet I drink. I'd probably put away about a
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  Speaker 1: gallon and a half a day.
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  Speaker 2: I've never seen you without cough.
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  Speaker 1: It's always with me. Yeah, the cup is a constant
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  Speaker 1: part of my life. But the reason I asked him,
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  Speaker 1: is one of the locals Stealf's Coffee st au F
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  Speaker 1: Stelf's Coffee, which just opened a facility down in Franklinton
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  Speaker 1: not too long ago. Also, they'll be operating Cup of
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  Speaker 1: Joe their employees. According to an NBC for Studio or
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  Speaker 1: story on their web page here, their employees are are
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  Speaker 1: looking to unionize and the reason is apparently because management
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  Speaker 1: at Stalf's said that they're not turning away ice agent's business,
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  Speaker 1: that they will serve anyone in the community that comes
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  Speaker 1: in and what. And the employees, I guess, apparently don't
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  Speaker 1: think that's right. They want to have a say in
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  Speaker 1: how the company is run, and so they're going to unionize.
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  Speaker 1: Can I tell you this is one of the dumbest
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  Speaker 1: things I've ever seen. You don't get a say just
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  Speaker 1: because you get a union, that doesn't mean you get
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  Speaker 1: to make corporate decisions. Oh my gosh, how what an entitled,
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  Speaker 1: ridiculous group of people we have raised in this country?
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  Speaker 1: A union? Does it?
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  Speaker 2: It depends on the strength of your you. But unions,
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  Speaker 2: you don't just get to decide everything. Yeah, it's not
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  Speaker 2: how they've ever worked.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, a company is going to run the way the
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  Speaker 1: company runs period. Now, well, how they treat employees, what
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  Speaker 1: employees are paid, what kind of benefits they get or
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  Speaker 1: don't get. That is what a union is going to do.
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  Speaker 1: But a union is not going to allow you, as
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  Speaker 1: the employees, the people serving up the coffee they're they're
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  Speaker 1: not going to allow you to make decisions about how
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  Speaker 1: that company is run. And that's just that's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: That's not even the point when unions were extremely needed,
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  Speaker 2: like in the thirties and forties at all. They didn't
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  Speaker 2: just decide how things are going to run either. It's
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  Speaker 2: an advocacy group basically for rights.
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  Speaker 1: And things like that.
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  Speaker 2: That's it's not how every everything's run.
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  Speaker 1: I think this, this, this is going to backfire miserably
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  Speaker 1: even I mean even if they unionize you, even if they
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  Speaker 1: get the affirmative vote and and unionize the employees, I
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  Speaker 1: think this is going to fire backfire tremendously. And and
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  Speaker 1: you know, if if you don't like the way Stouse
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  Speaker 1: is running the business, go work somewhere else. There's plenty
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  Speaker 1: of places that you know, probably believe in your your
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  Speaker 1: political ideology, and uh, and you'll be comfortable there. You
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  Speaker 1: go work somewhere else. It's that simple. That's that's grown
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  Speaker 1: up decisions, grown up problems in a grown up world.
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  Speaker 1: And if if you not had the opportunity to be
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  Speaker 1: a grown up yet, then then you'll probably be about
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  Speaker 1: to I'm starting a union for what six Yeah, good
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  Speaker 1: luck with that. It's just you and me, and good
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  Speaker 1: luck with that. I just you know that whole, that
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  Speaker 1: whole Tegna Next Star merger thing, which is I guess
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  Speaker 1: still on hold. I wondered about that because Next Star
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  Speaker 1: is a union shop. Channel four's union unless something's changed.
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  Speaker 1: But the last I heard that was a union shop
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  Speaker 1: and Tagna is not interesting, So, yeah, what. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know how that would go because I would say that
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  Speaker 1: the people at Channel ten, if they see that the
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  Speaker 1: grass is greener, and they may opt to join their
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  Speaker 1: brethren it nexttar or you know, maybe though it'll be
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  Speaker 1: a situation at Nexttar where it goes away. I have
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  Speaker 1: no idea, but that's fascinating. I've never colliding two galaxies.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, interesting.
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  Speaker 1: I want to see what happening right now. The Columbus
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  Speaker 1: City Council is convening. This should be a real show
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  Speaker 1: tonight as they discuss and apparently have scheduled a vote,
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  Speaker 1: although I don't think it's going to happen, schedule to
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  Speaker 1: vote on the appropriation of twenty five million dollars and
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  Speaker 1: the development of this women's soccer training facility at the
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  Speaker 1: current McCoy Park down on the south side. Now, as
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  Speaker 1: I said last week, McCoy Park ain't much to look at.
