Billy Cunning Immigrant America welcome this Tuesday, after Union in the tri State,
all hell's breaking loose and the Trump trial in New York City, and each
side's given about two hours, but the prosecution said they need four and a
half hours. Kind of court began this morning when Judge Merschawn turned to the
defense and said are you ready, and defense counsel for Donald Trump said yes,
I'm ready to go. And then he turned to the prosecution and said
are we ready, and the prosecution said yes, we're ready to go.
So the judge is indicated which side he's on. That's a different issue.
We'll talk about that later on, but until then you may know. The
Governor, Mike Dewin has called a special session of the General Assembly in order
to put Joe Biden on the ballot. There's a nine to day requirement before
the election that the parties indicated who the nominee is, and the Democratic Convention
is after ninety days, So shall I say before ninety days, in which
case Joe Biden is not presently on the ballot in the state of Ohio.
So the governor is very concerned, and I say, as one American,
I know the Democrats play these games all the time, such as in Colorado
and Maine, when the Democratic leadership there said, guess what, Trump's not
on the ballot. And I would hope that Republicans in Ohio would swallow their
pride and put Joe Biden on the ballot. But when this came up a
few weeks back the General Assembly, the Senate said yes, but the House
said no. And joining you and I now, Sidney Abrams is the state
representative from the west side of town, and Sidney Abrams, welcome again to
the Bill Cunningham Show and Sindy. First of all, you've been called into
executive session by the governor in order to pass this one thing, which is
put Joe Biden on the ballot. And so as we sit here this Tuesday
afternoon, can you tell Tony Bender and others what's the procedure the next two
or three days to get the vote done by Thursday or Friday. Please inform
the American people. Well sounds good. Thanks for having me on again.
The governor, of course, has every right to call this special emergency session.
And in the Constitution, in the Ohio Constitution, Article three, section
eight says very clearly that the governor on extraordinary occasions may convene the General Assembly
and he's got to send a proclamation over and in that proclamation he's got to
state exactly what why the special session is called, and no other business can
be discussed except whatever he's named in the proclamation. So what is he named?
Okay, that we must pass legislation ensuring both major party presidential candidates will
be on the ballot in Ohio this November, and legislation that would prohibit campaigns
spending by foreign nationals. Very clear. So that's what we're going to discuss
this week and get it done now. The last time this came up in
the General Assembly, it failed in the House but passed in the Senate.
And the reason is the Democrats in the House of Erection presentatives in Columbus.
There's only a few of them. Generally, you can't find a Democrat with
a search ward and there's very few there. But they said, you know
what, we don't like the idea of banning foreign nationals from spending money in
our elections. And therefore it went down in flames. And are the two
related. Are you going to vote them separately or are they both together?
In one package. Well, I don't know yet. Government Oversight Committee,
which I do not serve on as meeting as we speak right now, they're
in committee. And listen the bottom line with the foreign money, the foreign
nationals have no business playing around in our elections. Period. That's crystal clear.
I don't care, honestly, period. There's no discussing it. So
no foreign national money in our not just our elections that's already illegal, but
in any type of ballot initiatives or whatnot. They shouldn't be playing around here.
They don't even live here, so that's very clear. The Senate,
to kind of give you some background, the Senate sent us over a bill
and the language in the Senate version conservative groups around Ohio a post. So
again, the Catholic Conference opposed it the Ohio Rights of Life, Buckeye firearms,
so they had their reasons for opposing it. So we put the brakes
on and we're going to discuss everything. When we came back, gave everybody
a couple of weeks to set their schedules and show up in Columbus on June
twelfth, but the governor had another idea. So here we are this week,
and procedurally how it's going to work is again, Government Oversight is meeting
today. I'm only speaking for the House. The Senate, they're also having
session today. What they're going to send us, I have no idea,
you know, because I don't serve over in that chamber. But the House.
Again, there's a bill that's being discussed today and Government Oversight, and
then we'll have a discussion about it tomorrow, I would imagine in caucus,
and then the vote on Thursday at ten am. That's when it's scheduled for
us. Does your crystal ball tell you this is going to pass? Does
your crystal ball tell you that the Republicans in the House of Representatives will actually
put Joe Biden on the ballot? Yay or nay? That is the big
question. Answer the question, yes or no? I say yes, And
I'll tell you why. Let me give you. Let me give you a
couple little history lessons taking you back to twenty nineteen and the twenty twenty conventions.
