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Speaker 2: 830 on a Friday. It is that time of week I look forward to. I look forward to a lot of times during the week. Special guests on the program, but regular guests included, and thank God for them. And it's time for the ohiopressnetworks.com. Jack Windsor. Jack, good to see you this morning. I get the pleasure of seeing him on video, and of course my listeners get the opportunity to hear him talk about the issues that he brings up all the time on the ohiopressnetwork.com. Jack, always good to have you on the program.
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Speaker 3: Brian, always an honor to be here with you and Joe and the listeners. And your listeners are lucky.
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Speaker 1: They only get to hear me. You have to see me. I have a face for radio.
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Speaker 2: I have one too. Although I have a new headshot on my blog page because the old one was like 10 years old. And no, I don't look like that anymore. So I had to update that. The prior one, I looked like I was 10 years old. So a little slow keeping things up to date, but that's about all anybody needs to see of me. Jack Windsor, somebody needs to see more of Amy Acton except on her television spots. And I I know she's been hiding in the basement, and I guess I brought this up earlier because Vivek Ramaswamy is on the program, and he did say out loud, I want to debate her. Listen, I'll debate her anywhere. CNN, NBC, MSNBC, basically he threw out a bunch of left-wing. He doesn't care. He wants an opportunity to engage in a back-and-forth, and who wouldn't want that opportunity? But Amy Acton's television commercials, her own produced television commercials, Jack, you see the one they run on TV? I'm just wondering, when we get that, and that is the best they could hopefully come up with, that's as polished as we're going to get, she is not exactly confidence-inspiring, I have to observe.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I don't know.
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Speaker 3: So I say this now because someone said this to me earlier in the week. They said, Jack, you're not normal. And what they were trying to say is I'm a little more of a politico, I guess, and you and I probably fall into that same striping.
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Speaker 2: As too many of the listeners.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we dwell on it. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: And so, you know, I don't know, usually after Labor Day, people kind of start tuning in, but we're about, you know, 50 plus days away from the election. And I think people are starting to pay more attention today than they were, say, 60 days ago. And I think that's bad for Amy Acton, frankly, is how I'm going to boil it down. I emceed the Ohio Christian Alliance event last night. Vivek Ramaswamy was there. I was able to introduce him. And he said, you know, I'll take a couple of questions, but we were tight on time. We only, only, uh, got to ask, or excuse me, answer to. And one of the questions was from somebody that was not hostile, but was basically, hey, you know, I voted for Trump. I'm really dissatisfied, really kind of pissed off. Are you going to sell this out like Trump, essentially? And Vivek Ramaswamy thanked him, you know, took the question, and he answered it.
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Speaker 1: And I remember standing there.
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Speaker 3: Thinking, can you imagine if Amy Acton was asked a question and about Joe.
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Speaker 1: Biden or the Democrats or, Amy, are you going to sell us out?
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Speaker 3: I would almost fully expect her armed guard to come over and apprehend the person and say, no more questions. But one thing, regardless of where you stand with his political ideology and his policy positions, Vivek Ramaswamy is not afraid to take questions. And he's not afraid to take questions from people who are not just there to appease him or to give him praise. And I think there's something to say about that.
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Speaker 1: I think voters are starting to see that.
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Speaker 2: Well, I would hope so. And who cannot see her outright refusal to debate him? What possible reason would a candidate have for not doing so? Has she articulated anything that she could possibly hang her hat on along those lines, Jack?
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Speaker 3: Well, you know, it's a lot of political posturing. And frankly, I don't know if it's Amy Acton doing it. You've heard me say, I think you and I might agree on this. David Pepper's running that show. If she wins, he's going to be running the show.
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Speaker 2: Puppet master.
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Speaker 3: And she's the out front dog and pony show performer, right? So really, Vivek said it last night. She's not afraid of him. I think she's afraid of voters. I think she's afraid of handling the hard questions. And I've got to give you my lived experience again. Go back six years to her being right in the middle of the state's COVID response. And on at least two occasions, I asked some really hard questions. And by the way, I wasn't mean. I just asked questions because the data and scoreboard that they used wasn't adding up to the policies and so on and so forth. And any time that I asked a hard question, she would miss the next day's press conference. And so I think that there is just kind of this baked-in sensitivity. I don't think she's cut for this. I don't think she's hardwired for it. And therefore, they're going with the Joe Biden strategy, keep her in the basement, talk a lot of smack about her opponent, and just hope that her likability is high enough that voters push the button or.
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Speaker 1: Pull the lever for her.
