Speaker 1: By Billy Cunningham, the great American. Of course, Frank LaRose,
Speaker 1: the second cousin of Buddy LaRosa, is the Ohio Secretary
Speaker 1: of State. Big announcement on Monday. I've focal with Tabey Khamaswami.
Speaker 1: Going to join you and I sometime early next week.
Speaker 1: But in the meantime, once again, Frank Lrose, Secretary of State,
Speaker 1: welcome to the Bill Cunningham Show. Before we go much further,
Speaker 1: I'm watching one of the cable channels this morning, and
Speaker 1: New York City wants to very badly allow US citizens
Speaker 1: to actually vote non US citizens to vote in US elections,
Speaker 1: and that because the taxes are being paid, et cetera.
Speaker 1: And so we're in California. The same thing occurred there.
Speaker 1: Many cities allow non citizens to vote, supposedly, not on
Speaker 1: federal elections, it's in state elections. And this is a
Speaker 1: recipe for total disaster, the taking you over the ballot
Speaker 1: box by electraing radicals. So what is the latest New
Speaker 1: York City about their desires to have non citizens voting
Speaker 1: in US elections.
Speaker 2: This is madness. And by the way, they tried this
Speaker 2: in Ohio in a little place called the village of
Speaker 2: Yellow Springs, where the communists that run the place thought
Speaker 2: that they could pass a village resolution authorizing non citizens
Speaker 2: to vote. Of course I had to step in and
Speaker 2: remind them that that's illegal. And here's the other thing.
Speaker 2: If you talk to a group of recent citizens, those
Speaker 2: that have earned their citizenship, raised their right hand, pass
Speaker 2: the test, stood in line, they would tell you, don't
Speaker 2: you dare cheapen the thing that I worked so hard
Speaker 2: to earn. New American immigrants, new American citizens would tell
Speaker 2: you that citizenship has value, it has status, it means something.
Speaker 2: For the City of New York, foolishly to try to
Speaker 2: allow non citizens to vote is just the height of
Speaker 2: liberal insanity. I think that common sense will prevail. And
Speaker 2: here's the other thing. Just the administration of an election
Speaker 2: like that is going to cause problems. You have to
Speaker 2: have two separate voter registration systems, two separate sets of
Speaker 2: voting machines. Right, because non citizens can only vote in
Speaker 2: local elections. They can't vote in federal elections they're prohibited
Speaker 2: from that. And in state wide elections in New York
Speaker 2: they can't vote. So it's just a bad idea, just
Speaker 2: another in the list of bad liberal ideas related to voting.
Speaker 1: You know, this morning, the five deputy mayors in New
Speaker 1: York City all resigned in this grace. Allegedly, Cuomo is
Speaker 1: going to become the next mayor Keel. She's a real clown.
Speaker 1: She's the governor of the state of New York. She
Speaker 1: has the power to remove Mayor Adams, to take him
Speaker 1: out of the thing completely. It's not as if New
Speaker 1: York City is so well run or I don't know
Speaker 1: about Yellow Springs. I think I was there one time,
Speaker 1: playing basketball at a college there. But nonetheless, these are
Speaker 1: far left wing groups of people that already have every
Speaker 1: politician they want on the left side to be in power.
Speaker 1: No one in Yellow Springs is a constitutional Republican. I
Speaker 1: would imagine that little city voted eighty percent for Kamala Harris.
Speaker 1: In New York City, you can't find a Republican with
Speaker 1: a search warrant. So it's like a solution in search
Speaker 1: of a problem. It's not as if it's not run
Speaker 1: the way they want to run those cities anyway, and
Speaker 1: so they're looking for excuses to give. I guess, immigrants
Speaker 1: illegal immigrants. There's a big difference in my book between
Speaker 1: legal and illegal. The media doesn't make that distinction, but
Speaker 1: there's a big difference between the two. Legal immigrants can vote.
Speaker 1: They go through the process. I've sworn some in at
Speaker 1: some point down at the US Courthouse, United States District Court.
Speaker 1: It was wonderful to talk to watch the faces of
Speaker 1: proud Americans for the first time register to vote, and
Speaker 1: the way you go and so, Ohio, how much difficulty
Speaker 1: did you have with Yellow Springs? Did you? Did they
Speaker 1: actually believe that illegalists could vote? What county? By the ways,
Speaker 1: Yellow Springs is that Clark County?
Speaker 2: It's Green County. And so the Green County Board of Elections,
Speaker 2: Green County Board of Elections called me up. This is
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty two, I believe, Green County Board of
Speaker 2: Elections called me up and said, hey, what do we do.
Speaker 2: We've got one of our villages claiming that they're going
Speaker 2: to allow non citizens to vote. And I kind of
Speaker 2: did the all right, hold my beer, I got this.
