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Speaker 1: 8.29 on a Friday. Happy Friday. We've got some great plans going on this weekend. Yesterday, we heard about the Concours de Vue, which is going to be at DeVue Park on Sunday. Get details at 55KRC. com, where you'll be able to find the podcast of the conversation we're getting ready to have right now from the OhioPressNetwork.com. Jack Windsor, welcome back, my friend. It's always a pleasure having you on the 55KRC Morning Show.
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Speaker 2: Brian, always an honor and a pleasure to be here with you and the listeners. Thanks for choosing me today.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a bit of a fly in the ointment for so many people, asking legitimate questions and pestering them, looking for records and documents and exposing some great stuff throughout the week. Just go to theohiopressnetwork.com, bookmark the spot, and check out what he is following throughout the week. Let us pivot over. Campaign pledges. Everybody wants to lower the price of gasoline, and we know that there is a way that you can lower the price of gasoline, which is artificially by eliminating the gasoline tax, which is for the Ohio roads and infrastructure, which means you don't have money flowing in to keep the roads in a state of repair. So says Governor DeWine, we cannot afford to get rid of the gas tax in Ohio. Although Vivek Ramaswamy and Amy Acton are both advocating for that. So where is Jack Windsor on this and who gets credit for coming up with it first? Because Tom Zawistowski is on the program on Tuesdays and he said, I've been telling Ramaswamy, I don't know if he's got his ear. But I've been telling Ramaswamy he needs to advocate for getting rid of the gas tax, getting rid of the gas tax. And I think the credit has been given to Amy Acton for being the first to come out with the idea, only to be immediately followed by Ramaswamy. Have I got the order of things right, Jack?
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Speaker 3: Yes, you have the technical order right.
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Speaker 2: Acton called for a gas tax holiday on Monday with no length, meaning 90 days, six months, a month, nobody knows.
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Speaker 3: No length, no price tag.
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Speaker 2: And then Ramaswamy stood up with a 90-day plan, a legislative vote scheduled for next Wednesday. And as you mentioned, DeWine, who negotiated the 2019 increase, called a gas tax holiday a very grave disservice when that idea came up in the spring. So Monday, Acton's campaign release called for an emergency gas tax holiday. And again, no duration, no cost, no funding source, no bill, no Democrat on record saying that's a great idea. We're going to work to support that. And DeWine's office responded the same day. The governor cannot suspend the tax is the gist. It takes legislation and without an emergency clause, the law waits 90 days. Well, Monday night, Ramaswamy releases a 90-day plan with legislative leaders. And Wednesday morning, he held a press conference at the Ohio chamber with Speaker Huffman, Senate President McCauley, which is his running mate. And the cost estimate is somewhere between $ 640 to $ 700 million dollars. But he's identified funding sources, unspent ODOT money, general revenue. And then don't forget about Ohio's almost $ 4 billion rainy day fund. Diesel sits at $ 6.
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Speaker 1: 77 a gallon.
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Speaker 2: So the short answer is I am all for it. And I'll tell you why later.
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Speaker 1: So Amy Acton's plan is nebulous. It doesn't have a finite period of time. And I would argue that, well, maybe the reason for that is because we don't know when we're going to get the relief from the war. Will the war be settled next week? And actually, the price of gasoline and diesel presumably will reduce just because the supply chain will open back up. But the challenge is, as you pointed out, there's got to be a compliance with the law. This can't be an immediate gubernatorial action because of the 90 days that you post. So Ramosomi actually comes up with a legislative proposal that they're going to actually be working on. So something concrete. Have I got that right, Jack?
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 2: And what I heard from Amy Acton is she's got this thingy, and in about two weeks, we're going to flatten the price curve of gasoline.
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Speaker 3: I mean, Give me a break. Yes.
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Speaker 1: Thingy. Thingy. Well, also, here is something, and I know there's a few listeners out there screaming at the radio, $ 640 to $ 700 million. That'll be the toll taken on the roadway fund when we suspend this gas for 90 days. I just have to observe that is suspiciously close to the $ 600 million we're giving the Cleveland Browns to build a damn stadium. Which money came from the unclaimed funds fund, which is, I think, at $ 3 billion. So a rainy day fund over here, unclaimed fund, pile of money, which apparently can be used to build stadiums. Could it be used to offset the gift that we're given to waive the gasoline tax, Jack?
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Speaker 3: So those are, yes.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
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Speaker 3: Yes, right? I mean, well, it can't now because it's already been committed. I understand.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. No, but your point is legitimate. A couple of things here I want to make sure.
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Speaker 3: We get through.
