There are no markers for this video.
00:00:01>> SUPPORT FOR THE STATEWIDE
BROADCAST OF THE STATE OF OHIO
00:01:19COMES FROM THE LAW OFFICES OF
PORTER, WRIGHT, MORRIS AND
00:01:21ARTHUR, LLP.
HELPING BUSINESS AND INDIVIDUAL
00:01:26S WITH COMPLEX LEGAL PROBLEMS IN
OHIO, ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND
00:01:28AROUND THE WORLD.
ON LINE AT PORTER WRIGHT.COM.
00:01:38AND FROM THE OHIO EDUCATION
ASSOCIATION, REPRESENTING
00:01:40120,000 MEMBERS, WHO WORK TO
INSPIRE THEIR STUDENTS TO THINK
00:01:42CREATIVELY AND EXPERIENCE THE
JOY OF LEARNING.
00:01:47KAREN: THE OHIO PRIMARY GIVES
AND'S FIRST PRESIDENTIAL WIN.
00:01:53BUT WILL IT MATTER BY JULY?
WE'LL RUN DOWN THE RESULTS FROM
00:01:53THE MARCH VOTE FROM THE TOP OF
THE TICKET ON DOWN.
00:01:56ALL THIS WEEK IN "THE STATE OF
OHIO".
00:02:00BEFORE WE GET TO THE BIG
00:02:09POLITICAL NEWS, THERE WERE A FEW
OTHER ITEMS OF NOTE THIS WEEK,
00:02:11INCLUDING TWO RULINGS FROM THE
OHIO SUPREME COURT.
00:02:14THE COURT DETERMINED THAT THE
STATE CAN TRY AGAIN TO EXECUTE A
00:02:18CONDEMNED KILLER WHO'S THE ONLY
PERSON IN THE UNITED STATES TO
00:02:22SURVIVE AN EXECUTION ATTEMPT BY
LETHAL INJECTION.
00:02:25THE COURT REJECTED ARGUMENTS BY
59 YEAR OLD ROMELL BROOM, WHO'D
00:02:28SAID GIVING THE STATE PRISONS
AGENCY A SECOND CHANCE AT
00:02:30PUTTING HIM TO DEATH WOULD
AMOUNT TO CRUEL AND UNUSUAL
00:02:34PUNISHMENT AND DOUBLE JEOPARDY.
THE STATE STOPPED BROOM'S 2009
00:02:38EXECUTION AFTER TWO HOURS WHEN
EXECUTIONERS FAILED TO FIND A
00:02:42USABLE VEIN FOLLOWING 18
ATTEMPTS TO INSERT NEEDLES.
00:02:45THE STATE SAID LOWER COURTS
PROPERLY DETERMINED THAT ANY
00:02:48MISTAKES HAPPENED DURING
EXECUTION PREPARATIONS, NOT THE
00:02:52ACTUAL PROCEDURE.
BROOM'S ATTORNEYS SAID THEY WERE
00:02:55DISAPPOINTED, AND THE GROUP
OHIOANS TO STOP EXECUTIONS HAS
00:02:58STARTED A PETITION DRIVE TO ASK
GOVERNOR JOHN KASICH TO COMMUTE
00:03:02BROWN'S SENTENCE TO LIFE WITHOUT
PAROLE.
00:03:04BROOM WAS CONVICTED IN THE 1984
RAPE AND MURDER OF 14 YEAR OLD
00:03:08TRYNA MIDDLETON IN EAST
CLEVELAND.
00:03:10THE COURT ALSO UPHELD THE
DEFINITION OF "EMPLOYEE" UNDER
00:03:13STATE LAW IN A DISPUTE OVER
WHETHER OUTSIDE SALES
00:03:16REPRESENTATIVES WHO WERE PAID ON
COMMISSION MUST BE PAID MINIMUM
00:03:19WAGE.
THE COURT RULED AGAINST TWO
00:03:22COMMISSION-BASED EMPLOYEES WHO
SOLD ADS FOR AN OHIO BASED FREE
00:03:25COUPON MAGAZINE AND WEBSITE.
THEY SAID IN THEIR LAWSUIT, A
00:03:312006 CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
ENTITLED THEM TO BE PAID MINIMUM
00:03:34WAGE.
BUT THE JUSTICES RULED 5-2 THAT
00:03:36THE AMENDMENT INCORPORATED
DEFINITIONS WITHIN THE FEDERAL
00:03:39FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT WITHOUT
LIMITATIONS, INCLUDING
00:03:42EXCEPTIONS TO MINIMUM WAGE
REQUIREMENTS.
00:03:45AND A FORMER HEAD OF THE OHIO
PRISONS DEPARTMENT WHO BECAME AN
00:03:48ADVOCATE AGAINST THE DEATH
PENALTY PASSED AWAY SUDDENLY
00:03:51THIS WEEK.
63 YEAR OLD TERRY COLLINS DIED
00:03:53OF AN APPARENT HEART ATTACK NEAR
HIS HOME IN CHILLICOTHE.
00:03:56COLLINS WORKED FOR THE
DEPARTMENT OF REHABILITATION AND
00:03:59CORRECTION FOR MORE THAN 30
YEARS, AND WAS ITS DIRECTOR
00:04:02UNDER GOVERNOR TED STRICKLAND.
AS WARDEN AT THE SOUTHERN OHIO
00:04:05CORRECTIONAL FACILITY IN
LUCASVILLE, COLLINS HAD
00:04:08WITNESSED SEVERAL EXECUTIONS.
AFTER RETIRING IN EARLY 2010,
00:04:11COLLINS HAD SPOKEN OUT FOR AN
END TO CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN
00:04:14OHIO.
