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We just appreciate him going for it. And, you know, he gives us everything he's got. And again, if one or two of these balls falls, no one's talking about. And I feel like these abats have been good. He's just missing some balls, but that happens to any hitter. But, you know, I thought for the most part, it was really good to see him turn on those two balls in his last event. A really tough stretch going on. Yeah, our guys are showing up ready to win every day. And that's all we can do. Keep our heads down, keep working, and show up ready to win. The wins are going to come. We just have to stay positive. We can't allow any outside negativity to get into our heads. So for us, it's stay positive, keep working, and win games. Well, with the loss today, the Guardians find themselves now 59 and 63 on the season. They're a game and a half back of the Tigers who came into play three and a half behind the White Sox who are trailing their game. late in Chicago to the Reds by that score of 9 to 5. Detroit now, 60 and 61 on the season. Next up for the Guardians back home at Progressive Field tomorrow night. They will take on the San Diego Padres with a 710 first pitch. We'll have it for you starting with the warm-up show at 635. I want to thank Al Rosenberg, our on-site engineer here in Detroit. Also, Brian Motze, back at Command Center. For Tom Hamilton, this is Jim Rosenhouse reminding you the final score from Camerica Park in Detroit. The Tigers Three, The Guardians Nothing. Have a good night, everyone. They are our love bugs and companions. They are our pets, our family, and they make life better. When we face unexpected challenges, so do our pets. That's why we're on a mission to support people and their pets. Whether donating a bag of kibble, sharing an Instagram post of a lost cat, or welcoming a foster pet into your home, every bit of kindness counts. Visit Pets and People Together.org to learn how to be a helper in your community. Brought to you by Maddie's Fund, the Humane Society of the United States and... the ad council. Let's take a moment to breathe. Deep inhale, extend your spine. Remain focused on what you're doing. If safe to do so, exhale slowly leaning to one side. Inhale back to center. If safe to do so, exhale slowly to the opposite side. Find mental health resources at loveyourmind today.org. This message is brought to you by the Huntsman Mental Health Institute and the Ed Council. And from News Radio 570, W. KBEN and Ron Verb, good afternoon, 353 here in the afternoon.

A post-guardian action air for you today. Be with you right up until 5 o'clock. Five o'clock, of course, we will have, legally speaking, courtesy of law firm Beatrice Copp on News Radio 570 WKVN. So keep that in mind. Beatrice Copp from 5 to 6 tonight. And after that, we will have money talks with John Arnold from 6 to 7, as we normally do here on this Thursday on News Radio 570 WKBN, so keep that in mind. We'll be talking with state rep Dave Thomas. He'll be calling into the program and seeing what's going on as far as the state is concerned with any number of issues when it comes to electricity and more. That should be coming up as well. So Dave Thomas will be joining us, the hardest working state rep around. David, are you there? Hey, Ron. How are you? I am well. And Dave Thomas is calling us from... The Ashibula County Fair. All right. And enjoying a bucket of fries, I take it? Yeah, fries, euros, had a stromboli, milkshakes tonight. So it's been a good day. All right. You can't have a bad day when you're at a county fair, can you? Oh, no. No, especially our Republican booth is right along the midway. And folks are stopping by, so we're having lots of conversations. All right, let's talk about what's going on as far as the state is concerned these days, and what some of the latest developments are that people should know about when it comes to property taxes, when it comes to electricity, when it comes to our life and making it better, David. There's a lot going on. We're on recess, so the legislature itself isn't actually meeting or voting. But there's still kind of a lot happening or a lot of stuff that we did is now kind of coming into effect. So I know, for example, like in Trumbull and Mahoning, those second half tax bills are delayed. Folks will still get them at some point. I always joke with people, though. You should never be upset when your tax bill gets delayed because that means that you can actually keep your money longer. That's a good thing. All right. Why are they delayed? They're delayed because of our household 186. second half decrease, a vast majority of your listeners will see a decrease on their tax bill for the second half. We did it midway through the year, which we knew would be a little bit difficult to do. It's a lot of different numbers. It's a lot of calculations. So a lot of counties did have delays and tremble and Mahoning are one of them, but this just means that a majority will actually see cuts and decreases. We're actually getting folks coming up to the booth saying, you know, thank you or just ask you a little more about why their bill was lower. And now explain to our list just why it would be lower what they've got to refigure. What's going on? So this is the difference between what you've been paying to your school versus an inflationary cap that's now put in place. So, you know, folks are also seeing new values coming out. And in the last revaluation, you may have seen a 30%, a 35% increase in your tax bill.

for the most of that going to your public school. We've now capped that increase to your public school to inflation, and the difference between what you were paying, maybe a 35% increase versus inflation over the last three years being an 8% increase, that difference is what your second half bill will actually be decreasing by. So, for example, my second half bill was cut by 13%. That was the difference for me. Some folks... We've seen bills lowered as much as almost $900, and we've seen some bills only lowered maybe $50 to $100. It kind of depends on how much you increase, what your value is, how much you pay. But most Ohioans are actually going to see, especially Mahoning and Trumbull, cuts in their second half. And this is all because of tying the property reevaluation increases to the rate of inflation, not this 25% number. Yes, the values will still go. Values will be whatever the market is. So your value will still go up maybe 25, 30%, but what we've done is separate out your value increase and your tax increase. So your tax side, that's cap to inflation. It's the value piece that can still move with the real estate market, but no longer just because your value went up by 35%, your bill go up by that much or close to it either. We wanted to actually start cuts in bills because what people are paying now obviously is too much from their last revaluation. We started those cuts in the second half of this year. Okay. That's why the delays, it's a lot to compute. You know, Ralph. Stand by for me. Stand by. State Rep. Dave Thomas on the inner line from the fair in Ashtabula. Back after this. Stay tuned. Hey, that's one nice new bike, Josie. Yeah, birthday present. Rides really smooth, too. Oh, and I see you finally got a new helmet. I did. Bought it cheap online. Love those side wings. Ha, ha.

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with the rules that you guys passed, which says the reevaluations will be tied to the rate of inflation, not the 25 or 30 percent, correct? Yes, yeah, the tax side, what folks will see on their tax bills. is now tied to inflation. Values will still move, however values move. But their actual tax increases, yep, those are now caps. We've kind of separated values from taxes. And you start that second half of this year. So what you've been paying to your schools, now you're actually going to get money back or what I call overpaying to schools from all those huge increases over the last couple of years. Okay. It just takes a while to actually calculate. That's why they're a little bit delayed, but they will be coming, and folks will see that decrease. And, you know, that's kind of just why the delay. All right. So many changes from our bills. But even with the reevaluations coming up, your property taxes will still go up, just not as much as before you pass this legislation. Correct. There's that concept where it will still increase with inflation. Now, Trumbull and Mahoning, their commissioners pass the piggyback for the owner occupancy credit. So folks will see a higher credit of their owner occupancy. We'll see more of a decrease there. So there actually is a possibility if you don't pass any new levies, which always remind folks, vote no. then there's a good possibility that your taxes will stay relatively the same, or some it could actually even go down. Right, as long as you vote no on any additional money. That would be the key, obviously. If not. All right, so that's what's going on. Any other news with property taxes? Yeah, that's about if right now, all the levies are certified now, so folks can actually see them if you go to your Board of Elections website. People can start looking at what's going to be on your ballot, what will be the question in front of you. I encourage everyone, go see what levees are going to be up there, ask the questions, you know, learn about it before you get to your ballot, and then really tell other people about it. The folks don't know, or if they think, well, I don't want to vote for, you know, candidates or for the governor, I'm just going to stay home. If they don't go and vote with levies, we know what happens then with passages. That's really important, too. All right, but they can't find out if this levy would pass what it would mean for an increase on their specific property, right? So I'm not sure if Trumbull or Mahoning has an estimator, but like Ashtabula, for example, we have a levy estimator that you can actually see for my specific property, here's how much this levy will cost me, and that's a pretty helpful tool. But one kind of rule of thumb. For every one mill of a new levy, it's $35 for $100,000 of value. If you've got a $200,000 home, one-mill new levy, it's going to cost you $70. That's a little rule of thumb, but Mahoning and Trumbull will have information that folks can reach out to their offices to it. Right. Because, I mean, people in the city of Canfield are facing a huge school levy as well as the...

