November 4, 2025 • 16 mins
Willie talks with Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose about today's election.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
By Billy Cunningham, the Great America. Of course, this is
election today, election afternoon. Yours truly intends on voting about
three to four, not much on the ballot, but I
will do my constitutional duty to vote.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Joining you and I.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Analyst the man in charge of elections in the state
of Ohio, Frank LaRose, the second cousin of Buddy LaRosa, Franklrosa.
Welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show. And as we
sit here early on Tuesday afternoon, any problems, any difficulties,
how are we looking?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
But it's an important election. Not everybody necessarily is paying
attention to that, but these are votes that can have
a big impact on your community, quality of life and
that kind of thing, And so you should get out
and make your voice heard. You're not going to impact
any lines or that kind of thing. You'll get a
sticker on your way out the door. Here's another thing, Willy.
I run into people that say I'm not going to
(00:57):
vote in this local election because I don't know an
I don't want to guess, right, Okay, that's not a
good excuse. You go to our website vote Ohio dot gov.
You can cheat on the test. You can look at
exactly what's going to be on your ballot. This is
what Lauren and I did last night. We put the
kids to bed. I printed off what's called the sample ballot,
where we saw exactly what's going to be on our ballot.
And we sat there as a couple and we talked
(01:18):
about our choices, and now we're ready to go and
well informed and we know what we're doing.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
That makes no sense at all, because I often say
that if you wake up on Tuesday this morning, and
you say, is the election this Tuesday or next Tuesday?
Or has the election already taken place? In other words,
shall I use the term ill informed? And I know
the media says you got to vote, you got No,
you don't have to vote if you don't know what
you're voting for, if you don't know what the issues are,
(01:45):
if you don't know the pros and cons of each issue.
Don't waste your time and cancel the ballot of someone
who's informed.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Do you agree or not?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
I think if you do a little bit of research,
you can cast an informed vote. And give you an example,
I didn't know which candidates for city council were the
Conservatives who share my values, because I didn't follow that
all that closely, but I did a little bit of research.
I saw which ones were endorsed by the County Republican Party,
which ones had taken stances that align with the things
(02:16):
I care about, And now I'm an informed voter. And
so you know, I think that with a few minutes
of effort, a little bit of googling, a little bit
of checking their own website or what the newspaper's candidate
guide says, or whatever else, you can be an informed voter.
And it's worth doing because these elections come down to
a small margin. In many cases, local elections can often
(02:38):
come down to just a handful of votes. Hech We
have tie votes every year somewhere in the state that
have to be determined by a coin flip. Don't be
that person that wakes up on Wednesday morning and realizes
that a Bolshevik has just been elected to your school
board because you didn't bother to go vote and it
was determined by a single vote.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
That's that's critical. I don't care how busy you are.
You can go online today's world.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
You can do it.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Twenty years ago. You couldn't do it. If you open
up twenty years ago and said who's running?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
I don't know. How do you find Well, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
But today the Encyclopedia Britannica, all the information in the
world is on my right home.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I left it in my hand.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
And if you don't take it ten minutes to find
out who I'm voting for, we get the government we deserve.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
And that worries me too.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Man. Well, consider it's a kind of a tale of
two different years. If you look at the even number
years twenty twenty, twenty twenty two, twenty twenty four, it's
been absolutely record breaking turnout. So this nonsense where the
liberals say, I want to suppress the vote. If that's
my objective, I'm really bad at it. We don't want
to suppress anything. We've had massive turnouts in those even
number years. But then you go one year later to
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a year like twenty twenty five and it may be
single digits or low double digits. That's a shame because
it matters who lives in the White House. We all
know that. But what probably matters just as much, maybe more,
is who works at the courthouse or the schoolhouse or
city hall. When it comes to your quality of life,
the safety of your community. Heck, the schools that our
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children are being educated in. This year is the year
we make those decisions, and you've got to make your
voice heard.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Frank LeRose, you're making sense.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
I live in a community that's safe and sound with
good schools. However, we have a race for the Sycamore
Township Trustees. We have a school board race inding Hill
school boards. There's one or two school issues. I want
to pump up as much as I can in Deer
Park Community schools for what they've done.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
And so all politics is local.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
It may be great if things are good or bad
in New York City, but dammit, I live in Sycamore Township.