BACK TO THE BIGGEST NEWS THIS
00:04:18WEEK THE OHIO PRIMARY.
, OHIO WAS ONE OF FIVE STATES
00:04:20VOTING THIS WEEK, AND ONE OF TWO
WITH A WINNER-TAKE-ALL PRIMARY,
00:04:24WITH 66 DELEGATES GOING TO THE
TOP VOTE GETTER AND NONE GOING
00:04:27TO ANY OTHER FINISHERS.
JOHN KASICH HAS NEVER LOST AN
00:04:32ELECTION IN OHIO.
AND HIS RECORD REMAINED INTACT
00:04:35THIS WEEK.
OVER 1.9 MILLION OHIOANS CAST
00:04:37REPUBLICAN BALLOTS THIS WEEK,
AND MORE THAN 917,000 OF THOSE
00:04:41VOTERS GAVE KASICH HIS FIRST
PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY WIN.
00:04:45HE BEAT GOP FRONTRUNNER DONALD
TRUMP BY MORE THAN 11 POINTS AND
00:04:49NEARLY 217,000 VOTES.
CANNONS SHOT OUT A CLOUD OF
00:04:53CONFETTI AT THE PRIMARY NIGHT
PARTY IN BEREA, CAPPING A
00:04:57ROUSING VICTORY SPEECH FROM
KASICH, WHO HOPED TO SEND HIS
00:05:00SUPPORTERS BACK OUT TO CAMPAIGN
FOR HIM WITH A RENEWED SPIRIT
00:05:03AND THE SENSE THAT THE TABLES
MIGHT BE TURNING IN THE RACE FOR
00:05:06THE REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL
NOMINATION.
00:05:12>> IT HAS BEEN MY INTENTION TO
MAKE YOU PROUD.
00:05:18IT HAS BEEN MY INTENTION TO HAVE
YOUNG PEOPLE ALL ACROSS THIS
00:05:24COUNTRY WANT SOMEBODY ENTER INTO
POLITICS, EVEN THOUGH I LABORED
00:05:26AND SECURITY FOR SO LONG.
PEOPLE COUNTING ME OUT, PEOPLE
00:05:32SAYING WHY DON'T YOU EVER CALL
ON HIM?
00:05:33[LAUGHTER]
WE GET ALL THAT.
00:05:39BUT WE PUT ONE WENT IN FRONT OF
THE OTHER, AND I WANT TO REMIND
00:05:45YOU, AGAIN TONIGHT, THAT I WILL
NOT TAKE THE LOW ROAD TO THE
00:05:47HIGHEST OFFICE IN THE LAND.
WE ARE GOING TO GO ALL THE WAY
00:05:51TO CLEVELAND AND SECURE THE
REPUBLICAN NOMINATION.
00:05:56WE HAVE ONE MORE TRIP AROUND
OHIO, WE WILL BEAT HILLARY
00:06:03CLINTON, AND THAT I WILL BECOME
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
00:06:05.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH, NOT BLESS
00:06:08YOU.
[APPLAUSE]
00:06:11KAREN: KASICH HAD SPENT THE
WEEKEND IN OHIO, DOING A PRIMARY
00:06:13EVE EVENT AT A HIGH SCHOOL NOT
FAR FROM HIS HOME IN WESTERVILLE
00:06:18AND WAS JOINED BY FORMER
REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE
00:06:20MITT ROMNEY.
THEN ON PRIMARY DAY, KASICH
00:06:22VOTED AT HIS POLLING PLACE IN
WESTERVILLE, AND TALKED TO
00:06:24REPORTERS AFTERWARD.
>> I HAVE LEARNED THAT YOU NEED
00:06:29TO VOTE FOR YOURSELF, BECAUSE IF
YOU DO NOT YOU WILL LOSE.
00:06:32IT FEELS VERY NICE.
IT IS A LONG ROAD FOR ME, AND I
00:06:40AM VERY HUMBLED BY THE CAMPAIGN
AND THE EXPERIENCE AND THE
00:06:43ATTENTION.
ATTENTION SUCCESS CAN BE VERY
00:06:49DANGEROUS IF NOT HANDLED THE
RIGHT WAY.
00:06:52I TRY TO CHECK MYSELF ALL THE
TIME AND MAKE SURE I'M HANDLING
00:06:57IT THE RIGHT WAY, WHICH IS TO BE
APPRECIATIVE OF THE OPPORTUNITY.
00:06:59KAREN: KASICH'S WIN, AND MARCO
RUBIO'S EXIT FROM THE RACE AFTER
00:07:04LOSING HIS HOME STATE OF
FLORIDA, WHICH AWARDED ALL 99 OF
00:07:07ITS DELEGATES TO TRUMP, CHANGES
THE REPUBLICAN RACE AGAIN.
00:07:09NOW THERE ARE ONLY THREE
CANDIDATES, KASICH, TRUMP AND
00:07:13TED CRUZ, WHO HAD MADE HIS FIRST
OFFICIAL CAMPAIGN VISIT TO OHIO
00:07:16JUST TWO DAYS BEFORE THE
PRIMARY, IN A POP-UP RALLY TO
00:07:19SPEAK TO ABOUT 400 PEOPLE ON
COLUMBUS' NORTH SIDE ON SUNDAY
00:07:21NIGHT.
KASICH HAD SAID SEVERAL TIMES HE
00:07:26WOULD WIN OHIO OR QUIT THE RACE,
AND EXPERTS HAD WONDERED WHY
00:07:29WINNING OHIO WAS PROVING A
CHALLENGE TO KASICH, GIVEN HIS
00:07:32FAVORABLE RATING IN POLLS FOR
MONTHS, ESPECIALLY AS COMPARED
00:07:36TO DONALD TRUMP, WHO HAD BEEN
LEADING IN SURVEYS UP UNTIL
00:07:38ABOUT A WEEK BEFORE THE VOTE.
