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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Greeting's my friends, who welcome to another edition of The
Power Hour on six ten Double UTV, and I'm Chuck Douglas.
You know who you are. We take it from there.
We get one hour together, which means I talk really
fast and you must listen even faster. My number eight
two one nine eight eight six eight to one WTV.
And continuing the conversation from the Blazer Show on Endo
The Power Hour regarding Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther, who says
(00:27):
he's going to run again in twenty seven according to
the Columbus Patch and other media sources around town. And
if if I'm not going to be one of those,
you know, those people that go, well he's elected, I'm
leaving because I don't want him, to admit. No, but
there's a pretty good chance I will leave not because
(00:48):
of him, but because of because of a lack of effort.
If I don't see an effort from the Franklin County
GOP in fielding a feasible, reasonable, possible ability to run
against him, if we just surrender again and allow him
to run unopposed, then I'm done. I'm finished, and I
(01:13):
mean this sincerely. It's it's not about him winning. It's
about us not trying. Tired of the excuses, constant excuse. Well,
the Democrats have everything wrapped up. There's a shut up.
Well you know we don't have the resources. Yes, you do,
(01:34):
and what you don't have here. You go to the
Ohio GOP and say, hey, we've got a legit chance,
we got a legit candidate. We need to do something
with the capital city of this state. Give us money,
help us, we need manpower, we need dollar bills, let's roll.
You go to the RNC, you tell them the same thing. Hell,
you go to the Trump campaign and say, look, we
(01:56):
saw what you did. They said you couldn't be president,
and you were. They say there's no way you'll win again,
but you did. There's no way you can do it.
But you do the audacity of a man to believe
he can win and then actually go out and do it.
Are we not learning anything? Are we not inspired by anything?
(02:21):
I've heard excuse after excuse as to why we don't
run anybody, and why we can't win if we do
run somebody. I've heard nothing when it comes to strategy
about how we do win. I'm not necessarily looking for
domination here. I don't want an all Republican anything, but
I want some balance. For God's sakes, there's nothing. What
(02:45):
do we got one one elected county wide office that's
a Republican held office. Now, I don't know. It's something dismal,
and it shouldn't be with this one party rule thing
just does not work for me. One party rule that
is that is handed over to that party is distressing,
(03:09):
depressing and unacceptable. Or again, maybe that's just me. A
two one nine eight eight six A two one WTV.
And if you're looking forward to another four year term
from Mayor Andrew Ginther, I'd love to hear from you.
Two A two one WUTV. And is the number ten
you're on? Six to ten WUTVN Hello there, Hello, Yes.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Got an idea for the candidates to try to take
on this mess we've gotten Columbus. Put more than one
person on the ticket. Put a mayor and a couple
councilmen on the ticket. One vote gets all three.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
No, I've been saying for a long time we need
to run we need to run six feasible council candidates
just to try to get three or four of the seats.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Well, but put them on tickets together, one vote gets
all three votes. That's an old school way that you
used to be done in Ohio a lot.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Yeah, the slate. The slate thing hasn't been tried in
quite a few years. There was a group of people,
I don't know, maybe twenty years ago, called themselves a
rescue team Bravo or something grandiose like that, and that failed.
That failed miserably. I honestly, it sounded too much like
a comic strip to be taken seriously I think by
a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
But the I'm thinking the Democrats did it years ago
to us concerning the school board. Uh that there might
have been a guy named Bill Moss involved in that.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
No, Uh what what would refresh my memory there?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
What?
Speaker 1 (04:41):
What was Bill doing?
Speaker 2 (04:42):
He?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
See?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I think he was running he was running for uh
for school board, Columbus City school Board. Yeah, and I'm
thinking he took a couple more candidates with him.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
He might have. But but here's party loyalty. When Bill
ran for mayor of the City of Columbus, he basically
ran his campaign on public access cable television because he
couldn't even get any local Democrat support to run a campaign.
It was sad.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
I know, yeah, but he took they put it on
when they took their petitions up to the Board of Elections.
They did it, a group of them did it together,
and that just shakes them up. Let me tell you,
if more and it's more ways formed to earn money,
(05:29):
maybe one of them is real good at earning money
and one of them isn't real good at earning money.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Now you might find a group of people that are
willing to run as a slate that are all viable.
But in order for them to do that again, they're
going to have to see some action from the county Party.
They're going to have to see some backup, some support
from the County Party. As long as the party just
lays down, nothing's going to happen.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
That's well, and they've been doing that.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Yeah, yeah, over and over again. I appreciate you, Tim,
Thanks very much for the call to nine eight six
eight two on WTV. And by the way, while I'm
thinking about the Franklin County Republican Party, let me I
just mentioned here my condolences to the friends and the
family and all those who are acquainted with Jack McGee
who apparently passed away here over the Memorial Day weekend
(06:15):
and Jack was a member of the Central Committee. He
was he was kind of a lightning rod. He was
one of those people that was the full ideas, always
fired up, always motivational. And I met him several years ago.
