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Speaker 1: Warren County Authority Charmaine McGuffey. We've had on Warren County,

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Speaker 1: We've had on Northern Kentucky, and now the governor of

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Speaker 1: the State of Ohio, Mike DeWine. And Mike DeWine, welcome

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Speaker 1: again to the Bill Cunningham Show. And I saw it

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Speaker 1: was here yesterday the day before you on Channel nine

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Speaker 1: with Tanya Rourke. You're a hunker down in Cedarville. Is

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Speaker 1: your location still undisclosed or are you in Green County

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Speaker 1: in your home?

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Speaker 2: It's very disclosed. I'm in Cedarville at our homes, So yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's where where I am and just getting getting reports

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Speaker 2: about what's going on, you know, around around the state. Uh.

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Speaker 2: You know, Bill, what we really worry about now is

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Speaker 2: I think the cold weather. Uh you know, we were

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Speaker 2: talking your your weather folks are talking about minus twenty

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Speaker 2: five windshill factory. That's you know, you can die pretty

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Speaker 2: fast if you're out of that. So we just you know,

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Speaker 2: tell people be very very careful if you're going out,

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Speaker 2: and make sure you've got plenty of clothes on, plenty

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Speaker 2: of plenty of stuff in that car. You know, people

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Speaker 2: are are really I think staying home, which I think

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Speaker 2: is a great, great, great thing.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 2: Even today, the uh it's pretty it's pretty light.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 2: You know, the interstates are sort of open. They're open,

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Speaker 2: but you know, you have to be careful sometimes you

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Speaker 2: have to just follow where the where the uh snowplow went. Uh,

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Speaker 2: you know, from one lane and until the other. And

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Speaker 2: of course the side roads and side streets are you know,

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Speaker 2: really a really still kind of a mess. But the

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Speaker 2: UH one statistic, I think it's it's it's interesting if

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Speaker 2: you look at this past weekend, this last two days,

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Speaker 2: last Saturday and Sunday versus a week before that, even

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Speaker 2: though the traffic was only a fraction uh this weekend

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Speaker 2: of what it was the weekend before. UH. For this

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Speaker 2: is just highway patrol data now just just highway patrol,

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Speaker 2: not local police. But of the disabled cars the previous weekend,

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Speaker 2: there were fifty two that were helped uh people who

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Speaker 2: are stranded UH yesterday in the day before, it was

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Speaker 2: six hundred and thirty five. So it's just you know,

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Speaker 2: twelve times as much even though there was just a

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Speaker 2: fraction of the traffic out there. So it tells you

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Speaker 2: that these roads are still treacherous and if people can

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Speaker 2: you know, not not go out or not go out

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Speaker 2: very much. They're it's certainly a good decision.

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Speaker 1: As far as splitting up the governmental authority. I got

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Speaker 1: a little lesson last night from Tom Weedman, who's the

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Speaker 1: Sycamore Township trustee, because my street was impassable, and he said, well,

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Speaker 1: you live on a county road and it's not a

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Speaker 1: state road and it's not a township road. Then this

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Speaker 1: other road next to me was a township road, but

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Speaker 1: it wasn't a state road or a county road. And

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Speaker 1: so as I understand that there's county roads that had

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Speaker 1: to be applied by the county, there's township slash municipal

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Speaker 1: roads by the township municipal, and then there's state roads

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Speaker 1: on top of that of the federal roads. So who's

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Speaker 1: response ability is it? For example an I seventy one,

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Speaker 1: I seventy five and two seventy five is that the Feds?

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Speaker 1: Is that the state? Is that the county? Is that

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Speaker 1: the mute mnisimal? What is the responsibility?

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Speaker 2: That's our responsibility, that's the state's responsibility. Uh, you know

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Speaker 2: the big emphasis we've got fifteen hunt can have up

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Speaker 2: to fifteen hundred snowplows out there at any one given time,

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Speaker 2: and you know they've been working twelve hour shifts and

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Speaker 2: then they switch off. So yeah, that's our responsibility. So

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Speaker 2: the interstate highways, you know those state those roads, that's

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Speaker 2: the first, first priority. It's kind of interesting, Bill, I

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Speaker 2: was in our management headquarters the other day and they

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Speaker 2: were showing me they can pull up any any of

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Speaker 2: the snowplows fifteen hundred snowplows around the state. They can

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Speaker 2: literally pull them up and there's a there's a camera

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Speaker 2: and you can see exactly what that snowplow is doing,

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Speaker 2: what it's actually seeing at that time. So it's a

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Speaker 2: lot of people working very very hard, not just from

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Speaker 2: the state level, but the county level, the township level,

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Speaker 2: and you know, we just thank everybody who's out there

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Speaker 2: and doing doing doing that work. And we just again

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Speaker 2: caution people. You know, we have snowplows virtually every day

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Speaker 2: that get hit. So far, we've had no serious accidents,

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Speaker 2: but we've had some hit this weekend, and so it's

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Speaker 2: just you know, people just need to be very careful.

