September 12, 2024 • 26 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Greeting salutations. Welcome my friends to another edition of The
Power Hour. This is six ' ten wt V and
I'm chucked up with you allegedly know who you are.
We take it from there. We get one hour together,
which means I talk really fast, you listen even faster.
Tonight though a special edition of the Power Hour. Not
addition for those of you in public school edition of
the Power Hour, because it's debate night is the super
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Bowl of presidential politics. It is the dismantling, It's what
are the other of thems going down tonight? Guys, I'm
telling you maybe you'll disagree, and that's why I'm staying
on the air till nine o'clock tonight. From seven to night.
I'm just talking to you at A two one nine
eight eighty six, A two one WTV. And what do
you expect? What are you terrified about when it comes
to this presidential debate? As I posted on Facebook earlier today,
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put up a video and I said, this all comes down, honestly, seriously,
right to your face. I'm telling you this tonight is
all about Donald Trump's control, if he can control himself
and not launch into some your fired thing with Kamala Harris,
if he can control himself, concentrate on her inadequacy, her ineffectiveness,
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her flip flopping. Concentrate on the policy issues because she
has none. Her policy issues are for sale, highest bidder,
highest number of voters possible. She has no conviction. This
is the thing about and I've said this so long,
Republicans and Democrats, Conservatives, liberals, here's the thing. One side
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of the fence, if you don't like somebody, you're not
gonna like him in twenty years because they are the same.
The other side of the fence, you love somebody, you
don't know how you feel about him in fifteen minutes,
because they change with the wins. Tonight, I believe will
show that Donald Trump, if he stays in control, it
could be a complete annihilation. We may not even need
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a November election. Did you hear that domination?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Yes, that's what he wants.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
He wants a dictatorship. No oh, I'm just saying it
will be. It'll be just an absolute destruction. In fact,
a poll that came out today flies in the face
of all of these polls and said it's this neck
and neck, and Kamala Harris is just so close, and
Trump is behind by three with an error margin of
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plus or minus fifty points. And I mean seriously, a
new poll comes out and shows that Donald Trump is
significantly ahead on a national level, and I think tonight
will be a big night. So I'll be looking for
your call seven to nine. If maybe you're not excited
about this, I am. I'm actually giddy. This election is
going to be great at a national level. It's going
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to be great at a local level. It's going to
be great at all levels, as long as you make
it great, which means participating early voting starting in November.
I'm sorry, in October. Election in November. Take advantage of
early vote voting, especially if you're considering yourself a Conservative
or a Republican. We have been getting beatn with that
stick for years. It's time for us to grab the
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stick and use it ourselves. Early voting, absentee voting, however
you have to do it, make sure you vote here
in Franklin County, the current prosecutor, I'm assuming he's still there.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
He's stepping aside. So we have two people vying for
the office of Franklin County prosecutor. That's the people that
put the bad guys in jail. And it's not an
easy decision for a lot of people. I understand that,
but I think there's you know, if you take emotion
away and you look at this on a strictly logical level,
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that decision gets easier. My guest in studio tonight is
the Republican candidate for Franklin County Prosecutor. Yes, I will
be inviting the Democrat as well, although I doubt that
I'll get an affirmative response. His name is John Ruten,
and the elephant in the room right off the bat,
I'm going to tell you right straight to your face again.
He comes to the table with some bag age. He
had the endorsement to the county party, then they pulled
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it because he was young. He had a Billy Bush
moment and was running his mouth. And somebody, I think
at the Dispatch if are they still a paper anyway,
somebody over there published some stuff and said, look how
crazy this guy is. You know, crazy is subjective. He
has opinions that maybe other people don't agree with. But
he said what he said. It is what it is,
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and it's him or shayea favor. And if it's Shayea favor.
Then it's a continuation and an extension of what you've
got in Zach Klein and Andy Ginther at City Hall.
It is another justice system that is based on taking
people's money, seizing people's property, and grand standing for headlines
whenever possible. Or it's him, So the choice gets much
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easier when you look at it that way as far
as I'm concerned. Plus he brought gifts, which is a
good way to be a guest on the show. John Rutan,
thanks for coming in. I appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Thank you very much, sir, I really appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
And before we get startled like to thank God and
thank you for this opportunity and most importantly thing for
my parents.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
They've given me the.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Ability to progress this far in life and it means
a lot to me. So thank you very much for
having me you.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
I mean, I'm assuming when you first got the news
the endorsement was gone, it was kind of a kick
in the teeth. Did you spend a couple of days
going Okay, what do I do? Do I stay with
this or did you just know you were moving ahead?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
You know what?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Honestly, God's good and well part of my campaign and
I go to a different church each Sunday, and the
message the week my endorsement was taken was Jesus period.
And what the message was was too often in life
we try to say, well, I know somebody, and I
know somebody this person endorses me, or this person endorses me,
and what people do is they try to elevate themselves
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by using somebody else. So in actually oality, I'm not
a big fan of endorsements. So what it really taught
me is all I need is God on my side,
and if I do the right thing, I'm gonna win anyway.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
So it was a nice reality check.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
In more importantly, I didn't really lose the endorsement, to
be honest as a crooked process before when I got
the endorsement, one hundred and thirty three out of one
hundred and thirty three people say the hearing, they didn't.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Take a vote. Tim Rankin was the leader. It was.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
It was a sham actually, and Meredith was part of it.
They didn't allow.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
People to take votes. It was.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
It was.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
It was bad. So in all, honestly, the Republicans are
great people.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
What happened to me was bad, but it was a
nice reality check, and it just showed me more of
that God's on my side and the message was true.
And I think it's important for everybody to understand. Endorsements
are nice to bring awareness, but you should really look
at the character of the person. So I'm really grateful
to be here because of that.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
What makes you the candidate the person that should be
supported to be prosecuted. What are you going to do
differently than what we're seeing in Franklin County right now?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
There's a lot, But I think when it comes to
my candidacy as well as anybody else's, instead of looking
at the party, I'd encourage people to look at the head, heart,
in hand, and those three things tell me what a
good candidate is and what separates the difference between me,
I think is my heart. I really care about everybody
and and that's the truth. So I'm one of those guys.
