Latest / Brian Thomas / Zac Haines for Ohio Senate Seat 7
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Wildly successful businessman v Day Gromaseo, I mean running for
- 0:03Speaker 1: governor of the state of Ohio. We have some options
- 0:05Speaker 1: here in the state of Ohio as we fast approach
- 0:06Speaker 1: November in terms of state Senate races. One of those
- 0:09Speaker 1: receiving the Americans for Prosperity endorsement just last Tuesday with
- 0:13Speaker 1: Donald O'Neil joining the program. Ohio State Senate District candidate
- 0:17Speaker 1: for Numbers District seven. Welcome to the program, Zach Haynes.
- 0:20Speaker 1: It's a real pleasure to you have you, I should
- 0:21Speaker 1: say back on because you did chime in on the
- 0:23Speaker 1: subject of your endorsement last week.
- 0:25Speaker 2: Good to hear from me, Zach. Happy Monday, Brian, Happy
- 0:29Speaker 2: New Year. I got to tell you and your listeners
- 0:31Speaker 2: last night was rough. I woke up in a cold
- 0:34Speaker 2: sweat in the middle of the night. It's just like
- 0:37Speaker 2: the worst nightmare I have ever had. That Amy Acton
- 0:40Speaker 2: and Juvid Pepper were in the Governor's office. Yeah, I mean,
- 0:43Speaker 2: my gosh, it was terrible. The whole place was shut down.
- 0:46Speaker 2: Everybody was wearing masks again, So I mean, let's not
- 0:50Speaker 2: do that. I holy support Vvek and my God is
- 0:53Speaker 2: refreshing to have an entrepreneur and an outsider running for
- 0:56Speaker 2: governor in Ohio at this pivotal crossroads in our state.
- 0:59Speaker 1: Well, an entrepreneur also running for District seven Senate Seed.
- 1:02Speaker 1: Apparently you have quite a business and very successful business background.
- 1:06Speaker 1: That's such an important thing for an elected official. I
- 1:08Speaker 1: get so frustrated, Zach Haynes, when we have elected officials
- 1:12Speaker 1: who literally have had no connection with independent business, private business.
- 1:16Speaker 1: They don't understand how it works, and yet they get
- 1:17Speaker 1: elected a higher office and then are expected to come
- 1:19Speaker 1: up with brilliant ideas about how we can better run
- 1:22Speaker 1: and manage the state. I think it's only people who've
- 1:25Speaker 1: had direct experience with business and leadership and industry that
- 1:27Speaker 1: really have any concept on how to fix problem because
- 1:30Speaker 1: they've had to deal with those problems.
- 1:33Speaker 2: Yeah, one hundred percent, Brian. Look, I'm a father two boys,
- 1:37Speaker 2: a CEO, lifelong Conservative from southwest Ohio, not a career politician.
- 1:42Speaker 2: I grew up in a family owned business, so I
- 1:44Speaker 2: know what it means that work hard, met a payroll,
- 1:46Speaker 2: balance a budget, and Brian, when you overspend in business,
- 1:50Speaker 2: news flash, you don't get a bailout. All right? You fail?
- 1:53Speaker 2: All right? Government needs to start working like a business.
- 1:56Speaker 2: I'm not running for office for the state Senate to
- 1:58Speaker 2: join the club in Columbus. We've got to shake things up.
- 2:01Speaker 2: I mean, I've seen government from the inside. We've seen
- 2:04Speaker 2: it from the outside. It wastes money, it grows too big,
- 2:07Speaker 2: and it loses sight of the people who it's supposed
- 2:10Speaker 2: to serve. So my vision, and I think it's probably
- 2:13Speaker 2: very similar to Eves, is I want to Ohio to
- 2:17Speaker 2: be the most competitive and prospers state in the country
- 2:20Speaker 2: for the average family and worker. And we're doing some
- 2:24Speaker 2: good things, but at the same time, families are getting
- 2:27Speaker 2: crushed by property taxes. Spending keeps going up. These budgets
- 2:31Speaker 2: have gone up by billions of dollars over the last
- 2:33Speaker 2: couple of years, very little accountability. Parents are losing control
- 2:36Speaker 2: of the children's education. Small business. As you mentioned, small
- 2:39Speaker 2: businesses are buried under regulations written by people who've never
- 2:44Speaker 2: owned a business. And Columbus is more focused at times
- 2:47Speaker 2: a grown government than protecting taxpayers. And you know, as
- 2:51Speaker 2: a father, that hits home for me, and probably like
- 2:53Speaker 2: a lot of your listeners, you know, I want my
- 2:55Speaker 2: kids to have more opportunity than I had, not less
- 2:59Speaker 2: I want them to be able to actually a ford,
- 3:00Speaker 2: a home, to raise a family, to start a business
- 3:03Speaker 2: if they want to, and to stay right here in Ohio.