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Speaker 2: These snowplows are not going to generally go the same

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Speaker 2: speed that the cars will be going. Although I would

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Speaker 2: hope everybody would be way ways slow down.

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Speaker 1: Now, Hi, do you declare as governor at level one,

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Speaker 1: level two, level three? And if so, where are we?

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Speaker 2: No, that's all every county does that. It's the county sheriff,

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Speaker 2: and I think it's the right way to do it,

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Speaker 2: because the county sheriff knows his or her roads better

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Speaker 2: than anybody else. They've got people out there. Uh, they

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Speaker 2: consult with the with the county engineer. Uh, they consult

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Speaker 2: with other emergency groups that might be out there, and

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Speaker 2: they make a decision. So you know, you've seen some

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Speaker 2: of our counties go to level three, which is very

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Speaker 2: very new usual. That simply means you were prohibited from

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Speaker 2: going out unless you're in an absolute dire emergency, and

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Speaker 2: that doesn't happen very often. But uh, you know, we

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Speaker 2: saw that yesterday. Some of the counties went to went

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Speaker 2: to level level three, again, very very unusual. But it's

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Speaker 2: the local sheriff who makes that decision, because you know,

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Speaker 2: we're looking at the interstates, but the local sheriff is

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Speaker 2: looking at the back roads, is looking at the other

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Speaker 2: state roads going through the county, and they're the best

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Speaker 2: person to make that decision In.

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Speaker 1: The lastly, you about eleven more months to serve Are

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Speaker 1: you going to miss this?

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Speaker 2: Well, I missed every part of the job. I were

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Speaker 2: most parts of the job. I guess you know. I

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Speaker 2: like the job a lot, and it's you know, if

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Speaker 2: you if you want to try to make a difference,

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Speaker 2: you have the opportunity as governed to try to make

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Speaker 2: a difference every single day. So yeah, I'm going to

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Speaker 2: miss it.

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Speaker 1: Are you going to come back? I mean, you could

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Speaker 1: serve out your term in about eleven and a half

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Speaker 1: months and then come back in four to eight years.

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Speaker 1: Might you do that?

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Speaker 2: Well, I don't think I'll do that. Boll why not? Man?

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Speaker 2: Probably that's probably not gonna happen.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, friend, and probably say forget May you call

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Speaker 1: her Francis? I never knew her as Francis, but frand may. Now, lastly,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to get you involved in the controversy

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Speaker 1: involving Minnesota, but your compatriot Tim Waltz compared what's happening

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Speaker 1: in Minneapolis to and Frank hunting out from the Nazis

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Speaker 1: in World War Two in Amsterdam. Do you think that

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Speaker 1: is an app comparison to have a Frank a Nazis

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Speaker 1: talk about ice officials in Minneapolis.

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Speaker 2: I think it's always dangerous to compare anything to the Nazis,

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Speaker 2: and I think that's one of the one of the

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Speaker 2: lessons that we should all follow. Not a not a

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Speaker 2: not a great, not a great idea. So I think

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Speaker 2: you know, no idea.

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Speaker 1: No, All right, Governor, I know you're busy, and we'll

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Speaker 1: see what happens down the road. But see what you

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Speaker 1: can do in I seventy one and seventy five still

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Speaker 1: needs a little bit of work. But we're gonna have

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Speaker 1: minus twenty five degree wind shills overnight. That's colder than

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Speaker 1: a well diggers behind. That's like back in nineteen seventy seven.

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Speaker 1: I always walk across the Ohio River. I got close

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Speaker 1: to doing it, but I didn't because I feared. But

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Speaker 1: I saw a Volkswagen bug. I saw a vehicle drive

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Speaker 1: across the Ohio River without the bridge. Now I thought

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Speaker 1: I'll never see that again. But this continues another ten days,

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Speaker 1: the river might freeze. Governor Mike DeWine, get my best

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Speaker 1: of friend, get some beef struggling off, maybe get some

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Speaker 1: cherry pie, and away you go.

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Speaker 2: Awesome, Bill, Thank you, good talking with you. God bless you.

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Speaker 1: Yep, everybody, God Bless America. Governor Mike Dwine, let's continue

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Speaker 1: with more short break than more at your home of

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Speaker 1: the snow coverage, News Radio seven hundreds WW