Bill cunning In the Great American. Coming up later were the Congressman Warren Davidson about the budget deficits and all the things happening in Washington, in the fact, the Republicans keep continuing resolutions as far as I can see, never dealing with issues. But about ten o'clock this morning, a couple hours ago, the US Supreme Court ruled nine Zip nine Zip to Colorado or Michigan or Maine, the secretaries of States, etc. Cannot keep a presidential candidate off the
ballot under section three of the Siver of the fourteenth Amendment. And it's up to the Congress to set the rules, not up to individual state elections officers. Jonaan you and I now, is Frank LaRose a second cousin of Buddy L. Rosa. He's a great American. Frank LaRose, I wanted to get You've only had a couple hours to review this thing. But I don't know if your staff and you have read the opinion at But as the chief
election officer, what do you think about? Even the extreme liberals on the US Supreme Court said the Colorado, Michigan, and Maine can not do what they wanted to do. Your reaction, Well, this is a victory for the American people. It's a victory for common sense. This has been a desperate attempt from the beginning by the radical left to try to keep the man they most fear off the ballot. I'll tell you what we did in Ohio. Not only did I respond that, over my dead body, would they
do that in the Buckeye State? And we made it very clear, but we also I organized a group of Republican Secretaries of State. We presented an amicust brief making it clear that we have this radical idea that only the voters should get to decide who their party's nominee is, and then they should be the ones that get to decide who their president is. That man will be Donald J. Trump in twenty twenty five, and I look forward to joining
him and making America great again. Would it even pass your mom? Would you even think about, Well, you may oppose Joe Biden, you may have opposed Kamala Harris, you may not like the policies of Joe Biden. Would you even consider, as the chief elections officer in state of Ohio to say, you know what I think Joe Biden engaged in insurrection or giving aiden comfort to the enemy by doing what he did in Iran, I rock Afghanistan, et cetera. That I'm frank LeRose and I'm striking the name of Joe
Biden from Ohio's ballot. Did that even pass your mind? Pass you pass your mind at all? You know why it didn't, Willy, Because I believe in keeping my word and my oath of office is a solid obligation to execute the laws faithfully as written. I disagree with all of those things that Biden has done, and I think he's been a terrible president, and that's why we're going to defeat him this November. But using the powers of my office, abusing the powers of my office to try to keep him off the
ballot never cross my mind. Secondly, there are states like Pennsylvania and Michigan in which the secretaries of state in those states do not have complete control of elections, like in Ohio and Florida. For example, in Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania voters in each county elect a chief Elections officer, and that man or woman and makes fundamental decisions about where are the dropboxes, who's on the ballot, who's not on the ballot. How long are the polls open that they
make all these decisions that should be statewide or federally. When you get together with the other forty nine secretaries of state, do you think about having a more uniform way of determining the ballot procedures which determine the outcome? Have you thought how much luckier we are to be in Ohio or Florida or Kentucky that has functional balloting. But you told me a few months ago that in Pennsylvania, each county kind of sets its own rules. How's that possible? Well,
it's foolish. And not only have I thought about it, I've acted on it. I worked with a group of Republican US congressmen to help get a bill written called the ASAC. It's got over two hundred sponsors in the US House. It'll pass the House, but it'll die as long as Chuck Schumer is in charge in the US Senate. That's why it's crucial that I beat Sharon Brown this November and go to the Senate as in a election integrity
expert, who's actually going to be able to get the ASAC done. What it would do is really take Ohio's best practices and encourage other states to do it. We are the gold standard. We take dead people off the voter rules, we check IDs. We don't send out absentee ballots unless people request them. We restrict the use of dropboxes. We have statewide standards for these things. That's something we actually absolutely need to export to the other forty nine
states. Lastly, on this issue, Mary Garland, the Attorney General of this great country, he said yesterday Sunday in a commemoration of the Democrats who beat up civil rights workers called Bloody Sunday on the Pettis Bridge, that ID laws are fundamentally racist. The implication is that black folks and brown folks can't figure out how to get a driver's license or get an ID. And he said he will work to sue any state that requires an ID. Now we're
