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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
WWVA starts now.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
News Radio eleven seventy. It's the bloom Daddy Experience. Hey,
it's eight six, let's get this hour rolling. This guy
really needs no introduction, but he's going to get one.
The bank Ramaswami, Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek. I appreciate you
taking time out of a busy schedule to be on
the show today. And I brought you in with Metallica
because they're my favorite band. I hope you like them.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
That's great. Thank you a man. I appreciate the warm welcome. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Well, listen, let's start with why why run for governor
of Ohio.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Look, I think that this is a state that ought
to lead the rest of the country.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I was born and raised in Ohio.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
I'm raising my two sons here, and one of the
things I've recognized is that if we're going to be
saved as a country, it is going to be the
states that lead the way and I want Ohio to
be not just one of the better states in the Midwest,
because frankly, we are one of the better states in
the Midwest.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
We're a great state. But great is not good enough.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
I want Ohio to be back to being the top
state in the country to raise a family, to grow
a business, to generate wealth, to keep that wealth, and
to give our kids the same shot at the American
dream that this state gave to me. I'm grateful to
this state. I would not have lived the American dream.
My parents would have thought it unimaginable when they came
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to this country forty five years ago. And I want
to make sure that every son and daughter of Ohio
can live that same American dream the way I did.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
And we're going to make sure they do.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
But you are a player on the national stage. You've
been making your mark on the national stage. I mean,
you're one of the faces of the Republican Party that
we're working with Elon and Doge. Why not stay at
the national level where maybe you could make a bigger impact.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
What's a great question, and that's something I thought about
deeply and discussed frankly deeply with President Trump as well.
I think I'm going to make my biggest impact here.
And here's why. Look at what's happening at the national
level with respect to the federal programs, and this is
a critical ingredient for success of even efforts like DOGE
and deregulating the federal government. So many of those programs
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are now getting kicked back to the states and to
the people where they belong.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
That's where the education policy should be set.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Look at last week's news, the shutdown of the Department
of Education. That's a great thing and a great first
step at the federal level, but that only works if
you have a strong governor who's willing to complete the job.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
And so nationally I do see.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Especially in the next class of governors, a little bit
of a leadership deficit, a little bit of a vacuum.
And the way I'd like to address that is to
set a standard for the country by doing what we
do here in Ohio. Set a standard for how we
improve meritocracy in our education system, not only the cost
of healthcare, but the quality of health itself, how we
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actually stand for energy production. So many of those policies
are now being shifted to the states. The golden era
for America is going to be a golden era for federalism,
and I think it's going to take governors that then
lead the way. And we need a strong governor right
here in Ohio to set what I hope is a
national standard setting for the rest of the country, what
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I call the Ohio standard when it comes to giving
our kids a world class education and leading the country
in terms of economic development.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
That's what I want to bring here.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Talking to Ohio gubernatorial candidate the vaig Ramaswami, if elected
governor of Ohio, what will say be your top three initiatives.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Look, I think there's three major challenges that we face
as a state. If I'm to pick the three major
challenges that are also opportunities. Number one is we're about
to face the major electricity shortage, electricity crisis, energy crisis
in this state with the boom in the AI data
centers that are come into our state, which is a
good thing.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
There's also more demand.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Of our electric grid than we've ever had in our
state's history, coming right at the same time when we're
going to be short on base load power generation due
to the political war on coal and.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
On natural gas.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
So that mass doesn't add up, we're going to be
at risk if we don't do something in the next
ten years of seeing rotating power outages like they have
in the Third world. Frankly, like they have even in
California today. I do not want to see that come
to Ohio. And so one of the top items on
my list is to address that shortage by unleashing energy
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abundance in our state fossil fuels, including natural gas, but
also nuclear energy through small, modular nuclear reactors. I want
to lead the way in energy dominance for our state,
not just as a phrase, but as addressing a real
electricity shortage that we're at risk of facing unless we
have a leader who really takes it seriously and prioritizes it.
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So that's number one. Number two is we have a
shrinking population in our state. And it's worth pausing on
this for a second, which is we have more people
leaving our state than moving in. And we also have
a declining fertility rate problem right here in our own
home state. That means Ohio's population is shrinking. That leads
to economic problems, that leads to workforce problems. We're going
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to turn that ship around by attracting people to our
state economically become a zero income tax state like eight
other states that have done it, bring down the property
tax burden in the state, cut the red tape and overregulation,
and some other even more ambitious programs that we're going
to be rolling out in the next couple of months
that will make certain that we solve the workforce shortage
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problem in our state. So that's number two, the shrinking
population and the workforce shortage problem OKA. And number three
is the educational achievement crisis. We got to make sure
that our kids are able to lead in doing basic math, reading,
physical education, financial literacy, civic education. I want to hire
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to be the state that leads the country where our
kids are actually performing on the basic subjects at an
international level that's competitive and better than China and Singapore
and other parts of the world that are frankly beating
us today. I want to be a hio to be
the top state in the country and in the world
that sets an example for educational achievement.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
So, if you press me, those are the three issues.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
So when you go over those issues, if you think
about those issues, they're all it's almost like you're going
to have to perform an exorcism. And I hate to
bring up that term, but I mean, when you attack,
I'm not saying attack, but when you go and try
to reform education, you've got teachers unions. When you go
and you try to eliminate a state income tax, you've
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got money you've got to make up. Now, I mean,
are you ready to meet that head on when I
say that the forces that are going to be coming
back at you, fighting tooth and nail to keep things
in place the way they've been.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Yeah. Look, I'm ready for it.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
And the reason I'm ready for it is that that's
what our state requires. You asked me at the very beginning,
why am I running for governor. I think we need
a governor who is willing to stand with a spine
of steel when necessary. Now, look, I'm looking to work
with everybody, Republican or Democrat. I don't care what your
partisan affiliation is. If you care about economic development and
growth in this state, if you care about educational achievement
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for your kids in this state, then we're on the
same team. But at the flip side, any obstacle that
stands in the way, whether that comes from Republicans, Democrats,
or anyone else, We're going to run through those obstacles
to get that done for our kids who grow up
in this state.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Every son and daughter.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Of Ohio deserves to live the American dream. And if
you're standing in the way of that, then you know
what We're going to go through you, around you, over you,
or under you. That's how we're going to achieve the goal.
And I do think it's going to take somebody who
has fresh legs from a different generation than the maybe
standard Ohio politican to be able to deliver some of
that fresh change and in a way that unites our state.
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I don't want to divide us into urban or rural,
versus black or white, or Democrat or Republican. No, those
labels mean nothing to me. We're one Ohio. I want
to lead this state in a united way.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Are there going to be some obstacles along the way,
Of course there are.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
If those obstacles didn't exist, the problems would have been
solved already. But when we're talking about fixing the electricity shortage,
unleashing energy abundance, reversing the population decline in our state
so that we're a state with a growing population again,
addressing the workforce shortages, addressing the educational achievement crisis. They're
actually improving the achievement of our students. I'm not saying
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that's going to be an easy path. If it was
an easy path, I wouldn't be needing to be doing this.
