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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Greeting, salutations, and welcome my friends to another edition of
the Power Hour on six ten double UTV, and I'm
Chuck Douglas. You know who you are, and we take
it from there my number eight two one nine, eight
eighty six A two one WTV and or one eight
hundred and six to ten WUTV, and we get one
hour together. I talk really fast, you must listen even faster.
And if you've got the the sixty billion dollar two
(00:22):
year Ohio budget and the accompanying vetos on your mind,
feel free, just free for all. I know you've got opinions,
I know you've got thoughts, and you're welcome. Also, the
big beautiful bill passing the Senate. Hit it back over
to the House for reconciliation today and we'll see how
that goes. Some things that were removed by the Senate
it don't make sense to me, including the the medicaid situation.
(00:44):
As they're panicking everybody about losing their medicaid here in
this country and in the state of Ohio. What what
our governor did with his vetos sixty seven line item vetos.
I don't get most of them. Well, I won't say most,
I'll say the ones that I've actually taken time at
this point to look at and break down.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
I don't get.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
And we have gone through the past couple of years,
we have gone through a lot of outrage, a lot
of public outcry, people fighting each other in the streets
and arguing on social media and so forth about the
drag shows at libraries and down in Lancaster. This, you know,
just within the last year they had the town Square
(01:28):
down there. There was supposed to be something that it
turned out to not be in guys in women's clothing
and g strings and so forth, and just people have
the right to be whatever they want to be. I'm
not going to argue that. However, you know, those of
us that aren't that don't like that, don't want to
be a part of it. We have the right not
to be a part of it, don't we. And so
(01:49):
there was part of the budget provision that asked that
the public library.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
System, funded by your tax dollars.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Take any of the sexual identity materials and so forth,
and to put them in a section of the library
not accessible by children, which I don't think is all
that out. I mean, we're not saying you can't have it.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Catching the riot bend my friends.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
No, that's not what we're saying, but just don't put it,
you know, next to the highlights, magazines or whatever.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
And for some reason our.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Governor, you know, friends book club for the kids and
so forth, you would think he might be sympathetic toward
that thought process, he decided.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
No, we're taking that out, which I don't get.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Well, what's the reason in for keeping it in? That's
the reason for it at all.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Be to make sure that these materials in the public
libraries were not accessible to children.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
No, No, I mean why keep them near stuff where
kids can find them?
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Because that's you know that you've got agenda driven people
doing everything, whether it's media or or anything else. You've
got people who want it. They want to make sure
that you know, your six year old kid understands that
he can have four daddies and and that's I'm you know,
that's that's a family thing. That's parents.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
That's my job.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Yes, parents need to talk about the sexuality and the
and that kind of thing. And the more intrusive outside agencies, organizations,
individuals are, the more this is going to be a
flame up issue in society. So you have the materials
just you know, put them someplace where where they're not
(03:27):
accessible to the youngsters. And I don't think that's asking
a whole heck of a lot. But the governor decided
to veto that while going with the lower and flat
income tax. He also decided you did not need a
break on your property taxes, which if you know anything
about me, you know how much I absolutely despise property
(03:48):
taxes because it's property, it's yours.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Well, no, it's really not.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Because you work your tail off to either go gather
the money together to buy it or you know, to
build the credit to get a mortgage to have it.
But then you have to pay the government every year
for the right to have what's yours. You have to
pay their fees and their taxes on buying it. Then
(04:16):
you have to pay them every year just to keep it.
So I'm not a fan of the property taxes at all.
That being said, get ready, Franklin County. As this announcement
comes up about the governor not not signing off on
the reduction of property taxes, both the Columbus Zoo as
(04:36):
well as the ATOM board already announcing they're coming after
you for another property tax levey.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
This fall.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
So as much as everything goes up, utility bills go
up aep s's beginning June first, or whatever the hell
it was, your electric bills going up, and we want
to increase your property taxes for the ADAM Board, we
want to increase your property tax to Columbus Zoo. I
expect CODA to probably jump on that bandwagon as well,
(05:06):
because they're announcing all kinds of new plans and longer
routes and all that kind So CODA will probably end
up coming to us for something as well. And you know,
the school's always coming back to you for more and
more money. So is your income rising as much as
the cost of living existing, it's not even living, it's existing.