- 3:06Speaker 2: But what we're seeing is people in the state are
- 3:08Speaker 2: moving away to get ahead. So that's why I'm running
- 3:11Speaker 2: for the Ohio State Senate District seven. I want to
- 3:13Speaker 2: keep that American dream alive attainable for the next generation
- 3:17Speaker 2: here in Ohio, and I think the voters are responding
- 3:20Speaker 2: to that message. Brian. I'm going to file with over
- 3:22Speaker 2: four hundred thousand dollars cash on hand. I've got more
- 3:25Speaker 2: than eighty endorsements from conservatives at every level, from Congressman
- 3:30Speaker 2: Warren Davidson, Congressman Dave Taylor, Steve Shabbt, brad Winstrip, Jim
- 3:34Speaker 2: or Nacy, Bob McEwan, county wide, local elected officials, grassroots activists,
- 3:39Speaker 2: groups like Ohio Value Voters, which is a pro life,
- 3:41Speaker 2: pro family organization, and as you mentioned, Americans for Prosperity.
- 3:45Speaker 2: So I'm ready to shake things up and we need
- 3:48Speaker 2: more business people in office.
- 3:50Speaker 1: We're going to continue to bring Zach Haynes back and
- 3:52Speaker 1: just so by way of assistance for Zach's campaign, and
- 3:54Speaker 1: what an amazing crew of endorsements. You've got there, You're
- 3:58Speaker 1: in good company. My friend that speaks Williams. Haynes, h
- 4:01Speaker 1: Ai n e S the number of the word for
- 4:04Speaker 1: Haines for Ohio dot Com. It's all right there. It
- 4:07Speaker 1: can help him out, learn about him in the campaign.
- 4:09Speaker 1: Let's bring Zach back and find out about maybe why
- 4:13Speaker 1: is it that we don't have an appealing state right now?
- 4:15Speaker 1: We've got Republicans in leadership, we have a Republican governor.
- 4:18Speaker 1: Let me remind people of the obvious. We run the
- 4:20Speaker 1: herb Republicans run the House and the Senate in Ohio,
- 4:23Speaker 1: and yet seems to be like herding cats. Where's that
- 4:25Speaker 1: property tax relief that we've been promised? Where's the energy relief?
- 4:29Speaker 1: More with Zach Kines, stick around. It's eight thirty five
- 4:31Speaker 1: right now, fifty five KRCIT the talks is.
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- 4:41Speaker 1: Hey, thirty eight fifty five krs C D talk station.
- 4:43Speaker 1: Brian Thomas with state Senate candidate. His name Zach Kynes.
- 4:48Speaker 1: He's already seen AFP's endorsement. If you listen to the
- 4:50Speaker 1: number of folks endorsing Zach Haynes for the seventh district
- 4:54Speaker 1: seat here in the state of Ohio. He's got all
- 4:56Speaker 1: the right people on his side. When you say Warren
- 4:58Speaker 1: Davidson out of the gate there, I know you're in
- 5:01Speaker 1: good companies.
- 5:01Speaker 2: That's strong.
- 5:02Speaker 1: That's like the good housekeeping stamp of political approval right there.
- 5:06Speaker 1: So real quick, here a regular topic of conversation, most
- 5:09Speaker 1: notably dominated by the state of Minnesota, all the fraud,
- 5:12Speaker 1: wasted abuse in various government programs that we've been hearing
- 5:14Speaker 1: this for a long time. We have it in the
- 5:15Speaker 1: state of Ohio as well, perhaps on that not on
- 5:18Speaker 1: that epic level, but areas where we could ferret out
- 5:21Speaker 1: what sounds like billions of dollars the potential potential fraud, waste,
- 5:24Speaker 1: and abuse, notably in like the Medicaid program. Well it's okay,
- 5:27Speaker 1: we're getting federal dollars reimburses. Well, that's our taxpayer dollars too.