I'm called to do this because I believe it's going
to take someone with fresh legs and outsider with a
successful business record outside of politics to bring that into
our politics and say, how are going to roll up
our sleeves work together. I got to emphasize that work together,
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Democrat and Republican alike to solve those problems. And if
you care about addressing those problems. Frankly, we may disagree
on some other small issues, it doesn't matter. We got
a seat for you at the table and a place
for you in this movement. That's the character of how
I'm going to lead this state.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Talking to vivik Ramas Swami right now, Ohio gubernatorial candidate,
You've earned the endorsement of fifteen Ohio GOP senators, including
all members of leadership. You also picked up Senator Bernie
Marino's endorsement over the weekend, and Congressman Warren Davidson of
the eighth Congressional District. With all that said, do you
believe you are the front runner to be Ohiou's next governor.
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What kind of message does all this support for you
send to Lieutenant Governor Jim Tressel if he's thinking of
entering the race.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Well, look, what I will say is I'm humbled to
have the unprecedented level of support. It really is unprecedented
to have this level of unity in a Republican Party primary.
We have a bad habit sometimes in the Republican side
of these knife fight Republican primaries that get unnecessary, unnecessarily ugly.
We don't have that this time around. We got unity,
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and I think with that unity comes a responsibility that
I bear on my shoulders. I'm not using words like
rhino or right wing extremist. Those words don't mean anything
to me. What I believe is do you care about
educational and economic excellence in our state? And if you do,
within the Republican Party and frankly, beyond the Republican Party,
we're on the same team. I want to build on
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the foundation laid by Governor de Wine and the administration
that came before me. Frankly, there have been some great
accomplishments to recognize. I think actually getting SB one through
even just last week was a great accomplishment. I think
in the area of economic development, we've had some positive
milestones as well. So you're going to hear nothing but
positive statements for me about those who preceded me in
the role, about Governor DeWine and the positive aspects certainly
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of his administration or what I want to build on.
But are there opportunities to build on that and go
much further?
Speaker 2 (10:58):
I believe there are. I don't want to hire to
just be one of the better states in our region
or in the Midwest. I will lead.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Ohio to be the top state in the country. To
build and grow a new business, to raise a young family,
and for those kids in that family to live the
same American dream that this state afforded me. That's what
I care about, and so I'm not running right now.
I don't see this as a primary battle. I see
this as a general election vision that hopefully wins the
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general election not by a little bit, but by such
a decisive mandate that we can unite people across the state,
Republican or Democrat alike. There was a woman I met
in a coffee shop this morning. I'm in southern Ohio
right now. Who told me her daughter was angry she
couldn't be here. She said, my daughter's a Democrat.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
I said, oh, no, she's angry you're here. She said, no, no, no,
she's angry. She couldn't be here because she supports you, actually,
which I thought was great.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
It's somebody who may have leaned Democrat in the past
but loved my message on education.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Fantastic.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
I told her daughter to it doesn't matter if she's
voted Democrat in the past, bring her a board with
us this time around. And she said she's come. So
that's the kind of character I want to bring to
the way we lead our state, which is a little
different than yesterday's politics. But that's where I want to be.
Is not just what are we running from? It's about
what are we running too? And if you agree with
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me on those goals, we have a seat for you
at the table. We want to work with you to
take our state to the next level.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
We are back at A twenty three on your Tuesday morning,
The bloom Daddy Experience samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy
WWVA Coming up We're going to have part two of
bloom Daddy's interview with the candidate for Ohio governor, the
veg Ramaswami. That's still to come in this hour. But
first joining me now in studio, we have a resident
of Saint Clairsville, Lisa. Good morning, Lisa.
Speaker 6 (12:47):
Good morning.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
All right. So I wanted I know Lisa personally, and
I heard her story last week. And as soon as
I heard her story and I started thinking about it
a little bit later, I reached down to you because
I feel that those listening need to hear your story.
And this a scam, a violation, financial scam, however you
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want to describe it, this is what you have been
through over the past couple weeks. So can you please
give everybody an overview of what happened.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
Sure, I was at work on a Friday. I got
a text from a friend who said they thought my
Facebook account was hacked. So I tried to open Facebook.
It was hacked. I couldn't get in by any means,
by any alternate methods. Then I was told by another
friend real quickly that someone had hacked it and was
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trying to sell a vehicle. And then later two vehicles
on it. I was concerned because I knew people could
get scammed by that, thinking I'm selling a vehicle, So
I texted a couple people on law enforcement. I started
checking all my other accounts. I went to my email
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account to figure out how they could have changed Facebook
without an email to me. There wasn't one in my inbox,
but as I dug a little deeper, there were two
in my trash of my email that were opened. So
in the middle of the night, the night before one
thirty five thirty, there were two emails that allowed someone,
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some hacker to reset everything on Facebook and take it over,
so that impostor was impersonating me on Messenger trying to
sell this car. People were falling for it. People were
calling me saying why did you respond to me like
that on Messenger? I tried to send you money my
bank saying I can't you know things like that. So
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I got more and more nervous.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
No, before you can, do you consider yourself tech savvy?
Do you feel like you were very diligent about protecting
passwords and things like that before all this happened.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
I really did, and I didn't have the same passwords
across platforms or apps or anything like that. There may
have been two or three that were the same that
I thought nothing of. Maybe an app on my phone,
a game on my phone, just a common one I used,
But no, I had some difficult passwords, especially for Facebook,
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because I was paranoid about somebody doing such a thing.
I'd heard about other scams.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
And this went beyond Facebook.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
Yes, So my husband went home that day at lunch
and said, this Walmart delivery on our porch doesn't have
anything to do with this Facebook scam, does it?
Speaker 5 (15:43):
So they were at your house?
Speaker 6 (15:45):
Somebody was yeah, and they were just bags of Walmart items,
no receipt, no stickers, not like if you ordered it
and had it come like it should. Strange items that
we would not have ordered, lots of repeat items that
we wouldn't have ordered. So then I really got upset.
Decided it was time to go file the police report.
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So I did that at the Sheriff's department. In the meantime,
probably forty to fifty maybe even more than that, people
contacting me about I'm trying to send you money, why
won't you accept it? So check some more things. My
PayPal account had been tied to my Walmart account, so
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that's where the charges were. I disputed those charges. I
called the local Walmart. They said they couldn't help me.
They couldn't look it up by address, they couldn't look
it up if I didn't have my account readily available,
things like that. So I reported it to Walmart's corporate.
One of the people I talked to told me, if
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you don't want the items, throw them away or donate them.
I'm like, but they're not mine, right, So I stopped everything.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Okay, hold that thought perfect, you stopped everything. We're going
to stop you there because we're gonna jump to a
quick break. We've got to come back with part two
of the veig Ramaswami interview. But then when we come back,
I after that, I want to talk to you about
what the feelings were like through this and what you've learned,
especially from law enforcement. So we're going to get into
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that part of the conversation. It's eight twenty eight. You're
listening to the Bloomdaddy Experience. Samon Otis News Radio eleven
seventy WWVA.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
I want to ask you about doze cuts. A lot
of people are worried here in Cleveland as to what
it could mean. To the Federal building downtown, the loss
of jobs. I believe the estimates right around five thousand
federal workers in Cleveland. What will you do as governored
offset job losses to DOZE or the shuttering of the
federal building in downtown Cleveland. You just mentioned loss of population.