He was pushing me hard to run for Central Committee
(06:35):
and he was just a basic guy. But he was
a basic guy with some definite dedication to his beliefs
and his calls, and far too young to be gone.
I don't know what the story was. I just just
got word a couple of days ago on the actually
the Facebook page Louis Skill, I believe it was who
(06:56):
mentioned that he had passed away. And that's not a
good thing either, I mean, aside from the fact that
death is rarely a good thing. As we lose those
people who have known victory, who have known success and
(07:17):
dedication in the central Ohio political arena as Republican candidates,
there are fewer people left to remember that it can
be done. It can be done. As they fade off,
you're left with this. And just as we have a
(07:40):
whole generation, a generation and a half out there of
adult voters Obama Erat voters who believe government will take
care of you and pay your bills and give you
insurance and have a program for everything under the sun.
And your parents have to keep you on their insurance
till you're twenty six because you're not a grown up
at that point. Although you couldn't get an abortion when
(08:01):
you're fourteen, I guess choose to be the opposite sex.
When you're like in the womb, you're not a grown
up till you're twenty six. When it comes to insurance.
That's their reality. That's what they know as their reality.
And then they have kids, and that's the kids know
(08:22):
what mom and dad know, and eventually nobody remembers once
upon a time what was There've got to be some
others out there now. Granted, Greg Lashutka was not he
was not a bolt of lightning, but he got the
(08:46):
job done. I always admired him, being a big guy.
Former OSU football player Greg Lashutka was one of the
best disappearers that I've ever seen. He could be. He
could be on stage, You're looking right at him, and
somebody would be introduced and they'd come up and they'd
start speaking. You look over and the Shutka was gone.
He was just really good at that. I don't know
(09:09):
how a man that size was able to up to
maneuver the way he did, but he was very good
at it. Buck Reinhardt. In my lifetime, buck Reinhart was
was it when it came to being mayor. He had
his buck line. And that was something else I mentioned.
(09:29):
You know, when I was a younger man, I thought
I wanted to be mayor of Columbus. I wanted to
do a chuck line, much like the buck line, and
I wanted to be crazy enough to actually go down
and you know, be there to sometimes answer those calls
when that little old lady calls up, because these kids
on my street and they right here in front of
my house every night and they're selling drugs and they're
(09:52):
whooping it up. You know, back then, James Jackson was
still with us, he was Chief of Police. I wanted
to be able to call him and go, hey, Chief,
I need say bad attitudes with badges, meet me in
front of city Hall. In ten minutes. We got somewhere
to go and show up at that little old lady's house.
Because ultimately, what does Columbus need? Neighbors and neighborhoods. That's
(10:15):
that's step number one. Not a bunch of strangers in
abandoned houses that the city sezes and puts orange stickers on,
but neighbors and neighborhoods. Police more police, with backup from
city Hall, from the Mayor's office, from the city council,
(10:35):
so that they can go out and be police less
talk more action. Every time somebody runs, well, well, you know,
the neighborhoods are my first priority, and yet the neighborhoods
don't see your ass until it's time to come get
votes again. You run, you get their vote, and then
(10:55):
you disappear. Get out there. Stop spending money on two
million dollar toilets and start spending money on things that
matter to the people of Columbus. Stop giving away development
money to people that want to come in and build
one point five million dollar condos, and start putting people
(11:19):
back into all of these abandoned homes in our Innish
City neighborhoods. Years ago, when a child was attacked in
a school auditorium, you might recall, then Mayor Michael Coleman
got on the air with Glenn Beck. Glenn was still
relatively new, and he announced that, you know, the City
(11:40):
of Columbus, city government, City Hall is going to be
more involved with the running of Columbus City schools. We
really haven't seen that come to fruition. Schools continue to decline,
Attendance es to decline, academic performance continues to decline. There
are those little cubby here and their success, but for
(12:01):
the most part it's been dismal. Build our schools back up,
Advocate for neighborhood schools again. Quit spending all this money
on buses, fuel for buses, purchasing of buses, maintenance on buses,
drivers for buses, and let kids go to schools in
their neighborhoods again where they get to see the people
they live among, the kids that they play with on
(12:23):
their street. Stop spending all that money to do other stuff.
The days of desegregation are over. Neighborhood schools when people
call answer, it's not that hard. You just need somebody
(12:46):
who's willing to say it and then do it, And
that do it part is always the hard part.
