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Speaker 1: Now I'm Billy cutting in the Great American. Of course,

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Speaker 1: the state of Ohio. For Veake Ramaswami. Hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio.

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Speaker 1: For Veke Ramaswami, Welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show.

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Speaker 1: But Vake, let me ask you a simple question. If

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Speaker 1: a year from now you're the governor and the same

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Speaker 1: thing happens again. I think physically you're in Columbus at

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Speaker 1: the moment, which is not in the complete crisis, what

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Speaker 1: would you do as a governor? Because Mike Dwine's going

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Speaker 1: to hold a news conference at three o'clock, you're the governor, Ramaswami,

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Speaker 1: a year from now, what do you do?

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Speaker 2: Look, I appreciate the chance to be on again with you, Billy,

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Speaker 2: and this is common sense executive leadership. We've got a

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Speaker 2: major storm coming. You got to prepare the public. First,

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Speaker 2: you got to communicate to the public. But the second

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Speaker 2: thing is, as the govern you're in charge of every

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Speaker 2: one of those executive agencies. There's a lot of them, right,

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Speaker 2: You've got O DOT, you've got State Highway Patrol. You've

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Speaker 2: got to actually coordinate across them, so they're not working

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Speaker 2: in silos, but working with a one team mentality. Common

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Speaker 2: sense preparations tell ODOT to get ready to deploy those plows,

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Speaker 2: deploy all of our great workers in longer shifts than usual. Right,

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Speaker 2: it's not always an emergency situation, but in an emergency situation,

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Speaker 2: that we're resilient. You know, common sense communication, common sense

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Speaker 2: I think that this is the job of a chief executive,

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Speaker 3: Bavak.

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Speaker 1: We had Matt Bruning on the other day, as you

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Speaker 1: Americans have forty toty views about government. But if you

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Speaker 1: most Americans are surprised when that happens. You might recall

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Speaker 2: Look, I'm the top executive in the state and it's

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Speaker 2: In that case, you at least have to cross coordinate effectively,

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Speaker 2: So I have full confidence the Governor de Wine and

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Speaker 2: you know, Cincinnati has a long way to go for

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Speaker 1: Billy, Wow, Doctor Amy Acton uses your inexperience against you.

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Speaker 1: What would you say about that, favak.

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Speaker 2: Well, I would say a couple of things. One is,

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Speaker 2: opportunity because we're gonna win this race. Billy, Now, eighty

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Speaker 2: embracing economic growth instead of complaining about it. And that's

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Speaker 2: the difference between me and Amy acting. If she's elected,

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Speaker 1: Two weeks ago ahead on your friend, Governor Mike DeWine

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Speaker 2: I did not screen my individual candidates with anyone other

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Speaker 2: And as we grow a coalition, Billy, I mean, the

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Speaker 2: reality is we have a big tent coalition. I'm grateful

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Speaker 2: And so for us, we've built that pretty diverse broad

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Speaker 2: So I was glad to hear when the governor endorsed me.

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Speaker 1: Tell me about the Ohio Senate president's guy named Rob McCauley.

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Speaker 1: I've had him on once, may get him on more.

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Speaker 2: So? Look, I think that a vision without execution is

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Speaker 2: I'm a businessman, an outsider. I can bring vision, energy,

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Speaker 1: I know he went to University of Toledo Law School.

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Speaker 1: I was a proud graduate of the University of Toledo

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Speaker 1: as governor cooperate with ice and the detention and exportation

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Speaker 2: We started talking about snow and ice, and now we're

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Speaker 2: talking about ice in terms of immigration enforcement. So I

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Speaker 2: like the coherence of this interview. Really no joking aside.

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Speaker 2: I would say. I would say it is absolutely essential

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Speaker 2: that state, local, and national law enforcement are working together

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Speaker 2: rather than at odds with one another, towards common sense

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Speaker 2: goals of restoring the rule of law. That just makes sense.

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Speaker 2: And when we think about protecting Americans. When we think

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Speaker 2: law enforcement is actually working together as a team rather

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Speaker 2: than in opposition to one another, because you know who

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Speaker 2: suffers then people in our cities. You want to know

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Speaker 2: what the problem is in many parts of Cincinnati. Did

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Speaker 2: you see the rising crime big issue in the Indus

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Speaker 2: These are solvable problems, but what we need is leadership

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Speaker 2: at every level, including a governor who is willing to

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Speaker 2: stand firmly for the rule of law. And President Trump

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Speaker 2: and I have a great relationship that's going to work

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Speaker 2: to the benefit of Ohio, both for bringing foreign direct

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Speaker 2: of law to our state and to our cities. We

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Speaker 2: are a state of great cities, not just Cincinnati, which

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Speaker 2: you and I love, but you got Dayton, Toledo, Akron, Youngstown, Cleveland, Columbus.

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Speaker 2: That makes us different than a state like Georgia, which

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Speaker 2: has one great city, Atlanta. We've had multiple great cities,

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Speaker 2: unfortunately fallen prey to too much rising crime. I'm going

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Speaker 2: to turn that around. I'm going to empower law enforcement

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Speaker 2: lot of these activist judges and their behaviors instead with

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Speaker 2: That's what we need. Common sense bail reforms, common sense

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Speaker 2: judicial reforms to make sure that at the end of

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Speaker 2: Isn't this isn't wild, This isn't isn't you know, wild

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Speaker 2: right wing stuff. This is common sense right. It's not

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Speaker 1: Last night's just got a text from the top of

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Speaker 1: the campaign of Amy Acting. Ask him why Amy Acting's

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Speaker 1: feeding him in the polls. There's a poll out that

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Speaker 1: I feel it duty bound to ask you, is it

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Speaker 3: At this point. And what does that mean.

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Speaker 2: Well, we're in a decent position headed to this year.

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Speaker 2: But if you want, you're going to get to the truth.

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Speaker 2: Complacency is not an option this year. This is a

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Speaker 2: mid term year. Okay, look at the history of how

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Speaker 2: Republicans have done in midterms.

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Speaker 3: Not good.

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Speaker 2: Let's look at two thousand and six. Two thousand and

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Speaker 2: six was a year where we thought Ohio was securely

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Speaker 2: a red state. What happened there was a blue wave.

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Speaker 2: we need every person who stands for the rule of law.

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Speaker 2: We need every person who stands for economic growth and

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Speaker 2: Willy and get into office and take this state to

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Speaker 3: Now, many many issues.

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Speaker 1: I have a lot of texts here from scoreboard members

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Speaker 3: I have texts here from those in the Pearl authority.

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Speaker 1: I have text from a Channel nine source who says,

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Speaker 1: how come fifty two years was given to someone so

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Speaker 1: many substance of issues. Let's keep the lines of communication

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Speaker 1: open once again Forveke Ramaswami, thanks for coming on the

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Speaker 1: Bill Cunningham Show. And may God bless you and God

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Speaker 1: bless America Foraveke, thank you very much, Thank you, Bill,

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Speaker 1: God bless America. Let's continue with more and if a

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Speaker 1: There is a pull out, that is for Veke losing

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Speaker 1: forty nine to forty eight to doctor Amy Acton. But

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Speaker 1: I would anticipate in the months ahead with the campaign donations,

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Speaker 1: I think Vivek's raised about twenty five million dollars so

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Speaker 1: far and Amy Acting's raised about twenty five cents, that

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Speaker 1: there'll be an effort to define and to allow the

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Speaker 1: American people living in Ohio to remember what doctor Amy

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Speaker 1: Acton did. She was the queen of the COVID shutdown.

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