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of the bowl. Right, Billy Cunningham, the great American and the governor
of this state is the governor Mike DeWine and Mike Dwine, welcome again to
the Bill Cunningham Show. And uh, Mike, how you're doing? First
of all, is get right to I know you're busy, got something going
on in a few minutes here, but nonetheless, two and three issues are
percolating. Are you ready for my probing questions? Yeah? But first of
all, this theme song of yours, you've had it for like fifty years
or something. Yeah, don't you think it's time for something more upbeat than
Bad to the Bone. Just think about that? Well, I get the
fresh one here, you know that? Come on? Well? Yeah,
well your theme, your walk up music is the Jetsons. But yeah,
I mean I'm kind of thinking of the jets comes from a nineteen sixties show.
Yeah, many people you know we're of that generation, many or not.
But nonetheless, we were supposedly having these flying taxis about sixty years ago,
and now are we gonna have flying taxis? What's happening with that ropation?
A California companies just coming to Ohio and build those flying taxis near the
Dayton Airport. That's that's about the future. Excited. I have to see
it to believe it. So as I understand it, it's gonna hover like
a helicopter, go up and then just take off and you can you can
reserve it much like like an uber drive like a bat. Like, Yeah,
it's gonna go straight up and that's gonna go like a bat out of
hell. I mean, it's just gonna be really, uh a great thing.
And it is. It is about the future, and I love it
to a California come decided that Ohio is a great place to make a aviation
vehicle of the future. Much you love that. I love it because that's
one of my first questions. Is New York seemingly is bleeding companies. California
is bleeding companies, and the Donald Trump factor in New York is causing you
know, you got the ag you spent eight years as our ag. Latitia
James is doing a victory lap about all the money every day that Trump loses
one hundred and twelve thousand dollars more, and she's like poking the bear.
Have you made efforts from like California, maybe specifically New York and other Blue
states to say, come to Ohio. The tax rates are extremely low,
plenty of good water flat because of the glacier that came down. What efforts
are you going to go to New York, et cetera, maybe Michigan after
Whitmer and you're gonna help Ohio? And so what's being done there? Well,
Bill, if you remember during the Bengals Super Bowl when we went out
there, he had several billboards out there inviting people in California basically, if
you're sick of high taxes and if you're sick of a very very high cost
of living and a whole bunch of traffic, come to Ohio. And you
know, we're getting a lot of companies that are literally coming off off the
west coast. I'm coming off the east coast. And it was noteworthy,
I think that the governor of Pennsylvania Uh in his State of the State speech
referenced Ohio and basically said said it's not a direct quote, but hey,
we're tired of losing to Ohio. We we got to go after this.
We've got to get these jobs to come to Pennsylvania. So he literally called
Ohio out. Yeah, in the state of the state. So look,
we're not going to get every uh, every company that wants to move or
every company is going to start up, but we're sure getting more than our
fair share, and we're going to continue continue to do that. His population
in Ohio, dwin Lingers are going up. At one point, we're losing.
Have we stabilized going the other direction or not? Yeah, we're going
up. You know, Bill, for most of my life, for fifty
sixty sixty years, our population has been relatively stable, and you know,
we're we're moving forward and we're starting to see our population go up more.
It's not going up as fast as you know, I might like, but
it's it certainly is going up. And you know, it's just a great
place to do business, great place to live, great place to raise a
family. You know, more and more people recognizing that. A couple of
days ago, I sent you an article out of Coal Rain Middle School.
As you're probably aren't monitoring Coal Rain Middle School, but there were several students
there that were hospitalized and justin cannabis infused gummy bears, and I understand that
that is a And when I talk to educators, they say, hey,
they look like candy, they look like children's things, and they're passed around
some relace with fentanyl. Summer lace with THC. Co Raine Middle School had
ambulances showing up, kids were kids are hallucinating, et cetera. And here
we sit almost in March, and you Republicans, not you, but the
Republicans in the House have refused to move on the will of the voters five
months ago. What's the status of that as we approach March. First,
well, first of all, thank you for sending that to me. I
put our team on that to look at that. And we're still that's still
under investigation, as you know, and trying to get all the facts.
