Candidate Bernie Moreno Answers Burning Questions

Bernie Moreno is in to share his motives for running and how he wants to fix this country.

Episode Transcript

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Well, right now, the BuckEyes are down by eight points against Iowa.
Of course we're talking about women's basketballand Caitlin Carr Clark reaching her three
six hundred and sixty eight point whichsurpassed any other Division one player in college
basketball. Pistol Pete was the onewho had that, Okay, record breaking

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score. But that bad though,too bad that the buck guys are going
to come up short against this one. But we have a really good conversation.
We're going to open the phone linesif anyone would like to join in
on this, you are more thanwelcome to We are so honored, Boots
to have a man who very wellmay be the next US Senator representing our
great state of Ohio. Bernie Marinois running for US Senate seat. If

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he wins the primary, he'll begoing up against the incumbent Shared Brown.
Bernie, welcome to Raw Well,thank you for having me honored to be
on your show. Well, we'rehonored to know you. We got to
meet you a few weeks ago andit was a bad snowstorm, but he
really impressed me and I one hundredpercent endorse you, and I'm excited.
I I you're a car guide whichwhich is even more of a reason for

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me in toors. You and yourfamily came here as immigrants and live the
American dream and now you're super successful, and that's what it all should be
about, living the American dream andnot having handouts. Yeah, no,
one hundred percent. This country isbuilt on merit, on hard work,
on perseverance. Those are uniquely Americanvalues. And what the lots want to

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do is completely change that. Theywant to make this a country about handouts.
It's never been that way. Itshould never be that way. And
when I get into DC, We'regoing to make certain that we reset this
country back to our founding principles andmake sure that that American dream is available
to everybody. So tell our listenerswho you are. How'd you start?
Why you are now getting into politics? You've been a financial backer for the

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GOP for quite a while. Butwhy now run? But who is Bernie
Marino? So? I'm a legalimmigrant from Columbia, South America. Moved
to the US to South Florida whenI was a kid. Became a citizen
the first opportunity I could when Iwas just after I turned eighteen years old.
Moved to Ohio about twenty years agoand put every cent I had and
every cent I imagined having into buyinga tiny little dealership. Put that one

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dealership into turned into fifteen dealerships representingthirty brands. Sold that started a technology
company that uses blockchain as an underlyingdata storage methodology to make car titles digital.
We sell that software to state government. I've sold that because I felt
that would be a conflict of interest, and I believe that when you go

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to DC that people who vote foryou should know that you have zero conflicts
of interest. And I'm running forone simple reason, which is this country
means the world to me, andI'm not prepared to let it go off
the ditch and leave a country that'sbroken, that's broke, that's in terrible
shape, to our kids and grandkids, and your kids and your grandkids.

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You brought up a good point whenwe were talking at that party, and
you said that you don't want boysand girls sports. How are we going
to stop that? Well, wecan have. First of all, starts
with not having a governor of that. Veto's legislation is to protect that.
That's ludicrous, but it also ison a federal level. Title nine I
mean, we took a long time. Women took a long time to get

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women's sports, and what they're tryingto do is not only cancel women's sports,
they're trying to cancel women generally.And we can't allow that to happen.
We need to we need to makecertain that Title nine protects women from
men participating in women's sports. It'ssomething that's honestly common sense. It's almost
surreal to have this conversation. Iknow, I can't believe we talked about

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I'm sorry I brought it up becauseI agree with you. It's the dumbest
thing I believe, But realistically it'shappening. It's like it's like Bigfoot in
UFOs. I don't talk about thembecause I don't believe in them, and
I don't believe that boys are girls. I'm sorry, you'll never close me
on that. I'm sorry. Sorry, Well, you know, part of
it, I think is the leftand the radical left that hates this country,

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that wants this country to be morelike a South American country, like
China, like Russia than what Americais. I think they put these things
out there to distract us from thefact that when we go to the grocery
store. We're getting crushed when wego fill our tank, We're getting crushed.
Our taxes are crushing us. Wehave instability all over the world.
Our streets are unsafe, our schoolsare indoctrinating our kids. So when we're