MRDD levy that's another big levy i mean two two big levies that are going on plus other uh depending on your community other levies that might be out there depending on what what it's what the levies for and what it's all about all right so basically that's that's where we are as far as property taxes what else is going on in a state i mean you got any news on other issues go ahead Yes. So you probably have heard Vivek Ramaswamy and Amy Acton both kind of released their data center plan. And that's kind of what they're now campaigning on for what they want to see done on the data center question. That's kind of, you know, being talked about a lot throughout the state. So they're very different plans. And, you know, we'll see kind of how folks respond to both of them and what that looks like. Have you had a chance to look at them? Yes, yeah. So pretty much Amy Acton's plan would essentially have a whole lot more regulation on them. She doesn't really change the tax side of it. She kind of changes. They can only be put into brownfield areas. They can only have union labor. They can't shift their electricity costs. So it's pretty similar to what we were planning for House Bill 646, which was our reform bill. The Vake's plan kind of takes a step further, and he says, hey, if you're a data center coming in, you have to benefit the community that you're coming to. This is kind of what we've been discussing. So his plan is, if they're coming in, no property tax availments. Local government cannot provide a property tax abatement to the data center. This plan also calls for water restrictions, incentivizes for brownfields or warehouses where they would go instead of farmland or residential areas. And then the one unique thing about his plan talks about electricity and essentially says if the Dei Center comes in, they have to provide their own power or build power to offset. And they have to make sure that the Bidicenter actually lowers people's electricity bills. That's either by them building their own power plant and supplying some electricity to the surrounding area, or he's even said they should be writing checks or some type of offset to those people surrounding, you know, the data center in that town or township or community. So it's kind of a unique take on it. We'll see what people think of it, but I think the next plan really emphasizes. We can have this, and we can actually have them lower bills and benefit people and get kind of the best of both ways. What do you make of the fact or so the polling? And incidentally, the polling was, boy, wrong in a lot of these races that we just concluded. It wasn't even remotely close. No. I think what, Minnesota was the big one. It's just way off a lot of this polling. So it makes you hesitant when you say, well, what do you think about the polling that shows the governor's race neck and neck? I'm not, I don't want to see too surprised by it. I think I'm very worried about this year. But if you go back to 2018 with Mike DeWine versus Richard Cordray, Mike DeWine only won that race by maybe 2%, 3%. It was a very close governor race. And I think we're in another kind of 2018. Second year of President Trump's term, voter fatigue, frustrations.

And if our voters don't get out to vote, then that is going to be really tight. So I think it's going to be probably close until maybe it's September, early October. And hopefully it starts to separate a little bit. But I'm not too surprised by how close things are now. Why do you suspect it's so close? A handful of reasons. With me here at the fair, I love it because people come up and they talk, they share their feelings, their thoughts. You know, folks are frustrated. There's a lot of just disappointment out there right now. There's a lot of just feelings of, you know, hey, things aren't going the right way. And I think that then leads to our side not wanting to vote or our side maybe skipping some of those seats. Amy Acton has stayed very quiet on a lot of actual policy. She's not really out in the public much with actual voters. She's doing a lot of stage things. So unless you know of her through COVID, you probably don't have really negative feeling towards her. And so that helps her numbers kind of stay inflated. And Vivek Ramaswamy is so public, so out there. Everyone kind of knows who he is, what he stands for. So, you know, there's a lot of negatives there, though. But I think it goes into a lot of the economy right now, for sure. What do you think with the Senate race with Sherrod Brown? Oh, yeah, that one. I am very worried about John Houston. Very worried about John Houston. Chair Brown is out there. I've seen his campaign ads. He's also being pretty protected right now from the public. Houston's doing a lot more interviews. He's talking to a lot more people. But if that's a vote on essentially how things are going in D.C., then it's going to be very tight. I think a lot of these will probably decide it by a point or two, 1% or 2%. Is that because of the gas prices and inflation and the Iran war? I mean, is that why you think so many of these things are going to be tight? The economy? Yeah, I think that's a big piece of it. Folks typically vote with their wallet. And if they're not really all that happy right now, if things aren't looking positive, You know, this is not like 2020 or 2016 when we had something really positive and we were, you know, voting for and going with. And there's a lot of enthusiasm. If you look at the enthusiasm gaps are quite big. Democrat side is heavily enthusiastic. Our side is not. I think a big piece of that is kind of just what's happening with the economy and gas prices, electricity, even though a lot of that, electricity especially was done or the Democrats. You know, we're in charge now, and so we own that, and we're taking steps to fix it, but it takes time. And that's a difficult message to try to share the voters. I mean, very interesting. So when you take a look, though, if the Democrats were running stuff, do you think we would have the reforms that you were able to get through when it comes to property taxes? Oh, we wouldn't, if Democrats were running things in Ohio. He wouldn't have a 2.75% flat tax for income. We'd have Amy Acton wants to go back to that nine-yeared income tax rates where the top several are above 9%. She wants to see you pay a lot more in sales tax. She wants to spend a whole lot more. She wants no coal. She wants renewables only.

It's scary what they're actually standing for. It's just all the focus is on us and the current economy versus what they're actually pushing. So she would want to raise the sales tax? I mean, basically she would want to tax everybody more. Oh, yes. So her first year, we've kind of looked at her policies and priorities. Her first year, it's estimated that she would want to spend an additional $22 billion in state spending. And that is half of our state budget for the year. So she wants to spend things on like health insurance forgiveness, on loan forgiveness, on direct payments to Medicaid, on a whole host of things, more to governments on all different levels, more spending. So she is truly a bigger government priority person. That's who she's running as. And that's a very scary thing for our tax side because that money is going to have to come from somewhere. $22 billion has to come from somewhere. Our sales tax in Mahoning County is 7.5% now. And she would want that to go up even higher? Yeah. That or I could see her removing some of the exemptions. So we have, you know, we have exemptions for food. We have the sales tax holiday. We have a full host of agriculture exemptions for farmers. I could see her removing those, and I could see her trying to actually increase the sales tax. She's also talking about really opening up Ohio for gambling, online gambling, and then taking a lot of that extra revenue as well. That's not a tax, but we all know that there's certain issues when you push and explode the gambling side as well. I mean, really, who could vote for that? Who could, who would vote to say, gee, we need a higher sales tax? That affects everybody. Or higher income tax? A higher income tax, a higher sales tax. And we're going to just spend more money as a state on all these crazy handout programs. I tell folks, look at other states where these are being done. Look at Virginia. Look at Minnesota. Look at New York. This is the model that the state Democrats are following. And we don't have to wonder what they do. We just look at those states, and the Virginia governor got in as a moderate, just like Amy Acton promises to be. First thing she did, a whole slew of tax increases, restrictions on guns, restrictions on certain First Amendment rights, just really vast action to move that liberal agenda that, you know, nowhere near her campaign. But as soon as they got in, that's what they acted on. So this is what we have to run against. This is what we have to vote for is the, you know, the vague, and he said all those folks. We can't, we can't just become complacent because right now the economy isn't doing as well as we want to know. All right. All right. We'll come right back with the state rep Dave Thomas on News Radio 570, NKVN. Stay tuned. I heart radio. Ronfer.

All right, back to it, News Radio 570WKBN. We state rep Dave Thomas on the end of our line. I'm sorry. Any comments or questions that you might have for today? Let me check a few things here, Dave. See what's on my line. Might be for you. Might not be for you. You're on the air. Ron? Yes. How are you? Good. I got Dave Thomas. You want to stand by? Because I got plenty to talk to you about. All right. I want to put her on standby. Let me see here. Hello? I'll put them on standby. All right. All right, Dave. So what else do you have to share with us here before I... I'll leave you with a fun thing. So on Tuesday, the president was in Northeast Ohio. I don't know if you saw that or you heard about the Patriot Games. It was a super cool thing located in Ashibula at Spire, which is an Olympic training facility. You started the Patriot Games and the celebration of the 250. There were high school athletes from all over the country, but the competitions, thousands of people came in from across the country. It's actually going to be broadcast live night. I'm sorry, not live, but broadcast tonight on ABC at 9 o'clock. A good number of us were there on Tuesday, and just a really neat celebration. The kids were awesome. A good, just kind of a feel-good thing to celebrate the 250. Northeast Ohio got a lot of publicity, a lot of positive accolades from all that, and folks should watch that tonight if they can at 9 o'clock. There's Dave Thomas, and you should make sure you appear at the Canfield Fair this year. I think people would love to meet you. You've done a lot for all of us here. We appreciate you. Thank you, Ron. Have a good day. Thank you. That's Dave Thomas. All right, here's hot off of her bowling tour last night. It's the boss lady on my line. We found out last night in an exclusive expose that the boss lady actually went bowling last night. I know what you're thinking, folks. Are you serious? Yes, she went bowling. She owns her own ball and shoes. Probably has a shirt that says, you know, ruling market on the back of it. Lies, lies. It probably has. I know she has a shirt that's got to have the lettering for some company organization on the back of it. She's got a great average of like 120, so she's throwing a lot of gutter balls, obviously. And she's engaging on fried mushrooms and Diet Coke. Oh, my. goodness you remembered all that yes yes this is very good this is a whole other side folks of the boss lady that's uh is just shocking i think to most of us i'm not very good at bowling but I did listen to the Poland meeting from last night, and there were two, and I do have a good update. All right, here's the Boston meeting. This is Poland Township with... The Poland Township. All right. Go ahead with your thoughts. Now, they're going to lay some people off. Mm-hmm. Give me your thoughts. What are they going to lay off? Three cops. Are these full-time cops?

