Brian Thomas with George Brunemann -- 4/10/25

Brian is joined by George Brunemann to talk about Issue 2 in Ohio and the Restore Liberty Event on Sunday

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Seven five the fifty five kter CD talk station, A
very happy Friday Eve to you, Congress and Warren Davison
coming up at seven forty. We'll hear in one hour
Brian Resider with his book land Rich Cash for My
Family's Hope and The Untold History of the Disappearing American
Farmer and Jay Ratliffe. I heard d Aviation extper Day thirty,
but as promised in studio from Restore Liberty dot Us,

(00:35):
you should really check out what's going on there George Brunneman.
It's always a pleasure of seeing you in person and
talking with you. Nice. See again Brian, Well, since it
came up and you're the one that I'd forgotten all
about issue too. It's maybe a stealth issue that is
exactly nobody's talking about it, and I'm like, what the
hell is issued too? And I feel embarrassed because of
course it's an issue that's on the ballot. Early voting

(00:57):
has already started. It's not just City of Cincinnati, which
I've been focused on because you know, Corey Bowen's been
on the program. You know, like what we're freshing alternative
to the current you know, Democrat runs city with all
the problems and all the issues, and so issue too
flew completely under my radar, to my embarrassment. But I'm
happy to admit that, Yeah, even I don't know everything
that's going on, but a statewide issue, and it's a

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two point five billion dollar general obligation bond basically for infrastructure,
including fifty six point seven percent of it apparently directed
to roads. Well, they do the infrastructure stuff because they
know it's easy to pass that. It's like doing a
library levee or a child's you know, health levee or something.
It's one of those things that they know will pass.

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But in this case they're actually putting it into the
Ohio Constitution. Again, like you know, it seems anymore they
can't get the legislature to do what they want, so
they stick it in the constitution. But it's basically like
you say, billions of dollars in a slush fund. So
it's a bond. It's saying we're going to have this
bar out there that they can use whenever they want

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for whatever projects they want, as long as it fits
in that you know, infrastructure category. But bonds are basically
future taxes. So if you're gonna have this two point
five billion dollar bond. It means at some point we're
going to pay ten x that because it's a loan
and you got interest rates and they're sky high now.
So I mean, not only is it the wrong time
to be taken a loan because of their interest rates,

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it's just learn how to spend within your budget money well,
and if if you need money for the roads, you know,
again going back to inaction within the legislative branch. And
of course we can see that in Washington, d C.
Literally every day of the week over the past how
many decades, right, But I think a more appropriate response
to that would be a gasoline tax. I'm sorry, they

(02:47):
just passed what two years ago, Brabby Billy Sites got
us that one. It was like another thirty cents or something,
and people got upset about that. And I understand being
upset about that. But if you're driving a car, you're
using the roads, except if you're driving a Tesla Evil
test was, you're not paying a gasoline tax. Maybe there
should be an EV tax since they weigh so much
more than other automobiles. They actually did that too, I forgot,

(03:08):
did they. Yeah, So my hybrids, my cars are both hybrids,
and so I got an extra I think it's like
seventy five fifty bucks or something like that that I
have to pay for my license plates because I don't
use enough gas. Okay, Well to me, that's fair. You
use the roads, you pay for the wear and tear
on the roads. Okay. But I live on the West Side,
so like Corey likes to say this speech is, we

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don't need speed bumps, we got potholes. I know. Oh God,
sunset here, I can bring that up right out of
the gate. It's like it's like bringing up the street
car when with five friends from the Taxpayer Protection Alliance
are on the program anyhow. But so, yeah, there's issue
too on the ballot. It's the only thing on the ballot.
I think your color was from coal Rain, So that's
the only thing on the coal Rain ballot. Okay, I

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think it's the only thing on most of them. But
as Jim Keifer pointed out, as of yesterday, I suppose
at the end of the day only one hundred and
fifty six people had early voted. So was this about
initiative that got Issue to on the ballot. I don't
think so, Okay, I do not think so. So the
slush fund is a desire from our elected officials in