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Speaker 2: So immediate effect requires an emergency clause, which– is two-thirds of each chamber, 66 votes in the House, and Republicans only have 65. So in February, an emergency clause on a tax bill got 63 votes on the first try. It passed a week later at 89 votes after Democrats came on board. Huffman said he will not call the session unless the votes are already there. The Senate needs 22. Republicans have 24 in that chamber. The bill has not been formally introduced yet. I've got to look at it, read it, the whole nine. But a couple of things that you pointed out, we're looking at a bill of six hundred and forty to seven hundred million dollars. Well, ODOT has an amount that they're carrying over. DeWine has requested that number. That number has not been provided to me yet. I'm curious to see what that number is.
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Speaker 3: We also have the general. What's that?
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Speaker 1: I said wildly curious.
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Speaker 3: Wildly curious.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 3: But here's the other part. And it's important.
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Speaker 2: Ramaswamy pointed out one point six billion dollars. is what Ohio is ahead of projection. So we are trending again for a third year, being billions of dollars above projection. So the idea is, if we can take some of the ODOT carryover, if there's already the Rainy Day.
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Speaker 3: Fund, oh, and by the way, we might have excess money of about $ 1. 6 billion.
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Speaker 2: And let's not forget about the fact that lawmakers, Auditor Keith Faber here in the Buckeye State over the last year and a half have identified somewhere in the ballpark of $ 4 to $ 6 billion a year that does not get proper oversight in Ohio's Medicaid system. So that is another safety valve. And I think the story here is people want relief. This can provide relief going into the election, going into the holidays, and there probably is money there.
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Speaker 3: That's what the vote is.
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Speaker 2: Going to be all about. It's going to be about the dickering, the negotiations. And so we're going to have to keep our eyes on whether there's a session called Wednesday, because you better believe if Huffman calls the session, he has the votes.
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Speaker 1: The money is there. Just a question, simply a question of where it's being placed. So if you have a giant money's fungible, isn't it, Jack? Miss, we always view it. It's a giant. Effectively, it's a giant pile of money. And so, you know, reducing the input to one particular pile of money when you've got fat, giant quantities of piles of money elsewhere that you're not using. I think we're entitled to some relief, Jack Windsor. Let's see if it happens. 8.36, we'll talk about Sherrod Brown's voting. KRC, the talk station. It's 8.40 at 55 KRC, the talk station. It's Friday. Happy Friday. TheOhioPressNetwork.com as we find Jack Windsor and the reporting he does throughout the week. Quite investigative reporting. And real quick, since we were talking about all these piles of money that were being revealed to us as we contemplate maybe getting a little relief from the gas tax, at least temporarily, I don't know if, I'm sure you saw it, Auditor Keith Faber came out and said that 3% of the Highlands on Medicaid weren't even eligible and that millionaires receiving Medicaid. If you look at 3% of the total $ 40 billion annual spend on Medicaid, $ 1. 2 billion going out the door that shouldn't go out the door, Jack. I don't know if whether we get to keep that or that's federal money that needs to be returned or some mix of it, but you know what? Just stopping one area of fraud in state government is enough to cover double the nut of the gasoline tax relief there.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. So, you know, I'm going to go down a road here.
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Speaker 2: I didn't plan on going down, but I think it's important to point out Vivek Ramaswamy has stood up three separate times with plans. If you remember, he talked about a data center plan. He talked about the gas tax holiday plan. But let's think back to when he talked about Medicaid waste, fraud and abuse. And his plan was to work with Washington, D.C. to actually flip the percentage. If Ohio, for example, finds waste, fraud, and abuse, they keep $ 0. 35 on every dollar. His plan, and my understanding is he's working out that deal with D.C., is that if Ohio finds a dollar of fraud, we keep $ 0. 65 and the feds.
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Speaker 3: Keep $ 0.
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Speaker 1: 35.
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Speaker 3: And you go, why would they do that? Well, I'll tell you why.
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Speaker 2: Because nobody's dealing with it now. Nobody's clawing it back now. And so- This, again, is a third time that Vivek Ramaswamy has stood up with a plan to solve a problem. And in this particular instance, wouldn't it be great if we actually did do the clawing back and that money paid for the gas tax holiday? And oh, by the way, we fixed the system that allows the waste, fraud and abuse to go on.
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Speaker 3: Ad infinitum.
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Speaker 1: Or maybe use the money for property tax relief after the gas crisis goes away, Jack. It's just, bottom line, it's a funding mechanism that we could put in place to stop fraud, waste, and abuse, and also help pad the books in Ohio's budget, make it easier for the taxpayers. That could also serve as maybe a vehicle or foray into reducing the income tax. I mean, if there's revenue sources all over the place and they exercised a slight measure of increased fiscal responsibility when it came to their expenditures, like, oh, I don't know, not paying for a football stadium. Jack, you know, that really irks me to no end.