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People have jobs, they got to move.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Well, look, here's one thing I'd like to see how happen,
and I've advocate I'm going to continue advocating for this
publicly as well as privately. Is I think you take NASA,
we should move that to Cleveland. I think NASA should
leave Washington, DC right now where it's far more expensive
by the way to operate there, the building leases, et cetera,
and move NASA to the state of Ohio, specifically to Cleveland.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
We have great synergies with NASA. Glenn.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
That's an example of the kind of way we ought
to be thinking. Is get more of the federal government
downsized and out of Washington, d C. Closer to the people,
more accountable to the people. But in this particular case,
bring NASA to our home state where we have a
great heritage of aerospace engineering and space exploration right here
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at home in Ohio. We're the state of John Glenn.
We're the state of Neil Armstrong, first man to walk
on the moon, born, raised and lived in Ohio when
he walked on the moon as the first human in
history to do it. The state of the Wright Brothers.
So I see great opportunities in our own state where
if you proved the effectiveness of the federal government, efficiency
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automatically follows. And I want states like Ohio to actually
be benefiting from that, frankly in a way that the
coasts might have had the Heyday of the last ten years.
But if Silicon Valley led the American economy for the
last ten years, I want it to be the Ohio
River Valley for the next ten years. And I see
some of these opportunities of decentralizing our federal government to actually.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Help drive a boom in Ohio.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
And I for one, am a staunch advocate, for example,
of bringing NASA to Ohio into Cleveland in particular.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Well, I think they just announced they want to stay
in DC and they're going to look for other buildings there,
So your persuasion techniques better be really, really good.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
I saw that announcement, but that doesn't mean I don't
think the.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Fat Lady has sung on that. That's in twenty twenty eight.
And you know, I think that there are.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Strong arguments even you thinking about bringing down cost and
improving the effect of that downsizing for the country. I
just think there's a strong cost argument for in bringing
that to the state of Ohio, which I'll have more
to say about in all kinds of contexts in the
coming months.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
I saw a comment by you where you said, rural
Ohio in smaller communities will be on your radar.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Why is that important to you?
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Well, look, I'm not running to be the mayor of
Greater Columbus. I live in Columbus. We love Columbus. I'm
raising my boys there. I'm going to be the governor
of the entire state of Ohio. And if you look
at the way we're running this campaign, right, I mean,
I just visited Shawnee State, in the southern part of
the state right now where I am today. I've visited
counties where we kicked this off, from Hawkin County to
other parts of the state where traditional candidates may not visit.
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The week before I launched my campaign, we were in
the foothills of Appalasia. I want to lift up the
entire state, not just Columbus, not.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Just franklevand the Three Seas.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
I know you have a big Cleveland audience, and we
love our Cleveland friends, but it's not just about the
Three Seas. I want to lift up the entirety of
our state because that's what true success looks like, That's
what one Ohio looks like. There are parts of our
state that led the way in the First Industrial Revolution
that have been left behind now. I mean, Toledo was
the glass capital of the world, Akron was the rubber capital,
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Youngstown and also Cleveland, by the way, was a steel
capital of the world. We have a great heritage, an
economic powerhouse of a heritage in the United States of America,
and I do think that it's sometimes part of the
politics of our state.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Frankly, in both parties.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
It's not a Republican or Democrat thing, and both parties
a culture that sometimes happens to remember the center of
the Columbus and it's great to see the boom happening
in Columbus while forgetting that we actually represent and even
use taxpayer dollars from all of the state. And so
that is important to me. I'm going to all eighty
eight counties this year. I'll go to all height eight
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counties next year, and I'm want to aim to go
to all eighty eight counties every one of the eight
years that I serve as the next governor of this state,
because I don't want to govern from a bubble. I
want to listen to Ohioans from.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Every part of this state.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
And I think that's part of what makes our state
so special, is that unlike Florida or Texas, right which
I love to.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
They're doing a great job in many respects.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
There's some of the policies that want to bring here,
like a zero income tax.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
But Florida, Texas.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
If you go to Florida and you drop a pin
there and you draw one hundred mile radius around it,
you've got.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
A cross section of Florida. You go to.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Texas, you drop a pin anywhere in the state, draw
one hundred mile radius, You've got a cross section at Texas.
Look here in our home state of Ohio. You drop
a pin anywhere in this state and you draw a
hundred mile radius around it, you have a cross section
of the country. I think that's what makes Ohio special.
I think it gives our state true texture. We have
four seasons, and I'm proud of it.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
I like that.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
Actually, we're real. We're a representation of what the best
of this nation is all about. And if you ask
me who needs to lead Ohio back to our golden age,
I think it is our own home state of Ohio
here that ought to lead the way.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
By the way we did it before and we can
do it again.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
I just think it requires a leader who revives our
conviction and our faith in Ohio, our belief in Ohio,
and our belief frankly in ourselves to do it. We're
not victims, Okay, We're victors. That's the culture I want
to bring to our state. It's who we are, it's
who we've always been, and all we need to do
is to start believing in ourselves to achieve it again.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
I know education reform is huge for you. You talked
about that base pay for teachers. How does this get done?
I've always been an advocate for that. But who decides
who are the good ones and who are the bad ones?
Speaker 7 (23:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Look, I think it's got to be done in a
tailored way. You don't want some type of just academic
solution here. The way I look at this is, if
you're a teacher in a public school today on a
starting salary of forty five thousand dollars, is that really
possible to live.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
The American dream with that?
Speaker 4 (23:44):
I don't think it is not today, not with costs
being what they are. Not if we want that person
to be the bread winner in a home with children
in their own house, and what does that mean?
Speaker 2 (23:53):
It means we're not.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
Able to attract the very best into the teaching profession anymore.
And I don't think that's acceptable. So I want to
see the very best teachers be compensated.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
More than they are right now.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
I'm in favor of school choice. I'm all in for it.
In fact, I think we need to go to universal
school choice. But I also want to make sure our
public schools are equipped to compete with the best of
the alternatives. And right now, over fifty percent of our
public school budget doesn't even go to classroom instruction. Think
about that doesn't make any sense the teachers outside the family.
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The number one factor that affects student performance is the
quality of their teachers. So I want to make sure
the best teachers are paid more. How are we going
to do it look at parental assessments. Parents know which
teachers tend to be the good ones versus not peer assessments.
Even the other teachers in that school tend to know
who's carrying their weight versus who's not. And then you
combine that with student performance and achievement. But you look
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at it on a per classroom adjusted basis beginning of
school year to end. Who's actually seeing improvement versus not.