(04:13):
Columbus or some lobbyist firm that God had put on there.
All right, that's the way Columbus tends to work. Well,
I would go no cause again, infrastructure more money. It's
just a lot of extra money and it could go
literally anywhere, and probably we'll be directed to well connected
developers and contractors. Absolutely absolutely, All right, Well, we had

(04:36):
Donovan and Neil for Americans for Prosperity. Who's teaming up
with you for the Sunday event? Yes, the Restorer Liberty
US Sunday Event at Double Tree suits Blue Ash sixty
three hundred East Kemper Road. Doors open at four point thirty.
A complimentary good word for that, because it's a dinner buffet,
complementary dinner buffet at five pm with speakers starting out

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at six. Again, remind my listeners what the point of
this Sunday event. So it started out as a tax
Day rally. You remember in the good old tea party days,
we used to have this all the time. Yeah, the
last one was actually in twenty twelve when I was president.
Since a tea party Dan Reagan Old and I did
we demand a balanced budget amendment on Fountain Square in

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twenty twelve. We haven't had anything like that since, and
so that's kind of where it started. But then the
more we thought about it, the idea is we're living
in a really unique time now where we have an
actual chance to cut spending. We got Doze out there
finding all of this ridiculous amounts of spending. You know,
computer systems that don't talk to each other, and therefore
we got millions of migrants on our social Security, Medicare,

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and Medicaid. It's like, this is ridiculous. So the focus
is going to be on the on the spending side
of it. So why are we spending so much? How
do we make these permanent? And how do we push
it down to the local level. You know, the state
budget increased twenty percent? What the heck are they thinking?
Other then I've heard part of that is the cask

(06:04):
thank you of expanded Medicare, and now the Federals aren't
kicking in everything, so we have to pay that in Medicare, Medicaid, Medicaid, Medicaid, medicary, Medicare,
you pay for Medicaid, you get exactly. But it was
all funded by the federal government, so that made it
a okay, like ninety percent covered by the federal government.
But I remember arguing against that, saying that this day

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was coming, they were going to take that funding away.
And now it's our problem to foot that bill right
and no work obligation. We have people who are able bodied,
young people who are taking from you know, those who
really qualify for assistance under medicaid, so draining the resources
and dollars from that. When there are job opportunities out there,

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I mean the trades alone you can earn while you learn,
have gainful employment and a career that will pay you
quite quite well. Yes, I mean, you know, embrace the trades,
you know, being an electrician, become a plumber or contrart
a construction work. There are literally thousands of jobs available
out there, and it's an interesting skill. I mean, there's

(07:10):
a difference between you know, sitting in a dusk using
your brain all day and sitting at a job site
using your hands and arms. I find both of them fulfilling.
I don't know why they treat one differently than the
other either. Of course. I grew up with a dad
that you know, was a handyman did everything I didn't.
I suggest black electrical tape or WD forty. If they

(07:33):
either those didn't fix it, Dad, that would hire somebody out.
And you know, necessity is the mother of invention. So
when my wife and I bought our first house, we
lived in oak Park, just outside of Chicago. While I
was practicing up there, the house was one hundred and
twenty five years old and it had been mostly updated
by the prior owner of that twenty percent that still
need to work. That was before the internet. I would

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go to the library and I'd get a book on electriciana.
You know, really, yeah, I ran wire. I did hardwood
floor work either. I even did plaster and lathe work,
all kinds of woodworking projects. And you know, I learned
a lot because you know, I didn't have a lot
of extra money to hire somebody out to do it.

