Weed and Firearms: Can you purchase a gun if you have a medical marijuana card?

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Episode Transcript

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Three days until the election, anddo you know how the outcome will affect
your gun rights and law and orderin our community. Stay tuned to hear
from candidates and strategists up next onOn Target. Good afternoon, Welcome to
On Target War broadcasting live from thestudios of LAPD Firearms Ranging Training Facility that's
located at nine nine nine Triple nine, Bethel Road. I'm your host,

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Eric, along with Little Chuck Douglassitting to my right in JC on the
liveline today, Little little little thislal possibly Okay, Yeah, I have
a great rep career in my future, yeah, little Chuck Douglas. Guys,
I want to we have such atight, busy show today. I
want to go right to someone who'sbeen on the show numerous times and who
thinks about elections a lot more thanjust the week before. I guarantee you

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that Republican strategist, Bob Paduccik.How are you, Bob, Eric,
I'm doing well man. Great tobe with you this beautiful Saturday afternoon in
November. I know, I gottasay I kind of wish I was outside.
It looks great out there. Bob. Why should we get excited about
voting? On Tuesday. Well,look, a lot of people overlook these

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mid term elections when really these areprobably have the greatest impact on you,
specifically in the sense that local communityraces for school board, for city council,
for township, for other races,those have a big impact. I
know, you've got a couple ofbig city council races in Columbus and school

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board races and everything, and Ithink you're going to talk to some of
those folks later today, But that'sreally important. There are also two big
issues on the ballot issue one anextreme abortion law that folks are trying to
push in the constitution, and anissue to recreational marijuana bill. Yeah,

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and we're going to talk about thatone specifically because that has some direct potential
impact to gun owners here in thestate of Ohio, and that we're going
to take pick up that discussion hereshortly anything. I mean, how do
we you know, it seems likeon the conservative side we don't get as
excited, but we need to.I mean, there is a lot of
school board candidates, a lot ofcity council positions opening, and like you

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said, Bob, these are positionsthat really start to change how the city
looks, and how do our communitieslook. But it just seems like it's
so hard to get people motivated toget out and vote. I mean,
is there anything we can do moreto get the vote out? Well,
I think you're doing it right nowby talking about it. I mean,
look at Columbus for example. Imean some of the draconian gun laws that

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they've tried to pass, the magazinecapacity and other things that constantly get struck
down in the courts. But thenyou know, they come back and they
change it again, and they tryit again a little bit differently. I
mean, if we could get atleast like one Republican on Columbus City Council,
that could have a huge impact here. And sometimes it's not just a

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matter of getting a Republican in aDemocrat controlled city. It's getting an independent
elected to somebody that will bring somebalance and reason to it, right.
I mean, I don't know,Bob, I've this is Chuck. I
have said for the longest time somethingdiametrically opposed to what you just said.
I think that one Republican out ofgroup of seven piranhas is kind of pointless.

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And now it'll be nine piranhas.And I just say we need motivation.
Columbus needs a motivation. The FranklinCounty Republican Party needs to get off
their collective butts and do something.Field candidates, campaign for candidates, support
candidates. Too many people who Ithink would step to the table don't step
to the table. Maybe I'm includedin that, I don't know, because

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they feel like if they go intothe pool, they've got absolutely no support
from the local party. And untilthat changes, as long as the party
leadership is willing to step up asthey did in the Dispatch a few years
and good say, we don't feeldanybody in Columbus because we already assume the
Democrats have it sewn up. It'skind of difficult to get anybody more devated
to make a difference. It is, but it's also it's also like a

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chicken egg kind of thing in thesense that like the local parties don't they
don't raise a lot of money,they don't have a lot of money,
they don't have a lot of resources. And part of what I'd say is
just getting one voice on council,it's not going to change anything other than
expose it. For example, let'ssay if you got elected a person like

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you got elected the city council,you would be on there all the time
talking to the press about what's goingon and what's wrong. Too often now
because it's all Democrats, nobody talksabout it. They do these There was
one city council meeting I think,where they shut down the number of people
that could go to it in Columbus. I was seeing online somewhere. And

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that's the thing about it. Alot of this stuff sort of dies in
the darkness because nobody's there to criticizeit. So I think just getting that
would be helpful. But in fairnessto the county parties that I mean,
you know, the Republican registration isso low and carrying that are next to
the name in some of these races, it just doesn't put you in play

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at all. And it hasn't beenthe case for a long time in a
lot of cities. The exception isin Dallas, where you had a Democrat
mayor but because of crime and gunlaws switch parties to become a Republican.
That may be one of the bestchances we have going forward in the future
on it, right, And youknow what I mean, some of the