OHIO REPUBLICAN PARTY CHAIR MATT
00:07:42BORGES SAID THE FINAL RESULT WAS
NO REAL SURPRISE TO HIM.
00:07:52>> I THINK THE GOVERNOR
DEMONSTRATED ONCE AGAIN THAT HE
00:07:54HAS BROAD SUPPORT ACROSS THE
STATE, NOT ONLY FOR REPUBLICANS
00:08:00VOTING, BUT DEMOCRATS VOTING AS
WELL.
00:08:03THE GOVERNOR DID VERY WELL.
HE GOT THE MOST CANDIDATE
00:08:12VOTES THAT ANY CANDIDATE HAS HAD
IN ANY PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY.
00:08:15THE REPUBLICAN TURNOUT WAS WAY
UP FROM ITS HIGHEST.
00:08:23DEMOCRATIC TURNOUT WAS ABOUT 40%
DOWN FROM ITS HIGHEST IN 2008,
00:08:26EVEN THOUGH THEY HAVE A
CONTESTED PRIMARY ON THEIR SIDE
00:08:28OF THE AISLE.
OBVIOUSLY WHERE VERY HAPPY WITH
00:08:31THE RESULTS, AND IT PROVES ONCE
AGAIN THAT JOHN KASICH, LIKE WE
00:08:34HAD SAID ALL ALONG, HAS WROUGHT
APPEAL ACROSS THE STATE AND DID
00:08:38VERY WELL.
KAREN: NOW WHAT A SET OF HERE IS
00:08:46EITHER DONALD TRUMP WINS THE
DOMINATION OUT RIGHT, OR THERE
00:08:47IS A CONTESTED CONVENTION.
PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT A THIRD
00:08:52PARTY BEING BROUGHT IN AS A
POSSIBLE NOMINEE.
00:08:54THIS PUTS THE CONVENTION IN
CLEVELAND -- IT CHANGES THE
00:08:58GAME, DOESN'T IT?
>> POTENTIALLY COULD THESE ARE
00:09:05THE THINGS THAT THE PUNDITS HAVE
BEEN SAYING.
00:09:09THE EXPERTS, WHO HAVE BEEN
PROVEN WRONG HAVE BEEN SAYING
00:09:11THIS FOR A YEAR OR MORE.
I CANNOT TELL YOU FOR SURE THAT
00:09:13SOMEONE WILL NOT GET TO
CLEVELAND WITHOUT A MAJORITY OF
00:09:16THE DELEGATES.
THAT PERSON TO BE JOHN KASICH BY
00:09:20THE TIME IT IS ALL SAID AND
DONE.
00:09:24KAREN: MATHEMATICALLY, I DO NOT
THINK THAT IS POSSIBLE.
00:09:25WHAT IS THE MATHEMATICAL PATH
FOR HIM TO CLINCH THE NOMINATION
00:09:28BEFORE THE CONVENTION?
>> IF YOU ARE CONFIDENT THAT
00:09:34DONALD TRUMP WOULD NOT IMPLEMENT
TOMORROW THAT PERHAPS THAT IS
00:09:36CORRECT, BUT GIVEN THE
VOLATILITY OF HIS CAMPAIGN AND
00:09:39THE THINGS WE HAVE SEEN OUT
THERE SO FAR, THE EXPERTS, THE
00:09:44SO-CALLED EXPERTS HAVE BEEN
WRONG ABOUT EVERYTHING --
00:09:50AND I UNDERSTAND, IN ORDER TO
PREDICT WHAT IS HAPPENING YOU
00:09:51LOOK AT HISTORICAL TRENDS AT
WHAT HAS HAPPENED BEFORE AND
00:09:53WHAT WOULD BE LIKELY TO HAPPEN
IN THE FUTURE.
00:09:57THIS IS ONE OF THOSE YEARS WHERE
YOU HAVE TO THROW EVERYTHING UP
00:09:58IN THE AIR.
IS IT POSSIBLE THAT SOMEBODY
00:10:01ELSE COULD GET TO THE CONVENTION
WITH THE DELICATE?
00:10:08-- DELEGATE?
OF COURSE.
00:10:14BUT IF IT IS AN OPEN CONVENTION,
WE WILL HAVE AN OPEN AND
00:10:16TRANSPARENT PROCESS.
WE WILL MAKE SURE THAT THE
00:10:21PROCESS IS FAIR AND A WINNER
WILL EMERGE AND EVENTUALLY WE
00:10:23WILL HAVE A NOMINEE WHO WILL GO
OUT AND BEAT HOLLER CLINTON IN
00:10:26THE FALL -- HILLARY CLINTON IN
THE FALL.
00:10:31KAREN: IS THERE ANY CHANCE THAT
JOHN KASICH COULD ACTUALLY BE
00:10:32THE NOMINEE GOING INTO THE
CONVENTION?
00:10:35>> IT IS CONCEIVABLE THAT COULD
HAPPEN.
00:10:42THERE ARE CANDIDATES THAT HAVE
DROPPED OUT THAT HAD DELEGATES
00:10:45PLEDGED TO HIM.
MARCO RUBIO HAD DELEGATES THAT
00:10:49HE COULD DIRECT INDIVIDUALS TO
VOTE FOR ANOTHER CANDIDATE.
