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Speaker 1: 8.31, 55KRCD Talk Station. Happy Friday. Let's begin this segment with Jack Windsor from the Ohio Press Network with a prayer. Please, dear God, do not let this Zoom conference collapse. Otherwise, we'll lose contact with Jack Windsor. We all fly by the seat of our pants when Strecker's out of town. That is not casting aspersions on Danny Gleason. I just found out today, Jack, that Joe pays for the extra upgrade for Zoom, which allows you to do unlimited length calls. My employer does not pay for that service. Draw your own conclusion, Jack Windsor. Welcome back to the morning show. It's always great having you on and bookmark theohiopressnetwork.com. Where are we coming out of the gate on? What topic, Jack?
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Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you what, if you want, let's talk about that CNN poll because CNN says Amy Acton is up eight in Ohio. And if you don't look at the polls methodology and check their sample, you might be running around a little bit concerned today and listeners and their neighbors are going to hear Acton's up eight and that could affect things. So if you want to start there, let's start there.
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Speaker 1: Let's start there. And I can note, because I'm looking at it, the post from the late September, the Suffolk poll had Acton up nine points. So these back-to-back polls that make it really look bad for Ramaswamy. So what's the story on the CNN poll and shed some light on it for us, Jack?
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Speaker 2: Yes. So Acton is up eight, Brown is up six. Now there's 39 pages to that poll. So I dove in, looked at the crosstabs, read the methodology and, And what I found out is about a third of the respondents never came off a voter file. They came off what's called an opt-in survey panel. So these are the people that are politicos, that are eager and excited to take these surveys. And of course, they lean left. And the other issue is that the weighting of the responses is affected by motivation. So they tell you that in the crosstabs, or they tell you that in the description. And the report shows that the most motivated respondents are Democrats. So they're oversampling Democrats, and then they're weighing Democrats' responses more than Republican responses. And the margin of error is about four and a half points. So that means that each candidate's number could be off four and a half one direction, four and a half the other. So it could be off a total of nine. So when you look at that, eight and six are in general within that margin of error. And the other interesting point is that came out early yesterday. And then later in the day, another poll came out from Coefficient. And if you put CNN next to that one, Coefficient screens likely voters, which matters in this case. And that actually has Ramaswamy up and Husted up. So voters are going, wait a minute, how can we be off that much? But those are two polls that dropped yesterday.
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Speaker 1: Now, do you scribe a nefarious intent to the way they sample to bring about a result that has Amy Acton up eight or nine points or whatever many points?
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Speaker 2: If I weren't a member of the press, I would go, I don't know if that's the case. Being a member of the press, absolutely. I do believe it. I believe that they find ways to serve up information that serves their ultimate purpose. And let's make no bones about it. CNN and all of the mainstream outlets certainly lean toward the progressive candidates and movements. The interesting thing that they do, though, is they show their work. And so if you're diligent and you look at what comes along with the final poll results, you can usually figure out, OK, here's how they oversampled. So it's almost like they're going, yeah, we're puffing it up a little bit, but we're going to give you the full Monty. That way you can do your own work and figure it out. But Brian, you and I both know most people don't read beyond the headlines. And so I think it is a nefarious tactic.
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Speaker 1: Well, it is. And I'm sure there's some psychological profile out there that says people are less inclined to go vote if they see that the candidate they don't want elected is winning or leading by a margin. Oh, what's the point of getting up off your butt? I don't share that perspective. I mean, my view is Damn it. I am not going to allow that to happen. I'm going to go out and vote and prevent this large margin of victory. But the point I ultimately go back to, there's always a post-mortem analysis of these polls. And we even saw the one poll where they came out and they admitted exactly cheated or they intentionally lied in the polling results just to, I guess, see what happens as some sort of weird experiment. But this takes all of their credibility away, Jack. Now, if Houston wins by a few or if Ramaswamy wins by a few or maybe 10, And they're going to look back and say, how in God's name could CNN get it so wrong unless they were intentionally biased? I'm never paying attention to another damn CNN poll again.
