May 20, 2024 • 7 mins
John talks with Mike about why he's the guys for the job, and why he's NOT asking for donations
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(00:00):
All right, let's jump on fora second Legacy Retirement Group dot Com phone
(00:03):
line and spend a couple of minuteswith John Rutan. John is running for
Franklin County Prosecutor on the Republican side. John, Good morning, how are
you, sir? Hey, goodmorning, Mike. Thank you so much
for having me and I appreciate thisopportunity to talk to you, as well
as give your viewers and our listenersan opportunity to hear a little bit about
me. And yeah, thank youvery much. You're welcome, John,
(00:26):
It's our pleasure to have you so. Gary Tayak is not seeking to run
for another term as Franklin County Prosecutorand you ran unopposed as Republican. You'll
be facing off against shale a Favorin the fall. Why do you want
to be Franklin County Prosecutor? John? You know how many reasons, to
be honest. And what's amazing isit wasn't an opportunity I never ever thought
(00:48):
of or dreamed of. It issomething that just came to my foresite about
two years ago. And I've runa I'm a defense attorney now. And
when Tyger got elected, a lotof things started to go to things were
getting bad, and I started torealize what is going on here? And
I looked into the responsibilities of theprosecutor's office, and it has a lot
(01:10):
of and it's important. It's whatcharges her to be filed. What's a
fair bail, what's the fair pleaoffer, how's your trial lawyers? And
things like that. I realized,my god, this is everything I've been
fighting for. All I do isthink their job, and I can help
everybody instead of a few. SoI see a lot of problems in the
system and it can easily be fixedwith the vote. So that's why I
(01:32):
chose chosen ron John Ritann running forFranklin County Prosecutor. And John, you're
running against Shila Favor. She hasacknowledged her inexperience, and you're a defense
attorney. And Sheila has been oncity council and she she's acknowledged her inexperience
in prosecuting felony cases. In fact, I do believe she's never tried a
(01:52):
criminal case. Is that right?She's never tried even a speeding ticker.
So the fact that she's even thereis really disturbing because if you think about
it you need to be a leader. How can you be a leader if
you're learning and how are you andhow are you supposed to have any respect
in the office when you don't evenknow how to do the trial? And
trials is probably one of the mostimportant things as an attorney, because there's
(02:14):
three things that make up a lawyer. You got to know the law,
you got to negotiate, and yougot to know how to do the trial.
So without having those abilities, Ithink it's traumatic. And that's kind
of one of the reasons why Iwent off the hook a few weeks ago,
like are you kidding me? Howdid this lady get in here?
Because the other two candidates were kindof qualified in my opinion, But no,
this is dangerous for the community.But unfortunately sometimes people aren't aware of
(02:39):
the imports of the position. AndI don't blame voters because I didn't eat
it. And when you really lookat the responsibilities, it's hug for example,
like what charges the file and alot of times what you see from
the Democratic parties that politicize police shootings, for example, And as a defense
Atorney, I sit back, Ilook like why is this? It should
(03:00):
never be murdered like murder is amurder is the most egregious charge you can
have, and when you do that, it politicizes it. It tells the
public that, oh, my goodness, we have police that are going around
killing people. A lot of time. It's do their overreaction, it's recklessness.
So no, it's quite dangerous tobe honest. And that's why hopefully
(03:21):
the more opportunities I can have toeducate the voters, they'll understand. And
you have a backlog of two hundredand fifty murder cases. So if you
think about that, how is somebodylike that going to come in there and
resolve those issues? Well, Ican tell you how I'm gonna resolve them.
I know how to do trial.So I'm gonna pick them up,
each individual file and figure out ifit's an overcharge or not. I got
(03:42):
a murder case, Now that's anovercharge. Some guy came to my client's
house angry with a gun and endedup getting shoot And that's never murdered.
I mean talking somebody come to yourhouse at one in the morning with a
gun and a result in a murdercharge, it should be their manslaughter or
self defense. And so I seea lot of that as a lawyer,
and I realize, oh, mygoods, I can help everybody, can
help the prosecutors, I can helpthe police, I can help victims,
(04:03):
even defendants, and more importantly,the public because what the public doesn't realize,
and you know, I was listeningto your radar before I got on,
and I just hear about the crimethis weekend and the Proster's office.
That's a correlation to it. Becauseif you punish the small things, that
big things don't happen, right,And so when you let people get away
(04:25):
with these little things, then ittrickles too. More terms of gun violence,
it trickles to obnoxious behavior where you'refighting out and you know, at
public events instead of just an isolatedinfinite after school. So the processor's office
is actually really really important, youknow, and in particular, you got
to keep the dangerous people off.And the thing that I love about being
(04:46):
a defense attorney is I've learned alot about people. And what I really
what's amazing about life, honestly,is ninety nine percent of people are good.
