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Speaker 1: Today at noon on fifty five KRC the Talk Station
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Speaker 1: Happy Wednesday, of course, Jode Jennita Paulton at the bottom
Speaker 1: of the hour. In the meantime, I am so pleased
Speaker 1: to welcome with a fifty five KRC Morning Show state
Speaker 1: Representative Jennifer Gross to talk about the battle for Ohio
Speaker 1: House Speaker as well as a big rally it's going
Speaker 1: on today and Columbus. Jennifer Gross, Welcome to the fifty
Speaker 1: five CARSCIT Morning Show. Its You're a pleasure to have
Speaker 1: you on today.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Brian, I always appreciating with you. Good morning.
Speaker 1: Oh it's always my pleasure to have you on. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I regularly refer to the state of Columbus in terms
Speaker 1: of politics since Republicans dominate everything, it's like hurting cats.
Speaker 1: You just kind of wonder, why do we have any
Speaker 1: wrinkles in anything in Columbus. If we want to get
Speaker 1: something sort of along the lines of you know, traditional
Speaker 1: Republican policy in place, you think it'd be just a
Speaker 1: no brainer, put a bill up and voted, and let's
Speaker 1: move on. But it's never the case, and this topic
Speaker 1: right here House Speaker takes us back to the blue
Speaker 1: twenty two and of course the Conservatives wanted Derek Maren
Speaker 1: and interestingly enough, for whatever reasons, backroom deal was dealt.
Speaker 1: In twenty two, Republicans joined along with the Democrats to
Speaker 1: elect House Speaker Jason Stevens Well. He says, he announced
Speaker 1: Monday he is not seeking reelection, leaving the post wide open.
Speaker 1: Do you know who's planning on running for this spot?
Speaker 1: Is it going to be a contested race? Are we
Speaker 1: going to see this play out again along the lines
Speaker 1: that we saw before.
Speaker 2: Jennifer Gross Well, I can promise you that when we
Speaker 2: are done with our vote today, which is at five pm,
Speaker 2: that we will walk out unified. And one body, well,
Speaker 2: that's now great, we do. But Brian, I would tell
Speaker 2: you that, yes, there is another candidate who has stepped
Speaker 2: into the race to His name is Tim Barhorst, and
Speaker 2: he is a freshman right now, but he has experience
Speaker 2: in healthcare. He's a solid conservative, obviously the new horse
Speaker 2: in the race. But I think I remember as a freshman.
Speaker 2: I had no choice. Speaker Cup was the only choice,
Speaker 2: and is that really a choice. Some of us thought
Speaker 2: about just voting no just because we had no choice.
Speaker 2: I love the fact that Tim is giving us a choice.
Speaker 2: And I believe, honestly, Brian, that this is a great
Speaker 2: example of a representative republic. This race isn't about postcards
Speaker 2: that were mailed out where everybody's so excited the election
Speaker 2: is over because there are no more phone calls and
Speaker 2: texts and postcards. But this one is literally a vote
Speaker 2: between your representative and who is going to lead the
Speaker 2: people's House. And to me, competition makes us stronger. And
Speaker 2: so I'm happy to see timbar Horse run and get
Speaker 2: into the race. I again feel that competition makes us stronger.
Speaker 2: And the best thing that Jason Stevens has done in
Speaker 2: the last two years was his announcement on Monday. So
Speaker 2: I'm really you know, I'm really proud. Well, I'm proud
Speaker 2: that that that we have people that have courage to
Speaker 2: step in and I think that the people of Ohio.
Speaker 2: Uh I would hope that the people of Ohio would
Speaker 2: see this as these people are fighting to lead and
Speaker 2: to leave their house, that this house means so much
Speaker 2: to the people of Ohio that these people are willing
Speaker 2: to step in and both men have courage and honor,
Speaker 2: and I do believe that no matter which one wins,
Speaker 2: that we will we will unite, which is what I
Speaker 2: want it all along, right two years ago when Derek won.
Speaker 2: Yeah you so, Yeah. I think it's going to be great.
Speaker 2: And competition makes us stronger.
Speaker 1: Well, it also fosters and encourages debate and discussion over
Speaker 1: the merits of each side. As a candidate, and you
Speaker 1: mentioned Tim Barhurst as someone who will provide that springboard,
Speaker 1: and he mentioned he's obviously a good guy. But the
Speaker 1: other contenders is Matt Hoffman, correct.
Speaker 2: Correct, correct, who's a very diplomatic man in the middle
Speaker 2: of I think nine children. So obviously he's great at
Speaker 2: building teams and working with cats as you were saying,
Speaker 2: and hurting cats and so, but also has many, many
Speaker 2: years in Columbus, whereas Tim's the newcomer. Some people may
Speaker 2: want someone who's very well connected in Columbus. Another person
Speaker 2: may want more of that Trump candidate, shall we say,
Speaker 2: or someone who is not as connected to the city
Speaker 2: Center Square here in Columbus. I'm actually in Columbus right now.