00:10:54THERE ARE A LOT OF DIFFERENT
EQUATIONS THAT COULD CONCEIVABLY
00:11:01NEED TO 1237, AND THE VAST 12
DIFFERENT PUNDITS, YOU WOULD GET
00:11:03WELL DIFFERENT ANSWERS WHAT WE
NEED TO DO.
00:11:06WHAT WE NEED TO DO IS MOVE ONTO
THE NEXT CONTEST IN ARIZONA.
00:11:09THERE IS ONE IN UTAH, ONE IN
PENNSYLVANIA.
00:11:11WHERE JOHN KASICH IS ACTUALLY
FROM IT ORIGINALLY.
00:11:17CALIFORNIA IS A BIG PRICE AND IT
IS NOT UNTIL THE VERY END.
00:11:20WE WILL NOT KNOW WHERE THIS IS
HEADED FOR SOME TIME.
00:11:26KAREN: I ASKED BORGES TO THINK
AHEAD A BIT TO CLEVELAND THIS
00:11:28SUMMER.
FAST-FORWARD, DONALD TRUMP IS
00:11:34NOT THE NOMINEE, HE THINKS THAT
THERE WILL BE RIOTS.
00:11:38YOU'RE INTIMATELY INVOLVED.
ARE YOU WORRIED WHAT WILL HAPPEN
00:11:42IF HE COMES IN WITH ENOUGH
DELEGATES, AND IS NOT THE
00:11:44NOMINEE?
>> WE'RE NOT GOING TO ALLOW
00:11:50ANYBODY TO INTIMIDATE US
THINKING THAT THE THREATS OF
00:11:56RIOTS, THE THREATS OF VIOLENCE,
THERE IS ARTIE A GREAT PLAN IN
00:11:57PLACE TO DEAL WITH THE
DEMONSTRATIONS AND PROTESTS THAT
00:12:01HAVE BEEN AT EVERY CONVENTION,
NO MATTER WHAT CITY IT IS, NO
00:12:03MATTER WHAT YEAR IT IS.
THIS COULD ACTUALLY ADD SOME
00:12:10ATTENTION TO THE CONVENTION THAT
WILL BE VERY POSITIVE, INCREASE
00:12:13VIEWERSHIP, THE CONVENTIONS HAVE
BECOME MADE-FOR-TV EVENTS WHERE
00:12:17YOU GET AN HOUR OR SO OF
PRIMETIME TELEVISION.
00:12:22NOW WE HAVE ALL DAY EVENTS THAT
ARE DETERMINING THE COURSE OF
00:12:25HISTORY, NOT JUST OF OUR PARTY
AND NOT JUST OF OUR STATE, BUT
00:12:27OF OUR COUNTRY.
IT WILL BE AN AMAZING EXPERIENCE
00:12:31TO BE PART OF.
WE WILL MAKE SURE THAT IT IS
00:12:33TRANSPARENT AND FAIR.
THE ARGUMENT AGAINST THE PERSON
00:12:38SAYING IF I GET THERE WITH THE
MAJORITY OF THE DELEGATES, EVEN
00:12:45IF I DO NOT HAVE THE 50% PLUS
ONE, EVERY OTHER NOMINEE THAT WE
00:12:54HAVE HAD, YOU NAME IT, THEY ALL
CAPS THERE WITH THE MAJORITY OF
00:12:55THEM DELEGATES.
THEY WERE ABLE TO WIN ON THE
00:12:57FIRST BALLOT.
IF THE FRONT RUNNER DOES NOT GET
00:13:02TO THE CONVENTION WITH THE
MAJORITY OF THE DELEGATES, THAT
00:13:03IS NOBODY'S FAULT BUT THAT
CANDIDATES.
00:13:09IT GOES TO AN OPEN PROCESS OF
THE CONVENTION, AND WE WILL
00:13:10STILL NOT OUR NOMINEE THAT WAY.
KAREN: ON THE DEMOCRATIC SIDE,
00:13:12THERE WERE MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION
VOTES CAST, AND HILLARY CLINTON
00:13:14ENDED UP THE WINNER IN A CONTEST
THAT TURNED OUT TO BE LESS
00:13:16DRAMATIC THAN POLLING SUGGESTED
IT MIGHT BE.
00:13:19BOTH CLINTON AND BERNIE SANDERS
WERE IN OHIO THE SUNDAY BEFORE
00:13:24THE PRIMARY APPEARING SEPARATELY
, BEFORE MORE THAN 3000
00:13:29DEMOCRATS AT THE ANNUAL LEGACY
DINNER AT THE COLUMBUS
00:13:30CONVENTION CENTER.
SANDERS HAD SPENT ALL DAY SUNDAY
00:13:32IN COLUMBUS, RALLYING AT OHIO
STATE EARLIER, AND THEN WENT TO
00:13:33YOUNGSTOWN THE NEXT DAY.
CLINTON WAS IN CLEVELAND AND
00:13:39YOUNGSTOWN ON SUNDAY, AND
PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON
00:13:42CAMPAIGNED FOR HER IN
CINCINNATI, AKRON, AND TOLEDO
00:13:45THE DAY BEFORE.
IT PAID OFF.
00:13:48CLINTON BEAT SANDERS BY NEARLY
14% AND MORE THAN 100 THE 5000
00:13:53VOTES.
-- MORE THAN 165,000 VOTES.
00:13:58OHIO DEMOCRATIC PARTY CHAIR
DAVID PEPPER SAID HE WAS PLEASED
00:14:00WITH THE TURNOUT, BUT NOTES THE
OUTCOME WAS A BIT UNEXPECTED.