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talking about these other issues, theyjust overwhelm us to the point where we're
not sure which battle the fight.In reality, we've got to fight them
all. Bertie, let me askyou this because you brought up and I
like how you said it. Youcame over here, you were a legal
immigrant. The number one issue facingAmerican voters today is the illegal immigration.
How do we stop what the Bidenadministration has opened the floodgates to. How

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do you stop it now? Isit too far gone? No, not
at all. We stop it asquickly as they arted it. So right
now. The loophole in our lawsis asylum. Somebody can cross into our
border illegally, raise their hand andclaim asylum. And it's like winning a
game show. You get twenty twohundred dollars a month for nine months.
You get free housing, you getfree food, you get free air travel,

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you get free clothes, you geta free phone, you get free
healthcare. I mean, it isthe ultimate game show that the American people
are paying a severe price for it. The way we do it is if
you come into the country illegally,you're not detained, you're not arrested,
you're immediately returned, and you cannotclaim asylum unless you come into the country
legally. That shouldn't even be controversial, but the fact that we haven't fixed

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that shows you how broken Washington,DC. All right, our phone lines
are lighting up, So I'm gonnago to Mark first. He was first
caller. What you got for you? Mark? Hi there, Thanks so
much for taking my call. SoI wanted to ask mister Marino. I
am a pro life voter and Iwant to know what he will do to

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ban abortion at the federal level,and also what can we do in Ohio
to overturn the radical abortion law thatthe left forced through last November. We
lost him. Hold On, he'sgoing to come back for you. Oh
we lost We've never Lostie. I'msorry. Hold On. That's a great
question though. That's a good question. Can I ask you this, Mark,

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because you've got three Republican contenders thatwould go up against Shared Brown,
are you leaning one way or theother on the three candidates. I'm totally
undecided at this point. I thinkthis is going to be the biggest issue
for me. I think obviously alot of people were really disappointed by the
result last November, and it's reallyclear now that whoever we vote for in

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the primary, like whoever's asking forour vote, has to be someone who's
going to stand firm on this issueand actually deliver for us. So that's
why I want to hear, youknow what he has to say about what
we can do to fix things herein Ohio and also protect life nationally.
All right, I think we aregetting there. We're getting the phone line
right now. When you have thephone lines lighting up, Bernie, are
you back? Did you hear thequestion? I'm sorry about that. I

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don't know what happened there. Iheard the fairy tale end. If you
could summarize it, Yeah, realquick, Mark, he wants to know
what you go ahead, Mark,ask your question real quick, so Bernie
can hear you? Hey, Yeah, thanks so much for taking my call.
I wanted to know what we cando to ban abortion at the federal
level and also what we can dohere in Ohio to overturn the radical law

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that the left four through last year. Well, at the federal level,
what we need to be doing ispolicies that make it less expensive to have
a child, sensive to raise achild, make sure adoption services are more
available, make certain that we're fundingpregnancy centers and defunding planned parenthood. And
it's as much as we can getconsensus around this issue. Is saying that

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after fifteen weeks there have to besome common sense restrictions on abortion so that
we eliminate elective late term abortions.I think we can get consensus around that,
and that's what I plan to do, is make sure that we really
focus on the policies. Also,by the way, make sure that women
have access to good healthcare and equalaccess to contraception. All right, good

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job, Mark, thank you forcalling in, Thanks for listening. Hopefully
that answers your question. We're goingto go to Maggie. Maggie, you
are on the line with Bernie Marino. What is your question for him?
Hi, I'm really concerned about theimpact that you know, issue too is
going down. Turn your radio down, Turn your radio down, turn your
radio down. Because you're well,you're back there, you go, that's
better okay, Sorry, sorry,h I I'm Maggie. I'm really concerned

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about the impact that issue too,and this legalized marijuana is going to have.
And what can we do in theSenate and at the federal level to
crack down on states like Ohio thatdid this and that legalized marijuana. And
what would you do in the Senate, mister Bernie Marie, Now I want
to hear about that. Sure,you got to remember that our founders were

