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Brian's chat with Jack Windsor 4/10/2026 · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Eight thirty one, come u a day, thirty two fifty
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  Speaker 1: ive krcity talks to you. Should it's Friday, It's that
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  Speaker 1: time of week. We get the benefit of Jack Winsor.
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  Speaker 1: You can get the benefit of Jack Winsor every single
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  Speaker 1: day at the Ohio Pressnetwork dot com. Jack closely following
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  Speaker 1: all the things going on in the state of Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: Some great reporting there, Jack Winsor, I appreciate and I
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  Speaker 1: appreciate you coming on the fifty five krsite morning show
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  Speaker 1: on a Friday to talk about it. Happy Friday to you.
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  Speaker 2: Happy Friday, man. It's always an honor and a pleasure
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  Speaker 2: to be here with you and probably the best listeners
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  Speaker 2: in the Buckeye State. Thankully, the wisest in the political landscape.
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  Speaker 2: So thank you for having it.
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  Speaker 1: And I didn't even solicit that comment, but I share
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  Speaker 1: that observation and tell you what you talk about pressure.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm an anxiety prone guy generally, but knowing
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  Speaker 1: the intellect of my listening audience, man, that puts a
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  Speaker 1: hell of a lot of pressure when I'm preparing for
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  Speaker 1: a morning show, most notably on days when Joe Strecker
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  Speaker 1: is not in the building. So thank you. Jack for
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  Speaker 1: acknowledging what I've known for a long time. You're a
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  Speaker 1: good man. All right, let's start out. Should Ohio apply
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  Speaker 1: the same ID standards to every ballot. Maybe I'm puzzled
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  Speaker 1: because they don't or it doesn't.
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  Speaker 2: That is a great question. I remember when there was
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  Speaker 2: a lot of legal wrangling and discussion on the Ohio
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  Speaker 2: House floor a few years back when the voter ID
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  Speaker 2: law was passed, and one of the things that gave
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  Speaker 2: me heartburn back then still gives me heartburn, and it
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  Speaker 2: answers your question directly. No, we don't require voter ID
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  Speaker 2: for every ballot. In fact, you can go up and
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  Speaker 2: request an absentee ballot flash mail in ballot, and when
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  Speaker 2: you get that ballot, you can complete it with your
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  Speaker 2: information and then get a ballot submit it without presenting
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  Speaker 2: a photo ID in person when you submit that mail
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  Speaker 2: in ballot. To me, that is a loophole in the
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  Speaker 2: law that certainly needs to be addressed pronto.
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  Speaker 1: Well, a sizeable loophole. I'm surprised that in drafting the
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  Speaker 1: legislation that they couldn't see that from a mile away.
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  Speaker 2: Jack. Well, so I'm going to be careful here because
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  Speaker 2: I don't always want to go into the editorializing. But
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  Speaker 2: my opinion is this, sometimes Republicans misuse the power they've
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  Speaker 2: been given by voters to put window dressing on things.
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  Speaker 2: I remember they were puffing up about voter id and
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  Speaker 2: I thought, well, wait a minute. You just let you
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  Speaker 2: put a you put a hole in the bucket, and
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  Speaker 2: you let you're letting the water out the bottom of
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  Speaker 2: the bucket, yep. And you know you're pounding your chest
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  Speaker 2: about pouring water in the top of the bucket. And
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  Speaker 2: this is one of those things to me. Look, people
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  Speaker 2: who are going to be nefarious and cheat are always
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  Speaker 2: going to find the path of least resistance or the
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  Speaker 2: weakest link in the chain of command. And this is
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  Speaker 2: a very very weak link. And there is a bill now,
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  Speaker 2: I believe it's five seventy seven. You'll have to forgive me.
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  Speaker 2: I'm on the road. I don't have my computer in
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  Speaker 2: front of me, but I believe it's Hostill five seventy
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  Speaker 2: seven that is drafted by state Representative Ron Ferguson to
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  Speaker 2: address this very issue. Unfortunately, I don't think it has
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  Speaker 2: the traction that it deserves. And wildly I believe one
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  Speaker 2: of the Ohio Secretary of state candidates. Current Treasurer Robert
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  Speaker 2: Sprague has not been very vocal about putting the bill,
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  Speaker 2: which is surprising to me.
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  Speaker 1: Hmmm, well, you know, honestly, I know you were a
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  Speaker 1: little cautious maybe about being critical of the Republican side
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  Speaker 1: of the ledger, but no, I actually I think that's
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  Speaker 1: far more important. I mean, obviously reflects the fact that
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  Speaker 1: you and I don't have bias. When we see nonsense
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  Speaker 1: going on, it doesn't matter what political stripe it comes from.