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Speaker 2: Well, she wasn't up to the task of the medical director. She walked off that job, Jack.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, less than 100 days in. And by the way, I think she's quit every job she's had. If you remember, she didn't want to be front and center. DeWine, during a state hiring freeze, hired her for $ 230, 000 a year as his personal advisor. That lasted not very long. And then she went on to some nonprofit and then another and then another. And if you remember, I think it was 2022, she was going to run for U.S. Senate and didn't do that. She walked out on that opportunity, went somewhere else, quit that job. And, you know, one of the things I've been trying to determine is does she or has she ever practiced medicine? I don't have any evidence to say that she has. So I'm really at a loss other than being a professor of public health. What has she done? And when she did do something where the going got tough, as you said, less than 100 days in, she quit.
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Speaker 2: Quit and won't debate. Not exactly a profile in courage, Jack Winters. Don't go away. We're going to get your thoughts and comments on the Brown versus Husted race and how that one can be close is another one that puzzles me. Plus, the tail end of the program, the continuing saga of Representative Ismail Muhammad. He's got some real problems on his hands, and Jack has been hounding him and riding him like a circus pony. Don't go away. More with Jack Windsor after these words. 55KRC.
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Speaker 1: 839-55KRC, the talk station.
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Speaker 2: It's a new talk this morning. I think it is. I really think it is. I had someone in my studio earlier in the week, a Republican strategist by the name of Bob Clegg. And because, by the way, there are some accusations floating around on social media that.
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Speaker 3: From people on the left who say, well, why are you so mad that Amy Acton isn't going to debate? Because John Husted is not going to debate. His campaign has not told me that. There just is not something scheduled. We'll probably get into this. There was a poll, two polls that came out recently, one last night, one earlier in the week. And I'm trying to find it here. A good number of people, a majority of people say that a debate is important. 55% say a televised governor's debate is very important. 87% say it is at least somewhat important. So I'm assuming there may not be that much crossover for U.S.
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Speaker 1: Senate.
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Speaker 3: But my guess is a majority of people probably say, yeah, it's important to hear from the candidates directly on certain issues and to allow them to address issues. some of the skeletons in their closet, if you will, the stuff that always comes out down the stretch here.
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Speaker 2: Well, and that's exactly why you would want to debate. If a candidate is being targeted and attacked in these PAC, political action committee ads can be really harsh. I mean, if a candidate doesn't have to approve them, they can pretty much say anything because these folks are public figures, you get away with a lot. So with that stated, if I am running for office and I'm being publicly attacked, and I know that these are demonstrably false claims, or at least, you know, hiding the reality of what is being asserted, I would like to get out in the open and talk about it. You know, I mean, why wouldn't you avail yourself to any possible opportunity to do exactly that? So in what other conclusion can one draw is maybe perhaps the candidate that doesn't want to debate perhaps is concerned about the truth of some of these allegations being stated. There's an option.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely.
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Speaker 3: And, you know, some people would argue that Sherrod Brown has some stuff But he's had some stuff for several decades. He continues to carry it with him every election cycle.
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Speaker 1: Of course, you and I both know what John.
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Speaker 3: Husted would be attacked on, the House Bill 6 stuff. So that would be fresh. Well, that might be tricky there for him.
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Speaker 1: Go ahead. Sorry.
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Speaker 2: Oh, it's the Larry. Just to remind my listeners, that's the whole energy Larry Householder thing.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 2: OK.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. And I don't know, by the way, if if if those there are certain investigations on a on a state level that are still going on. I don't know if John Husted would be able to comment on some of that, frankly. I know that he had been subpoenaed. I don't know where that is in the process. That might make it a little trickier. But going back to the polls, what we're seeing, other than the Fox poll that came out late in the summer that had Brown plus eight, this latest series of polls has Brown somewhere between three and four. So You had the Bowling Green State University poll earlier in the week with YouGov. And then last night, Trafalgar, which I think most people consider a little bit right-leaning, also had Brown between 3% and 4%.
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Speaker 1: And a couple of interesting things in both of those polls.
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Speaker 3: Democrats are more motivated almost by a two-to-one ratio. And I think that's going to be the tale of the tape, Brian. Are Republicans going to get off the couch? Are they going to go pull the lever? And what we're hearing a lot now, and I say this all the time, you say it, if you're 80% aligned with somebody... don't wait until you're 100% aligned. It's never going to happen. To allow socialism to continue to creep, and make no mistake about it, that's what Republicans are up against.
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Speaker 1: You're dealing with creeping socialism.