I believe we all come from the same God. There's
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only one God, and so that's that's a big driving
port of my life. My hand is important. I'm a
criminal defense expert. My opponent Shala has never doesn't never
even had a criminal case, and that's concerning and scary.
So I'm a leader and I know what to do,
and then my head's the most important part. If you
look at my website, I have a lot of policies
and what I call prosecutor pledges to be transparent with people,
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to know how I'm gonna treat everybody fairly.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
So if you want to get into how I'm.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Gonna do things differently, there's about one hundred Because with Tayak,
the main thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna be active.
If I get elected, You're gonna who's running the office.
It's gonna be me. I'll be up and down the
court room. I'll be doing trials. I'll be open to
the public. I'll have once a month. I'll be open
to have anybody to come in and talk today. I'll
be hosting events. I'll be the most active prosecutor you've
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ever heard of. Actually, So I'm excited about the opportunity,
and there's a lot I can do for everybody.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Now, you seem like a really nice guy. This is
the first time you and I have met face to face.
You seem like a very nice guy. I love hearing
that you have a faith that is strong in you.
Now I need your evil side.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
I need you.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
I need you to be the kind of prosecutor that
doesn't care that your daddy didn't love you, you grew
up broke, your fingernails are dirty, and your mom didn't
have any money. I need criminals to be criminals. Do
you see the job that way? Are we ready to
go back to actually prosecuting and putting away the bad guys?
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Well, prosecuting is absolutely important, but the reality of it
is is the reason why I'm a good candidate for
this position is because of my judgment. And the truth
is is in order to correct behavior, you got to
punish it, but you not crush it. So what happens
is if you crush somebody, you create a new generational criminal.
If you punish them, you can fix them. If you
do nothing, they repeat. And that's why you see two
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thousand cars stolen in the last two and a half
years and eight hundred by repeat offenders. There's something ridiculous
like that because they aren't punishing people. So you can
count on me punishing people. And that's why I have standards,
because it's important for people to know. And this is
where I have a wonderful asset is there's eighty eight
counties in Ohio. I've been over fifty of them. I'm
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a defense attorney currently right now, and I see what
works in different counties. You go up to Musquinham County,
you cannot find a murderer up there that doesn't have
a life sentence. And that's how it should be in
Franklin County. And so you need to send messages to
people that if this happens in this county, this is
what's going to happen with this county prosecutor.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
And so I hope, if it's.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
God's will that I get elected, that you invite me
on in your show more often, because I'm only as
good as the people that help me, and so I
think it's important for the public to get into information.
So now the juveniles here, well, you know what, if
I steal car, I'm actually get locked up for a year.
If I if I break into somebody's home, I'm actually
not going to get out.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
For a while.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
So I think it's important for people to understand that.
And so I'm definitely going to punish people in a
proper way. But judgment is what matters. And the reason
why that's important is because you don't learn what I
learned by being a prosecutor. You don't learn it in school,
you don't learn it being on committees. You learn it
by working with the people for the last thirteen years
like I have. So when somebody comes in my office,
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been ten minutes about what happened, and then the rest.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Is Okay, where were you born?
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Tell me about your family, When did you start using drugs?
How do you handle issues? When's the last time you prayed?
It's amazing. And here's what's amazing about life. And with
all my clients, there's been four common traits in actuality,
lack of faith, lack of job, hurt people, hurt others,
and it was the third and family issues. And so
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if you actually focus on that issue could fix a life.
And that's why I'm so excited about it, because I
take a lot of pride and not having to repeat offenders.
And the reason why is because when they hire me,
I address the issue. And so that's what I'm going
to use a probation department for is to punish people
and as well as make them rehab. So if I
can force you to go to anger management, alcohol, I
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can force you to go to church. Because faith to me,
is probably the biggest hurdle in everybody's life in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
And you said steal a car, go to jail, which
which is actually one of the things that's prominent in
my mind, the key of boys story that we've dealt
with for the past couple of years. And I'm if
you listen to the show, you've heard me talk about
kid jail. I am firmly, firmly convinced we need kid jail.
I'm not talking about a place for young people to
go to learn how to be older criminals when they
get out. I'm talking about a rehabilitative, intense place for
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young people to go so they do not become dirtball
older people and inflict more pain on society. Is that
even in your vision as a potential prosecutor.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Absolutely, and we have it's called a juvenile detention center,
so it's not called jail, but juvenile detention center. I
really appreciate that question because one of the things I'm
gonna do is County prosecutor is no teenager is going
to go to prison absent murder, attempted murder, and so
what happens, and this is what public doesn't understand and
this is why it's so important for a guy like
me to be in there instead of Sheila, who doesn't
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know this stuff. Is you can actually hold a teenager
up to the age of twenty one. So if you're
sixteen or seventeen, a lot of times they just bind
them over because they're blind and ignorant.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
They don't really care. I care.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
So what I know what crime teenager actually commit at
sixteen or seventeen that justifies going to prison absent murder,
attempted murder, or the rape of a child.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Right, So that's.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Why I'm mindful of that, and that's one reason I
spend and that's what's nice about what I do as
at defense attorneys. I work with these organizations. I'm aware
of their rehabilitative techniques. I think they could do things differently.
I think they could do things a little bit better.
I almost ran for County sheriff to effectuate that, but
I believe County Prosser gives me an ability to help more.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
People coming into a break care. I gotta take it.
Don't get your hopes up about that lack of experience
thing on the other side of this this election. I mean,
we've already elected a city process. I had never done
a day in court. We had two clients running, one
of which was an experienced trial attorney, another the other
had never done a day in a courtroom. Guess which
one Columbus elects. That's the voters here.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
No, I listen, and it's discouraging, but I'm gonna have
faith in the human race, in God, and so hopefully
it doesn't happen again.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
But I'm with you.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
I mean, that is concerning, and this election should not
be close. That's why I got in trouble with the
Dispatch because they asked me about my thought of being
a losing elections are losing? How am I gonna lose
this election unless you take it? And that's kind of
the trickle effect of what happened.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Yeah, well, yeah, you say, you say something sometime that
makes too much sense, and yeah, that gets a more
harsh reaction than things that don't. A two one nine
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for the power our six to ten DOUBUTVN. We will
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the debate. Right now though we're talking about the Franklin
County Prosecutor's office. There is someone who would like your vote.