I live in Kenwood, and I want my community where
I live to be the best.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
And the off year elections is when we decide those things.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Correct every single election here, I give you a prediction.
I can tell you who's going to win today. In
any race, it's the candidate who gets more of their
supporters to go out to the polls Barne. It's always
going to be that way. And so whether you live
in a city that Leans Republican or Leans Democrat, there's
no such thing as a long shot race in a
(05:09):
local election, if people just bother to show up.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
What percent Frank Lerosa, you're in charge of elections about,
give me your crystal ball prediction in the state of
Ohio overall? What percent of Ohio? When's you going to
vote today? If anyone you know.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Here's why it's really hard to tell, because it's so localized.
You may have one community where there's a really hot
race for mayor or people are all hyped up about
the school board race or the levy or whatever else,
and you may have massive turnout. The next town over
it may be a complete sleeper and people aren't really
all that engaged. So it's hard to tell. I can
tell you what we've seen already for early voting, about
(05:46):
four hundred thousand. In fact, the number is three hundred
and ninety nine nine and eighteen. That's how many people
participated in early voting. We know that right there in
Hamilton County we've had a decent turnout through early voting
as well. It was the number of early voting ballots
count counted nineteen two hundred and twenty nine. That's how
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many people voted early in Hamilton County. But we also
know there's a lot of outstanding absentee ballots. What does
that mean about fifty thousand people throughout the state that
have requested their absente ballot and haven't returned it yet.
And so if you're that guy that has your absentee
ballots sitting on your kitchen table or sitting on the
dashboard of your car, it's too late to mail it.
You can't take it to your voting location. At this point.
(06:29):
You got to get it down to your county Board
of Elections by seven thirty and it's worth it. Take
a drive down to your county Board of Elections and
submit that ballot so that again you can make sure
your voice is heard.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Frank LeRose your deal with facts, ideal with hyperbole. Let's
say there's twelve million people who live in the state
of Ohio. It's not approximately correct, approximately approximately. I want
to hold you do this. How many adults eighteen and
over eleven in the state of Ohio? Is it nine million?
Three million kids in school?
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Well near eight point eight points? Thing, because I know
the eligible population of voters in Ohio. We're already at
like ninety three ninety four percent of them that are
registered to vote, and we have seven point eight million
registered voters. So the total number of eligible adults over
eighteen who are US citizens has to be in the
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low eights.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
So let's say there's eight million people that could vote,
and of that number, about seven point five million or register,
which is fantastic. And then as far as the turnout,
I talk about Hamilton County or the city of Cincinnati,
we got major problems. You may know this if down
the road you become a Senator or a congressman, or
a governor or the president, you're gonna have to deal
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with the city of Cincinnati, which is a complete meltdown.
And I'm told by Sherry Polland at the Board of
Elections that the turnout this year may be as high
as twenty five percent, And so that means that thirteen
percent of the registered voters are going to decide the
outcome of this election.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
That means eighty seven percent or not. What do you
think about that?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I think that it's problematic. And again, I think part
of this is that if you flip on your TV
or you go to your favorite social media account, you're
going to see all kinds of chatter about every single
damn thing that happens in Washington, DC. We seem to
be focused on federal issues. I get why they're impactful,
and people lose track of how important local offices are.
(08:24):
Local government is. And again look at our beloved Queen City.
And again I think you know this. I know and
love Cincinnati very well. My dad went to UC. I've
spent a lot of time down there. I was just
down there knocking on doors for Corey Bowman last weekend
because I think he's the right man for the job,
who's finally going to turn this great American city around
and let it be what it was always meant to be,
and that is a thriving place where families can live
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and work and raise a family. It's not that right now,
but you know, we need more people to actually get
out and make their voices heard. There are more Republicans
in Hamilton County than almost any other county in the state.
The problem is they're outnumbered. If they actually bother to
go up and vote today, they could flip the Natty.
It's a very real possibility that we could put a
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Republican in office in the mayor's office in the city
of Cincinnati. What a tremendous thing that would be.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Now, secondly, we have a situation. You were on the
reapportionment board. You were one of the seven to carve
up the districts. Can you put a period on the
sentence goes to Democrats and the Republicans agreed to carve
up the congressional districts number one to my correct and
number two.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
What was the goal?