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Speaker 2: Well, and, you know, Sherrod Brown's a liberal guy. He isn't on record with radical, you know, let's destroy the Constitution policies. But his voting record suggests that it doesn't matter what they're voting for. If it's Democrat-inspired, he's going to vote for it 99% of the time. He never bucks the system. And this is where I worry. The DSA is making great inroads in the Democratic Party. They're taking over. They're running the show. They've got regular mainstream Democrats running scared, with the exception of Fetterman. Where do you think Sherrod Brown would vote on this? And if you're concerned about the DSA, and you should be, a vote for Sherrod Brown would be a vote for these damn policies.
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Speaker 3: You're 100% accurate. That is the part about Sherrod Brown that I think is really tricky. He has political acumen. I always say campaign Sherrod is wholly different than D.C.
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Speaker 1: Sherrod.
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Speaker 2: Perfect way to put it. D.C.
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Speaker 1: Sherrod votes with the radical left.
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Speaker 3: If the DSA takes over the party, Sherrod Brown's going to stamp it with approval by voting yes. And by the way, I thought this was interesting. One of the polls that came out, you may find this a little comical, one in four voters actually still believes that Sherrod Brown is the incumbent.
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Speaker 2: Holy cow.
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Speaker 1: Isn't that crazy?
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Speaker 2: Well, he's been in politics for 50 years.
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Speaker 3: I might ride that pony for a while if I were Houston and say, I haven't even been here long enough to find the bathrooms. A quarter of you still think that Sherrod's the guy, so I need some more time here.
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Speaker 2: That's a very good point. Man, that is a reflection of political ignorance that I don't think I can quite cope with, Jack.
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Speaker 1: Well, it's a little unnerving, isn't it?
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Speaker 2: Well, when half of our school children in K-12 can't identify the three branches of government, we know we've got problems on our hands. That just illustrates it even further to a specific race point. Speaking of specific races, Jack Windsor from the Ohio Press Network is going to shed some light on State Representative Ishmael Muhammad, who's been struggling with Jack Windsor's questioning of late. Also has some residency problems. We'll learn about that with the Ohio Press Network's Jack Windsor next. Don't go away. 55 KRC Detox Station. It's 847 and 55 KRC Detox Station.
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Speaker 1: It's Friday.
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Speaker 2: I hope you've got some great plans for the weekend. I'm going to be at the Parkinson's Steady Stride event at the Linder Family Tennis Center tomorrow beginning at 8 o'clock. It's a great event. The biggest fundraiser for the Parkinson's Wellness and Support Group that they have all year. Fun and games, food, music, and activity. It's good for Parkinson's. It's good for the organization. So join me there tomorrow after 8. And Jack Windsor, you can join him online every single day, and I recommend you do. Bookmark the site, theohiopressnetwork.com, where you can read about the antics of State Representative Ishmael Muhammad. What's with this guy, Jack?
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Speaker 3: Well, he has a bevy of issues, Brian. One is a home. By the way, let me go back. State Rep Ishmael Muhammad is a Democrat. He represents House District 3, which covers Linden, part of the University District, for those of you in Cincinnati, northern Columbus, okay? It's all in Franklin County, his district. Well, Delaware County auditor records show Muhammad and a woman named Hoda Adhiz bought a nearly $ 587, 000 home on Heather Ridge Drive in October 2025. And the records list an owner occupancy credit. And that credit applies to a person's main residence. That's problematic because Delaware County is not in his district. So His opponent, Bernadine Kennedy Kent, challenged his voter registration. And the week before the hearing, Muhammad changed his registration from one in-district address to another. And the challenge named the old address. So on Monday, the Franklin County Board of Elections dismissed the case unanimously. Kent's attorney, Kurt Hartman, came on my show.
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Speaker 1: We talked.
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Speaker 3: He says he will refile. He has refiled. against the new address. The hearing is scheduled for September 28th. Muhammad and Adhiz were both in the room, sat on opposite sides in that hearing. His office will not comment. I've sent them two series of questions, about 20 questions total. Now, here's why this is problematic. The law, two separate rules. Article 2, Section 3 of the Ohio Constitution says a representative must live in the district for one full year before the election. Ohio Revised Code Section 3.15 says He must stay a resident for the whole term or forfeit the seat. The house was bought October 2025. The election, of course, is November 3rd of this year. He has a money problem, too, but I'll let you marinate in that for just a minute.
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Speaker 2: Well, I want to understand, the first filing shows him outside of the district. The second, the revised filing, is it also outside of the district, the second residence he identified?
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Speaker 1: So his.
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Speaker 3: Initially, the contest was against an address that he had on record. He said it was address A, and they said, well, you signed documentation saying that this Delaware County residence is your residence, which is it.