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Speaker 2: Well, and look, whether it's Suffolk, whether it's Marist, whether it's CNN, whether it's New York Times, Sienna, when you look at Ohio, Brian, and I've been saying this a lot, but we just have to keep repeating it. You look back at 2018, Cordray was up three or four over DeWine late in the fall. And, of course, you know, there was like a nine-point swing. DeWine won that. I think it was by four or six. And then in 2022, same thing. Tim Ryan allegedly was leading J.D. Vance by a few. Vance won by six. 2024, Sherrod Brown is leading Bernie Marino by two. And then Bernie ends up winning by almost four. So anywhere from six and a half to about nine points is how these polls traditionally skew. So if you just applied that historical pattern, set of facts, you'd go, okay, so if Acton is up nine, it might be tied. If Brown is up six, then maybe Husted's up three. And then when you look at this other poll, coefficient has Husted up 44, 43, and Ramaswamy up 45, 43. Just reading between the lines and analyzing this, if I had to give you where I think this is, I would say Husted's probably up three to four, and Ramaswami's maybe up three. Now, I've always said Ramaswami's up five, but I think, I think Acton's tightening that race, but I think that, I think Ramaswami will pull away down the stretch.
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Speaker 1: Stick around for more with the ohiopressnetwork.com's Jack Windsor. Got lots of things to talk about before the end of the show. 841-55-KRCD Talk Station, theohiopressnetwork.com. Jack Windsor on the show every Friday between 830 and the close. I appreciate your thoughts and comments and insight there, Jack Windsor, and my listening audience does as well, and What the hell's with this John Kulowitz for Attorney General? You got the Cleveland paper endorsed this guy?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. Wait till you hear this.
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Speaker 1: The Plain Dealer, right?
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Speaker 2: Yes, Cleveland Plain Dealer. Their digital property is cleveland.com. And by circulation, they are the state's largest newspaper. So I want listeners to keep that in their minds.
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Speaker 1: So they have 5,000 people subscribing. Well played.
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Speaker 2: John Kulowicz is the Democrat nominee for Ohio Attorney General. Here's what's important about this. He was endorsed by a group called CARE. CARE is a designated terrorist organization in Florida and Texas. It was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas funding case. Cleveland.com announced... its endorsement of Kulawix. And again, Kulawix was endorsed by CARE in the primary. They announced the endorsement of Kulawix on October 7th, the anniversary of Hamas's 2023 massacre of 1,200 people in Israel. So, Brian, the question is, of 365 days, why the hell did Cleveland.com pick October 7th to announce the endorsement of an attorney general candidate that is backed by a group tied to Hamas?
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Speaker 1: I'll let my listeners draw their own conclusions, but I'm sure its conclusion will all draw together, Jack. I mean, it's either complete lack of awareness or something extraordinarily nefarious. Well, the Democrats are the party of anti-Semitism. We all know that, don't we? Hasn't the memo gotten out, Jack?
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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, look, they're the party that fought to preserve slavery. They're the party that established the Ku Klux Klan. They are the party that wants you to think that the radical Islamists are the oppressed and Israel and Jewish people are the oppressors. And so, yes, they are anti-Semitic. By the way, it's real interesting. The same newspaper back during Ohio's COVID response, there was a state senator. He's still a state senator. He's finishing his term out. Andrew Brenner, his wife made some comment about Amy Acton requiring papers. Remember, she said, I'd love to have immunity certificates to go back to normal life. Well, his wife called that out, and he kind of retweeted it or republished it. Every newspaper, including Cleveland.com, gave him flack and said that those comments smacked of anti-Semitism. Well, here we are six years later, and you have the same run-of-the-mill mainstream press endorsing a guy that is endorsed by people tied to Hamas. You can't make this stuff up.
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Speaker 1: No, you can't. And you can't really read it in most places. As he pointed out, Cleveland.com gave the guy an endorsement. That's why you need to bookmark the OhioPressNetwork.com and find out what's really going on. Don't go away, Jack Windsor. I know we've got more to talk about. I've got to take a quick break here. 850 at 55K or CD Talk Station. Happy Friday. Brian Thomas here with Jack Windsor from the Ohio Press Network, again, at OhioPressNetwork.com. Hey, Jack, it's early voting. You can go out and vote today, can't you, Jack?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely.
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Speaker 1: I'm taking every opportunity at every turn. I can just remind people we need to do this. Yes.