And I use that in plural because in twenty twenty, both the Republican
National Convention and the Democrat National Convention were scheduled to hold their conventions after the
deadline in Ohio to get a candidate on the ballot for the president of the
United States. So what did the General Assembly do? Well, they went
in and voted to remedy the situation to ensure that both candidates again were going
to be on the ballot in twenty twenty. And that was passed in House
built one sixty six, which was the operating budget a little bit before my
time in July of twenty nineteen. And again it delayed the deadline of both
you know, major party candidates to certify. You know, the reason didn't
pass that way a few weeks ago. Why didn't the House do the same
thing? Well, who knows? Like I said, I'm not. I'm
simply showing up and doing my job, and I am not the one making
all the shot calls. Of course, are you going to vote yes or
no? Say right now Tuesday, are you voting yes or no? I
am voting yes on again the foreign money. Like I said, foreign nationals
have no business planning our elections here in Ohio. Number one, I'm a
guess on that. Putting Biden on the ballot, I'm a guess on that
for a lot of major reasons. But here's what it is. Number One,
every single person here in Ohio who is a registered voter should have the
chance to vote for whoever they like in the major party for president period number
two. Many Republicans here in Ohio have told us, listen, you need
to get this done. And I'll just name a few Trump's campaigns said,
yes, get him on the ballot, because the Trump campaign, as you
can imagine, wants Biden's name on the ballot because then it'll drive conservative vote.
And for example, if Trump has an opponent which is Biden, people
are going to come out to vote for Trump and others on the ballot,
including Bernie Moreno. And you go all the way down the ballot, including
our local judges here in Hamilton County. So that helps number two. Senator
jd Vance he I don't say tweet, I guess not X now on X,
he said, and I'm going to quote this. This is what jd
Vance said a few days ago on X. This is the right call and
it is a reasonable compromise. Republicans keep foreign money out of our state ballot
process, and both major parties nominees will be on the ballot. Period.
And the RP said, listen, get this done. So I am voting
again with all of those their opinions in mind, and quite frankly, both
parties, we've done this before in the past, and both major parties deserve
to have a candidate on the ballot. I've read from some state rep that
are have some fear of being primaried on the issue of voting in favor of
Joe Biden getting on the ballot. And I understand that that someone in bugh
Cyrus might be primaried as a Republican because you so and so voted to put
Joe Biden on the ballot. Now, among conservative circles, that should be
it should be something that's a given. But in reality, Joe Biden is
so despised by so many politically that to assist him when the Democratic Convention was
set at a date within the ninety days, which indicates not on the ballot,
have you heard from some Republicans are going to vote against this because they
don't want to be primaried with the idea that I voted to put Joe Biden
on the ballot, because if he's not on the ballot, I can't conceive
of some federal court within a few weeks saying he must be put on the
ballot. It's going to happen anyway. The issue is who does it.
But politically, can you understand how some small town Republican would be primaried on
the idea that they voted to put Joe Biden on the ballot, who,
in some rural areas is considered to be close to Lucifer himself. I mean,
I I guess you know. Here's my thing with Biden's look, I
mean, he's not even fit to be our president. So that's a whole
nother story for another time. But but the fact that someone is going to
primary an incumbent of the General Assembly, here we go. Let's let's rewind
back to March. This is ridiculous for doing your job. At the end
of the day. This is simply procedural, that's all it is. It's
from you know, X amount of days to X amount of days. We've
done it before in the past, for both the RNC and the DNC,
and I just don't understand why this time. It's like, oh my gosh,
you're going to be, you know, burnt up like a crisp in
hell because you literally have put someone on the ballot, which quite frankly if
Trump campaign is asking for this, then why are we not? Why are
we not listening to that? I just understand, I just don't. All
right, let's talk to a broader issue. There are some angry at Republicans
because it appears that not much is getting done in Columbus because of the race
for the speaker. That we have a present speaker who is going to be
opposed by Huffman, and Huffman is, shall we say, very aggressive in
becoming the next speaker, and a lot of things aren't being passed because of
the fights among the Republicans. I often said that on City Council in Cincinnati,
there's no Republicans or Charter rights. Therefore the Democrats fight with each other.
And now in Columbus there's a fight for the speakership, and between the
two warring factions, not a lot is getting done. How would you respond
to the fact that some argue that the Republican Party is not a governance party.
What it is is an advocacy party, and that the governance of the
state is suffering because of all the fights for the next spe speakership. Well,
I will say, going back to our party. You know, the
Republican Party Listen. Even going back to market, all the primaries that many
of us face and most of us won by a large margin, the infighting
has to stop. Okay, what my people want here in District twenty nine,
because I've talked to them, because I knockdoors and I'm at community events
and I'm out and about and I'm accessible, and people tell me, listen,
Cindy, we want you to get up to Columbus and govern. We
want you to get up to Columbus and figure out this property tax situation.
To figure out again. I'm on the Finance Committee. We passed a ton
of great things in our last budget bill, including historic tax cuts for ohiolands.