(05:27):
If you're if the combined rate of the utilities and
the property taxes and the income taxes, if that all
goes up eight percent a year and you're getting the
three percent cost of living, you're five percent behind the
eight ball one year after you get your first raise.
(05:48):
It doesn't make sense. While at the same time the
governor says it's okay to dip into the state's unclean funds,
I said that inappropriately. I'm sorry your unclaimed funds to
finance things for multi billionaires, football teams, basketball teams, baseball
teams nationwide, arena pay, any of the places around the
(06:12):
state of Ohio where the Bengals and Browns and Blue
Jackets play. We just got the announcement apparently Cleveland's going
to get a w NBA franchise now. Also Joe Modle
posting on Facebook, and I have to agree with Joe,
although we are diametrically opposed on so many things, when
it comes to being a watchdog for what happens at
ninety West Broad Street, he's on it. The city Hall
(06:33):
granting both a tax abatement for a restaurant equipment place,
which is just it's ridiculous, the amount of money that
they're benning him. And the fact that, according to ESPN
and Joe Modele on Facebook, Columbus didn't even vie for
a w NBA team.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Did you see that?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Did you see the Columbus didn't even throw their hat
in the ring and try to get a w NBA team.
We don't have Why not? Why not? Especially after after
apparently Mayor Ginther in a State of the City speech
a couple of months ago, talked about making Columbus the
preeminent place for women's sports.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Yeah, that doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Why didn't we go after the WNBA?
Speaker 3 (07:11):
I mean, Cleveland has a pro basketball team, like an
NBA team.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
They got basketball, don't they got? They got football? Kind of?
Speaker 1 (07:22):
And yeah, I mean why wouldn't Columbus go after that.
We've we've got the women's volleyball team. Do we still
have the women's football team? Are they still around?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I can't. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
I didn't even know there was one.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Yeah, I forget the name of them. They were I
think semi pro if I'm not mistaken. But we've got,
you know, soccer, which in spite of my instincts, has
taken off and has become a major sport in this city.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
And of course the Blue Jackets.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
But you would think if you said we're gonna make
this a preeminent place for women's sports, we would have
gone after a WNBA franchise.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Yeah, the NBA is getting more popular. I mean, it's
not gonna make money for a while, but it's there's
more and more people watching it.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
I'm just I'm I'm baffled by all of that.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Maybe they knew they couldn't use their hot dog vending
machines after the game.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
If the game went on too late, could be because
after ten o'clock, you know you can't do that.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Shut it down. Yeah, I gotta shut it down. I
got to keep America safe.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
It's thinking outside the ball at sixty.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Seven vetos all in all by our governor. And he
waited until like, what was it eleven forty two last night?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yeah? Eleven.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
You know he's not normally up that late. I'm sorry,
I'm not making fun of him. I'm just saying, look,
he's twenty years older than I am. You know he's
not normally up that late. But again, I say, we
harken back to COVID every day at two o'clock, wanting
to get on your television.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
He enjoys. He enjoys the spotlight, He enjoys the anticipation.
He enjoys.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Everybody's standing around in the room going, I wonder what
Mike Dwine is doing. And he showed us that again
last night. As far as I'm concerned, well, maybe that's
just me.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
If he has a great speaker that was like passionate
to listen to. But those COVID briefings were an hour,
they were fifty eight minutes.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Of fifty six of those were about his.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Necktime nothing, and then the last minute he'd be like, oh,
we're closing this blah.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Yeah, I don't I don't get a lot of this.
I really don't get a lot of what what uh
ah what he chose to delete from this budget because
it flies in the face of the kind of principles,
practices and uh and and basically, you know, moral positions
(09:37):
that got him elected to office in the first place.