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  Speaker 1: It's not and I'm not hey, I'm not cutting on it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying it's not much. It's a field.
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  Speaker 2: No, it is what it is.
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  Speaker 1: You can't lie about something. It's a field that sits
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  Speaker 1: next to one trailer park behind find another trailer sales
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  Speaker 1: place that's now closed down and is just a big
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  Speaker 1: giant piece of concrete directly to the west of I
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  Speaker 1: seventy one and to the east of Harmon Avenue, which
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  Speaker 1: is pretty much nothing but dump trucks rolling anymore. It
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  Speaker 1: ain't sounds great, it ain't pretty. But but two years
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  Speaker 1: ago City Council City of Columbus voted and approved a
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  Speaker 1: plan to make it better, including a facility, a recreational facility,
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  Speaker 1: multi use fields, added parking, and a splash pad area
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  Speaker 1: for the youth or utes in the area. Somebody along
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  Speaker 1: the line must have forgotten that or I maybe got
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  Speaker 1: a donation that gave them some amnesia. I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: but it was forgotten about here. Yeah, we made that promise,
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  Speaker 1: we allocated the funds, we came up with that plan,
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  Speaker 1: we voted on it, we approved it, we said it
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  Speaker 1: in action and told people they could expect it to
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  Speaker 1: happen this year. But you know we're gonna change that. Now.
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  Speaker 1: These are the same people that yell about democracy, okay,
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  Speaker 1: because they're all lefties, they're all liberals, they're all democrats,
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  Speaker 1: all all of them, and they constantly want to yell
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  Speaker 1: about this is a democracy. We have to protect that democrasy. Well,
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  Speaker 1: our democracy approved a plan to improve the park for
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  Speaker 1: the community, and now you're ready to take that away
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  Speaker 1: because something shiny and or negotiable appeared before you.
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  Speaker 2: It's literally what you're describing is literally working against the.
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  Speaker 1: People exactly now. Shannon Harden, President of Columbus City Council,
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  Speaker 1: for whom I I don't have any great disdain, just
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  Speaker 1: no great respect. I didn't like that he became president
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  Speaker 1: the way he became president. I did not like his
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  Speaker 1: first act as president of Columbus City Council, as he
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  Speaker 1: as he called for a vote without getting a second
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  Speaker 1: to the motion, which is, you know, a parliamentary procedure
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  Speaker 1: one oh one. If you're not prepared to do it right,
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  Speaker 1: don't do it. So his first night out as Columbus
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  Speaker 1: City Council President, I laughed openly wasn't ready for the job,
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  Speaker 1: but he knew the right people in the right places
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  Speaker 1: at the right time. He on the other hand, I
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  Speaker 1: will give credit because he seems to have a problem
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  Speaker 1: with this, which is why I'm wondering if there will
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  Speaker 1: indeed be a vote tonight. Shannon Harden, by the indications
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  Speaker 1: that I have seen in his time on camera and
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  Speaker 1: in speaking with news outlets, seems to just believe that,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, we made this promise, we created this plan,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't know that I'm good with taking this away.
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  Speaker 1: The people on the other side of the fence, the
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  Speaker 1: Mayor's office, namely, seem to be of the opinion that
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  Speaker 1: it can only go there. The training facility can only
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  Speaker 1: go there. Nowhere, but there, That's the only place it
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  Speaker 1: can go, which makes me ask this question, why you
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  Speaker 1: better ask that why of all of the undeveloped, underdeveloped,
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  Speaker 1: and abandoned locations that are possibilities in the city of Columbus.
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  Speaker 1: Why must it be McCoy Park. There's got to be
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  Speaker 1: a reason, folks, there's got to be a reason. If
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  Speaker 1: they vote tonight and they vote in the affirmative, it
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  Speaker 1: is my hope, my wish, my dream, my desire that
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  Speaker 1: the people of the South side of Columbus and Columbus
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  Speaker 1: in general rise up and vote the Mastards out. This
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  Speaker 1: is one of the most play aside from sneaking away
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  Speaker 1: with the statue in the middle of the damn night,
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  Speaker 1: this is one of the most blatant in your face,
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  Speaker 1: we don't care about you. We're going to do what
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  Speaker 1: we want to do things we have seen since COVID,
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  Speaker 1: and I hope that people act accordingly. Even if you
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  Speaker 1: vote in more Democrats, vote in some unconnected Democrats, people
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  Speaker 1: that didn't babysit for a mayor or or who weren't
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  Speaker 1: secretaries to a council president, or don't have connections, vote
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  Speaker 1: in somebody who's who's not part of the club group thing, click,
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  Speaker 1: whatever you call it. But if they if they ignore,
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  Speaker 1: if they ignore the people that they promised to provide
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  Speaker 1: for by improving that park in favor of you know,
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  Speaker 1: the money. What's their names? The not hazlets. Why they
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  Speaker 1: own everything is beyond me, but in favor of what
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  Speaker 1: they want and spend twenty five million of your tax
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  Speaker 1: dollars to basically kick you in the groin vote amount
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  Speaker 1: or maybe that's just me A two one nine eighty
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  Speaker 1: six number e two TV And if you have any
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  Speaker 1: thoughts on this whole, on this what I call a
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  Speaker 1: fiasco you make on an issue, feel free to jump
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  Speaker 1: on Rochelle. You're on the Legacy Retirement Group dot com
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  Speaker 1: phone line.