There are two people running. One of them is in
the studio with me and he brought me gifts, so
you get to talk to him. Eight two one ninety
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name is John Rutan and it's Sorge. You're on the
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Speaker 5 (13:53):
Hi, Hey guys, John, I got a question for you.
Do you think you can get punishment back into the crime?
I mean, it's like when we were growing up. You know,
if we did something like steel car, we were going
to get a belt. You know, we were going to
get our butt beat. And I have an adolescent relative
who was incarcerated for a short period of time, and
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if I understood him correctly, they had access to like
a PlayStation or an xbox, and there were kids in
there with him that were like, well, you know, if
things are going bad out and down the world, I'll
just do something and get put back in here so
I can play Xbox. And you know, the whole Springfield
issue brings up something else entirely with those immigrants. We
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start having a situation like that in Franklin County. The
residents are just going to start leaving the Franklin County.
They're going to removing to other states. You know, how
do we keep that from happening? You know, it's like
put the punishment back into the crime.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Do you agree with Thatgeant?
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Thank you very much for the question, And to be honest,
that's one of the reasons why I'm running. I've been
at Defense Turning for thirteen years. In the past four years,
I've seen things fall down. I mean, crime is rising,
juveniles are going to prison at shouldn't people are repeating
left and right, and so what happens is when you
realize is you can either complain or you could do
something about it. So I decided to run to do
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something about it because I do believe in measurable justice.
And if you ever looked at my website, there's two
things I live by it's compassion and measurable justice. And
what's nice about me is I have actually had life
experiences that helped me through this. And I was actually
just talking to mister Douglas about this during commercial break,
But I actually went to jail when I was twenty
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one years old for punching a guy for saying some
stuff to my sister. And I got six months in
jail and I got out.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
After eight days.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
And what that taught me was this, if you go
to jail for a little bit, it wakes you up.
If you don't go to jail at all, you think
it's okay to punch somebody. If I would have did
six months, I would have got out and been an
angry person and it would have really affected me. So
that's what I'm trying to bring to the office is
I want to punish people, but I don't want to
crush people. So you can count your bottom dollar that
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people are going to be punished. And that's why I
need people like mister Douglas and anybody else to spread
the word as to what I'm doing, because there's no
question in my mind that you would not have four
hundred repeat offenders stealing cars if I would have been
in an office.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Because every kid would get a year.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
In jail, because you got to understand, I may have
stole a candy bar, but not a car. And what
people don't understand, a car is a big deal because
it's a deadly weapon. And these kids don't know how
to drive, they don't have insurance, and they are fearful,
so they try to flee from the police they crash.
So I'm with you, sir, and I really hope you
support me and pass my name around because I'm definitely
the guy to punish people. But again, I'm going to
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punish people, not crush them. And that's what I have
to offer, and I hope you consider me and thank
you for the question, sir.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Speaking of damage inflicted on society people who don't know
how to drive and not having licenses, and in durant,
let's get to something else that nobody wants to talk about.
The illegal population. Yeah, I see that that is It's
I mean, come on, it's stupid. I've actually had two
instances in my life where family members were hit and
you know, the people who hit them were kind enough
to get out and make sure they weren't dead, but
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then they got in their vehicles and took off, which
tells me, Okay, you're not supposed to be here. You
have no license or insurance that you know. I had
a woman that actually had a parking lot just about
a year ago that hit the front of my car
and she got out and she's telling me how it's
my fault as best she could, wanted all my information,
refuse to give any of hers. My insurance company said, yeah,
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they called, we laughed. There was no claim made. So
this is a major problem all over America, but here
in central Ohio from several different angles that's coming at us.
Is there something within the law that can be done
and will be done if you become a prosecutor?
Speaker 2 (17:55):
One hundred percent?
Speaker 3 (17:55):
In fact, quite frankly, I'll punish them a little bit
harder than a normal person. And the reason why is
because you're illegals and they come to Ohio for a reason.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Again, this is what this is.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
The insight that I have that no other can possesses
is as a defense attorney. I've been new this for
thirteen years, and I have had more illegals in the
past two years of my career than I have had
the prior eleven.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Isn't that amazing?
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Think about that, in the last two years, the amount
of foreigners I've represented has increase. In their defense, they
commit a lot of white collar crimes and they steal,
and so what they've learned is, hey, if you come
to Ohio or you come to Franklin County and you steal,
you get nothing or probation or so you've got to
have measurable justice. And that's what you got to do,
is when you send a message to immigrants, because what
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happens is this somebody will commit a crime and they
know they get slapped on the wrist, and then they
tell all their friends back in whatever country they come from, Hey,
Ohio's a safe place to come. We can rob them,
and if we do, it's not a big deal.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Go back what fifty years when the drunk was telling
the other drug if you're going to get locked up,
get locked up in Mayberry. Yeah, and the same thing.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
I'm with you, my friend.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
And quite frankly, that's what I love about my That's
why God's real, because He's molded me perfectly for this job.
Because in thirteen years I go to there's eighty eight counties.
I've been to fifty of them. Every county. I don't
just walk around my head down and I'm absorbing.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
I'm learning.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
I'm always my whole goal is to learn about life
and how how to fix things. So in different counties,
I see different strokes for different folks. I also see
the kangaroo courts. And so what I'm gonna do is
I'm gonna take the good that I've learned, and I'm
gonna bring to Franklin County. In a bad I'm gonna
leave out and so and I'm awly as good as
the other people around. And for all my prosecutor friends
listening out there, there's four questions.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
I'm gonna ask him, what do you like?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
What don't you like? How can I make this job
a better place for you? And where do you see
yourself in four years? Because if you have good energy
and you have good people, it helps pass judgments. So
what I want prosecutors to know is that it's not
about the deal, it's about correcting the behavior. And I'm
a big I'm a big believer in life review. When
you die, you get to see the trickle effect of
all the good you do. And so every person you
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change is a blessing to be frank because of all
the good they can do.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
That's if you go to heaven. If you go to hell,
I'm going to see everything I ever ate. Let me
try to plow through some calls here before we have
to say goodbye. Charlie's been on hold the lo against Charlie.