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Speaker 2: I grew up a Browns fan and I'm still pissed about it. You know, I'm like, where's my 600 million? I do a better community service than the Cleveland Browns. All they do is cause heartache every Sunday.
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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, Yeah, well, at least at the Bengals, quite often we at least get a slight glimmer of hope only to be left feeling miserable by the end of the season. Either way, private sports owners should not get the benefit of the taxpayer dollars. Okay, that's it. Anyway, moving away. Sherrod Brown's got a voting record. It's almost 100% Democrat. So if people tell you that he's not an evil, loony, left-wing, woke, come communist ideologue, then you shouldn't believe him because that's the way he's going to vote anyway. Jack, isn't that what we've been left to believe and understand based on his record?
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm going to go from the big point and then we can get more granular. I'm going to do it opposite of the way that I would have planned to do it. The bottom line is Sherrod Brown voted with Joe Biden 94 percent of the time. I'm sorry, 97 percent of the time votes Democrats, 94 percent of the time. And you go, well, OK, are those votes important? Well, Yeah, they really are. In 32 years of votes, he's voted in one direction. In 2024, he backed the, remember this, the Shrinkflation Prevention Act, which tells the Federal Trade Commission to police how many ounces a company puts in a bag of chips.
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Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 2: So they want to run your chip business, right?
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Speaker 3: The people who are sitting.
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Speaker 2: On $ 40 trillion of debt are going to tell you how to run your business. Think about that.
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Speaker 1: As if I can't read a bag's label and see how many ounces are in there and decide for myself whether $ 5 for 11 ounces is worth it when it used to be $ 5 for 16 ounces. I need a government to take care of that for me, Jack.
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Speaker 2: Right?
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Speaker 3: I mean, it's insane.
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Speaker 2: And then the Husted campaign has documented four votes, 2013, 2015, and 2021, where he voted against blocking a carbon tax. the National Association of Manufacturers put an Ohio carbon tax at 123,000 jobs. That's what it would cost. And he voted to raise taxes on Social Security benefits. 569,000 Ohioans by Houston campaign's.
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Speaker 3: Count were affected by that.
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Speaker 2: And on the border, he said in April, I support closing the border to people so they just can't cross the border at will. Against a record, the Houston campaign lays out as he votes against sanctuary city enforcement, against deporting criminal aliens, against wall funding, plus his own comment that he was open to decriminalizing illegal crossing. He voted yes on the American Rescue Plan, yes on the Inflation Reduction Act, no on the 2017 tax cuts. And the number that ties it together is he voted with Joe Biden 97% of the time. And don't forget, the Democrat Socialists of America are running that party. He is a rubber stamper. He will vote where the party tells him to vote.
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Speaker 1: Of course, we're now painfully aware of the cognitive decline of Joe Biden behind the scenes that they all knew about. Kind of makes you kind of wonder who actually was calling the shots while Biden was president, doesn't it, Jack?
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Speaker 3: One hundred percent.
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Speaker 2: And I will bring it into today. It makes me wonder who's going to control the puppet strings of Amy Acton as elected governor. Let's make no mistake. She's not qualified to be a director of health. How in the hell is she qualified to be governor? Well, because David Pepper is going to do the bidding and all the work behind the scenes. It's to me Joe Biden 2.0.
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Speaker 1: Amen, Jack Windsor. Don't go away. We're going to talk about news agencies dealing with Donald Trump's problems with the, well, media kicking people out of the press pool. Jack Windsor on that one finally. Coming up, it's 846 at 55KRC, the talk station.
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Speaker 2: 55KRC.
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Speaker 1: Quick test. The talk station. It's a 49 at 55 care CD talk station. One more segment here with Jack Windsor from the hot press network.com. Just have to observe though. I heard the Eric Conroy. I saw Eric Conroy yesterday at the, the NRA bus event at a 22, three firearms on route 42 between Mason 11. And I like Eric. I think he's a good guy. I didn't know that he said he's a, a drinks beer and eats getter for breakfast. Do you think that's, that's the breakfast combo? Or do you think that he's meant to convey that message separately? We're regular folks. We drink beer and separately we, We eat Ghana for breakfast, or is that the breakfast of champions? Jack Windsor, I don't know. We had George Brennan on the program talking about health and politics earlier. Maybe you should have posed that to him. Eric, I'm sorry. I'm not giving you a hard time. It is Friday. I'm just trying to have a little fun before we get to the battle between the press and Donald Trump. Jack Windsor, back on track.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 2: So a federal judge ordered the White House to return CNN, MSNOW, and Politico's press passes this week. And I have a dog in this fight. And it's because in December 2020, Columbus Monthly, which was owned by the Dispatch back then, published a list of reasons that DeWine should bar me from his press conferences. So in my view, same issue, not a single standard from the press, which to be candid is my biggest issue. Let's have a standard. Let's follow the standard. Hard stop. But it's not that simple.