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  Speaker 3: Hi Chuck, once again you are right on the money
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  Speaker 3: with something. Thank you so much for drawing attention to this.
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  Speaker 3: He I don't think a lot of people know about this. Well, no,
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  Speaker 3: I'm serious. This is absolutely absurd. It's absurd. Do we
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  Speaker 3: even know if anyone did any type of market research
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  Speaker 3: to see if Columbus even wants another team, albeit a
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  Speaker 3: female team which female sports often need subsidies. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: this is to me, this is one of the stupidest
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  Speaker 3: things they've done in a while, and it's so completely
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  Speaker 3: on fair to those people to whom they promised improvements
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  Speaker 3: on that park. This is ridiculous. So you're awesome for
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  Speaker 3: bringing attention to it, and I hope you're totally right.
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  Speaker 3: I hope those people get so mad that they're like,
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  Speaker 3: this is ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: The people are the key, Rochelle. I appreciate you, Thank
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  Speaker 1: you very much. The people are the key to everything.
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  Speaker 1: Whether we're talking Columbus, Ohio or Iran. The people are
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  Speaker 1: the key. And we've been too complacent for too long
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  Speaker 1: expecting people in elected positions to do the right thing,
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  Speaker 1: the right way for the right reasons. Guess what they don't.
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  Speaker 1: They don't and you have to rise up and do
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  Speaker 1: something about it. Write your letters, do your podcast, do
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  Speaker 1: your videos, get on any news program. You can't do
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  Speaker 1: whatever to call attention to the fact that you're dissatisfied
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  Speaker 1: and disserved. What else is around there? The closest park
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  Speaker 1: after after McCoy Park is what If you go to
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  Speaker 1: the east, I guess it would be Schiller. You'd have
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  Speaker 1: to head down the Greenlawn Avenue there across High Street
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  Speaker 1: and go over to Shiller. I can't think of anything
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  Speaker 1: to the north or south. I guess to the north
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  Speaker 1: would be Burliner. Nothing to the south and the west
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  Speaker 1: Lynnburgh Park maybe over on the west side.
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  Speaker 2: If you go east far enough if you'll get to
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  Speaker 2: Central Park, that.
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  Speaker 1: Would be really far east. Okay, yeah, I just there's
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  Speaker 1: no other parks in that area, and so to see
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  Speaker 1: something built up down there would be very nice and
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  Speaker 1: you know, very essential. I say, there's a trailer park
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  Speaker 1: right next door. There's another trailer park right across the street. Yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 1: it's a trailer park area, an industrial area, and I
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  Speaker 1: get all that, But there are kids there. And I
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  Speaker 1: know McCoy Park pretty well because I don't live over there,
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  Speaker 1: but I've been there. I've had kids and grandkids both
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  Speaker 1: that their sports teams play over there, soccer, flag, football,
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  Speaker 1: They have all kinds of stuff. Getting in and out
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  Speaker 1: of the place is horrendous because, as I said, there's
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  Speaker 1: minimal parking, but it's pretty much, you know, nothing but
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  Speaker 1: a piece of grass in the middle of a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of other stuff. And the people of that community, the
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  Speaker 1: kids of the community, the city overall, deserves to expect
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  Speaker 1: our leadership to keep their word. Two years ago they
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  Speaker 1: said we will do this. Now they're looking at saying no,
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  Speaker 1: we won't do this, and we're going to give away
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  Speaker 1: twenty five million of your tax dollars. Trust me, something
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  Speaker 1: that we don't know about. Is behind that. Somebody somewhere
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  Speaker 1: is benefiting that we don't know about. The Haslims are
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  Speaker 1: Islets or whatever their name is. They got enough money,
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  Speaker 1: No point in giving them in ours