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Speaker 2: Yes, we do for a couple of reasons. Number one, if you're like me, I, you know, you have a busy life and I know you do. And then we also have kids. I have two. bonus kids and my daughter. So I have three kids. We're running all over the place and it's not uncommon for something to come up. And so if you wait until election day and things go sideways, then maybe you miss the chance to vote. So vote early for that reason. Then the second reason is These are close races. Again, I think Vivek Ramaswamy is up a few. I think John Husted is up a couple or a few. But at the end of the day, people are still going to be knocking doors. They're still going to be sending campaign material. So if you vote early, they can check you off the list and then they can go spend their time and resources with other people who are still undecided or who have not yet gone to the polls. So help out your team by voting early.
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Speaker 1: Well, and I don't want you to lie to the listening audience. I really don't have a busy life, Jack. It's kind of boring. Yeah. I, I, I do a lot of naval contemplation to be quite honest with you. Anyway, Jack, I know you didn't want to end on that particular topic. I just threw it out there because I randomly remind people that they can get out and vote. So what do you want to conclude with topic wise?
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Speaker 2: Well, I, you know, we're going to write a story today. I'll just give you a little teaser here. Uh, It appears yesterday at the Statehouse, Auditor of State Keith Faber was with U.S. Undersecretary of Education Kent, and they announced a Jefferson County grand jury indictment. Three people in the theft of roughly $ 20 million from Eastern Gateway Community College there in Steubenville. Now, the school is defunct, and one of the three is Michael Geoghegan of Cincinnati, Eastern Gateway's former CFO. who became its president, nine felony counts. There's aggravated theft over 1.5 million, theft in office, bribery, telecommunications fraud, engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity. And really how this worked is Pell Grants from eligible students were applied across other students, including ineligible ones. And that's what triggered this federal government to start questioning the college's participation in the Pell Grant and other federal aid programs. And what they uncovered is allegedly, got to be careful, over $ 20 million of inappropriate use of taxpayer dollars. And the sad part is that school was intended for people who maybe can't get out of the area to go to other colleges or area folks who graduated high school and need a degree. And that school is now gone.
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Speaker 1: That's a shame. When did this conduct start, this alleged criminal activity start?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a great question. So back in 2023, there were indictments against two earlier administrators over roughly $ 43, 000 in credit card misuse. Those charges were dismissed. This is a separate racketeering case, 40 times the dollar amount, but it was built with the Department of Education's program review. My guess is, Brian, this probably came on the right about that time. So looking back at 23, 24, and then the school closed in 25. But I think this is over a series of years.
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Speaker 1: Well, fraud is a real big topic for my listeners and me. Governments rarely care a whit about how efficient the taxpayer dollars are used, as we well know. But we find that people are being ripped off. And how easy it is to discover it, Jack, that's the thing that I wanted to know. That's why I asked you, how long was it going on until somebody up there finally said, you know what, we've got to do an investigation on this. Oh, wow, this was so easy to perpetrate this fraud because of the way the system was set up. Time to fix the system. Best practices across the board, Jack.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so here's what I'll say about that. A lot of my pals in the press love to write about the fact that Republicans have been in control for so many years. Why are we just finding all this fraud now? People need to understand an elected official is wholly different than the administrative state. The administrative state generally is run by people who tend to be on the left and by people who are in public unions. And frankly, they protect themselves. There's a ton of waste, fraud, and abuse going on. They just don't want to call the money back. They don't want indictments because then they're hurting their fellow union members, their friends that vote the same way that they do. The reality is Ohio has gotten more serious about this. And Vivek Ramaswamy said several months back, he's going to continue to push waste, fraud, and abuse discoveries in Ohio's Medicaid system And he's actually working with the federal government to make sure that Ohio would get 65 cents of every dollar it claws back. Right now, we would get 35 cents. And his pitch to D.C. is, hey, if you get 35 cents, that's better than 65 cents because nobody's doing it now anyway. And so I think that if we continue down the road of getting people in key positions that want to prosecute waste, fraud and abuse and call back taxpayer dollars, I think we're on a good path.
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Speaker 1: We're on a good path, a path to begin today. If you haven't voted yet, get out and vote. Jack Windsor, theohiopressnetwork.com. We'll do this again next Friday. I hope you have a fantastic weekend, a week between now and then.
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Speaker 2: You too, brother. Thank you so much.
