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Now Bill cunning into Great America.
Of course, today is election day in

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the state of Kentucky, my home
state. And let's face it, I

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had on Rob Sanders a couple hours
ago and the turnout as of noon was

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four percent in Kenton County. I
wanted to check in with Jesse Brewer,

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who's the Boone County commissioner. He
runs Boone County with an iron grip,

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including the airport, and Jesse Brewer, welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show.

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So, as we sit here on
mid afternoon on Tuesday, election Day,

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how much of a turnout of voters
have there been in Boone County so

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far? At this point, you
know, Willie is up this point right

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now, we're sitting about six and
a half percent turnout total, you know,

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and that's h And that's actually a
little better than I thought it was

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going to be based on the early
reporting numbers. You know, the early

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voting. We had one point three
percent early voting. I believe our abras

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and Kitton only had a one percent
early voting turnout. So people are just

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better thing to do, you know. Maybe they're uh, I don't know,

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maybe they're going to Valhalla trying to
get some Scottie Scheffler memorabilia, or

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maybe going to watch the arraignment they
got postponed. I don't know what they're

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doing, but they're not voting.
Well. The thing is, it's consistent.

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I think November is going to be
a big turnout, assuming we have

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Trump versus Biden or Trump versus Kamala
Harris. It will be a big turnout,

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I think. But is there a
sense that you're a businessman basically,

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and also of course I use the
term a part time politician. Is there

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a sense that we're tired of politics, We can't take it anymore. It

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is disgusting, vicious attacks. Social
media plays a part. What's your analysis

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is the why people seem not to
care? Well, that's spot on.

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You know, we're used to seeing
the nasty viciousness on the national level,

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you know, especially with the twenty
four hour news cycle from the major networks

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and breathing down your throat or points
of you and all the money being spent

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on TV ads. Then last year
in Kentucky we had a governor's race and

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it was the most money on record
spent in a campaign with the year and

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Daniel Cameron, and it was you
know, when you spend that kind of

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money, it's not the flatter of
your opponent or or or you know,

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talk nicely about everybody you're you're attacking. And so then you had that last

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year, and then this year in
Boone County we had some pretty hotly contested

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primaries. You know, we have
three state House races and a state Senate

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race on which are important races because
that's the North Kentucky's voice in Frankfurt,

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you know, at least part of
North Kentucky's voice, and it's it's important,

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but you get a lot of mussling. And I've had voters reach out

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to me, especially in the sixty
sixth district out towards Hebron. That one

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was pretty brutal from both sides.
A lot of a lot of a lot

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of mailers, a lot of social
media, a lot of signs, a

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lot of accusations thrown around, and
voters are just set up and they're tired.

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I've had several voters reach out to
mean saying they just were turned off

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by it all. They didn't think
they would see this right here in their

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own neighborhood, in backyard, and
here they are seeing it and they're just

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worn out. I'm hoping we can
get past this and get back to the

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issues. But you know, when
it comes to like when it comes to

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like a Senate race, like whether
it's Shared Brown or Daniel Cameron, big

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time money shows up Cameron running for
governor, but outside interest pour money in,

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such as the George Soros, the
Rockefeller Foundation, in order to make

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sure left wing extremeistay in power.
But in Kentucky when you have smaller races,

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is this self funding or are there
outside interest groups coming into Kentucky and

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dumping large amounts of money. Yes, there are outside groups on both sides

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of the of the Republican Party split. You've got the establishment Republican type folks,

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and you have teachers unions and stuff
like that throwing money behind candidates.

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You get out of state liberty packs
also thilling money in these races. So

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you don't see that on a county
level, but you do see it on

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a local state level race. But
you know, here in Boone County,

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for example, we have you know, five or six state reps have a

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portion of Boone County, whereas my
race is county wide. So the district

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for a state Rep race up here
is smaller than a county race, but

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you know that's the voice in Frankfort
that you know, they get to.