It's not about comparing Appalasha to Strongsville, right, It's about
actually comparing within every classroom, what does that intra year
improvement look like. Compare that also to the parent assessments
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and the peer assessments within the school, and you can
now differentiate to make sure the best teachers are actually
compensated better.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Than they are now.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
But that means a lot of the wasteful expenditures, including
even on factors that don't go to classroom education, are
scaled back to be able to reallocate that to the
teachers who deserve to be rewarded for performing for our students.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Vivak, before I let you go, one final question or
thought share with us something about President Trump that you've
personally witnessed that left you inspired in some way, shape
or form.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
One of thing I love about President Trump is he
is he truly views his obligation as using his skills
a businessmen. He's a business guy through and through, and
he's deeply pragmatic, and I think the media doesn't often
give him that fair shake of being a pragmatist. One
of the things I've seen about him is he actually
likes to hear the best arguments for the other side
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or counter arguments to a view of something he might
be considering doing, and he embraces that. And so that's
one of the ares where he and I were able
to build a great relationship is that, you know, he
and I even when we're kicking around different ideas. After
I left the presidential campaign and endorsed him first in
New Hampshire.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
We were spending time together.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Is he likes to hear the contrary and perspective and
to take that into account to make a better decision.
And so one of the things one of the first
things that happened after I dropped out of the presidential
race and endorsed him was we talked about the pros
and cons of creating a central bank digital currency, which
I was against. It was an issue he was intellectually
curious about, and eventually he came down publicly on the
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side of New Hampshire to say, no, we're not going
to create a central bank digital currency, which is, you know,
one of the things I had long advocated for, and
just seeing him the way he would solicit different points
of view to say, well, you know, why don't you
tell me what the advantages of that are.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
He asked a different person around.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
Him to be able to synthesize that and watch him
make those decisions by taking different views into account. I
think that's a mark of a good leader. It's great
as a business in the business context, as a CEO,
you make a better decision for your business if you
hear the contrary points of view, and I think it's
the same leading as an executive in the political realm
as well. And for my part, that's very much the
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character of how I want to lead Ohio is to
get the best viewpoints on the table, make the best decision.
That's how we're going to lift our state up, and
I'm hopeful that's how President Trump is going to lift
our nation up as well.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
The Vikes, thanks so much for your time today and
best of luck to you and your run for governor
of Ohio.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Thank you, I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Ma Man all right, thank you. That is the vike Ramaswami,
Ohio gubernatorial candidate.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
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Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA, which, by
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to you soon, all right. That's of course our very
own Kevin up at Job Automotive. Lisa has stayed with
me here in the studio. We were talking earlier in
the show about an experience that she has been through
and continues to go through. Just a real quick overview
(30:29):
of what she was speaking about earlier. Again, Lisa is
from Saint clairsval Ohio. So this is a first hand
account of somebody who has gone through in Internet scam, fraud,
whatever the terminology you want to use. It has been
deeply impactful for what she's been through. And her PayPal
account was affected, Facebook, Walmart had deliveries dropped off on
(30:53):
the front porch of her home. So not only was
there a personal attack on her electronics, it came to
her front door. And I asked Lisa to stick around
with me because I wanted to you know, how did
this make you feel?
Speaker 6 (31:11):
You feel violated? You feel your privacy's gone, your protection's gone,
You're paranoid for sure, and you try to stay one
step ahead and stop things, change accounts, change passwords, things
of that nature. But you're so nervous and anxious about it,
it's difficult to focus.
Speaker 5 (31:30):
And this has become a multi office law enforcement issue
for you.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
Yes, another county in Ohio contacted me from the sheriff's
apartment talking about how someone had been defrauded money from
that impostor's post on my Facebook page. There was definitely
money transferred that someone was having difficulty getting back. So
in all those interactions with law enforcement, I learned a lot.
(31:57):
I had to do a lot.
Speaker 5 (31:58):
Of things well, and that's what I was going to ask,
thank you. One thing that I learned from you having
the conversation prior to us doing this was a particular
app on iPhones that law enforcement informed you about.
Speaker 6 (32:10):
Yeah, there was one. One thing I was supposed to
do was check find my, which is an app that
runs in the background when you share locations with friends
or relatives.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
It's built into an iPhone. This is not one that
is downloaded. Okay, it's called find Mine.
Speaker 6 (32:23):
It's there, not necessarily showing up on your screen, but
when you search on the front page you can find it.
So I did the find my and I had been
sharing my location with two people close to me, but
there was a third phone number unknown to me in there,
and when I clicked on it, it was actively sharing
and seeing my satellite location. So I quickly deleted that
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recorded that number and reported it to law enforcement. I
was told by another agent that I should never leave
airdrop on because that opens a Bluetooth channel for your phone.
And then I did the typical fraud things. I had
to report to the Federal Trade Commission. I had to
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freeze my credit on all three credit bureaus. I had
to report internet crime or I had to file an
internet internet crime complaint online. You have to do a
lot to protect yourself and it because it's coming from
all different directions, you're not sure what to do first
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or how to do it.
Speaker 5 (33:29):
It's so quickly, very quickly.
Speaker 6 (33:32):
And if I I'd let my guard down for three
or four days and then I would get an email
or text that would say your password has been successfully changed,
and it wasn't. While I was changing, aw did do it.
So it was one more place I didn't remember to
go and had to change them again or delete the
account altogether.
Speaker 5 (33:50):
So if you would, if you were telling myself or
any you know, anybody, what would be the two things
that you would advice you would.
Speaker 6 (33:57):
Give first and foremost. Any time you can do the
two factor authentication on any device, any app, any software,
do it and it. Sometimes you think it's a nuisance.
Sometimes you think I'm going to take that off. It's
you know, I'm wasting time. No, you're not wasting time.
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It's totally worth it. And the other thing is check
that phone and see what's going on. Is are you
sharing your location? Is is it vulnerable? I was in
a place for two days with an open Wi Fi
and I was checking my email and I was looking
at Facebook, and that could have been where I was hacked.
Speaker 5 (34:37):
Diligency. You need to be diligent to protect yourself NonStop.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
Thank you so much this.
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more time. One in one hundred sixty two for eleven
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Don't be a full enjoy April fools. We'll catch you tomorrow,
talk to you then.
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Ze number one tuck show in the Ohio Valley. This
is the bloom Daddy Experience. Your host, bloom Daddy. His
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Experience on news Radio eleven seventy.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
WWVA starts now.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
News Radio eleven seventy. It's the bloom Daddy Experience. Hey,
it's eight six, let's get this hour rolling. This guy
really needs no introduction, but he's going to get one.
The bank Ramaswami, Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek. I appreciate you
taking time out of a busy schedule to be on
the show today. And I brought you in with Metallica
because they're my favorite band. I hope you like them.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
That's great. Thank you a man. I appreciate the warm welcome. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Well, listen, let's start with why why run for governor
of Ohio.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Look, I think that this is a state that ought
to lead the rest of the country.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I was born and raised in Ohio.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
I'm raising my two sons here, and one of the
things I've recognized is that if we're going to be
saved as a country, it is going to be the
states that lead the way and I want Ohio to
be not just one of the better states in the Midwest,
because frankly, we are one of the better states in
the Midwest.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
We're a great state. But great is not good enough.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
I want Ohio to be back to being the top
state in the country to raise a family, to grow
a business, to generate wealth, to keep that wealth, and
to give our kids the same shot at the American
dream that this state gave to me. I'm grateful to
this state. I would not have lived the American dream.