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Speaker 3: What happened?
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Speaker 2: September 18th, Trump announced the ban on Truth Social, citing fiction and lies. Saturday, the Secret Service took the reporter's passes at the gate. Monday, the outlet sued. Tuesday night, after 10 p.m., four days after the ban, the White House sent the outlet's letters for the first time, listing reasons and offering an appeal, and objections are due today. But Wednesday, Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump nominee confirmed 94-2 by the Senate in 2017, held a 45-minute hearing, and Thursday morning, he ordered the passes returned for 14 days in an eight-page ruling.
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Speaker 1: Leaving the status quo in place until the final decision can be rendered based upon the evidence and the briefing and the law. What he has done is said, listen, the likelihood of success on the merit, it leans with the press. So someone's going to win, and based upon my review of the law with a temporary or permanent injunction, or with a temporary injunction being discussed here, I've got to figure out down the road who does it look like is going to win. So likelihood of success on the merit goes over to the press. Ergo, the ban is paused. That doesn't mean it won't be revoked again, though, because they could go another way after briefing.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely.
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Speaker 2: And so to your point, due process will likely win out, which is why we are where we are. Trump's lawyers did not dispute that the outlets did not receive notice and an opportunity to be heard before the passes were pulled. That's part of the process that they're contesting. And the appeal process was created after the revocation. So Kelly called the White House's standards so vague it hardly does the trick. And then there's this national security argument, but nothing in the record that predates this suit suggests that the revocation of the plaintiff's hard passes was motivated by national security concerns, is what the judge said. Trump's own announcement cited negativity and truthfulness, and the stories that they cited, CNN's report on a bunker under the East Ballroom, an MSNOW report on a leak investigation, a Politico story on ballroom funding and Secret Service security spending, stories on Iran munition stockpiles, Russia sanctions, a $ 1 billion East Wing funding request, and bad vibes at the Republican convention in Dallas, and on and on and on. But Judge Kelly called them routine, and some months to years old. And most of the reporters who wrote them did not hold hard passes. So, you know, there's a little bit of a challenge with how they're moving forward with this.
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Speaker 3: But the law is pretty clear. Two D.C.
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Speaker 2: Circuit cases set the process, Sherrill v. Knight in 1977. And of course, we all remember Acosta, the Acosta case in 2018, which Kelly also decided. Kelly at that hearing said the process that the court laid out in those two cases wasn't followed here. The Sherrill rule is a pass can be denied only for reasons unrelated to the content of the reporting with notice, a chance to respond, and a written decision. In March, Judge Paul Friedman voided the parts of Hegseth's Pentagon press policy that let the Pentagon revoke credentials based on reporting. So, It's going to be interesting to see where this goes. If a story does venture over into a risk to national security, you know, that's a different ballgame. But as it stands right now, I think as somebody who's had his press credentials revoked, I think it's meritless.
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Speaker 1: I hate to say it, but I think it's meritless. Is every news organization like is U.S. News in there? Is CNN in there? Is Al Jazeera in there? Would they be invited in if they asked to be in there? I think it's an exclusive group of select individuals because they can't have 150 reporters just videoing the same thing. Isn't that right, Jack, effectively what that is? It is.
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Speaker 2: It is. And so the people who have that right are the ones that stick together. And that was my other argument. The companies inside the rope protect each other. But would those companies protect me? Would they protect Daily Wire? Probably not. And so then it goes back to the argument, what is the standard? Have we defined the standard? And are we honoring the standard? And until we have that honest discussion, we're going to go back and forth based on the content of the reporting, which should never be the standard.
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Speaker 1: Understood. Elections have consequences and administrations do change. Let's get this all squared away before, oh, I don't know, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez becomes president. Jack Windsor, TheOhioPressNetwork.com. Follow him throughout the week. Bookmark the website and tune in every week on Friday at 830 to hear these types of comments, the commentary from Jack and the stories that really matter. Jack, have a great weekend, my friend. It's always a pleasure to have you on The Morning Show.
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Speaker 3: It's always an honor to be here. Thank you, brother.
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Speaker 1: Take care, man. It's 855.