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Yeah, So there was a unanimous and bipartisan vote on
this in the redistricting Commission. And I think that when
you have a vote like that, both sides are going
to have something they like something they don't like about it.
I don't think anybody loves the process or the way
that the process plays out, but it was at least
a result of consensus building and compromising that kind of thing.
(09:56):
Here's the bottom line. My goal was to go in
there and make sure that first all we complied with
the Constitution. We did that. Second of all, that we
create districts that relatively mirror the political leanings of the
state of Ohio, and again I believe that we did that.
And then third, putting on my hat as a Republican,
I want to make sure that I'm not putting my
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party in a disadvantage or candidly want to put my
party in an advantageous position on this, and so let's
be candid about this. What we ended up with was
a map that creates twelve Republican districts and three Democratic districts.
Twelve Republican districts and three Democratic districts. The current state
in Ohio is ten Republican districts and five Democratic districts.
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And the challenge that we faced was that if the
legislature had drawn different maps, maybe that created thirteen Republican
districts instead of twelve, it would have certainly been subject
to a referendum. The Ohio Constitution is very clear that
the moment the leftist dark money groups gathered two hundred
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thousand signatures, it would freeze the implementation of the current maps.
It would require us to run the twenty twenty sixth
election on the old maps back to ten to five,
and most likely trigger us having to run in August
special election for congressional primaries. All kinds of chaos, all
kinds of bad things, something that was to be avoided.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
And I look at Greg Lansman's district that appears to
be like a plus six Republican But I look at
some of the recent voting in that district that's very close.
Whoever you Republicans pick for that district to run against
Greg Lansman going to have to be pretty damn good.
He's a good politician and it's going to be a
close race, etc. I would add one other thing.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Man, candidates matter, Party chairs matter. State center is a
great woman named Diane Cunningham that's on our state Central Committee.
That'll be involved in that conversation, by the way, But
finding the right candidate matters, and the party's job is
to find the right candidate, and that's something has to
happen over the next couple months.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
You know is complaining about this. Oh, I asked you
the question. You may know the answer. There's about six
New England states, that being, if my geography is correct,
you got Maine, you got Vermont, you have New Hampshire,
you have Massachusetts, you have Connecticut, you got Rhode Island.
And in those states they're a little bit smaller than
the state of California population wise, those six states how
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many And those six states voted forty percent for Donald Trump.
So you would think about forty percent of the congressional
districts would be Republican. How many Republican congressmen or congresswomen
are there in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut and
Rhode Island. Can you, Frank Lerosa, can you give me
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a round number?
Speaker 2 (12:44):
How many?
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Yeah? The round number is zero. And it's because of
Democratic jerryman And by the way, when the Democrats do it,
it doesn't get called out. When the Republicans do it,
every reporter, every leftist journalist in the state, in the
country wants to talk about it. But here's the other
thing that happens. Willy city council's wards get redistricted by
Democratic city councils in counties that have a county council
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form of government, like where I grew up in Summit County,
in Cuyahoga County, they redraw the county council districts. They
jerrymander the heck out of that to create a situation
where it's darn near impossible for a Republican to get
elected to city council. No problem to the county council,
and nobody ever says a word of it. No problem. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Illinois seventeen districts, fifteen Democrats, two Republicans and that's okay with.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
The media, no problem. We go from there.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
But today's going to be a day become informed, then
go vote. Any difficulties at polling places. I know New Jersey,
I was on a station this morning, wond and New
Jersey and they were having they were having bomb threats
called in and which is stupid. Is there any problem
with voting in the state of Ohio at this point?
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Nothing systemic. We've had the small things here and there,
a power outage or you know that kind of thing,
but nothing systemic or widespread. Of course, our operations team
is ready to jump on it if there is. And
by the way, if you see anything that's not right
at your polling location, the first thing you should do
is talk to that voting location manager. They are there
to do that job and they'll correct it under most scenarios.
(14:16):
But we've also got a report line. You can text
the word report to three four two six two three
four two sixty two. You text report and then we'll
be on top of it from the Ohio Secretary State's Office.