And you know what, we're going to continue to march down that road
again. Fair school funding, fully funding our public schools, also giving the
ed choice voucher expansion to our folks that you know prefer private school. Listen,
there was so much in there. Two hundred and fifty million dollars for
our public safety. Are police officers, are firefighters? I mean, you
want to talk about a lot of policy that last General last year in this
General Assembly, we had a lot done, but nobody wants to talk about
that. I guess they want to talk about infighting right now, I will
say, I'll admit there was infighting. Hell I was a victim of it
in this last primary. Right, they spent serious money to defeat you with
a bunch of lies and distortions, much like Jeanie Schmidt and for those who
won, because let's face it, the Republican Party spent money to defeat Republicans
in the primaries. And that's kind of stupid. It's ridiculous, It's totally
ridiculous. Some of my own colleagues spent money to try to beat me down
here. And you know what, I thank god that the voters saw through
the lives and the bs down here because they did. And at the end
of the day, again, like I said, this infighting needs to stop.
It really does. We need to get to work and govern. Are
you ready for their big question? Yes? By Friday. By Friday of
this week, will President Joe Biden be on the ballot to give even Democrats
the opportunity of voting for a frail unbecoming US president. Are you going to
say, put your coyones on the line. As a Friday of this week,
would Joe Biden be on the ballot, yay or nay. I'm voting
yes. But like I told you, I didn't ask you that. I
said, what about the other Republicans? I didn't ask you. I said,
I have no idea what they're going to do. Who knows, I
don't know. What does your crystal ball say? Last time a few weeks
ago and went down in flames and Dwaine got all urinated off and then he
called a special session to get you back into Columbus. You're only there a
few months a year, So just give me a yes or no. Will
Joe Biden be on the ballot on Friday? You know the crystal ball,
I would say yes. We have to come together as Republicans to get something
done for the people of Ohio because that's what we're sent to Columbus for.
How about Republicans spending millions of dollars in primaries to defeat Republicans. You're coming
ridiculous, ridiculous, and it needs to end again. We have to come
together because otherwise we're going to lose the majority. And I'm going to say
that again, We're going to lose the majority in Ohio if we don't come
together and start working together. Period we're going to be in the minority.
Well, we'll see what happens, because I know there's a whole group of
Republicans in the House, some of whom contacted me saying there's no way they're
voting for Joe Biden. They perceive this as a vote for Joe Biden and
they're not going to do it. And if it happens again that way,
so be it that a federal court's going to put them on the ballot anyway.
But I want them on the ballot because I want even Democrats to have
a choice, and we can't play the democratic games like in Colorado and Maine,
which kept Trump off of the ballot. In of Ohio, a Bellweather
state, it doesn't allow the President of the United States to be on their
ballot. That's a problem. And so we'll see what happens. But your
crystal ball is unclear about whether it's going to happen or not. Correct.
No, I think it's going to happen. I really do. I think
we're going to come up there and you know what, have discussions and together
and vote to do this. I mean, listen, we went crazy when
Colorado did this to Trump, and I will say. The state of Alabama,
the great state of Alabama. They just voted. They are Republicans,
totally conservative down there. They just voted to put Biden on the ballot.
So again, we just need to again governed. We need to govern and
do our jobs. That's what I'm focused on doing. Lastly, are you
going to give the Bengals one hundreds of millions of dollars for a new stadium?
Oh my god, we haven't even discussed that yet. Well, let's
talk about it. We got the brag Bengals. You got the Bengals.
They were According to Alicia Reese that the state of Ohio has five billion dollars
in extra money in its savings account, five billion dollars, and that's a
consequence a few hundred million should come to the Bengals. Yes or no?
Okay? First of all, yes, I hear that we have the rainy
day Fund. Everybody likes to talk about. But you want to know why
we have the rainy day Fund Because we have made good financial sound decisions in
the state of Ohio. That's why we have the budget. We allocate things
every single year. I guess to answer my question, yes or no,
one hundreds of millions to the Bengals. Well, world consider that. We
will consider it. See what they're asking for. But you know, the
county, this is the county thing. They need to have a discussion.
I'm not a commissioner. They need to have their discussions first, and if
the state can come in, not with the whole tab of course. But
again, I think it's a good thing to have the Bengals here. Do
you not agree? I think it's a great thing because NFL is the dominant
franchise and the all of professional sports. But I think helping the Bengals a
little bit with some tax dollars makes some sense to me. But the franchise
itself is not worth about three to four billion dollars. And every time I
look up, they signed some new deal with Netflix and now they're going to
get twenty five billion dollars to divide up among all the platforms to take NFL
games. That needs to be considered also. But Sydney Abras will see what
happens. You're on the record, you're saying Biden on the ballot, that's
your crystal ball as a Friday. We'll see what happens. Sidney Abrons,
Thank you once again for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. May God bless
you and God bless America. Thank you, Willie. We'll do it again,
thank you. Let's continue with more. She's on the record. Biden
will be on the ballot. Don't act like democrats. For God's sakes,
put them on the ballot. Let the fools vote for him. That's what
I say. Let's continue with more Bill Cunningham plus my further predictions about the
Bengals. I'm sorry my prediction about the Reds. As you know, I
predicted they would sweep the Dodgers and Tony Bender many other snickered, completely snickered
at me. Now who's snicker? And now Tony, Who's snicker? And
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