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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 1 (00:52):
Josh Ivy forty three fifty five kr CD talk station,
Very happy Tuesday to you, and they welcome back to
fifty five carsee Morning show. Secretary of State Frank LeRose
is good you have you on this morning.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
It's good to be back, Brent, and noticed that traffic
report did not say anything about traffic jams at the
voting location. Nothing to worry about today, Get out and vote.
We'll even give you a free sticker.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I promise free sticker as an incentive to get more
people to vote in a day when very few people
end up voting because it's an off cycle election, and
the numbers that are always sort of sad to see
when we wake up the next day and find out
that only fifteen percent know exercise the right to vote
and maybe steer the direction of the state of Ohio.
I mean, this is a constitutional amendment. I think it's
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a very important issue for people to consider.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Yeah and listen, Ohilan's are civic minded, engaged people. Look
at the numbers that we've been posting in the even
number of years, twenty twenty all time record breaking. Twenty
twenty two broke the record for goubernatorial elections. Twenty twenty four,
we broke the record for early voting. You can trast
that with these odd numbered years like twenty twenty five,
you do see much lower turnouts. And maybe one of
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the reasons why I run into people every now and
then say, you know, I just don't know enough. I
don't want to guess, and I get that. But you
can just check our website vot dot You'll see what's
going to be on your ballot. You'll see the argument
and supportive issue too, the argument against issue. To take
five or ten minutes, be informed, and go out and
cast your ballot. It'll be easy to do and you'll
be doing your civic duty.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Amen to that. And of course a lot of people
have school levies to vote on. City of Cincinnati has council,
the primary for mayor, and other things, so lots of
other issues to drive some of the voters out. But
the vast majority of us only have this single issue.
But it is important. I had a higher representative, Jennifer
Gross on the program yesterday, so I encourage my listeners
to listen to that podcast if you have carecy dot com. Now,
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polls are already open, Secretary of State Frank LeRose, and
they close at seven point thirty. What if folks need
to bring with them in order to cast a vote.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Yeah, you're right. The poles have been opened for over
two hours now and things are going smoothly. You need
to bring a government issued photo ID. That's for most
of us, that's our state idea, or our driver's license,
or it's like you can bring your military ID, or
you can bring a passport. But also bring a smile.
I say that because bring a smile to thank those
poll workers. When you get to your voting location, you're
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going to be greeted by a bipartisan team Democrats and
Republicans on this Tuesday morning, working together to help you
have the smooth and secure and convenient election experience that
you deserve. Thank them for their work. They're putting in
a long day and they're doing for us.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Amen to that.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
And of course already heard from Sherry Pulling from the
Hemilon County Board of Elections on the need for poll workers,
So please consider doing that as we approach November. They
always need poll workers and it's a way to fulfill
your civic obligation. Plus you'll have a pretty good time
doing it. My wife did it a lot of time,
and everybody gets along well regardless of political stripe. You'll
get along well with your fellow poll workers.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
And Brian, here's the other cool thing in Ohio. Seventeen
year olds can be poll workers. So you've got a
high school student in your life. What a great thing
to put on a college application or a application. It
shows a level of responsibility and civic engagement. And again,
seventeen year olds can be poll workers before they're even
eligible to be voters. You sign up at Votohio dot gov.
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They'll train you, they'll even pay you. Not a lot,
but they'll pay you a little bit for your trouble.
And it'll feel good when you go home at seven
forty five and kick your feet up and watch those
results come scrolling in. You'll know that you were part
of making that happen. So Votohio dot gov is where
you sign up to be a poll worker. We're already
starting to recruit for this November.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
That's great. I'm glad you.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
I had forgotten that, So I'm glad you brought that up.
Secretary of State, Franklerose real quick, since we're talking about election,
Before I gravitate over, I wanted to ask you about
real ID because that deadline's I guess is it today?
The deadline for real idea to travel tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Yeah, but so real.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Yeah, it's a good idea to have one. Yes, Listen,
I got mine over ten years ago. You need it
to board an airplane, you need it to go into
federal facilities and buildings. It is not, however, a requirement
to vote. Your regular old state idea as long as
it's unexpired will be fine. It's a good idea to
get the real ID, but you don't need that to vote,
as long as you have a valid state ID, or
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driver's license or military idea or passport. Full list again
is at our website vote Ohio dot go, and.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Of course you get that Department of Motor Vehicles. Are
they a well oiled machine. I've never had any problem
with my DMV, and I actually lost had to replace
my license because it cracked, and they turned it around
quickly mailed my new I had a real ID. They
mailed me my new one within five days. So I'm
just wondering for people who, oh my god, I've got
to go out and get that.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Is it a quick process? Painless?
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Brian? You should stop using your ID card to Jimmy
open the door. Stop losing your stop losing your key. Now, Listen,
they've gotten a lot better.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
You can.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
You can make a reservation online to get there and
that kind of thing. Yeah, so there's a lot of
good options. And here's the thing. Some people make this
silly argument that somehow it's discriminatory to require IDs to
vote or days do it Ohio and support it.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
But here's the thing.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
It's free. We'll give you a free I D for
the purpose of voting if you can't afford one, and
so there's no reason not to have one. Keep your
keep your driver's license or your idea up to date,
and use it when you go to vote.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
I find that argument to be rather racist, to be
quite candid with you and insulting people of color. Yes,
you're not capable of getting well, how are you kidding me? Anyhow?