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  Speaker 1: It's nonsense and is in need of being called out. See,
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  Speaker 1: we're not going to be accused of being one side
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  Speaker 1: in our attacks on political parties. If they deserve to
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  Speaker 1: be criticized, they get criticized. And Jack, I'm glad you're
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  Speaker 1: there to do it. So I appreciate you enlightening on
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  Speaker 1: us and maybe we can elevate this particular issue to
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  Speaker 1: everyone's attention and of course factored into our decision making
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  Speaker 1: as we get to the primary elections. Jack a forty
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  Speaker 1: fifty five KERCD talk station. Find him online the Ohio
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  Speaker 1: Pressnetwork dot com and book mark the website so you
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  Speaker 1: can keep track of all the shenanigans going on in
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  Speaker 1: the state. Of Ohio, Jack Windsor behind the Ohio Press Network.
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  Speaker 1: He's on the phone. He joins us every Friday to
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  Speaker 1: go over some of these issues and pivoting over to
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  Speaker 1: Amy Lockdown Acting, who would like to be the next
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  Speaker 1: gouver of the State of Ohio. Of course she was
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  Speaker 1: Amy Lockdown Acting under Governor do Wine's approval. Whatever you can.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's rather telling who she hired to be her lawyers.
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  Speaker 2: So this is funny. I had to tell you this story.
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  Speaker 2: Fox News ran a report a couple of weeks back.
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  Speaker 2: It was actually a republished report from OutKick, and in
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  Speaker 2: that report, the reporter from OutKick allegedly found some old
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  Speaker 2: tweets back then it was Twitter, it's now acts that
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  Speaker 2: someone by the name of at Amy Acton, doctor Amy Acton,
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  Speaker 2: I sent and published. Well, I republished a part of
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  Speaker 2: that report and indicated, hey, here are some crazy things
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  Speaker 2: that doctor Amy Acton allegedly said. Back during COVID she
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  Speaker 2: got involved in allegedly a Cleveland Brown's fan forum and
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  Speaker 2: was just posting some silly stuff like make sure you masked,
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  Speaker 2: make sure you maintain social distance, that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: And I even put in the report, Hey, acting supporters
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  Speaker 2: claim that this account was fake and these tweets are fake. Nonetheless, Brian,
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  Speaker 2: the very next day, I received a cease and desist
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  Speaker 2: letter from the Elias Law Group. And you go based
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  Speaker 2: on familiar yeah, yea unfamiliar Mark Elias I a guy
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  Speaker 2: who was Hillary Clinton's twenty sixteen attorney and really one
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  Speaker 2: of the architects of the Russia collusion.
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  Speaker 1: Hoaks, I remember that. It's funny. I haven't heard that
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  Speaker 1: name in quite some time though. So the Elias firm
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  Speaker 1: working for Amy Acting, so ceason desist what publishing the
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  Speaker 1: tweet that she had published, the twitter feed xt thing
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  Speaker 1: whatever that she had previously published, or were they suggesting
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  Speaker 1: to you with the season desist that that was not
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  Speaker 1: in fact her account.
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  Speaker 2: They were claiming that it was not infect her account,
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  Speaker 2: to which I responded, well, if you actually read my report,
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  Speaker 2: I give a balanced argument that there are people who
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  Speaker 2: say this has this is not accurate, and I've reached
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  Speaker 2: out to the campaign. Of course they will not respond.
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  Speaker 2: They're standing behind the Elias Law Group, which is really
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  Speaker 2: funny and to really kind of connect the dots here.
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  Speaker 2: Alyssa Slocken was in town this week pitching for Amy
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  Speaker 2: acton and she continues to pair it the same line
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  Speaker 2: that Acton does, which is, I'm a doctor, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: a politician. I'm a political outsider. And my first thought
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  Speaker 2: is I don't know very many political outsiders that hire
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  Speaker 2: Washington d C. Beltway attorneys, particularly the Elias Law Firm.
