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Speaker 1: Three fifty five KRCD Talk station. Happy Tuesday made especially
Speaker 1: happy because right now we get to talk with the
Speaker 1: next governor of the state of Ohio. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: the fifty five CARC Morning Show. It's always a real
Speaker 1: pleasure to have ve ak Ramaswami on the program. Welcome back,
Speaker 1: my friend.
Speaker 3: How are you, sir.
Speaker 1: I'm doing great, man, and I am excited as hell
Speaker 1: about your campaign. I cannot wait to vote for you.
Speaker 1: I have been blessed with the opportunity here. You speak
Speaker 1: multiple times. You and I have had conversations on the
Speaker 1: Morning show. We see eye to eye on all the
Speaker 1: important issues. And you know, I got to compliment you now.
Speaker 1: Your background is just absolutely perfect. You're brilliant graduate valedictorian
Speaker 1: from Saint Xavier High School here in a city of Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: native son some of cum Lottie graduate and biology from Harvard,
Speaker 1: jd from Yale Law School. You started your own biotech company,
Speaker 1: oversaw the development of five drugs. You went on to
Speaker 1: become FBA approved that roy Van Sciences. You've written books,
Speaker 1: I mean, and you outkicked your coverage in marriage. You
Speaker 1: are demonstrably and awesome candidate, my friend, and I cannot
Speaker 1: wait to get you elected. The campaign's going well. You
Speaker 1: got a record fundraising going on right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, look at campaigs going great.
Speaker 4: We've never seen unity like this across our state, right
Speaker 4: and I think that that's one of the things that
Speaker 4: strengthens us. Usually in a Republican primary season like this,
Speaker 4: there'd be a knife fight amongst people who agree with
Speaker 4: each other on ninety percent of things and attack each other. Anyway,
Speaker 4: we're skipping that this time, and we don't have to
Speaker 4: go through that phase of the attack phase of the process.
Speaker 3: We're united, and I'm.
Speaker 4: Glad to say that our party, our movement, and I
Speaker 4: hope our state more broadly is united around common sense
Speaker 4: economic excellence, educational excellence in this state. And one of
Speaker 4: the things I've noticed from traveling this state is we've
Speaker 4: been to over sixty plus counties of the eighty eight.
Speaker 3: In the last several months.
Speaker 4: I don't care whether people are even calling themselves democratic, dependent, libertarian,
Speaker 4: politically homeless, or Republican for that matter. I think that
Speaker 4: most people in our state are united around elevating our
Speaker 4: educational achievement standards in our schools, so many of which
Speaker 4: have underperformed, and also elevated around reducing the tax and
Speaker 4: regulatory burden in this state so that we become the
Speaker 4: state that leads the next industrial revolution, just like we
Speaker 4: led the first one. And so to me right now,
Speaker 4: this is not about left versus right. It's about up
Speaker 4: versus down. We're choosing up for the state of Ohio,
Speaker 4: and I want us to be the state that leads
Speaker 4: America back to greatness, not just Texas or Florida. We're
Speaker 4: done with living in their shadow and we're now ready.
Speaker 3: To leave the way ourselves.
Speaker 1: Amen to that, and I think a step in the
Speaker 1: right direction.
Speaker 3: At least.
Speaker 1: One of the elements in the budget just Dwine just
Speaker 1: signed was the flat two point seventy five percent tax
Speaker 1: income tax. Are you a visionary in the sense you
Speaker 1: want to get rid of the income tax here in
Speaker 1: Ohio and make us more marketable when we have to
Speaker 1: compete with states like Texas and Florida.
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
Speaker 4: I do think that we have a depopulation issue we're
Speaker 4: going to address in the state. Especially a lot of
Speaker 4: our younger age workers are the ones who tend to
Speaker 4: leave the state, and we have more Americans leaving our
Speaker 4: state than we have moving in. We're going to turn
Speaker 4: that ship around by making Ohio the most attractive state
Speaker 4: in the country to raise a young family, to grow
Speaker 4: a business, and yes, to generate wealth and to keep
Speaker 4: that wealth.
Speaker 3: It's your money, not the government.
Speaker 4: And if eight other states have managed to get to
Speaker 4: zero income tax, you know what the state to put
Speaker 4: a man in the moon and configure this one out.
Speaker 4: I'm proud of the legislature. I think that was a
Speaker 4: great step that we took in the right direction.
Speaker 3: I've been to a simpler.
Speaker 5: Flat taxation system at the state level, but I want
Speaker 5: us to be a state that is a serving in
Speaker 5: tax but what draw that includes a zero capital game
Speaker 5: taxation state. One of the only steps we can take
Speaker 5: this there New Hampshire. These are still nominally zero.
Speaker 3: Income tax states. They'll still taxpay.
Speaker 5: Conversely, I want to hire.