It's just a one percent that arebad. And so what my job
is is is to understand who thebad people really are and you keep the
dangerous people locked up, and thenyou give other ones reasonable punishment. And
(05:08):
the reason why it's important is becauseif you get somebody too much time,
then you create a new criminal.If you don't give them enough time,
then they almost get that. Yeah, I can do anything type of attitude.
And so that's kind of where Ihave a unique experience because I've been
on both sides. I can understandwhen certain things are going to be escalated
and so on and so forth,and so I'll be wonderful at I just
(05:32):
don't My only downfall is I don'tadvertise and I don't fundraise, and you
know, I believe it's a positionof integrity, so it's hard for me
to want to preach anything right andwhen you ask for money, that's just
that goes against my moral compass.And so I'm just trying to win it
the right way and if by God'sgrace, if it's God's will, I'll
(05:54):
win. And you know, ifit's not, I'll just continue to do
what I do and I'll help afew people. But I'm hoping I can
get opportunities I can really help everybody. John rouch Hand running for Franklin County
prosecutor John, You've got a toughputt and you're gonna need money. As
you know, the Democrats are verywell funded, very well organized. Shila's
(06:14):
gonna have support from everybody who's gotdollars on her side. So I don't
know. I mean, do youhave a website that people can jump on
me? Are you taking any donationsif people want to contribute to your campaign
or are you just gonna run iton a wing in a prayer? Well,
you know, we'll see. Imean, I've been I've been offered
money here and there. You know, it's hard for me to be honest.
The truth is is when you lookat fundraising, what I've learning.
(06:39):
This is really my first time gettinginvolved in There's three thousand main donors in
the Republican Party apparently, and Iwas hoping when I was running as a
Republican need help me, but unfortunatelyI haven't gonna help my party. So
yeah, I'm not opposed to gettinghelp from the bigger people, but this
job pay's got one hundred and fiftythousand dollars, So to ask people that
(06:59):
make much less than that for themoney just doesn't seem appropriate to me.
And it's a job interview. Imean the fact that you're talking to me.
Now, if I saw you,i'd hug you because that's and and
you know, and the other thingtoo is I have faith in people.
And the truth is in every election, you have twenty percent that don't care
who you are. They just pickbase on party, right, But then
(07:20):
you get those you get those middlepeople that things, and so that I
have faith in God that have faithand people, and I believe for the
people that care, if they inquire, if they do the research, then
it's going to be an easy electionfor me. So I don't I actually
have more faith in people than alot of it. Now, maybe I'm
naive, you know, but Idefinitely believe in the greater good. And
(07:42):
I don't I don't believe I gotthrust it in this position accident
All right, let's jump on fora second Legacy Retirement Group dot Com phone
(00:03):
line and spend a couple of minuteswith John Rutan. John is running for
Franklin County Prosecutor on the Republican side. John, Good morning, how are
you, sir? Hey, goodmorning, Mike. Thank you so much
for having me and I appreciate thisopportunity to talk to you, as well
as give your viewers and our listenersan opportunity to hear a little bit about
me. And yeah, thank youvery much. You're welcome, John,
(00:26):
It's our pleasure to have you so. Gary Tayak is not seeking to run
for another term as Franklin County Prosecutorand you ran unopposed as Republican. You'll
be facing off against shale a Favorin the fall. Why do you want
to be Franklin County Prosecutor? John? You know how many reasons, to
be honest. And what's amazing isit wasn't an opportunity I never ever thought
(00:48):
of or dreamed of. It issomething that just came to my foresite about
two years ago. And I've runa I'm a defense attorney now. And
when Tyger got elected, a lotof things started to go to things were
getting bad, and I started torealize what is going on here? And
I looked into the responsibilities of theprosecutor's office, and it has a lot
(01:10):
of and it's important. It's whatcharges her to be filed. What's a
fair bail, what's the fair pleaoffer, how's your trial lawyers? And
things like that. I realized,my god, this is everything I've been
fighting for. All I do isthink their job, and I can help
everybody instead of a few. SoI see a lot of problems in the
system and it can easily be fixedwith the vote. So that's why I
(01:32):
chose chosen ron John Ritann running forFranklin County Prosecutor. And John, you're
running against Shila Favor. She hasacknowledged her inexperience, and you're a defense
attorney. And Sheila has been oncity council and she she's acknowledged her inexperience
in prosecuting felony cases. In fact, I do believe she's never tried a
(01:52):
criminal case. Is that right?She's never tried even a speeding ticker.
So the fact that she's even thereis really disturbing because if you think about
it you need to be a leader. How can you be a leader if
you're learning and how are you andhow are you supposed to have any respect
in the office when you don't evenknow how to do the trial? And
trials is probably one of the mostimportant things as an attorney, because there's
(02:14):
three things that make up a lawyer. You got to know the law,
you got to negotiate, and yougot to know how to do the trial.
So without having those abilities, Ithink it's traumatic. And that's kind
of one of the reasons why Iwent off the hook a few weeks ago,
like are you kidding me? Howdid this lady get in here?