Um, I don't know, but I would imagine so just because they had a big gap, quite a bit, a gap that they had to close, right, with a remaining only, what, three and a half months of a year. So I would imagine to get to what they needed. Um, you remember I talked to you and told, you remember you asked me, what would I do? Yes. And. And it sounds, they did pretty much exactly what I would do. I mean, they even are going to consider the contract of the chief police. It's the one year contract. We're going to look at that again. Well, you know, now that you mentioned it, you did say you'd make the administrator part-time instead of full-time. Yep. Yep. Look at the police chief's contract and lay off these cops. I think, could we? Go ahead. And the one, the overlap that they had in the other department, and they did make it up there as well. Zoning. Was it zoning, I think? A clerical that I referred to. I didn't know anything about zoning or that there was an opportunity there. Okay. But yeah, I mean, it. So basically they followed your game plan that you talked about on the air. Well, I mean, I don't know that they followed it exactly, but it's definitely what I said two weeks ago on the air. You know, the meeting was interesting, though. And this is what I thought was very interesting about it. And I don't know if you got a chance to see it. I mean, I read the article, but then I wanted to go back and watch it so I could see the interaction. And Frank did a great job of rolling out. He came with a complete comprehensive. basically an action plan, like did a whole spot analysis on what needed to be done, what issues that he saw. And then they went into executive session. Ungero did not go to executive session. He didn't partake. Why not? He's like a denial. Yeah, he wouldn't partake in it. He voted no on all of the things that needed to be made except for the clerical person. Well, what was his plan then? He didn't have one, but I thought it was very interesting. I thought it was very like childish, not. That's the part that bothered me. It was kind of like scorned. I didn't like that his disposition. I mean, that's a professional setting. If you don't want to like each other outside of there or you've got an issue. I mean, you know, but you're in like a professional setting. I mean, there were people in the audience, a lot of people. Everybody seemed receptive. I like the fact that Kemper's, you know. It seems like he's listening to what Frank is saying. And Frank has private sector experience, and he's talking to the chief fiscal officer. So, I mean, the two of them together, you know, they're talking real problem solving. And so that was really...

Good to see on one hand on the other side, I think that, and they did say they're going to have to revisit, right? So they're going to do all these changes. They're going to get through 2027, make nice, nice, balance the budget, be able to pay for what they can, and then they're going to look at do they need to put a levy on of some sort. But, you know, and they're going to make the other changes. You also brought up, like, listen, about these receipts, do you're not going to turn in bills anymore. You need to turn in receipts. It was pretty good. But, yeah, and Garrow, this is weird. I don't know. It's weird. How do you opt out and don't go into it? And the reason why Frank wanted to break away from. Stand by. Back with the boss lady. A scratch bowler when we come back in a minute. Have you heard the news? A last chance for Iran. Many countries wanted to give this a last chance. This is a last chance. Marco Rubio won that last chance. There's been progress made in those talks, but not finality yet. We're hoping that will happen very shortly. There's good news. There are ships moving through the streets. There are oil moving right now through the straits. Todd Blanche's nomination for AG advances. Todd Blanche is a very good man. And election tests for socialists. Democrat socialists. Check in often. News Radio 570 WKVF. The Environmental Protection Agency is approving more than $32 million in funding for a project aimed at removing cancer-causing chemicals from the Mami River. The project will involve the dredging of sediment that has been found to have high levels of chemicals linked to cancer, cardiovascular issues, and developmental defects. And the funding was announced Wednesday at the National Museum of the Great Lakes in Toledo. And in the meantime, Akron police are continuing to investigate the fatal shootings of a former local high school football star. 19-year-old Gare Bell played quarterback at North High School. Police say two people from another vehicle shot into a vehicle in which Bell was a passenger on Sunday. He died at the scene. Anyone of the information on the shooting is asked to please contact the local police department. I'm Brady Hopkins. Listen on the free iHeartRadio app for all your music, news, talk and sports radio. Podcast to download the app. Free never sounded so good. How to have fun. Anytime, anywhere. Step one. Go to Chumbacasino.com. Chumbacasino. Got it. Step two. Collect your welcome bonus. Come to Papa welcome bonus. Step three. Play hundreds of casino style games for free. That's a lot of games. All for free? Step four. Unleash your excitement. Woo-hoo! Chimba! Chumba! Chamba Has been delivering thrills for over a decade. So claim your free welcome bonus now and live the Chumba Life. Visit chambacino.com. No purchase.

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Now, Ron Verbe. On News Radio 570, WKBN. All right. I'm going to go back. I want to address this stuff in Poland Township with the boss lady here. So my first reaction to all of this is were any of these trustees paying attention to the finances? I mean, I'm sitting back saying, how did it get to this point in the first place? Why? Shouldn't they been paying better attention? Oh, that's obvious. I think Frankie summed it up yesterday when he said, you know, prior years, you guys have done everything that people wanted. and now we're at a turning point where we have nowhere else to draw from to give it. And so, you know, you guys are delivering on wants versus needs versus what people are willing to pay. Yeah, but the reality is, is it fair for me to say that all of these trustees weren't looking at the economics to put the township in that position to begin with? Right. Oh, I absolutely agree with that. I mean, I mean, clearly they collect a paycheck and they weren't saying, where are we financially when they were doing whatever they were doing to put them in this dire situation. So, I mean, I would say all these trustees are to blame. I mean, all of these people involved in this situation, where were they prior to it being at this level of concern? I mean, you know, if I back up on you and I say that would be my number one point, my number two point would be you guys couldn't even make the deadline to put a police levy on in time to get one on in November ballots. You failed to meet the deadline for a police levy. You failed to look ahead as far as where the finances were going and how the problem that you helped create for the citizens of Poland Township. Do you agree with that? I do, and I also would like to know, what was her name? Was it Wallet or what was her name? She was the woman who was there prior. I would say the three of them with her, you know, the two current Kemper's, Angaro and her. Is that her name? I think it was Wallet. Was it wallet? Who knows? I think so. Yeah, he's the one who, a Frank B, I mean, they were painting walls and doing, I mean, just fipping up places and buying furniture and all kinds of, I mean, listen, they were, it was, I think now we've got a different, we've got somebody else in there who thinks a little bit differently, who thinks more like a business person and understands that the pressure on the taxpayer at the end of the day. So hopefully it turns around here. Right. But, I mean, for example, Ungaro then last night, you're saying, was, in your opinion, acting childlike. And he didn't go along with any of these cuts. I mean, he didn't vote. No. Well, then what was his solution to the economic problem going on right now? When you avoid executive section, was the reason why Frank asked for the executive session.

He said, we're going to break now. He left all the people who were sitting there. We're going to go into executive sessions. So basically everybody out will come back, right? They're going to go upstairs and we'll, we're going to go upstairs and discuss and we'll come back to the public. I'm going to have sat there like a child. They went up there and talked all the numbers, what all the cuts meant, how they were going to get whole, and they made the decision on who was getting cut. Well, he didn't want to participate in that. And he's got there like a child. So he didn't want to, Eric and Gary didn't want to go up in executive session with these other two. I mean, obviously the financial problem is obvious, but he didn't want to go. He didn't want to go up and sit with the other two to figure out what to do to fix the problem that he was part of creating? No, it's almost a bad joke. Like, you feel even bad saying it because it's so stupid and common sense. Like, how do you not, how are you not participating in that? Like, this was your, under your tutelage. Like, you've been there and you keep saying it, you keep telling everybody how long you've been in there, and then now you're just going to not go into executive sex and figure out how to solve it because you don't want your name attached to the cut. It's so immature and childish. Well, what would his answer be to the problem if he's not participating? Obviously, you're running out of money. You've got to do something. You've got to do something. I don't know. I mean, maybe he should have came up with a comprehensive plan and delivered it just like Frank did. I mean, if he had an idea of something to do, he probably put abroad it to the meeting and presented it. I mean, that's what I would have done. I wouldn't have sat back and waited for the other two. You've got to take the bull by the horns and lead, lead. Somebody lead. So I was encouraged to at least, it seems like Kemper's was, you know, agreeing. Something needs to be done. He was agreeing. Everybody's remorseful. Look, it's not good for anybody that somebody had to lose their job. It's not at all. That's sickening. It does make me feel sick that somebody actually had to lose their job. But the private sector doesn't exist to pay for jobs that are not needed. If they're not needed, they've got to go. The problem is that on let it get to this point. They've brought these people on and they couldn't afford them. They're the reason why these people lost these jobs. They shouldn't have these jobs. They shouldn't have hired them in the first place. I didn't have in the first place. So you disrupted a person who is probably working somewhere else. Maybe they were happy. Maybe they're, you know, whatever they were doing, you bring them on promising you've got money to pay them, right? Isn't that a contract? If you hire me, I assume you've got money to pay me, right? Like you've already done your due diligence. You've got a long-term strategy. That's a basic assumption of when you get employed somewhere. Well, they didn't. And so I feel sorry for the people who got let go because they really have done wrong by the people sitting in there continually expanding and didn't have the money to pay it initially. And that's not good leadership. It's not how you run a business. It's not how you run anything that has to do with taxpayer dollars. Now I want to get to one more point with you. I need you're done on there. Go ahead. So I heard Dave Thomas talking about.