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Speaker 1: 8.31, 55KRCD Talk Station. Happy Friday. Let's begin this segment with Jack Windsor from the Ohio Press Network with a prayer. Please, dear God, do not let this Zoom conference collapse. Otherwise, we'll lose contact with Jack Windsor. We all fly by the seat of our pants when Strecker's out of town. That is not casting aspersions on Danny Gleason. I just found out today, Jack, that Joe pays for the extra upgrade for Zoom, which allows you to do unlimited length calls. My employer does not pay for that service. Draw your own conclusion, Jack Windsor. Welcome back to the morning show. It's always great having you on and bookmark theohiopressnetwork.com. Where are we coming out of the gate on? What topic, Jack?
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Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you what, if you want, let's talk about that CNN poll because CNN says Amy Acton is up eight in Ohio. And if you don't look at the polls methodology and check their sample, you might be running around a little bit concerned today and listeners and their neighbors are going to hear Acton's up eight and that could affect things. So if you want to start there, let's start there.
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Speaker 1: Let's start there. And I can note, because I'm looking at it, the post from the late September, the Suffolk poll had Acton up nine points. So these back-to-back polls that make it really look bad for Ramaswamy. So what's the story on the CNN poll and shed some light on it for us, Jack?
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Speaker 2: Yes. So Acton is up eight, Brown is up six. Now there's 39 pages to that poll. So I dove in, looked at the crosstabs, read the methodology and, And what I found out is about a third of the respondents never came off a voter file. They came off what's called an opt-in survey panel. So these are the people that are politicos, that are eager and excited to take these surveys. And of course, they lean left. And the other issue is that the weighting of the responses is affected by motivation. So they tell you that in the crosstabs, or they tell you that in the description. And the report shows that the most motivated respondents are Democrats. So they're oversampling Democrats, and then they're weighing Democrats' responses more than Republican responses. And the margin of error is about four and a half points. So that means that each candidate's number could be off four and a half one direction, four and a half the other. So it could be off a total of nine. So when you look at that, eight and six are in general within that margin of error. And the other interesting point is that came out early yesterday. And then later in the day, another poll came out from Coefficient. And if you put CNN next to that one, Coefficient screens likely voters, which matters in this case. And that actually has Ramaswamy up and Husted up. So voters are going, wait a minute, how can we be off that much? But those are two polls that dropped yesterday.
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Speaker 1: Now, do you scribe a nefarious intent to the way they sample to bring about a result that has Amy Acton up eight or nine points or whatever many points?
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Speaker 2: If I weren't a member of the press, I would go, I don't know if that's the case. Being a member of the press, absolutely. I do believe it. I believe that they find ways to serve up information that serves their ultimate purpose. And let's make no bones about it. CNN and all of the mainstream outlets certainly lean toward the progressive candidates and movements. The interesting thing that they do, though, is they show their work. And so if you're diligent and you look at what comes along with the final poll results, you can usually figure out, OK, here's how they oversampled. So it's almost like they're going, yeah, we're puffing it up a little bit, but we're going to give you the full Monty. That way you can do your own work and figure it out. But Brian, you and I both know most people don't read beyond the headlines. And so I think it is a nefarious tactic.
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Speaker 1: Well, it is. And I'm sure there's some psychological profile out there that says people are less inclined to go vote if they see that the candidate they don't want elected is winning or leading by a margin. Oh, what's the point of getting up off your butt? I don't share that perspective. I mean, my view is Damn it. I am not going to allow that to happen. I'm going to go out and vote and prevent this large margin of victory. But the point I ultimately go back to, there's always a post-mortem analysis of these polls. And we even saw the one poll where they came out and they admitted exactly cheated or they intentionally lied in the polling results just to, I guess, see what happens as some sort of weird experiment. But this takes all of their credibility away, Jack. Now, if Houston wins by a few or if Ramaswamy wins by a few or maybe 10, And they're going to look back and say, how in God's name could CNN get it so wrong unless they were intentionally biased? I'm never paying attention to another damn CNN poll again.
