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Speaker 1: Donovan O'Neil from Americans for Prosperity, Welcome back to the

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Speaker 1: fifty five KRCY Morning Show, my friend, Brian. Great to

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Speaker 1: be with you, as always, always a pleasure. Now you've

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Speaker 1: got some AFP has some endorsements. I mean, we're already

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Speaker 1: talking about the November twenty sixth elections, Donovan. I know

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Speaker 1: that comes as no shock to you. It's certainly not

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Speaker 1: a shock to me. But it seems like we've been

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Speaker 1: to wall up the Republicans and we'll see how that goes.

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Speaker 1: But you've got some endorsements already. But before we get

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Speaker 1: to that, I don't want to throw a curve ball

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Speaker 1: your direction, Donovan, but I'm curious to know if you've

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Speaker 1: reached any conclusion about what the hell Governor Mike DeWine's

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Speaker 1: issue is with VvE Ramaswami and his seemingly providing some

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Speaker 1: cover for Amy acton Amy Lockdown Acting, he said, no,

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Speaker 1: the buck stops with me. All those decisions were mine,

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Speaker 1: in spite of the fact he's not a doctor, and

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Speaker 1: he didn't create the ideas of lockdowns. Those were exclusively hers.

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Speaker 1: But why hasn't he endorsed Vvke in spite of the

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Speaker 1: fact the Republican Party has already Can you make any

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Speaker 1: you know, can you come to any conclusion or have

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Speaker 1: you drawn any conclusions about that at AFP Donovan?

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Speaker 2: My observation there, Brian is that it's a fundamental difference

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Speaker 2: that in a political party, right, they're both Republicans. But

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Speaker 2: the vision like Dwine has for the state, as we've

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Speaker 2: seen play out over the last several years, has been

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Speaker 2: more spending, bigger government. There've been good things done here, right,

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Speaker 2: But I think what you see with Avak as somebody's

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Speaker 2: different direction in my opinion, for the better. And so

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Speaker 2: I don't know how that kind of stuff gets plays

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Speaker 2: we're going to stay the course since they focused on

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Speaker 2: twenty six and the opportunity that presents as well as

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Speaker 2: with the next governor, the ability to do the big,

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Speaker 2: bold things that we've been talking about for the last

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Speaker 2: five years in our Buckeye blueprint, or in taxes, expanding education,

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Speaker 2: opportunity cutting or a tape. And so that's where that's

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Speaker 2: where our focus is. And we think a new governor

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Speaker 2: is going to provide a lot of great opportunities rather

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Speaker 2: than a lot of really bad vetos, which is what

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Speaker 2: we've seen this year from Governor to Wine.

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Speaker 1: Well in the big hurdle that the facing Republicans generally speaking,

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Speaker 1: Trump generally speaking, and of course something that might very well,

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Speaker 1: very well impact the midterm elections and moving away from

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Speaker 1: But inflation, and I keep, you know, hearing, oh my god,

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump, it's it's his it's his fall. Inflation, inflation, inflation.

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Speaker 1: I just looked at something like, look at the state

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Speaker 1: the state of Ohio. And in spite of what Governor de

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Speaker 1: The more red tape, the more expensive it is. How

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Speaker 1: much is a gallon of gas in California, It's it's

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Speaker 1: that is. Is that inflation? No, it's California sticking it

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Speaker 1: to their own people. It's too expensive to buy gas

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Speaker 1: there because of all the regulatory environment. Build yourself a

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Speaker 1: Why is that regulatory hurdles, impositions of costs and fines

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Speaker 1: The green energy policy, I mean Barack Obama set it

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Speaker 1: self created problems that are easily solvable by getting rid

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Speaker 1: of the red tape.

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Speaker 2: Oh totally. Well, there was an opportunity to do that

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Speaker 2: included in the most recent state budget. It was vetowed

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Speaker 2: reform bills, right, folks. That's been the number one issue

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Speaker 2: for Ohioans for the last several years, as their property

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Speaker 2: And it doesn't have to be that way. We don't

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Speaker 2: Ohio are working to do every day.

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Speaker 1: And that's because and that's you vetted candidates which you're

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Speaker 1: these endorsed candidates for Americans for Prosperity with Donald and

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Speaker 1: and Neil from Americans for Prosperity. You can probably get

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Speaker 1: some tips here at the end of the segment with

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Speaker 1: Donovan on how we can get involved and getting involved

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Speaker 1: endorsed candidates from Americans for Prosperity. We've got a few

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Speaker 1: of them to talk about this morning in advance of endorsing,

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Speaker 1: in particular candidate Donovan. Do you sit down with them

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Speaker 1: at their campaign materials, what they've said before, their record.

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Speaker 1: How does that all go? Or is it a multitude

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Speaker 2: Well, it's a multitude of all of those, right. It's

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Speaker 2: not something that we just pass out, you know, Party

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Speaker 2: designation doesn't weigh in, you know, do these days? Isn't

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Speaker 2: an automatic qualifier. We have a policy survey that we

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Speaker 2: And it's a long process. Right where we've got a

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Speaker 2: great member of our team. Tim Ross, our deputy state

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Speaker 2: Because you know, good policy doesn't just happen out of

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Speaker 2: help move Ahi thos Yer percent income tax, help empower

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Speaker 2: families with true universal school choice and opportunity, going to

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Speaker 2: cut the red tape and modernize Ohio's broken government system.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot to be done, and it takes bold,

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Speaker 1: I've got advocates for folks getting involved with Central Committee,

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Speaker 2: Well, to be clear, we were an independent organization, right

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Speaker 2: our activists at afp Ohio have and they like to

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Speaker 2: share their opinions. At the end of the day, we

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Speaker 2: see a Boulder, better buck Ice state for all hilands. Great.