Where we're talking to Senate or or the state House,
what he claimed to be does not walk hand in
hand with what we see in these vetos as far
as I'm concerned. But you're welcome to disagree. A two
one nine eighty six, A two one DOUBLEUTV and Bob,
you're on six ten double UTV and high.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Hey, Chuck, you know I won't got to get off
point because you were talking, why doesn't Columbus have a
w NBA team. We used to have a professional women's
basketball Well, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Saying why don't we have it, I'm just saying, look,
there was one up for grabs and Columbus didn't even
bother to throw.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
It's had in the ring. We let it go to
Cleveland instead.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Maybe they're looking at what was twenty or twenty years ago,
when you know, they did have one and they didn't
make any money that Katie there was a fun phenom
from Lancaster.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Her name was Katie Smith.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Katie Smith. She played on that team for a while.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Anyway, if the women's basketball team at Ohio State would
have maintained its prominence back in the late eighties early nineties,
everybody was talking about the Ohio State Buckeyes. They're women's
basketball team. Nancy Darsh's coach, Katie Smith came along. We
couldn't stop. But Ohio State University, typical of their arrogance,
got upset with the media. They wanted us to stop
(10:58):
calling them the Lady Bucks. The Lady Bucks was a
listener friendly name for that team. They wanted them referred
to as the Ohio State University women's basketball team, which
took all the familiarity out of it and the prominence
began to decline.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
That was a mouthful.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Yeah, it was a mistake. Though everybody loved the Lady Bucks.
We all talked about the Lady Bucks. But when they
said don't call them the Lady Bucks, it just died out.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
I didn't know they snuck that one in there. You know,
I always consider them the lady Bucks, and now I
am what a biggot.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
We'll put it in your bobby.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
The reason I called was I just wanted to say,
you can turn on the Hoover sound now, because that's
what's gonna happen with that unclaimed fund, is that they
just kicked open a big door. They took a one
eighth of that fund already, and once they come knocking,
once they're gonna get their foot in the door, it's
(11:58):
gonna be a big yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Well, and I told you earlier, if you were listening
to me in Mark this afternoon, I said, Mike Dwaine
is a magician because he has actually put me on
the same side as Mark Dan, which I didn't think
could ever happen.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
But I heard you say that. And I don't know
who Mark Dan is.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
For attorney former attorney general here in the state of Ohio.
He is a Democrat. He is he is a left
of center Democrat, and uh, we don't agree on very much,
but on this I have a feeling he'll be the
first to file suit. And I think he's exactly right
to do it. This is not the state's money to distribute,
to play with, to decide about. It does not belong
(12:37):
to them. In their own documents establishing the Unclaim Funds,
it says they will hold it indefinitely for the citizens
of Ohio. They they didn't. They didn't change the rules.
They just decided to change what they did with it.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Not enough to steal our money legally. Now they're going
to try to steal it illegal.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Well, you know, I don't think it'll I don't think
it'll be allowed to happen. And then all of these
people that are licking their chops right now about building
their new arenas and stadiums using this money to back it,
are going to have to find a new game plan.
And I don't know if you recall when nationwide arena
was being debated here in the city.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
It failed.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
It took it to the voters twice and it failed,
and they said, well, what's plan B. And they said
there is no plan B. Well, blow and behold there.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Was a plan B.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Oh they did that to the arena downtown. Yes, they
get it one way or the other.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
And then once we said we don't want it, and
they came up with a plan B to build it,
and then what happened, Your Franklin County commissioners found a
way to make it yours anyway. So I mean, oh,
it's so silly, Bob. I appreciate you, buddy, thanks very
much for the call. The smoke and mirrors thing is offensive.
And while as a general rule I did not dislike
(13:53):
Michael Coleman when he was mayor of Columbus, one of
the most blatant things he ever did as far as
up policy here in the City of Columbus was when
we were voting, as being asked to vote to bring
in the casino gambling and the language for the establishment
of the casino here in the City of Columbus specified
longitude and latitude. It was going down there by the arena,
(14:15):
so it passed. Then Michael Coleman, Mayor of Columbus, said, oh,
I didn't know what was going down there, which is
why we had to vote a second time to put
it out on my beloved west side. My question is,
how can you be the mayor of the city that's
trying to bring in this casino and not know where
(14:36):
it's being placed. But we were asked to believe that.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Well, I didn't know it was going to be down
here by the arena. That's not the appropriate place. Wow,
we keep on swallowing it. That's the worst part.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
It's not even that the powers that be do what
they do, is that we of the voters continue to
swallow
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Them garbage and believe it is reality.