You can also message us on our website.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Lastly, give the website of ill informed voters want to
become more informed and not be a member of the
borg simply a bust to a pole to vote with
a whe a blue or a red ballot. Can you
tell me again the website that we need to go
to to become a little bit more informed?
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Vote Ohio dot gov. That's your place for the right
kind of ID. What to bring you know for your ID,
what polling location to go to, what's going to be
on your ballot? Really anything you need to be an
informed voter anywhere in the state of Ohio. Vote Ohio
dot go.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
All right, Frank LaRose three four seven tastes so good.
You got to get at bad once again. Thanks for
coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. You can Jerry Manner
for political reasons. You cannot Jerry Manner for racial reasons.
And the reason many of the Democrats are enraged. I
want to use African American people and voters as an
excuse to throw out the ballots when they do exactly
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the same thing. But Jared mannering for political reasons is
good according to US Supreme Court, Jered manning for racial
reasons is bad, which did not happen in Ohio. Jerry Mandered,
so to speak, for shall I say political reasons and
not racial reasons. Frank LaRose, you're a great American. Thanks
for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Thanks Willy, get out and vote.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
God bless America. Thank you, Frank.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Oh, let's continue with more the line becomes available five
one to three, seven four nine, seven thousand. I'll say
once again that if you're what is it about twelve
twenty two in the afternoon on Tuesday, if you're ill informed,
you won't take ten minutes to go online in order
to find out what the issues are. If you have
no clue who's running and don't know what they stand for,
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and you're politically a dumb ass, don't vote because you
canceled the ballot of someone who took the time to
become informed. The only way a democratic republic works is
to have informed voters willing to make changes when things
are going in the wrong direction. And if you simply
are given a ballot slapped in your hand vote for
these candidates, then you're stupid and don't vote. And bright
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people can be stupid about any issue. Hell, I'm stupid
about a bunch of stuff. I'm not stupid about politics.
Other issues. I'm very stupid. So if you're ill informed
and you're a dumbass on politics, don't vote. Bill Cunningham
News Radio seven hundred WO
By Billy Cunningham, the Great America. Of course, this is
election today, election afternoon. Yours truly intends on voting about
three to four, not much on the ballot, but I
will do my constitutional duty to vote.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Joining you and I.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Analyst the man in charge of elections in the state
of Ohio, Frank LaRose, the second cousin of Buddy LaRosa, Franklrosa.
Welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show. And as we
sit here early on Tuesday afternoon, any problems, any difficulties,
how are we looking?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
But it's an important election. Not everybody necessarily is paying
attention to that, but these are votes that can have
a big impact on your community, quality of life and
that kind of thing, And so you should get out
and make your voice heard. You're not going to impact
any lines or that kind of thing. You'll get a
sticker on your way out the door. Here's another thing, Willy.
I run into people that say I'm not going to
(00:57):
vote in this local election because I don't know an
I don't want to guess, right, Okay, that's not a
good excuse. You go to our website vote Ohio dot gov.
You can cheat on the test. You can look at
exactly what's going to be on your ballot. This is
what Lauren and I did last night. We put the
kids to bed. I printed off what's called the sample ballot,
where we saw exactly what's going to be on our ballot.
And we sat there as a couple and we talked
(01:18):
about our choices, and now we're ready to go and
well informed and we know what we're doing.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
That makes no sense at all, because I often say
that if you wake up on Tuesday this morning, and
you say, is the election this Tuesday or next Tuesday?
Or has the election already taken place? In other words,
shall I use the term ill informed? And I know
the media says you got to vote, you got No,
you don't have to vote if you don't know what
you're voting for, if you don't know what the issues are,
(01:45):
if you don't know the pros and cons of each issue.
Don't waste your time and cancel the ballot of someone
who's informed.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Do you agree or not?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
I think if you do a little bit of research,
you can cast an informed vote. And give you an example,
I didn't know which candidates for city council were the
Conservatives who share my values, because I didn't follow that
all that closely, but I did a little bit of research.
I saw which ones were endorsed by the County Republican Party,
which ones had taken stances that align with the things
(02:16):
I care about, And now I'm an informed voter. And
so you know, I think that with a few minutes
of effort, a little bit of googling, a little bit
of checking their own website or what the newspaper's candidate
guide says, or whatever else, you can be an informed voter.