in a state that requires an ID. I'm not sure in Kentucky you have to have an ID. I believe you do. Out in Ohio, you got to show up with an ID, their driver's license, a passport. There's all kinds of things to get an ID, including state issue ID. I asked you, Frank LeRose is making a vote to prove who they are is that fundamentally racist? Absolutely not. In fact, the AG's words are insulting to people that actually risked their lives to bring about the great changes that
happened in the civil rights movement. By the way, Republicans that were leading the charge on that. And you know, it's like the boy who Cried Wolf. When people like Garland claim that something as simple as proving your identity is racist, pretty soon nothing is racist. We need to be clear when something is actually racist and call it out so that we can fight it. Photo ID is not and infect it's something that the best majority of Ohio and
support. Well, you're the Secretary of State, and I can think this is a great ruling. And to me as an American, when you have the three extreme liberals including Kaitanyi Jackson ruling with Clarence Thomas and with Sam Elee and with Roberts and with Kavanaugh and with Gorset, you have the three liberals joining with the Republicans, I think the message is can we be less partisan? There are things that bind us together as Americans irrespective of D or R
type politics. And I thought it was a good thing that the liberals said we can't have this but that's not the approach of the radical left in many parts of our country that simply want to sue the guy, indict the guy, I strike his name from the ballot. And I was somewhat heartened by the idea that even liberals have figured out some of the stuff that holds us together is more important than simply politics. Is that your read also absolutely we
believe that the people are the ultimate authority. The only permission that you have to govern as a secretary of State or a US senator, as a president comes from the people, and that can only happen when they have the option
of choosing who their nominee for president's going to be. I think these justices knew that even though the partisan side of them wanted to try to keep Trump off the ballot, that they would have ended up on the wrong side of history, and that would have been a cloud over the rest of their careers. And I would have hoped that if Ruth Gater Ginsburg had lived, and she said back in twenty sixteen that she did not want Donald Trump to be
the president, and that's Ruth Bader Ginsburg. I thought that was a terrible act for a impartial justice to say, but a lot of what was ruled on today was fundamentally the same kind of issue that Ruth Bader Ginsburg said should be overturned, should be overruled. So I hope this quiets down the partisanship by some in Michigan and Colorado and Maine and about fourteen other states that had
bills and proposals to strike his name from the ballot. I can only think of if the vote was five to four, possibly the partisanship would increase instead of decrease. But with a nine zip ruling that you can't do that strike Donald Trump's name from the ballot, maybe that'll hold some water. Now let's
turn the page to page two, which a little bit of politics. You're running against the corse of Burnt Marino and Matt Dolan to take the place of to run against Shared Brown, which is the Bernie Sanders of the of the state of Ohio. Is Shared Brown very liberal? There's a commercial running in
which you appear to be endorsing far left wing liberal positions. And I would note that Richard K. Jones, the Sheriff of Butler County, not exactly a liberal kind of a guy, has endorsed you over the other two, which to me speaks a lot. How do you respond to that video clip that has you endorsing certain left wing causes, Well, it's desperation by Bernie Moreno's team. He's trying to sell Ohioans a lemon, and they're not buying it. They want a real, proven conservative. That's who I am.
Now. I don't have the millions of dollars of personal wealth to spend that he's spending, But what I do have is the trust of Ohioans. They know that I am a family values conservative who has fought for life, fought for gun rights. Bernie Moreno has a very shifty record on these things. He has changed his views just in recent years. He was for gun control, he was for funding planned parenthood, and now who claims that he's a
conservative. Ohioans aren't buying it. They don't trust him, and his campaign is getting desperate and just plain old making things up about me. There are many times I'll receive a letter to sign something. I do videos three or four a week. Someone gets hold of me and say, can you congratulate this group? Can you congratulate this married couple after thirty years of marriage? Can you do this? Can you do that? Can you sign this a
note? Can you sign an autograph? And I think you were offering congratulations to a group on their anniversary, and you don't endorse the goals of the group, but this is a kindly thing you did in your mind that's metastasized into this issue. Am I offering that? Yeah, that's it. Listen. As the Ohio Secretary of State, I'm the Secretary of State for all people, including those that I agree with and those that I disagree with.