Greeting, salutations, and welcome my friends to another edition of
the Power Hour on six ten double UTV, and I'm
Chuck Douglas. You know who you are, and we take
it from there my number eight two one nine, eight
eighty six A two one WTV and or one eight
hundred and six to ten WUTV, and we get one
hour together. I talk really fast, you must listen even faster.
And if you've got the the sixty billion dollar two
(00:22):
year Ohio budget and the accompanying vetos on your mind,
feel free, just free for all. I know you've got opinions,
I know you've got thoughts, and you're welcome. Also, the
big beautiful bill passing the Senate. Hit it back over
to the House for reconciliation today and we'll see how
that goes. Some things that were removed by the Senate
it don't make sense to me, including the the medicaid situation.
(00:44):
As they're panicking everybody about losing their medicaid here in
this country and in the state of Ohio. What what
our governor did with his vetos sixty seven line item vetos.
I don't get most of them. Well, I won't say most,
I'll say the ones that I've actually taken time at
this point to look at and break down.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
I don't get.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
And we have gone through the past couple of years,
we have gone through a lot of outrage, a lot
of public outcry, people fighting each other in the streets
and arguing on social media and so forth about the
drag shows at libraries and down in Lancaster. This, you know,
just within the last year they had the town Square
(01:28):
down there. There was supposed to be something that it
turned out to not be in guys in women's clothing
and g strings and so forth, and just people have
the right to be whatever they want to be. I'm
not going to argue that. However, you know, those of
us that aren't that don't like that, don't want to
be a part of it. We have the right not
to be a part of it, don't we. And so
(01:49):
there was part of the budget provision that asked that
the public library.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
System, funded by your tax dollars.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Take any of the sexual identity materials and so forth,
and to put them in a section of the library
not accessible by children, which I don't think is all
that out. I mean, we're not saying you can't have it.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Catching the riot bend my friends.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
No, that's not what we're saying, but just don't put it,
you know, next to the highlights, magazines or whatever.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
And for some reason our.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Governor, you know, friends book club for the kids and
so forth, you would think he might be sympathetic toward
that thought process, he decided.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
No, we're taking that out, which I don't get.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Well, what's the reason in for keeping it in? That's
the reason for it at all.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Be to make sure that these materials in the public
libraries were not accessible to children.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
No, No, I mean why keep them near stuff where
kids can find them?
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Because that's you know that you've got agenda driven people
doing everything, whether it's media or or anything else. You've
got people who want it. They want to make sure
that you know, your six year old kid understands that
he can have four daddies and and that's I'm you know,
that's that's a family thing. That's parents.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
That's my job.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Yes, parents need to talk about the sexuality and the
and that kind of thing. And the more intrusive outside agencies, organizations,
individuals are, the more this is going to be a
flame up issue in society. So you have the materials
just you know, put them someplace where where they're not
(03:27):
accessible to the youngsters. And I don't think that's asking
a whole heck of a lot. But the governor decided
to veto that while going with the lower and flat
income tax. He also decided you did not need a
break on your property taxes, which if you know anything
about me, you know how much I absolutely despise property
(03:48):
taxes because it's property, it's yours.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Well, no, it's really not.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Because you work your tail off to either go gather
the money together to buy it or you know, to
build the credit to get a mortgage to have it.
But then you have to pay the government every year
for the right to have what's yours. You have to
pay their fees and their taxes on buying it. Then
(04:16):
you have to pay them every year just to keep it.
So I'm not a fan of the property taxes at all.
That being said, get ready, Franklin County. As this announcement
comes up about the governor not not signing off on
the reduction of property taxes, both the Columbus Zoo as
(04:36):
well as the ATOM board already announcing they're coming after
you for another property tax levey.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
This fall.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
So as much as everything goes up, utility bills go
up aep s's beginning June first, or whatever the hell
it was, your electric bills going up, and we want
to increase your property taxes for the ADAM Board, we
want to increase your property tax to Columbus Zoo. I
expect CODA to probably jump on that bandwagon as well,
(05:06):
because they're announcing all kinds of new plans and longer
routes and all that kind So CODA will probably end
up coming to us for something as well. And you know,
the school's always coming back to you for more and
more money. So is your income rising as much as
the cost of living existing, it's not even living, it's existing.