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Speaker 2: You only get one primary residence.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 2: Like if you have a summer home in Florida, you either pick Florida as your domicile state, you pick Ohio, but bottom line, you only have one. So the filing, it wasn't in his filing to state his declaring for the race or- It was independent of that. So in one record, he says he's in the district, and in another, he has identified it as his primary residence outside of the district.
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Speaker 1: Correct.
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Speaker 3: And to make matters more confusing, when the complaint came to the Board of Elections, he listed in a third address, a separate address in the district, not tied to that.
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Speaker 1: Home, that $ 587, 000.
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Speaker 3: Home that he bought in Delaware County. So- The contest now is against that new address that he listed, and they're contesting that he lives in Delaware County. And oh, by the way, I should mention this, because he is required to file paperwork with an ethics committee on his assets as a lawmaker. The last time that he did that, he did not list the home in Delaware County on the form. The only time that you don't have to do that is if that home is your primary residence. His... Wife slash girlfriend, we have not been able to determine which she is because she lists herself as both, sent a letter to the Board of Elections and said, this is my boy, or says that she's a girlfriend, that she lives in a separate place and that Delaware County is an investment property. Well, if that were the case, he would have and should have and must have listed that property as an investment property on his financial filings, and he didn't do that. So he has a lot of things going on where he says one thing here, another thing there. They're not adding up, and it could be extremely problematic.
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Speaker 2: Well, I imagine this all would impact his taxes too, would it not, Jack?
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 2: Okay. So there's a tax, there's an IRS person out there, maybe somebody within the state of Ohio that's responsible for collecting Ohio taxes, property as well. You know, you get a substantial discount primary residence, like the homestead exemption, Jack. I mean, that comes into play, doesn't it? Are there school districts and teachers unions out there wondering why in the hell you didn't pay? This is a complicated mess.
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Speaker 1: Well, hold your beer.
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Speaker 2: Oh, good.
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Speaker 3: It's worse. So, yeah. So there's a campaign finance complaint that was filed by Lisa Chafee. She's secretary of the Franklin County Republican Party. Per the complaint in the filings, the committee, his committee. reported a balance of $ 97, 000 in change on a 2024 post-general election report. The 2025 annual report carries forward only $ 3, 000. So now the question is, where did $ 94, 000 or $ 93, 000 plus dollars go? By the way, this is the same time that if you look at his mortgage documentation, he put $ 58, 700 cash down.
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Speaker 1: On the payment for the Delaware County house. So people are going, okay, we're.
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Speaker 3: Not saying that some of that money came from the campaign coffers, but they have not accounted for the money in the campaign coffers.
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Speaker 1: What's going on here.
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Speaker 3: And I will remind you if you're buying an almost $ 600, 000 house, you can run the mortgage calculation on that. Brian, what is that? 4,000, $ 5, 000 a month, probably just ballparking it. Uh, if you're, if you're a state representative, what do you make 70? So the math ain't math in there. Hmm.
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Speaker 2: Maybe he's a Nepo baby.
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Speaker 1: Well, perhaps.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm just throwing it out there.
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Speaker 3: You know, I got to be careful what I say, but when you talk Nepo baby and you're talking about the Somali community, there is a lot of money sharing that has gone on in other parts of the country. Not saying that's going on here, but if it were going on, it might make a lot more sense.
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Speaker 2: Well, this all seems at least worthy of investigation. Jack, when's he been trying to? He just won't answer any questions. Do you know if any authorities are involved in this by any chance?
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Speaker 1: Yes, they are.
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Speaker 3: I can say now here's the part, the campaign finance part.
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Speaker 1: I will tell you this.
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Speaker 3: The secretary of state has an investigative unit. Generally, though, they work with candidates and committees to bring them into compliance.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 3: They're not trying to do a gotcha. They're trying to say, listen, here's how you have to do it. If you're going to do it, if you can account for it, this is what you need to do. But the Secretary of State's office is looking into this matter. The Board of Elections is looking into this matter. I have every indication now that the mortgage company is looking into this matter because when he signed the mortgage document, he pledged to be in that home within 60 days in order for that mortgage to be in effect and that it would be a primary residence. If he's saying it's not his primary residence, he now has a problem with the mortgage company.
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Speaker 2: I just wrote attorney general down. So you may have a problem with the attorney general too, Jack Windsor. And maybe the FBI. There you have it. We'll get everybody involved. Ishmael Muhammad, state representative, state of Ohio. Jack Windsor, the ohiopressnetwork.com bookmark it. You'd be glad you did. And you can read more about Mr. Ismail or Mr. Muhammad down the road because I'm sure Jack will answer all the questions that are pending. Jack, we'll do this again next Friday, my friend. Have a wonderful weekend.