My parents would have thought it unimaginable when they came
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to this country forty five years ago. And I want
to make sure that every son and daughter of Ohio
can live that same American dream the way I did.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
And we're going to make sure they do.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
But you are a player on the national stage. You've
been making your mark on the national stage. I mean,
you're one of the faces of the Republican Party that
we're working with Elon and Doge. Why not stay at
the national level where maybe you could make a bigger impact.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
What's a great question, and that's something I thought about
deeply and discussed frankly deeply with President Trump as well.
I think I'm going to make my biggest impact here.
And here's why. Look at what's happening at the national
level with respect to the federal programs, and this is
a critical ingredient for success of even efforts like DOGE
and deregulating the federal government. So many of those programs
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are now getting kicked back to the states and to
the people where they belong.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
That's where the education policy should be set.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Look at last week's news, the shutdown of the Department
of Education. That's a great thing and a great first
step at the federal level, but that only works if
you have a strong governor who's willing to complete the job.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
And so nationally I do see.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Especially in the next class of governors, a little bit
of a leadership deficit, a little bit of a vacuum.
And the way I'd like to address that is to
set a standard for the country by doing what we
do here in Ohio. Set a standard for how we
improve meritocracy in our education system, not only the cost
of healthcare, but the quality of health itself, how we
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actually stand for energy production. So many of those policies
are now being shifted to the states. The golden era
for America is going to be a golden era for federalism,
and I think it's going to take governors that then
lead the way. And we need a strong governor right
here in Ohio to set what I hope is a
national standard setting for the rest of the country, what
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I call the Ohio standard when it comes to giving
our kids a world class education and leading the country
in terms of economic development.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
That's what I want to bring here.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Talking to Ohio gubernatorial candidate the vaig Ramaswami, if elected
governor of Ohio, what will say be your top three initiatives.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Look, I think there's three major challenges that we face
as a state. If I'm to pick the three major
challenges that are also opportunities. Number one is we're about
to face the major electricity shortage, electricity crisis, energy crisis
in this state with the boom in the AI data
centers that are come into our state, which is a
good thing.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
There's also more demand.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Of our electric grid than we've ever had in our
state's history, coming right at the same time when we're
going to be short on base load power generation due
to the political war on coal and.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
On natural gas.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
So that mass doesn't add up, we're going to be
at risk if we don't do something in the next
ten years of seeing rotating power outages like they have
in the Third world. Frankly, like they have even in
California today. I do not want to see that come
to Ohio. And so one of the top items on
my list is to address that shortage by unleashing energy
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abundance in our state fossil fuels, including natural gas, but
also nuclear energy through small, modular nuclear reactors. I want
to lead the way in energy dominance for our state,
not just as a phrase, but as addressing a real
electricity shortage that we're at risk of facing unless we
have a leader who really takes it seriously and prioritizes it.
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So that's number one. Number two is we have a
shrinking population in our state. And it's worth pausing on
this for a second, which is we have more people
leaving our state than moving in. And we also have
a declining fertility rate problem right here in our own
home state. That means Ohio's population is shrinking. That leads
to economic problems, that leads to workforce problems. We're going
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to turn that ship around by attracting people to our
state economically become a zero income tax state like eight
other states that have done it, bring down the property
tax burden in the state, cut the red tape and overregulation,
and some other even more ambitious programs that we're going
to be rolling out in the next couple of months
that will make certain that we solve the workforce shortage
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problem in our state. So that's number two, the shrinking
population and the workforce shortage problem OKA. And number three
is the educational achievement crisis. We got to make sure
that our kids are able to lead in doing basic math, reading,
physical education, financial literacy, civic education. I want to hire
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to be the state that leads the country where our
kids are actually performing on the basic subjects at an
international level that's competitive and better than China and Singapore
and other parts of the world that are frankly beating
us today. I want to be a hio to be
the top state in the country and in the world
that sets an example for educational achievement.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
So, if you press me, those are the three issues.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
So when you go over those issues, if you think
about those issues, they're all it's almost like you're going
to have to perform an exorcism. And I hate to
bring up that term, but I mean, when you attack,
I'm not saying attack, but when you go and try
to reform education, you've got teachers unions. When you go
and you try to eliminate a state income tax, you've
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got money you've got to make up. Now, I mean,
are you ready to meet that head on when I
say that the forces that are going to be coming
back at you, fighting tooth and nail to keep things
in place the way they've been.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Yeah. Look, I'm ready for it.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
And the reason I'm ready for it is that that's
what our state requires. You asked me at the very beginning,
why am I running for governor. I think we need
a governor who is willing to stand with a spine
of steel when necessary. Now, look, I'm looking to work
with everybody, Republican or Democrat. I don't care what your
partisan affiliation is. If you care about economic development and
growth in this state, if you care about educational achievement
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for your kids in this state, then we're on the
same team. But at the flip side, any obstacle that
stands in the way, whether that comes from Republicans, Democrats,
or anyone else, We're going to run through those obstacles
to get that done for our kids who grow up
in this state.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Every son and daughter.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Of Ohio deserves to live the American dream. And if
you're standing in the way of that, then you know
what We're going to go through you, around you, over you,
or under you. That's how we're going to achieve the goal.
And I do think it's going to take somebody who
has fresh legs from a different generation than the maybe
standard Ohio politican to be able to deliver some of
that fresh change and in a way that unites our state.
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I don't want to divide us into urban or rural,
versus black or white, or Democrat or Republican. No, those
labels mean nothing to me. We're one Ohio. I want
to lead this state in a united way.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Are there going to be some obstacles along the way,
Of course there are.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
If those obstacles didn't exist, the problems would have been
solved already. But when we're talking about fixing the electricity shortage,
unleashing energy abundance, reversing the population decline in our state
so that we're a state with a growing population again,
addressing the workforce shortages, addressing the educational achievement crisis. They're
actually improving the achievement of our students. I'm not saying
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that's going to be an easy path. If it was
an easy path, I wouldn't be needing to be doing this.
I'm called to do this because I believe it's going
to take someone with fresh legs and outsider with a
successful business record outside of politics to bring that into
our politics and say, how are going to roll up
our sleeves work together. I got to emphasize that work together,
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Democrat and Republican alike to solve those problems. And if
you care about addressing those problems. Frankly, we may disagree
on some other small issues, it doesn't matter. We got
a seat for you at the table and a place
for you in this movement. That's the character of how
I'm going to lead this state.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Talking to vivik Ramas Swami right now, Ohio gubernatorial candidate,
You've earned the endorsement of fifteen Ohio GOP senators, including
all members of leadership. You also picked up Senator Bernie
Marino's endorsement over the weekend, and Congressman Warren Davidson of
the eighth Congressional District. With all that said, do you
believe you are the front runner to be Ohiou's next governor.
(09:40):
What kind of message does all this support for you
send to Lieutenant Governor Jim Tressel if he's thinking of
entering the race.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Well, look, what I will say is I'm humbled to
have the unprecedented level of support. It really is unprecedented
to have this level of unity in a Republican Party primary.
We have a bad habit sometimes in the Republican side
of these knife fight Republican primaries that get unnecessary, unnecessarily ugly.