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  Speaker 2: So a little bit of comic relief for me, But
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  Speaker 2: I hope people take it seriously because this is the
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  Speaker 2: kind of stuff that Ohioans go is. This is going
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  Speaker 2: to be in control of the governor's chair if Amy
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  Speaker 2: Acton wins this election.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and those who might contribute to Amy Actin's campaign,
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  Speaker 1: remember that the probably campaign funds are funding the Elias
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  Speaker 1: Law Group's defense or season desist operations and whatever else
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  Speaker 1: they're doing for Amy Acton. Let me guess a white
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  Speaker 1: shoe DC law firm of that prominence, probably because they
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  Speaker 1: used to practice law. And I've seen how much the
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  Speaker 1: Bill Bilauers are probably charging fifteen hundred two thousand, there
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  Speaker 1: were more dollars per hour to write letters like that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm certain they're charging a lot. But here's why
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  Speaker 2: you should scratch your head. I know a lot of
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  Speaker 2: attorneys and you probably do too, Brian. There are many
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  Speaker 2: attorneys in the state of Ohio who probably would have
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  Speaker 2: been proud to partner with Amy Act and to send
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  Speaker 2: me that letter. And my question is, if you're all
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  Speaker 2: about affordability, if you're all about Ohio, why didn't you
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  Speaker 2: choose an Ohio attorney.
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  Speaker 1: There's an ask. It's legitimate, and you know what, I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure there's an Ohio firm hoping to get additional business
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  Speaker 1: down the road from who may be the next governor
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  Speaker 1: by offering to do that pro bono, Hey, we'll help
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  Speaker 1: the campaign out in the interest of advancing your campaign,
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  Speaker 1: and because we support you and want you to be
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  Speaker 1: the next governor, how about we handle the legal load
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  Speaker 1: on that one.
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  Speaker 2: Hm would make sense, wouldn't it. So a lot of
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  Speaker 2: questions about Amy acting to me, I'm going to editorialize
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  Speaker 2: here she feels a lot like Joe Biden, kind of
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  Speaker 2: an empty suit that the insiders in DC and the
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  Speaker 2: insiders on Cap Square in Ohio might be able to
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  Speaker 2: control and manipulate to get their party's objectives more completed
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  Speaker 2: here in the Buckeye State.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that seems it so well, Jack, do you know,
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  Speaker 1: buddy chance, Jack and I know we haven't gotten to
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  Speaker 1: the primary yet, so we haven't definitively resolved it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be vivek Ramaswami and Amy acting is there. Do
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  Speaker 1: you know if there's any polling head to head between
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  Speaker 1: ACTEM and VVAKE.
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  Speaker 2: So there are three or four poles out there, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm very cautious to say there was one pole that
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  Speaker 2: had act In up ten points. I had to very
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  Speaker 2: quickly point out to people exactly that it was actually
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  Speaker 2: a poll conducted by an environmentalist group that frontloaded with
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of environmentalists questions, and so as you can imagine,
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  Speaker 2: it attracted a lot of lefties, so it had her
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  Speaker 2: up by ten I believe if you look at Real
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  Speaker 2: Clear polling, which is I take them very seriously because
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  Speaker 2: they do a good job of averaging out all the
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  Speaker 2: polls they do, the VEG is up by about a
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  Speaker 2: half point. And when I look at the Cook voter
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  Speaker 2: Index for the Buckeye State, we lean about five to
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  Speaker 2: six points, right, So if I see the VIC up
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  Speaker 2: about a half point, my mind tells me he's probably
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  Speaker 2: up five to five and a half. But make no
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  Speaker 2: mistake about it. We've seen this week with the list
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  Speaker 2: of Slotkin in Sound that the Democrats are going to
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  Speaker 2: spend a lot of money, yes, and they're going to
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  Speaker 2: do a lot of dog and pony shows for Amy Acting.
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  Speaker 2: So Vivik's probably going to have a pretty tough race
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  Speaker 2: on his hands, but I would say he's up right now.
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  Speaker 2: I don't buy any poll that has Amy Acting in
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  Speaker 2: the league.
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  Speaker 1: Right, and let me double down on the outside money
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  Speaker 1: coming in. This is going to be another one of
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  Speaker 1: those nationally funded elections for governor. They want that governor's
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  Speaker 1: seat without question, so a lot of fighting don't need
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  Speaker 1: to be done between now and November. We'll continue with
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  Speaker 1: the probably the most bizarre story we're talking about this morning,
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  Speaker 1: the one coming up. We have a lawmaker which I
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  Speaker 1: will label up front backcrap insane. We'll see if Jack
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  Speaker 1: agrees with me. Coming up next, Hey fifty one fifty
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  Speaker 1: five KERCD talk station going into the end of the
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  Speaker 1: weekend with Jack Windsor from the Ohio Press Network off
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  Speaker 1: the Ohio Pressnetwork dot com. Jack real quick here on
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  Speaker 1: your last topic on Amy Act, and Corey chimed in,
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  Speaker 1: I thought this was rather funny. I don't understand whether
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  Speaker 1: the Democrats want the Ohio governor seat in Ohio they've
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  Speaker 1: had it for the last four years with the rhinos
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  Speaker 1: in the CEE. See told you. You know, we're equal
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  Speaker 1: opportunity criticizers here on the morning show. We're gonna call
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  Speaker 1: it out if we see it doesn't matter where it
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  Speaker 1: comes from. So right now, you gonna have to make
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  Speaker 1: some sense with you. There is an unlimited demand on
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  Speaker 1: government for legislation for any given thing, right, Okay, unlimited.