- 5:31Speaker 1: I mean, at least as a concept, Zach, are you
- 5:34Speaker 1: desirous of making a priority getting rid of fraud, wasted
- 5:38Speaker 1: abuse and these modern times we have with computer technology,
- 5:41Speaker 1: I don't think that's a big ask these.
- 5:43Speaker 2: Days yeah, Brian, it is absolutely absurd the amount of waste,
- 5:49Speaker 2: the amount of fraud, and frankly, the sheer level of
- 5:52Speaker 2: bureaucracy we have at every level of the government government
- 5:56Speaker 2: with respect to boards, agencies, commissions. So we need more stringent,
- 6:00Speaker 2: we need more means testing. We need to qualify everybody
- 6:04Speaker 2: who's receiving a single dollar of our taxpayer money. And
- 6:08Speaker 2: that's my number one job if I get in the
- 6:09Speaker 2: state Senate is to protect our taxpayer money. This is
- 6:13Speaker 2: your money, this is not the government's money. Just on
- 6:17Speaker 2: the topic, I don't know if people realize this, but
- 6:19Speaker 2: there's over one hundred and ninety government agencies, boards and
- 6:23Speaker 2: commissions in Ohio. If I'm elected, the first thing I
- 6:26Speaker 2: would do is push for a review of every single
- 6:28Speaker 2: state agency to make sure it's actually serving a clear
- 6:32Speaker 2: purpose that is providing real value to Ohio taxpayers. Governments
- 6:36Speaker 2: should not continue funding offices simply because they've all always existed,
- 6:41Speaker 2: and when agencies overlap or they drift beyond their original mission,
- 6:45Speaker 2: they should should be consolidated, eliminated, sunseted budget decisions should
- 6:49Speaker 2: be based on results and outcomes, not automatic increases year
- 6:53Speaker 2: per year. There's so much fraud in medicaid when Governor
- 6:56Speaker 2: Kaiseik expanded medicaid under his you know, you know, one
- 7:01Speaker 2: of the things no one was talking about. And as
- 7:03Speaker 2: a business guy, I'm just kind of throwing my hand
- 7:05Speaker 2: up in there, like, wait a second. Okay, So the
- 7:08Speaker 2: federal we're gonna get money from the Feds, but that
- 7:11Speaker 2: money is not federally guaranteed. Okay, So what if it
- 7:16Speaker 2: dries up? What if they stop stop sending that money,
- 7:18Speaker 2: then guess what, we're on the hook for it. You
- 7:20Speaker 2: can't put the genie back in the bottle. So it
- 7:22Speaker 2: is absolutely ridiculous. I was talking to a doctor the
- 7:26Speaker 2: other day who has a neighbor who lives across the
- 7:29Speaker 2: street in a in a huge kind of mansion, and
- 7:32Speaker 2: he was talking about nursing homes. Every nursing home has
- 7:35Speaker 2: to have a like a registered physician on the books.
- 7:38Speaker 2: And this guy's never even seen anybody in the nursing home,
- 7:40Speaker 2: never steps in, and just collects his checks, okay, and
- 7:43Speaker 2: and and gives lends's name. So there's a you know,
- 7:46Speaker 2: an official license physicians associated with that so they can
- 7:49Speaker 2: receive their handoffs. I mean, it's absolutely absurd. What's going on.
- 7:53Speaker 2: And you know what it starts with. It starts with caring.