And it's worth doing because these elections come down to
a small margin. In many cases, local elections can often
(02:38):
come down to just a handful of votes. Hech We
have tie votes every year somewhere in the state that
have to be determined by a coin flip. Don't be
that person that wakes up on Wednesday morning and realizes
that a Bolshevik has just been elected to your school
board because you didn't bother to go vote and it
was determined by a single vote.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
That's that's critical. I don't care how busy you are.
You can go online today's world.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
You can do it.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Twenty years ago. You couldn't do it. If you open
up twenty years ago and said who's running?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
I don't know. How do you find Well, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
But today the Encyclopedia Britannica, all the information in the
world is on my right home.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I left it in my hand.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
And if you don't take it ten minutes to find
out who I'm voting for, we get the government we deserve.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
And that worries me too.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Man. Well, consider it's a kind of a tale of
two different years. If you look at the even number
years twenty twenty, twenty twenty two, twenty twenty four, it's
been absolutely record breaking turnout. So this nonsense where the
liberals say, I want to suppress the vote. If that's
my objective, I'm really bad at it. We don't want
to suppress anything. We've had massive turnouts in those even
number years. But then you go one year later to
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a year like twenty twenty five and it may be
single digits or low double digits. That's a shame because
it matters who lives in the White House. We all
know that. But what probably matters just as much, maybe more,
is who works at the courthouse or the schoolhouse or
city hall. When it comes to your quality of life,
the safety of your community. Heck, the schools that our
(04:09):
children are being educated in. This year is the year
we make those decisions, and you've got to make your
voice heard.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Frank LeRose, you're making sense.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
I live in a community that's safe and sound with
good schools. However, we have a race for the Sycamore
Township Trustees. We have a school board race inding Hill
school boards. There's one or two school issues. I want
to pump up as much as I can in Deer
Park Community schools for what they've done.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
And so all politics is local.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
It may be great if things are good or bad
in New York City, but dammit, I live in Sycamore Township.
I live in Kenwood, and I want my community where
I live to be the best.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
And the off year elections is when we decide those things.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Correct every single election here, I give you a prediction.
I can tell you who's going to win today. In
any race, it's the candidate who gets more of their
supporters to go out to the polls Barne. It's always
going to be that way. And so whether you live
in a city that Leans Republican or Leans Democrat, there's
no such thing as a long shot race in a
(05:09):
local election, if people just bother to show up.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
What percent Frank Lerosa, you're in charge of elections about,
give me your crystal ball prediction in the state of
Ohio overall? What percent of Ohio? When's you going to
vote today? If anyone you know.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Here's why it's really hard to tell, because it's so localized.
You may have one community where there's a really hot
race for mayor or people are all hyped up about
the school board race or the levy or whatever else,
and you may have massive turnout. The next town over
it may be a complete sleeper and people aren't really
all that engaged. So it's hard to tell. I can
tell you what we've seen already for early voting, about
(05:46):
four hundred thousand. In fact, the number is three hundred
and ninety nine nine and eighteen. That's how many people
participated in early voting. We know that right there in
Hamilton County we've had a decent turnout through early voting
as well. It was the number of early voting ballots
count counted nineteen two hundred and twenty nine. That's how
(06:06):
many people voted early in Hamilton County. But we also
know there's a lot of outstanding absentee ballots. What does
that mean about fifty thousand people throughout the state that
have requested their absente ballot and haven't returned it yet.
And so if you're that guy that has your absentee
ballots sitting on your kitchen table or sitting on the
dashboard of your car, it's too late to mail it.
You can't take it to your voting location. At this point.
(06:29):
You got to get it down to your county Board
of Elections by seven thirty and it's worth it. Take
a drive down to your county Board of Elections and
submit that ballot so that again you can make sure
your voice is heard.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Frank LeRose your deal with facts, ideal with hyperbole. Let's
say there's twelve million people who live in the state
of Ohio. It's not approximately correct, approximately approximately. I want
to hold you do this. How many adults eighteen and
over eleven in the state of Ohio? Is it nine million?
Three million kids in school?