We don't have that this time around. We got unity,
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and I think with that unity comes a responsibility that
I bear on my shoulders. I'm not using words like
rhino or right wing extremist. Those words don't mean anything
to me. What I believe is do you care about
educational and economic excellence in our state? And if you do,
within the Republican Party and frankly, beyond the Republican Party,
we're on the same team. I want to build on
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the foundation laid by Governor de Wine and the administration
that came before me. Frankly, there have been some great
accomplishments to recognize. I think actually getting SB one through
even just last week was a great accomplishment. I think
in the area of economic development, we've had some positive
milestones as well. So you're going to hear nothing but
positive statements for me about those who preceded me in
the role, about Governor DeWine and the positive aspects certainly
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of his administration or what I want to build on.
But are there opportunities to build on that and go
much further?
Speaker 2 (10:58):
I believe there are. I don't want to hire to
just be one of the better states in our region
or in the Midwest. I will lead.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Ohio to be the top state in the country. To
build and grow a new business, to raise a young family,
and for those kids in that family to live the
same American dream that this state afforded me. That's what
I care about, and so I'm not running right now.
I don't see this as a primary battle. I see
this as a general election vision that hopefully wins the
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general election not by a little bit, but by such
a decisive mandate that we can unite people across the state,
Republican or Democrat alike. There was a woman I met
in a coffee shop this morning. I'm in southern Ohio
right now. Who told me her daughter was angry she
couldn't be here. She said, my daughter's a Democrat.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
I said, oh, no, she's angry you're here. She said, no, no, no,
she's angry. She couldn't be here because she supports you, actually,
which I thought was great.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
It's somebody who may have leaned Democrat in the past
but loved my message on education.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Fantastic.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
I told her daughter to it doesn't matter if she's
voted Democrat in the past, bring her a board with
us this time around. And she said she's come. So
that's the kind of character I want to bring to
the way we lead our state, which is a little
different than yesterday's politics. But that's where I want to be.
Is not just what are we running from? It's about
what are we running too? And if you agree with
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me on those goals, we have a seat for you
at the table. We want to work with you to
take our state to the next level.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
We are back at A twenty three on your Tuesday morning,
The bloom Daddy Experience samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy
WWVA Coming up We're going to have part two of
bloom Daddy's interview with the candidate for Ohio governor, the
veg Ramaswami. That's still to come in this hour. But
first joining me now in studio, we have a resident
of Saint Clairsville, Lisa. Good morning, Lisa.
Speaker 6 (12:47):
Good morning.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
All right. So I wanted I know Lisa personally, and
I heard her story last week. And as soon as
I heard her story and I started thinking about it
a little bit later, I reached down to you because
I feel that those listening need to hear your story.
And this a scam, a violation, financial scam, however you
(13:09):
want to describe it, this is what you have been
through over the past couple weeks. So can you please
give everybody an overview of what happened.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
Sure, I was at work on a Friday. I got
a text from a friend who said they thought my
Facebook account was hacked. So I tried to open Facebook.
It was hacked. I couldn't get in by any means,
by any alternate methods. Then I was told by another
friend real quickly that someone had hacked it and was
(13:45):
trying to sell a vehicle. And then later two vehicles
on it. I was concerned because I knew people could
get scammed by that, thinking I'm selling a vehicle, So
I texted a couple people on law enforcement. I started
checking all my other accounts. I went to my email
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account to figure out how they could have changed Facebook
without an email to me. There wasn't one in my inbox,
but as I dug a little deeper, there were two
in my trash of my email that were opened. So
in the middle of the night, the night before one
thirty five thirty, there were two emails that allowed someone,
(14:28):
some hacker to reset everything on Facebook and take it over,
so that impostor was impersonating me on Messenger trying to
sell this car. People were falling for it. People were
calling me saying why did you respond to me like
that on Messenger? I tried to send you money my
bank saying I can't you know things like that. So
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I got more and more nervous.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
No, before you can, do you consider yourself tech savvy?
Do you feel like you were very diligent about protecting
passwords and things like that before all this happened.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
I really did, and I didn't have the same passwords
across platforms or apps or anything like that. There may
have been two or three that were the same that
I thought nothing of. Maybe an app on my phone,
a game on my phone, just a common one I used,
But no, I had some difficult passwords, especially for Facebook,
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because I was paranoid about somebody doing such a thing.
I'd heard about other scams.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
And this went beyond Facebook.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
Yes, So my husband went home that day at lunch
and said, this Walmart delivery on our porch doesn't have
anything to do with this Facebook scam, does it?
Speaker 5 (15:43):
So they were at your house?
Speaker 6 (15:45):
Somebody was yeah, and they were just bags of Walmart items,
no receipt, no stickers, not like if you ordered it
and had it come like it should. Strange items that
we would not have ordered, lots of repeat items that
we wouldn't have ordered. So then I really got upset.
Decided it was time to go file the police report.
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So I did that at the Sheriff's department. In the meantime,
probably forty to fifty maybe even more than that, people
contacting me about I'm trying to send you money, why
won't you accept it? So check some more things. My
PayPal account had been tied to my Walmart account, so
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that's where the charges were. I disputed those charges. I
called the local Walmart. They said they couldn't help me.
They couldn't look it up by address, they couldn't look
it up if I didn't have my account readily available,
things like that. So I reported it to Walmart's corporate.
One of the people I talked to told me, if
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you don't want the items, throw them away or donate them.
I'm like, but they're not mine, right, So I stopped everything.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Okay, hold that thought perfect, you stopped everything. We're going
to stop you there because we're gonna jump to a
quick break. We've got to come back with part two
of the veig Ramaswami interview. But then when we come back,
I after that, I want to talk to you about
what the feelings were like through this and what you've learned,
especially from law enforcement. So we're going to get into
(17:20):
that part of the conversation. It's eight twenty eight. You're
listening to the Bloomdaddy Experience. Samon Otis News Radio eleven
seventy WWVA.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
I want to ask you about doze cuts. A lot
of people are worried here in Cleveland as to what
it could mean. To the Federal building downtown, the loss
of jobs. I believe the estimates right around five thousand
federal workers in Cleveland. What will you do as governored
offset job losses to DOZE or the shuttering of the
federal building in downtown Cleveland. You just mentioned loss of population.
(17:54):
People have jobs, they got to move.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Well, look, here's one thing I'd like to see how happen,
and I've advocate I'm going to continue advocating for this
publicly as well as privately. Is I think you take NASA,
we should move that to Cleveland. I think NASA should
leave Washington, DC right now where it's far more expensive
by the way to operate there, the building leases, et cetera,
and move NASA to the state of Ohio, specifically to Cleveland.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
We have great synergies with NASA. Glenn.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
That's an example of the kind of way we ought
to be thinking. Is get more of the federal government
downsized and out of Washington, d C. Closer to the people,
more accountable to the people. But in this particular case,
bring NASA to our home state where we have a
great heritage of aerospace engineering and space exploration right here
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at home in Ohio. We're the state of John Glenn.
We're the state of Neil Armstrong, first man to walk
on the moon, born, raised and lived in Ohio when
he walked on the moon as the first human in
history to do it. The state of the Wright Brothers.
So I see great opportunities in our own state where
if you proved the effectiveness of the federal government, efficiency
(19:04):
automatically follows. And I want states like Ohio to actually
be benefiting from that, frankly in a way that the
coasts might have had the Heyday of the last ten years.