Groups ask us to celebrate their anniversary. I thought that was an innocuous enough thing to do, even though I don't agree with that group. I was just telling them happy anniversary. My record is clear on this. I have fought the radical trans agenda in Ohio. I've been the one helping lead the charge to get the Governor's Veto overridden to make sure that in Ohio we know we protect children against the madness of transition surgery for minor children. This is
clear in ohioan's know it. As far as what you would have done in the Senate if you were there, and in fact, if you were sitting in the Senate seat and a proposal came up that would would do what the Border Protection Bill sought to do, which was to allow five thousand new illegal
immigrants into the country every day. Goes this Border Protection Act. I'm watching the nightly news last night, and once again it was bipartisan Republicans and Democrats all came together, and what they did was have a very reasonable approach to the southern border to spend tens of billions of dollars we don't have. How would you have voted on that bill if it allowed five thousand illegal immigrants per day, about two million per year to come into the country. That's the
fairness of that bill. How would you have voted I would have voted no only because hell no is not an option. I would have definitely voted no on that because it doesn't actually do what it claims to do. You know, the Democrats, when they name a bill something, it probably does the opposite, kind of like the Inflation Reduction Act wasn't actually designed to reduce inflation, but offer government subsidies for green energy. Same thing with this so called
Border security bill. What it was really meant to be is a fig leaf for people like Shared Brown, so that when I'm running against him on the campaign trail this summer and fall. He can say, well, I voted for the border security bill. We know what it really was. It was really allowing five thousand a day to enter the country illegally. The acceptable number
is zero. It was massive funding for sanctuary cities. I told you the story about when I was on Army reserve duty in Denver last summer and the mayor of Denver was complaining about people seeking sanctuary in his same ctuary city. Right, this is the hypocrisy of the left. That was a bad bill. It's really an example of what's wrong with Washington. It is. And
secondly, on the budget deficit, which isn't a very sexy idea. Every one hundred days America borrows brand new one trillion dollars to fund the federal government. Every one hundred days, one trillion dollars. Every day we borrow six billion dollars, one third of which pays interest on the national debt. If you take Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, interest on the national debt, and funding the military, that's about eighty percent of the federal budget eighty percent.
So unless you can touch those sacred cows, we're in trouble. How would you what would you do to fundamentally change the arc of bankruptcy and default in this country? Every one hundred days we borrow an additional one trillion dollars. What would Frank LeRose do to stop that? A thirty four trillion dollar national debt is generational thing. It's us saying we're going to live beyond our means and we're going to expect our children and grandchildren to pay for it.
It's no way to govern the world's most exceptional nation. And this is why we can't have corporate elites that go along get along, folks like mister Marno or mister Dolan go to Washington, that are just going to continue kicking the can down the road. I have been leading on a balanced budget amendment for years. I did that resolution in our state Senate and said, we absolutely have to pass a balanced budget amendment. It means tough choices about the spending
spree that it seems like Republican and Democrat elites agree on. It seems like the people in Washington all agree on spending more of your money. Those will be tough choices. We have to be willing to do that so that we can put our country back on track. And by the way, Willie, we don't have a revenue problem, as a component of GDP revenue is at nearly an all time high. We have a spending problem, and it's going to take people of courage like an Army Green Beret to get that fixed.
Lastly, there's about one hundred and twenty billion dollars of brand new spending which would fund Ukraine, Israel, southern border, et cetera, sanctuary cities. We get a boatload of money, et cetera. The way to stop spending more money is to stop spending more money. Would you vote? Would you have voted no on that the one hundred and ten billion dollars. These should be considered as separate issues. Right There are things that if we don't fix
them, are going to cost us more money in the long term. We absolutely need to stand with Israel. This is one where I've really been differentiated from my opponent, mister Marino, who said he doesn't support sending more money to Israel, which is ridiculous. We have to stand with the State of
Israel, but these should be considered as separate issues. We must invest in the border because the cost of not doing that is astronomically high when you consider the government benefits that the Biden administration wants to give to illegal So we have to be smart about how we spend money. We have to invest where there's a return on investment. Well, Franklerosa, thank you very much. Endorsed by Richard K. Jones, the very far left liberal sheriff of Butler County.
I think the sheriff knows what he's doing. Franklerose, once again, thank you for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show relating your ideas on the Supreme Court and more. But thank you very much. Thanks Willie. Let's continue with more if a line becomes available. Five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven thousand coming up next, we've scheduled the guests.
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