00:14:06>> I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE VERY
CLOSE, BUT TUESDAY NIGHT SHOWED
00:14:07THAT THEY HAVE DEEP ROOTS HERE,
BECAUSE THEY WON ALL OVER THE
00:14:12STATE.
THE MAP OF HER WIN LOOKED
00:14:16DIFFERENT IN OHIO AND OTHER
STATES WHERE SHE HAS EITHER WON
00:14:18OR LOST.
SHE WON ALMOST 80 COUNTIES.
00:14:25IN A VERY IMPRESSIVE WHEN ON HER
-- WIN ON HER PART.
00:14:30THAT SHOWS SHE WINS IN SO MANY
PARTS OF OHIO.
00:14:37KAREN: IT LOOKS LIKE DEMOCRATIC
10 OR OUT WAS DOWN, AND YOU ALSO
00:14:40HAVE THESE ANECDOTAL REPORTS OF
DEMOCRATS GOING IN AN
00:14:41ESSENTIALLY SWITCHING THEIR
PARTY VISUALIZATION --
00:14:45AFFILIATION TO REPUBLICAN
BALLOTS.
00:14:49YOU'RE GOING TO POTENTIALLY END
THIS WITH FEWER REGISTERED
00:14:50DEMOCRATS AND HE WENT INTO IT
WITH.
00:14:57>> THE WAY THAT WE DETERMINE WHO
A DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN IS IS
00:14:58THROUGH THESE PRIMARY TURNOUTS.
IT DOES NOT QUITE REFLECT THIS.
00:15:05WE HAD FAR MORE DEMOCRATS IN
2008 BECAUSE OF THE OBAMA,
00:15:06HILLARY PRIMARY.
THAT PROBABLY LOOKED
00:15:11ARTIFICIALLY GOOD FOR US, AND
THERE WAS A LOT OF ENERGY AROUND
00:15:13DONALD TRUMP AND TO STOP DONALD
TRUMP.
00:15:16THAT IS WHAT THE MEDIA HAS BEEN
FOCUSED ON.
00:15:20DID A BUNCH OF PEOPLE WHO WERE
NEVER VOTED BEFORE SHOW UP TO
00:15:22THE PRIMARY BECAUSE A LOT OF
THEM WERE SCARED OF DONALD
00:15:23TRUMP?
YES.
00:15:27IF I WERE ON THE OTHER SIDE I
WOULD NOT COUNT THOSE AS
00:15:29RELIABLE REPUBLICAN VOTERS.
SOME OF THOSE PEOPLE WERE
00:15:34DEMOCRATS, SOME OF THEM WERE
INDEPENDENTS, AND FROM OUR
00:15:39VANTAGE POINT WE FEEL VERY GOOD
ABOUT WHAT WE SAW BECAUSE WE
00:15:43ACTUALLY BELIEVE AND WE HAVE
SEEN IT ALSO SHOW THIS, A WHOLE
00:15:45LOT OF PEOPLE WHO SHOWED UP IN
THE PRIMARY ON THE REPUBLICAN
00:15:49SIDE WHO WERE DOING IT BECAUSE
THEY WANTED TO STOP DONALD TRUMP
00:15:51AND THE ENTIRE COUNTRY HAS BEEN
SAYING FOR WEEKS OHIO CAN STOP
00:15:57DONALD TRUMP.
IF THEY VOTE FOR JOHN KASICH
00:15:58THAT WILL STOP DONALD TRUMP, AND
PEOPLE LISTENED TO THAT, TOOK IT
00:16:04SERIOUSLY, PULLED A VALID EVEN
IF THEY ARE NOT NORMALLY VOTING,
00:16:05AND THEY VOTED TO STOP DONALD
TRUMP.
00:16:11WE ARE CONFIDENT THAT THEY WILL
VOTE FOR US IN NOVEMBER DONALD
00:16:12TRUMP IS THE CANDIDATE.
IT LOOKS LIKE HE WILL BE THE
00:16:14CANDIDATE.
EXIT POLLS SHOW THAT A THIRD OF
00:16:19THE VOTERS IN THE PRIMARY SAID
THEY WILL NOT VOTE FOR DONALD
00:16:21TRUMP IN NOVEMBER.
SOMETHING LIKE 45% OF THEM SAID
00:16:25THEY WOULD VOTE FOR A THIRD
PARTY BEFORE VOTING FOR DONALD
00:16:26TRUMP.
OUR JOB TO ME AND WE WILL BE
00:16:31ABLE TO DO THIS QUITE WELL, IS
UNIFY THE MODERATES OF THIS
00:16:39STATE, THE MODERATE REPUBLICANS,
AND A WHOLE LOT OF DEMOCRATS.
00:16:41WE WILL GET IT PUT TOGETHER A
CAMPAIGN THAT WILL STOP DONALD
00:16:42TRUMP JUST LIKE A LOT OF PEOPLE
TO A COUPLE OF DAYS AGO.
00:16:48IT IS INTERESTING IF YOU LOOK
OVER TUESDAY NIGHT, ALL OF THE
00:16:51STATES, NO STATE HAD MORE OF
ANTITRUST FERVOR THAN OHIO.
00:16:59A THIRD OF THE PEOPLE VOTING IN
THE PRIMARIES IS A WILL NOT --
00:17:07HAS SAID THEY WILL NOT VOTE FOR
DONALD TRUMP.
00:17:12THE ANTITRUST FERVOR IN OHIO
GOES WELL FOR US.
00:17:22KAREN: THERE HAS BEEN A LOT OF
SPECULATION ABOUT HOW THEY MIGHT
00:17:26NOT GO FOR DONALD TRUMP.
WHAT ABOUT JOHN KASICH AS
00:17:30A MODERATE?