Speaker 1: 8.29 on a Friday. Happy Friday. We've got some great plans going on this weekend. Yesterday, we heard about the Concours de Vue, which is going to be at DeVue Park on Sunday. Get details at 55KRC. com, where you'll be able to find the podcast of the conversation we're getting ready to have right now from the OhioPressNetwork.com. Jack Windsor, welcome back, my friend. It's always a pleasure having you on the 55KRC Morning Show.
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Speaker 2: Brian, always an honor and a pleasure to be here with you and the listeners. Thanks for choosing me today.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a bit of a fly in the ointment for so many people, asking legitimate questions and pestering them, looking for records and documents and exposing some great stuff throughout the week. Just go to theohiopressnetwork.com, bookmark the spot, and check out what he is following throughout the week. Let us pivot over. Campaign pledges. Everybody wants to lower the price of gasoline, and we know that there is a way that you can lower the price of gasoline, which is artificially by eliminating the gasoline tax, which is for the Ohio roads and infrastructure, which means you don't have money flowing in to keep the roads in a state of repair. So says Governor DeWine, we cannot afford to get rid of the gas tax in Ohio. Although Vivek Ramaswamy and Amy Acton are both advocating for that. So where is Jack Windsor on this and who gets credit for coming up with it first? Because Tom Zawistowski is on the program on Tuesdays and he said, I've been telling Ramaswamy, I don't know if he's got his ear. But I've been telling Ramaswamy he needs to advocate for getting rid of the gas tax, getting rid of the gas tax. And I think the credit has been given to Amy Acton for being the first to come out with the idea, only to be immediately followed by Ramaswamy. Have I got the order of things right, Jack?
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Speaker 3: Yes, you have the technical order right.
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Speaker 2: Acton called for a gas tax holiday on Monday with no length, meaning 90 days, six months, a month, nobody knows.
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Speaker 3: No length, no price tag.
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Speaker 2: And then Ramaswamy stood up with a 90-day plan, a legislative vote scheduled for next Wednesday. And as you mentioned, DeWine, who negotiated the 2019 increase, called a gas tax holiday a very grave disservice when that idea came up in the spring. So Monday, Acton's campaign release called for an emergency gas tax holiday. And again, no duration, no cost, no funding source, no bill, no Democrat on record saying that's a great idea. We're going to work to support that. And DeWine's office responded the same day. The governor cannot suspend the tax is the gist. It takes legislation and without an emergency clause, the law waits 90 days. Well, Monday night, Ramaswamy releases a 90-day plan with legislative leaders. And Wednesday morning, he held a press conference at the Ohio chamber with Speaker Huffman, Senate President McCauley, which is his running mate. And the cost estimate is somewhere between $ 640 to $ 700 million dollars. But he's identified funding sources, unspent ODOT money, general revenue. And then don't forget about Ohio's almost $ 4 billion rainy day fund. Diesel sits at $ 6.
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Speaker 1: 77 a gallon.
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Speaker 2: So the short answer is I am all for it. And I'll tell you why later.
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Speaker 1: So Amy Acton's plan is nebulous. It doesn't have a finite period of time. And I would argue that, well, maybe the reason for that is because we don't know when we're going to get the relief from the war. Will the war be settled next week? And actually, the price of gasoline and diesel presumably will reduce just because the supply chain will open back up. But the challenge is, as you pointed out, there's got to be a compliance with the law. This can't be an immediate gubernatorial action because of the 90 days that you post. So Ramosomi actually comes up with a legislative proposal that they're going to actually be working on. So something concrete. Have I got that right, Jack?
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 2: And what I heard from Amy Acton is she's got this thingy, and in about two weeks, we're going to flatten the price curve of gasoline.
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Speaker 3: I mean, Give me a break. Yes.
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Speaker 1: Thingy. Thingy. Well, also, here is something, and I know there's a few listeners out there screaming at the radio, $ 640 to $ 700 million. That'll be the toll taken on the roadway fund when we suspend this gas for 90 days. I just have to observe that is suspiciously close to the $ 600 million we're giving the Cleveland Browns to build a damn stadium. Which money came from the unclaimed funds fund, which is, I think, at $ 3 billion. So a rainy day fund over here, unclaimed fund, pile of money, which apparently can be used to build stadiums. Could it be used to offset the gift that we're given to waive the gasoline tax, Jack?
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Speaker 3: So those are, yes.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
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Speaker 3: Yes, right? I mean, well, it can't now because it's already been committed. I understand.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. No, but your point is legitimate. A couple of things here I want to make sure.
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Speaker 3: We get through.
