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Great American Electing Grade twenty twenty three is finally present. It's here now.
We have coverage later on from Boone County, from Kenton County, But right
now is the Secretary of State demand in charge of all elections in the state
of Ohio this Tuesday afternoon. That would be Frank LeRose of the Secretary of
State's Office in Frank Lrose, Welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show. And
at first, blush this afternoon. How are things looking in Ohio as we
speak? Plus, I want to talk with you about Israel, But first
of all, what about Ohio. You know, things are going quite smoothly.
At the close of early voting on Sunday, we had over eight hundred
and fifty thousand Ohios that had already made their voices heard. We know that
many more are going to do so today. Think about this. Thousands of
polling locations opened right on time at six thirty am, staffed by tens of
thousands of election day poll workers. It's a big logistical undertaking, but it's
something that Ohio does very well and we're proud of that. And as far
as the total vote, this isn't off year election, but issues one and
two and some local issues like twenty two, and there's a lot of there's
some bond and issues up, et cetera. As far as the eight hundred
and fifty thousand early voting, is there a sense that you have, Franklerosa,
that somehow Ohioans are warming toward early voting, especially on the conservative side.
Yeah. I think the more people try it, the more they like
it. It is a secure process, has the same security built in that
in person election day voting has. And it's convenient. We've got four weeks
of early voting. We check IDs. Yes, we remove dead people from
the rules. I don't apologize for that. The left attacks me for it,
but yeah, we have a good process for early voting in Ohio,
and when people try it, they enjoy it all. Right. Now,
on a different matter completely. We've got to get to Issue one in two
And as far as the language and Issue one, by the way, the
language and Issue one, according to the Cincinnati inquir says that abortions are permitted
up through viability, which is like twenty three twenty four weeks, and after
that it is not permitted. And so when I read stuff like that,
I'm thinking, there's so much misinformation out there about State Issue one, about
what it does, what it wouldn't do. And so if the thing goes
down today, let's say the vote is no today tomorrow, we should have
the results. Normally we have the results by midnight in this date, and
what is the status of abortion? Then, say, in the next thirty
days, once the election is certified and we have the final result, and
let's say no win, what's the status of abortion in Ohio at that point.
Well, to be clear, if Issue one were to pass, it
would be the most extreme abortion law in the country. That's why we've been
fighting so hard to encourage Ohioans to vote no. It would legalize abortion all
the way through the end of pregnancy. It would take away parental rights,
and it would be dangerous for Ohio. If this fails, and I hope
and believe and I pray that it will. Then it is the current law
of the state of Ohio, which again is pending a court challenge right now,
and so that would allow abortion for a certain number of weeks, and
of course there are always exceptions for the health of the mother, life of
the mother rather and that would be the status quo just as it is today.
So if no wins, abortions for many, many weeks after conception would
still be legal. Oh, certainly. And there is a what's called a
heartbeat bill that has been passed. I was a supporter of that, I
voted for it. That is currently in court and so that is not in
effect right now now, but you know, pending the outcome of that court
case, it could put in place to the law that says that once a
fetal heartbeat can be detected, then abortion would not be permitted. But that's
not currently the case again because of that court challenge, and so there's lots
of stuff to go on either way, Yes or no. Yes would definitively
foreclose the ability of the legislature to cut around the edges to change this or
change that. But a vote of no means abortion is still legal for several
weeks and then it's subject to more court and more Assembly action. Who knows
what's going to happen. But the one way to make sure that partial birth
abortion is enshrined in our constitution, if you're in favor of that, is
to vote yes on Issue one. And that would be the big problem with
this is that it would be enshrined in our state constitution. It's the supreme
law of the state. Nothing the legislature does can impact that. And it
would make Ohio the most extreme state in the country. Not only partial birth
abortion, this brutal and excruciating process that could go all the way through the
end of pregnancy. It would take away perimal rights. It could even open
the door to taxpayer funded abortion because it would be creating a constitutional right to
abortion all the way through the end of pregnancy. There's a lot of good
reasons to vote no on Issue one. Now, on an unrelated matter,
we got issue too hanging out there. Franklerose. I'm watching about an hour
and a half ago. It was about ten thirty quarter to eleven this morning
on CNN, and the Republicans in the Congress had a little press or a
news conference in which they brought over the actual survivors of what happened. Exactly
thirty days ago today, which is October the seventh, is when it happened.
And there was his father who appeared. He reminded me of Franklerose.
This father, this Israeli, is living in a kibbuts. He and his
wife for just to get some time away from the three kids, three little
girls, they're like three, five and seven, that they wanted to go
to about forty miles away to spend time with some of her relatives. And
they just happened to pick the night of October sixth, and they had their
three little girls in the care custody and control of a next door neighbor.