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one of the candidates we have onleader in the show today. I mean,
I hope just getting someone in theremaybe as a start, you know,
as a starter, or someone atleast we can appeal to or people
can appeal to to. Say,guys, look, if you're looking at
these things, you need to havea more sensible look to it. Versus
now where there is no access toColumbus City Council whatsoever. We've reached out

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numerous times, you know, hey, let's talk about it, let's talk
about crime in our city, let'stalk about gun laws. But there's no
discussion whatsoever. Maybe open that door. I don't know. Maybe too optimistic.
Yeah, And I think and Chuckhas some fair criticism there. I'm
not discounting it. But one ofthe other things I think about it is

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if somebody were to break that ceiling, it would show that it's possible and
it could be done. I thinkright now, the attitude of a lot
of contributors and people that support candidatesare that it's impossible, that it's a
feudal effort. So nobody wants towrite that check, nobody wants to support
that candidate. It's really frustrating becausethere are good people in the community that

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do want to do that, butChuck's right, they don't get any kind
of support or help at all,and it really just creates a cycle of
defeat. Well, from your strategistslash historian perspective, where did Columbus take
the left turn? What happened?I mean, what happened to the Lashutka
years, that Buck Ryan Hart years. We had black candidates, we had

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female candidates, we had elected leaders. What was it in the city's history
that that changed so drastically and soquickly to the left. So in two
thousand and nine, there was abook written called The Big Sort and it
was written by journalists by the nameof Bill Bishop, and he was talking

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about this phenomena across the country.And so this was back in two thousand
and nine, fourteen some years ago, which is even more pronounced I think
today, And that's a migration ofRepublicans to rural and suburban counties and Democrats
migrating to urban counties. And whatyou basically had is this self sorting,

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self selecting of Republicans and Democrats movingto these areas. And I think it
really changed the democratic or the demographicface of the big urban counties. I
mean, if you look at amap in Ohio where the wine one in
Trump won by counties, I meanit's six seven counties that are blue,

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and they're all urban counties except forAthens County. World how University is Wow.
Well, Bob, good catch itup to you. As always,
we're going to do our part herein the next hour to try to get
people fired up and motivator to getout on Tuesday and place that vote.
It's always good to hear your voice. And I'm sure with next year on
the horizon, we will be talkingto you again sometime soon. Thanks Eric,

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Thanks Chuck. I look forward togetting down the store and making a
purchase. It's been a lot.We look forward to you doing that as
well. That's the last time Isaw him. Actually he was in here
picking up something, so yeah,that's right. That's a good friend in
Republican strategist Bob Paduccick. Guys,I want to take a second and thank
my buddy Richie for calling in lastweek. Always good to hear his voice
and hear his thoughts on the mO. I don't want to see MO

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short. Is the m O runthat we saw the last couple of weeks.
Always good to hear that perspective fromhim. Uh, today, we're
gonna focus on Tuesday. What andyou know, we step back and look
and you say, what what whatabout anything is on the ballot on Tuesday?
It has to do with fire arms. Well, there's actually a lot.
There's a lot that indirectly can affectgun ownership here in the state of

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Ohio. In one that we're gonnatalk about in depth here in a minute
is issue to the legalization or potentialuh legalization of recreational marijuana. There are
some huge potential impacts to gun ownerswith that cart before the horse. Well,
it's the cart before we're talking aboutlegalizing marijuana without legalizing and straightening out
all the things. So does yourjob drug tests? Can you fill out

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that federal form to buy the weapon? Can you? There are too many
things not seen to before we takethat on that should be at the end
of the list, after all theyear of death right. You're exactly right.
We're also going to talk to acouple a couple individuals running one for
local school board and we're gonna havehim on the bottom of the hour,
and then we're gonna have one ofthe candidates who actually has a good chance

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of getting in to the Columbus CityCouncil with much conservative thoughts and so forth.
So that is coming up here.Before that, though, you know
what before that I got. Igot one good positive thing. Oh wow,
do you know what is? Idon't know how to say this nicely.
Okay, So we know Ed,right, we know Big Ed.
He's not here today, right,That's how I know him. He's not

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here today, that's right. AndBig Ed, Big Ed is is Ed
Junior. I don't know if manyknew that, right? Well? Ed
the third I, which is hisson I work with out there on the
streets, great kid and stuff.Well, guess what happened yesterday? What
happened yesterday? A fourth Ed Contolcame into this world? Ed Contol,

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the fourth Eddie had his son lastnight. And Big Ed is a grand
congratulations. Yeah, isn't that cool? I'm quite sure there's pretty an executive
order from Biden about this, butstill congratulations. Yeah, super duper cool.
And Jay C is back with us. J C, you sound so
much better than you did last week. How you feeling not great but so