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  Speaker 1: So everybody's got their own pet project they want to
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  Speaker 1: fund or deal with, and there's always someone else with
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  Speaker 1: an alternative proposal. Democrat lawmakers are now calling a bill
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  Speaker 1: to protect children. So here's an idea, let's protect children
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  Speaker 1: from in person obscene or indecent performances. But there are
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  Speaker 1: other things that they want, bit people want from government,
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  Speaker 1: like this Piccolo Antonio woman who says, no, no, we
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  Speaker 1: can't do that because well we have got a homeless
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  Speaker 1: problem or i'm sorry, a food insecurity problem. What do
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  Speaker 1: the two have to do with each other at all?
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  Speaker 2: Brian, you got right to themorrow of it. It's like
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  Speaker 2: comparing apples to chimpanzees. It's a false comparison. And the
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  Speaker 2: reality is this bill, House Bill two forty nine does
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  Speaker 2: exactly what you said. This is actually I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: back into it this way. The objectors say that it
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  Speaker 2: takes away LGBTQ plus rights. The objectors say that Republicans
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  Speaker 2: want to control how you dress. Now, listen, your listeners
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  Speaker 2: are smart and we all love freedom. We would absolutely
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  Speaker 2: vehemently oppose a bill like that. This bill doesn't do that.
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  Speaker 2: All it does is to find where you can perform
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  Speaker 2: cabaret and drag show type of performances. And as you
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  Speaker 2: would want it, it has to be in an adult facility.
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  Speaker 2: You can't do it in public where miners can witness it.
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  Speaker 2: It's just decency. And so what this law does is
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  Speaker 2: it updates in decency laws in the Buckeye State, adds
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  Speaker 2: some definitions to the law book. And instead of having
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  Speaker 2: a constructive argument about it, Beryl Brown Pickle Antonio, who's
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  Speaker 2: a Democrat from Gahanna, has tried to false argument, which is, look,
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  Speaker 2: we have five hundred thousand children who are food insecure
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  Speaker 2: in the Buckeye State. I'm embarrassed that we're having a
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  Speaker 2: discussion about this. What did she call it a cultural
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  Speaker 2: culture war bill? Yeah? And there by the way, there's
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  Speaker 2: another great label and this is coming I want to
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  Speaker 2: remind your listeners from the lady who has sponsored or
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  Speaker 2: co sponsored bills on LGBTQ plus activism, diversity, equity and inclusion, expansion,
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  Speaker 2: and abortion.
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  Speaker 1: So what about the starving children? Jack?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, well, that's just it, right, And so my tongue
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  Speaker 2: in cheek response to pickal Antonio is, well, why don't
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  Speaker 2: you amend the bill and add a writer to appropriate
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  Speaker 2: some funds for the five hundred thousand food and secure children.
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  Speaker 2: My guess is they're probably living in communities, large cities
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  Speaker 2: run by Democrat lawmakers. But I digress well.
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  Speaker 1: And I listen. I appreciate all your arguments about trying
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  Speaker 1: to legislate morality, and I wish there were more parents
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  Speaker 1: out there that would not take their children to drag
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  Speaker 1: show of performances. But I suppose this is a way
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  Speaker 1: to prevent those unsuspecting parents from having their children exposed
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  Speaker 1: to such things because they're going to places like schools
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  Speaker 1: where they're performing these things. So I get the motivation
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  Speaker 1: behind it. It's just it's just troubling we live in
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  Speaker 1: a world where we've got to deal with this kind
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  Speaker 1: of stuff. But yes, a perfect illustration of stupidity with
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  Speaker 1: this picol Antonio woman. All right, well, elections have consequences,
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  Speaker 1: Jack Windsor you know that. I know that, my listeners
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  Speaker 1: certainly know it. Thank you for doing what you do
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  Speaker 1: every day, Jack, and we'll refer my listeners, all reform
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  Speaker 1: my listeners to the ihiotech Pressnetwork dot com. And I'll
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  Speaker 1: look forward to next Friday for another discussion with you,
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  Speaker 1: my friend, and I hope you have a wonderful weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Have a blessed with Brian. Thanks again, thanks.
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  Speaker 1: Only two more rounds of treatments I got today, but
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