Greeting's my friends, who welcome to another edition of The
Power Hour on six ten Double UTV, and I'm Chuck Douglas.
You know who you are. We take it from there.
We get one hour together, which means I talk really
fast and you must listen even faster. My number eight
two one nine eight eight six eight to one WTV.
And continuing the conversation from the Blazer Show on Endo
The Power Hour regarding Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther, who says
(00:27):
he's going to run again in twenty seven according to
the Columbus Patch and other media sources around town. And
if if I'm not going to be one of those,
you know, those people that go, well he's elected, I'm
leaving because I don't want him, to admit. No, but
there's a pretty good chance I will leave not because
(00:48):
of him, but because of because of a lack of effort.
If I don't see an effort from the Franklin County
GOP in fielding a feasible, reasonable, possible ability to run
against him, if we just surrender again and allow him
to run unopposed, then I'm done. I'm finished, and I
(01:13):
mean this sincerely. It's it's not about him winning. It's
about us not trying. Tired of the excuses, constant excuse. Well,
the Democrats have everything wrapped up. There's a shut up.
Well you know we don't have the resources. Yes, you do,
(01:34):
and what you don't have here. You go to the
Ohio GOP and say, hey, we've got a legit chance,
we got a legit candidate. We need to do something
with the capital city of this state. Give us money,
help us, we need manpower, we need dollar bills, let's roll.
You go to the RNC, you tell them the same thing. Hell,
you go to the Trump campaign and say, look, we
(01:56):
saw what you did. They said you couldn't be president,
and you were. They say there's no way you'll win again,
but you did. There's no way you can do it.
But you do the audacity of a man to believe
he can win and then actually go out and do it.
Are we not learning anything? Are we not inspired by anything?
(02:21):
I've heard excuse after excuse as to why we don't
run anybody, and why we can't win if we do
run somebody. I've heard nothing when it comes to strategy
about how we do win. I'm not necessarily looking for
domination here. I don't want an all Republican anything, but
I want some balance. For God's sakes, there's nothing. What
(02:45):
do we got one one elected county wide office that's
a Republican held office. Now, I don't know. It's something dismal,
and it shouldn't be with this one party rule thing
just does not work for me. One party rule that
is that is handed over to that party is distressing,
(03:09):
depressing and unacceptable. Or again, maybe that's just me. A
two one nine eight eight six A two one WTV.
And if you're looking forward to another four year term
from Mayor Andrew Ginther, I'd love to hear from you.
Two A two one WUTV. And is the number ten
you're on? Six to ten WUTVN Hello there, Hello, Yes.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Got an idea for the candidates to try to take
on this mess we've gotten Columbus. Put more than one
person on the ticket. Put a mayor and a couple
councilmen on the ticket. One vote gets all three.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
No, I've been saying for a long time we need
to run we need to run six feasible council candidates
just to try to get three or four of the seats.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Well, but put them on tickets together, one vote gets
all three votes. That's an old school way that you
used to be done in Ohio a lot.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Yeah, the slate. The slate thing hasn't been tried in
quite a few years. There was a group of people,
I don't know, maybe twenty years ago, called themselves a
rescue team Bravo or something grandiose like that, and that failed.
That failed miserably. I honestly, it sounded too much like
a comic strip to be taken seriously I think by
a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
But the I'm thinking the Democrats did it years ago
to us concerning the school board. Uh that there might
have been a guy named Bill Moss involved in that.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
No, Uh what what would refresh my memory there?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
What?
Speaker 1 (04:41):
What was Bill doing?
Speaker 2 (04:42):
He?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
See?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I think he was running he was running for uh
for school board, Columbus City school Board. Yeah, and I'm
thinking he took a couple more candidates with him.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
He might have. But but here's party loyalty. When Bill
ran for mayor of the City of Columbus, he basically
ran his campaign on public access cable television because he
couldn't even get any local Democrat support to run a campaign.
It was sad.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
I know, yeah, but he took they put it on
when they took their petitions up to the Board of Elections.
They did it, a group of them did it together,
and that just shakes them up. Let me tell you,
if more and it's more ways formed to earn money,
(05:29):
maybe one of them is real good at earning money
and one of them isn't real good at earning money.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Now you might find a group of people that are
willing to run as a slate that are all viable.
But in order for them to do that again, they're
going to have to see some action from the county Party.
They're going to have to see some backup, some support
from the County Party. As long as the party just
lays down, nothing's going to happen.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
That's well, and they've been doing that.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Yeah, yeah, over and over again. I appreciate you, Tim,
Thanks very much for the call to nine eight six
eight two on WTV. And by the way, while I'm
thinking about the Franklin County Republican Party, let me I
just mentioned here my condolences to the friends and the
family and all those who are acquainted with Jack McGee
who apparently passed away here over the Memorial Day weekend
(06:15):
and Jack was a member of the Central Committee. He
was he was kind of a lightning rod. He was
one of those people that was the full ideas, always
fired up, always motivational. And I met him several years ago.
