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September 27, 2024 • 13 mins
GUEST: Robert Knisley, Fairfield County Conservatives on Lancaster Drag Shows

https://www.facebook.com/groups/fairfieldcountyconservatives/?locale=pt_PT

https://www.statenews.org/government-politics/2024-06-05/proposed-ban-on-drag-performances-in-public-places-in-ohio-gets-praise-and-questions

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Reading salitations. Welcome my friends to another edition of The
Power Hour on six ten double UTV, and I'm Chuck
Guggasho allegedly know who you are. We take it from there.
We get one hour together, which means I talk really
fast and you but talk or listen faster. No, I
don't want you to talk. Well, you can talk a
two one nine eight eighty six if you'll compelled a
tow to one dou WTV and or eight hundred six
' ten WTV and busy show today in the second

(00:28):
half hour, I will talk to the guy who's sitting
across from me. Those of you who already guessed I
was getting so many message because I teased it. I tease,
I said, I'm gonna have and you'll if you've been
with me, you know who did it? And then people,
is it is? And yes, you were all right? You
were all right? Is he on? Does he have? Do
you have to turn you got a button there and
turn yourself on? You still aud you are still on

(00:48):
Young Magic, Young Corey in the house. Zach attacked back
and it's it's a complete set tonight, And uh, I
can't believe you have not changed one bit. Except for
the fact that you know, you're old and a dad
and married.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
And yeah, I was gonna say, I'm starting to look
a little more like you now. Somehow you managed to
get balder.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
I'm not I got bolder. I actually yeah, I took
my scalp off, shaved it from the inside and put
it back on, just to make sure no stubble grew. No.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
But I seriously, every day the more I don't get
sleep overnight with the baby, I'm seriously concerned I'm gonna
look like you in about thirty five years.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
It won't take nearly that long. Anyway, we will catch
up and talk here at the second half hour. The
first half hour, I got to talk about this situation
down in Fairfield County, in Lecaster, Ohio, where I've started.
I've said before I started in Lancaster. I started at
WLO Each down in Lancaster, a little station up on
a hill that overlooked what would become River Valley Mall.

(01:47):
And it was a wonderful community. I love the old downtown,
the historic downtown. It's like kind of miniature or San Francisco.
It's so hilly down there, the small businesses and the
I don't know just that that home spun mentality of Lancaster,
the people of Lancaster, and then this, I mean, you know, yes,
Springfield's and the news and the Haitians and the dogs

(02:08):
and the cats, and did Trump say it or advance saytor?
Who started it? Let's sue somebody. Okay. So that's what's
occupying everybody. I not nearly enough people are talking about
this issue in Lancaster in the public square. What was
supposed to be or was sold, this bill of goods
sold to the people, to the council, to the mayor,
to the businesses that put their name on it and

(02:29):
supported it as a family event if you've seen the pictures,
anything but anything but. Robert Nisley with the Fairfield County
Conservative Facebook group. I joined up just so I could
keep an eye on what was going on. Robert, thank
you very much for giving me some time this s evening.
I appreciate it. Oh I need to push you on it.
I'm sorry, zach Is Beeck, so I need to push

(02:51):
my own buttons. This wow. I mean, it's hard to
describe because it's such an alien occurrence. It's such an oddity,
such a rarity for a story like this, to come
out of legaster. I don't even know how to describe
that that thing that we saw this past week.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
Yeah, I you know, this event happened on Saturday the fourteenth,
and the only words that I can really think to
describe it is just grotesque obscene. These were, you know,
sexual performances that happened in the presence of minors. I mean,
we have videos and pictures of grown men wearing nothing

(03:32):
but thongs, spread eagle in front of children, collecting money
from them and while the police watched. And it's just
it was absolutely insane. I never I hope they never
ever see it again. And yeah, it was absolutely disgusting.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
The idea, I mean, and people go, well, I mean,
what do you mean by what he was wing? If
you're familiar with Rocky horror picture Frankenfurter, Tim Curry's character. Seriously,
this is what was all over the street. And the
one video the kid with the dollar man, what is
that all about? What I mean, that's a strip bar
in the public square. And how this does not violate

(04:09):
some sort of I don't know decency laws, but public
exposure laws. Something Is there nothing legal that is within
the boundaries of some sort of recourse here or do
they get free reign.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
Well, you know, it's interesting that you bring that up, because, Chuck,
because there's a House bill actually right now at the
Ohio House. It's called House Bill two forty five. It's
called the Adult Cabaret Act. It's it's being sponsored by
Representative Anjie King and Representative Josh Williams. That I was
just actually brushing up on this bill right before, right
before I came on here tonight. But you know, this bill,

(04:47):
it's closing a loophole that's currently in the law right
now where these things are are technically legal, even though
we have obscenity laws already on the books, just like
we protect children from being in side strip clubs and
protect miners from being exposed to pornography and things like that.