(05:27):
If you're if the combined rate of the utilities and
the property taxes and the income taxes, if that all
goes up eight percent a year and you're getting the
three percent cost of living, you're five percent behind the
eight ball one year after you get your first raise.
(05:48):
It doesn't make sense. While at the same time the
governor says it's okay to dip into the state's unclean funds,
I said that inappropriately. I'm sorry your unclaimed funds to
finance things for multi billionaires, football teams, basketball teams, baseball
teams nationwide, arena pay, any of the places around the
(06:12):
state of Ohio where the Bengals and Browns and Blue
Jackets play. We just got the announcement apparently Cleveland's going
to get a w NBA franchise now. Also Joe Modle
posting on Facebook, and I have to agree with Joe,
although we are diametrically opposed on so many things, when
it comes to being a watchdog for what happens at
ninety West Broad Street, he's on it. The city Hall
(06:33):
granting both a tax abatement for a restaurant equipment place,
which is just it's ridiculous, the amount of money that
they're benning him. And the fact that, according to ESPN
and Joe Modele on Facebook, Columbus didn't even vie for
a w NBA team.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Did you see that?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Did you see the Columbus didn't even throw their hat
in the ring and try to get a w NBA team.
We don't have Why not? Why not? Especially after after
apparently Mayor Ginther in a State of the City speech
a couple of months ago, talked about making Columbus the
preeminent place for women's sports.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Yeah, that doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Why didn't we go after the WNBA?
Speaker 3 (07:11):
I mean, Cleveland has a pro basketball team, like an
NBA team.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
They got basketball, don't they got? They got football? Kind of?
Speaker 1 (07:22):
And yeah, I mean why wouldn't Columbus go after that.
We've we've got the women's volleyball team. Do we still
have the women's football team? Are they still around?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I can't. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
I didn't even know there was one.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Yeah, I forget the name of them. They were I
think semi pro if I'm not mistaken. But we've got,
you know, soccer, which in spite of my instincts, has
taken off and has become a major sport in this city.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
And of course the Blue Jackets.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
But you would think if you said we're gonna make
this a preeminent place for women's sports, we would have
gone after a WNBA franchise.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Yeah, the NBA is getting more popular. I mean, it's
not gonna make money for a while, but it's there's
more and more people watching it.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
I'm just I'm I'm baffled by all of that.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Maybe they knew they couldn't use their hot dog vending
machines after the game.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
If the game went on too late, could be because
after ten o'clock, you know you can't do that.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Shut it down. Yeah, I gotta shut it down. I
got to keep America safe.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
It's thinking outside the ball at sixty.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Seven vetos all in all by our governor. And he
waited until like, what was it eleven forty two last night?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yeah? Eleven.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
You know he's not normally up that late. I'm sorry,
I'm not making fun of him. I'm just saying, look,
he's twenty years older than I am. You know he's
not normally up that late. But again, I say, we
harken back to COVID every day at two o'clock, wanting
to get on your television.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
He enjoys. He enjoys the spotlight, He enjoys the anticipation.
He enjoys.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Everybody's standing around in the room going, I wonder what
Mike Dwine is doing. And he showed us that again
last night. As far as I'm concerned, well, maybe that's
just me.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
If he has a great speaker that was like passionate
to listen to. But those COVID briefings were an hour,
they were fifty eight minutes.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Of fifty six of those were about his.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Necktime nothing, and then the last minute he'd be like, oh,
we're closing this blah.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Yeah, I don't I don't get a lot of this.
I really don't get a lot of what what uh
ah what he chose to delete from this budget because
it flies in the face of the kind of principles,
practices and uh and and basically, you know, moral positions
(09:37):
that got him elected to office in the first place.