But if Silicon Valley led the American economy for the
last ten years, I want it to be the Ohio
River Valley for the next ten years. And I see
some of these opportunities of decentralizing our federal government to actually.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Help drive a boom in Ohio.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
And I for one, am a staunch advocate, for example,
of bringing NASA to Ohio into Cleveland in particular.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Well, I think they just announced they want to stay
in DC and they're going to look for other buildings there,
So your persuasion techniques better be really, really good.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
I saw that announcement, but that doesn't mean I don't
think the.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Fat Lady has sung on that. That's in twenty twenty eight.
And you know, I think that there are.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Strong arguments even you thinking about bringing down cost and
improving the effect of that downsizing for the country. I
just think there's a strong cost argument for in bringing
that to the state of Ohio, which I'll have more
to say about in all kinds of contexts in the
coming months.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
I saw a comment by you where you said, rural
Ohio in smaller communities will be on your radar.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Why is that important to you?
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Well, look, I'm not running to be the mayor of
Greater Columbus. I live in Columbus. We love Columbus. I'm
raising my boys there. I'm going to be the governor
of the entire state of Ohio. And if you look
at the way we're running this campaign, right, I mean,
I just visited Shawnee State, in the southern part of
the state right now where I am today. I've visited
counties where we kicked this off, from Hawkin County to
other parts of the state where traditional candidates may not visit.
(20:38):
The week before I launched my campaign, we were in
the foothills of Appalasia. I want to lift up the
entire state, not just Columbus, not.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Just franklevand the Three Seas.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
I know you have a big Cleveland audience, and we
love our Cleveland friends, but it's not just about the
Three Seas. I want to lift up the entirety of
our state because that's what true success looks like, That's
what one Ohio looks like. There are parts of our
state that led the way in the First Industrial Revolution
that have been left behind now. I mean, Toledo was
the glass capital of the world, Akron was the rubber capital,
(21:10):
Youngstown and also Cleveland, by the way, was a steel
capital of the world. We have a great heritage, an
economic powerhouse of a heritage in the United States of America,
and I do think that it's sometimes part of the
politics of our state.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Frankly, in both parties.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
It's not a Republican or Democrat thing, and both parties
a culture that sometimes happens to remember the center of
the Columbus and it's great to see the boom happening
in Columbus while forgetting that we actually represent and even
use taxpayer dollars from all of the state. And so
that is important to me. I'm going to all eighty
eight counties this year. I'll go to all height eight
(21:46):
counties next year, and I'm want to aim to go
to all eighty eight counties every one of the eight
years that I serve as the next governor of this state,
because I don't want to govern from a bubble. I
want to listen to Ohioans from.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Every part of this state.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
And I think that's part of what makes our state
so special, is that unlike Florida or Texas, right which
I love to.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
They're doing a great job in many respects.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
There's some of the policies that want to bring here,
like a zero income tax.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
But Florida, Texas.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
If you go to Florida and you drop a pin
there and you draw one hundred mile radius around it,
you've got.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
A cross section of Florida. You go to.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Texas, you drop a pin anywhere in the state, draw
one hundred mile radius, You've got a cross section at Texas.
Look here in our home state of Ohio. You drop
a pin anywhere in this state and you draw a
hundred mile radius around it, you have a cross section
of the country. I think that's what makes Ohio special.
I think it gives our state true texture. We have
four seasons, and I'm proud of it.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
I like that.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
Actually, we're real. We're a representation of what the best
of this nation is all about. And if you ask
me who needs to lead Ohio back to our golden age,
I think it is our own home state of Ohio
here that ought to lead the way.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
By the way we did it before and we can
do it again.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
I just think it requires a leader who revives our
conviction and our faith in Ohio, our belief in Ohio,
and our belief frankly in ourselves to do it. We're
not victims, Okay, We're victors. That's the culture I want
to bring to our state. It's who we are, it's
who we've always been, and all we need to do
is to start believing in ourselves to achieve it again.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
I know education reform is huge for you. You talked
about that base pay for teachers. How does this get done?
I've always been an advocate for that. But who decides
who are the good ones and who are the bad ones?
Speaker 7 (23:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Look, I think it's got to be done in a
tailored way. You don't want some type of just academic
solution here. The way I look at this is, if
you're a teacher in a public school today on a
starting salary of forty five thousand dollars, is that really
possible to live.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
The American dream with that?
Speaker 4 (23:44):
I don't think it is not today, not with costs
being what they are. Not if we want that person
to be the bread winner in a home with children
in their own house, and what does that mean?
Speaker 2 (23:53):
It means we're not.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
Able to attract the very best into the teaching profession anymore.
And I don't think that's acceptable. So I want to
see the very best teachers be compensated.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
More than they are right now.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
I'm in favor of school choice. I'm all in for it.
In fact, I think we need to go to universal
school choice. But I also want to make sure our
public schools are equipped to compete with the best of
the alternatives. And right now, over fifty percent of our
public school budget doesn't even go to classroom instruction. Think
about that doesn't make any sense the teachers outside the family.
(24:25):
The number one factor that affects student performance is the
quality of their teachers. So I want to make sure
the best teachers are paid more. How are we going
to do it look at parental assessments. Parents know which
teachers tend to be the good ones versus not peer assessments.
Even the other teachers in that school tend to know
who's carrying their weight versus who's not. And then you
combine that with student performance and achievement. But you look
(24:47):
at it on a per classroom adjusted basis beginning of
school year to end. Who's actually seeing improvement versus not.
It's not about comparing Appalasha to Strongsville, right, It's about
actually comparing within every classroom, what does that intra year
improvement look like. Compare that also to the parent assessments
(25:09):
and the peer assessments within the school, and you can
now differentiate to make sure the best teachers are actually
compensated better.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Than they are now.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
But that means a lot of the wasteful expenditures, including
even on factors that don't go to classroom education, are
scaled back to be able to reallocate that to the
teachers who deserve to be rewarded for performing for our students.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Vivak, before I let you go, one final question or
thought share with us something about President Trump that you've
personally witnessed that left you inspired in some way, shape
or form.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
One of thing I love about President Trump is he
is he truly views his obligation as using his skills
a businessmen. He's a business guy through and through, and
he's deeply pragmatic, and I think the media doesn't often
give him that fair shake of being a pragmatist. One
of the things I've seen about him is he actually
likes to hear the best arguments for the other side
(26:04):
or counter arguments to a view of something he might
be considering doing, and he embraces that. And so that's
one of the ares where he and I were able
to build a great relationship is that, you know, he
and I even when we're kicking around different ideas. After
I left the presidential campaign and endorsed him first in
New Hampshire.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
We were spending time together.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Is he likes to hear the contrary and perspective and
to take that into account to make a better decision.
