Eric Conroy for Congress

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:03):
Hey forty five if you got KRC the talk station,
very happy Monday to you.

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MLK Junior Day.

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And if you didn't hear Christopher Smithvin heed his advice,
do what Christopher said during the hour long spleen vent.
Welcome to the fifty five Kresday morning. Sure, Eric Conroy,
somebody's got to beat Greg Landsman District one. Can it
be Eric Conroy? You can find them online in ericconroy
dot com just like it sounds.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Eric.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Thank you so much for coming to the studio today.
It's a real pleasure to see you again. Brian, thanks
for having me. Happy New Year and it is always
Happy New Year to you too, sir. And let me
just thank you for your service to our country. You
went to the US Air Force Academy and then you
ended up in the CIA. So how was your time
at the State Department. I'm just kidding me, but I
appreciate and my listeners appreciate your service to our country.
By way of background, what is your what do you

(00:45):
do for a living? What's your you know, sort of
qualifications to run for pregnant spot.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Yeah, so a little bit about me.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
I was born and raised on the West Side, went
to Utter High School and then the Air Force Academy
for college. Yeah, seven years active duty in the Air Force,
mostly in special operations. And then I did another seven
years in the CIA where I served in war zones
and in Europe overseas.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Living and shipping containers in Martinia.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
Huh something like that. Yeah, I got.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
I got a State Department relative.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
After that, wrapped up a master's in economics and work
in finance right now and investing in so on the side,
I help invest in defense and aerospace companies, of which
we have plenty in the area, with you know, larger
companies like GE and right Pison Air Force base up
the road. So but now you know, my main focus
is this campaign and defeating the radical leftists that we
know of Greg Lansman.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
And he is and there's a million places we could start.
But giving your you know, your data background and all that,
let's just look at the sorry ass situations going on
in Minneapolis. Our federal tax dollars. I don't think any
human being on the left side of the political ledger
cares a whit what happens with our dollars. They are
clearly not responsible stewards with our money. And as we're

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learning more and more billions of dollars being thrown out
in fraud, waste and abuse just in minutes, Soda haven't
moved over to California or New York yet or even
here in Ohio where we know we have tons of fraud,
waste and abuse. This is an area that really means
a lot to me, sir.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
It does to me as well, right.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
And I worked in two large government bureaucracies, in the
Air Force and the Intelligence community, and I've seen that fraud,
waste and abuse first have and that is your tax
payer dollars, Brian, right, And that is your money being waste.
So that is your hard earned money being wasted. And
I'm very big on fiscal cuts and downsize in our
government because that is what's best for the everyday American.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
Well, and I'm glad to hear you say that because
you know someone who served in his military. Proudly, I
am the first person to guess nothing concrete to go on,
but any trillion dollar military budget, there's got to be
a lot of fraud, waste and abuse in that too.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Well, there's definitely inefficiencies. Rum.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
I spent some time at the Pentagon, And there's a
great story I remember for my time there. General Flynn
was there. This is before his administration time, this is
some time ago, and he gives this great story that
he used to go around and just knock on the
doors in his command at the Pentagon, just to say
hello to people, and when they would open the door,
they would be spooked. And he asked people finally, like,
why are people spooked when I come around and knock

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on their door, Like they're in my command, they're in
my unit. And finally the assistant went to the general said, General,
they're scared because they're afraid that they're going to find
out that their jobs are useless. Right, Yeah, I think
it's about trimming the fat and making everything more efficient
in our government, whether that's the Department of War, whether
that's the IRS, whether that's the Department of Energy. We
can definitely downsize and save your tax Paramney.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Yeah, well, you know, it just reminded me of the
story that guy was getting paid eight hour workdays to
sit and literally surf point. That's what he did, and
it was known and he kept his job. I mean,
I'm missing some of the details, but that is pretty
much a boiled down synopsis of what was going on.
So maybe that's what they're doing, or they're playing video games,
or they're surfing YouTube or whatever, not doing something. It's

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beneficial for the American people.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
A review is definitely needed, right, And this is what
I appreciate about the Trump administration, as they're not afraid
to take a hard review of how your money's being spent.
And that means our bloated government bureaucracy, whether it's Defense, Intel,
IRS or otherwise.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
Well, Chucky Schumer just came out the other day, I
think it was yesterday, saying that when they take back over,
they're going to undo all of the DOGE cuts that
Elon Musk and the Doge Department put in. I mean,
we're talking, can he be serious about that?

Speaker 1 (04:21):
Look?