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Speaker 2: 830 on a Friday. It is that time of week I look forward to. I look forward to a lot of times during the week. Special guests on the program, but regular guests included, and thank God for them. And it's time for the ohiopressnetworks.com. Jack Windsor. Jack, good to see you this morning. I get the pleasure of seeing him on video, and of course my listeners get the opportunity to hear him talk about the issues that he brings up all the time on the ohiopressnetwork.com. Jack, always good to have you on the program.
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Speaker 3: Brian, always an honor to be here with you and Joe and the listeners. And your listeners are lucky.
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Speaker 1: They only get to hear me. You have to see me. I have a face for radio.
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Speaker 2: I have one too. Although I have a new headshot on my blog page because the old one was like 10 years old. And no, I don't look like that anymore. So I had to update that. The prior one, I looked like I was 10 years old. So a little slow keeping things up to date, but that's about all anybody needs to see of me. Jack Windsor, somebody needs to see more of Amy Acton except on her television spots. And I I know she's been hiding in the basement, and I guess I brought this up earlier because Vivek Ramaswamy is on the program, and he did say out loud, I want to debate her. Listen, I'll debate her anywhere. CNN, NBC, MSNBC, basically he threw out a bunch of left-wing. He doesn't care. He wants an opportunity to engage in a back-and-forth, and who wouldn't want that opportunity? But Amy Acton's television commercials, her own produced television commercials, Jack, you see the one they run on TV? I'm just wondering, when we get that, and that is the best they could hopefully come up with, that's as polished as we're going to get, she is not exactly confidence-inspiring, I have to observe.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I don't know.
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Speaker 3: So I say this now because someone said this to me earlier in the week. They said, Jack, you're not normal. And what they were trying to say is I'm a little more of a politico, I guess, and you and I probably fall into that same striping.
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Speaker 2: As too many of the listeners.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we dwell on it. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: And so, you know, I don't know, usually after Labor Day, people kind of start tuning in, but we're about, you know, 50 plus days away from the election. And I think people are starting to pay more attention today than they were, say, 60 days ago. And I think that's bad for Amy Acton, frankly, is how I'm going to boil it down. I emceed the Ohio Christian Alliance event last night. Vivek Ramaswamy was there. I was able to introduce him. And he said, you know, I'll take a couple of questions, but we were tight on time. We only, only, uh, got to ask, or excuse me, answer to. And one of the questions was from somebody that was not hostile, but was basically, hey, you know, I voted for Trump. I'm really dissatisfied, really kind of pissed off. Are you going to sell this out like Trump, essentially? And Vivek Ramaswamy thanked him, you know, took the question, and he answered it.
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Speaker 1: And I remember standing there.
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Speaker 3: Thinking, can you imagine if Amy Acton was asked a question and about Joe.
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Speaker 1: Biden or the Democrats or, Amy, are you going to sell us out?
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Speaker 3: I would almost fully expect her armed guard to come over and apprehend the person and say, no more questions. But one thing, regardless of where you stand with his political ideology and his policy positions, Vivek Ramaswamy is not afraid to take questions. And he's not afraid to take questions from people who are not just there to appease him or to give him praise. And I think there's something to say about that.
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Speaker 1: I think voters are starting to see that.
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Speaker 2: Well, I would hope so. And who cannot see her outright refusal to debate him? What possible reason would a candidate have for not doing so? Has she articulated anything that she could possibly hang her hat on along those lines, Jack?
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Speaker 3: Well, you know, it's a lot of political posturing. And frankly, I don't know if it's Amy Acton doing it. You've heard me say, I think you and I might agree on this. David Pepper's running that show. If she wins, he's going to be running the show.
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Speaker 2: Puppet master.
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Speaker 3: And she's the out front dog and pony show performer, right? So really, Vivek said it last night. She's not afraid of him. I think she's afraid of voters. I think she's afraid of handling the hard questions. And I've got to give you my lived experience again. Go back six years to her being right in the middle of the state's COVID response. And on at least two occasions, I asked some really hard questions. And by the way, I wasn't mean. I just asked questions because the data and scoreboard that they used wasn't adding up to the policies and so on and so forth. And any time that I asked a hard question, she would miss the next day's press conference. And so I think that there is just kind of this baked-in sensitivity. I don't think she's cut for this. I don't think she's hardwired for it. And therefore, they're going with the Joe Biden strategy, keep her in the basement, talk a lot of smack about her opponent, and just hope that her likability is high enough that voters push the button or.
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Speaker 1: Pull the lever for her.