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very, very, very brilliant people, and they designed us of government that's
really effective, that distributes power,and the federal government was given enumerated powers,
national defense, common currency, makesure we have trade. The type
of issue that you're talking about isa state issue and we need to leave
the decision making up to the stateswhen it's not a federal issue, it's

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not outlined in the Constitution. BecauseI think one of the things that I
believe it means to be a Republicanand what it means to be to be
a conservative, is that you honorand believe in respect the Constitution the way
it was given to us. AllRight, well said Maggie, great question.
Another caller for you. Are youokay with this Bernie, You're doing
a great job. This is whyyou're running, right. You better be

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able to think on your feet andanswer from your heart. June, what
is your question for Bernie Marino?Well, Hi, Bernie, how are
you ill? You just sound likea great candidate. I'm so excited that
you're running. And I'm also excitedthat Donald Trump has endorsed you, because
I definitely am totally for Trump,so you are definitely my candidate. But

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I just wanted to bring up acouple points of you know, why Shared
Brown needs to be out and youneed to replace him. I'm from the
Richly County area and we actually hadGM here and it was running, you
know, pretty smoothly. They basicallyrebuilt it and remodeled, you know,

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had plenty of jobs. And thenObama put share it on a committee and
basically shared from my county and heran him out of business. So a
lot of people lost jobs and ourtown really has not been the same since
then. So basically I'm very disappointed. And who who is in our Senate

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right now? So we need youwell. First of all, thank you
for your support. It means theworld to me. As you know,
voting is on Now, I wouldencourage everybody listening vote as soon as you
can. You can hear early votingif that's what you need to do.
But election day's March nineteenth, Imean, certainly vote by then. The
reality is, this is the story. We're not only here in Mansfield and

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Richmond County. You hear the samestory in Lorraine and Astrabula, in Youngstown
and Trumbull County and Dayton. Thisis the issue that we've had leaders in
Washington, DC that sold out ourmiddle class. They shift all of our
manufacturing jobs overseas, this idea thatwe could buy cheap goods from other countries,

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and we devastated our working class.We need to re sure a lot
of our manufacturing. To do that, we need good tax policy, good
regulatory policy, and most importantly,we need to be an energy dominant country.
We need affordable, abundant, reliableenergy. That's coal, that's natural
gas, that's oil, that's nuclear. I'm not against solar and wind,

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but that's not what's going to powerthis economy. And we cannot be subsidizing
coal, solar and wind to takeprime farmland that gives us food insecurity.
So oh, I absolutely agree withthat thanks jus. I absolutely agree,
So thank you so much and goodluck, and I'm behind you so so,

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Bernie, I got a question foryou. I'm a steel mill family
kid, and I grew up inthe middle class one oh one. I
had the greatest childhood in the worldbecause my dad could go to that steel
mill make a great living. Allmy buddies in my grade school classes that
weren't at the steel mill, theirdad's worked at the coal mine. They're
all gone. Now there's a fewcoal mines, but every steel mill is
a concrete pad up the river.But how do we ever get that back

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to where the middle class is actuallystill allowed to make a good living,
Because, let's face it, Iknow guys that live on sixty grand a
year or tickle to death. Theydon't want to be high rollers. They
want an old russ See Dodge pickup and a nice new car for the
family to ride around them with thewife. So I don't understand how we
can ever get that back. Howcould you propose when you get that back?
Well, by the way, Ijust say, my wife's dad worked

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for us deal and Gary works inIndiana. I one hundred percent think we
must get that back. When peopletalk about the American dream, they often
talk about my situation, starting withnot being building a great company making a
lot of money. The reality is, that's not what I view as the
American dream. To me, theAmerican dream is the idea that you can

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go to high school, you canget a good job that lets you buy
a home, buy a car,raise kids, be able to live a
good life with the government isn't inyour intruding and telling you what to do,
and then you can retire debt freeand hand this country off better to
your kids and grandkids and the entiretime you're living in a safe community with
good schools. That is what's uniqueto America. And that's the American dream