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much better? Yeah, I'm lookingforward to getting back in person with you
guys next week. So anyway,Yeah, good to be back. I
couldn't even talk the last couple ofweeks, so at least that's weak as
to start. So, which whichDepp said wasn't a bad thing, but
beyond that day we did it wasthe coughing that they had her. She
couldn't. I wasn't talking, butI was coughing NonStop, So that was

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bad. So JC, I'm wehave a couple of minutes here prior to
the first break and stuff. Throwus out there. Some news. I
know it's been a while and wesince we hit some news. There was
some huge news from the Supreme Courtlast night. I think it came through
tell us about that. Yeah,there's a there's a bunch of things the

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Supreme Court. There are actually threegun cases that they are scheduled to hear
now like wow, instead of youknow, few and far between, they
hit all of them. Well,one of the big ones was of course,
on the bump stocks. They're actuallygoing to take a look and see
whether or not the trump erab bandon bumpstocks was actually constitutional. So it's

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because basically it was just based onthe fact that the atf HA said no,
they're legal, they're fine, youcan have them, like three times
they should let her say they are. But now under the Biden administration they
went ahead and did a one eightyon him and said, oh no,
we actually think they're machine guns.And so Trump actually initiated that band.
And of course Biden anything that hasto do with guns, he's for banning,

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so he wants to support it.But what the force of the Supreme
Court's hand was. There's circuit courtsplits. For example, the tenth and
the in the District of Columbia circuitcourts have said, yeah, we uphold
these bumpstock bands, but the fifthand sixth circuits have ruled these bands unconstitutional.

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So have federal courts on one sidesaying one one on the other it
lds up to the Supreme Court.So they're actually going to take a look
and see if the legal definition ofmachine gun it would include a bump stock.
So this is really really big andwhat they're looking at because the definition
of machine gun has been established bylaw by Congress. In the law,

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Congress is the one who just determinedwhat they what they are. And there's
this big case called the Chevron itwhich is regionally West Virginia in the Chevron
Company, and it's called the Chevrondeference. So the difference is if you
have a regulatory agency, you givethem difference into what they decide as long

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as it's not explicitly stipulated they canor can't do something. You let them
kind of make those decisions. Wellcomes What comes here is there's a career
definition of what constitutes the machine gununder the Gun Control Act, and they're
going to take a look to seeif because of that, did the ATF

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overstep its bounds and changing would havesaid three times in a row to exactly
the opposite under the political influence.And so this is going to be big
because you know, if they defineand find out that the ATF is now
willy nilly over expanding its authority,this could have an effect on a lot
of things that the ATF has decided. Uh, binary triggers a lot of

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other things that may fall out ofthe regulatory the I should say the definition
by Congress because they are not Congress, they're ant pointed individuals. Yet,
Yeah, it definitely has the potentialfor really impacting a lot of things down
the road. So definitely want tolook for I think that they're estimating next
summer potential ruling coming out. JAC. We're going to jump to a break.

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When we get back, we're goingto talk a little bit about U
two how that could potentially affect gunowners here in the state of Ohio if
it passes. We have more newsand candidates to get to. We're on
Target broadcasting live from the studios oflpedd Farms Range. Will be back right
after the break. Burning down thehouse would be and my campaign theme,
and that's what I was thinking.He drained the swamp, I'll burned down

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the house. There you go,burning down the house. Welcome back Ton
Target. I'm your host. Ericjoined today. I got Little Chuck,
Little Chuck sitting next to me hereat the studio desk. Big Ed is
off holding his new grandson, Paul. Paul is just not here, and
of course JC is on the linewith this guy's In the next couple minutes.

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I want to talk about something,an issue that we actually went on.
I don't know if you slid,Chuck. We were actually on TV
four times this week explaining the potentialramifications of issue too, which would be
the legalization of marijuana in the stateof Ohio. In the state, medical
marijuana was allowed several years ago,and we saw an impact in regards to

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gun ownership. And really where itall comes about is that any of these
states, such as Ohio that wouldallow for the medicinal use or recreational use
of marijuana, it is still notallowed at the federal level. Firearms are
restricted at the federal level. Soevery background check form that is completed,

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whether it's here at LAPD or acrossthe nation, is the same exact form.
And there's a question on that formthat says, are you an unlawful
user of narcotics including marijuana, Andthere's a warning in there that says you
have to answer yes to this evenif your state allows for the medicinal or
recreational use of marijuana. So it'sbasically saying that we could care less if