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Speaker 2: Well, and look, whether it's Suffolk, whether it's Marist, whether it's CNN, whether it's New York Times, Sienna, when you look at Ohio, Brian, and I've been saying this a lot, but we just have to keep repeating it. You look back at 2018, Cordray was up three or four over DeWine late in the fall. And, of course, you know, there was like a nine-point swing. DeWine won that. I think it was by four or six. And then in 2022, same thing. Tim Ryan allegedly was leading J.D. Vance by a few. Vance won by six. 2024, Sherrod Brown is leading Bernie Marino by two. And then Bernie ends up winning by almost four. So anywhere from six and a half to about nine points is how these polls traditionally skew. So if you just applied that historical pattern, set of facts, you'd go, okay, so if Acton is up nine, it might be tied. If Brown is up six, then maybe Husted's up three. And then when you look at this other poll, coefficient has Husted up 44, 43, and Ramaswamy up 45, 43. Just reading between the lines and analyzing this, if I had to give you where I think this is, I would say Husted's probably up three to four, and Ramaswami's maybe up three. Now, I've always said Ramaswami's up five, but I think, I think Acton's tightening that race, but I think that, I think Ramaswami will pull away down the stretch.
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Speaker 1: Stick around for more with the ohiopressnetwork.com's Jack Windsor. Got lots of things to talk about before the end of the show. 841-55-KRCD Talk Station, theohiopressnetwork.com. Jack Windsor on the show every Friday between 830 and the close. I appreciate your thoughts and comments and insight there, Jack Windsor, and my listening audience does as well, and What the hell's with this John Kulowitz for Attorney General? You got the Cleveland paper endorsed this guy?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. Wait till you hear this.
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Speaker 1: The Plain Dealer, right?
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Speaker 2: Yes, Cleveland Plain Dealer. Their digital property is cleveland.com. And by circulation, they are the state's largest newspaper. So I want listeners to keep that in their minds.
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Speaker 1: So they have 5,000 people subscribing. Well played.
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Speaker 2: John Kulowicz is the Democrat nominee for Ohio Attorney General. Here's what's important about this. He was endorsed by a group called CARE. CARE is a designated terrorist organization in Florida and Texas. It was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas funding case. Cleveland.com announced... its endorsement of Kulawix. And again, Kulawix was endorsed by CARE in the primary. They announced the endorsement of Kulawix on October 7th, the anniversary of Hamas's 2023 massacre of 1,200 people in Israel. So, Brian, the question is, of 365 days, why the hell did Cleveland.com pick October 7th to announce the endorsement of an attorney general candidate that is backed by a group tied to Hamas?
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Speaker 1: I'll let my listeners draw their own conclusions, but I'm sure its conclusion will all draw together, Jack. I mean, it's either complete lack of awareness or something extraordinarily nefarious. Well, the Democrats are the party of anti-Semitism. We all know that, don't we? Hasn't the memo gotten out, Jack?
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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, look, they're the party that fought to preserve slavery. They're the party that established the Ku Klux Klan. They are the party that wants you to think that the radical Islamists are the oppressed and Israel and Jewish people are the oppressors. And so, yes, they are anti-Semitic. By the way, it's real interesting. The same newspaper back during Ohio's COVID response, there was a state senator. He's still a state senator. He's finishing his term out. Andrew Brenner, his wife made some comment about Amy Acton requiring papers. Remember, she said, I'd love to have immunity certificates to go back to normal life. Well, his wife called that out, and he kind of retweeted it or republished it. Every newspaper, including Cleveland.com, gave him flack and said that those comments smacked of anti-Semitism. Well, here we are six years later, and you have the same run-of-the-mill mainstream press endorsing a guy that is endorsed by people tied to Hamas. You can't make this stuff up.
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Speaker 1: No, you can't. And you can't really read it in most places. As he pointed out, Cleveland.com gave the guy an endorsement. That's why you need to bookmark the OhioPressNetwork.com and find out what's really going on. Don't go away, Jack Windsor. I know we've got more to talk about. I've got to take a quick break here. 850 at 55K or CD Talk Station. Happy Friday. Brian Thomas here with Jack Windsor from the Ohio Press Network, again, at OhioPressNetwork.com. Hey, Jack, it's early voting. You can go out and vote today, can't you, Jack?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely.
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Speaker 1: I'm taking every opportunity at every turn. I can just remind people we need to do this. Yes.