You're on six ten LEA ETVN.
Speaker 6 (20:14):
Yes, sir, gentlemen, I have a question about a case
it's got me infuriated. That's been in the news not
very much, but you may recall about Kobe Stillwell, the
guy that's going one hundred and some miles an hour
on more shield and killed three people. He had a
two day trial, okay, and come away. I was not
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guilty on all charges. He had a weapon in the
car and all kinds of stuff. How does this.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Happen, Charlie.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
I'm going to assume that you are insinuating there is
some sort of beholden to a higher educational power in town.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Well.
Speaker 6 (20:53):
I don't know, but Kobe Stillwell's dad was an NFL
football player. He killed three people and he got off
because he said, well, you had some kind of seizures.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Well, I don't know a lot about the defense trilie.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
But I'll tell you what I have to offer to
help in situations like that is I'm an actual trial attorney.
I've lost one channel last five years. So what does
that mean is this. It means that every time a
prosecutor is going to go to trial, they're going to
have my knowledge and information assistan with cases. And so
as a defense attorney, I know what lawyers look for
to try to poke holes in cases, and so what
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my job is is to educate the staff to take
the air out of their sale. So there's not a
lot of who in law, and so a lot of
times what happens is prosecutors treat it like a game
instead of hey, let me just present the evidence, and
then they lose the jury by not being honest. The
best example I can give you is you get a
murder case and the guy shot one time, but they
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spend three hours on autopsy photos. And the truth is
they do that for passion and prejudice. But what happens
is the educated people don't like it and they offend
them and that's how they lose. So I don't know
the facts of the case as to.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Why they lost.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
I think ultimately they said it was an epileptic seizure
and there was a not guilty verdict. It just I
don't know. I can't have an opinion, but I have
to wonder it took so long to get this to
trial and get that verdict. Why it seems like an
epileptic seizure would have been an automatic defense and this
probably would have been over with much quicker.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Yeah, well, common sense tells me you said one hundred miles
per hour. So what seizure do you have where your
foot goes pedal to the metal. I don't know, so
I would love to know more about it, but unfortunately
double jeopardy does apply and they can't retry it. But
I think that's where, if it's true, that's where an
inadequate prosecutor.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Comes from, because I don't have to read the report.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
And if you have a seizure, your body goes limp,
how do you do?
Speaker 2 (22:47):
How does your car even get to one hundred miles
an hour?
Speaker 3 (22:49):
So I don't agree with that at all, And that's
probably where if I would have been in there, you
had had a different result. And Charlie got bless you
and thank you so much for a question I really appreciate.
And and by the way, for everybody that's listening. If
we don't get to your question, my cell phone's on
my on my website, you get text or call me
any time. I wish I could speak to every voter
to be frank.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
I want to try to get zag. Do I have
time to get at least one more in here? We've
got a different clock to work with tonight because we're
going extending from seven to nine. Do I have time
for Okay, let's get John and John you're on sixth
NATV in Hey.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Yeah, I was the illegals. I was in a motorcycle
accident a few quite a few years ago, and the
people literally got one ticket for uh uh not turning,
you know, turning in front of me. And I literally
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lost my house. I literally my life got upside down.
I've got over a half a million of medical bills
and she had no insurance, no driver's license, lost my job,
my house got into boord you know, blah blah blah.
But yeah, all because of some smulian that did not
know how to drive. And you know, it's like, it's
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how unfair is that? And they got one ticket and
that was it.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
John, I'm sorry he does the Ohio Victims of crime
fun come in to play with anything like that that
might help him out? Or is he just stuck?
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Potentially, I mean his insurance may have something to do
with it, but I think like to help you, John
number one, I appreciate the question. You have a great name.
It is a wonderful name. But to answer your question,
the reason why you need a prosecutor like me and
there is because I love listening to victims and defendants
and police and everybody. So in a situation like yours,
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what happens a lot of times is a kind of
prosecutor hides you haven't seen Kayak in four years, and
so what they do is the victims talk to the
prosecutors and they don't feel like they're getting justice because
they can't talk to the main guy, which is myself.
So I'm gonna be open to everybody. So if I
get elected for all the victims out there, if you
don't like the way your case is being treated, then
please look me up and find me because I take
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a lot of pride in being open to the public.
By two commandments, love God with all your mind, body,
and so, and love your neighbor like you love yourself.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
And I say that because.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
I want I want people to be treated the way
I want to be treated. And that's why I answer
all questions, even though I don't want to talk about
the Republican Party today.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
That's okay.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
I'll answer everything because it's only fair.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Before you get out of here, his name is John Rutan.
Are you t A N? What's the website for people
that want to know more about your contacts? You ask
you questions or make donations?
Speaker 2 (25:22):
It's no donations. I'm not fundraising.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
You gotta get donations to run for all I know.
That's part of the machine. No, no, and then give
the man five bucks. No, this is a position, ex
give me five bucks.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Hey, here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
The best compliment you can do for me is pass
my name around, because the word of mouth is the
best recommendation can give somebody. But it's routannfour prosecuter dot com.
It's r U t A N the number four prosecutor
dot com. And God bless you all. And I'll stick around. Tonine,
my friend.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
I can get a babysitter.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
I can get a babysitter. I brought you gifts. Yeah,
we've got an extended version of the Power Hour. Tonight
is Debate Night. This should be a one cheerful night,
I hope it is. What are you expecting? What are
you afraid of? What are you hoping for? Eight two
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Greeting salutations. Welcome my friends to another edition of The
Power Hour. This is six ' ten wt V and
I'm chucked up with you allegedly know who you are.