Speaker 3: A magnet capital in leading in the.
Speaker 4: Sectors of the future, from nuclear energy to biotech, and
Speaker 4: these are areas where I not only.
Speaker 3: Want to catch up to some of these other states.
Speaker 4: I want to lead and be a magnet for the
Speaker 4: top talent and capital around the country well.
Speaker 1: And one of the things we've talked about that I
Speaker 1: think would encourage and help along those lines is energy production.
Speaker 1: Here in the state of Ohio. And moving over and
Speaker 1: embracing the small modular nuclear reactors and sort of being
Speaker 1: the the the go to state for efficient power generation
Speaker 1: and you know, affordable power. If we embrace that and
Speaker 1: provide an abundance of power, I mean, we could sell
Speaker 1: off that power to other states who are going the
Speaker 1: opposite direction.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, and right now, I just want to be sober
Speaker 4: about where we are with the AI data centers and
Speaker 4: other hyperscalers come into the state. That's while it's an opportunity,
Speaker 4: it is also a major source of added man on
Speaker 4: our electric grid. And right now AEP is forecasting rotating
Speaker 4: blackouts in the state of Ohio in the summer of
Speaker 4: twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 3: That's unacceptable, I.
Speaker 4: Mean unacceptable in America, but you're seeing it in California.
Speaker 4: It's certainly inciple in our state of Ohio. We're going
Speaker 4: to turn that ship around.
Speaker 5: It.
Speaker 4: Good news is the get the energy out underneath our
Speaker 4: ground to start with and use it. That's natural gas
Speaker 4: in the near term where we're incredibly wealthy and natural
Speaker 4: gas we just have to cut the red tape to
Speaker 4: be able to use it. And then you hit the
Speaker 4: nail on the head and the medium term after that
Speaker 4: I want to lead Ohio to.
Speaker 3: Be the top state in the country.
Speaker 4: To embrace and really innovate in the area of small
Speaker 4: modular nuclear reactors, which is a far safer new generation,
Speaker 4: incredibly safe new generation of technology that's quickly built, that's scalable,
Speaker 4: and that really leads us to our future not just
Speaker 4: for the next four years, but the next four hundred,
Speaker 4: and has energy abundance that's accessible, that's a four stable, cheap,
Speaker 4: reliable for all of Hilands, as I believe is the
Speaker 4: proper expectation of every person who grows up in Ohio
Speaker 4: to live in the first world and be at the
Speaker 4: leading edge rather than playing catch up with energy shortages.
Speaker 1: As Governor of State of Ohio, you enjoy the line
Speaker 1: item veto and I have to ask this. I know
Speaker 1: it's a minor point, and even though it is six
Speaker 1: hundred million dollars, but one of the items that was
Speaker 1: not cut from the Dwine budget that was just signed
Speaker 1: six hundred million dollars for the Cleveland Browns New Dome Stadium.
Speaker 1: I find that as a taxpayer offensive, Sir. I'd like
Speaker 1: your reaction on the idea that the Ohio taxpayer should
Speaker 1: be funding a privately owned sports team and stadium.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Look, I mean I've been clear with our friends of
Speaker 4: the legislature, and also out of respect to Governor DeWine,
Speaker 4: I'm not going to go one by one through his
Speaker 4: line out of veto's. A lot of those just came
Speaker 4: in even overnight, and so that's fresh news this morning.
Speaker 4: What I will say is this, I want to run
Speaker 4: things in our state a little differently than the way
Speaker 4: even other states run, and even some of the ways
Speaker 4: our state has run historically.
Speaker 5: What the job of a governor, I believe is to
Speaker 5: lead and set the achain.
Speaker 4: So you want to get a deal done, go do
Speaker 4: that deal done the best interests of the taxpayers of
Speaker 4: this state in mind, and then work with the legislators
Speaker 4: on the front end to ratify that deal rather than
Speaker 4: playing this game of you know, the legislature.
Speaker 3: A lot of great people in the legislature, by the way, but.
Speaker 4: Each of whom are shepherding their own proposals, not knowing
Speaker 4: whether or not the governor is going to sign it.
Speaker 4: That's the way most states are run. To be honest
Speaker 4: with you, we're going to change that. I don't think
Speaker 4: that that's functional to be able.
Speaker 3: To drive an actual bold agenda and to this stadium issue.
Speaker 3: It's going to come up time and again.
Speaker 4: And my view is that the job of the governor,
Speaker 4: the job of elected officials of the state, is to
Speaker 4: ask what gets the best deal for Ohio residents.
Speaker 3: And to me, if you want to think about smart
Speaker 3: deals that.
Speaker 4: Get local skin in the game, that get greater skin
Speaker 4: in the game for private investors, that's the job of
Speaker 4: a governor, and then you go to the legislature.
Speaker 3: To ratify it, rather than the game of.