Speaker 3 (04:21):
I mean, the Democrats, including my opponent Greg Lanceman, have
never been serious about your money or about the operation
of the federal government. And this is why I think
the administration's approach of taking a hard look and looking
at some cuts is needed.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
Right.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
And you know, maybe thirty years ago you needed more
more personnel to handle paperwork and all that, but we're
we're in the digital aged officer, right, we do not
have to have these massive government bureaucracies. Department of Education
is a great example too. We have a massive, bloated
bureaucracy in DC where the money's going, and that money
should be going to parents and teachers here at the

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local level for the education, right. And these are the
common sense policies that we as the Republican Party are promoting,
and my opponent Greg Lansman and his party members do not.
They want to waste their money at the highest level.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
Well, and I go back to the whole immigration thing.
They're protesting because our government is trying to get rid
of some criminals that are hardened discussing subject to the
detainer orders, rapists of children, murderers, and there are people
standing in the way of that. And I think about that,
and I asked out loud this morning, as I have before,

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sort of like, does anybody really believe that is the
recipe for success in this country, that abusing ice agents
and trying to prevent the elimination of dangerous criminals in
our communities is somehow a bad thing that should be stopped.
I can't buy that. That is a topic that resonates.
I feel the same way about the education that you
were just talking about. What parent doesn't want to control

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where their child goes. Go ahead, go to the traditional
public school if you want. But if you want to
go someplace else, that a good thing.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
You're right, And back to Minnesota.

Speaker 3 (06:03):
Right, Look, this situation is concerning right, and anytime there's
a loss of life, it's very tragic. And this is
a very fast moving situation. But I think it's it's
important for all of us to just tone down the
rhetoric a little bit. Let's some of these investigations play out.
And if you disagree with the policies, that's fine, but
you need to protests smartly, and that doesn't mean interrupting

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law enforcement operations or causing violence in Mayhem, These are
not protests at this point, right. And I think the
saddest part about this Minnesota situation of the last week
is the lack of cooperation that we've gotten from city
and state governments. And this once again goes to show,
as we saw this summer here with our brawl downtown,
the lack of seriousness, the lack of fortitude in democratic leaders,

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including Greg Landsman. Right when I saw Greg's interview for
the braw last summer. You know what you said? On
Channel five, the interviewer asked them, Hey, what are you
doing at the federal level to solve the crime issue here?
Ant sir was, I'm working with Honda and Kia to
make sure their cars are less stealable. Like, does that
sound like a serious representative? Is that someone you want

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as your congressman? Brian, No, that's what I thought. I
don't even recall him sick. I believe you all day long,
but that sounds like a well backcrap insanity. Now he
ends up he got us a million dollars apparently in
some bill that was passed so we can buy cameras
or something. Wow, okay, cameras that were promised by city
government years and years ago and for which they have

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the money, apparently because they're installing him right now before
Greg's money even lands in the neighborhood. What we should
be doing is focusing on how we get additional funding
to increase our police force. Right we have a shortage
of course officers. There are ways to get DHS and
DOJ grants to help supplement the police force downtown, whether
that's hopefully in personnel, but in other ways too.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
You got to get people that want to sign up.
They had thirty open spots for laterals. They had I
believe it was nine according to ken Co fops seven.
Joe says seven spots. Seven people for thirty open spots.
So all the money in the world is not going
to draw people to a career in law enforcement if
you have elected officials that regularly demonize them and tell
them that they're all racists.

Speaker 3 (08:10):
And we need to get back to the basics right,
common sense law and order. The laws matter and they
need to be enforced right. And this is what we've
gotten away from, not just here in Cincinnati, but in
Minneapolis and on their places. And if we want to get
back to a common sense society, it starts there.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
Indeed, any of the hot topics you wanted to touch upon,
we've of course dealt with the corruption in Minnesota as
well as elsewhere. The immigration problem. I got a comment
on that, where were all of these leftist protesters when
Barack Obama was kicking millions of people out of our country?
Or Bill Clinton was kicking millions of people, or even
Bush when he kicked millions of people out of our country.

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Not a peep, not a word and here we are.
It's evil Orange man. It's only because it's Donald Trump.

Speaker 3 (08:51):
You're exactly right, Brian. And what's even worse now is
they're talking about abolishing ice or potentially trying to do
some kind of shut down the government ploy to the
ice operations in Minnesota. And this is absolutely absurd. And
this is how they try to screw over Ohioans every day.
Ohioans to shut down the government whenever they get what
they don't want. There's this tendency on the left when

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they don't get what they want, they want to burn
down the farm. And I think this is that selfish
mentality that we've seen in Greg Landsman and in some
of his party mates that just totally totally throws to
the win what public service is, see right, And this
is why we need to change.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
Yeah, it's like a petulant child putting the hands over
the ears and going L L with their eyes closed
and trying to prevent you know, content from entering into
their brain and resisting all the common sense reforms. It
you and I can embrace all day long, which Eric
Conroy does. Embrace Solid Man Ericconroy dot com. That's where
you find him online. Look there's a little donate button there.

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You help him out with his campaign action center. You
can learn about his issues. It's all right there, Ericconroy
dot com. Eric, I'm sure you and I be talking
a lot before now in November. I look forward to
it again.

Speaker 3 (09:57):
Well, love to please send me on any time. And
we're going to defeat Greg Lands when this fall. I'm
very excited.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
I sure hope so