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Speaker 2: Well, she wasn't up to the task of the medical director. She walked off that job, Jack.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, less than 100 days in. And by the way, I think she's quit every job she's had. If you remember, she didn't want to be front and center. DeWine, during a state hiring freeze, hired her for $ 230, 000 a year as his personal advisor. That lasted not very long. And then she went on to some nonprofit and then another and then another. And if you remember, I think it was 2022, she was going to run for U.S. Senate and didn't do that. She walked out on that opportunity, went somewhere else, quit that job. And, you know, one of the things I've been trying to determine is does she or has she ever practiced medicine? I don't have any evidence to say that she has. So I'm really at a loss other than being a professor of public health. What has she done? And when she did do something where the going got tough, as you said, less than 100 days in, she quit.
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Speaker 2: Quit and won't debate. Not exactly a profile in courage, Jack Winters. Don't go away. We're going to get your thoughts and comments on the Brown versus Husted race and how that one can be close is another one that puzzles me. Plus, the tail end of the program, the continuing saga of Representative Ismail Muhammad. He's got some real problems on his hands, and Jack has been hounding him and riding him like a circus pony. Don't go away. More with Jack Windsor after these words. 55KRC.
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Speaker 1: 839-55KRC, the talk station.
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Speaker 2: It's a new talk this morning. I think it is. I really think it is. I had someone in my studio earlier in the week, a Republican strategist by the name of Bob Clegg. And because, by the way, there are some accusations floating around on social media that.
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Speaker 3: From people on the left who say, well, why are you so mad that Amy Acton isn't going to debate? Because John Husted is not going to debate. His campaign has not told me that. There just is not something scheduled. We'll probably get into this. There was a poll, two polls that came out recently, one last night, one earlier in the week. And I'm trying to find it here. A good number of people, a majority of people say that a debate is important. 55% say a televised governor's debate is very important. 87% say it is at least somewhat important. So I'm assuming there may not be that much crossover for U.S.
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Speaker 1: Senate.
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Speaker 3: But my guess is a majority of people probably say, yeah, it's important to hear from the candidates directly on certain issues and to allow them to address issues. some of the skeletons in their closet, if you will, the stuff that always comes out down the stretch here.
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Speaker 2: Well, and that's exactly why you would want to debate. If a candidate is being targeted and attacked in these PAC, political action committee ads can be really harsh. I mean, if a candidate doesn't have to approve them, they can pretty much say anything because these folks are public figures, you get away with a lot. So with that stated, if I am running for office and I'm being publicly attacked, and I know that these are demonstrably false claims, or at least, you know, hiding the reality of what is being asserted, I would like to get out in the open and talk about it. You know, I mean, why wouldn't you avail yourself to any possible opportunity to do exactly that? So in what other conclusion can one draw is maybe perhaps the candidate that doesn't want to debate perhaps is concerned about the truth of some of these allegations being stated. There's an option.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely.
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Speaker 3: And, you know, some people would argue that Sherrod Brown has some stuff But he's had some stuff for several decades. He continues to carry it with him every election cycle.
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Speaker 1: Of course, you and I both know what John.
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Speaker 3: Husted would be attacked on, the House Bill 6 stuff. So that would be fresh. Well, that might be tricky there for him.
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Speaker 1: Go ahead. Sorry.
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Speaker 2: Oh, it's the Larry. Just to remind my listeners, that's the whole energy Larry Householder thing.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 2: OK.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. And I don't know, by the way, if if if those there are certain investigations on a on a state level that are still going on. I don't know if John Husted would be able to comment on some of that, frankly. I know that he had been subpoenaed. I don't know where that is in the process. That might make it a little trickier. But going back to the polls, what we're seeing, other than the Fox poll that came out late in the summer that had Brown plus eight, this latest series of polls has Brown somewhere between three and four. So You had the Bowling Green State University poll earlier in the week with YouGov. And then last night, Trafalgar, which I think most people consider a little bit right-leaning, also had Brown between 3% and 4%.
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Speaker 1: And a couple of interesting things in both of those polls.
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Speaker 3: Democrats are more motivated almost by a two-to-one ratio. And I think that's going to be the tale of the tape, Brian. Are Republicans going to get off the couch? Are they going to go pull the lever? And what we're hearing a lot now, and I say this all the time, you say it, if you're 80% aligned with somebody... don't wait until you're 100% aligned. It's never going to happen. To allow socialism to continue to creep, and make no mistake about it, that's what Republicans are up against.
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Speaker 1: You're dealing with creeping socialism.
