Speaker 1: Driven and I first one to one of hook casts.
Speaker 2: Partly cloudy day to day, maybe some isolated showers of storms.
Speaker 2: They are possible seventy seven for the high, down.
Speaker 1: To forty nine over night.
Speaker 2: Skies will be clear for the lunar of cliffs if
Speaker 2: you're up at three am. Mostly cloudy Friday, eighty one
Speaker 2: for the high and then it's sixty one overnight low
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Speaker 2: At seven thirty one on a Thursday slash Friday eve.
Speaker 2: Any day is a good day to have Donald O'Neil
Speaker 2: on for Americans for prosperity, doing the great work here
Speaker 2: in the State of how to write the ship and
Speaker 2: make it a good place to live and get the
Speaker 2: right policies in place. Welcome back, Donald and o'nil. It's
Speaker 2: a pleasure to have you on again.
Speaker 4: It's good to be here.
Speaker 2: State of the State last night, highlighting what Governor Dowy
Speaker 2: wants to accomplish, and I guess what he has accomplished.
Speaker 2: He noted there are more to eighty one thousand private
Speaker 2: sector jobs have been added, which is a great thing.
Speaker 2: Couple of businesses he highlighted. He had some I think
Speaker 2: some excellent points on education, like notably phonics, bringing back
Speaker 2: phonics and getting cell phones out of schools, which I
Speaker 2: guess the state law is going to require that school
Speaker 2: districts have an anti cell phone policy in place at
Speaker 2: least by July of this year. That can only do
Speaker 2: good for the students who are so distracted these days.
Speaker 2: What was your take on the state of the state.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think.
Speaker 5: Once again, you know, it's an opportunity to kind of
Speaker 5: reflect on the accomplishments over the last two years, set
Speaker 5: some priorities for the legislature as they you know, are
Speaker 5: getting to the halfway.
Speaker 4: Point in that in that process.
Speaker 5: And you know what I think we saw from Governor
Speaker 5: one on this was he's focused on pointing to the
Speaker 5: right issues, right education, families, workforce, jobs, opportunity. What we
Speaker 5: have to caution though, Brian, as you as you well know,
Speaker 5: and I've been on the show many times talking about it,
Speaker 5: is what government's role is in those things and making
Speaker 5: sure that we're you know, what we're doing for creating
Speaker 5: an environment where folks can thrive and succeed and we
Speaker 5: can be the number one state of the nation, but
Speaker 5: doing it through freedom and limited government. So that's always
Speaker 5: the thing you got to be listening out for all
Speaker 5: in these speeches is wait, what what what are what
Speaker 5: is the executive asking for now? What kind of power
Speaker 5: they asking for from the legislature as they talk about
Speaker 5: these priorities and initiatives.
Speaker 2: Well, some of the things are like common sense, like
Speaker 2: bringing more Civics education, in teaching the basic life skills,
Speaker 2: I remember a home economics class. I thought that was great,
Speaker 2: But budgeting things like that, that isn't that local school
Speaker 2: board based decision making and built the school boards to
Speaker 2: make those determinations.
Speaker 5: Well, I think minderstanding is you've got a lot of
Speaker 5: different requirements coming from the state and the federal government.
Speaker 5: I think what we should be doing, yeah, is prioritizing
Speaker 5: some of those things and then also making sure when
Speaker 5: we're talking about education, we're really focused on the stuff
Speaker 5: that are going to set folks up for success. Right
Speaker 5: the core essentials reading, writing, arithmetic, which I know Governor
Speaker 5: de Wines put a heavy emphasis on making sure students
Speaker 5: are equipped to read, and we've got some good indicators
Speaker 5: of that. But yeah, life skills like budgeting, I think
Speaker 5: that's really important in making sure folks understand how to
Speaker 5: live their lives.
Speaker 4: They once they get out of school.
Speaker 1: That's important.
Speaker 2: Judge, just ask well, are elected officials take those classes first?
Speaker 2: Budgeting most notably Strecker You correct me, Now, you did
Speaker 2: a poll the folks reaction on the state of the state.
Speaker 1: I understand, well, this was a pre state of the
Speaker 1: state pole.