um how uh Amy Acton who's a train rep right but she wants to spend 22 billion on all this craziness and forgive this forgive that forgive this right and raise the sales tax yeah now i'm going to tell you right now i'm going to say it on air i there is no way in hell i would ever vote for Amy Acton um i would absolutely he's a train wreck and i will support a republican candidate but i say to him Dave Thomas, if you're listening. I would, I'd love to see the Republicans decide. Instead of taking the $22 billion and do all these social welfare programs, take the $22 billion, abolished property taxes, because obviously it's there because she's ready to do something else with it. A bullish property taxes put $22 billion back in the economy and watch the state of Ohio turn into the number one state in the union. Because this economy will boom. You have $22 billion. You Republicans right now could take a vote right now. to change school funding. You could take a vote right now today to give the money back to the taxpayer. And every time you guys vote to increase legislation, you are literally crushing the people who you represent because it's falling on the taxpayer. It's 61, 62% of all these levies are falling on the taxpayer. So when you expand, that's what you're doing. And I'd love to hear his response to that, but I didn't want to go toe to tell with him today. I do appreciate him because you know what? He's working. At least he's working. Some of these other people aren't doing a damn thing about anything. He's at least working hard. I may disagree on what he targets. That's what he needs to target. But they won't. They won't. They have the power right now. They hold the keys to the kingdom. They should take a vote right now. This needs this stupid school funding formula, which is a mess. That's another call for another day because I've spent a lot of time doing that. But if there's $22 billion for her to do that with, then give the money back to the darn taxpayers, abolished property taxes, and I'm telling you, this state will boom. You want $22 billion people stopping with? Watch what that happens. Watch what happens to this state. Yeah, but what he was saying is Amy Acton wants to increase taxes. She wants to increase the sales tax. That's why she's a bad choice. That means there's $22 billion for the take. Where's it at? Go get it. But she wants to take increase the sales tax, which is already 7.5%. She wants to increase it. and potentially increase what you put the sales tax on like groceries and stuff but she wants to raise the sales tax expand maybe what is what you put a sales tax on she wants to up the income tax

I'm not for her. You ain't going to get me to argue against her. I think she's... No, but I mean, so her first plan is raising taxes so that you can take this money from everybody that's paying enough in taxes and dole it out for all these government programs that she wants to start. They have at least $40 billion in the general fund. What is the general fund for? All your grants, all your nonprofit donations, all this crap. Give the $22 billion. You guys have the power. They're sitting in office right now. They have the power to do it. I want to, that's what I want to say. Honestly, it sickenes me because I have to draw it out because it is something that they could do right now. And I hate to go against them because the alternative is absolutely worse. I will say the alternative is worse, people. So am I going to vote for these Democrats? Heck, no, never. But these guys have the power to change it right now, and they're not. All right, but it's going to be interesting to see what... I get an I-I-I-Captain. I get an I-I-Captain. I do. The whole Ungaro thing is weird. That's just weird. It's so weird. I know. Well, maybe somebody else will call in and give their take. I mean, why wouldn't you participate? Why wouldn't you go up and, for whatever position you have, be a participant in it? I don't understand that mentality at all. I really don't. All right, so with that being said, would you bowl last night? If you want to know the worst part about it, is I rushed to bowling. It was our banquet night, and I thought we were bowling prior, and here we all got it wrong. We weren't even, we, that was our last bowl was the week before. So I can't even brag to you that I bowed a 165. It was just our banquet. So you went there with... My team came in fifth place, though. I did tell you that. You went there with ball in hand and shoes. Ball and shoes, and my girlfriend is waving to me as I'm carrying it all in the doors. Put it all back. We missed up. We don't even bowl tonight. I'm like, what? It was a banquet for being in fifth place? It was a banquet for all the bowlers. But you were in fifth place. That's a lot. That's good. Out of how many teams? Six? Oh, no, over 20. Really? Yeah, it's in the fifth place. You know, my winter league, we were in second place for the second half of the year. On your bowling team, is it comprised of men and women or just women? No, just women. Is there like any good bowlers on your team that carry the load?

I mean, honestly, we all can bowl really well. They're more consistent than I am, I think. Sometimes, you know, he's like a 160 or I don't know. I think our average is maybe a 150, 148 is the best bowler we have. Do you try to sabotage your competition? Like when they're standing at the line, do you fake a sneeze or anything or a cough to try to distract them from their bowling? No, no. By the way, did you happen to see on the news that the Patriot Building was rented by, oh, I forget some government organization, well, some school, I should say, or something. I forget. They rented the Patriot Building out. Oh, really? Yes. The Patriot Building. So, yeah, I was watching the news last night, and they said all this talk about the bottom dollar store when it comes to the board of election location. Well, the news last night was saying it's, I guess they got an offer from potential developments to buy the bottom dollar store. And then the Patriot Building, which was so foolishly given back, was rented out to, I forget what organization it was. I don't know if it has something to do with, That Patriot building would have been great for the Board of Election. Oh, absolutely. It was a fantastic building. I mean, I was in that building for years. Fantastic building. Great parking. Handicap accessible. To me, there's no excuse in the world how they did that. I mean, I don't get this idea that the board of elections for the county. I don't think everything, we should say everything's got to be in Youngstown when it comes to the county. I think this is just ridiculous. I'd like to know how many people in the city of Youngstown actually are voting. Why are we making all these accommodations? Like what percentage is actually voting that we need to accommodate to put in there? Because I vote downtown in the city of Youngstown every year for everything. I go downtown. I love early voting. I vote early, so I don't have to go in the lines on election day. I vote in person, early. It kicks me five minutes in and out. Are you nervous that it might be on your bowling night or something, the election? I'm just checking. Just checking. All right. I like that's a hall for me. What about all these other people and all these other areas? Well, I mean, can't we put some of this stuff in Austin Town and in Boardman? Or frankly, in some of the other areas in the county? I mean, it is the Mahoning County Board of Elections. Doesn't mean it has to be in a city of Youngstown. I mean, Mahoning County, what about all these other areas here? Austin Town, Boardman, would be a great spot. I don't think, and I honestly don't think Beatrice and I would never speak for an attorney, but I feel like he doesn't really want to stay in the city of Youngstown. He will if he can. No, I think he said last night on a news he wanted to.