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Speaker 2: So immediate effect requires an emergency clause, which– is two-thirds of each chamber, 66 votes in the House, and Republicans only have 65. So in February, an emergency clause on a tax bill got 63 votes on the first try. It passed a week later at 89 votes after Democrats came on board. Huffman said he will not call the session unless the votes are already there. The Senate needs 22. Republicans have 24 in that chamber. The bill has not been formally introduced yet. I've got to look at it, read it, the whole nine. But a couple of things that you pointed out, we're looking at a bill of six hundred and forty to seven hundred million dollars. Well, ODOT has an amount that they're carrying over. DeWine has requested that number. That number has not been provided to me yet. I'm curious to see what that number is.
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Speaker 3: We also have the general. What's that?
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Speaker 1: I said wildly curious.
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Speaker 3: Wildly curious.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 3: But here's the other part. And it's important.
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Speaker 2: Ramaswamy pointed out one point six billion dollars. is what Ohio is ahead of projection. So we are trending again for a third year, being billions of dollars above projection. So the idea is, if we can take some of the ODOT carryover, if there's already the Rainy Day.
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Speaker 3: Fund, oh, and by the way, we might have excess money of about $ 1. 6 billion.
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Speaker 2: And let's not forget about the fact that lawmakers, Auditor Keith Faber here in the Buckeye State over the last year and a half have identified somewhere in the ballpark of $ 4 to $ 6 billion a year that does not get proper oversight in Ohio's Medicaid system. So that is another safety valve. And I think the story here is people want relief. This can provide relief going into the election, going into the holidays, and there probably is money there.
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Speaker 3: That's what the vote is.
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Speaker 2: Going to be all about. It's going to be about the dickering, the negotiations. And so we're going to have to keep our eyes on whether there's a session called Wednesday, because you better believe if Huffman calls the session, he has the votes.
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Speaker 1: The money is there. Just a question, simply a question of where it's being placed. So if you have a giant money's fungible, isn't it, Jack? Miss, we always view it. It's a giant. Effectively, it's a giant pile of money. And so, you know, reducing the input to one particular pile of money when you've got fat, giant quantities of piles of money elsewhere that you're not using. I think we're entitled to some relief, Jack Windsor. Let's see if it happens. 8.36, we'll talk about Sherrod Brown's voting. KRC, the talk station. It's 8.40 at 55 KRC, the talk station. It's Friday. Happy Friday. TheOhioPressNetwork.com as we find Jack Windsor and the reporting he does throughout the week. Quite investigative reporting. And real quick, since we were talking about all these piles of money that were being revealed to us as we contemplate maybe getting a little relief from the gas tax, at least temporarily, I don't know if, I'm sure you saw it, Auditor Keith Faber came out and said that 3% of the Highlands on Medicaid weren't even eligible and that millionaires receiving Medicaid. If you look at 3% of the total $ 40 billion annual spend on Medicaid, $ 1. 2 billion going out the door that shouldn't go out the door, Jack. I don't know if whether we get to keep that or that's federal money that needs to be returned or some mix of it, but you know what? Just stopping one area of fraud in state government is enough to cover double the nut of the gasoline tax relief there.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. So, you know, I'm going to go down a road here.
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Speaker 2: I didn't plan on going down, but I think it's important to point out Vivek Ramaswamy has stood up three separate times with plans. If you remember, he talked about a data center plan. He talked about the gas tax holiday plan. But let's think back to when he talked about Medicaid waste, fraud and abuse. And his plan was to work with Washington, D.C. to actually flip the percentage. If Ohio, for example, finds waste, fraud, and abuse, they keep $ 0. 35 on every dollar. His plan, and my understanding is he's working out that deal with D.C., is that if Ohio finds a dollar of fraud, we keep $ 0. 65 and the feds.
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Speaker 3: Keep $ 0.
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Speaker 1: 35.
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Speaker 3: And you go, why would they do that? Well, I'll tell you why.
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Speaker 2: Because nobody's dealing with it now. Nobody's clawing it back now. And so- This, again, is a third time that Vivek Ramaswamy has stood up with a plan to solve a problem. And in this particular instance, wouldn't it be great if we actually did do the clawing back and that money paid for the gas tax holiday? And oh, by the way, we fixed the system that allows the waste, fraud and abuse to go on.
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Speaker 3: Ad infinitum.
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Speaker 1: Or maybe use the money for property tax relief after the gas crisis goes away, Jack. It's just, bottom line, it's a funding mechanism that we could put in place to stop fraud, waste, and abuse, and also help pad the books in Ohio's budget, make it easier for the taxpayers. That could also serve as maybe a vehicle or foray into reducing the income tax. I mean, if there's revenue sources all over the place and they exercised a slight measure of increased fiscal responsibility when it came to their expenditures, like, oh, I don't know, not paying for a football stadium. Jack, you know, that really irks me to no end.