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you have a medical marijuana card orif this passes on Tuesday, whether you
use it recreationally. If you decideto use marijuana medicinally or recreationally, you
have forfeited your right to purchase afirearm, to own a firearm, to
possess a farm, to shoot oneon the range, to buy AMMO is
cut and dry. There's nothing.There is nothing in between. At the

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moment, look at the world aroundyou and decide if you're willing to surrender
that right, there's nothing. Imean, if they came out tomorrow and
said, you know, hey,it's either guns or alcohol or guns or
hammer, I mean, there isnothing that's going to stand between me and
protecting my family and myself and IBut I don't think a lot of people
realize that. Here's the other thingtoo that we talked about, and some

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of this is conjecture. Some ofthis is is stuff that we've seen.
We've had a lot of people overthe last couple of years who come in
and they're filling out the form andthey say, hey, I have a
medical marijuana card. How should Ianswer this question? And at that point
we take the form and it's done. There's nothing. If we have any
knowledge of that person using any narcoticor any illegal substance, we are by

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law bound to not tell them afirearm. If we go and say,
you know what, just check noand something comes back, or if that
person on the other side of thecounter is an undercover agent of sorts,
we're done. Done. So thereis no there is no leeway whatsoever in
that regard. Testers out here alreadycatch you doing that kind of thing.

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And here's the other thing too,Chuck. That's scary. I mean,
it's scary if you happen to besomeone who partakes in this. The next
database is made up of databases.The felony database once in warrants, the
domestic violence database, all these databasesof things that prohibit people from utilizing,

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from being able to own or possessa firearm, all these regulated states.
Who have you know, marijuana that'slegal in one fashion or the other.
It is a state sanctioned legalization ofthat. When you go into a lot
of those dispensaries, you have toshow ID. Hence guess what you're on

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a database. It's not a farfetch to think that if it hasn't been
done so already, it could bedone so in the future. Those databases
merge. So if you come intoa store, not just LPD, but
any gunstore, and you go tobuy a gun and you think, you
know, I'm just gonna check.No, I mean, how they ever
gonna know? Chuck? You know, and you get denied, and they

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know, and they subpoena the form, which they do, and you've checked
no, you've lied on a federalform, then you're gonna be standing next
to Hunter Biden and explaining in federalcourt why you lied on a form.
So those are just some of thethings to consider. We're not putting personal
thought into this. I mean,these are just the facts of issue two.

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And if it passes, what whatwe expect to see And if they
want to come after you. Thisis something else people don't get. This
is so subjective. If they wantto come after you, if it was
like Eric popped up and said,oh yeah, we can get this guy,
of course they'll come after you beforethey come after somebody else who has
voted straight Democrat ticket forever. Andthere's a guy who's serving seven months in

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prison right now, in federal prisonfor posting a meme on Facebook. Did
you read about him. He thoughthe was being funny. It was one
of those stupid little things. Ohgood news. Democrats can vote by text
this year. So he got convictedon some sort of election interference charge or
whatever, and they put him injail for seven months. This just happened
a couple of weeks. It's crazy. He was, he was targeted.

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How many other people had put outsimilar politically oriented things on their social media?
Right, they're fine. This guyhe was apparently a donor and a
voter and and he was a target. So yeah, if if, if
you don't think your information is somewhere, just talk about pizza while your phone
is close by and see what Facebookads pop up, right, right,

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So definitely something to consider as yougo to to vote or if it does
get you know, voted on andput into place in Ohio, some having
to consider if you think it,oh, it's it's legal. Now,
I don't have nothing to worry about. And you are telling he goes to
a gun straw off and it's somethingdefinitely. By the way, you're a
cop, how do you measure what'sthe intoxication device that measures pot blood?

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Like on the side of the road, like if you get put over for
like a dui, so you gotto punch him in the nose till they
bleed or just one option, butnow you can you can you can have
blood drown okay. And what's thelegal level of intoxication if you're if you're
using cannabis. It's all out there, I mean it's all it's it's in
the RC listed. So okay,yeah, so is at this point,

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is any cannabis, any thac inthe system? Kid? I forget what
it is, but there's definitely amazingsaying I can't have a single I can't
have a single course while I'm watchingthe football game this afternoon if I'm going
to have my weapon on me.So I just want to know how what's
that level? How much? Howmuch we can you smoke? JC?
I know we only have a goodokay, but but just to add on

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to that, I mean the SubtleGun Control Act of nineteen sixty eight and
the Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act of ninetyseven said it was a legal for a
person who uses doesn't have a limit, since who uses marijuana prevents them from
shipping, transporting, receiving, arepossessing firearms or ammunition. That is in
the federal law. And when Iwas doing over the Department of Corrections,

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I was involved in the drug testingstays in your system for thirty days.
So if there's no amount level andyou get a test and banned thirty days
later, they find it. Hey, it just says a user cannot possess.
So I don't think it's an intoxicationlevel in the federal level. Maybe
for state, but I think ifyou're a user, then you're in trouble.