Yeah, I just, yeah, I just did, I don't get the mentality of it, but that's me. I mean, I would like to see it spread out, let's put it that way. I mean, it was so convenient to get to the Patriot building in and out, easy parking and that kind of stuff. Would have been a great location, but somebody snagged that building, and apparently potential development is going to buy the bottom dollar store, which didn't have enough parking and that kind of stuff anyway, so. See, Ron, here's what we need to do when you retire and you lay down your mic. Yes. We're going to run you for governor. We're going to run for commissioner. I'll be tough on crime and I'll lower your taxes. Exactly. I already know what you're going to say. Let's go. Let's go. And guess what? I will have the Mahoning County Commissioner Bowling League. Yes, that's right. I will have, we will have shoes, bowling balls, and it will be a mixed league men and women and qualifying rounds for the Mahoning County Commissioner Bowling League. All right. Thank you, Austin, Lady. Appreciate you. All right. You're on here. Hello. Well, I guess you're not. You're on here. Hello. Hello. Come on, speak. Come on. Hey, how's it going on? Good. Go ahead. Hey, I just want to say, like, I'm in total disagreement with doing away with the property tax and replacing it with the state sales tax. If... I don't think people realize how much people, when they cut the state income tax, if you're going to do a property tax, I would say you don't raise the sales tax, you raise the state income tax. Like, I'm using myself as an example. So let's just say, like, I do pretty well. Like, my family does pretty well. We were making, like, $600 grand a year. I don't think people realize that, like, it was 9% and now it's 3%. So people like us are saving $6,000 per $100,000 to make. So on the annual basis, every year since they've done this, $36,000 to the good, $36,000 to the good, $36,000 to the good, that I'm not paying. So if my property tax goes up a couple thousand dollars, I don't care because I'm up, okay, I'm still up $34,000, $34,000, raise it again, whatever. I'm still up $32,000, $32,000. But like, if you raise the state sales tax, everyone, if you're making $50,000 a year, you're paying that money as opposed to just... raise the state income tax, maybe not where it was if you don't want to, but you could raise it a little bit. I mean, like, if I'm saving $5,000 or $4,000 per $100,000, make, I'm still doing really well. Why should you, and I don't mean you Ron Verb, but in this instance, you Ron Verb, are making $40,000. You shouldn't be burdened with that because I'm saving so much money because I'm lucky enough, you know, I do well. I'm saving $6,000 per $100,000 I make because that's what people voted for. And now I want you to pick up the slack because of the property tax. They should just tax them back onto the state income tax. And then, like, we're already making saving so much money. It's ridiculous. Like, why should you be burdened with that when you only make 50 grand? And I'm not. So did you, so do you say, right, so do you say to yourself, you want to.

You don't want to eliminate property taxes. Is that accurate? I would never vote to eliminate property taxes, but if they are eliminated, then I would say don't raise the state sales tax, raise the income tax. Okay, just to clarify one thing. When Dave Thomas was talking about Amy Acton wanting to raise the state sales tax, it had nothing to do with the property taxes. She wanted to raise it for other stuff. I wouldn't raise the sales tax. I would raise the income tax. And I know people are against that, but I just in the long run, I don't think they realize how much people with money are saving. every year on annual basis. It's not like a big deal. That's why, like, I don't think a lot of people are going to vote to do it. They couldn't even get it on the ballot. Like, I don't think anyone doing well, even if you're making $200,000 a year, you know you're saving $12,000 every year compared to what you were. So even if they take $2,000, you're still up 10. They take two more four years from now. You're still up eight. You're still to the good. You're not going to vote to change the system that's working for you. Like I just, I would never, I just don't understand the sales tax. Why are you going to burden people not making money when you could just put it all the people that are making money? And if you don't want to go back to 9%, great, go back to 7. But for the people, and I'm not like bashing your last caller, I'm just saying I disagree with her for the simple fact that if she's saying, okay, do a way of property tax, the state will be booming because everyone's going to have all this money. Well, everyone that was paying 9% that is paying 3%, we have all this money. And you see what I mean? Like, I just think that argument is flawed because we have an example of, okay, if I give a bunch of people money back, is it a stake going to be booming? Well, you gave people back all this money years ago. So why, why if you give me $4,000 a year back in my property tax? You think the state is going to be booming when you're already giving me $30,000 back compared to what I used to pay, like that extra $4,000? Okay, great, I'll take it if you're going to give it to me, but it's not going to make my life different that $4,000, okay, great, I have $4,000 more $1,000 that's not being mean, but I don't need it. Like, I just think it's... I think that's the wrong way to go about it. You should be helping the people at the bottom and in the middle that are struggling to not become the people at the bottom, as opposed to like, hey, you already got so much money. I'm going to give you $4,000 and then have some fantasy that, like, now you're going to spend so much more than you already do. Like, you know, we can only spend so much money. You know, you just use your money to make more money to make more money in the market, you know, every year. So I just think that's a flawed argument that. If I give you more money back, it's going to make the state better. What advice would you give our listeners or younger people that are out there? You became a successful person. What advice would you give them on how they can become successful like you? I don't know if I would call myself successful. Fortunately, I had a great job. I got lucky. You got a great job. Put money away as early as you possibly can and let your money make money for you.

We did really well. You know, every year the market does well. It doesn't matter if it does bad. Just keep on putting it away, putting away in the market. I would never pull your money if you get scared, especially if you're young. If the younger you are, who cares? The money, you want the money to be high when you retire. And just get it in there as young as you can. I don't care if you have to work overtime. Get it in there. Let your 401k or your Roth or whatever, just grow and grow. And later on, you're going to be making more money like I did more money in the market than you will be making as your salary at work. And you're going to be back laughing. Like you're like, okay, great. This is how it's supposed to be. I'm supposed to make three times my salary in the market every year. You know, just fictional money. The market does well. I do well. Okay, great. Now, whatever. Like, you know, like, that's the way you want to live. Just invest as much money as you can. And just, you know, like, don't take down if it goes out for your money. Did somebody guide you in that so that you started doing that in an early age? Of course, Ron. I'm like, I don't know about a young age, but I probably do what you do. My wife said we're putting money away, and I put money away, so there you go. Then somebody did guide you. Yeah, the woman you live with. All right, buddy. You take care. Thank you. News Radio 570 WKVN, you're on here. Hey, Ron. Just got one quick question for you today. Yes, sir. I was getting off Route 11 on Mahoney Avenue here in Austin Town. And I noticed a county vehicle pulling off in front of me. But lo and behold, now we live in the state of Ohio where most agencies, cities, governments, any place, they all go through the state of Ohio's procurement board and they buy fleet vehicles through the state of Ohio. Why would one of our county vehicles be a Tesla? Those aren't your average $20,000, $25,000 car to be riding around in. So my question would be, why would the county be buying Tesla's? I don't know. It's probably not a bad idea with gas at $450,000 a gallon that they did it, though. Actually, some of those, Tesla's aren't that, depending on the model, weren't that expensive. Right? I mean, it depends on which model you get. We try to support manufacturing in our state of Ohio, too. We have Ford, we have General Motors. We have no Tesla manufacturers in the state of Ohio, right? Well, isn't that interesting? That's something I thought you should ponder. I'm going to ponder it. All right, thanks. I'm going to ponder it. I'm jealous of everyone in a Tesla when I pass a gas station at $450 a gallon. You're on the air. Hello.

I don't know yet. I don't know. How about yourself? I got some nice party wing, buffalo party wings ready. I'm putting it in the oven right now. They look delicious. Buffalo party wings. What's that? You're going to have wings. Yep, we're going to have some nice wings tonight. Now, are you a wing man or a ding man? I'm a, no, I'm a swing man. Oh, you're a swinger, okay. You know, old guys like that, isn't that interesting? All right, so you're, so you're making wings? Well, it sounds like it'd be pretty good to me. I just wanted to know. I've been talking about all the, all the ills of the day. I just thought I'd say how you're going. Well, I appreciate it. I appreciate just basic, friendly conversation for a change. You took some heat yesterday. I know you. Last week you were talking to somebody that was down in the Carolinas. Yes. And we're talking about how nice it was down there and all this and that. I think it's the hottest selling area for property in a country is North and South Carolina. I know. I read up on it also, and it's a very nice area. But I think you're kind of setting the scene for yourself when you finally pull the plug on doing whatever you're doing. planning on moving down that area uh Carolinas no no I'm I like it here and I like it in Florida that's that's I like it's my brothers are in Florida but I like it here as well so When you talk about pulling a plug at my age, it usually means that when you say pull a plug, it usually means take him off life support. He's dead. That's what you met. So the next... I don't know if you do that, you're not going to spend... an hour waiting to call a talk show host on the phone. I know that. I'm going to track you down and sit on your back patio and wait for lunch or dinner at your house is what I'm going to do. Okay. That's what I'm looking forward to. It's always good to hear your voice. trying to find out this and that from some talk show host. You're going to be gone. Well, that's talk show host, loves hearing from you, and you make him feel good, and I appreciate it. I've got to pause for the legal show. Thank you, my friends. All right, Mr. Fifth Avenue, News Radio 570 W. QIA. And Ron Furb, we get the legal show coming up next after the break at 5, brought to you by Beatrice Cop. Then at 6, John Arnold's on with Money Talks on News Radio 570.2KUYN and Ron Furb from the Kingdom of Mahoning. We're coming back, so stay tuned.