- 7:56Speaker 2: We got to have people who care, and we have
- 7:58Speaker 2: to have people who are confident. And another thing, Brian,
- 8:02Speaker 2: and people don't talk about this enough. I'm a big
- 8:05Speaker 2: believer in the dignity of work. I think every o'hiland
- 8:08Speaker 2: should have a chance to earn a living, support their family,
- 8:13Speaker 2: contribute to society with their God given talents. But with
- 8:16Speaker 2: that being said, the first rule of the leader, in
- 8:19Speaker 2: my mind is do no harm. And we have policies
- 8:24Speaker 2: on the books right now that discourage marriage, family information,
- 8:28Speaker 2: and work ethic. Too often our laws create perverse incentives
- 8:32Speaker 2: that penalize people for doing the right thing. I talked
- 8:36Speaker 2: to a supporter of mine and he wanted to give
- 8:39Speaker 2: one of his employees a raise, and she declined because
- 8:42Speaker 2: if she makes over certain amounts, she would lose her
- 8:45Speaker 2: her government handouts and subsidies. We're talking about people who
- 8:48Speaker 2: are cohabitating instead of getting married. I will fight to
- 8:51Speaker 2: ensure that no government program undermines the role of family, faith,
- 8:56Speaker 2: personal responsibility. We have an identity crisis in this country,
- 9:00Speaker 2: and if we're going to solve it, we need strong families,
- 9:02Speaker 2: strong churches, strong communities not as strong a bureaucracy. So
- 9:07Speaker 2: you know, I'm not just about passing legislation. I want
- 9:09Speaker 2: to start repealing legislation. I think government has way stepped
- 9:13Speaker 2: outside the lines.
- 9:14Speaker 1: Well, and you know, honestly, sir, I don't mean to
- 9:16Speaker 1: boil down what you've just got done saying is you know,
- 9:18Speaker 1: traditional Republican platform kind of concepts. And this goes back
- 9:22Speaker 1: to my frustration that I commented on as we went
- 9:24Speaker 1: into the break. You know, the Republicans control Columbus, and
- 9:28Speaker 1: you would think that some of these brilliant ideas you have, Gee,
- 9:31Speaker 1: we have one hundred and ninety independent agencies. Why aren't
- 9:33Speaker 1: we looking at them to see, you know, if we
- 9:35Speaker 1: can get rid of them. It sounds like a bunch
- 9:36Speaker 1: of extra fat in government overlapping areas. There's no need
- 9:39Speaker 1: for the overlap. That's a sound, simple, easily sellable concept
- 9:43Speaker 1: that hasn't been advanced yet. But why haven't these types
- 9:48Speaker 1: of policies as great as they are been advanced by
- 9:51Speaker 1: Republicans in Columbus. I'm ah frustrated by this.
- 9:54Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Brian. I wish I could tell you,
- 9:58Speaker 2: or else I wouldn't be running for the State Senate.
- 10:01Speaker 2: I mean we I think the one answer is we've
- 10:03Speaker 2: got to have more business people, because I think business
- 10:05Speaker 2: people are problem solvers. And you know what, We've got
- 10:08Speaker 2: a lot of attorneys. We've got a lot of career politicians.
- 10:12Speaker 2: But I'm not running I say this with all humility.
- 10:16Speaker 2: I'm not running for a paycheck and to get a pension.
- 10:18Speaker 2: I believe maybe I'm old fashioned, but you have to
- 10:21Speaker 2: earn a living in the private sector, and you provide
- 10:25Speaker 2: for your family. You get back to your community locally,
- 10:28Speaker 2: and then you take the skills and take the lessons
- 10:31Speaker 2: that you've learned, and then you run for office to
- 10:34Speaker 2: give back, to serve, to help your state. And Ohio
- 10:38Speaker 2: is the heart of this country. We are blessed with
- 10:40Speaker 2: so many resources, but we're strangling ourselves. I mean, you
- 10:43Speaker 2: mentioned it. With energy, we could just open up lines
- 10:46Speaker 2: and empower the free market. We empower the consumer, and
- 10:50Speaker 2: increasing supply will drive down costs and make things more affordable.