Speaker 2: But yeah, so I think it's great. Competition makes us stronger.
Speaker 2: I truly believe that we are going to be a
Speaker 2: unit and a unified body, and a look forward to
Speaker 2: where we move into the next General Assembly. However, I
Speaker 2: do hope, and I don't want to lead into your
Speaker 2: next topic without your permission, but I do hope that
Speaker 2: we get to take care of and work on the
Speaker 2: property taxes, yes, keep, as well as possibly the income tax.
Speaker 1: And you did anticipate where I wanted to go. But
Speaker 1: let me just summarize what I think I'm hearing from you,
Speaker 1: And I know you are not endorsing either guy, whether
Speaker 1: it's a bar Horse or Huffman. What you're saying to me,
Speaker 1: it sounds like we are going to be in good
Speaker 1: hands regardless of who we come out with, and that
Speaker 1: the Republicans aren't going to be in this sort of
Speaker 1: state of disarray that happened when Jason Stevens effectively couped
Speaker 1: Todd Derek Marrin. But at least in that particular contest,
Speaker 1: there were some pretty profound differences between maren and Stevens,
Speaker 1: at least that I recall. I mean that is that
Speaker 1: an accurate summary that I just gave there.
Speaker 2: True, Okay, true, and I would I would say that
Speaker 2: one is, in my opinion, of course, better than the
Speaker 2: other for various reasons.
Speaker 1: Okay, but.
Speaker 2: I would encourage all people that are represented by a
Speaker 2: Republican because this is a Republican vote tonight. It's sort
Speaker 2: of a gentleman vote. We do it. It's anonymous vote,
Speaker 2: so no one knows how you vote. We vote behind
Speaker 2: closed doors. But by participating in the process, you have
Speaker 2: given your word that when the winner wins, no matter
Speaker 2: whether it's thirty three to thirty two, because we have
Speaker 2: sixty five Republicans voting, if everybody's in attendance, if it's
Speaker 2: thirty three to thirty two, the one with thirty three
Speaker 2: votes is the speaker. And that's what happened last time. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Derek one by like two votes, and the other side
Speaker 2: decided that that wasn't fair and then went and twenty
Speaker 2: two Republicans then bonded with thirty two Democrats and elected
Speaker 2: essentially a speaker that was elected by the Democrats.
Speaker 1: Optics on that were just horrific, and they lived this
Speaker 1: day all right. Moving along, you wanted to dive on
Speaker 1: into it, and so do I homeowners rally and protests
Speaker 1: taking place today in Columbus. This is a serious problem.
Speaker 1: We hear about in Hamilton County all the time. When
Speaker 1: the triennial or whatever assessment came out, some people's property
Speaker 1: taxes went up by thirty percent. There are seniors out
Speaker 1: there that could barely manage the situation under the earlier
Speaker 1: property tax and now face of the bill they can't afford.
Speaker 1: Now they're talking about, you know, throwing money to help
Speaker 1: people afford their taxes, which seems crazy. You got taxes
Speaker 1: going into government and then government what giving people money
Speaker 1: back to help pay the government. I mean, this circuitous
Speaker 1: nonsense of effort to try to deal with the problem.
Speaker 1: And the problem is the taxes are too damn high.
Speaker 1: What can we do about it?
Speaker 2: Jennifer Gross, Well, we have h Jr. Six Now, this
Speaker 2: bill is written currently, should have been on the ballot
Speaker 2: in November, but unfortunately our House has not. Sorry, I'm
Speaker 2: getting a call coming in probably about the Speaker's vote.
Speaker 2: The dates on this bill should have been. It should
Speaker 2: have This would go to the ballot for all Ohioans
Speaker 2: to vote to put into the constitution that your property
Speaker 2: taxes can never increase more than four percent from the
Speaker 2: previous year. It's still an increase, but it is only
Speaker 2: four percent. And like you said, many people had large,
Speaker 2: large valuation increases that resulted in much larger tax increases.
Speaker 2: This bill. The other interesting thing if people want to
Speaker 2: read it and just look at the Ohio House and
Speaker 2: pull it up HJR. Number six, line number fifty one,
Speaker 2: is interesting because it says it will revert back to
Speaker 2: your values in twenty twenty two. That's really brilliant because
Speaker 2: it does awagh with two years of the inflationary prices
Speaker 2: and recessionary type of our economy that's been under Biden,
Speaker 2: so it resets a little bit. And this would have
Speaker 2: taken effect January one, twenty twenty five, so that was
Speaker 2: if it had gone. This is a ballot initiative, so
Speaker 2: this there are two ways that people can get aboot initiative.