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busy week. I finally got through all my emails because they were just backing up. I finally got through all my emails. And then I woke up this morning. I mean, it took me like two and a half, three hours to get just all my backlog emails. The ones I haven't even looked at, right? I got up this morning. I had 50 emails from yesterday at 4 o'clock till now. Clients. Yeah. So it was crazy. Well, you got caught up. I'm proud of you. Let me put it that way. It's a good week. You didn't blow out a tire. You didn't have any traffic problems? Well, I had some tire problems today. Yesterday. What happened? My right rear tire was a little low. So I took it to the tire shop, and they said that there's a hole in... in it and they plugged it and they said if this doesn't work you'll have to replace the tire i said just order me the tire because you know how i am with cars and tires and stuff so that's how it went so you got a you've got a new tire ped down All right. Well, that's the way it goes. It's always some expense with you, Dave. You're never going to get ahead. You're just never going to get ahead. You've got a wedding to plan for, not yours, your sons, obviously. So you've got to start saving some money. Just plug the tire and make good, make good, good with the day. I'm going to try. And then now my daughter's talking about getting married. Really? Yeah. What do you think of the guy? I like them. What do you like about it? I call him St. Paul. Really? He's going to take you. I do. They're up on the boat. I take him off her beers. I go, dude, you are the best. God bless you. So you like him? Oh, please. Good guy? Yeah, he's a good guy. I like him because. Is he a lawyer? No, he was our Army Ranger. That's where my daughter met him when she'd go visit my son. She was visiting my son a couple times down in Savannah, Georgia. And then, I'm going to say, four years ago, I noticed she started visiting a lot more. So I'd call Joseph, and I'd say, hey, what are you and Rose doing? He goes, I haven't seen Rose all weekend, Dad. I go, oh, interesting. So, you know, me being the father. the logical person that I am. I used my analytical skills saying maybe she met someone down there. My suspicions turned out to be correct. So she met a soldier. He was an Army Ranger. He got out of the Army. And on the GI Bill, he's attending the University of Notre Dame. So my daughter and him moved to South Bend, Indiana and bought a home. and got a good gig. I mean, we, and we should take care of our veterans. He's going to school on the GI Bill. What's he want to be, though? He's going to Notre Dame. Yeah, he got an undergraduate degree, and he's going to get a master's, he's going to get an MBA from the Notre Dame University. Not a lawyer. So there we go. Yeah.

Couldn't he at least go to law school? We're not asking her to take the bar. At this point in my life, no. No one needs to be a lawyer. They had their chance at the bat. We built this big firm up. Beatrice Cop, the big firm. And I have lawyers that are going to come in. Yeah, but where's the children, Dave? Where are the children that we fostered there? I have no idea in the world where my son is right now. And nobody did. I mean, they didn't become lawyers and take after their father. Well, I have money in law schools, but neither one of them became a lawyer. Oh, I have money in law school education. I have pretty hefty son. Wasn't it Tim Ryan? Didn't Tim Ryan go to law school, but he never took the bar? Yeah, I never took the bar. Right. But you can learn a lot from just going to law school. I mean, it's a good education. It's a very versatile degree. It is. Absolutely is. All right, so you want to take some calls? Sure. Let's light them up and knock them down. All right, with Attorney David Beatrice. You're on the air tonight. Hello. Well, they hung up with Attorney David Beatrice. You're on here tonight. Hello. Hello. Yes. I got a question. Yes. Okay. I got a friend who bought some property, and the lady that had the property put a clause in there that she had a year to get out of the house. Well, she moved out of the house within like six months' time. And then shortly after she moved out, she passed away. And he's trying to get possession of everything. And the woman had one daughter who wants to go with the clause that her mother had a year. Is that clause still good for the daughter? Without looking at the contract, I couldn't tell you. But if it didn't say your heirs, executors, the signs, then no. But you'd have to look at the language of the contract. Okay, yeah, I'll let them know that, then, because it's not me. Yeah, he has to look at the contract he signed with that woman. And if there's language in there like, well, this inures or it goes to the benefit of my assigns, my children, my estate, blah, blah, blah, then she's probably on solid ground. If it doesn't have a clause like that, then she's just a squatter on the property, and he needs to evict her. Yeah, well, she's not even living there. She just has the place locked up, and it's like a hoarder's house that's full of all their mother stuff here. Well, he just needs to serve her with forcible entry and detainer action. Okay, I'll let them know that. Thank you very much. Thank you. All right. With Attorney David Beatrice, you're on the air tonight. Welcome. Are you there, caller? Apparently not. With Attorney David Beatrice, you're on the air. Hello. I'm trying here. I hope my phones are working good here. Let me try to just speak up. I got my dog here. Leo and I are throwing him the ball. He'll go crazy. We'll throw him the ball a hundred times. He just never wears out. There you go. You're on the air. Hello. Hi, how you doing, Ron? Good. Good, okay. I have this incident that occurred. It's minor, but I just need some direction. Okay, I rent a antique booth at a antique mall.

All right. And we paid up to rent it. So we have to work six hours a quarter, okay, or pay 50 bucks. So, and what we basically do is help the cashiers check out, open up stuff for people and help people out. So the other day I was working, and, you know, the boss sent me up to a parking lot where they were having a fundraiser. It was a tent sale. You know, they had a lot of stuff. It had nothing to do with, you know, with the secondhand store that I was at. But they had like a big tent sale. So anyhow, he sends me up there, you know, he says, go up and get these boxes that I bought and some wrapping and some bags. So I take the card up there and I load the bags on the cart, but the bag ripped. So I tape up the bag, and then as I'm tap and the bag up... It's all right. The parking lot goes up pretty slant. So what happened was the cart twisted around, went forward, and hit a vehicle. So I grabbed the cart on the bounce, and I didn't really see any damage. Wait, wait, wait a minute, wait a minute, hold on. Repeat what you just said. He sent you up to a lot adjacent to the antique mall? Well, it was in a big parking lot. Yeah, they were having, like, a benefit. Can't sell. Okay. You know, I think it was for dogs or something. Nothing to really do with the antique booth or mall. So anyhow, so he sends me up there, and the bag was heavy, so I ripped, so somebody gave me some duct tape. So while I was taping it, because it probably weighed staff 40 pounds. What was in the bag? I'm in my 60s. What was in the bag? As I was picking up the bags, as I was duct tape in the bags, to put them on the bottom of the cart, The cart just slid back, spun around, and the front of the cart hit a vehicle. So I caught the cart on the bounce, and I looked at it. I didn't see any marks at all. But the owner came up to us later and said, you know, she came in the store and says, yeah, there's a dent. So we went out to take pictures. You get hard to see it. But there was a dent in the scratch, and it was my fault. So anyhow, in a nutshell, so we... He talked to the owner and he says, well, I'll call my insurance company and then, you know, we'll see what we can do. Well, the lady gets an estimate and calls him and says the estimate was $1,000, and then he told me that the insurance company won't cover it because he has a $250 deductible. Now, the $250 deductible applies to collision coverage, not liability coverage. Okay. Well, that's what he told me. I mean, because this was the guy that owned the... I understand. That's what he told you. I doubt he turned into his insurance company. Well, no, you were a servant to his... Now, I'm an agent of him, and I'm not on his company. I'm just donating my time, so am I responsible, or is he responsible for the value of the dollars? You're both responsible. Both of you are. Okay. Okay. Now, should the owner of the car have to get three estimates or you just go with one? No. First of all, do you own an automobile? Yeah. And do you have insurance on that automobile? Yeah. I turn that in as a claim. You were driving a cart and you hit someone and see if they cover it.

They may or they may not. I was pushing a cart. I was pushing a car. We mean you were pushing? It's a shopping cart. Oh, I thought you meant like a golf cart. Shopping cart. Oh, no, I'm sorry. It's a shopping cart. And this I didn't have the rubber bumpers on it. So that would be more of a premises liability claim. He should have insurance on the property, and that's who should cover that claim. because he's telling me that he called his insurance agent and they said he's lying to you on a liability claim there is no deductible there may be but i doubt it i mean i'm willing to pay my part because it was my fault you know the cart got away from me you know i ain't as fast as they used to be is he willing to go out of grab the car okay is he willing to split it with you yeah i think so yeah He should pay the whole thing. You were doing a job for him. You wouldn't have been pushing a cart but for him asking you to do that. So he should pick up everything. All right, but you should have me check with the property. It's his property, right? Well, he doesn't. I mean, he doesn't own the building. He's just renting the building off of a company. Okay. Does he have insurance on the building? No, the company probably does that owns the building. Well, I don't know how you can have $250 deductible and him not have insurance. No, $2,500 inductable, $2,500 deductible. And the claim was $1,000 to fix the vehicle, which I thought was kind of high. So he has insurance. What kind of insurance does he have? He didn't really say, because I talked to him over the phone, but he said he's going to have a meeting with the car people that did the damage to, and he hasn't called me back. But he just said he called his insurance company. So I'm assuming it's... Well, let's see what happens and let me know, would you? Okay. Hey, I appreciate you guys helping me out because I can breathe a little easier now. Yeah. It's only a thousand. I know it's easy for me to see only $1,000, but luckily it wasn't a lot more than that. And you were doing a job for him. You are his agent, and under the doctrine of Respondiat Superior, you're both liable, but you were doing his work, so he should pay it. All right. There you go. With Attorney David Beatrice, you're on the air. Hello. Yes. Yes, Ron. How are you doing? Good. Go ahead. Good. Yes, David, just a quick question, my friend. My father passed away the end of May. And so my sister and I, thank you. Thank you so much. So my sister and I, obviously, we've been going over to the house. We're in process of selling the house. So we check his mail. We check the mail. There was a bill from the ambulance company dating that my dad owed $1,780.