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Yeah. Wow, thirty days.I'm sorry, it's just not worth
the effort as far as I'm concerned. Now thirty days now, Yeah,
Now, guys, we're gonna jumpto the bottom of the hour news and
we come back. We're gonna talkto one of the candidates running for school
board for the City of Worthington.Can you imagine that? Check. We
have a little prop here on thedesk. We're going to ask him about
Okay, up here shortly, we'reon Target broadcasting live from the studios of

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LAPD Farms Range. We'll be backright up to the news. Welcome back
to on Target. I'm are joinedtoday in the l EPD studio or Live
Chuck Chuck, We're live. Ihave little Chuck Douglas sitting to my right.
I have JC on the live line. We're talking about Tuesday election day,
and you know, right here inour backyard. Over the last couple

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of years, we reported many timeson the extreme Majors the City of Worthington
school Board has taken specifically on whenthey decided to kick out the school resource
officers. Do you remember that acouple of years ago? I remember well,
And just for those who don't rememberthat, I thought I would bring
something back from the archives which you'regoing to hear. Here is about a

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one minute a little bit from CharlieWilson on the school board and his thoughts
on having police officers in Worthington schools. Go ahead, Ell are you looking
at me? I am so?Does that sound reasonably stated to you?
Is? Are there recommend recommended changes? You would have to that the first

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time tonight. But I am comfortablewith that with one caveat, which is
that we have in place a planand people in case any of our students
are truly traumatized and have some kindof PTSD response to even seeing a police

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officer armed and in uniform outside thatI mean, frankly, that worries me
greatly. So you wouldn't want tohave them on the property. I'm sorry,
you wouldn't want to have them onthe property. I was tendidly trying
for some middle ground there. Isaid, I could accept that middle ground

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as long as we've got a planfor dealing with if we should have any
students that are truly traumatized and triggeredby This is very close to my heart.
Guys, that's the school board,a school board representative with his thoughts
on law enforcement, and since thenWorthington City Schools has not had school resource

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officers in their schools whatsoever. Ourfirst guests is running for school board and
we need to support him. EricFarley and Leah Brackey are both running and
they are both conservative thinking individuals whoneed to get in there and change what

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has happened. Eric, Welcome tothe show. Hi, thank you Eric,
Hi Chuck, everybody. I'm veryhappy to be on the show.
I am Yes, I'm running forschool board and it was the SRO issue
that brought me to run for office. I have watched this over the years.

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I didn't see all the beginning,but the more I learned about what
was going on, the more Ilearned that this was a mistake getting rid
of SROs. It was part ofthe defund the police. That was a
mistake. And it was watching BrianSteel go up and fight and try to
get on the board, and Isaid, what's the worst that could happen

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to me. I'm going to doit. I'm going to take courage from
what he did. Courage, hegets courage, and I'm running and we're
running hard, and we are findinga lot of support out there. There
are many people in Worthington who wantto do something about the lack of SROs,
the school resource officers. So we'rerunning hard and we're we're I think
we're going to win. That isgreat. And you know, as you

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got into it when we spoke previously, you're equally as passionate about another part
of the school board. Tell usa little bit about the other thing that
you really want to get in thereand make an impact on. Yes,
the fiscal the fiscal is, it'sall tied together. It's all tied together
at the board level. The mistakethat they have made in FISCO, the

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mistakes they've made in the safety withthe school resource officers, just a couple
of examples. We have a onehundred and twenty five million dollar operating surplus.
Everybody looks at that and goes,what's going on with this? And
yet they're asking for levee after leveeand they've got these levees queued up one
after another. We have the highestmillage taxation in Worthington of all the districts

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in Franklin County, we're substantially higher, and yet we're coming out with these
multi year levees. They we've stillgot two more years on the last levee
coming this twenty twenty four, twentytwenty five, they'll be bumping up the
millage again twice and they are goingto have another levee, multi year levee

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in twenty twenty six, unless weget two conservative candidates on the boards,
fiscal conservatives who can look at thisand see where is the spending going.
And so yeah, breaking in myself, if we can both get on the
board, we can balance the board, take a look at what's going on.
And that's the only chance. Otherwise, if we don't get on the
board, count on it. Therewill be a levee in twenty twenty six

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for four more years of levees.And Eric the part of the thing too,
and we've all felt it with theproperty tax, the impending increase on
that, I mean it's a doublewhemmy. I mean we're looking at that
and thinking, oh my word,how are we going to you know,
put this in our daily personal budget. And then you get school districts such
is Worthington, who continue to putthese levees on and without any seemingly any