Speaker 5: We wanted to get our finger on the polls where
Speaker 5: Ohio voters are, so we could kind of, you know,
Speaker 5: deliver that map. We want to deliver that message to
Speaker 5: the legislation and say, hey, here's what you're hearing from Governor,
Speaker 5: here's what you're you know, you guys are talking about,
Speaker 5: how does the lineup with actually where voters are and
Speaker 5: what they want to see y'all do with the two
Speaker 5: hundred and eleven billion dollars you're going to be spending
Speaker 5: over the next two years.
Speaker 2: All Right, we'll let that set up for the next
Speaker 2: segment where we'll see if Dwine's comments in the state
Speaker 2: of the state align with what Air Americans for Prosperity
Speaker 2: polls said that folks want. That's a great I like
Speaker 2: the order of things along those lines. We'll see, we'll
Speaker 2: see how that went. We'll pause for a moment. It's
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Speaker 2: Possible seventy seven for the high, clear skies for the
Speaker 2: lunar eclipse overnight, forty nine for the low going all
Speaker 2: the way up to eighty one tomorrow with mostly cloudy
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Speaker 3: KRCD talk station. A very happy Thursday to you, Senator
Speaker 3: Bill Blessing. At the top of the ur news talk
Speaker 3: about property taxes, which we all are upset about. In
Speaker 3: the meantime, Donovan and Neil for Americans for Prosperity talking
Speaker 3: about the state of the state. So you did a
Speaker 3: poll in advance of the state of the state, and
Speaker 3: as I gravitated to some of the comments that Governor
Speaker 3: to I mentioned about education, which appealed to me. Apparently
Speaker 3: addressing education was one of the right things to do
Speaker 3: because that was really important to the folks you polled.
Speaker 5: Yeah, over over seventy five percent of Ohio voters said
Speaker 5: that they want and it's a very or extremely important
Speaker 5: combined to address education here in the state of Ohio.
Speaker 5: And I think we you know, something that we had
Speaker 5: seen coming out of COVID, right, his parents were better
Speaker 5: connect with their kids' education or saw their.
Speaker 1: Kids not being educated because they shut the school down.
Speaker 5: This continues to be an issue that folks want to
Speaker 5: see a result.
Speaker 4: And I think you've got a mix of folks who
Speaker 4: care about.
Speaker 5: It from the academic and what we're being taught perspective
Speaker 5: right in choice. But then you've also got it, I
Speaker 5: think from the folks who want to know they're getting
Speaker 5: value and the talking about property taxes, the property taxes
Speaker 5: they're paying to go to fund the schools and education.
Speaker 5: And so we really hope all makers pay attention here
Speaker 5: and work to address some of those challenges of which
Speaker 5: we also had voters care about in terms of education flexibility.
Speaker 2: Brian, Yeah, And I don't know did Governor to Wine
Speaker 2: say anything about that school choice, flexibility, options for parents
Speaker 2: to send their children.
Speaker 1: Not that I caught.
Speaker 5: Unfortunately last State of the State he did, and that
Speaker 5: actually really helped supercharge the conversation. So I didn't catch
Speaker 5: anything like that in his comments yesterday.
Speaker 2: Well, that seems a lost opportunity because I think, you know,
Speaker 2: education choice I think resonates with people of all political stripes,
Speaker 2: and unless you remember the teachers unit and think your
Speaker 2: job's at stake or something, you know, if you are
Speaker 2: a state that offers this that is a magnet for
Speaker 2: families considering places to live. It's just one more, you know,
Speaker 2: piece of the puzzle to make Ohio an in demand
Speaker 2: state as opposed to something that's completely overlooked.
Speaker 5: Oh totally, and that's why Yes, So sixty eight percent
Speaker 5: of the voters we pulled on this question support education flexibility.
Speaker 5: And what that means, right, is it's not just money
Speaker 5: following the child. It's the ability to go to the
Speaker 5: school that's going to best meet that kids needs. Are
Speaker 5: access to the resources that's going to help, you know,
Speaker 5: maybe close a learning loss gap that the child might have.
Speaker 5: And so increasing policy passing policies that are going to
Speaker 5: increase education flexibility are incredibly critical and it's something that
Speaker 5: voters are wanting.
Speaker 2: And I think something else I don't think he addressed,
Speaker 2: but it's energy prices, folks a little upset about energy
Speaker 2: and energy policy is a prioritization.
Speaker 5: I don't think I've met anybody for a while Brian
Speaker 5: who has said, boy, I'm really happy about these low energy.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I know going through the roof. So
Speaker 1: no surprise is there.