My sister and I liable and responsible for that bill. No, the estate is. Did he leave? Do you have to open up an estate? Okay. So my sister and I are the beneficiaries for my dad's state, yes. Okay. How did he leave the property in the property he's living on? Did he leave it to you a joint tenets with right of survivorship? He left it, what's it called time of death or what's... Okay, joint tenancy with writer's survivorship. So the property automatically transfers to you. Okay. There's a difference between probate property and non-probate property. Yes, this is not probate at all. I know that's for a fact. All right. So he does not have any property to probate. Okay. I'm asking you. No, he does not. No. Okay. And no, you and your sister are not responsible for that bill. Okay. All right. Okay. So what do we do in a case? Do we even attempt to mess with it, David? No. No, it's not your bill. It's not your bill. Why would you respond to something that's not your bill? It's a bill of the estate. And if there's no estate opened... then they could try to force an estate open, but you told me there's no probate property to put in the estate. So there's nothing there. Did he have any insurance or Medicare or Medicaid that would pay for that? He would have had to. He passed away 91 years old. I know for a fact he had the Medicare or Medicaid. And did he have a – I'm sorry? No. Did he have a policy on top of the Medicare? What's that? Did he have a policy on top of the Medicare? I, David, I 100% don't know. I mean, my dad lived on his own, you know, so I truly don't know. Okay, but you're able to get into the house where he lived? Absolutely, yes. Okay, so check and see if he had, you know, did he leave a bank account? Well, that's the kicker, yes. He actually left an account that my sister and I were beneficiaries on. The what we did was we were told, we were told that her and I to close that account and divvy up what's in my dad's savings and checking account. So we did that. Before he died or after he died? This was after he passed away. Hold on a second. Did the bank let you do that? The bank absolutely let us do that, yes, because we brought in the death certificate and we brought in the papers stating that my sister and I are both the beneficiaries on my dad's will. Yes. Quit saying beneficiary. Well, that's what was on the paper, my friend. No, what was on the paper was a payable on death bank account. So when you took that in, that automatically went to you and your sister, just like the home automatically goes to you and your sister. Okay. Okay, so there is no probate property that you've told me about. There's nothing that he owns that you'd have to open up an estate, okay, and then pass it to you and your sister.

Okay. Correct? Correct. You know, here's what we needed to do. I need to be specific with you, David, is that once he passed, we made sure that we took the house out of his name and insurance off of him because he passed away. And we ended up going down to downtown Warren. And they ended up transferring the deed to his house into my sister and I's name. And you know how that occurred? It wasn't because you were named in a will. It's because it was deeded. Either he deeded himself a life estate with the remainder to you and your sister, or he deeded it to himself and you and your sister's joint tenants with writer's survivorship. And that's the same thing he did with the bank account. So he has no probate property that you've told me about. Stocks, bonds, anything like that. Well, he does have a lot of annuities that my sister and I are actually getting funds from my dad's annuities because he had us both down, I got to say it, as the beneficiary to the annuities that are coming in my sister. In other words, non-provate property. All right, stand by. Everything you've described to me, he's avoiding probate. Back in a minute. Tyler Reddick here from 2311 racing. Another checkered flag for the books. Time to celebrate with Chumba. Jump in at Chumbacasino.com. Let's Chumba. No purchase necessary. VTW Group. Boyd were prohibited by law. CTNCs, 21 Plus. Sponsored by Chumba Casino. Hey, everybody. Lady Luck here. And we're celebrating America's 250th birthday. Now, all summer long, I'm going to be celebrating by playing on SpinQuest.com, which is an American-owned social casino. It obviously features over a thousand slot games and live blackjack, live craps, live bubble craps. Head on over to SpinQuest.com. Get yourself a $30 coin pack for just $10.000. SpenQuest is a free-to-play social casino. Avoid where prohibited. Visit SpenQuest.com for more details. Dad, Disney activities are on Lingo Kids. What? Moana and Elsa and Marvel Spider-Man, all of them. On Lingo Kids? Yes, Dad, on Lingo Kids. That's pretty cool. I know. You just lost them for the rest of the afternoon. Worth it. Full of fun activities inspired by Disney's Moana, Frozen, Zootopia, Marvel Spider-Man, and more. Lingo Kids is where little ones discover more about favorite characters. Lingo Kids! Everything Kids love. Download it for free. Got plans this summer? A brewery crawl? Another lake trip? The same festival you've been to three times already? Do something different. This August, Virginia International Raceway becomes the ultimate summer destination.

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39. He's an adult. You're not responsible for him. Even if he gets evicted and that's paying all these years and all of a sudden, out of mind if you can't pay no more, he can't do anything. You are paying out of the goodness of your heart. You had no legal or contractual obligation to make those payments. Okay. Gotcha. Okay. All right. Thank you. Good luck. You're on the air with it. Wait a second. I appreciate your call. You're on the air tonight with Attorney Beatrice. Hello there. Hello? Yes, go ahead, please. Hi. I'm going a couple months ago, my son's father had passed, and there was a will that was made out, and he let his son owe his son's beneficiary. His son is now being born bad by all of his debts. Now his son is calling me because my son is collecting the security and he's asking me questions. I don't feel comfortable with answering. Hold on a second. It's none of his business. Let me answer some questions for you. Okay. Your son is not responsible for your father's bills. Yeah, my 13. He's not responsible for your father's bills. And the other son doesn't have a right to know what your son is earning and so security benefits. It's none of his business. Yes. So what's your question? And he's saying what I'm asking is they took all the money out of his father's account, every account that he had, pay off some debts. He still owes debts, and they cleaned out one of his son's account for that debt. Now he's telling me that I should be getting a letter from his attorney stating that they're going to start taking my 13-year-old funds to security. I don't think that's going to happen. Okay. I wouldn't wait until you get the letter. I don't think that's going to happen. Okay. Okay. It's a different state. He's in Kentucky and I'm in Ohio. Yeah. I just don't think that's going to happen. He's just trying to get money out of you. Yeah. He's trying to get no obligation to take his calls even. Oh, okay. Good. So I can keep ignoring his calls? Yeah, look, absolutely. Is he your son, too, or is he your stepson? No, no, he is my steps. He is my stepson. We already married. We've never married. He said he still wants to see his daughter. No, he's going to have to go to court and get an order for that. Okay. Yeah, he has called me three times already this week and sending me text messages that he just block his number. Okay, have him hire a lawyer. That's good. Block his number. He's obviously causing you stress. Okay? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Thank you so much for your time. All right. Sure. All right. With Attorney Beatrice, you're on the air. Hello. Hello. Yeah.