Speaker 2: We sent a letter to the village council there and
Speaker 2: reminded them that if they are helping non citizens vote,
Speaker 2: they may actually be helping them commit a felony which
Speaker 2: makes them subject to immediate deportation. And they relented, They
Speaker 2: backed down and decided not to do this. But this
Speaker 2: is why we went to the ballot and changed the
Speaker 2: Ohio constitution, because I had a couple of lawyers whisper
Speaker 2: in my ear that you know, if the village from
Speaker 2: Yellow Springs had actually fought this and taken me to court,
Speaker 2: they might have won because it was not clear in
Speaker 2: our state constitution. Well, we fixed that a couple of
Speaker 2: years ago. And by the way, over seventy percent of
Speaker 2: Ohioan's voted yes to the very simple question should American
Speaker 2: elections in Ohio only be open to America citizens? It
Speaker 2: is now part of our state constitution.
Speaker 1: Well, I wonder about the other thirty percent, Right, thirty
Speaker 1: percent said let's let non citizens vote? What about that one?
Speaker 2: It defies common says. And here's the other problem with
Speaker 2: cities like New York. I mean, what a great American city,
Speaker 2: in many cases an international show place. When people want
Speaker 2: to visit the United State, it's one of the first
Speaker 2: things they want to do is go to New York City,
Speaker 2: see the Statue of Liberty. And the problem is that
Speaker 2: city has been so poorly run for so long it's
Speaker 2: given people a really bad impression of our country. I
Speaker 2: love New York City. The problem is it's a disaster
Speaker 2: right now. Don't even mention Chicago. Frank Sinatra called Chicago
Speaker 2: my kind of town. If you go there now, you
Speaker 2: don't want to walk the streets.
Speaker 1: How about Washington, DC? That should be the jewel that
Speaker 1: shines throughout the world. Ones may I use the term
Speaker 1: foreigners come here? They want to look at the capital
Speaker 1: of the United States of America, of the city of Washington,
Speaker 1: d C. Is uninhabitable and you can't go there.
Speaker 2: One of my great joys is going for a run
Speaker 2: in Washington, d C. I love bringing my running shoes.
Speaker 2: And so a couple of months ago I was there
Speaker 2: in the summer. My wife said, well, what's it like?
Speaker 2: I said, imagine if a city was run by a
Speaker 2: bunch of fourteen year old boys. And I can say
Speaker 2: this having been one once. It is complete chaos. You
Speaker 2: can sleep where you want, you can take a leak
Speaker 2: where you want. I mean, there's tenths pitched everywhere, trash
Speaker 2: blowing around. It's really a nightmare. And by the way,
Speaker 2: I think that I think that Congress is going to
Speaker 2: exercise its authority to rain some of that in think
Speaker 2: about this. This is the place where all of the
Speaker 2: embassies are for all of our allies around the world.
Speaker 2: We can't allow DC to continue to be trashed by
Speaker 2: liberal nuffleheads.
Speaker 1: All let's talk about next week. You're going to run
Speaker 1: for State Auditor and vi veg Ramaswami. There's a couple
Speaker 1: candidates up. One is David Yost, who is serving with
Speaker 1: you one of the five constitutional offer he's the Attorney General.
Speaker 1: He said he's going to run, and of course vivike
Speaker 1: Rama Swami he's going to announce on Monday that he's
Speaker 1: going to run. Why have you thrown your support behind
Speaker 1: viveke Ramaswami and not David Yost.
Speaker 2: I tell you what. For me, it comes down to
Speaker 2: vision and the courage to actually execute that vision. Listen,
Speaker 2: when I was in the army, I remember there being
Speaker 2: leaders that you followed because you had to because they
Speaker 2: have more rank on their shoulder than you do. And
Speaker 2: then those leaders that you want to follow, those leaders
Speaker 2: that inspire you to be a better version of yourself.
Speaker 2: I see that same thing that we call a command presence,
Speaker 2: that leadership in vivek Ramaswami. Not only does he have
Speaker 2: a really bold vision to make Ohio the most prosperous
Speaker 2: state in the nation. But he's got the courage to
Speaker 2: actually carry it out. And this is what I see
Speaker 2: in President Trump as well. How many presidents over the
Speaker 2: years have talked about getting rid of the Department of
Speaker 2: Education or putting the US embassy in Jerusalem where it
Speaker 2: belongs to Well, you know what, Trump has actually been
Speaker 2: getting these kind of things done. But veg Ramaswami is
Speaker 2: the same kind of leader. And that's why if he
Speaker 2: runs for governor, I believe he will. I'm going to
Speaker 2: be behind of one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: And the issue of Department of Education. I read this
Speaker 1: morning that the in most urban districts, a total of
Speaker 1: fifteen percent of the money that they spend, like in
Speaker 1: Cincinni Public Schools or Columbus or Toledo or Dayton, fifteen
Speaker 1: percent come from the FEDS, and that money is largely misspent.