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You know, we've got five or
so of of the one hundred of voices

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in Frankfort in the House, and
so they look at those as pretty important

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seats the past or the state legislative
issues and agendas. Kind of you get

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money up forwards it on both sides. Jesse Bruh, this is a different

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issue. But you live in Boone
County and the CDG is critical the development

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of the tri state. You know, I think Boone County, Kenton County

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important counties. Hamilton County is the
heart that beats the Try State kind of

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with all the shootings and the murders
and the open air drug markets and police

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demoralized. In the city of Cincinnati, what's happening with hundreds of youths running

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around at night? God knows what
they're doing. It's not good. What

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is your sense of law and order
in the city of Cincinnati From a Boone

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County perspective, you know, it's
not good. I mean, I'm very

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definitely, very conscious of where I
go downtown and win, especially if I

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have my family with me. I've
got I still got some little ones at

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home and my wife and I got
girls, and I think about that kind

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of thing. If I'm going to
be in certain parts of downtown in time

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of day or what's going on and
subjective to that, you know, I

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don't have that same sense of feeling
over here in Kentucky, especially in Boone

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County where things are different, or
even in the suburbs of Cincinnati, you

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know, and what's happening in Boone
County. You can live in Boone County

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and you can actually go to a
pretty good pub school. You can be

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in Boone County and if you're down
nine to one one, the odds of

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a cop showing up are pretty good. If a vicious crime is committed in

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Boone County, the odds are pretty
good that the perpetrator is going to be

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arrested. Then you don't have judges
that will bounce them out of jail before

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the paperwork is done. Correct.
You know, We've got a really good

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Commonwealth Attorney and Lewis Kelly that is
very pro law enforcement, very pro order.

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We've also got very good judges that
you know, don't tolerat any nonsense,

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want to put people out on the
street. And so if you mess

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up in Boone County, you're going
to get hammered, as you should.

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If you commit to commit a serious
crime of robbery or or all of our

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citizens or anything like that, then
you're gonna they're gonna get you. And

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they're pretty good at their job.
And that's one of the reasons why I

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like living there and Jesse. I
speak to Rob Sanders about this, that

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a lot of the crime from Cincinnati
is leeching over across the river. He

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wants to build a wall. I'm
not sure that can done. I had

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on Butler County officials about a week
ago. There were three kids from CPS

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since the public schools that thought,
okay, it's easier to break into cars

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in Westchester than breaking into cars and
avon Dale or Eveston. And so they

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went up there, three of them, and they broke into forty cars,

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causing tens of thousands of dollars worth
of damage, and all three were arrested

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after a police chase, and two
of the three had handguns in their possession,

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much like the kid that was killed
Addison was killed on a car break

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in in Mount Auburn. Those kids
are ready to kill you. If you

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come out to defend your car or
to question them, you could be killed.

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Now, the two of them went
to juvenile court, one went to

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adult court. One was eighteen,
one was seventeen, one was fifteen,

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And the fifteen and the seventeen year
old are still locked up. They don't

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understand their parent, the mom doesn't
understand why they can't come home. And

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then the eighteen year old and now
facing years in prison. And so when

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a lot of the fruit's been picked
in Hamilton County, they're going to move

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out to Boone, Kenton and Campbell
County and Butler County to commit crime.

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What would happen to two or three
kids in Boone County if they break into

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forty cars, cost tens of thousands
of dollars worth of damage, fleeing and

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eluding police, wrecking the car,
jumping out, uh chase down, cought,

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and then two of the three have
guns in their possession and they're going

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to juvenile court in Hamilty County.
Because of Judge Bloom, they would be

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released immediately immediately released. What would
happen in Boone County? Did the same

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kids doing the same thing send the
message to the criminals in Cincinnati. What

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not to do? I think you're
going to see a very similar situation what's

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happened until on Butler County. They're
not going to You're gonna have a lot

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of parents. You're gonna have those
parents calling constantly and if they don't understand

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why their kids aren't out yet,
and they're probably not going to get out

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for quite some time and there because
they're going to be obviously a minute to

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society and in a threat to public
safety, and they're going to be handled

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appropriately. I wonder what happened to
this city of Cincinnati. All right,

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lastly, here we're sitting here,
what message could you give the Kentucky voters,

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the great majority of whom are not
voting today. It's time to pull

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us close at six o'clock, so
you got about three and a half or

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four hours. What message can be
sent to go there and participate, you

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know, get out there and vote, make your voice heard. I also

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want to take a moment to just
as an elected official in Boone County,

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to remember the Boone County Republican Party. I want to apologize to all the

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voters who have just been inundated with
constant mail constant text messages, constant social

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media signs everywhere, and right of
ways and negative non negative messaging. And

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I get it myself too, but
that does not represent all of us.

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That does not represent all the members
of the party and all elected officials.

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And please have some hope and come
out and participate. Use an exercise.