>> ON THE ACTUAL POLICIES, WE
00:17:35BELIEVE ALL THE CANDIDATES
BASICALLY ARE MORE OR LESS THE
00:17:37SAME POLICY.
I WOULD MAKE VERY CLEAR, AS THEY
00:17:41DID THE OTHER NIGHT, THE JOHN
KASICH IS A MODERATE.
00:17:49HE DEFUNDED PLANNED PARENTHOOD,
THE ECONOMY OF OHIO IS ACTUALLY
00:17:52NOT A MIRACLE, IT IS ACTUALLY
SLOWER IN RECOVERY THAN THE REST
00:17:57OF THE STATES AND THE NATIONAL
AVERAGE BECAUSE A LOT OF PEOPLE
00:17:58DOWN ECONOMICS THAT HE IS BEEN
PUTTING IN PLACE.
00:18:03WE CAN VERY EASILY EXPLAIN WHY
WEATHER DOES TED CRUZ OR JOHN
00:18:08KASICH OR TRUNK, THEY ARE ALL
BASICALLY ADOPTING THE SAME
00:18:11POLICY THAT HAVE NOT HELPED THE
MIDDLE CLASS FOR A LONG TIME.
00:18:15THERE IS A LOT OF TALK ABOUT
OTHER CANDIDATES, BUT RIGHT NOW
00:18:21THE MATH IS THAT JOHN KASICH WE
NEED TO GET 116% OF THE
00:18:23REMAINING DELEGATES.
YOU DO NOT GET EXTRA CREDIT.
00:18:32IT LOOKS LIKE IT WILL INEVITABLY
BE DONALD TRUMP, AND IF IT IS
00:18:37NOT, IT LOOKS LIKE IT WOULD HAVE
TO BE TED CRUZ BECAUSE HE HAS
00:18:39BEEN SO CLEARLY IN SECOND.
ALL OF THIS OTHER DISCUSSION OF
00:18:44OTHER PEOPLE, HONESTLY THE MATH
DOES NOT SUPPORT IT.
00:18:48IF SOMEHOW THE PARTY ELDERS AND
INSIDERS WERE TO FIX THE
00:18:51CONVENTION SO THAT THE PERSON
WHO ONE WAS NOT DONALD TRUMP OR
00:18:56TED CRUZ, YOU HAVE AN IMPLOSION
IN THE ENTIRE PARTY.
00:18:58THE DAMAGE WOULD BE SOMETHING
THAT WOULD BE ME DOING IT VERY
00:19:02HARD TO WIN IN NOVEMBER.
YOU ARE EITHER STUCK WITH TRUMP
00:19:05OR WHATEVER THEY COME UP WITH TO
STOP DONALD TRUMP AND IT WOULD
00:19:11TEAR THE GUTS OUT OF THE
REPUBLICAN PARTY.
00:19:13THEY WOULD HAVE VERY LITTLE
INABILITY THAT THE PERSON THE
00:19:17VOTERS SUPPORTED ALL THE WAY
THROUGH, I THINK THE PARTY WOULD
00:19:22HAVE THE TYPE OF IMPLOSION THAT
WOULD HAVE DRAMATIC IMPACT ON
00:19:26THE TURNOUT AND THE OUTCOME.
THERE HAS BEEN NO GOOD OPTIONS.
00:19:31KAREN: THERE HAD BEEN WIDESPREAD
REPORTS OF DEMOCRATS ASKING FOR
00:19:33REPUBLICAN BALLOTS TO CAST VOTES
FOR JOHN KASICH INSTEAD OF
00:19:37DONALD TRUMP AND VOTERS WHO WERE
, SAYING THEY'D DONE IT, AND
00:19:39WERE ASKING FRIENDS TO DO IT AS
WELL.
00:19:41BUT SECRETARY OF STATE JON
HUSTED SAID THERE WAS NO PROOF
00:19:42ON ELECTION DAY THAT WAS
HAPPENING IN BIG NUMBERS THOUGH
00:19:47, HIS STAFF MAY BE ABLE TO
ANSWER THE QUESTION OF HOW MANY
00:19:48REGISTERED DEMOCRATS SWITCHED
THEIR PARTY AFFILIATION TO
00:19:50REPUBLICAN BY ASKING FOR THE
OTHER PARTY'S BALLOT.
00:19:57>> WE WILL EVENTUALLY, BUT I
WOULD NOT PUT TOO MUCH STOCK IN
00:20:00IT.
SOMETIMES THOSE NUMBERS OF HOW
00:20:04YOU GET REGISTERED IN THE STATE
DEPENDS ON WHETHER OR NOT THERE
00:20:07WAS A CONTESTED PRIMARY IN THE
LAST ELECTION.
00:20:12YOU CAN GET THAT INFORMATION,
BUT I WOULD NOT PUT A LOT OF
00:20:14STOCK IN IT AS HAVING MEANING
GOING FORWARD.
00:20:15KAREN: OVERALL, HUSTED SAID IT
WAS A GOOD ELECTION DAY WITH NO
00:20:17PROBLEMS, AS JUST OVER 3.1
MILLION OHIOANS OR 41% OF
00:20:23REGISTERED VOTERS TURNED OUT.
IT WAS THE SECOND HIGHEST
00:20:26TURNOUT EVER FOR A PRIMARY
ELECTION IN OHIO.
00:20:27THE RECORD WAS JUST OVER 46
% OF REGISTERED VOTERS IN THE
00:20:31MARCH 2008 PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY.
WHILE THE PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST
00:20:38GOT MOST OF THE ATTENTION, THERE
WERE ALSO BATTLES FOR THE US
00:20:39SENATE SEAT ON THIS FALL'S
BALLOT.