(05:07):
But somehow, in the public square this is legal. It's
a loophole that exists. There is legislation to try to
stop this. But you know, even furthermore, I've been doing
some digging into cities Home rule authority, and I believe
there may be an avenue for cities to address this
on their own because this because the state law does

(05:27):
not address this particular activity. So I think there may
be an avenue there that we're going to pursue further.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
And this is something that that whole cabaret thing, this
is years in the making. I can't believe that has
not been settled at this point. And absolutely and is
actually in fact a young Coreo's odd that he is
in here because you and I were looking at each
other through a pane of glass. The last time this
came up because children were participating, was an indoor venue
and children were participating in this kind of stuff, which

(05:55):
is why this whole cabaret bill was supposed to be
going before the legislature. And I can't believe it has
not been settled at this point.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
Yeah, I want to say that the the hearing, the
last hearing that happened on this bill was back in November.
It was it was only one hearing and they haven't
had any any further once since. But you know, this
is an issue that is it's happening in cities around
central Ohio, around the state in general. You know, we're
not talking about German Village, We're not talking about the

(06:25):
Short North. We're talking about Lancaster, Ohio, where we have
a Republican mayor, and we have all an entirely republican
city council, a republican city attorney, and in a county
where Democrats can't get elected period. So if it can
happen here, it can happen anywhere.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
Let's let's go to that Robert Robertnisley by the way,
with Fairfield County Conservatives. You can find them on Facebook.
It is an open group if you want to see
what's going on down there. Uh what I mean, what
what does the mayor and council have to say about this?
Just the we don't know nothing about notting or what.

Speaker 3 (07:01):
Yeah, it's interesting, Chuck, because there was a city council
meeting in Lancaster this past Monday, and of which you know,
I got up and spoke. There were a lot of
people that did, but it was it was only a
public comment period. The city council members really didn't have
anything to say. There was no question and answer period.
It was just you know, citizens of the community and

(07:22):
taxpayers getting up and saying they're you know, giving their
two cents about what happened and their concerns. So the
I guess the the the the matter is that we
don't really know what the council thinks. The only person
from behind the podium in front, in front of the podium,
I should say that was that said anything was the
city Law director. Her name is Stephanie Hall, and uh,

(07:44):
you know, she seemed very reluctant to uh to and
basically shot down any efforts whatsoever for the city to
act upon this u citing federal law and the Supreme
Court precedent on the you know, something called the Miller test.
But you know there are bills, like I said, Housewell
two forty five that the sponsors say are fully within

(08:06):
the Miller test guidelines. So I think that there are
avenues for city councils, not just in Lancaster but across
the state to exercise their home rule authority to be
able to put a stop to stuff like this. They
just have to have the gumption to do it.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
And is I mean, is anybody on council or the
Mayor's office saying that they were misled about what this was?
Was there permitting process required to take up the public
square like this? Yeah? So you know, how how did
they did they lie on the application? I just don't
understand how this, how this happens without somebody going, hold on, no,

(08:42):
we can't do this kind of thing. How did it
even get this far.

Speaker 3 (08:45):
Well, the groups that were sponsoring the event, they did
get the permit, everything was above board. They claimed on
the event that this was going to be a family
friendly event with vendors and speakers and stuff like that.
They didn't mention the drag performers at all, Chuck, There
was no mention of drag performers at this event until,
I want to say, it was only about a week

(09:06):
or two out when they started advertising drag performances. Before
that they were saying it was just vendors and speakers
and that was it.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
And I feel bad for many of the businesses down
there that, you know, they've heard family friendly event, opportunity
to get in front of people, and so forth. Many
of the businesses down there, those that we would consider
to be kind of traditional Americana tight businesses, put their
their name and their logos and their dollars behind this thing.
Is there any is there any outreach effort from the

(09:38):
Fairfield County Conservatives Group anybody to try to get the
record straight and find out who feels like they were
misled and who was willingly participating.