But you know, one of the things that you know, we are very
concerned about is more kids showing up at the emergency room. And these gummy
these gummy bears. Are these gummies not all bears. I guess they're gummies,
you know, can can be have the marijuana in it, and you
know, if an adult ate one, it probably wouldn't have a whole huge
effect. But the problem is that you know, someone gets hold of them
a kid particularly, and they eat more than eat more than one or they're
you know as a kid, they're waited as low, or they're you know,
they're a first grader or second grader, and it's just a it's a
real, real problem. We got a couple of things that the legislature,
as you say, really needs needs to do. One is this Delta eight,
Delta nine, Delta ten, which is a hemp product, but it
is hallucinogenic and it's sold for that very specific purpose and you can buy it.
Unfortunately in gas some gas stations today uh and we're seeing you know,
fifteen year olds go in, sometimes twelve year olds go in, uh and
and and buy it. I mean we had, for example, a head
of a public safety Andy Wilson. I asked him to go check this out,
and you know in Springfield he sent his fifteen year old Nason to Uh,
well, I guess there's his nephew to go in went right into the
store and bought it. So you know, in many places they don't check
they're not checking IDs. They're selling this product. It's legal to sell it.
We need to close that loophole and the law it's it's a it's a
big loophole. It was a loophool in federal law loopool and state law.
I do not have the power a pharmacy board, the medical board, nobody
has the power to ba this stuff. And only the legislature can do it.
So we need, you know, really need for them to do it.
How about jall bone and get Stevens in there and beat them about the
facing the head governor, tell them this is what I want. I'm the
governor. You're not. The Senate passed it, the people passed it.
What in the hell is to hold up four months later? Well, I
just you know, Bill, I'm not I can't really answer that. I
mean, this is something the legislature has to do. You're right that the
you know, the Senate did pass a basically a marijuana bill which would have
allowed us to start selling marijuana through are places that are already licensed to sell
a medical and we really done that. Now that again, that may sound
strange for someone who was not in favor of the bill, and I'm still
not, but the people passed it, and they passed it with about fifty
seven percent of the vote. We have to, I think, filew the
will of the people, but we also have to do it in a rational
and reasonable way, and that's what this bill would have done. And so
again the Sentate passed it. We would like for the House to pass it,
and you know, we cauld move on the big concern we have.
You know, it passed. Everybody thinks it's legal, but you can't legally
buy it yet in oh and that just creates, you know, a bigger
black market, and a black market is not good because people are buying the
product and there's no guarantee that it's not been you know, what it's laced
with, what it's got in it. They don't know that the purity,
they don't know how potent stuff is. All of those things are controlled.
Once you go into a controlled sale of marijuana and there's you know, you
know that it's not been grown and sprayed with pesticides. I mean, all
these things are guaranteed when you buy it. But that system is not set
up yet, and we need, frankly, the legislature to pass legislation that
allows us to set this up much faster than the current law allows us to
do so again. These are two big areas that we really need some help
from the state legislature. Sanctuary city, sanctuary states. I'm looking to my
left right now, Mayor Adams is holding another town hall meeting explaining what's going
on with They've had about one hundred and twenty five thousand legal immigrants come.
They've had about thirty thousand kids show up at school, many without any of
their vaccinations. Ohio is not a sanctuary state, but that way have several
cities like Cincinnati that are sanctuary cities. And in fact, I saw this
video from the border. A border patrol agent sent me there's a large group
of Ethiopians illegally entering the country. They're going to be shipped to Cincinnati because
of Catholic Charities and or the Salvation Army that provide the government contracts to the
house, clothe and feed these individuals. Is there anything at the state level
you can do to dissuade individuals, whether they're the Salvation Army, which is
a great organization, or Catholic Charities, which is a great organization, but
they're being paid by the federal government big bucks to relocate it legals into Ohio.
Anything you can do to stop that. Well, first of all,
we're not a sanctuary state, and the idea of sanctuary cities I think is
absurd. You know, I guess what they're saying. I'm never quite sure
what they mean by sanctuary city, but I guess it means that they won't
cooperate with the several authorities, which again goes against everything that I believe in
as far as local law enforcement. And you know, we should be cooperating
with federal officials no matter what. You know, what the criminal investigation is
or what whether it's an immigration issue. Let me point out the build one
thing, and that is that there are a lot of people who are coming
to Ohio and they're not being relocated. They're just literally, you know,
we've got this situation at the border where they're basically and you our listeners have
heard this a million times, so basically it's kind of an absurd situation.