Thank you for taking my call. My question for you. My son was picked up Friday night in Pennsylvania, lives in Ohio for DUI. He did the physical test. The cop had one of those cameras on his chest. He told my son that he passed. My son said great. And then he told my son. would you blow into whatever you do to blow? And my son refused to do that. When my son refused to do that, he arrested him for DUI. My son directly after he told him that he would get arrested for DUI if he didn't blow. I'm sorry, my son offered the blow afterwards and they denied him to do that. Does he have any legal stand? Is there any advice you... Well, you've mixed up a lot of different concepts here. So here's my suggestion. Your son needs a lawyer. Is this your son's first DUI? It is actually his second, but the first one, get reduced to bad driving, wherever it was. But he has... Reckless operation? Reckless operation, correct. And how long ago was that? approximately two years ago okay and did he did he take the breathalyzer in that case no he refused everything and the judge just gave him the reckless operation yeah your son needs your son your son needs a lawyer okay hold is your son 24 yeah he needs a lawyer okay and he needs to quit drinking and driving Of course. Actually, he wasn't drinking. He had one beer, and he was a designated driver, and he refused to take the test. Well, look, if he subjected himself to the field sobriety tests, which is saying he did, correct? And passed. Yes, he agreed to do it. Well, how do you know he passed it? I'm going by what he told me. Of course you are. You have to see what's on that body-worn camera. Say that again, sir. You have to see what's on that body-worn camera. You have to see what the police officer wrote up in the report. Okay. Your son needs a lawyer. Okay. And we have not, he did not issue him a ticket on the spot. He told him it it will be in the mail, so we're patiently waiting. This is from last Friday. We still haven't got it. Well, I would wait. Okay. And if he mails him a ticket, you get a lawyer. I would get a lawyer now. All right. Thank you very much. You do that, don't you, Dave? Yes, I do. Okay. So you might want to call their firm, okay? Absolutely. Thank you very much. Thank you. So did I hear him right where he claims he passed the roadside test, you know, put your stand on one foot and all that kind of stuff? Then he refused to do the breathalyzer. And then the guy said, well, I'm going to do this. And then after he refused.

and the cops said he was going to give him a DUI or something he that i thought the caller said he then said he would be willing to take it but it was too late does that sound right the he's basing everything he's saying to us on what his son told him okay there are two people involved in that conversation a police officer and his son and a body worn camera so we don't have to guess what was said it'll be on the body worn camera When he says my son passed the field sobriety test, that would likewise be on the body-worn camera. The police officer has to have probable cause to arrest you for a DUI. So when he said he didn't blow, I'm assuming he had already taken him to the station, which means he had already placed him under arrest. And he was at the station that he refused to take the breathalyzer. Will you don't get to the station by driving there? You get to the station because you get in the ride of a back of a police officer's car handcuffed. That's how you get to the station. Got it. So the question becomes, at the time, did he have a reasonable, articulable suspicion to pull him over? Look, I've done so many of these. I don't even have to read that report. I can tell you what's in that police report. All right. I'm ready. I got behind this car. It crossed the double yellow line. I initiated a traffic stop. Walked up. I smelled a strong odor of alcoholic beverage. I observed the defendant to have glassy eyes and slurry speech. I asked him if he had anything to drink. And he said, I only had two beers. He said, where are you coming from? He says, I'm coming from a bar. Where are you going to? I'm heading home or whatever. You want to submit to a field sobriety test? Yes. Submits to a field sobriety test. So chances are he admitted to drinking. He smelled of alcohol. He committed a traffic offense and he failed the field sobriety test. Guess what that's called? Probable cause. And isn't that, it's like you're visionary. It's like you're psychic here, too. Well, it's almost like you've done this before, like for 40 years. 41. Okay. Let me tell you what bodyworn cameras have done. They have kind of evened out the field because I have a case. What was on the police report and what I witnessed on the body worn camera, I was like, I said, I want to make sure I'm not. You know, have a jaundice eye looking at this, like all the other lawyers look at it, and they go, yeah, that report looks nothing like that body camera. Hmm. So benefited you. It benefits you, and it hurts you. I mean, everything you say gets picked up. Mm-hmm. So here, look, when you get pulled over, okay, you're only obligated to do four things. First of all, what you should not do is argue with a police officer on the side of the road about your constitutional rights. Because you're not going to win. That's not where you litigate that issue. Okay? If he asks for a driver's license, you've got to give him a driver's license. Ask for your registration. You've got to give him the registration. Ask for your insurance. You've got to give them the insurance. And if he asks you to get out of the car.

Get out of the car. And if you don't get out of the car, you're coming out of that car one way or another. Voluntarily or involuntarily. Now, once you're out of the car and he starts questioning you, people think they have to be like an altar boy and tell the truth about everything. You're not allowed to lie to a police officer, but you can invoke your right to remain silent. Have you been drinking, sir? Officer, I invoke my right to remain silent. Where are you going? Officer, I invoke my right to remain silent. At that point, the police officer has to make a determination if you've not subjected yourself to field sobriety test as to whether or not there's probable cause to arrest you for a DUI. And it's a scale. So the judge looks at a number of things. Refusing the field sobriety test is one thing the judge can look at. But the judge also could see the body worn camera. Now, I'm going to tell you something. Sober, you'd have a hard time. passing those field sobriety tests. I'm not kidding you. Particularly at my age. Stand up. Put your legs together. Put your arms down. Hold your foot up for six inches and see if you don't sway. Sober. Okay? Mm-hmm. So they're designed to make you fail. I mean, right now, Ron, stand up. Put your feet together. Put your arms down to your side and raise your foot up six inches and start counting, $1,000, $2,000. I got to a client that got to $14,000. He goes, keep counting. I'm going, how long did you have to stand on one foot? Then he put down, she failed the test.

I want you to walk heel to toe on a line and not sway. No, I agree. I agree with everything you're saying. It would be hard at my age to pass one. It'd be hard at any age, especially if you're nervous, okay? Or you've been in an accident. Look, you get pulled over. You're very nervous. That's going to affect your balance. It's going to affect your judgment when you're stressed. Okay? So the minute they smell alcohol, they jump to the immediate conclusion that you are drinking and driving. The law prohibits you from impaired driving. It does not prohibit you from drinking and driving. You just cannot be over the legal limit or be an impaired driver. And a minor traffic offense with an odor of alcohol and not much else, it's a 50-50 call as to whether or not he has probable cause. When he's talking to you and you're admitting to drinking, you're giving him the probable cause he needs to arrest you. So maybe you shouldn't say that. I invoke my right to be silent. It is not the government's business where you are at. It is not the government's business where you are going. You have freedom of travel in this country. Most crimes. Do you know how police officers solve most crimes? Someone takes their upper lip and their lower lip and they start talking. All right. May I search your card? No, you do not have consent to search my car. Okay? I had a client who... He gave the officer consent to search his crime. They found drugs. I said, did you know the drugs are in there? And he goes, why did you give him consent? He goes, well, he was going to search it anyhow. I go, well, why did he ask consent if you felt he was going to search it anyhow? Why did you make it easy on him? Well, I thought if I agreed to it, he wouldn't do it. Oh, so he was just asking you a perfunctory, like a perfunctory question like, hey, what day is it? Is it Wednesday? I mean, it's amazing. And then people are ignorant with police officers. You could be respectful, okay? Because when you're in a courtroom, when you're in the sterile courtroom, that tape looks a lot different than when you're on the side of the road. I mean, it does. So when you're shitty to the cop, excuse my mouth, it doesn't look good. You could be respectful and still exercise your right to remain silent. Okay? And if they're good trained officers, they will respect that right. I just had a case recently. They cuffed my client, threw them in the back of the car, took them to the police station, never read them his rights. They give them the police station, they start questioning them. Never read them as rights. That's a custodial interrogation.

You're not, every answer is suppressible. All right, let's take some more calls with Attorney Beatrice. You're on ear. Line one, hello. Hello. Yeah, what's your question, please? Quickly. Yeah, if I invite you on to my property and I have insurance and you get hurt, is it my fault? I mean, do I have to pay? Okay. This is the biggest misnomer. Well, here's the reason why I have. This is the biggest misnomer in the law. Go ahead. Just because someone gets hurt on your property doesn't mean you're liable. Just because you fall at a business does not mean they're liable. They have to have done something that fell below a standard of care. So if someone gets hurt on your property and you've not done anything, it is not your fault. All right. How do they get hurt, call her real quick here? Well, yeah, no, the reason why I ask is, you know, when there's an advertised option. And down at the bottom of the auction, it gives the auctioneer's name, and then it says we're not responsible for accidents. Well, if I'm invited on your property, I think you should be responsible if I get hurt. I'm glad you think that, but that's not the law. Thank you for your call. Okay, appreciate it. With Attorney Beatrice, you're on the air. Oh. Yes, what's your question, please? I live in a private drive, and the lots are approximately 100 feet. My neighbor built a garage. The building code says garages are supposed to be built behind the living quarters, or not any further than the living quarters, and 10 feet off the property line. Well, my neighbor built a garage about 30 feet from the road, the private road, and 18 inches off my property line. I try not to be... mood or or cause a neighborhood problem over it because we are friends all right do you have zoning where you live yes okay david yeah zoning requires 50 feet back or at least 50 feet off the road or no closer than the living quarters of the house for what yeah i didn't get off the property for a garage for a garage He's 18 inches off the property line and no more than 30 feet from the road. Doesn't sound like the zoning. He met zoning, David. Well, he never got permits. He never did get permits. You're not allowed to build stuff without getting... permits. You have to get permits to build on your property. He didn't. He didn't. And now we look at a garage. Okay, just hang on. I'm running out time. Dave, what should you do? Okay, so he didn't follow the law. There's going to be consequences to that. So call the zoning office, right, Dave? Well, I think he should call, you know, quickly.

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