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Speaker 2: Well, and, you know, Sherrod Brown's a liberal guy. He isn't on record with radical, you know, let's destroy the Constitution policies. But his voting record suggests that it doesn't matter what they're voting for. If it's Democrat-inspired, he's going to vote for it 99% of the time. He never bucks the system. And this is where I worry. The DSA is making great inroads in the Democratic Party. They're taking over. They're running the show. They've got regular mainstream Democrats running scared, with the exception of Fetterman. Where do you think Sherrod Brown would vote on this? And if you're concerned about the DSA, and you should be, a vote for Sherrod Brown would be a vote for these damn policies.
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Speaker 3: You're 100% accurate. That is the part about Sherrod Brown that I think is really tricky. He has political acumen. I always say campaign Sherrod is wholly different than D.C.
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Speaker 1: Sherrod.
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Speaker 2: Perfect way to put it. D.C.
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Speaker 1: Sherrod votes with the radical left.
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Speaker 3: If the DSA takes over the party, Sherrod Brown's going to stamp it with approval by voting yes. And by the way, I thought this was interesting. One of the polls that came out, you may find this a little comical, one in four voters actually still believes that Sherrod Brown is the incumbent.
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Speaker 2: Holy cow.
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Speaker 1: Isn't that crazy?
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Speaker 2: Well, he's been in politics for 50 years.
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Speaker 3: I might ride that pony for a while if I were Houston and say, I haven't even been here long enough to find the bathrooms. A quarter of you still think that Sherrod's the guy, so I need some more time here.
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Speaker 2: That's a very good point. Man, that is a reflection of political ignorance that I don't think I can quite cope with, Jack.
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Speaker 1: Well, it's a little unnerving, isn't it?
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Speaker 2: Well, when half of our school children in K-12 can't identify the three branches of government, we know we've got problems on our hands. That just illustrates it even further to a specific race point. Speaking of specific races, Jack Windsor from the Ohio Press Network is going to shed some light on State Representative Ishmael Muhammad, who's been struggling with Jack Windsor's questioning of late. Also has some residency problems. We'll learn about that with the Ohio Press Network's Jack Windsor next. Don't go away. 55 KRC Detox Station. It's 847 and 55 KRC Detox Station.
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Speaker 1: It's Friday.
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Speaker 2: I hope you've got some great plans for the weekend. I'm going to be at the Parkinson's Steady Stride event at the Linder Family Tennis Center tomorrow beginning at 8 o'clock. It's a great event. The biggest fundraiser for the Parkinson's Wellness and Support Group that they have all year. Fun and games, food, music, and activity. It's good for Parkinson's. It's good for the organization. So join me there tomorrow after 8. And Jack Windsor, you can join him online every single day, and I recommend you do. Bookmark the site, theohiopressnetwork.com, where you can read about the antics of State Representative Ishmael Muhammad. What's with this guy, Jack?
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Speaker 3: Well, he has a bevy of issues, Brian. One is a home. By the way, let me go back. State Rep Ishmael Muhammad is a Democrat. He represents House District 3, which covers Linden, part of the University District, for those of you in Cincinnati, northern Columbus, okay? It's all in Franklin County, his district. Well, Delaware County auditor records show Muhammad and a woman named Hoda Adhiz bought a nearly $ 587, 000 home on Heather Ridge Drive in October 2025. And the records list an owner occupancy credit. And that credit applies to a person's main residence. That's problematic because Delaware County is not in his district. So His opponent, Bernadine Kennedy Kent, challenged his voter registration. And the week before the hearing, Muhammad changed his registration from one in-district address to another. And the challenge named the old address. So on Monday, the Franklin County Board of Elections dismissed the case unanimously. Kent's attorney, Kurt Hartman, came on my show.
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Speaker 1: We talked.
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Speaker 3: He says he will refile. He has refiled. against the new address. The hearing is scheduled for September 28th. Muhammad and Adhiz were both in the room, sat on opposite sides in that hearing. His office will not comment. I've sent them two series of questions, about 20 questions total. Now, here's why this is problematic. The law, two separate rules. Article 2, Section 3 of the Ohio Constitution says a representative must live in the district for one full year before the election. Ohio Revised Code Section 3.15 says He must stay a resident for the whole term or forfeit the seat. The house was bought October 2025. The election, of course, is November 3rd of this year. He has a money problem, too, but I'll let you marinate in that for just a minute.
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Speaker 2: Well, I want to understand, the first filing shows him outside of the district. The second, the revised filing, is it also outside of the district, the second residence he identified?
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Speaker 1: So his.
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Speaker 3: Initially, the contest was against an address that he had on record. He said it was address A, and they said, well, you signed documentation saying that this Delaware County residence is your residence, which is it.