Speaker 1: The other eighty five percent is bureaucratic expenses. There's something
Speaker 1: like ninety two thousand people that work in the Department
Speaker 1: of Education, large buildings all over Washington, Outpost and the
Speaker 1: various states. And imagine those moneys being used instead of
Speaker 1: to hire people and benefits and buildings being hired to
Speaker 1: guarantee by the fourth grade, every kid in America can read.
Speaker 1: You have to learn how to read, to read to learn.
Speaker 1: If you don't learn how to read, earning the other
Speaker 1: academic disciplines or functioning in life is going to be
Speaker 1: almost impossible. And every year that goes by it gets
Speaker 1: worse and worse and worse. And the solution is to
Speaker 1: spend more money. Obviously than the one hundred and ten
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, one hundred and forty billion dollars we spend
Speaker 1: in the Department of Education is not enough. And the
Speaker 1: teachers' unions and others say we've got to spend more money.
Speaker 1: We don't have to spend more money. I think we
Speaker 1: have great question.
Speaker 2: Yeah, go ahead, absolutely, I always that's the question. What's
Speaker 2: the mission? And the mission should be to prepare young
Speaker 2: Americans for careers and citizenship. That should be what the
Speaker 2: Department of Education does. Unfortunately, it's an abject failure at
Speaker 2: those things. The only thing it's good at is employing
Speaker 2: tens of thousands of adults and pushing a radical liberal agenda,
Speaker 2: which in many cases is anti American. And so I
Speaker 2: think that you know, if there's federal support that needs
Speaker 2: to come to schools. Just block granted to the schools
Speaker 2: and lets those localities spend that those dollars. Wisely, this
Speaker 2: mass bureaucracy needs to go because it doesn't accomplish its mission.
Speaker 1: And CPS, I'm familiar with Cincinnati Public schools, like eighty
Speaker 1: percent of the kids are not performing at the eighth
Speaker 1: grade level by the time they get there in spelling,
Speaker 1: or in civic studies or English whatever it might be,
Speaker 1: or mathematics. It doesn't work. And instead of saying, okay,
Speaker 1: we have to stop this madness. You can't be fourteen
Speaker 1: years old and you can't read. We got to stop this.
Speaker 1: But they instead of doing that, they pass on to
Speaker 1: the freshman year, the sophomore year. No one fails in anything,
Speaker 1: and there's no objective evidence that any of the money
Speaker 1: being spent is actually well spent. In fact, we spend
Speaker 1: in Cincinnati about twenty thousand dollars per kid per year
Speaker 1: and about thirty percent don't show up for class in
Speaker 1: any particular day. As shocking statistic which is disgusting, is
Speaker 1: that seventy one percent of black boys are chronically absent
Speaker 1: from school. And how in the world. Can you have
Speaker 1: a school system and with kids aren't in school.
Speaker 2: Well, and let's talk about this bluntly as what it is.
Speaker 2: It's perpetuating generational poverty and low expectations. This is why
Speaker 2: I think one of the great civil rights issues of
Speaker 2: our era is school choice. No child should be stuck,
Speaker 2: No parents should be stuck sending their child to a
Speaker 2: bad school simply because of what zip code you live in.
Speaker 2: And if we don't fix this issue, what we're doing
Speaker 2: is just perpetuating problems that are going to show up
Speaker 2: when these young men and women are in their teenage
Speaker 2: and twenties.
Speaker 1: And we see it constantly, and there's no resolution or idea. Okay,
Speaker 1: we're on the wrong track. We've had like four superintendents
Speaker 1: in the past five years. School board members are quitting,
Speaker 1: the teachers are fed up to hear with the bureaucracy
Speaker 1: out of Clifton where the headquarters are. Parents are not
Speaker 1: sending their kids to school, and it's okay, well, let's
Speaker 1: arrange these chairs on the Titanic conticipating a different result.
Speaker 1: And it begins, Frank, and you're a parent. You told
Speaker 1: me off the area. You just spent days and days
Speaker 1: in a volleyball tournament with a third teen year old daughter.
Speaker 1: I think in Kansas or Missouri out west, you cared
Speaker 1: enough in your family to transport kids there to house,
Speaker 1: clothe and feed them get them back. I would imagine
Speaker 1: by the time your kids are in the first grade,
Speaker 1: I would imagine they already know how to read or
Speaker 1: identify pictures and photos. They're literate. And so at some
Speaker 1: point maybe we can stop the charade and say we're
Speaker 1: going to begin with the first grade in urban public schools,
Speaker 1: and we want the parents to be directly involved in
Speaker 1: the education of their children. They will support what the
Speaker 1: teachers do in school. Number one, They'll show up for
Speaker 1: school every day, the homework will be done, and if not,
Speaker 1: there's going to be consequences. Does that make sense?
