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Speaker 1: A twenty one and fifty five KCD talk station. A

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Speaker 1: very happy Monday to you made extra special. Welcome back

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Speaker 1: to the fifty five CARC Morning Showed. A very Happy

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Speaker 1: New Year to the next Governor of the State of Ohio.

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Speaker 2: VV.

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Speaker 1: Ramaswami vivike Ramas sam Me. It's a pleasure to have

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Speaker 1: you back on the show, sir. Welcome.

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Speaker 2: Good to talk you, Brian, Thank you Mom.

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Speaker 1: Doing great list as great as I can be. I

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Speaker 1: thought we might have hit the ground running. It a

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Speaker 1: little bit slower encountering your twenty twenty six, but I

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Speaker 1: keep joking. I've got like six months of flood of

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Speaker 1: breaking news stories that you know normally would take place

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Speaker 1: every a long period of time, all crunched into a

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Speaker 1: tiny little amount of space. There's a whole lot to unpackage.

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Speaker 1: I hope the whole year isn't this complicated. But I'm

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Speaker 1: looking forward to November because I'm looking forward to you

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Speaker 1: being elected as Ohio's next governor. Way ahead and all

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Speaker 1: a polling from everything I can tell, and you've kind

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Speaker 1: of solidified the team. You've selected Rob McCauley as your

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Speaker 1: running mate. What led you to choose Rob over the others?

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Speaker 1: Who were under consideration v Vake.

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Speaker 2: Well, look, there was, first of all, a lot of

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Speaker 2: great people in office and running for office and even

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Speaker 2: not running for office who I considered. But it's going

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Speaker 2: to be a team effort. But the reason I selected

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Speaker 2: Rob as Lieutenant governor is, think about it, Brian, is

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Speaker 2: I'm an entrepreneur, I'm a businessman. I'm not a politician,

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Speaker 2: and I come from the outside, and We're going to

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Speaker 2: shake things up where necessary. Right, I'm going to tax reform,

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Speaker 2: regulatory reform, you name it. But in order to actually

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Speaker 2: turn that vision into reality, I wanted a governing partner

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Speaker 2: who does have the experience of passing laws, understanding the

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Speaker 2: effectiveness of working with the legislature, and in that department,

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Speaker 2: I think there's nobody better than Rob, who, by the

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Speaker 2: age of forty, got to be Senate president in Ohio.

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Speaker 2: He had served in both the House and the Senate.

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Speaker 2: But at the same time, he isn't somebody who's off

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Speaker 2: his peak, and you know, in the Rocker I should

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Speaker 2: say he's a young man still, he's about the same

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Speaker 2: age as me. He's of the next generation, and so

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Speaker 2: I think he brings that youthful perspective and energy while

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Speaker 2: still actually having legislative experience that I don't have have,

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Speaker 2: But I do bring the outsider experience of the business

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Speaker 2: executive and an entrepreneur, and I think that's going to

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Speaker 2: be a powerful one two punch combination. Not just to

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Speaker 2: talk about policy changes, not just to make noise on

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Speaker 2: social media, right, which are too many politicians focus on

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Speaker 2: these days, but to actually deliver meaningful change that lifts

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Speaker 2: up the lives of allolands, that puts more money in

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Speaker 2: your pockets, and also equally importantly improves the quality of

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Speaker 2: our schools.

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm focused on, fair enough, And I guess

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Speaker 1: what I'm hearing is you are demonstrably successful as a businessman.

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Speaker 1: You know how business works, and you work that to

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Speaker 1: your own personal success. You plan on bringing that to

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Speaker 1: the state of Ohio. Having that keen understanding McCauley, I

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Speaker 1: guess understands the sausage making process. Can I put it

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Speaker 1: that way, sir?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, that's exactly right. And you know there's a famous

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Speaker 2: man born in Ohio and by the name of Thomas

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Speaker 2: Edison who famously said a vision without execution is a hallucination.