Where we're talking to Senate or or the state House,
what he claimed to be does not walk hand in
hand with what we see in these vetos as far
as I'm concerned. But you're welcome to disagree. A two
one nine eighty six, A two one DOUBLEUTV and Bob,
you're on six ten double UTV and high.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Hey, Chuck, you know I won't got to get off
point because you were talking, why doesn't Columbus have a
w NBA team. We used to have a professional women's
basketball Well, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Saying why don't we have it, I'm just saying, look,
there was one up for grabs and Columbus didn't even
bother to throw.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
It's had in the ring. We let it go to
Cleveland instead.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Maybe they're looking at what was twenty or twenty years ago,
when you know, they did have one and they didn't
make any money that Katie there was a fun phenom
from Lancaster.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Her name was Katie Smith.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Katie Smith. She played on that team for a while.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Anyway, if the women's basketball team at Ohio State would
have maintained its prominence back in the late eighties early nineties,
everybody was talking about the Ohio State Buckeyes. They're women's
basketball team. Nancy Darsh's coach, Katie Smith came along. We
couldn't stop. But Ohio State University, typical of their arrogance,
got upset with the media. They wanted us to stop
(10:58):
calling them the Lady Bucks. The Lady Bucks was a
listener friendly name for that team. They wanted them referred
to as the Ohio State University women's basketball team, which
took all the familiarity out of it and the prominence
began to decline.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
That was a mouthful.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Yeah, it was a mistake. Though everybody loved the Lady Bucks.
We all talked about the Lady Bucks. But when they
said don't call them the Lady Bucks, it just died out.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
I didn't know they snuck that one in there. You know,
I always consider them the lady Bucks, and now I
am what a biggot.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
We'll put it in your bobby.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
The reason I called was I just wanted to say,
you can turn on the Hoover sound now, because that's
what's gonna happen with that unclaimed fund, is that they
just kicked open a big door. They took a one
eighth of that fund already, and once they come knocking,
once they're gonna get their foot in the door, it's
(11:58):
gonna be a big yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Well, and I told you earlier, if you were listening
to me in Mark this afternoon, I said, Mike Dwaine
is a magician because he has actually put me on
the same side as Mark Dan, which I didn't think
could ever happen.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
But I heard you say that. And I don't know
who Mark Dan is.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
For attorney former attorney general here in the state of Ohio.
He is a Democrat. He is he is a left
of center Democrat, and uh, we don't agree on very much,
but on this I have a feeling he'll be the
first to file suit. And I think he's exactly right
to do it. This is not the state's money to distribute,
to play with, to decide about. It does not belong
(12:37):
to them. In their own documents establishing the Unclaim Funds,
it says they will hold it indefinitely for the citizens
of Ohio. They they didn't. They didn't change the rules.
They just decided to change what they did with it.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Not enough to steal our money legally. Now they're going
to try to steal it illegal.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Well, you know, I don't think it'll I don't think
it'll be allowed to happen. And then all of these
people that are licking their chops right now about building
their new arenas and stadiums using this money to back it,
are going to have to find a new game plan.
And I don't know if you recall when nationwide arena
was being debated here in the city.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
It failed.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
It took it to the voters twice and it failed,
and they said, well, what's plan B. And they said
there is no plan B. Well, blow and behold there.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Was a plan B.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Oh they did that to the arena downtown. Yes, they
get it one way or the other.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
And then once we said we don't want it, and
they came up with a plan B to build it,
and then what happened, Your Franklin County commissioners found a
way to make it yours anyway. So I mean, oh,
it's so silly, Bob. I appreciate you, buddy, thanks very
much for the call. The smoke and mirrors thing is offensive.
And while as a general rule I did not dislike
(13:53):
Michael Coleman when he was mayor of Columbus, one of
the most blatant things he ever did as far as
up policy here in the City of Columbus was when
we were voting, as being asked to vote to bring
in the casino gambling and the language for the establishment
of the casino here in the City of Columbus specified
longitude and latitude. It was going down there by the arena,
(14:15):
so it passed. Then Michael Coleman, Mayor of Columbus, said, oh,
I didn't know what was going down there, which is
why we had to vote a second time to put
it out on my beloved west side. My question is,
how can you be the mayor of the city that's
trying to bring in this casino and not know where
(14:36):
it's being placed. But we were asked to believe that.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Well, I didn't know it was going to be down
here by the arena. That's not the appropriate place. Wow,
we keep on swallowing it. That's the worst part.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
It's not even that the powers that be do what
they do, is that we of the voters continue to
swallow
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Them garbage and believe it is reality.
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