Because the other two candidates were kindof qualified in my opinion, But no,
this is dangerous for the community.But unfortunately sometimes people aren't aware of
(02:39):
the imports of the position. AndI don't blame voters because I didn't eat
it. And when you really lookat the responsibilities, it's hug for example,
like what charges the file and alot of times what you see from
the Democratic parties that politicize police shootings, for example, And as a defense
Atorney, I sit back, Ilook like why is this? It should
(03:00):
never be murdered like murder is amurder is the most egregious charge you can
have, and when you do that, it politicizes it. It tells the
public that, oh, my goodness, we have police that are going around
killing people. A lot of time. It's do their overreaction, it's recklessness.
So no, it's quite dangerous tobe honest. And that's why hopefully
(03:21):
the more opportunities I can have toeducate the voters, they'll understand. And
you have a backlog of two hundredand fifty murder cases. So if you
think about that, how is somebodylike that going to come in there and
resolve those issues? Well, Ican tell you how I'm gonna resolve them.
I know how to do trial.So I'm gonna pick them up,
each individual file and figure out ifit's an overcharge or not. I got
(03:42):
a murder case, Now that's anovercharge. Some guy came to my client's
house angry with a gun and endedup getting shoot And that's never murdered.
I mean talking somebody come to yourhouse at one in the morning with a
gun and a result in a murdercharge, it should be their manslaughter or
self defense. And so I seea lot of that as a lawyer,
and I realize, oh, mygoods, I can help everybody, can
help the prosecutors, I can helpthe police, I can help victims,
(04:03):
even defendants, and more importantly,the public because what the public doesn't realize,
and you know, I was listeningto your radar before I got on,
and I just hear about the crimethis weekend and the Proster's office.
That's a correlation to it. Becauseif you punish the small things, that
big things don't happen, right,And so when you let people get away
(04:25):
with these little things, then ittrickles too. More terms of gun violence,
it trickles to obnoxious behavior where you'refighting out and you know, at
public events instead of just an isolatedinfinite after school. So the processor's office
is actually really really important, youknow, and in particular, you got
to keep the dangerous people off.And the thing that I love about being
(04:46):
a defense attorney is I've learned alot about people. And what I really
what's amazing about life, honestly,is ninety nine percent of people are good.
It's just a one percent that arebad. And so what my job
is is is to understand who thebad people really are and you keep the
dangerous people locked up, and thenyou give other ones reasonable punishment. And
(05:08):
the reason why it's important is becauseif you get somebody too much time,
then you create a new criminal.If you don't give them enough time,
then they almost get that. Yeah, I can do anything type of attitude.
And so that's kind of where Ihave a unique experience because I've been
on both sides. I can understandwhen certain things are going to be escalated
and so on and so forth,and so I'll be wonderful at I just
(05:32):
don't My only downfall is I don'tadvertise and I don't fundraise, and you
know, I believe it's a positionof integrity, so it's hard for me
to want to preach anything right andwhen you ask for money, that's just
that goes against my moral compass.And so I'm just trying to win it
the right way and if by God'sgrace, if it's God's will, I'll
(05:54):
win. And you know, ifit's not, I'll just continue to do
what I do and I'll help afew people. But I'm hoping I can
get opportunities I can really help everybody. John rouch Hand running for Franklin County
prosecutor John, You've got a toughputt and you're gonna need money. As
you know, the Democrats are verywell funded, very well organized. Shila's
(06:14):
gonna have support from everybody who's gotdollars on her side. So I don't
know. I mean, do youhave a website that people can jump on
me? Are you taking any donationsif people want to contribute to your campaign
or are you just gonna run iton a wing in a prayer? Well,
you know, we'll see. Imean, I've been I've been offered
money here and there. You know, it's hard for me to be honest.
The truth is is when you lookat fundraising, what I've learning.
(06:39):
This is really my first time gettinginvolved in There's three thousand main donors in
the Republican Party apparently, and Iwas hoping when I was running as a
Republican need help me, but unfortunatelyI haven't gonna help my party. So
yeah, I'm not opposed to gettinghelp from the bigger people, but this
job pay's got one hundred and fiftythousand dollars, So to ask people that
(06:59):
make much less than that for themoney just doesn't seem appropriate to me.
And it's a job interview. Imean the fact that you're talking to me.
Now, if I saw you,i'd hug you because that's and and
you know, and the other thingtoo is I have faith in people.
And the truth is in every election, you have twenty percent that don't care
who you are. They just pickbase on party, right, But then
(07:20):
you get those you get those middlepeople that things, and so that I
have faith in God that have faithand people, and I believe for the
people that care, if they inquire, if they do the research, then
it's going to be an easy electionfor me. So I don't I actually
have more faith in people than alot of it. Now, maybe I'm
naive, you know, but Idefinitely believe in the greater good. And
(07:42):
I don't I don't believe I gotthrust it in this position accident
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