We take it from there. We get one hour together,
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Tonight though a special edition of the Power Hour. Not
addition for those of you in public school edition of
the Power Hour, because it's debate night is the super
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Bowl of presidential politics. It is the dismantling, It's what
are the other of thems going down tonight? Guys, I'm
telling you maybe you'll disagree, and that's why I'm staying
on the air till nine o'clock tonight. From seven to night.
I'm just talking to you at A two one nine
eight eighty six, A two one WTV. And what do
you expect? What are you terrified about when it comes
to this presidential debate? As I posted on Facebook earlier today,
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put up a video and I said, this all comes down, honestly, seriously,
right to your face. I'm telling you this tonight is
all about Donald Trump's control, if he can control himself
and not launch into some your fired thing with Kamala Harris,
if he can control himself, concentrate on her inadequacy, her ineffectiveness,
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her flip flopping. Concentrate on the policy issues because she
has none. Her policy issues are for sale, highest bidder,
highest number of voters possible. She has no conviction. This
is the thing about and I've said this so long,
Republicans and Democrats, Conservatives, liberals, here's the thing. One side
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of the fence, if you don't like somebody, you're not
gonna like him in twenty years because they are the same.
The other side of the fence, you love somebody, you
don't know how you feel about him in fifteen minutes,
because they change with the wins. Tonight, I believe will
show that Donald Trump, if he stays in control, it
could be a complete annihilation. We may not even need
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a November election. Did you hear that domination?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Yes, that's what he wants.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
He wants a dictatorship. No oh, I'm just saying it
will be. It'll be just an absolute destruction. In fact,
a poll that came out today flies in the face
of all of these polls and said it's this neck
and neck, and Kamala Harris is just so close, and
Trump is behind by three with an error margin of
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plus or minus fifty points. And I mean seriously, a
new poll comes out and shows that Donald Trump is
significantly ahead on a national level, and I think tonight
will be a big night. So I'll be looking for
your call seven to nine. If maybe you're not excited
about this, I am. I'm actually giddy. This election is
going to be great at a national level. It's going
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to be great at a local level. It's going to
be great at all levels, as long as you make
it great, which means participating early voting starting in November.
I'm sorry, in October. Election in November. Take advantage of
early vote voting, especially if you're considering yourself a Conservative
or a Republican. We have been getting beatn with that
stick for years. It's time for us to grab the
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stick and use it ourselves. Early voting, absentee voting, however
you have to do it, make sure you vote here
in Franklin County, the current prosecutor, I'm assuming he's still there.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
He's stepping aside. So we have two people vying for
the office of Franklin County prosecutor. That's the people that
put the bad guys in jail. And it's not an
easy decision for a lot of people. I understand that,
but I think there's you know, if you take emotion
away and you look at this on a strictly logical level,
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that decision gets easier. My guest in studio tonight is
the Republican candidate for Franklin County Prosecutor. Yes, I will
be inviting the Democrat as well, although I doubt that
I'll get an affirmative response. His name is John Ruten,
and the elephant in the room right off the bat,
I'm going to tell you right straight to your face again.
He comes to the table with some bag age. He
had the endorsement to the county party, then they pulled
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it because he was young. He had a Billy Bush
moment and was running his mouth. And somebody, I think
at the Dispatch if are they still a paper anyway,
somebody over there published some stuff and said, look how
crazy this guy is. You know, crazy is subjective. He
has opinions that maybe other people don't agree with. But
he said what he said. It is what it is,
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and it's him or shayea favor. And if it's Shayea favor.
Then it's a continuation and an extension of what you've
got in Zach Klein and Andy Ginther at City Hall.
It is another justice system that is based on taking
people's money, seizing people's property, and grand standing for headlines
whenever possible. Or it's him, So the choice gets much
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easier when you look at it that way as far
as I'm concerned. Plus he brought gifts, which is a
good way to be a guest on the show. John Rutan,
thanks for coming in. I appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Thank you very much, sir, I really appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
And before we get startled like to thank God and
thank you for this opportunity and most importantly thing for
my parents.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
They've given me the.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Ability to progress this far in life and it means
a lot to me. So thank you very much for
having me you.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
I mean, I'm assuming when you first got the news
the endorsement was gone, it was kind of a kick
in the teeth. Did you spend a couple of days
going Okay, what do I do? Do I stay with
this or did you just know you were moving ahead?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
You know what?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Honestly, God's good and well part of my campaign and
I go to a different church each Sunday, and the
message the week my endorsement was taken was Jesus period.
And what the message was was too often in life
we try to say, well, I know somebody, and I
know somebody this person endorses me, or this person endorses me,
and what people do is they try to elevate themselves
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by using somebody else. So in actually oality, I'm not
a big fan of endorsements. So what it really taught
me is all I need is God on my side,
and if I do the right thing, I'm gonna win anyway.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
So it was a nice reality check.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
In more importantly, I didn't really lose the endorsement, to
be honest as a crooked process before when I got
the endorsement, one hundred and thirty three out of one
hundred and thirty three people say the hearing, they didn't.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Take a vote. Tim Rankin was the leader. It was.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
It was a sham actually, and Meredith was part of it.
They didn't allow.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
People to take votes. It was.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
It was.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
It was bad. So in all, honestly, the Republicans are
great people.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
What happened to me was bad, but it was a
nice reality check, and it just showed me more of
that God's on my side and the message was true.
And I think it's important for everybody to understand. Endorsements
are nice to bring awareness, but you should really look
at the character of the person. So I'm really grateful
to be here because of that.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
What makes you the candidate the person that should be
supported to be prosecuted. What are you going to do
differently than what we're seeing in Franklin County right now?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
There's a lot, But I think when it comes to
my candidacy as well as anybody else's, instead of looking
at the party, I'd encourage people to look at the head, heart,
in hand, and those three things tell me what a
good candidate is and what separates the difference between me,
I think is my heart. I really care about everybody
and and that's the truth. So I'm one of those guys.