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And it's expensive to hire a contractor in Chicago. You
think it's bad now here, Lord Almighty, you know, it's
just was like, well, honey, we're either going to put
that one off or I'm gonna have to learn how
to do it. How to do it, and it was fun. Well,
YouTube nowadays is the easiest I wish I had YouTube
back then. It really would have streamlined the process. Oh golly. Yeah. So,

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I mean, so it's getting back to the event that
the idea was. We really wanted to emphasize what can
happen now because it's such a unique time. Yeah. So
we've got Corey Bowmen's gonna be there talking about what
his plans are for City of Cincinnati to get the
budget under control. We got Adam Matthews Rodney Creech coming
in from Columbus. Uh, Columbus is a big deal right now.

(09:00):
His income tax getting rid of the income tax. Yeah,
promised he wants to do that, and I had a
conversation with him here. He's going to be at the
Warren Kenny Lincoln Reagan dinner tonight and I'm speaking there
and oh you can be there as well. I'll see
you there. Oh good, good, good. Yeah. They changed the shuffle,
we shuffled who's doing what, And apparently I get to
introduce VVK, which is a real honor and privilege because

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I've had a tremendous matter respect from that guy since
I interviewed when he about his Woke Incorporated book. Same here.
So I did a podcast with him real early on
in that process, and I was just amazed that guy
is one of the smartest people I've ever met ever,
and he's so enthusiastic and excited. I mean you can
hear it in his voice. Oh yeah, about the future

(09:42):
for all time, and his brain goes into overdrive. We
started off the podcast with the joke that he's the
valedictorian Saint X. I'm a valedictorian from Elder High School.
I had to get my little digs in there. But
but no, every time we talk it, I'm he outranks you.
No offense to my west side further out or that

(10:02):
was a joke. But we actually got news yesterday that
Vivek is going to be sending us a video message
for the for the Thing tomorrow, as is Bernie Marino
today I mean Sunday Sunday, sorry, Sunday Sundays. So if
you come to the if you come to the Double Tree,
you'll hear from Bernie Marino, you'll hear from Viveke. We're
still trying to get Warren Davidson to send us something,

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but we'll give him a shout out when he's on here.
Coming up on the program at seven forty this morning. Cool.
But then we also have Mark Pakita. If you ever
interviewed Mark, he's with the Grassroots Freedom Initiative. He's going
to give us sort of the facts on what's going
on fiscal wise in Ohio. So he's going to talk

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a little bit about issue too. He's going to talk
about the new budget, what they're doing with property taxes
versus income taxes. So it should be a you know,
a fairly eclectic presentation. And I saw the they just
passed the budget in Columbus. Yeah, fourth thousand pages, sixty
sixty to thirty something with only five Republicans went against it. Yeah. Oh,

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you're so happy to see six hundred million dollars going
to the Cleveland Browns. Yeah, And that's kind of what
the problem is locally. I don't trust any of our
current commissioners to negotiate with the Bengals. It's just going
to get out of control. You know, back in the
days when they negotiated the original and that's now in
the textbooks as the example of the worst public private ever. Well,

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it's because both people negotiating were sitting on the same
side of the table and well, at least a week
later right, Yeah, anyhow, let's pause, we being George running
from Restore Liberty dot Us back to talk about some
more issues after I mentioned your credit seven two. If
you have KRC detalk station, check it all out. Restore
Liberty dot Us. George Renman's on the job, you know,

(11:54):
looking out for our money and government fraud waysed abused
in action and things we can do about it. And
of course show up at the event this weekend on Saturday,
that's Sunday, Sunday rather Palm Sunday. Was just getting ready
to say that it's why I can't be their mom's
having a radio for dinner. Looking forward to that. Double
tree suites, blue ash doors open at four thirty, complimentary

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buffet dinner, five o'clock speakers at six. So nice opportunity
to hear all the folks that he already went through.
And yeah, and the reservations are are highly recommended. There's
only like twenty five seats left. Oh, so go to
Restoreliberty dot us and just click on the reserve or
just go to restore Liberty dot Us slash reserve your

(12:37):
point important point. So spaces are limited. I just want
to get your reaction. You probably saw the survey out
that you know, like fifty five percent of the Democrats
left leaners at least embrace on some level the concept
of assassinating Donald Trump and Elon Musk, and I just