00:20:41INCUMBENT REPUBLICAN ROB PORTMAN
EASILY WON HIS PRIMARY, WITH
00:20:45EIGHT OUT OF REPUBLICAN VOTERS
10 CHOOSING HIM OVER CHALLENGER
00:20:47DON ELIJAH ECKHART.
IN THE DEMOCRATIC THREE-WAY
00:20:49CONTEST FOR SENATE, FORMER GOV.
GOVERNOR AND ENDORSED CANDIDATE
00:20:53TED STRICKLAND ALSO EASILY WON,
GETTING 65% OF THE VOTE OVER HIS
00:20:57TWO CHALLENGERS, CINCINNATI CITY
COUNCILMAN PG SITTENFELD AND
00:21:00CINCINNATI OCCUPATIONAL
THERAPIST AND ACTIVIST KELLI
00:21:02PRATHER.
STRICKLAND SPOKE TO REPORTERS AT
00:21:05A VICTORY PARTY IN COLUMBUS.
>> WHILE I THINK THE VOTERS KNOW
00:21:10ME.
I HAVE BEEN AROUND, I HAVE
00:21:14SEARCHED PEOPLE AS CONGRESSMAN
AND AS GOVERNOR, AND I THINK
00:21:21PEOPLE WHO UNDERSTAND, PEOPLE
WHO DON'T EVEN AGREE WITH ME,
00:21:24KNOW THAT MY HEART IS IN THE
RIGHT PLACE.
00:21:29THAT I WANT TO SERVE THEM AS
BEST I CAN GIVE AND I WANT TO DO
00:21:31IT IN AN HONEST AND ETHICAL
MANNER.
00:21:32KAREN: PEPPER SAID MORE THAN $12
MILLION WAS SPENT AGAINST
00:21:34STRICKLAND BY THE KOCH BROTHERS,
ROB PORTMAN AND SITTENFELD.
00:21:37STRICKLAND SAYS HE KNOWS THERE'S
WORK AHEAD IN RAISING MONEY TO
00:21:42KEEP UP WITH PORTMAN AND OTHER
OPPONENTS HE WILL DEAL WITH THIS
00:21:47CAR.
-- THIS FALL.
00:21:52>> WELL A LOT OF MONEY HAS
ALREADY BEEN SPENT AGAINST ME BY
00:21:57THE KOCH BROTHERS AND OTHER
BILLIONAIRES TO HER TRYING TO
00:21:59GET CONTROL OF OUR GOVERNMENT.
THE GOOD THING IS THEY SPENT
00:22:04WELL OVER $10 MILLION AGAINST
ME, AND THEY HAVE NOT TAKEN THE
00:22:05UNDERWATER.
I HAVE NOT SPENT A SINGLE DOLLAR
00:22:11ON TELEVISION, AND SO I DO NOT
NEED AS MUCH MONEY AS SENATOR
00:22:15PORTMAN HAS BECAUSE I
HAVE THE BEST MESSAGE.
00:22:17KAREN: SITTENFELD HAD CALLED ON
STRICKLAND SEVERAL TIMES TO
00:22:19DEBATE HIM, BUT HAD STRUGGLED
WITH NAME RECOGNITION.
00:22:23A POLL IN FEBRUARY SHOWED THAT
IN SPITE OF A YEAR OF
00:22:27CAMPAIGNING, 85% OF OHIOANS HAD
NEVER HEARD OF HIM.
00:22:28HE HELD HIS PRIMARY NIGHT WATCH
PARTY IN CINCINNATI, AND SPOKE
00:22:30TO REPORTERS THERE.
>> I THINK ONE OF THE REALITIES
00:22:37OF A CAMPAIGN LIKE THIS IS OHIO
IS A LARGE STATE, AND SO MUCH OF
00:22:43WHAT DRIVES OUT COLUMNS --
OUTCOMES IS HAVING A THRESHOLD
00:22:45LEVEL OF NAME IDENTIFICATION.
WE HAVE EASILY DO NOT GET WHERE
00:22:48WE NEEDED TO BE IN TERMS OF MY
RAW NAME ID.
00:22:55I AM HONORED AND THRILLED TO
HAVE THE EXPENSE I HAD REACHING
00:22:59OUT TO PEOPLE IN ALL CORNERS OF
THE STATE.
00:23:01THIS HAS BEEN AN INCREDIBLE
LEARNING EXPERIENCE AND I WILL
00:23:11INCORPORATE IT INTO THE
SERVICE I OFFER GOING FORWARD.
00:23:14KAREN: SITTENFELD SAYS HIS
IMMEDIATE PLANS ARE TO GET
00:23:15MARRIED AND CONTINUE TO SERVE ON
CITY COUNCIL.
00:23:17BUT HE ALSO SAID HE'S CALLING
FOR PARTY UNITY, AND THAT HE
00:23:19WILL DO WHAT HE CAN TO HELP
STRICKLAND DEFEAT PORTMAN THIS
00:23:21FALL.
IN OTHER CONTESTS ON THE PRIMARY
00:23:24BALLOT, THERE WERE NO BIG
SURPRISES IN THE 16 RACES FOR
00:23:28CONGRESS, ESPECIALLY SINCE THERE
WERE NO CONTESTED PRIMARIES IN
00:23:30SIX OF THEM.
THERE WERE FIVE REPUBLICAN
00:23:31PRIMARIES, INCLUDING THE HUGE 15
CANDIDATE CONTEST FOR FORMER
00:23:33SPEAKER JOHN BOEHNER'S SEAT.
TEA PARTY FAVORITE WARREN
00:23:39DAVIDSON BEAT REPRESENTATIVE TIM
DERICKSON AND STATE SEN.