I believe we all come from the same God. There's
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only one God, and so that's that's a big driving
port of my life. My hand is important. I'm a
criminal defense expert. My opponent Shala has never doesn't never
even had a criminal case, and that's concerning and scary.
So I'm a leader and I know what to do,
and then my head's the most important part. If you
look at my website, I have a lot of policies
and what I call prosecutor pledges to be transparent with people,
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to know how I'm gonna treat everybody fairly.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
So if you want to get into how I'm.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Gonna do things differently, there's about one hundred Because with Tayak,
the main thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna be active.
If I get elected, You're gonna who's running the office.
It's gonna be me. I'll be up and down the
court room. I'll be doing trials. I'll be open to
the public. I'll have once a month. I'll be open
to have anybody to come in and talk today. I'll
be hosting events. I'll be the most active prosecutor you've
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ever heard of. Actually, So I'm excited about the opportunity,
and there's a lot I can do for everybody.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Now, you seem like a really nice guy. This is
the first time you and I have met face to face.
You seem like a very nice guy. I love hearing
that you have a faith that is strong in you.
Now I need your evil side.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
I need you.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
I need you to be the kind of prosecutor that
doesn't care that your daddy didn't love you, you grew
up broke, your fingernails are dirty, and your mom didn't
have any money. I need criminals to be criminals. Do
you see the job that way? Are we ready to
go back to actually prosecuting and putting away the bad guys?
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Well, prosecuting is absolutely important, but the reality of it
is is the reason why I'm a good candidate for
this position is because of my judgment. And the truth
is is in order to correct behavior, you got to
punish it, but you not crush it. So what happens
is if you crush somebody, you create a new generational criminal.
If you punish them, you can fix them. If you
do nothing, they repeat. And that's why you see two
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thousand cars stolen in the last two and a half
years and eight hundred by repeat offenders. There's something ridiculous
like that because they aren't punishing people. So you can
count on me punishing people. And that's why I have standards,
because it's important for people to know. And this is
where I have a wonderful asset is there's eighty eight
counties in Ohio. I've been over fifty of them. I'm
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a defense attorney currently right now, and I see what
works in different counties. You go up to Musquinham County,
you cannot find a murderer up there that doesn't have
a life sentence. And that's how it should be in
Franklin County. And so you need to send messages to
people that if this happens in this county, this is
what's going to happen with this county prosecutor.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
And so I hope, if it's.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
God's will that I get elected, that you invite me
on in your show more often, because I'm only as
good as the people that help me, and so I
think it's important for the public to get into information.
So now the juveniles here, well, you know what, if
I steal car, I'm actually get locked up for a year.
If I if I break into somebody's home, I'm actually
not going to get out.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
For a while.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
So I think it's important for people to understand that.
And so I'm definitely going to punish people in a
proper way. But judgment is what matters. And the reason
why that's important is because you don't learn what I
learned by being a prosecutor. You don't learn it in school,
you don't learn it being on committees. You learn it
by working with the people for the last thirteen years
like I have. So when somebody comes in my office,
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been ten minutes about what happened, and then the rest.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Is Okay, where were you born?
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Tell me about your family, When did you start using drugs?
How do you handle issues? When's the last time you prayed?
It's amazing. And here's what's amazing about life. And with
all my clients, there's been four common traits in actuality,
lack of faith, lack of job, hurt people, hurt others,
and it was the third and family issues. And so
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if you actually focus on that issue could fix a life.
And that's why I'm so excited about it, because I
take a lot of pride and not having to repeat offenders.
And the reason why is because when they hire me,
I address the issue. And so that's what I'm going
to use a probation department for is to punish people
and as well as make them rehab. So if I
can force you to go to anger management, alcohol, I
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can force you to go to church. Because faith to me,
is probably the biggest hurdle in everybody's life in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
And you said steal a car, go to jail, which
which is actually one of the things that's prominent in
my mind, the key of boys story that we've dealt
with for the past couple of years. And I'm if
you listen to the show, you've heard me talk about
kid jail. I am firmly, firmly convinced we need kid jail.
I'm not talking about a place for young people to
go to learn how to be older criminals when they
get out. I'm talking about a rehabilitative, intense place for
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young people to go so they do not become dirtball
older people and inflict more pain on society. Is that
even in your vision as a potential prosecutor.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Absolutely, and we have it's called a juvenile detention center,
so it's not called jail, but juvenile detention center. I
really appreciate that question because one of the things I'm
gonna do is County prosecutor is no teenager is going
to go to prison absent murder, attempted murder, and so
what happens, and this is what public doesn't understand and
this is why it's so important for a guy like
me to be in there instead of Sheila, who doesn't
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know this stuff. Is you can actually hold a teenager
up to the age of twenty one. So if you're
sixteen or seventeen, a lot of times they just bind
them over because they're blind and ignorant.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
They don't really care. I care.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
So what I know what crime teenager actually commit at
sixteen or seventeen that justifies going to prison absent murder,
attempted murder, or the rape of a child.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Right, So that's.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Why I'm mindful of that, and that's one reason I
spend and that's what's nice about what I do as
at defense attorneys. I work with these organizations. I'm aware
of their rehabilitative techniques. I think they could do things differently.
I think they could do things a little bit better.
I almost ran for County sheriff to effectuate that, but
I believe County Prosser gives me an ability to help more.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
People coming into a break care. I gotta take it.
Don't get your hopes up about that lack of experience
thing on the other side of this this election. I mean,
we've already elected a city process. I had never done
a day in court. We had two clients running, one
of which was an experienced trial attorney, another the other
had never done a day in a courtroom. Guess which
one Columbus elects. That's the voters here.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
No, I listen, and it's discouraging, but I'm gonna have
faith in the human race, in God, and so hopefully
it doesn't happen again.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
But I'm with you.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
I mean, that is concerning, and this election should not
be close. That's why I got in trouble with the
Dispatch because they asked me about my thought of being
a losing elections are losing? How am I gonna lose
this election unless you take it? And that's kind of
the trickle effect of what happened.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Yeah, well, yeah, you say, you say something sometime that
makes too much sense, and yeah, that gets a more
harsh reaction than things that don't. A two one nine
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And if you have any questions for John Rutenn, candidate
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for the power our six to ten DOUBUTVN. We will
extend the show tonight seven and nine to talk about
the debate. Right now though we're talking about the Franklin
County Prosecutor's office. There is someone who would like your vote.