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Speaker 2: I grew up a Browns fan and I'm still pissed about it. You know, I'm like, where's my 600 million? I do a better community service than the Cleveland Browns. All they do is cause heartache every Sunday.
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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, Yeah, well, at least at the Bengals, quite often we at least get a slight glimmer of hope only to be left feeling miserable by the end of the season. Either way, private sports owners should not get the benefit of the taxpayer dollars. Okay, that's it. Anyway, moving away. Sherrod Brown's got a voting record. It's almost 100% Democrat. So if people tell you that he's not an evil, loony, left-wing, woke, come communist ideologue, then you shouldn't believe him because that's the way he's going to vote anyway. Jack, isn't that what we've been left to believe and understand based on his record?
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm going to go from the big point and then we can get more granular. I'm going to do it opposite of the way that I would have planned to do it. The bottom line is Sherrod Brown voted with Joe Biden 94 percent of the time. I'm sorry, 97 percent of the time votes Democrats, 94 percent of the time. And you go, well, OK, are those votes important? Well, Yeah, they really are. In 32 years of votes, he's voted in one direction. In 2024, he backed the, remember this, the Shrinkflation Prevention Act, which tells the Federal Trade Commission to police how many ounces a company puts in a bag of chips.
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Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 2: So they want to run your chip business, right?
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Speaker 3: The people who are sitting.
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Speaker 2: On $ 40 trillion of debt are going to tell you how to run your business. Think about that.
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Speaker 1: As if I can't read a bag's label and see how many ounces are in there and decide for myself whether $ 5 for 11 ounces is worth it when it used to be $ 5 for 16 ounces. I need a government to take care of that for me, Jack.
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Speaker 2: Right?
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Speaker 3: I mean, it's insane.
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Speaker 2: And then the Husted campaign has documented four votes, 2013, 2015, and 2021, where he voted against blocking a carbon tax. the National Association of Manufacturers put an Ohio carbon tax at 123,000 jobs. That's what it would cost. And he voted to raise taxes on Social Security benefits. 569,000 Ohioans by Houston campaign's.
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Speaker 3: Count were affected by that.
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Speaker 2: And on the border, he said in April, I support closing the border to people so they just can't cross the border at will. Against a record, the Houston campaign lays out as he votes against sanctuary city enforcement, against deporting criminal aliens, against wall funding, plus his own comment that he was open to decriminalizing illegal crossing. He voted yes on the American Rescue Plan, yes on the Inflation Reduction Act, no on the 2017 tax cuts. And the number that ties it together is he voted with Joe Biden 97% of the time. And don't forget, the Democrat Socialists of America are running that party. He is a rubber stamper. He will vote where the party tells him to vote.
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Speaker 1: Of course, we're now painfully aware of the cognitive decline of Joe Biden behind the scenes that they all knew about. Kind of makes you kind of wonder who actually was calling the shots while Biden was president, doesn't it, Jack?
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Speaker 3: One hundred percent.
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Speaker 2: And I will bring it into today. It makes me wonder who's going to control the puppet strings of Amy Acton as elected governor. Let's make no mistake. She's not qualified to be a director of health. How in the hell is she qualified to be governor? Well, because David Pepper is going to do the bidding and all the work behind the scenes. It's to me Joe Biden 2.0.
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Speaker 1: Amen, Jack Windsor. Don't go away. We're going to talk about news agencies dealing with Donald Trump's problems with the, well, media kicking people out of the press pool. Jack Windsor on that one finally. Coming up, it's 846 at 55KRC, the talk station.
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Speaker 2: 55KRC.
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Speaker 1: Quick test. The talk station. It's a 49 at 55 care CD talk station. One more segment here with Jack Windsor from the hot press network.com. Just have to observe though. I heard the Eric Conroy. I saw Eric Conroy yesterday at the, the NRA bus event at a 22, three firearms on route 42 between Mason 11. And I like Eric. I think he's a good guy. I didn't know that he said he's a, a drinks beer and eats getter for breakfast. Do you think that's, that's the breakfast combo? Or do you think that he's meant to convey that message separately? We're regular folks. We drink beer and separately we, We eat Ghana for breakfast, or is that the breakfast of champions? Jack Windsor, I don't know. We had George Brennan on the program talking about health and politics earlier. Maybe you should have posed that to him. Eric, I'm sorry. I'm not giving you a hard time. It is Friday. I'm just trying to have a little fun before we get to the battle between the press and Donald Trump. Jack Windsor, back on track.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 2: So a federal judge ordered the White House to return CNN, MSNOW, and Politico's press passes this week. And I have a dog in this fight. And it's because in December 2020, Columbus Monthly, which was owned by the Dispatch back then, published a list of reasons that DeWine should bar me from his press conferences. So in my view, same issue, not a single standard from the press, which to be candid is my biggest issue. Let's have a standard. Let's follow the standard. Hard stop. But it's not that simple.