And so one of the things one of the first
things that happened after I dropped out of the presidential
race and endorsed him was we talked about the pros
and cons of creating a central bank digital currency, which
I was against. It was an issue he was intellectually
curious about, and eventually he came down publicly on the
(26:44):
side of New Hampshire to say, no, we're not going
to create a central bank digital currency, which is, you know,
one of the things I had long advocated for, and
just seeing him the way he would solicit different points
of view to say, well, you know, why don't you
tell me what the advantages of that are.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
He asked a different person around.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
Him to be able to synthesize that and watch him
make those decisions by taking different views into account. I
think that's a mark of a good leader. It's great
as a business in the business context, as a CEO,
you make a better decision for your business if you
hear the contrary points of view, and I think it's
the same leading as an executive in the political realm
as well. And for my part, that's very much the
(27:20):
character of how I want to lead Ohio is to
get the best viewpoints on the table, make the best decision.
That's how we're going to lift our state up, and
I'm hopeful that's how President Trump is going to lift
our nation up as well.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
The Vikes, thanks so much for your time today and
best of luck to you and your run for governor
of Ohio.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Thank you, I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Ma Man all right, thank you. That is the vike Ramaswami,
Ohio gubernatorial candidate.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
Welcome back. It's eight fifty one the bloom Daddy Experienced
Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA, which, by
the way, Happy April Fool's day. But you're never a
fool when you shop at strab Autumn of Good morning, Kevin,
how are you? Good morning, Kevin, Kevin, good morning, good morning,
(28:12):
How are you.
Speaker 7 (28:13):
I'm good? So I got Sam and Sam Sam.
Speaker 5 (28:16):
There you go, Sam Squared, Sam squared. All right, So
it's it's April fools. Anything special going on at strawb.
Speaker 7 (28:25):
Well, this is not an April fool's joke, okay, but
once again the Straw Automotive Group right here at the
Highland Straw Honda is number one in the state of
West Virginia in Honda sales, and that's no joke, no joke.
Mountaineer Honda was a very very close number three. Mountaineer, however,
is leading the entire pack for the first quarter of
(28:48):
the year as well. In Honda sales. So we're very,
very proud of all our dealerships, but mainly these two
guys here. Man, they're just knocking to cover off the ball.
They're crushing it.
Speaker 5 (28:59):
Nothing like good competitive nature between everybody.
Speaker 7 (29:03):
Very competitive group. Okay, that's for sure. But now here's
what you know. Here's what everybody needs to keep in mind.
A lot of talk about tariffs right now. Currently, we
have over one thousand vehicles in the Straw Automotive group
for sale that are tariff free. Okay, so take advantage
of it. The only thing I can guarantee on as
(29:24):
far as pricing goes, is the price that's on the
vehicle that we have on the ground right now, whether
it's new or pre owned. Like I said, over a
thousand vehicles in stock right now that are tear free.
Take advantage of it.
Speaker 5 (29:39):
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That was pretty good, wasn't it.
Speaker 7 (29:45):
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Speaker 5 (29:47):
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Speaker 7 (29:49):
Hey? How am I doing to my bracket?
Speaker 5 (29:51):
I don't know. He did the updates. That's all his,
that's his world.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
Not mine.
Speaker 5 (29:57):
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Speaker 7 (29:58):
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for the business that you honored us with in March.
We're truly truly grateful for each and every one of them.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
Wonderful, wonderful. Well, you have a good Tuesday. Okay, talk
to you soon, all right. That's of course our very
own Kevin up at Job Automotive. Lisa has stayed with
me here in the studio. We were talking earlier in
the show about an experience that she has been through
and continues to go through. Just a real quick overview
(30:29):
of what she was speaking about earlier. Again, Lisa is
from Saint clairsval Ohio. So this is a first hand
account of somebody who has gone through in Internet scam, fraud,
whatever the terminology you want to use. It has been
deeply impactful for what she's been through. And her PayPal
account was affected, Facebook, Walmart had deliveries dropped off on
(30:53):
the front porch of her home. So not only was
there a personal attack on her electronics, it came to
her front door. And I asked Lisa to stick around
with me because I wanted to you know, how did
this make you feel?
Speaker 6 (31:11):
You feel violated? You feel your privacy's gone, your protection's gone,
You're paranoid for sure, and you try to stay one
step ahead and stop things, change accounts, change passwords, things
of that nature. But you're so nervous and anxious about it,
it's difficult to focus.
Speaker 5 (31:30):
And this has become a multi office law enforcement issue
for you.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
Yes, another county in Ohio contacted me from the sheriff's
apartment talking about how someone had been defrauded money from
that impostor's post on my Facebook page. There was definitely
money transferred that someone was having difficulty getting back. So
in all those interactions with law enforcement, I learned a lot.
(31:57):
I had to do a lot.
Speaker 5 (31:58):
Of things well, and that's what I was going to ask,
thank you. One thing that I learned from you having
the conversation prior to us doing this was a particular
app on iPhones that law enforcement informed you about.
Speaker 6 (32:10):
Yeah, there was one. One thing I was supposed to
do was check find my, which is an app that
runs in the background when you share locations with friends
or relatives.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
It's built into an iPhone. This is not one that
is downloaded. Okay, it's called find Mine.
Speaker 6 (32:23):
It's there, not necessarily showing up on your screen, but
when you search on the front page you can find it.
So I did the find my and I had been
sharing my location with two people close to me, but
there was a third phone number unknown to me in there,
and when I clicked on it, it was actively sharing
and seeing my satellite location. So I quickly deleted that
(32:46):
recorded that number and reported it to law enforcement. I
was told by another agent that I should never leave
airdrop on because that opens a Bluetooth channel for your phone.
And then I did the typical fraud things. I had
to report to the Federal Trade Commission. I had to
(33:07):
freeze my credit on all three credit bureaus. I had
to report internet crime or I had to file an
internet internet crime complaint online. You have to do a
lot to protect yourself and it because it's coming from
all different directions, you're not sure what to do first
(33:27):
or how to do it.
Speaker 5 (33:29):
It's so quickly, very quickly.
Speaker 6 (33:32):
And if I I'd let my guard down for three
or four days and then I would get an email
or text that would say your password has been successfully changed,
and it wasn't. While I was changing, aw did do it.
So it was one more place I didn't remember to
go and had to change them again or delete the
account altogether.
Speaker 5 (33:50):
So if you would, if you were telling myself or
any you know, anybody, what would be the two things
that you would advice you would.
Speaker 6 (33:57):
Give first and foremost. Any time you can do the
two factor authentication on any device, any app, any software,
do it and it. Sometimes you think it's a nuisance.
Sometimes you think I'm going to take that off. It's
you know, I'm wasting time. No, you're not wasting time.
(34:17):
It's totally worth it. And the other thing is check
that phone and see what's going on. Is are you
sharing your location? Is is it vulnerable? I was in
a place for two days with an open Wi Fi
and I was checking my email and I was looking
at Facebook, and that could have been where I was hacked.
Speaker 5 (34:37):
Diligency. You need to be diligent to protect yourself NonStop.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
Thank you so much this.
Speaker 5 (34:42):
Morning, Lisa. All right, we've got to do it one
more time. One in one hundred sixty two for eleven
seventy caller number twenty one, eight hundred sixty two for
eleven seventy for a pair of tickets to the Toughest
Monster Truck Tour one eight hundred sixty two for eleven seventy.
Don't be a full enjoy April fools. We'll catch you tomorrow,
talk to you then.
Speaker 6 (35:02):
M hm
Speaker 5 (35:04):
Mm hmm
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