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financial responsibility. And so I meanjust having someone in there to overlook,
to overseee that and you know,bring some common sense to that is it
is something we need. That's absolutelythat's what we want to do. We
want to get in and take alook at things more closely, get a
little bit There are a couple ofthings we would like to do, like

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to do a performance audit. That'sa great technique for usually you spend thousands
of dollars that you find millions insavings. Secondly, zero based budgeting,
that's a technique has not been usedin a long time where we can actually
look what we're spending on and there'sthere's got found to be savings there these

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things we have right now, especiallywith you mentioned Charlie Wilson, he is
just a he is a knee jerkon spending. He sees something, he's
very impulsive, and he's leaving theboard, thankfully, retiring from the board,
but he has left a legacy oftaxing and spending and there is no

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levee that he will't just snap hisfingers and say yes, we want it.
Well, I would like to bringon to the board and with Leah
Braiki, a little bit of commonsense about levies and to some concern for
the taxpayers who are having a very, very hard time. A lot of
people are thinking about leaving Worthington.Well like to give them a chance.

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Well, Eric, it's so goodand it's refreshing to hear what you're saying.
I do have one request though,and it's a little request. We
don't ask for much, okay,but when you guys, when yourself and
Lea get in there, we wantto be a part of And if you're
watching on Facebook, you can seeI have here. I might have here,
Jack, I don't may or maynot be holding in my hand the

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actual sign that said school recess officerparking only for the City of Worthington.
Not the recess officer, the resourceofficer. No, this is for reason
now the resource officer. It isthe sign that they used to park in
front of. I would love tobe there with you when we hang this
darn sign back up in front ofthe school. I would I would be

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proud to be there, and I'lltell you there are thousands of citizens in
Worthington who would love to be theretoo, because the SROs were very popular.
They are still popular, and Ithink that's a wonderful idea. And
that's hypothetically if I had the signhere right now. The creation of fictional
problems and coming in and offering tofix them is generally how people get elected

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to faks. Let me ask you, Eric, have you looked to see
how many how many reports? Howmany times has students gone to a councilor
in Worthington since Charlie spoke his wordsand said I'm traumatized because the cop just
drove by. I you know,that is Actually We've watched a lot of
statistics, especially on police reports andthings like that, and those are rather

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eye opening. But I don't thinkI've seen anything about the police that were
called by the administration to come there. I don't think anybody keeled over and
they had to call any ambulances oranything because of that. That's right,
It's amazing how that works. Amazing. Well, Eric, thank you so
much. We wish you and Leahthe best of luck on Tuesday. Hopefully,
you guys can come back and jumpon with us and talk about a

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win, and you know we'll bethinking about you. Yeah, that would
be absolutely wonderful. Great, allright, thank you for spending some time
with us. That's Eric Farley andLeah Brakey for Worthington City school Board.
And actually, guys, they're notthe only ones. I mean right here
in our audience today, Chuck,do you know who's sitting right here?

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I have no idea who's sitting righthere right then? Yep is Jason Rourke
is running for city council in Gahana. Yeah, right here. I listened
to news now, so it's Gahanaright here in our live studio audience.
But guys, there's a lot outthere. If you go out there and
google the Republican slate card, you'llsee that there's many opportunities we have across
the city and the suburbs to getsome conservative individuals in the area. But

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get out and vote. Yeah,get out and vote. I am really
you know, not only am Imad at the political machine and the people
within the political machine. I've abouthad it with the voters, the voters
that sit at home and say,you know, common sense will prevail.
That's how Barack Obama was president twicebecause common sense would prevail. And you
said on your butt at home.The early voting numbers are impressive and and

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Democrat returns of the absentee ballots havefar outpaced the Republican returns. Independents have
been very strong, and we canonly hope that there's a lot of thinking
independent voters out there that return thoseballots. But the numbers are very high
in Franklin County this year with theabsentee voting and so forth. So get
off your took us and go vote. And if you don't know what you're

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voting on the internet's a wonderful thing. Read the bills, read the language,
know what you're doing, and thenparticipate or sit down and shut up
because you've got no saying the thing. From that point on, there you
go. JC. We have abouttwo minutes before we need to go to
break. But I wanted to havean opportunity. You had really a kind
of an uplifting quick story on oneof your friends. Tell us about him.