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Well near eight point eight points? Thing, because I know
the eligible population of voters in Ohio. We're already at
like ninety three ninety four percent of them that are
registered to vote, and we have seven point eight million
registered voters. So the total number of eligible adults over
eighteen who are US citizens has to be in the
(07:18):
low eights.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
So let's say there's eight million people that could vote,
and of that number, about seven point five million or register,
which is fantastic. And then as far as the turnout,
I talk about Hamilton County or the city of Cincinnati,
we got major problems. You may know this if down
the road you become a Senator or a congressman, or
a governor or the president, you're gonna have to deal
(07:41):
with the city of Cincinnati, which is a complete meltdown.
And I'm told by Sherry Polland at the Board of
Elections that the turnout this year may be as high
as twenty five percent, And so that means that thirteen
percent of the registered voters are going to decide the
outcome of this election.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
That means eighty seven percent or not. What do you
think about that?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I think that it's problematic. And again, I think part
of this is that if you flip on your TV
or you go to your favorite social media account, you're
going to see all kinds of chatter about every single
damn thing that happens in Washington, DC. We seem to
be focused on federal issues. I get why they're impactful,
and people lose track of how important local offices are.
(08:24):
Local government is. And again look at our beloved Queen City.
And again I think you know this. I know and
love Cincinnati very well. My dad went to UC. I've
spent a lot of time down there. I was just
down there knocking on doors for Corey Bowman last weekend
because I think he's the right man for the job,
who's finally going to turn this great American city around
and let it be what it was always meant to be,
and that is a thriving place where families can live
(08:45):
and work and raise a family. It's not that right now,
but you know, we need more people to actually get
out and make their voices heard. There are more Republicans
in Hamilton County than almost any other county in the state.
The problem is they're outnumbered. If they actually bother to
go up and vote today, they could flip the Natty.
It's a very real possibility that we could put a
(09:05):
Republican in office in the mayor's office in the city
of Cincinnati. What a tremendous thing that would be.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Now, secondly, we have a situation. You were on the
reapportionment board. You were one of the seven to carve
up the districts. Can you put a period on the
sentence goes to Democrats and the Republicans agreed to carve
up the congressional districts number one to my correct and
number two.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
What was the goal?
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Yeah, So there was a unanimous and bipartisan vote on
this in the redistricting Commission. And I think that when
you have a vote like that, both sides are going
to have something they like something they don't like about it.
I don't think anybody loves the process or the way
that the process plays out, but it was at least
a result of consensus building and compromising that kind of thing.
(09:56):
Here's the bottom line. My goal was to go in
there and make sure that first all we complied with
the Constitution. We did that. Second of all, that we
create districts that relatively mirror the political leanings of the
state of Ohio, and again I believe that we did that.
And then third, putting on my hat as a Republican,
I want to make sure that I'm not putting my
(10:17):
party in a disadvantage or candidly want to put my
party in an advantageous position on this, and so let's
be candid about this. What we ended up with was
a map that creates twelve Republican districts and three Democratic districts.
Twelve Republican districts and three Democratic districts. The current state
in Ohio is ten Republican districts and five Democratic districts.
(10:39):
And the challenge that we faced was that if the
legislature had drawn different maps, maybe that created thirteen Republican
districts instead of twelve, it would have certainly been subject
to a referendum. The Ohio Constitution is very clear that
the moment the leftist dark money groups gathered two hundred
(11:00):
thousand signatures, it would freeze the implementation of the current maps.
It would require us to run the twenty twenty sixth
election on the old maps back to ten to five,
and most likely trigger us having to run in August
special election for congressional primaries. All kinds of chaos, all
kinds of bad things, something that was to be avoided.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
And I look at Greg Lansman's district that appears to
be like a plus six Republican But I look at
some of the recent voting in that district that's very close.
Whoever you Republicans pick for that district to run against
Greg Lansman going to have to be pretty damn good.
He's a good politician and it's going to be a
close race, etc. I would add one other thing.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Man, candidates matter, Party chairs matter. State center is a
great woman named Diane Cunningham that's on our state Central Committee.