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that I'm going to Washington, dC. To make certain that is available
to every and that's what we shouldbe uniting the Republican Party around. And
it means that you can go geta good job at a steel mill.
And by the way, we shouldn'tbe depending on foreign countries or steel.
It's the building block of everything.Right now, we have usdel being sold

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to a Japanese company. Japan's agreat ally, they haven't always been a
great ally. We cannot allow ourmanufacturing base to be owned by foreign countries.
That is just common sense. Pharmaceutical, semiconductor chips, steel, energy,
ppe, these are all things thatwe need to be dominant in and
make in America. Let me askyou something, Bernie, because I really

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think in my heart of hearts,when people get into the political arena,
they have wonderful intentions. They wantto make a difference in their city,
their village, their state, thecountry. And then a couple of years
past lobbyists get involved, and thenwe see so many Republicans become rhinos and
not doing the things that they promisedto do right from the beginning the beginning.

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How can voters be able to trustyou that that will not happen to
you. It's never something I everimagine doing. I would push back a
little bit. I think there's exceptions, but I think for the most part,
the people who go into elfe atoffice or have gone into elected office,
they do it for the job.And when you go to d C
for the job, then you haveto do the things that benefit you and

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your job and your career advancement.DC was never intended to be a jobs
program for people who couldn't make itin a private sector. We got to
send people who've accomplished something in aprivate sector go there to serve, and
then most importantly, are willing tocome home after a set period of time.
That's the model our founders knew wouldwork, and we've gotten so far

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away from that that we shouldn't besurprised to see the disaster that is DC.
Look at who he's sending there.We're sending people with all they care
about is their next election, Theycare about fundraising, they care that those
are the things they focus on.We won't fix this, we fix that.
Okay, it's good, Danta.Dana's are one of our always callers.
Make it clean, Dana, Yes, good at the new Bernie.

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I don't think you're going to getto ever get a back the way it
was because there's too much cheap steelout there coming from China and other places.
But you can build back up onother uh, you know, arms
of different types of manufacturing. Andwhen people get on there and tell me,

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tell us that they're going to completelyshut down the border, that they're
going to stop the fentanyl, oneperson cannot do it by themselves. It
takes everybody there in the Congress andthen the Senate. One person can never
do it. So when they getin they tell us that stuff, they're
lying to us. Well, I'mnot suggesting that one person can do it.
What I'm suggesting is that we needto send reinforcements to the people who

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already there, people like Rand Pauland Ted Cruz and jd Vance and Mike
Lee and Marco Rubio at President Trumpand by the ways, good take all
of us. We oft to turnup and vote. We got to stop
voting for these career job seeking politicians. So absolutely one person can't do it.
But what I'm not willing to dois sit on the sidelines and watch
this country go off a cliff.I just I'm just not enough to accept

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that this country is doomed. Ithink we have, each of us have
to work in our own respective generationsto leave this country better for our kids
and grandkids. That's our moral responsibility. That's why I'm running because others have
not been not able to do itor not willing to do it, and
that's just unacceptable. So so myquestion is we're talking about the swamp,

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and I do call it a swamp, And you know who we had a
caller calling but they won't be onair, and they said who would be
the I don't understand what they askAnd they're asking if you went to Washington,
who would he want as superior superiorart? What is that superio?
Maybe a majority leader? Majority leaderswhat they should have? Bernie, do
you want to be my co host? And the rest of them? An

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No, I can't read her writing. I'm like, what a she right
now? Is like supers handing usquestions if people are calling and wanting to
ask you but they don't want togo on there. So majority of leader
is not going to be Mitch McConnell. He saw that he's stepping down.
We need somebody who genuinely in theirheart and soul, believes in the America
First agenda, that believes that themost important thing that you're called to do

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in Congress is to uphold the Constitutionand put the interest of the American people
first. We can disagree on Ukraine. My position is we don't need to
be sending you more money. Weshould be getting towards a peaceful settlement.
But even if you don't agree withthat, that you think we should be
giving them all the money in theworld. You can agree that taking care