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Appreciate that. Yeah, I havea friend whose birthday is today,
is a friend from Church's actually alittergist at our church. It stands up
from the congregation and explains a passagesin the Bible. Well, just four
years ago, Eric, he decided, because we want to parachute, done
it. So four years ago hedid. And then a year and a
half ago he said, that wasso much fun, I want to do

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it again, And so he didit again. Well, the first time
he did it, he was ninetyeight years old, and the last time
he did it, he was onehundred and one and a half. And
although that's remarkable, my friend's nameis Dick Grout. You guys should look
him up because here's what makes hima special American. June fourth, nineteen
forty four. That was the plannedinvasion of Normandy d Day, except the

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seas were too rough. They hadto postponent until January sixth. Well,
in January fourth, when the seasontwo or part of me not chane June
fourth, when the Caesar two rough, Dick and a small group of men
from one hundred and twelfth Engineering Groupwere in a small boat, a boat
that was loaded to the gills withTNT. They were waiting for two days

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and when they got the signal anhour before the invasion, Dick Grote and
his engineers lay ended on Omaha Beachan hour before the invasion to blow up
a concrete sea wall in order forthe troops supplies and equipment to advance.
An hour before. He fought hisway up all the way through the hedge

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rows, and then on the Battleof the Balls, while his group was
trying to put an emergency bridge overa small river in the face of heavy
German small arms on the other side, machine gunning um and doing everything,
he got knocked out by a mortarand he woke up three weeks later in
a hospital ship and Dick Grout isjust one of my heroes will still talk

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about. He has memories of landing, he remembers of what he ate,
and he talks to high school groupsaround here. So I just looked up
Dick Grout from Traverse City. Heis an amazing individual. He's my friend,
and he's one hundred and three yearsold. Toda, happy birthday,
man. That's awesome. That isawesome. I jumped out of a plane
at one hundred years old. Bythe time I hit the ground, i'd

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be forty five. Because I wouldscream so loud, I'd go back in
time there's no way I could dothat. No way, good story,
ja you guys. We're gonna jumpto a brake. On the other side,
we're going to talk to a candidatefor Columbus City Council, someone we
all need to know and hear from. We're on target, a broadcasting life
from the studios of l EPD Firearmsand Range. Will be back right after

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the break. What is this chuck? I have no idea. That's one
of those Ella's Choice songs. Sodid you get this one? Didn't come
into mail? No, I didn'tget one of these. Nobody brought me.

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I haven't had anybody knock on mydoor. I haven't had anybody.
I think I've had a couple ofpieces of Democrat mail. But yeah,
it's it's I have I This isthe first time when I walked in here,
the first time I've seen this pieceof cardboard. Wow, Andy,
what are you holding their chuck thatyou gotta get in my formerly nikkotine stained
fingers. It's just this is fromthe Ohio Republican slate car and it's got

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Columbus Dublin, Ghanna, Franklin Township, Worthington up Or, Arlington Grove,
City and Hilliard all on it andthe candidates that are. Hopefully, if
you're on Facebook, there it is. I'm van I see you know what,
Maybe we'll put it on our Facebookpage. Yeah, if you can
scan this into the Facebook page orsomething, this will be very handy for
a lot of people. Cool,great, great guys. Our next guest
is someone I've been eager to talkto all week. Actually I kind of

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met him actually at this dinner,but I never got a chance to really
talk to him. I'm talking aboutfar Han Yetti. You know him,
Chuck, I do not. Imet him in here very quickly one day
a few weeks ago when he cameby to sit in and check out the
show, but I've not known Yep. He is running for Columbus City Council,

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and we have talked so many timesabout the need for someone responsible,
for someone who can bring some someintellect back to the city council and some
just some level headed way of thinking. And he brings all that to the
table. So I wanted to welcomehim on here and get his thoughts on

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the election for Tuesday. How areyou doing, sir, Oh, I'm
good, I'm really good. Thankyou guys having me. It's an exciting
week and we're in a final push. We're the Early Body Center for the
past twenty plus days. We camehere early in the morning, around eight
am. We will be until fourpm. Where is this? Exciting times?
Exciting times. We are so excitedto have you out there running for

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Columbus City Council. Tell us,tell us a little bit about your background.
What motivated you to get into thisrace. For those folks who don't
know you, as you can tellme by my name, it's not your
typical American name. We're originally fromSomalia ad Vichies. We settled in Columbus.
This community has welcomed us in openarm. If we came from the

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bottom to entrepreneurship, and we feltlike a sense of gratitude. It is
time for us to give it backto the communities that have given up so
much. But at the same time, when we looked around, most of
our community always used to cater toursto the Democrats, but we were socially
conservative, and after we had severaldifferent conversations without the community, we decided

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that we do need to align ourselveswith the right party. We have so
much in common on as far aswhen it comes to the family values ahead,
let me ask you, because that'sexactly what I wanted to know as
soon as I heard your name onthis error today. I'm glad to hear
the Colubus community made you feel welcome. Are you making progress within the Somali