Speaker 3 (09:46):
Yeah. Absolutely. We have had members of our group reaching
out to some of these businesses directly, and I will
say that there are quite a few of them actually
that said, look, we were misled, We're terribly sorry this happened.
We will not be sponsoring this event in the future.
Should they Should they do this again? You know? And
then of course there are some that are that have
doubled down, so of course that exists as well. But

(10:08):
the reception that we've been getting has been very overwhelmingly positive.
I think, you know, any any rational person that takes
a look at the pictures and videos that we have
that we have documented from that event, I can look
at that and say that is not acceptable and that's
not something that we want happening in our public square
in the daytime period.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
Is this a one off? Or will they be back?
But what do you do? Do you know anything?

Speaker 3 (10:34):
Or are you just I don't know anything. I can't
tell you definitively check. But I do. What I can
say though, is that, you know, like I said earlier,
I think this is this is a problem that's going
to keep continuing in other cities across the Central Ohio
area and across Ohio in general, I think that especially
if if we do nothing, if our city council does nothing,

(10:56):
if the state legislature does nothing, I think that the
people behind the event will feel emboldened and they'll come
back and they'll make it nastier next time.

Speaker 1 (11:04):
Well, it seems to me the city council. Being in Columbus,
I watched the city council do things that I think
flies in the face of state law as well as
constitutional law at a national level, but for some reason,
the municipality is allowed to do it. So I would think,
considering what I'm seeing here, the city council in Leicester
could do something along the same lines to say, you

(11:25):
know this, if this is going to happen, it's not
going to be in an open, outdoor public venue where
children have access to it. That's my big problem with it. This.
You know, if I was down there and walking the
grandkids around or something and this was going on on
the street, that's not something I'm good with. If they
want to do it in a closed venue or some fine,

(11:45):
more power to you do what you want to do.
If you take your kids there, I think you're nuts,
But that your kids, you got your rights I got mine.
I just can't see the city council not actively working
right seriously around the clock to uh, to keep this
from happening again and to keep up a very nice
town from blowing up into a bunch of people that

(12:06):
are mad at each other.

Speaker 3 (12:07):
Yeah, I agree, check, I agree with you one hundred percent.
And I said this at the council meeting on the
public record, and I'll say it again. You know, at
that I was there for the entire event. Uh, you know,
the beginning of the event, it was it was just vendors.
It was people, you know, fellowshipping talking with one another,
enjoying food from vendors, hearing speakers talk. And uh, nobody,

(12:28):
nobody had an issue with that. You know, I didn't
know one in my group had an issue with that.
It was only when they started bringing out the drag
performers that were you know, some of them wearing hardly
scant clothing or you know, just gyrating with thongs on.
Did it did did it get you know, just out
of control? And uh, and to the level of obscenity

(12:49):
that I think should not be allowed in the public square.

Speaker 1 (12:51):
Before I have to go, let me ask you, is
this an organized group. Is it a club of some
sort or is it just a bunch of people that
came together to do this.

Speaker 3 (12:59):
Yeah, we're we're just we are just a group of
concerned citizens, parents, conservatives, Christians, anyone who's just concerned about
what's happening in our community, in our town that want
to do something about it. We are not a formal
organization as of yet, but we do have plans to
become a formal organization in the future to try to
affect change in Lancaster and Fairfield County in general.

Speaker 1 (13:21):
All right, Robert Nisley is a man's name. I appreciate
you taking some time tonight. If you're on Facebook, go
to Fairfield County Conservatives. As I said, it is an
open group, and not so that you can come in
there and snake your way in and cause problems, but
for people, whether you live there or not, if you
have an attachment and affection a concern for Fairfield County
and for Lechester, Ohio, you want to keep your eyes
on what's going on, and you're welcome to do that.

(13:42):
Thank you. Robert. You've got my contact info now. If
anything blows up any under the radar stuff, please get
in touch. We'll get this back on the air.

Speaker 3 (13:50):
Thank you, Chuck, appreciate it, God blessed.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
Thanks for YouTube, buddy, thank you. We are twenty past
six at sixt en WTV and it's time for traffic
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