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Right now, we're talking with Roberto Torres. If you want
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to follow along or if you need information on where
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Roberto stands on anything, you can contact him directly, or
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you can go to Torres for Toledo dot com and
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it's the word for not the number four Torres for
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Toledo dot com.
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So why you and not Wade.
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Wade's got experience, He's got a great TV commercial, He's
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fixing the roads. He's said crime is down, investment is up,
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blah blah blah blah blah, all the things that he says.
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So why should I change horses in midstream?
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Because in the last eight years, ten thousand Toledo wins
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has a lot to city. If everything is going so well,
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why do we continue to lose population? If everything is
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going so well? Why is it that we have a
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revenue problem? Why is it that we have to operate
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under a budget deficit? Why is it that when the
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administration when Wade received one hundred and eighty five million
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dollars unprecedented last three years, one hundred and eighty five
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million dollars, Why is it that we still had to
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operate rate on a budget deficit. Why is it that
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he's taking money from the CIP, from the Rady Day
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Fund in order to balance the budget. All of those
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things are inflicted by the administration. Why is it that
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we're top heavy in administration? Why don't we why don't
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we look at city government and see if city government,
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since we're ten thousand people less even more than that,
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if you go back the last fifteen years, why is
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it that we still operate under the same manpower? And
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so we really have to look at the city and
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to say how do we And I've used the word
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right size because many other cities have done that.
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Detroit knew it.
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Wasn't going to be a one point eight million population anymore,
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and so they write size government and they write size services.
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That's some of the things that we need
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to look
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at as a city. The difference between myself and Wade
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is that I'm not beholding to spendil interris. I haven't
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received the thirty thousand, the fifty thousand from contractors. I
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haven't gone out there and done emergency passage for contracts
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where there is no bid award on contracts. There's a
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lot of that going on right now. You've had eight
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years of just one incident after another, where this administration
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we're weighed has orchestrated favoritism towards one business element or another,
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and it continues to happen today. So the difference is,
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I'm running independent. I'm beholding to the individuals, the people
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of Toledo.
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But since you're not beholden to anyone, and this sounded
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like a dumb question, but it's the way things work.
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Since you aren't beholden to anyone, how are you going
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to get anything done?
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It's just don't have many friends in any.
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Of those places because they haven't you know, you haven't
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taken any money from them.
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How you're going to get stuff done?
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How did we stop a multi million operation? An operator
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who was illegally mining for four years allowed to do that.
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How did we stop that operation from happening? It was
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the power of the people. And that's the one thing
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that we need to give back to Toledo WANs is
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the individuals need to step up uh and exercise uh
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their their their vote, exercise uh their right.
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They can do that.
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This November the fourth, Well worked.
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Before too, with the with the jail. Those two women
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in the North End didn't want that jail up there.
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Then they just worked their asses off to make sure
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that it didn't happen.
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Even though I say Toledo is a sheets in car
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wash economy, which it is, and that's what it's been.
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Uh you know, it was the residence that stopped that
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sheet from going over on on Airport Highway. And so
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it's that type of of of action that we need
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from individuals. And so if they elect the mayor that
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has that mindset, uh, he carries on that that mandate.
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And that's one of the things that will happen in
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any political in any political climate, is the person that
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gets elected, then then folks start to really work with
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that administration and perhaps come into it from a negotiable
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level whereas before it's a we take all or nothing, okay.
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And is just what makes some attractive little libertarians.
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Absolutely because again it's it's the power of the people.
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It's you are the power as an individual to stop
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these things, to have a buy in into your government.
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This this affects.
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Your For all those people out there who are so
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worried about what Washington doing, it is your local government
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that has more more control over you what you do
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every day. Because again, it just takes counsel rates some
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sort of silly ordinance that will portet infringe on your
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liberty versus the federal government.
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It took an active council to actually allow the zoning
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of one property. We're an industrial property where the company
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can come in and as long as it's light industrial,
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they can operate wherever they want. If it's going to
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be if it's going to be something that's going to
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be offensive because of the smell or offensive because of
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the operation. It doesn't take into consideration the neighbors because
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they have no say it. It doesn't take into consideration
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the plan Commission because as long as they're abiding by it,
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the Plan Commission can't vote on it. It can't take
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into consideration a council vote because council doesn't have to
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vote on it. It's those type of legislations that we
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need to change to actually give that power back to
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the individual of the residents.
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Where are you going to be any place in the
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next couple of days where folks can find you other
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than Torres for Toledo dot com.
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Yes, so, actually I see you supporting Ltivico, which is a.
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Favorite restaurant at nine.
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And that's unsolicited. So I give that because Diana and
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her team over there are fantastic. But we will be
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at Carmel's this evening. It's going to be one of
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the last fundraisers that we have. Again, our fundraisers have
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been individuals, you know. It's been the ten to twenty
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to twenty five dollars, which has really gotten me to
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meet many toledo Onans. It's going to be today from
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five to eight over at Carmel's, so folks can see
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us there and will also be at other community events.
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So expect us to be at places where there's been announced.
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On your website under the link for event.
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Yes, yes, but don't don't go to waves website to
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see which forum he's gonna be at, because we will
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be at the ones that he's not at.
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Well. Hasn't been an Eddie of home.
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So, dear Fred, if I lived in Toledo, I'd be
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voting for Roberto for sure. It sounds like he has
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a great plan, and now that a mayor can hold
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three terms, it would seem like you'd have enough time
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to run Toledo back into the thriving city it was
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back in the day. There's so much potential to be released.
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Roberto is the man who can do it. Love the show.
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That's from Steve Truman. Thanks Steve, Roberto, thanks a lot
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for coming in. Tom, Thanks, thank you for coming in.
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Renee.
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Appreciate you being here and taking pictures of me because
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I look good