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community that you are becoming more accepted? Your political point of view is becoming
more accepted. Do you feel likeperhaps you're bringing more people into a conservative
mindset or are you kind of shunnedoff still? I wish you guys came
out here the parking love of theearly voting center. The whole community took

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over the parking space. We areapproaching everyone, every community and able to
felt very organic for us to alignourselves with the conservative communities because we are
socially conservative community when it comes toevery family values, when it comes to
entrepreneurship, when it comes to away of life. I'm glad to hear
he's getting a positive response. Weneed that we do we do for what

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you know, some of the thingsthat are important to us, not just
that it's important to everyone, butthe lack of law and order in our
community. It seems like it sincethe last two or three years. What
you know when you get in there, what can be done? What are
your visions on turning the city aroundand getting it back to a safe community.

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Our goal is to bring back commonsense in this in this community.
Unfortunately, we have a city councilmembers who have been in the same position,
who have been recycling the same orpolicies but expecting completely different results.
I think it's not for us tohave a mature community of conversation as a
community. We need to invest withinour police department. They are so stretched

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too thin, and at the sametime we need to invest into them.
And at the same time we needone manpower in our stuits. Do you
think as a member of Columbus CityCouncil you can bring something to the table
that will help the city government,police department and so forth understand the problems
within the Somali community, because,I mean, we have to be honest.

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Too often now we are seeing Somalinames creeping up in the headlines when
it comes to crimes being committed inour streets. The people who are running
things and making decisions obviously do nothave a cultural or philosophical connection with this
group of people. Can you bringsomething to the table, say hey,
look, here's how you need todeal with the somalis in Columbus, Ohio
in order to stop this from happeninganymore and to get things better. Absolutely.

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Absolutely. We have actually a coupleof different consultants who used to be
a former members of Columbus PD andthey are leading the way. We have
developed different policies we try to implementfrom the time we've been elected. We
will be elected and we will beelected by the way, so our goal
is to bring that change. Ourgoal is to make this Columbus harm in
the city where everyone is welcome towhere if you are a conservative, you

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know you shouldn't looked as a taboo. That consideration alone makes it worth my
attention. We need to address that. And one of the things that that
I mean obviously Second Amendment is veryimportant to us here and that's that's you
know, the basis of the entireshow. So much in the city of
Columbus, we have seen in aneffort for them to try to curb the

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violence, they come out with justridiculous gun legislation. And the thing is,
not only is it harmful in whatthey propose and how it affects lawful
gun owners. But even more so, they do it at the taxpayers expense
because with preemption laws and so forth, they always go up to the courts
and they end up spending hundreds ofthousands of dollars to fight it and they

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ultimately lose time and time. Again, do you I mean is it?
Can you bring back a little bitof common sense in that regards as well,
to at least bring the experts inthe mix, Give people like us
a call and say, hey,what can we do? What would work?
What wouldn't work? Those are ourfrustrations on this side. Absolutely,

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I do believe that we have tohave a camera. It's a realistic conversation
and at the same time bring tothe table those who have the right knowledge.
Now, ladies, again, forthose of you who haven't had the
chance to live outside of the UnitedStates, the United States, you are
in one of the most amazing countriesin the world. As someone who lived
outside of the United States, Ido believe in I live in the American

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dream. It's a fantasy world thatI live in. So what I have
to advocate and promote and protect everything. Whatever it takes for me to keep
this country as it is, wehave forces out of here that you guys,
for the African, for the averageAmerican might not be able to see,
but we for those who live outsideof this nation, can definitely see
them. And that's one of thereasons why we are. We felt like

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you stand for us to actually paythat responsibility and advocates for the sake of
his nation. Absolutely wonderful. Thatis so that is so good to hear,
Fajaran, and you know it.It sometimes it takes people like you
said, from the outside who've seenhow other countries are and see how valuable
the constitution is to our country.And we were so happy that you stood

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up and he could be a veryvaluable tool. I'm not I won't immense
words. We need a Somali mindto understand the Somali community. I'm so
sick it's turning on the news andwatching rich white people telling me what poor
black folks are thinking about the economy. We need people who are actually part
of the solution to be a partof the community where the solution is needed.
So he's uh, he's definitely withmy time, absolutely well far hand

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that unfortunately we are out of time, but we will post all the information
out there on our face book page. Guys, you got to remember his
name and Luis Gill and voting forColumbus City Council. Get out to vote,
and right here, uh, righthere in our own studio audience,
there you go. We're gonna postout that card out that our Facebook page.

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Ye, get out and vote.Everyone, have a good week and
as always, let's be careful.Abo