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Speaker 1: So you have just established your independence, you are not

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Speaker 1: you influence the Central Committee of the Republican Party in

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Speaker 1: more credibility. All right, moving over, let's talk about some

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Speaker 2: Right, that's right, it's outside of Akron. Mike is great

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Speaker 1: Fair enough. Vic sand Whu from Ohio House District thirty five,

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Speaker 2: Vic's actually a longtime activist with us. He'm a business owner.

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Speaker 2: He's somebody who has actually sought us out and it's

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Speaker 2: Vic Sandu, business owner, get school choice and really importantly

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Speaker 2: I don't go a few hours northeast Lake County, but

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Speaker 1: It's up there north somewhere.

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Speaker 2: There you go. Yeah, it's well. Jesse's great. He a

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Speaker 2: as a father, to make sure we get Ohio as

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Speaker 2: things that you know, we believe are going to help

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Speaker 2: move Ohio forward. And has the real world experience. So again,

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Speaker 2: when you go into those legislative committees, you're not just

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Speaker 2: laws and vote on things and and argue in favor

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Speaker 2: of policies They're gonna actually unleash opportunity and abundance for

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Speaker 1: All Right, I regularly describe Columbus as dysfunctional. We have

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Speaker 1: State Senator Andrew Brenner running for Ohio House District sixty one.

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Speaker 1: I guess he has a record which proves him to

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Speaker 1: be worthy of AFP's endorsement.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Senator Brenner, currently Senator Brenner, hopefully future state Representative

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Speaker 2: Andy Brenner with our support, Andy is one of those

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Speaker 2: folks who has been tireless in the trenches for education, opportunity,

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Speaker 2: school choice. If there is a number one enemy of

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Speaker 2: the public teachers' unions, it's Andy Brenner. We're proud to

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Speaker 2: the amount of money we spend, yet how bad a

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Speaker 2: empowering families first and foremost, and I think should he

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Speaker 1: All right, how about Patty Rocky House District eighty one.

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Speaker 1: Where's that one to start with?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's out northwest Ohio, replacing current Representative Jim Hoops

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Speaker 2: who's term limited out. Patty is a long time fixture

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Speaker 2: that capacity. So when we look at modernizing Ohio government reforming,

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Speaker 2: you know, our state has the sixth most political subdivisions.

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Speaker 2: I think someone like Patty is going to be able

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Speaker 2: what it's going to take to streamline this massive amount

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Speaker 2: in lower property taxes and better return on the taxpayer

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Speaker 2: dollars we all send, not to Columbus, but just down

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Speaker 1: Sounds like a fairly consistent lineup so far, Donovan. We're

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Speaker 1: going to end with wesleyan Davis represent or who may

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Speaker 1: represent Ohio House District eighty six.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we supported her last year last cycle in the

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Speaker 2: primary election, came up short, but we're proud to stand

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Speaker 2: beside her again. You know, she's worked with us, another

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Speaker 2: one of those folks who's been an activist and a

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Speaker 2: in support of school choice and education opportunity and when

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Speaker 2: we you know, we remain focused on that issue as

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Speaker 2: a top tier priority for us. Wesley's somebody were proud

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Speaker 2: Columbus so we can we can make sure all child,

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Speaker 2: every child, every family has the education opportunity that they deserve.

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Speaker 1: Fantastic, and she's just she represents the area surrounding Marysville,

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Speaker 1: which is a north west of Columbus. So, now, Donovan,

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Speaker 1: the importance to my local listening audience that we you

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Speaker 1: mentioned these various candidates from around the state, just to

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Speaker 1: sort of show what you're doing. By way of vetting,

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Speaker 1: is there some way we can get involved in these

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Speaker 1: seemingly very local issues. What's the call to action today?

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Speaker 1: Donovan and Neil Americans for Prosperity.

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Speaker 2: Call to action is good At Buckeye blueprint dot com.

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Speaker 2: We have full profiles of each of these candidates that

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Speaker 2: we've endorsed that you could check out learn more. If

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Speaker 2: you want to get involved, there's a way to take

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Speaker 2: action there. We'd love to have you join us. It's

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Speaker 2: going to take a lot of doors, a lot of calls,

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Speaker 2: as well, Brian, we're not done yet. We're announcing these

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Speaker 2: including many races in Southwest Ohio that we're looking forward to.

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Speaker 2: There's a ton of opportunity in twenty six from the

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Speaker 2: team is going to be involved in all of them,

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Speaker 2: and we need your listeners, Brian to join alongside us.

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Speaker 2: Give an hour two hours on a Saturday, knock some doors,

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Speaker 2: remind people to be out and vote. Because the headwinds

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Speaker 2: and the ideas that the Democrats, progressives in Washington and

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Speaker 1: Yes, it does get involved. AFP makes it so easy

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Speaker 1: to do. Donovan Eilie has always thank you for the

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Speaker 1: to having some better opportunities November, and I hope you

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Speaker 1: I know this list of endorsed candidates from AFP is

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Speaker 1: going to grow and looking forward to having you let

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Speaker 1: my listeners know about who you have endorsed because of course,

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Speaker 1: that independent endorsement and policies that you're pushing I think

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Speaker 1: are all very very welcome within my listening audience. My friend,

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Speaker 1: and merry Christmas do you and everybody at AFP, you

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Speaker 1: and your family, Donovan, it's always a pleasure talking with you.

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Speaker 2: Have a merry Christmas, a happy New Year break. I

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Speaker 2: look forward to a great twenty twenty six and sharing

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Speaker 2: a lot of it with you and your listeners on

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Speaker 2: the show.

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Speaker 1: Looking forward to that already, Donald and Neil, take care

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Speaker 1: of yourself. Seven fifty