- 10:54Speaker 2: But you know, I don't know this is unique to
- 10:57Speaker 2: people who have owned or run a business. It seems
- 11:00Speaker 2: like common sense to me. But you know, it's just
- 11:03Speaker 2: I think, like anything, you've got a certain number of
- 11:05Speaker 2: people that are willing to do the work. And you've
- 11:07Speaker 2: got a certain number of people that are just kind of,
- 11:10Speaker 2: you know, kind of there, But I won't know that
- 11:12Speaker 2: until I get there. You've got to have enough votes
- 11:14Speaker 2: to pass things, and you know that's kind of that
- 11:17Speaker 2: sausage making process. But you know, I've got a lot
- 11:20Speaker 2: of ideas. A lot of these seem like common sense,
- 11:22Speaker 2: and I just think it takes conviction. And as I said,
- 11:26Speaker 2: I'm not running to join the club in Columbus. I'm
- 11:29Speaker 2: running to shake things up. And I think with someone
- 11:31Speaker 2: like Vivek as our next governor, he's going to need
- 11:34Speaker 2: folks in the state legislature that will help him get
- 11:38Speaker 2: his agenda across the line.
- 11:40Speaker 1: Well, he mentioned the idea of ultimately eliminating income tax.
- 11:43Speaker 1: Great idea. Other states have done it and we're able
- 11:45Speaker 1: to survive. How about property tax relief? Another frustrating element.
- 11:48Speaker 1: We had the budget that was presented to the governor
- 11:51Speaker 1: for his signature. Oh no out comes the line at
- 11:53Speaker 1: in veto vetoing or vetoing the property tax reform that
- 11:57Speaker 1: the legislative brand should put in there. I'm not I
- 12:00Speaker 1: mean some minor steps toward fixing the property taxes. Well,
- 12:03Speaker 1: that's one of the biggest thing that vexes the Ohio
- 12:05Speaker 1: tax payers. You know, you don't really ever own your home,
- 12:08Speaker 1: and the bill keeps going up, and sometimes by huge
- 12:11Speaker 1: amounts most seniors can't manage.
- 12:14Speaker 2: Yeah. So look, I've called hundreds and hundreds of voters
- 12:19Speaker 2: in my district and I asked them at this point, Plank,
- 12:22Speaker 2: what are your top priorities, what are you most passionate
- 12:25Speaker 2: about get a magic wand what issues would you solve
- 12:27Speaker 2: and fix? Property taxes was always among the top three.
- 12:31Speaker 2: And I think it's absolutely disheartening that someone who's worked
- 12:37Speaker 2: their whole life, owns their home outright, can be forced
- 12:41Speaker 2: out of their home because of rising property valuations and taxes.
- 12:45Speaker 2: It's not right. And so I am one hundred percent
- 12:47Speaker 2: for reform, one percent for caps, and frankly, if we
- 12:52Speaker 2: get to a place where we can do more, I
- 12:53Speaker 2: want to do more. The thing nobody wants to talk about,
- 12:57Speaker 2: and this is where you really get into untangling the
- 12:59Speaker 2: Chris miss lights and fixing the problems is that K
- 13:03Speaker 2: through twelve school funding is primarily based on property taxes
- 13:08Speaker 2: and that is unconstitutional. Bro the last and every time
- 13:13Speaker 2: someone does a lawsuit. The new year happens, things changes
- 13:16Speaker 2: get thrown out of the courts. Nobody wants to touch it,
- 13:19Speaker 2: nobody wants to take it up. So if you really
- 13:20Speaker 2: want to talk about solving this thing, you have to
- 13:23Speaker 2: decouple property taxes with K through twelve funding. It's unconstitutional.
- 13:29Speaker 2: So what do you do instead? That That means the
- 13:31Speaker 2: state allocates money per student, per pupil, and it creates parity. Actually,
- 13:37Speaker 2: so the schools up in Cleveland aren't getting more money
- 13:39Speaker 2: than the schools in Warren County, Ohio. But that's that's
- 13:42Speaker 2: the nasty thing nobody wants to talk about. We have
- 13:45Speaker 2: a funding model that is based on property taxes and
- 13:47Speaker 2: it's unconstitutional. And by the way, you know, I'm a
- 13:50Speaker 2: I'm an advocate. I'm a strong believer in improving our
- 13:53Speaker 2: public schools. But I'm also a strong believer in choice.