(12:58):
use that as sort of a springboard for this. The
tolerance for an advocacy for violence coming from the left,
it seems it's a profound problem. And I've never experienced
this kind of thing in my lifetime. Although I guess
I live through the late sixties without being aware of
the politically, I wasn't old enough to understand what was

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going on. So it's not violence isn't a new phenomenon,
but all of this, you know, attacking people's cars. I mean,
these the Teslas were like the darling of the green folks,
the zero missions, unbelievably efficient and amazing electronic wonders. They
are you own, use some hybrids. And I got a

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friend of mine who owns one of those Tesla plaids.
It's a rocket ship, it is. I loves it so good.
Make the choice and buy one. But now that he's
got that, which he bought way in advance of Elon
Musk and doge in his affiliation with the Trump administration
what it's a legitimate target. Now, I don't understand it.
It's like they're they're allowed to become unglued over the

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fact that this guy is getting rid of waste. It's
a mental illness. That's the only way to think about it,
if you think of it as some kind of they're
making a conscious decision to do it. Why would anybody
get so violent over a vehicle that, like you say,
I mean, the reason he's the largest car company in
the world now is because he makes the best version

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of that product. Right in my engineering world, my last
gig was actually modeling every electric car made in the world,
and nobody can touch the efficiency of a Tesla. The
guy is just so far out there, and you watch
what his team is doing. He's brought in these whiz
kids and the nerds have just been let loose, and
they're finding all these you know, just crazy connections and

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lack of connections, all of this, you know, fraud, waste
and abuse, and suddenly he is ground zero four. He's
a Nazi. He's stealing your money. It's like, I don't
understand it. And my main concern is, you know, especially Schumer,
they're going out there lying about everything. Hey, he literally lying,
you know, I mean literally lying. He's telling him that

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Elon Musk wants to take away your your Medicare and
Social Security and Medicaid. That's an outright lie. It's specifically
not being touched. And so if the only thing that's
being touched is saving money for people who are qualified
to receive benefits under these programs, because they're getting rid
of people who are ripping them off, so now they
can afford to actually give the check for Social Security

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and Medicare and anticipated. Yeah, but what happens when even
the lies aren't working, Because they aren't people are seeing
what's going on and saying, wait a minute, he's talking
about social Security. I haven't heard a word about that.
He's got to be lying. So if the lies don't work,
are they really going to keep going down this route
of we need to kill Trump, we need to kill Musk,

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we need to go after and attack his business so
he's banker. I think that's a horrible path. And if
you think back to the summer of twenty twenty and
all of the violence that happened then compared to January sixth,
which is always the you know what about that January
sixth was a was a show. I mean, they had

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so many plants in there that this was just a show.
And even beyond that conspiracy component of it, you know
that it was coordinated, egged on by and leftists or
the FBI or whoever evil forces want to make the
Republicans look bad and at worked I we're screaming at
the top. I've said it many times. I'm watching it
all on Fuld on my laptop screaming that I'm going no.

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But that's your reaction, that's the whole point. Republicans looked
at that and said that's wrong. Democrats, look at what
happened in twenty twenty and what's happening now with the
cars that are saying no. That's that's an actual reaction
to the current problem. We should be destroying Tesla's right.
And you also notice that January sixth was one day,
one day, in a couple hours. This is an ongoing

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day after day phenomenon. The rallies over the week and
the attack of Tesla showrooms, the organized protest against Elon
musk And and the Trump administration. People spray painting private property,
these Tesla vehicles that were once great and now are
somehow Nazi mobiles. It's absolutely in mostly by Democrats. You
got one more segment with George Breunhman before we get

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to Congressman Warren Davidson. First though, I think you have
KRCD talk station Restore Liberty dot Us George Brennman in studio.
Remember to show up with the event on Sunday again
beginning at four thirty when the doors open, and enjoy
that complimentary buffan hear from some wonderful speakers and some
common sense solutions to our problems we face. And one