There are two people running. One of them is in
the studio with me and he brought me gifts, so
you get to talk to him. Eight two one ninety
eight six A tow to one do WTV in. His
name is John Rutan and it's Sorge. You're on the
Legacy Retirement Group dot com phone line.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Hi, Hey guys, John, I got a question for you.
Do you think you can get punishment back into the crime?
I mean, it's like when we were growing up. You know,
if we did something like steel car, we were going
to get a belt. You know, we were going to
get our butt beat. And I have an adolescent relative
who was incarcerated for a short period of time, and
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if I understood him correctly, they had access to like
a PlayStation or an xbox, and there were kids in
there with him that were like, well, you know, if
things are going bad out and down the world, I'll
just do something and get put back in here so
I can play Xbox. And you know, the whole Springfield
issue brings up something else entirely with those immigrants. We
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start having a situation like that in Franklin County. The
residents are just going to start leaving the Franklin County.
They're going to removing to other states. You know, how
do we keep that from happening? You know, it's like
put the punishment back into the crime.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Do you agree with Thatgeant?
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Thank you very much for the question, And to be honest,
that's one of the reasons why I'm running. I've been
at Defense Turning for thirteen years. In the past four years,
I've seen things fall down. I mean, crime is rising,
juveniles are going to prison at shouldn't people are repeating
left and right, and so what happens is when you
realize is you can either complain or you could do
something about it. So I decided to run to do
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something about it because I do believe in measurable justice.
And if you ever looked at my website, there's two
things I live by it's compassion and measurable justice. And
what's nice about me is I have actually had life
experiences that helped me through this. And I was actually
just talking to mister Douglas about this during commercial break,
But I actually went to jail when I was twenty
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one years old for punching a guy for saying some
stuff to my sister. And I got six months in
jail and I got out.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
After eight days.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
And what that taught me was this, if you go
to jail for a little bit, it wakes you up.
If you don't go to jail at all, you think
it's okay to punch somebody. If I would have did
six months, I would have got out and been an
angry person and it would have really affected me. So
that's what I'm trying to bring to the office is
I want to punish people, but I don't want to
crush people. So you can count your bottom dollar that
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people are going to be punished. And that's why I
need people like mister Douglas and anybody else to spread
the word as to what I'm doing, because there's no
question in my mind that you would not have four
hundred repeat offenders stealing cars if I would have been
in an office.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Because every kid would get a year.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
In jail, because you got to understand, I may have
stole a candy bar, but not a car. And what
people don't understand, a car is a big deal because
it's a deadly weapon. And these kids don't know how
to drive, they don't have insurance, and they are fearful,
so they try to flee from the police they crash.
So I'm with you, sir, and I really hope you
support me and pass my name around because I'm definitely
the guy to punish people. But again, I'm going to
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punish people, not crush them. And that's what I have
to offer, and I hope you consider me and thank
you for the question, sir.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Speaking of damage inflicted on society people who don't know
how to drive and not having licenses, and in durant,
let's get to something else that nobody wants to talk about.
The illegal population. Yeah, I see that that is It's
I mean, come on, it's stupid. I've actually had two
instances in my life where family members were hit and
you know, the people who hit them were kind enough
to get out and make sure they weren't dead, but
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then they got in their vehicles and took off, which
tells me, Okay, you're not supposed to be here. You
have no license or insurance that you know. I had
a woman that actually had a parking lot just about
a year ago that hit the front of my car
and she got out and she's telling me how it's
my fault as best she could, wanted all my information,
refuse to give any of hers. My insurance company said, yeah,
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they called, we laughed. There was no claim made. So
this is a major problem all over America, but here
in central Ohio from several different angles that's coming at us.
Is there something within the law that can be done
and will be done if you become a prosecutor?
Speaker 2 (17:55):
One hundred percent?
Speaker 3 (17:55):
In fact, quite frankly, I'll punish them a little bit
harder than a normal person. And the reason why is
because you're illegals and they come to Ohio for a reason.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Again, this is what this is.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
The insight that I have that no other can possesses
is as a defense attorney. I've been new this for
thirteen years, and I have had more illegals in the
past two years of my career than I have had
the prior eleven.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Isn't that amazing?
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Think about that, in the last two years, the amount
of foreigners I've represented has increase. In their defense, they
commit a lot of white collar crimes and they steal,
and so what they've learned is, hey, if you come
to Ohio or you come to Franklin County and you steal,
you get nothing or probation or so you've got to
have measurable justice. And that's what you got to do,
is when you send a message to immigrants, because what
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happens is this somebody will commit a crime and they
know they get slapped on the wrist, and then they
tell all their friends back in whatever country they come from, Hey,
Ohio's a safe place to come. We can rob them,
and if we do, it's not a big deal.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Go back what fifty years when the drunk was telling
the other drug if you're going to get locked up,
get locked up in Mayberry. Yeah, and the same thing.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
I'm with you, my friend.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
And quite frankly, that's what I love about my That's
why God's real, because He's molded me perfectly for this job.
Because in thirteen years I go to there's eighty eight counties.
I've been to fifty of them. Every county. I don't
just walk around my head down and I'm absorbing.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
I'm learning.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
I'm always my whole goal is to learn about life
and how how to fix things. So in different counties,
I see different strokes for different folks. I also see
the kangaroo courts. And so what I'm gonna do is
I'm gonna take the good that I've learned, and I'm
gonna bring to Franklin County. In a bad I'm gonna
leave out and so and I'm awly as good as
the other people around. And for all my prosecutor friends
listening out there, there's four questions.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
I'm gonna ask him, what do you like?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
What don't you like? How can I make this job
a better place for you? And where do you see
yourself in four years? Because if you have good energy
and you have good people, it helps pass judgments. So
what I want prosecutors to know is that it's not
about the deal, it's about correcting the behavior. And I'm
a big I'm a big believer in life review. When
you die, you get to see the trickle effect of
all the good you do. And so every person you
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change is a blessing to be frank because of all
the good they can do.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
That's if you go to heaven. If you go to hell,
I'm going to see everything I ever ate. Let me
try to plow through some calls here before we have
to say goodbye. Charlie's been on hold the lo against Charlie.