Speaker 4: Legislators pushing one proposal, no idea, whether the governor is
Speaker 4: going to line at them vt to it in certain
Speaker 4: cases versus others. We're going to move to a new
Speaker 4: phase of unified leadership in the state through open communication
Speaker 4: that includes at the state and local level.
Speaker 3: Frankly, at the local level, you know, in a lot
Speaker 3: of these projects, I think there should be greater local
Speaker 3: student games.
Speaker 4: The local municipality is going to derive the benefit, then
Speaker 4: it would stand to reason that the local community that's
Speaker 4: going to benefit the most is also investing in a
Speaker 4: project that's supposed to benefit them. If a local municipality
Speaker 4: or a local county doesn't want advantage to raise questions
Speaker 4: about how big those proposed economic benefits really are. So
Speaker 4: I would say that without reference to any specific project,
Speaker 4: but about the principles that I would bring in the
Speaker 4: future is skin in the game for everybody, smart deals
Speaker 4: for the state, and then take a leadership approach.
Speaker 3: Round the front end. You're meeting with the legislative leaders
Speaker 3: and you're going in.
Speaker 4: With a one team mentality, especially with Republican majorities across
Speaker 4: the board.
Speaker 3: There's really no reason not to run the state that way.
Speaker 3: And you know, I want to give give credit re presit.
Speaker 4: We're a great state. We're one of the best in
Speaker 4: the Midwest. I just don't want to lead us to
Speaker 4: be one of the best in the Midwest alone. I
Speaker 4: want to lead us out to be the top state
Speaker 4: in the country. And I think that's going to require
Speaker 4: moving forward with more of a forward, leading, strong one
Speaker 4: Ohio leadership in how we work with our partners in
Speaker 4: the legislature and also how we work with local governments
Speaker 4: and the other statewide elected officials. We're done operating in silos.
Speaker 4: I'm ready to lead this state with a one Ohio mentality.
Speaker 3: And I think that's going to make us stronger.
Speaker 1: F big Ramaswami real quickly here, would you, as governor
Speaker 1: of the state of Ohio, we have a problem with fraud,
Speaker 1: wasted abuse, like every all government programs, but I understant
Speaker 1: we have a pronounced problem with medicaid fraud. Would you
Speaker 1: at least embrace the concept of going after fraud, waste
Speaker 1: and abuse in these various government programs aggressively to save
Speaker 1: the Ohio tax payer dollars.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, Brian, I mean, it's just common sense. Really.
Speaker 4: Again, that isn't about left versus right. It's about saving
Speaker 4: all our taxpayer dollars. The fact of the matter is
Speaker 4: there's now evidence. You have great legislators like Jennifer Gross
Speaker 4: and others who have uncovered work showing that there are
Speaker 4: Ohio directed Medicaid dollars flowing to recipients in other states. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that doesn't make any sense. And the fact of the
Speaker 4: matter is Ohio deserves better than that. So I think
Speaker 4: we deserve leaders who are willing to confront the reality
Speaker 4: that many of our taxpayer dollars do go to waste.
Speaker 4: But the way we're going to do it isn't some
Speaker 4: theoretical academic exercise. It's all part of a project to
Speaker 4: put more money in the pockets of Ohioans. I think
Speaker 4: Ohioans deserve We're hard working people deserve to keep what
Speaker 4: they are, deserve to bear a lower property tax burden.
Speaker 4: Remember it is your land, not the governments. Property taxes
Speaker 4: have gotten insanely high.
Speaker 3: In this state.
Speaker 4: And instead of asking you know, what benefit needs to
Speaker 4: be cut versus not for those property taxes to come down,
Speaker 4: let's actually start with a much easier question of where's
Speaker 4: just the waste, where's just the abuse? In some cases
Speaker 4: we're's the outright fraud. And I think Ohiolan's deserve to
Speaker 4: pay lower property Texas. I think Ohioan's deserve to get
Speaker 4: to a zero income tax state as day other states
Speaker 4: have gotten to. That's where I'm going to lead us.
Speaker 4: Combine that with lifting up our educational achievement standards, and
Speaker 4: we're going to have a renaissance in this state of
Speaker 4: a kind that we have not seen since the first
Speaker 4: Industrial Revolution. That's where I want to lead Ohio. And
Speaker 4: I can tell you, Brian, in about eighteen months, I'm
Speaker 4: excited to get started.
Speaker 1: You are, and we're here to help you. Youvek Ramaswami
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Speaker 1: Morning Show, inspirational and positive, forward, forward thinking words and
Speaker 1: we need that these days, and you're going to deliver
Speaker 1: for the state of Ohio. I feel very confident in
Speaker 1: that I'll look forward to talking with you again very soon.
Speaker 1: Thanks for spending time with my listeners of me today, sir,
Speaker 1: Thank you, my friend.
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