Speaker 2: It makes sense, And it's about high expectations. As parents.
Speaker 2: Lauren and I have high expectations for our kids, and
Speaker 2: our kids are like any kids. They want to screw
Speaker 2: around after school instead of doing their homework. Right, But
Speaker 2: we love them enough to take the dog on iPads
Speaker 2: and cell phones away, or turn off the TV and
Speaker 2: make them do their homework. And so there's some parental
Speaker 2: responsibility here as well.
Speaker 1: No question about it. All right, we got to run.
Speaker 1: But insanity's doing the same things anticipating different results. And
Speaker 1: whether it's doze. I watch on all the shows what's happening,
Speaker 1: and the criticisms of the liberal Democrats against Donald Trump
Speaker 1: and against Elon Musk. I see the sign you can't
Speaker 1: spell Felon without Elon. If I see that sign again,
Speaker 1: that's ridiculous. And those who have been in charge created
Speaker 1: a system of complete abuse and neglect of the American taxpayer.
Speaker 1: And how about this one lastly? GAO three years ago
Speaker 1: during the Biden regime said that every year the federal
Speaker 1: government spends between two hundred and fifty to five hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty billion dollars every year as a result of waste, fraud,
Speaker 1: and abuse. Take that number over four years. That means
Speaker 1: in the four years Biden was in office, one to
Speaker 1: two trillion dollars was fritted away. I have a list
Speaker 1: here of those over the age of one hundred getting
Speaker 1: Social Security checks. There's some Americans that are one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty years old getting Social Security checks. I don't
Speaker 1: think that's accurate. I don't think anyone's one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty years old. But the system needs complete reform, and
Speaker 1: you can't keep doing the same thing anticipating a different result. Lastly,
Speaker 1: should Doze come to Ohio. I'm going to ask a
Speaker 1: bank m question. Explain that to me. Doze in Ohio?
Speaker 2: So absolutely so. The swamp doesn't want to be drained.
Speaker 2: And that's what you see in Washington, DC right now,
Speaker 2: where all these bureaucrats are, you know, out on the
Speaker 2: streets protesting what government. What Elon Musk and President Trump
Speaker 2: are doing to actually bring government efficiency. We need to
Speaker 2: bring that same mentality to Ohio. By the way, this
Speaker 2: is why I'm running for Auditor of State. Auditor does
Speaker 2: two things. Catches crooks that are stealing public money and
Speaker 2: puts them in jail. Hoo rah. That's great. But the
Speaker 2: other part about it is making government work more efficiently.
Speaker 2: The auditor has the power to do what's called a
Speaker 2: performance audit, meaning come in, open the hood and figure
Speaker 2: out if it's not running on all cylinders. I plan
Speaker 2: to use this office as o DOJE Ohio Department of
Speaker 2: Government Efficiency. And by the way, with a courageous leader
Speaker 2: like vivike Ramaswami in the Governor's office, we'll be able
Speaker 2: to actually reform state government to make it work better
Speaker 2: for the people.
Speaker 1: Are you going to get sideways with David Yost if
Speaker 1: you endorse his opponent? What about that one, Frank LeRose.
Speaker 2: Well, I tell you what. That's the tough nature of
Speaker 2: this business. Sometimes I like Dave, I wish him well,
Speaker 2: but you have to choose who's the best choice for Ohio.
Speaker 2: This is not about who I like the best or
Speaker 2: the most personal relationships. I like both of these guys,
Speaker 2: but this is about what's best for Ohio, the state
Speaker 2: that my children are going to grow up in, and
Speaker 2: for me, vike Ramaswami is the obvious choice.
Speaker 1: It's going to happen Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday of next week.
Speaker 1: And then once again, Frank LeRose three four seven, thanks
Speaker 1: for coming on the Bill cunning m Show. I think
Speaker 1: we have a pretty good auditor right now with you on,
Speaker 1: with you on top for the next four years, it's
Speaker 1: going to be even better. I always take a veg,
Speaker 1: take the best and make it better. Same way with
Speaker 1: the Auditor's office. And once again, Frank LeRose, thanks for
Speaker 1: coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. And Frank, you're a
Speaker 1: great American.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you, sir, Keith Favors done a great job.
Speaker 2: I can work to take it to the next level.
Speaker 2: God bless you, see you soume.
Speaker 1: Thank you Keith Favors, the current auditor. All right, thank you, Frank.
Speaker 1: Let's continue with more news coming up. And by the way,
Speaker 1: it would be interesting if Doze would come to eight
Speaker 1: oh one Plump Street, or Doze would come to Cincinnati
Speaker 1: Public schools. How much money is being wasted there? Wouldn't
Speaker 1: that be interesting? The doge concept needs to come to
Speaker 1: everywhere in government to wash out the waste, fraud, and
Speaker 1: abuse and programs that don't work. Let's continue with more
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