- 13:56Speaker 2: I think that children need to learn in an environment
- 14:00Speaker 2: that is best for them. I support parochial schools, I
- 14:04Speaker 2: support private schools, charter schools, and parents right to homeschool,
- 14:07Speaker 2: but I also support improving public schools. And you know,
- 14:11Speaker 2: I'm sick and tired, and voters are sick and tired
- 14:13Speaker 2: of these levees on the ballot all the darn time,
- 14:17Speaker 2: and right now how we fund K through twelve funding
- 14:20Speaker 2: is unconstitutional has been ruled that, but nobody wants to
- 14:23Speaker 2: step up and try to discuss how we fix it.
- 14:26Speaker 1: Yeah, you would have thought the declaration by the High
- 14:28Speaker 1: Supreme Court that was unconstitutional twenty or so years ago
- 14:31Speaker 1: would have been what puts us over the edge. But no, no,
- 14:33Speaker 1: we'll just ignore that.
- 14:34Speaker 2: I do not get how that's tweeping under the rug
- 14:37Speaker 2: Zach And.
- 14:38Speaker 1: I guess finally, well again, I'll I'll give you the
- 14:41Speaker 1: website again is attained h Ai N. E. S. Hanesfo
- 14:44Speaker 1: Ohio dot com.
- 14:45Speaker 2: Well let me and let me just say this, Brian,
- 14:48Speaker 2: as a business guy, you can spell Hanes anyway you want,
- 14:50Speaker 2: with an I, with a Y whatever, I put a
- 14:52Speaker 2: redirector so you'll find me. Okay, that's called entrepreneurial out
- 14:56Speaker 2: of the box thing, right. The our government needs more
- 14:57Speaker 2: of that.
- 14:58Speaker 1: But anyway, end to that, and I guess what I'm hearing.
- 15:02Speaker 1: You know, market forces really truly work, and we are
- 15:06Speaker 1: and governments typically don't treat the world that way. They have,
- 15:09Speaker 1: you know, your tax payer money. They don't have to
- 15:10Speaker 1: be responsible or accountable for it. But we are in
- 15:13Speaker 1: a market force against other states. We are not as
- 15:16Speaker 1: competitive as we could be. That's that capitalistic entrepreneurial element
- 15:20Speaker 1: that I hear in your voice and in your proposal.
- 15:22Speaker 2: Sir.
- 15:22Speaker 1: We need to run the state like we are in
- 15:24Speaker 1: active competition with Kentucky and Indiana and New York and California,
- 15:30Speaker 1: at Texas and Florida, which seems to be the magnet
- 15:33Speaker 1: for everybody. So run it like an operation. You need
- 15:35Speaker 1: to watch your pennies and your dollars and and well
- 15:38Speaker 1: bring some prosperity to the citizens who pay the taxes.
- 15:41Speaker 1: Zach Haynes Hanes for Ohio dot Com. It's been great
- 15:44Speaker 1: having you on. Congratulations on the great endorsements you've got.
- 15:47Speaker 1: That's wonderful hitting, you know, hitting the ground running, and
- 15:49Speaker 1: I'll look forward to having you on the program a
- 15:51Speaker 1: lot between now and November.
- 15:53Speaker 2: Thanks Brian. In The district is all of Warren County
- 15:56Speaker 2: from Springboro and Franklin of Carlisle Lebanon all the way
- 15:59Speaker 2: down to Mason Deerfield Township and then northeast Hamlin County.
- 16:03Speaker 2: So if you live in sim Sycamore Blue As Montgomery Sharonville, Evendale,
- 16:07Speaker 2: Deer Park. That's District seven, So have an election on
- 16:10Speaker 2: May fifth. Would appreciate everybody's support. And yeah, Brian, other states.
- 16:14Speaker 2: You know what, I'm a big believer in federalism at
- 16:17Speaker 2: the moment. There's things that we can learn from other states.
- 16:19Speaker 2: But I also agree with the Vivek that we need
- 16:21Speaker 2: to look at our own ingenuity and come up with
- 16:23Speaker 2: ideas and solutions. And I think between the two there's
- 16:26Speaker 2: a lot of things we need to implement that we
- 16:29Speaker 2: can fix in Ohio. So look forward to serving. Thank you.
- 16:31Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to calling you my senator since I'm
- 16:33Speaker 1: in the geographic territory you just described District seven. We'll
- 16:36Speaker 1: talk again, Zach, have a great week, my friend. Eight
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