They had two little girls, and it was a wonderful situation. He said,
we can get away. There was some partying going on that we weren't
part of that, and we wanted to go and spend some time, some
quiet time away as husband and wife, mother and father. And they left
their three little girls in the kibbutz, and this man was literally breaking down
a by when he got back. About a day and a half later,
he was able to get back and what he saw was unspeakable terror inflicted upon
one of his little girls, unspeakable terror that I don't want to talk about
on the radio on a Tuesday afternoon. And the other two are missing.
The three and the seven year old are missing. The other one was brutally
murdered inside of their home. The mother and father are destroyed, and at
this point they do not know about their other girls, even whether they're atages
or not, because they don't know. Can you imagine as a young father,
having savages and barbarians do that to your family, and then on college
campuses. Right here in Ohio and around the Midwest, we have large numbers
of HAMAS chapters in colleges and universities that celebrate what occurred and support hamas.
How do you, as a former ranger, military man and an officeholder,
how do you process that? Willie? It's hard to understand that kind of
savagery. As a father of an eight year old, a ten year old,
and a twelve year old little girl, I know my most important responsibility
is to be a dad. And I'm sure that this father is and will
remain for the rest of his life heartbroken about what happened. But let's be
clear who's responsible. On October seventh, a group of bloodthirsty killers broke through
a barrier of a wall, a border fence which crucially we don't even have
in large parts of our country. These Hamas terrorists broke through a barrier wall
and inflicted more murder, rape, torture, beheading. It was the single
largest attack on the Jewish people since the Holocaust. And we need to understand
what they are up against. Hamas is well, it's the same as Isis
in their brutality, but they are paid for and blessed by Iran. Iran
is responsible for what Hamas did, and Hamas has brought murder and Mayhem to
Israel, and now Israel's doing what they must do. Listen, Israel didn't
start this fight, but they have every right to finish it, and they
will finish it at a time of their choosing once Hamas has been eradicated from
the Gaza strip. You can't negotiate with Hamas, you can't make peace with
Hamas. And this idea that there should be a ceasefire, and some of
these knuckleheads on college campuses that let's be honest, what this is. It
is anti Semitism. To tell the Israelis to have a ceasefire right now would
be like telling the Allies to have a ceasefire as they were moving into Germany
to defeat the Nazis. Israel is busy defeating Hamas, and that's exactly what
they have to do. Can you imagine if Hamas and has Belah had the
military power of the Israelis, and Israelis had the military power of Hamas.
Hamas has made their objective clear. They've said that they want to have more
of October seventh. They have said that they want to annihilate Israel from the
face of the earth. When they say from the river to the sea,
they mean they want to commit mass genocide and wipe the Israeli people off the
face of the map. You can't negotiate with that. That has to be
defeated, and that means that Hamas has to be eradicated, and that's what
they're doing, and they need to have our full support. I have stood
with Israel repeatedly throughout my life because you know, as a person of faith,
I know it's what my faith commands me to do. But even if
I didn't have that background, it is what is in the into America's security.
It's the right thing to do. We need to back Israel, give
them the diplomatic space to do what they need to do, and we need
to be there to support them with weaponry and to make sure that we leon
Iran so that Iran knows that there will be consequences for what they've done.
If they try to open a second front in the north with their Hesbala allies,
there will be consequences for that. That's why there are two carrier strike
groups in the Mediterranean right now. And as far as Is, as far
as Isis, you mentioned Isis. You can take Isis. You could take
Boca Haram, you could take the Muslim Brotherhood, you could take the Taliban,
you could take Hesblah, you could take Hamas. And I listened to
some on the other side of the fence that disagree with you and I on
this, who say, well, the Palestinians have rights too, absolutely,
they have rights. And to watch little boys and girls that are Palestinians that
are killed brutally because of what Hamas is doing to them, I lay all
those deaths at the doorstep of Hamas itself, who uses the hostages, who
use their own people as hostages, who put their military hardware underneath the hospitals
and schools. The Hamas is the one responsible for all of the damage to
happening in the Gaza. In fact, Gaza right now exists the way it
does because of Hamas. They took water pipes, et cetera, and made
pipe bombs. All the millions of dollars given to them for humanitarian purposes have
been plowed into armaments and the missiles and guns, and the howitzers and artillery
shells. And it must stop. And the leaders of Hamas are not in
Gaza. They're in Cutter living a life of multi millionaires. Now, one
last thing, he said, Franklin Rose this father, who was very emotional,
of course, and his wife unspeakable terror. He said, Hamas rapes
our women, they behead our babies, then set us on fire. You
cannot negotiate with You cannot say, well, the Nazis. You can't say
Georgie Patten in nineteen forty four forty five, he should have stopped somewhere short
of should not have gone into Berlin. After all, you got to negotiate
with the Nazis. You don't negotiate with people like this, you defeat them.