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Speaker 3: What happened?
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Speaker 2: September 18th, Trump announced the ban on Truth Social, citing fiction and lies. Saturday, the Secret Service took the reporter's passes at the gate. Monday, the outlet sued. Tuesday night, after 10 p.m., four days after the ban, the White House sent the outlet's letters for the first time, listing reasons and offering an appeal, and objections are due today. But Wednesday, Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump nominee confirmed 94-2 by the Senate in 2017, held a 45-minute hearing, and Thursday morning, he ordered the passes returned for 14 days in an eight-page ruling.
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Speaker 1: Leaving the status quo in place until the final decision can be rendered based upon the evidence and the briefing and the law. What he has done is said, listen, the likelihood of success on the merit, it leans with the press. So someone's going to win, and based upon my review of the law with a temporary or permanent injunction, or with a temporary injunction being discussed here, I've got to figure out down the road who does it look like is going to win. So likelihood of success on the merit goes over to the press. Ergo, the ban is paused. That doesn't mean it won't be revoked again, though, because they could go another way after briefing.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely.
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Speaker 2: And so to your point, due process will likely win out, which is why we are where we are. Trump's lawyers did not dispute that the outlets did not receive notice and an opportunity to be heard before the passes were pulled. That's part of the process that they're contesting. And the appeal process was created after the revocation. So Kelly called the White House's standards so vague it hardly does the trick. And then there's this national security argument, but nothing in the record that predates this suit suggests that the revocation of the plaintiff's hard passes was motivated by national security concerns, is what the judge said. Trump's own announcement cited negativity and truthfulness, and the stories that they cited, CNN's report on a bunker under the East Ballroom, an MSNOW report on a leak investigation, a Politico story on ballroom funding and Secret Service security spending, stories on Iran munition stockpiles, Russia sanctions, a $ 1 billion East Wing funding request, and bad vibes at the Republican convention in Dallas, and on and on and on. But Judge Kelly called them routine, and some months to years old. And most of the reporters who wrote them did not hold hard passes. So, you know, there's a little bit of a challenge with how they're moving forward with this.
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Speaker 3: But the law is pretty clear. Two D.C.
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Speaker 2: Circuit cases set the process, Sherrill v. Knight in 1977. And of course, we all remember Acosta, the Acosta case in 2018, which Kelly also decided. Kelly at that hearing said the process that the court laid out in those two cases wasn't followed here. The Sherrill rule is a pass can be denied only for reasons unrelated to the content of the reporting with notice, a chance to respond, and a written decision. In March, Judge Paul Friedman voided the parts of Hegseth's Pentagon press policy that let the Pentagon revoke credentials based on reporting. So, It's going to be interesting to see where this goes. If a story does venture over into a risk to national security, you know, that's a different ballgame. But as it stands right now, I think as somebody who's had his press credentials revoked, I think it's meritless.
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Speaker 1: I hate to say it, but I think it's meritless. Is every news organization like is U.S. News in there? Is CNN in there? Is Al Jazeera in there? Would they be invited in if they asked to be in there? I think it's an exclusive group of select individuals because they can't have 150 reporters just videoing the same thing. Isn't that right, Jack, effectively what that is? It is.
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Speaker 2: It is. And so the people who have that right are the ones that stick together. And that was my other argument. The companies inside the rope protect each other. But would those companies protect me? Would they protect Daily Wire? Probably not. And so then it goes back to the argument, what is the standard? Have we defined the standard? And are we honoring the standard? And until we have that honest discussion, we're going to go back and forth based on the content of the reporting, which should never be the standard.
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Speaker 1: Understood. Elections have consequences and administrations do change. Let's get this all squared away before, oh, I don't know, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez becomes president. Jack Windsor, TheOhioPressNetwork.com. Follow him throughout the week. Bookmark the website and tune in every week on Friday at 830 to hear these types of comments, the commentary from Jack and the stories that really matter. Jack, have a great weekend, my friend. It's always a pleasure to have you on The Morning Show.
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Speaker 3: It's always an honor to be here. Thank you, brother.
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Speaker 1: Take care, man. It's 855.