That'll be involved in that conversation, by the way, But
finding the right candidate matters, and the party's job is
to find the right candidate, and that's something has to
happen over the next couple months.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
You know is complaining about this. Oh, I asked you
the question. You may know the answer. There's about six
New England states, that being, if my geography is correct,
you got Maine, you got Vermont, you have New Hampshire,
you have Massachusetts, you have Connecticut, you got Rhode Island.
And in those states they're a little bit smaller than
the state of California population wise, those six states how
(12:23):
many And those six states voted forty percent for Donald Trump.
So you would think about forty percent of the congressional
districts would be Republican. How many Republican congressmen or congresswomen
are there in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut and
Rhode Island. Can you, Frank Lerosa, can you give me
(12:43):
a round number?
Speaker 2 (12:44):
How many?
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Yeah? The round number is zero. And it's because of
Democratic jerryman And by the way, when the Democrats do it,
it doesn't get called out. When the Republicans do it,
every reporter, every leftist journalist in the state, in the
country wants to talk about it. But here's the other
thing that happens. Willy city council's wards get redistricted by
Democratic city councils in counties that have a county council
(13:09):
form of government, like where I grew up in Summit County,
in Cuyahoga County, they redraw the county council districts. They
jerrymander the heck out of that to create a situation
where it's darn near impossible for a Republican to get
elected to city council. No problem to the county council,
and nobody ever says a word of it. No problem. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Illinois seventeen districts, fifteen Democrats, two Republicans and that's okay with.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
The media, no problem. We go from there.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
But today's going to be a day become informed, then
go vote. Any difficulties at polling places. I know New Jersey,
I was on a station this morning, wond and New
Jersey and they were having they were having bomb threats
called in and which is stupid. Is there any problem
with voting in the state of Ohio at this point?
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Nothing systemic. We've had the small things here and there,
a power outage or you know that kind of thing,
but nothing systemic or widespread. Of course, our operations team
is ready to jump on it if there is. And
by the way, if you see anything that's not right
at your polling location, the first thing you should do
is talk to that voting location manager. They are there
to do that job and they'll correct it under most scenarios.
(14:16):
But we've also got a report line. You can text
the word report to three four two six two three
four two sixty two. You text report and then we'll
be on top of it from the Ohio Secretary State's Office.
You can also message us on our website.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Lastly, give the website of ill informed voters want to
become more informed and not be a member of the
borg simply a bust to a pole to vote with
a whe a blue or a red ballot. Can you
tell me again the website that we need to go
to to become a little bit more informed?
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Vote Ohio dot gov. That's your place for the right
kind of ID. What to bring you know for your ID,
what polling location to go to, what's going to be
on your ballot? Really anything you need to be an
informed voter anywhere in the state of Ohio. Vote Ohio
dot go.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
All right, Frank LaRose three four seven tastes so good.
You got to get at bad once again. Thanks for
coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. You can Jerry Manner
for political reasons. You cannot Jerry Manner for racial reasons.
And the reason many of the Democrats are enraged. I
want to use African American people and voters as an
excuse to throw out the ballots when they do exactly
(15:22):
the same thing. But Jared mannering for political reasons is
good according to US Supreme Court, Jered manning for racial
reasons is bad, which did not happen in Ohio. Jerry Mandered,
so to speak, for shall I say political reasons and
not racial reasons. Frank LaRose, you're a great American. Thanks
for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Thanks Willy, get out and vote.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
God bless America. Thank you, Frank.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Oh, let's continue with more the line becomes available five
one to three, seven four nine, seven thousand. I'll say
once again that if you're what is it about twelve
twenty two in the afternoon on Tuesday, if you're ill informed,
you won't take ten minutes to go online in order
to find out what the issues are. If you have
no clue who's running and don't know what they stand for,
(16:07):
and you're politically a dumb ass, don't vote because you
canceled the ballot of someone who took the time to
become informed. The only way a democratic republic works is
to have informed voters willing to make changes when things
are going in the wrong direction. And if you simply
are given a ballot slapped in your hand vote for
these candidates, then you're stupid and don't vote. And bright
(16:30):
people can be stupid about any issue. Hell, I'm stupid
about a bunch of stuff. I'm not stupid about politics.
Other issues. I'm very stupid. So if you're ill informed
and you're a dumbass on politics, don't vote. Bill Cunningham
News Radio seven hundred WO
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