And that's the answer to that tune. Now, frank LeRose on state
issue too, Where do you stand on State Issue two? First of all,
not as a secretary of State, but as someone who has skinning the
game and would vote that is the marijuana amendment. What do you say about
that? Yea, I have deep concerns about it, and I think that
some people may have oversimplified this, and maybe even some of our fellow conservatives
say, well, from a libertarian standpoint, people want to buy it,
people want to sell it. Why not? But here's what it does.
It normalizes something that should not be normalized. I was in New York just
a couple of weeks ago. I was out for a run early one morning,
ran past a preschool at seven am. There's a group probably forty kids
standing in line to wait for the doors of the preschool to open up,
and the smell of marijuana in the air was so thick that nobody should be
subjective to that. It would, by the way, create five new items
in our state budget, and it spends the money that would come as a
result of the tax revenues on a bunch of you know, social justice nonsense,
and so Ohilan should do their research and think long and hard about whether
they want to normalize the use of recreational marijuana, whether they want to spend
these tax dollars on a bunch of sort of social justice projects. That's what
Issue Too does. And so you would arn urge a no on one and
know on two and twenty two you don't have a dog in that fight,
because that's the City of Cincinnati issue. As far as lastly, as far
as total turnout, eight hundred and fifty thousand voted early. How many are
going to vote today? This is election day, this is shall we say
Republican weather. How many total votes will will be counted? You know,
I don't predict an exact number, but I think there's going to be a
massive turnout today. I think millions of Ohiolands will get out to make their
voices heard. And I think that's a good thing. And we'll count the
results at seven thirty and report them on election night. Other states don't do
that. We're going to give you those results on election night. Of course,
the final tabulation the official result comes weeks later, but we'll give you
that unofficial result for Issue one Too on our website, local issues and candidates
on your count Yeah, like Hambliny County Board of Elections has an excellent,
excellent website. Or Franklerose, once again, thank you for coming on the
Bill Cunningham show. Setting the record straight and looks like Ohio wins have now
embraced early voting. And Franklerosa, thank you very much. Get out and
vote, bring your ID, bring a smile to thank those poll workers.
They're working hard. Maybe take some donuts too, give them a few donuts.
All right, Franklerose, thank you very much. Thanks Willie. All
right, let's continue with more. And one cannot look that's what's happening in
the world and not see correlations between now in the nineteen thirties in Nazi Germany.
You know that last night, a woman who lives close to a facility
that has the star of David on it was watching coverage, according to the
CNN this morning, watching coverage of the Israeli Gaza war with a moss and
decided to get in her car and run it into the side of a brick
building in Indianapolis. Now, unbeknownst to her that the Star David was on
the side of the building and she backed up ran into it again. She
was filled with such rage and hate. She wanted to kill anything Jewish,
any person Jewish or a facility. But that particular building was occupied by the
Black Hebrews of Ethiopia, which is not really a group necessarily affiliated with Judaism.
But she wanted simply to kill, injure and maim some symbol of Judaism.
And she ran her car into a building with a Star David on the
side. Two days ago, there was a sixty nine year old man holding
an Israeli flag in Los Angeles who had the crap beaten out of them by
another Palestinian sympathizer who wanted to kill a Jew. And Jewish Americans are picking
up their concealed carry permits now like never before. Jews tend to be vote
Democratic, except when their lives are at stake, in which many are now
going to vote Republican because there's a perception you can get certain Second Amendment rights
with the Republicans you can't get with Democrats. These are incredible, unbelievable times
when inside of America we have Hamas chapters in colleges and universities putting forth hatred
and hate speech from Ivy League to the California coast, including at the University
of Cincinnati. There's an OMAS chapter there. And so how can we have
such darkness descend upon the land. And it's happening because of vicious anti Semitism
and the fact that I'll have in my mind for a long time that father,
that thirty seven year old father who survived in his kibbutz the attack,
who said Hamas rapes our women, beheads our babies, and then set us
on fire. It's really a fight for civilization itself in America. Must be
part of it, and we must be on the right side. Let's continue
with more coming up later. We'll be a representative of Boone County to talk
about the turnout there. Later on. Also we have Jack Windsor of the
of course the Ohio Press Network to talk about the columns that he has posted
about issues one and two and what it means. Later on, also Chris
Smitherman and Moore. So if a line becomes available five one, three,
seven, four, nine, seven thousand, Election Day, get out and
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