They get on us soil. Uh, then they turn the lineup to turn
themselves in, and then they claim asylum, which basically means, you know,
they have a legitimate fear of going back to their to their country that
they came from. They're basically then you know, they give some indication of
where they're going to move move to, uh, and then they're given a
date which is I don't know, six eight years in advance to show up.
You know, that's that system just doesn't work, right because what they
do is they my only point is they disappear into the into the community,
and so they may end up any anywhere. And you know, one of
the things that frankly we're concerned with is when people come in to the community
UH and you know they don't they don't speak English, and they and they
can't uh maybe maybe don't know how to drive, but yet you know,
they get they get a license to drive. So these are things that you
know, it is very legitimate for local agencies to try to help them speak
English because again it's it's not helpful to anybody. If they can't speak English.
It means they don't report crime. Uh, they don't can't communicate.
Uh, you know, create the problems with the kids going to school.
I mean, so what we do with in one we're here I think is
you know, we try to make it work. The problem is down on
the order and that's all the federal government, right and you know, the
system that exists today just is goofy. I mean, it makes no You
couldn't make a system up any goofier than what we have today on the border.
I mean, I imagine this, tell somebody, Okay, show up
in you know, five years, six years, seven years, or whatever
it is. At the time they got this massive back law, and you
know, you've got to fix the backlog. You've got to get more more
of these judges who hear these things, and the current system just is absurd.
Well, lastly, let me ask you this question. Looking at my
right here at the Wall Street Journal's got a story about Senator Mitch McConnell,
the Senate Republican leader, has put in roads into Donald Trump to work out
their differences. The primary in Ohio is, like I think, on March
the nineteenth, got three candidates running for the Senate. You've endorsed none of
them. Let the people decide. Do you see yourself endorsing Donald Trump at
some point? First of all, I'm a big fan of Mitch McConnell.
I worked with Mitch for twelve years in the US Senate. Uh. He's
a guy that you know, knows how to get stuff stuff done. Uh.
The Supreme Court that we have today. Uh. We owe Connell a
lot. We certainly President Trump a lot for nominating them. But he but
mcconnald's the one that doesn't to the Senate, held up one of the one
of the you know, previous administration's uh candidates. So anyway, Mitch has
done. I think a very very very good job. My focus uh is
going to be after this this primary, to everything I can to help our
Senate nominee. I think we've got three good candidates who are running. I
notice on TV everybody's beating everybody up. Sort of goes with the game,
understand that. But but the next morning after the primary, you know,
we need to get behind u uh you know whoever that whoever the nominee is
of the Republican Party, and I'm going my my political focus uh this year
certainly is going to be uh, you know, primarily on on that.
I'm not up myself. I'm not running. But would you accept it if
Trump? If Donald Trump called you and said, Mike DeWine, I want
you to be my vice president, would you accept that? Billy, I'm
not interested in that. I'm uh, I'm interested in serving your governor of
state. We got plenty to do here. Uh, we've been focusing on,
you know, getting kids to read. And you didn't say no,
you didn't say no reading. No, I'm not no, I'm not gonna
interest. I'm not interested. No. All right, I don't think he's
calling anyway, Billy, Yeah, I think you were completely different people.
Would you agree, Well, I just don't think he's calling. I'm not
interested. I love being a governor. It's you know, we got a
lot of work to do in the next few years. All right, Governor,
thank you for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show live here in Cincinnati,
and you'll be at Red's opening day I think in about a month, is
that correctly? Well? Spring training, listening to listen to all the games
yesterday with my son Brian, and as we were we were coming home and
u's it's good to have baseball back on the radio. Mike Dowan, Governor,
Mike Dewan, thank you very much for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show
and change that theme song. Will you please? Well, can you give
me a recommendation? I mean what I got, h that's my favorite song
is George store Good's Bad to the Bone. I mean, I kind of
like my back pages. Also, that's a pretty good song. I could
update it maybe with a Taylor Swift song, Shake it Off. I think
something. I think something by Tricia yearwould would be just really good. She
say, Tricia YEARW. I like her TV show and the Food Network.
I like her. Well, I don't know about that. I don't think
i've seen that. I like to listen to it, Tricia. I'm gonna
see what I can do. All right, Yes, seriously, this is
it's going on decades. It's too long. All right, I'm going to
talk to the powers that we're going to change my theme song. Governor,
thank you. All right, thank you, Governor, Mike, thank you.
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