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of our border comes first, takingcare of our veterans comes before that.
Making certain that we are helping supportgrowing and thriving middle class. So it's
about priorities, it's about sequencing what'simportant. We have to have somebody as
a majority looder that believes that andthat's going to be a good partner with
President Trump to get that agenda done. We are talking with Bernie Marino,

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who was running for US Senate.On the Republican side, you have Matt
Dolan, and you have Frank LeRosealong with Bernie Marino, and whoever wins
will face the income at Shared Brown. So what's your opinion on term limits.
Well, I'm the chair of USTerm Limits for Ohio. I believe
our founders never put term limits inmind in the Constitution because in their mind

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it was such an insane idea thatyou would go to DC from a definite
period of time. These were predominantlyfarmers that said I'm going to serve,
but I got to come home becauseI got to tend the field. So
I believe in term limits. Ithink that's how we fix DC. What's
interesting in this primary is that Bothof my opponents are vehemently against term limits.

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They plan to be there their entirelife. That is wrong. Let
me just put an exclamation mark.My wife makes it even more clear.
I've agreed to serve two terms ifas the honor of your vote and support.
My wife will say third term.Second wife, So she makes this
very clear limited. Well love her? Yeah her, Well you said that.
Yeah, knowing your background, youdon't need it. You don't need

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this job. That's why we likeyou. That's why we like Trump.
We like guys that are already successfulthat don't need the job. You're not
doing this for the money or thehealth. You will get great health stuff.
But my other question is I watchthe EPA kill the steel mills,
and I know we need a EPA, don't get me wrong, but they
are overpowering now. The EPA is, in my opinion, is one of
our biggest enemies of the United States. Not all the way. We don't

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need to be dumping acid in theHigh River anymore, but we could take
baby steps because China, India,they don't have to follow the rules we
follow, and that's why they're kickingour button industry absolutely, which is why
we need regulatory reform. We haveto do a better job in Congress of
writing more specific legislation. We haveto do oversight. We have to make

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certain that everybody understands that we havethe power of the purse. And the
reality is a lot of these bureaucratsthink that they run the country, not
the people who got elected to doit. So that's that's got to change.
We have to dismantle the administrative state. We have to shrink the size
and scope power of these agencies.They have spiraled out of control. We

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have three branches of government, notfor for of course, being the swamp
and the administrative state, the partof the government that's gone after President Trump
relentlessly, and we have to fightthat otherwise again we end up like a
third world nation in which we're controlledby bureaucrats and left to their own devices,
they would and we saw that duringCOVID. Bernie, we have almost

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out of time. We're almost outof time. I'm sorry, but we
want to squeeze one more call infor you, Mary, what is your
question? Quickly? For Bernie Marino? Hi, Bernie, I wanted to
know if you'll work with Trump toeliminate the ACA once and for all,
eliminate that. What come? Sorry, Mary, can you repeat that?
Obamacare? I guess what she said? Oh, Obamacare. Well, we
have to provide an alternative to Obamacare. We have to have good healthcare that

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delivers good rest results and is actuallyaffordable. Obamacare did the exact opposite.
We're going to have a healthcare systemthat delivers better healthcare at the lower price.
Will absolutely do that. This isone of the reasons why President Trump's
endorsed me, because you know,it's not going to be in there to
work and work with him to makethings happen. We're going to slide in
one more call. This is Tim. You are on the line with Bernie

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Marino. Tim, what's your question? Gotta go? Gotta go, Sorry,
Tim, he's not on there.Tim, Okay, Bernie tell us,
I'll go ahead. Mat No.I was just going to thank you
so much. We know how busyyou are on the campaign trail, but
we really appreciate your time and takingour listeners questions. That was awesome.

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Thank you, absolutely well. Pleasego on. Please if you're listening,
check out my website Berniemarino dot com. We have our events there. You
can contribute to the campaign and makecertain you vote and get others to do
the same. All right, thankyou, sir, have a good one.
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