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Speaker 2: You only get one primary residence.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 2: Like if you have a summer home in Florida, you either pick Florida as your domicile state, you pick Ohio, but bottom line, you only have one. So the filing, it wasn't in his filing to state his declaring for the race or- It was independent of that. So in one record, he says he's in the district, and in another, he has identified it as his primary residence outside of the district.
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Speaker 1: Correct.
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Speaker 3: And to make matters more confusing, when the complaint came to the Board of Elections, he listed in a third address, a separate address in the district, not tied to that.
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Speaker 1: Home, that $ 587, 000.
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Speaker 3: Home that he bought in Delaware County. So- The contest now is against that new address that he listed, and they're contesting that he lives in Delaware County. And oh, by the way, I should mention this, because he is required to file paperwork with an ethics committee on his assets as a lawmaker. The last time that he did that, he did not list the home in Delaware County on the form. The only time that you don't have to do that is if that home is your primary residence. His... Wife slash girlfriend, we have not been able to determine which she is because she lists herself as both, sent a letter to the Board of Elections and said, this is my boy, or says that she's a girlfriend, that she lives in a separate place and that Delaware County is an investment property. Well, if that were the case, he would have and should have and must have listed that property as an investment property on his financial filings, and he didn't do that. So he has a lot of things going on where he says one thing here, another thing there. They're not adding up, and it could be extremely problematic.
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Speaker 2: Well, I imagine this all would impact his taxes too, would it not, Jack?
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 2: Okay. So there's a tax, there's an IRS person out there, maybe somebody within the state of Ohio that's responsible for collecting Ohio taxes, property as well. You know, you get a substantial discount primary residence, like the homestead exemption, Jack. I mean, that comes into play, doesn't it? Are there school districts and teachers unions out there wondering why in the hell you didn't pay? This is a complicated mess.
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Speaker 1: Well, hold your beer.
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Speaker 2: Oh, good.
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Speaker 3: It's worse. So, yeah. So there's a campaign finance complaint that was filed by Lisa Chafee. She's secretary of the Franklin County Republican Party. Per the complaint in the filings, the committee, his committee. reported a balance of $ 97, 000 in change on a 2024 post-general election report. The 2025 annual report carries forward only $ 3, 000. So now the question is, where did $ 94, 000 or $ 93, 000 plus dollars go? By the way, this is the same time that if you look at his mortgage documentation, he put $ 58, 700 cash down.
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Speaker 1: On the payment for the Delaware County house. So people are going, okay, we're.
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Speaker 3: Not saying that some of that money came from the campaign coffers, but they have not accounted for the money in the campaign coffers.
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Speaker 1: What's going on here.
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Speaker 3: And I will remind you if you're buying an almost $ 600, 000 house, you can run the mortgage calculation on that. Brian, what is that? 4,000, $ 5, 000 a month, probably just ballparking it. Uh, if you're, if you're a state representative, what do you make 70? So the math ain't math in there. Hmm.
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Speaker 2: Maybe he's a Nepo baby.
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Speaker 1: Well, perhaps.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm just throwing it out there.
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Speaker 3: You know, I got to be careful what I say, but when you talk Nepo baby and you're talking about the Somali community, there is a lot of money sharing that has gone on in other parts of the country. Not saying that's going on here, but if it were going on, it might make a lot more sense.
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Speaker 2: Well, this all seems at least worthy of investigation. Jack, when's he been trying to? He just won't answer any questions. Do you know if any authorities are involved in this by any chance?
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Speaker 1: Yes, they are.
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Speaker 3: I can say now here's the part, the campaign finance part.
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Speaker 1: I will tell you this.
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Speaker 3: The secretary of state has an investigative unit. Generally, though, they work with candidates and committees to bring them into compliance.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 3: They're not trying to do a gotcha. They're trying to say, listen, here's how you have to do it. If you're going to do it, if you can account for it, this is what you need to do. But the Secretary of State's office is looking into this matter. The Board of Elections is looking into this matter. I have every indication now that the mortgage company is looking into this matter because when he signed the mortgage document, he pledged to be in that home within 60 days in order for that mortgage to be in effect and that it would be a primary residence. If he's saying it's not his primary residence, he now has a problem with the mortgage company.
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Speaker 2: I just wrote attorney general down. So you may have a problem with the attorney general too, Jack Windsor. And maybe the FBI. There you have it. We'll get everybody involved. Ishmael Muhammad, state representative, state of Ohio. Jack Windsor, the ohiopressnetwork.com bookmark it. You'd be glad you did. And you can read more about Mr. Ismail or Mr. Muhammad down the road because I'm sure Jack will answer all the questions that are pending. Jack, we'll do this again next Friday, my friend. Have a wonderful weekend.