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Speaker 2: Yes, we do for a couple of reasons. Number one, if you're like me, I, you know, you have a busy life and I know you do. And then we also have kids. I have two. bonus kids and my daughter. So I have three kids. We're running all over the place and it's not uncommon for something to come up. And so if you wait until election day and things go sideways, then maybe you miss the chance to vote. So vote early for that reason. Then the second reason is These are close races. Again, I think Vivek Ramaswamy is up a few. I think John Husted is up a couple or a few. But at the end of the day, people are still going to be knocking doors. They're still going to be sending campaign material. So if you vote early, they can check you off the list and then they can go spend their time and resources with other people who are still undecided or who have not yet gone to the polls. So help out your team by voting early.
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Speaker 1: Well, and I don't want you to lie to the listening audience. I really don't have a busy life, Jack. It's kind of boring. Yeah. I, I, I do a lot of naval contemplation to be quite honest with you. Anyway, Jack, I know you didn't want to end on that particular topic. I just threw it out there because I randomly remind people that they can get out and vote. So what do you want to conclude with topic wise?
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Speaker 2: Well, I, you know, we're going to write a story today. I'll just give you a little teaser here. Uh, It appears yesterday at the Statehouse, Auditor of State Keith Faber was with U.S. Undersecretary of Education Kent, and they announced a Jefferson County grand jury indictment. Three people in the theft of roughly $ 20 million from Eastern Gateway Community College there in Steubenville. Now, the school is defunct, and one of the three is Michael Geoghegan of Cincinnati, Eastern Gateway's former CFO. who became its president, nine felony counts. There's aggravated theft over 1.5 million, theft in office, bribery, telecommunications fraud, engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity. And really how this worked is Pell Grants from eligible students were applied across other students, including ineligible ones. And that's what triggered this federal government to start questioning the college's participation in the Pell Grant and other federal aid programs. And what they uncovered is allegedly, got to be careful, over $ 20 million of inappropriate use of taxpayer dollars. And the sad part is that school was intended for people who maybe can't get out of the area to go to other colleges or area folks who graduated high school and need a degree. And that school is now gone.
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Speaker 1: That's a shame. When did this conduct start, this alleged criminal activity start?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a great question. So back in 2023, there were indictments against two earlier administrators over roughly $ 43, 000 in credit card misuse. Those charges were dismissed. This is a separate racketeering case, 40 times the dollar amount, but it was built with the Department of Education's program review. My guess is, Brian, this probably came on the right about that time. So looking back at 23, 24, and then the school closed in 25. But I think this is over a series of years.
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Speaker 1: Well, fraud is a real big topic for my listeners and me. Governments rarely care a whit about how efficient the taxpayer dollars are used, as we well know. But we find that people are being ripped off. And how easy it is to discover it, Jack, that's the thing that I wanted to know. That's why I asked you, how long was it going on until somebody up there finally said, you know what, we've got to do an investigation on this. Oh, wow, this was so easy to perpetrate this fraud because of the way the system was set up. Time to fix the system. Best practices across the board, Jack.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so here's what I'll say about that. A lot of my pals in the press love to write about the fact that Republicans have been in control for so many years. Why are we just finding all this fraud now? People need to understand an elected official is wholly different than the administrative state. The administrative state generally is run by people who tend to be on the left and by people who are in public unions. And frankly, they protect themselves. There's a ton of waste, fraud, and abuse going on. They just don't want to call the money back. They don't want indictments because then they're hurting their fellow union members, their friends that vote the same way that they do. The reality is Ohio has gotten more serious about this. And Vivek Ramaswamy said several months back, he's going to continue to push waste, fraud, and abuse discoveries in Ohio's Medicaid system And he's actually working with the federal government to make sure that Ohio would get 65 cents of every dollar it claws back. Right now, we would get 35 cents. And his pitch to D.C. is, hey, if you get 35 cents, that's better than 65 cents because nobody's doing it now anyway. And so I think that if we continue down the road of getting people in key positions that want to prosecute waste, fraud and abuse and call back taxpayer dollars, I think we're on a good path.
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Speaker 1: We're on a good path, a path to begin today. If you haven't voted yet, get out and vote. Jack Windsor, theohiopressnetwork.com. We'll do this again next Friday. I hope you have a fantastic weekend, a week between now and then.
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Speaker 2: You too, brother. Thank you so much.
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