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You're right. You know there's people
in other parts of the world that die

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for this opportunity to vote. So
he please, please and convened yourself for

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a few minutes and stop by the
poland castor vote. You know everyone says

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negative campaigning is a bad thing.
Almost every politician does it. Shared Brown's

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been an office senator from Ohio since
the early days of the Nixon administration.

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He's been in office now for fifty
years. And he's got he's going to

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raise one hundred million dollars and convince
people in Ohio that he works with Donald

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Trump. He's got this big add
up where Donald Trump's handing him a pen

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thanking him on southern border. Then
Shared Brown also has commercials saying that he's

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cured cancer and diabetes. Now he's
running a negative ahead against Bernie Marino,

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who was a who owned car dealerships, calling him a used car dealer and

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coming up with some video of him
talking about getting car washes every week,

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so to be a business owner as
a negative, and all the money I

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can't imagine one hundred million dollars spend
in the state of Ohio on a US

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Senate race that pays one hundred and
forty thousand dollars a year, And so

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I wish I'll join you, Jesse
Burn and saying the best thing a candidate

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can do is this is who I
am, this is what I've done,

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this is what I propose. And
if I'm in office, tell me the

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things you've done in office, and
if you get reelected, tell me the

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things you're gonna do in your next
term. But don't spend all your money

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in time calling the other guy everything
but a white man. Do you agree?

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I agree. I don't care what
someone did five years ago, twenty

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years ago, twenty five years ago. I don't or allegedly did. I

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don't care about that. Tell me
what they're doing now, what you're gonna

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do if you get the job,
and why you're different than the candidate you

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run against. Well, I like
the ban negative campaigning, but I guess

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that's impossible. But it's amazing to
me that out of state interest are spending

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money in Kentucky to manipulate the state
legislature in Frankfort. That's unbelievable. It's

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been going on for quite some time
and is growing. It seems like more

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and more every election cycle. Jesse
Brew, you're a great American from Boone

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County. Airport's in good shape.
Is that right? Yes, sir,

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Airport's in great shape. More frontier, just put in saw in the news.

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Four more non connect four more connecting
flights, direct flights, the destinations.

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Candice McGraw, who runs our airport
over there, she is just a

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gem. She's actually the president of
the if I'm gonna get this right,

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but of all the airports CEOs in
the world, she is the president of

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that organization and she lives right here
in Boone County. She has announced retirement

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coming up soon. Says she had
to give about a two year notice to

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retire because there's big shoes to fill
and she is responsible for a lot all

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the success her and her team that
you see at CBG now. So she's

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one of those quiet giants behind the
scenes that people don't realize the contributions and

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impact that she had than the entire
reasons, so she will be missed.

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Jesse Brewer from Boone County, you're
a great American, especially your comments about

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the city of Cincinnati. Hopefully after
Peer of All also known as PG Peer

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of All will pay attention and if
his first, second, and third priority

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is public safety, he's failed at
number one, two and three. Pay

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the cops more support the cops,
lock up vishes criminals, and the streets

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will be safer. And Jesse Brewer
of Boone County, once again, thank

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you for coming on the Bill Cunningham
Show. And Jesse, you're a great

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American. Thank you, thank thank
you. God bless America. Let's continue

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with more less than a ten percent
turnout. Now, one of two things

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are happening. One people are extremely
happy with everything going on they don't want

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to change. Or number two,
they're stupid one or the other. So

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I voted in every election that I
can vote in, and I've become knowledgeable

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on the issues. But one thing
I say repeatedly, please pay attention.

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If you're a dumbass, don't vote. If you wake up and say it's

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today the primary day, and conduct
your tomorrow. If you don't know the

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issues, don't know the candidates,
have no idea what you're doing, and

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you're a dumb ass, don't vote. I'm a dumb ass too about a

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bunch of stuff. I know about
the fluvial processes of geomorphology, but there's

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many aspects of life I know nothing
about, and I'm a dumbass when it

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comes to politics. I'm not a
dumb ass. I know what I'm talking

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about, I think. But if
you're a voter and you have no clue

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as to what's on the ballot,
why it's on the ballot, who the

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candidates are, simply don't show up
and cast out in a sense, make

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your relevant the ballot of someone who's
informed, whether you're a Democrat or Republican.

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And there's lots of good Democrats,
believe it or not, there's lots

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of good Democrats who are informed,
but just don't show up to vote on

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primary election day, walk in and
say, by the way, what am

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I voting for here? That means
you're a dumb ass. That means you're

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stupid, That means don't vote.
Well, let's continue. Line becomes available

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off about fi tonight. The Reds
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