Before we part company Secretary of State Frank LeRose I
was told that you went door knocking with mayoral candidate
Corey Bowman, who we hope is going to win the
primary this morning or today.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
I'm excited Corey is one of these transformational candidates. Cincinnati
is a great city. I think you know. My dad
went to uc my mom went to Miami. I've grown
up visiting Cincinnati. My whole life. It's a great city
that's been mismanaged by one party Democrat rule. I think
Corey is the guy that can flip the natty. He's
gonna make He's gonna make the other side work for it.
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If nothing else, I think he can win this in November.
And that's why I was out supporting.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Amen to that, and I'm with you all day long.
I've had him on my program quite a few times
leading up to today, and I just find him to
be absolutely sincere in his passion and love for the
city of Cincinnati. It just comes through and everything he says.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Amen. No, the guy's a real deal. He's an entrepreneur,
he's a minister, he's somebody that loves the city. And
you know what, we've had enough of the career politicians
running the city. Give this guy a shot. And again,
that's why I was outdoor knocking form And by the way,
we were in Hyde Park and we got a really
positive reaction from people that met him and gave him
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the job interview there on their front porch.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Well, I would hope after the mayor and the city
council currently has made up stabbed him all on the
back by denying them the right to chart their own
destiny when it comes to zoning. Obviously a little passionate
about that. Secretary's Dave frank LeRose, thanks for joining my
listeners of me this morning to talk about the election.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
I appreciate. I'll look forward to having you back on
the program.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Old Open until seven point thirty vot I have that
go for all the info.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Thanks Brian, Thank you vote Ohio dot gov. Okay, let
us see here. Yeah, you're going back to Jennifer Gross
and again, if you're going out to vote and you're
planning on not voting, let's talk to the folks like
I'm not going to get up off my couch and
drive to the polling place just to vote on an issue.
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And beyond that, I'm not even con sure because I've
I've seen, you know, most of the advocacy for voting
for Issue too in favor of it is actually a
campaign with yard signs to vote yes on issue to
you ask yourself who paid for that? Jennifer Gross pointed
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it out yesterday, which is why I was going to
gravitate to listen to the podcast of what Jennifer Gross
had to say Representative Gross, because This is basically as
I boiled it down, and she agreed with my you know,
perception of it and summarizing and summing up as it's
a creation of a slush fund. Oh, and it's going
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to help your roads, your bridges, your infrastructure. We can
only use the money, the additional money, and this is
going to be a huge pot of money, and they're
going to go into debt for funding this additional money
into this fund that they already have in place. Every
ten years at least you had a chance to vote
on whether you wanted a refund it or not a
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special fund for roads, bridges and infrastructure and water projects
and things of that nature. But they want more. Of
course they do additional I think two hundred and fifty
million dollars more, but issuing bonds, which is basically putting
it on a credit card. Right, they don't have the
money in the pockets they want to add to the fund,
so they're going to go into debt to continue to
fund this even further, which means every year rather than
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allocating the money that they've got in the form of
taxpayer dollars, they meaning our elected officials and doing the
job that they were hired to do and allocating the
limited tax dollars to fund the road bridges and infrastructures
and take care of what we've got already. It's a
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tough job. I imagine there they are, and there's that pile
of money you get from all the gasoline that's sold
in the state of Ohio. I think thirty nine cents
a gallon state tax. That's not enough to fund these projects.
I guess not. You can't work with the amount of
money you take from us in our terms of our
tax in terms of our income tax here in Ohio,
plus the gas tax that you generate. Then you got
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the lottery tax which is supposed to fund schools, and
yet our property tax bills are up through the blank
and roof to fund schools.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Hey, you go on forever on. This can't get.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
But they're gonna have to then put a line item
in the budget to allocate funding for debt service. They're
gonna have to make principle and interest payments on these bonds,
So I guess that's an easier task, so that it
gets this massive pile of borrowed money to increase this
slush fund. And I called a slush phone because when
you're out there voting, you're thinking about voting yes on this,
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what projects are going to get done and who decides
it local governments? Do you want to entrust the city
of Cincinnati with another pile of money to get something done?
And going back to who funded the vote yes on
issue too? How about the labor unions who are going
to of course get the work that this money will fund.
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This is a giant additional pile of money for union
contracts because you know, you can't sit at the table
like for example, in the City of Cincinnati, or even
Hamilton County for that matter, if you're not a union
house or union shop, you can't even put a request
for an RFP in there. So that's my I felt
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that way about it since I first read the issue,
but that it is a constitutional amendment. You're not going
to get an opportunity to unring this bell. You are
just a little Constitutions are not supposed to include budgetary
items like this, At least that's from my perspective. You
may share a different viewpoint, but come on, we're mending
the highest law of the land in the state of
Ohio to incorporate this slush fund. Into it. It just
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doesn't sit well with me. So anyhow, a great program today,
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the election results. Sitting on the edge of my seat
by some of these school levies as well as issue
too and Judge Napolitano of course, Joe Strecker, thank you
for producing the program. You do a great job, my friend.
I'll hopefully hear you from me tomorrow. Maybe phone call in,
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