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of the problems we face, and I know you wanted
to put a plug in for your other online and
health related effort, George So, and they're remaining a couple
of minutes, why not shift over to health so Restore
Wellness down to org. We hit our first meeting a
couple of weeks ago. Went fantastic. Actually, Keith did a
speech on motivation, went over really well. We did a

(18:07):
podcast on COVID five years later. What we learned that
thing is fantastic. Highly recommend go to Restore Wellness dot
org and let's give that a listen at the rally
on Sunday we're going to have a table there for
Restore Wellness. We're going to be having a raffle for
a set of the books where you've got the lies
I taught in medical school, Lies your doctor tells you,

(18:30):
and the Casey means book Good Energy. Those are a
fantastic trio book, so we'll be you can get them
for a dollar instead of the fifty five or whatever
costs for the set. Yeah, we had a lot of
people ask about the books you recommend, and there is
a link. There is a link on the web page,
and we're going to have all of those books on
at least the sheets for all of them on display

(18:50):
so you can read through it. We'll give you the
key R code, so it's real simple to just point
your phone at it and you can order it off Amazon.
But yeah, Restore Wellness has been going great. Going to
try and you know, get that rolling out as well
to throughout the area. But I just wanted to make
sure people were aware it's still going on, it's it's
gaining strength. Yeah. Well, and so I got to ask,

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how's it going with the working out while you're watching television? Well,
thanks you for kicking me in the butt and I
had other people who have over the years suggested making
similar that I got a little heat from him, like, well,
I told you about the I got the same. But
you know it all it all came down to, you know,
there's sort of the cancer diagnosis and my wife and
my family suggesting that I had put on a few

(19:34):
too many pounds over the past couple of years. And
so the stars all align to the point where when
you guys were in studio talking about, you know, these
health benefits, all I do is sit and watch Netflix
after the show. So I want to because I want
to clear my mind of the colossal craft that we
deal with every day. So I did get a set
of adjustable weights, and so now I pull them out

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and I do wraps and I feel there and I'll
wait a half hour and I'll do another set. And
so you know, I'm obviously not ripped, and you can
see through my sweater here, but it's I'm doing something well,
and every the whole point of all that it helps,
Every little bit helps, and it's amazing how little steps
make a difference. So you know, get rid of the
high frucitos corn serup that's been done for a month

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now and that that's why how I lost weight. So
and then the others. You know, we'll all get rid
of all of the processed stuff and then and if
you really want to take the big step, try and
get rid of the carbs, because it's just evil stuff.
There are more and more studies coming out talking about
the benefits of that. I think it's really starting to
catch on. It is, and that's why, you know, I

(20:37):
keep expressing some measure of excitement for at least RFK Junior,
with his name recognition and the fact that he you know,
he's just pretty much long time left, this guy who
I thought alone a lot. I'm glad he's part of
the Trump administration in this particular role. You know, he
doesn't have any control over environmental policy, has control over
information about our health, getting the message out about help.

(20:59):
Looking for two things from him. Get the floor eight
out of the water, Yeah, working on that, And get
the soft drinks out of snap. They're working on that too,
and there's been some progress in some of the states
going down this road. I don't have any idea why
we Coca Cola's going nuts because they paid a fortune
to get it put into the program in the first place.
How about that surprise, money connections, money talks, and health walks.

(21:22):
That's apparently the case. Yeah, it's just crazy, but hey,
last plug. Go to restore liberty dot us. Click on
the link, make sure you register. We're looking to pack
the house. And a big shout out to Americans for
Prosperity for co sponsoring the event and helping us with
all the costs. George Brenman, thanks for coming in studio,
Good luck with the event, and again thanks to AFP folks.

(21:45):
Congressman Warren Davids is online. He's ready to talk. We'll
bring him on right after these