Speaker 2: We as we know, we just had Issue one that
Speaker 2: was defeated and that was a citizen led initiative. This
Speaker 2: is a legislator led initiative, so we can put something
Speaker 2: directly on the ballot saying hey, we want you to
Speaker 2: vote on this and tell us what you want.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The other thing is that our tax commissioner. Property tax
Speaker 2: commissioner is a non elected, elected bureaucrat. So as we
Speaker 2: went for the people to her and said, hey, we
Speaker 2: can't do this, she refused to change. And my county,
Speaker 2: Butler County, was hard hit in many areas ross Westchester, Fairfield. Oh,
Speaker 2: you were all hit, very very hard.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well, it's interesting. It seems to me that
Speaker 1: the value of a home in any given moment really
Speaker 1: isn't reflective of the taxation that's levied on it. You know,
Speaker 1: you have X amount of dollars you need to fund
Speaker 1: whatever that our real estate tax is paid for. Okay,
Speaker 1: one year the world goes upside down COVID nineteen. Everybody's
Speaker 1: buying up real estate literally everywhere, driving the pies through
Speaker 1: the roof. That didn't change the spending of government generally
Speaker 1: that much. Doesn't this ultimately end up in a massive
Speaker 1: windfall that shouldn't even have occurred.
Speaker 2: You know, you would think so. But like my pretty tax,
Speaker 2: sixty five percent goes to the schools. So remember that
Speaker 2: when and then the rest it's like local government and
Speaker 2: all the levees we vote on. Every time we vote
Speaker 2: on a levee, and we increase the levee, or we
Speaker 2: have a new levee, we are increasing our property tax.
Speaker 2: None of your local property tax comes to the state,
Speaker 2: so it all stays locally, and all of your levees,
Speaker 2: your schools, and your local government, whether it's a city
Speaker 2: government or township. So it really depends. That's why who
Speaker 2: you vote for for your mayor and for your township
Speaker 2: trustees is so vitally important because they make decisions as
Speaker 2: to you know, how they're going to spend your money
Speaker 2: and those types and whether they request a levee. Also,
Speaker 2: they are the ones who have to, you know, put
Speaker 2: that on there. So it's really the levee system is
Speaker 2: frustrating to me because I've lived in states I was military,
Speaker 2: and I've lived in states with no levee system. But
Speaker 2: it is in It is ingrained in our constitution. It
Speaker 2: has been in our state for you know, over a century.
Speaker 1: Fund I haint the interrupt because roma's out of time.
Speaker 1: I needed to go answer all your phone cloths about
Speaker 1: the vote. But the school funding mechanism through the property
Speaker 1: text wasn't that declared unconstitutional by the High Supreme Court
Speaker 1: like twenty years ago, and yet here we are never
Speaker 1: been changed.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm not well versed on that, but I
Speaker 2: have had people talk to me in that regard. I think,
Speaker 2: you know, I think that we do need to watch
Speaker 2: I you know, I'm not gonna, you know, disparage my schools.
Speaker 2: I have some great schools, but I but I do
Speaker 2: believe that, you know, with our influx of immigration, and
Speaker 2: those are refugees because they are made legal by the
Speaker 2: federal government. That's why we can't kick them out because
Speaker 2: they're technically legal. As they're coming in, the demand and
Speaker 2: the requirements on our school buildings and things that are
Speaker 2: is increasing. But remember, those people don't pay taxes because
Speaker 2: they don't own homes. So it falls on the homeowner
Speaker 2: everye time, the whole entire local community in so many ways,
Speaker 2: not always, I mean some of the highway and all
Speaker 2: of that comes from the Department of Transportation and our
Speaker 2: transportation budget, but we the homeowner because I'm a homeowner,
Speaker 2: you know, and the homeowner bears the brunt every single
Speaker 2: time a levee's passed, whether they vote on it or not,
Speaker 2: and every single time a recession occurs and your values
Speaker 2: go up, your paying. So now as we're having an
Speaker 2: influx of refugees, they will be paying too, and then
Speaker 2: there's a demand on medicaid, so then you start increasing
Speaker 2: the expenses at the state level, and that hits the
Speaker 2: middle class in our homeowners. So I've always been a
Speaker 2: fierce fighter for we need to spend within our means
Speaker 2: and not spend up to what we keep taxing the taxpayer.
Speaker 2: We can say to you and we are balancing the budget.
Speaker 2: But if you give me five billion, then I say
Speaker 2: I spent five billion, but I really only needed three.
Speaker 2: I can still say to you I stayed within the
Speaker 2: budget and I had a balanced budget.
Speaker 1: Yes you can, and no, that doesn't make it right.
Speaker 1: Today's day, stop the theft of equity. Eleven am Capital
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Speaker 1: of this this measure, and Jennifer Griss, I cannot thank
Speaker 1: you enough for telling my listeners all about it today
Speaker 1: and giving us a glimmer of hope. I'm only trying
Speaker 1: to anticipate what the naysayers will be arguing against this,
Speaker 1: but we'll have time to do that down the road.
Speaker 1: Stay well and good luck with a vote today. I'm
Speaker 1: glad to hear there's going to be well. A vote
Speaker 1: and unanimity, at least in the aftermath. In Columbus, Jennifer,
Speaker 1: take care and have a wonderful day.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Brian, have a wonderful day.
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