You're on six ten LEA ETVN.
Speaker 6 (20:14):
Yes, sir, gentlemen, I have a question about a case
it's got me infuriated. That's been in the news not
very much, but you may recall about Kobe Stillwell, the
guy that's going one hundred and some miles an hour
on more shield and killed three people. He had a
two day trial, okay, and come away. I was not
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guilty on all charges. He had a weapon in the
car and all kinds of stuff. How does this.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Happen, Charlie.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
I'm going to assume that you are insinuating there is
some sort of beholden to a higher educational power in town.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Well.
Speaker 6 (20:53):
I don't know, but Kobe Stillwell's dad was an NFL
football player. He killed three people and he got off
because he said, well, you had some kind of seizures.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Well, I don't know a lot about the defense trilie.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
But I'll tell you what I have to offer to
help in situations like that is I'm an actual trial attorney.
I've lost one channel last five years. So what does
that mean is this. It means that every time a
prosecutor is going to go to trial, they're going to
have my knowledge and information assistan with cases. And so
as a defense attorney, I know what lawyers look for
to try to poke holes in cases, and so what
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my job is is to educate the staff to take
the air out of their sale. So there's not a
lot of who in law, and so a lot of
times what happens is prosecutors treat it like a game
instead of hey, let me just present the evidence, and
then they lose the jury by not being honest. The
best example I can give you is you get a
murder case and the guy shot one time, but they
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spend three hours on autopsy photos. And the truth is
they do that for passion and prejudice. But what happens
is the educated people don't like it and they offend
them and that's how they lose. So I don't know
the facts of the case as to.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Why they lost.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
I think ultimately they said it was an epileptic seizure
and there was a not guilty verdict. It just I
don't know. I can't have an opinion, but I have
to wonder it took so long to get this to
trial and get that verdict. Why it seems like an
epileptic seizure would have been an automatic defense and this
probably would have been over with much quicker.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Yeah, well, common sense tells me you said one hundred miles
per hour. So what seizure do you have where your
foot goes pedal to the metal. I don't know, so
I would love to know more about it, but unfortunately
double jeopardy does apply and they can't retry it. But
I think that's where, if it's true, that's where an
inadequate prosecutor.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Comes from, because I don't have to read the report.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
And if you have a seizure, your body goes limp,
how do you do?
Speaker 2 (22:47):
How does your car even get to one hundred miles
an hour?
Speaker 3 (22:49):
So I don't agree with that at all, And that's
probably where if I would have been in there, you
had had a different result. And Charlie got bless you
and thank you so much for a question I really appreciate.
And and by the way, for everybody that's listening. If
we don't get to your question, my cell phone's on
my on my website, you get text or call me
any time. I wish I could speak to every voter
to be frank.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
I want to try to get zag. Do I have
time to get at least one more in here? We've
got a different clock to work with tonight because we're
going extending from seven to nine. Do I have time
for Okay, let's get John and John you're on sixth
NATV in Hey.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Yeah, I was the illegals. I was in a motorcycle
accident a few quite a few years ago, and the
people literally got one ticket for uh uh not turning,
you know, turning in front of me. And I literally
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lost my house. I literally my life got upside down.
I've got over a half a million of medical bills
and she had no insurance, no driver's license, lost my job,
my house got into boord you know, blah blah blah.
But yeah, all because of some smulian that did not
know how to drive. And you know, it's like, it's
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how unfair is that? And they got one ticket and
that was it.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
John, I'm sorry he does the Ohio Victims of crime
fun come in to play with anything like that that
might help him out? Or is he just stuck?
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Potentially, I mean his insurance may have something to do
with it, but I think like to help you, John
number one, I appreciate the question. You have a great name.
It is a wonderful name. But to answer your question,
the reason why you need a prosecutor like me and
there is because I love listening to victims and defendants
and police and everybody. So in a situation like yours,
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what happens a lot of times is a kind of
prosecutor hides you haven't seen Kayak in four years, and
so what they do is the victims talk to the
prosecutors and they don't feel like they're getting justice because
they can't talk to the main guy, which is myself.
So I'm gonna be open to everybody. So if I
get elected for all the victims out there, if you
don't like the way your case is being treated, then
please look me up and find me because I take
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a lot of pride in being open to the public.
By two commandments, love God with all your mind, body,
and so, and love your neighbor like you love yourself.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
And I say that because.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
I want I want people to be treated the way
I want to be treated. And that's why I answer
all questions, even though I don't want to talk about
the Republican Party today.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
That's okay.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
I'll answer everything because it's only fair.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Before you get out of here, his name is John Rutan.
Are you t A N? What's the website for people
that want to know more about your contacts? You ask
you questions or make donations?
Speaker 2 (25:22):
It's no donations. I'm not fundraising.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
You gotta get donations to run for all I know.
That's part of the machine. No, no, and then give
the man five bucks. No, this is a position, ex
give me five bucks.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Hey, here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
The best compliment you can do for me is pass
my name around, because the word of mouth is the
best recommendation can give somebody. But it's routannfour prosecuter dot com.
It's r U t A N the number four prosecutor
dot com. And God bless you all. And I'll stick around. Tonine,
my friend.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
I can get a babysitter.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
I can get a babysitter. I brought you gifts. Yeah,
we've got an extended version of the Power Hour. Tonight
is Debate Night. This should be a one cheerful night,
I hope it is. What are you expecting? What are
you afraid of? What are you hoping for? Eight two
one nine eight eight six is my number word? Six
fifty two at six ten wtv N
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