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Speaker 2: All right, So I'm bringing division and I'm also going

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Speaker 2: to be able to execute, but I want a governing

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Speaker 2: partner who helps me execute with the legislature because a

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Speaker 2: lot of what I want to do, some of it

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Speaker 2: we can do through executive power, but a lot of

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Speaker 2: what I'm going to want to do is going to

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Speaker 2: require legislation. That's going to be Rob helping me work

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Speaker 2: with our legislature, which he knows in and out. That's

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Speaker 2: the sausage making that's required. And he's able to do

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Speaker 2: it while still being young and energetic, and I like

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Speaker 2: that about him. And look, let's talk about the goals,

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Speaker 2: not just talk about sausage making. Let's talk about why

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Speaker 2: we're in this, which is not only do we want

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Speaker 2: to bring costs down, and this is the focus across

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Speaker 2: the board in the country, but I want to also

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Speaker 2: be the state that actually makes you wealthier, increases your

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Speaker 2: after tax take home pay by rolling back property taxes.

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Speaker 2: I want to deliver the biggest property tax rollback we

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Speaker 2: have seen in the United States of America. And I

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Speaker 2: want to make Ohio zero income tax state while we're

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Speaker 2: at it, and you able to roll back both income taxation,

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Speaker 2: property taxation, and even regulatory taxation. Yes, the reason your

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Speaker 2: electric bills are seventy eighty percent hiring some parts of

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Speaker 2: the state. Is because of the regulations that inhibit energy production.

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Speaker 1: The reasons with a tax, the reason off his platform,

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Speaker 1: he's promising a reform on energy and I'm laughing out

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Speaker 1: loud vay because I'm still walking funny since the last

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Speaker 1: Duke Bill I got. I couldn't believe my eyes. We

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Speaker 1: need to do something about that control. Yeah, lowering the

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Speaker 1: price of energy will put out money in our pockets.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, I've been talking about this is the day I

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Speaker 2: launched the campaign. Now. I launched the campaign in Fibruary

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Speaker 2: of twenty twenty live now right, and so I already

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Speaker 2: twenty second Februar of twenty twenty five. I said that

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Speaker 2: our electric bills are going to continue to go up

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Speaker 2: because of the supply demand imbalance, and a lot of

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Speaker 2: people told me that, I don't think people believe you

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Speaker 2: on that. Well, then summer last year rolled around, and

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Speaker 2: then fall last year rolled around, and what do we see?

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Speaker 2: We saw that spike. And so I do think we

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Speaker 2: need a governor who is an entrepreneur, who's a businessman,

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Speaker 2: who's a to see where the puck is going. Even

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Speaker 2: economically and make those decisions in a calculated, thoughtful way

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Speaker 2: for Ohioans. I've built successful companies. I'm proud to say

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Speaker 2: because of the opportunities I've been given in this state.

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Speaker 2: The education that I gained in Cincinnati, went to public

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Speaker 2: school thre eighth grade, went to Saint X for high school.

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Speaker 2: So I'm so grateful for the opportunities I've been given.

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Speaker 2: But to be one of the most successful businessmen probably

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Speaker 2: in the last several decades coming out of this state,

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Speaker 2: I know how to solve the problems that this state

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Speaker 2: faces too. And with Rob at my side, working with

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Speaker 2: the legislature, We're just going to get things done, not

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Speaker 2: just talk about it, but actually act. And I'm looking

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Speaker 2: forward to starting next January so it can actually deliver

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Speaker 2: on bringing down those electric bills, bringing down those property taxes,

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Speaker 2: and eventually bringing the income tax down to zero.

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Speaker 1: Check out the platform help him out. His vision for

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Speaker 1: Ohio is an outstanding one, and that is a confident

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Speaker 1: man I've got on the phone today, vivig Ramaswami. You

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Speaker 1: can help him online, learn about the campaign strategy and

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Speaker 1: Get over there, help them out and help them out

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Speaker 1: with a campaign trail knock some doors. Mister Ramaswami, thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for joining my program. It's always a

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Speaker 1: pleasure to hear from you. Have an open venue right

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Speaker 1: here to talk anytime you want about the issues as

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Speaker 1: we move fast toward November.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, bry Good talking to you always a pleasure.

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Speaker 1: At twenty seven right now, stick around. Zach Hanes Speaking

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Speaker 1: of elections in November, got Ohio State Senate candidate for

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Speaker 1: District seven, Zach Haynes