Speaker 5: But what I think was insightful because we wanted to
Speaker 5: kind of understand where folks want to see the legislature
Speaker 5: take things. Sixty percent of voters say the government's number
Speaker 5: one priority should be ensuring affordable and reliable energy, even
Speaker 5: if it may slow the pace of renewable energy development.
Speaker 5: So we're opposed to renewable energy, right, But the signal
Speaker 5: is we got to unleash energy abundance here and not
Speaker 5: just in the country, but particularly here in state Ohio.
Speaker 5: We got an abundance of resources, abundant's opportunity, and that's
Speaker 5: what two thirds of voters want to see happen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I died. I'm glad Donald trumpson.
Speaker 2: I guess you probably saw the EPA has got has
Speaker 2: moved away from this Green New Deal garbage and going
Speaker 2: back to more sensible Donald Trump, you know all of
Speaker 2: the above energy strategy, and you know, and that's another thing.
Speaker 2: Ohio could be the leader of nuclear power. I mean,
Speaker 2: we just need to get rid of the regulatory overburdens
Speaker 2: and the impediments to nuclear energy, embrace this modern nuclear
Speaker 2: power generation technology, the modular nuclear plans. I mean, we
Speaker 2: could be a real leader and another magnet for artificial
Speaker 2: intelligence to come here because that's the that's the key
Speaker 2: to drawing AI facilities and the jobs that they have,
Speaker 2: oh without a doubt, and.
Speaker 5: Unfortunately there are are already legislative vehicles. There have been
Speaker 5: many hearings talking about just that. And it's not what
Speaker 5: we typically see, right, which are subsidies are picking winners
Speaker 5: and losers in the energy marketplace. The policies we're seeing
Speaker 5: Center Bill two, House Bill fifteen, those are focused on
Speaker 5: speeding up in many ways, speeding up the permitting process
Speaker 5: so that if somebody's got an energy project and energy
Speaker 5: generation project they want to get off the ground, they're
Speaker 5: going to know they're going to have an answer to
Speaker 5: it and not just go into a black hole like
Speaker 5: they often do, you know, on the federal level as
Speaker 5: they work through these things.
Speaker 2: Well, since they'll be talking about property tax relief coming
Speaker 2: up after top of the our news with Senator Blessing,
Speaker 2: I see that's a big concern for Ohioans because everybody's
Speaker 2: upset about the size of their property tax bill. At
Speaker 2: least the corner of your survey. It's a big priority,
Speaker 2: it is.
Speaker 5: We've got sixty five percent of folks say property taxes
Speaker 5: are too high. Again, not in the realm of big
Speaker 5: surprises here, right, folks are paying a lot and they
Speaker 5: they're they're they're starting to feel the pain and the pinch.
Speaker 5: What I think was especially insightful, though, was that they
Speaker 5: want to see lawmakers focus on And there's really kind
Speaker 5: of two competing tracks that we're seeing here at the
Speaker 5: State House's legislative proposals come in. One is providing you know,
Speaker 5: what I would deter what I would call temporary relief.
Speaker 4: Right, Hey, let's let's.
Speaker 5: Subsidize it through the state and not in like a
Speaker 5: lower case subsidized Brian. Right, like, let's have the state,
Speaker 5: you know, provide some relief to communities with high tax
Speaker 5: burdens that sort of weather's storm, or let's provide some
Speaker 5: more exemptions to particular groups or populations. But what voters
Speaker 5: want to see actually is long term structural changes. And
Speaker 5: so I think, you know, reforms that will address the
Speaker 5: twenty mil floor or will get to you know, making
Speaker 5: sure that folks have transparency in you know, what sorts
Speaker 5: of levees have, what impact on their property tax bill.
Speaker 5: Those kinds of policies I think voters are going to
Speaker 5: reward next November if wallmakers get to get to work
Speaker 5: on addressing them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know there's a lot of seniors out there
Speaker 2: that were just shocked and dismay and really concerned about
Speaker 2: their ability to stay in the places they've been in
Speaker 2: for a long time. You know, the properties have all
Speaker 2: increased in value dramatically on the heels of COVID and
Speaker 2: the demand, and you know they just can't manage. So
Speaker 2: relief for seniors seems to be a top priority, and
Speaker 2: I think mister Blessing is going to be addressing that
Speaker 2: in some part after the top of the air news
Speaker 2: I got a big chuckle out of no phanomi of
Speaker 2: tax dollars being used to support sporting organizations. You have,
Speaker 2: you did a pull on the taxpayer funding for the
Speaker 2: new Cleveland brown Stadium.