He was pushing me hard to run for Central Committee
(06:35):
and he was just a basic guy. But he was
a basic guy with some definite dedication to his beliefs
and his calls, and far too young to be gone.
I don't know what the story was. I just just
got word a couple of days ago on the actually
the Facebook page Louis Skill, I believe it was who
(06:56):
mentioned that he had passed away. And that's not a
good thing either, I mean, aside from the fact that
death is rarely a good thing. As we lose those
people who have known victory, who have known success and
(07:17):
dedication in the central Ohio political arena as Republican candidates,
there are fewer people left to remember that it can
be done. It can be done. As they fade off,
you're left with this. And just as we have a
(07:40):
whole generation, a generation and a half out there of
adult voters Obama Erat voters who believe government will take
care of you and pay your bills and give you
insurance and have a program for everything under the sun.
And your parents have to keep you on their insurance
till you're twenty six because you're not a grown up
at that point. Although you couldn't get an abortion when
(08:01):
you're fourteen, I guess choose to be the opposite sex.
When you're like in the womb, you're not a grown
up till you're twenty six. When it comes to insurance.
That's their reality. That's what they know as their reality.
And then they have kids, and that's the kids know
(08:22):
what mom and dad know, and eventually nobody remembers once
upon a time what was There've got to be some
others out there now. Granted, Greg Lashutka was not he
was not a bolt of lightning, but he got the
(08:46):
job done. I always admired him, being a big guy.
Former OSU football player Greg Lashutka was one of the
best disappearers that I've ever seen. He could be. He
could be on stage, You're looking right at him, and
somebody would be introduced and they'd come up and they'd
start speaking. You look over and the Shutka was gone.
He was just really good at that. I don't know
(09:09):
how a man that size was able to up to
maneuver the way he did, but he was very good
at it. Buck Reinhardt. In my lifetime, buck Reinhart was
was it when it came to being mayor. He had
his buck line. And that was something else I mentioned.
(09:29):
You know, when I was a younger man, I thought
I wanted to be mayor of Columbus. I wanted to
do a chuck line, much like the buck line, and
I wanted to be crazy enough to actually go down
and you know, be there to sometimes answer those calls
when that little old lady calls up, because these kids
on my street and they right here in front of
my house every night and they're selling drugs and they're
(09:52):
whooping it up. You know, back then, James Jackson was
still with us, he was Chief of Police. I wanted
to be able to call him and go, hey, Chief,
I need say bad attitudes with badges, meet me in
front of city Hall. In ten minutes. We got somewhere
to go and show up at that little old lady's house.
Because ultimately, what does Columbus need? Neighbors and neighborhoods. That's
(10:15):
that's step number one. Not a bunch of strangers in
abandoned houses that the city sezes and puts orange stickers on,
but neighbors and neighborhoods. Police more police, with backup from
city Hall, from the Mayor's office, from the city council,
(10:35):
so that they can go out and be police less
talk more action. Every time somebody runs, well, well, you know,
the neighborhoods are my first priority, and yet the neighborhoods
don't see your ass until it's time to come get
votes again. You run, you get their vote, and then
(10:55):
you disappear. Get out there. Stop spending money on two
million dollar toilets and start spending money on things that
matter to the people of Columbus. Stop giving away development
money to people that want to come in and build
one point five million dollar condos, and start putting people
(11:19):
back into all of these abandoned homes in our Innish
City neighborhoods. Years ago, when a child was attacked in
a school auditorium, you might recall, then Mayor Michael Coleman
got on the air with Glenn Beck. Glenn was still
relatively new, and he announced that, you know, the City
(11:40):
of Columbus, city government, City Hall is going to be
more involved with the running of Columbus City schools. We
really haven't seen that come to fruition. Schools continue to decline,
Attendance es to decline, academic performance continues to decline. There
are those little cubby here and their success, but for
(12:01):
the most part it's been dismal. Build our schools back up,
Advocate for neighborhood schools again. Quit spending all this money
on buses, fuel for buses, purchasing of buses, maintenance on buses,
drivers for buses, and let kids go to schools in
their neighborhoods again where they get to see the people
they live among, the kids that they play with on
(12:23):
their street. Stop spending all that money to do other stuff.
The days of desegregation are over. Neighborhood schools when people
call answer, it's not that hard. You just need somebody
(12:46):
who's willing to say it and then do it, And
that do it part is always the hard part.
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