Speaker 1: Wow, look at that one.
Speaker 5: Eighty percent, right, eighty percent.
Speaker 4: And this isn't just Cincinnati, by the way, this wasn't
Speaker 4: a poll we just.
Speaker 5: Ran in Southwestal House. These aren't Bengals fans, you know,
Speaker 5: dogging on the team up north. That is uh, this
Speaker 5: is you know, across the state of Ohio. And I
Speaker 5: think that's right right. You know, folks uh don't want
Speaker 5: to see their panheigh property taxes or paying more on
Speaker 5: energy bills. The last thing they want to see their
Speaker 5: tax dollars going to or new taxes being opposed on
Speaker 5: them to pay for our stadium deals for you know,
Speaker 5: over five billion dollar infl franchises. I don't think we
Speaker 5: need to be doing that, and the voters seem to
Speaker 5: feel the same way. So I think there's been a
Speaker 5: lot of.
Speaker 4: Cold water doused on some of the governor's proposals around
Speaker 4: funding stadium, the Cleveland Brown Stadium deal, and I'd be
Speaker 4: curious to see how that made be what maneuvers they
Speaker 4: take now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's a growing number of people just are
Speaker 2: I think we've all learned a lesson from the pay
Speaker 2: Corpse stadium and they always described as the worst stadium
Speaker 2: deal negotiated in the entire country.
Speaker 1: We've been living with that for a long time.
Speaker 2: And now they got their hand in the public funds
Speaker 2: cookie jar to do some expansions and some improvements that
Speaker 2: we're all going to be on the hook on thanks
Speaker 2: to the terrible deal we dealt. So anyhow, eighty percent
Speaker 2: a pose and again we're talking about a two point
Speaker 2: four billion dollars stadium they're considering That just seems outrageous, man.
Speaker 2: But I always thought the way of the future was
Speaker 2: sitting in your own basement watching it on a giant
Speaker 2: screen TV and not paying twelve dollars to fifteen dollars
Speaker 2: for a beer.
Speaker 5: Donovan s Well, you know, I like that front row
Speaker 5: seat as well, so it's fun to go to a game.
Speaker 4: But yeah, it's a pricey endeavor.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but each their own, I suppose.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's well, they're built for the wealthy among us,
Speaker 2: and that's part of the redevelopment plan for pay Corps.
Speaker 2: The But you know, new boxes and high end boxes
Speaker 2: in there that none of us will ever see the
Speaker 2: inside of. Any call to action for my listeners from
Speaker 2: Americans for Prosperity, how they can help out and do
Speaker 2: the work that you want them to help out doing
Speaker 2: their Donovan.
Speaker 5: Well, as always go to Buckeye blueprint dot com.
Speaker 1: You go to Buckeye blueprint dot com.
Speaker 4: You could sign up take action.
Speaker 5: Only got a handful of different policy issues that you
Speaker 5: can send a quick note to your state representative, state
Speaker 5: senator on. But in particular that'll also give us. They'll
Speaker 5: also flag for us to have our team reach out
Speaker 5: to you. We've got folks coming to the State House
Speaker 5: every week, Brian.
Speaker 1: Every week.
Speaker 5: For the last couple of weeks now, groups of folks
Speaker 5: from across the state have been coming to the State House,
Speaker 5: going to committee hearings, meeting with legislators. It all started
Speaker 5: the one small step they took, Brian was going to
Speaker 5: Buckeye Blueprint dot Com and take an action that gets
Speaker 5: our team to reach out to You.
Speaker 2: Can be a baby step, folks. You don't have to
Speaker 2: dive in with both feet and spend all of your
Speaker 2: hours working on these issues. Just every little bit counts,
Speaker 2: as Donovan has pointed out here on the program, and
Speaker 2: af team makes it so easy again, Buckeye Blueprint dot Com.
Speaker 1: Donovan and Neil, keep up the great work. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: You could be on the show this morning and we'll
Speaker 2: look forward to having me back on real soon. Thanks
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