00:23:42BILL BEAGLE.
DAVIDSON GOES ON TO A SPECIAL
00:23:44ELECTION IN THAT HEAVILY
REPUBLICAN DISTRICT JUNE 7.
00:23:48THREE REPUBLICAN INCUMBENTS,
BRAD WENSTRUP OF CINCINNATI, BOB
00:23:50GIBBS OF ASHLAND AND DAVID JOYCE
OF PAINESVILLE, HAD NO TROUBLE
00:23:54WINNING THEIR PRIMARIES, AS DID
THE LONE INCUMBENT DEMOCRAT
00:23:56FACING A CHALLENGER, TIM RYAN OF
WARREN.
00:23:57AND REPUBLICAN FORMER STATE REP.
STEVEN KRAUS LOST HIS BID TO
00:24:01FACE DEMOCRATIC INCUMBENT MARCY
KAPTUR OF TOLEDO THIS FALL.
00:24:05KRAUS WAS FORCED OUT OF HIS SEAT
IN THE OHIO HOUSE AFTER A FELONY
00:24:07THEFT CONVICTION IN JULY.
KRAUS HAS MAINTAINED HIS
00:24:11INNOCENCE AND SAYS HE BELIEVES
THE CONVICTION WAS RETRIBUTION
00:24:16FOR HIS SURPRISE 2014 VICTORY
OVER INCUMBENT CHRIS REDFERN,
00:24:17WHO WAS THE CHAIR OF THE OHIO
DEMOCRATIC PARTY AT THE TIME.
00:24:22IN THE OHIO HOUSE, THERE WERE NO
PRIMARY CONTESTS IN 63 OF 99
00:24:26DISTRICTS, AND IN 17 RACES, THE
PRIMARY WINNERS WILL TAKE OFFICE
00:24:30NEXT YEAR SINCE THEY HAVE NO
OPPONENTS THIS FALL.
00:24:34THE ONLY INCUMBENT TO LOSE IS
TONY BURKLEY OF PAYNE IN
00:24:36NORTHWEST OHIO, WHO LOST TO
CRAIG RIEDEL.
00:24:42INCUMBENT REPRESENTATIVE WES
RETHERFORD DEFEATED FORMER REP.
00:24:45COURTNEY COMBS, WHO WAS TRYING
TO RETURN TO THE OHIO HOUSE.
00:24:48AND REPUBLICAN SENATORS BILL
SEITZ AND TOM PATTON WILL GO
00:24:50BACK TO THE HOUSE AFTER WINNING
THEIR PRIMARY RACES.
00:24:54IN THE SENATE, THERE WERE NO
PRIMARY CONTESTS IN NINE OF 16
00:24:58DISTRICTS, WITH REPUBLICANS TROY
BALDERSON OF ZANESVILLE AND DAVE
00:25:01BURKE OF MARYSVILLE DEFINITELY
RETURNING SINCE THEY HAVE NO
00:25:04DEMOCRATIC OPPONENTS THIS FALL.
INCUMBENT REPUBLICAN BILL COLEY
00:25:08BEAT TWO CHALLENGERS TO TRY TO
KEEP HIS SEAT THIS FALL.
00:25:14REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE
STEPHANIE KUNZE OF HILLIARD WON
00:25:15HER PRIMARY TO TRY TO MOVE TO
THE SENATE.
00:25:17IN A BATTLE BETWEEN TWO
REPUBLICAN FORMER STATE
00:25:20REPRESENTATIVES, MATT HUFFMAN OF
LIMA BEAT JOHN ADAMS OF SIDNEY
00:25:23IN THE 12TH DISTRICT.
FORMER REPRESENTATIVE MATT DOLAN
00:25:30BEAT REPRESENTATIVES NAN BAKER
AND MIKE DOVILLA IN THE 24TH
00:25:32DISTRICT.
AND INCUMBENT REPUBLICAN LARRY
00:25:34OBHOF HELD OFF A CHALLENGE FROM
JANET FOLGER PORTER, BEST KNOWN
00:25:36FOR PUSHING THE SO-CALLED
HEARTBEAT BILL OVER THE LAST FEW
00:25:39LEGISLATIVE SESSIONS.
ON THE DEMOCRATIC SIDE, REP.
00:25:43SEAN O'BRIEN WILL TRY TO MOVE TO
THE SENATE AFTER WINNING HIS
00:25:45PRIMARY, AND FORMER LONGTIME
REPRESENTATIVE VERNON SYKES WILL
00:25:49BE RUNNING FOR A SENATE SEAT
THIS FALL.
00:25:52SIX STATE LAWMAKERS WON THEIR
BIDS TO RETURN TO THEIR
00:25:55COMMUNITIES AND HOLD LOCAL
OFFICES.
00:26:00DEMOCRATIC REPRESENTATIVES KEVIN
BOYCE OF COLUMBUS, DENISE
00:26:03DRIEHAUS OF CINCINNATI AND
STEPHEN SLESNICK OF CANTON AND
00:26:07REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE BILL
HAYES OF GRANVILLE MOVE ON TO
00:26:09FACE OPPONENTS AT THE LOCAL
LEVEL IN THE GENERAL ELECTION.
00:26:13REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE TERRY
BOOSE WILL BECOME A HURON COUNTY
00:26:14COMMISSIONER BECAUSE HE HAS NO
DEMOCRATIC OPPONENT THIS FALL.
00:26:18AND REPUBLICAN SENATOR SHANNON
JONES OF SPRINGBORO WILL BE A
00:26:20WARREN COUNTY COMMISSIONER
BECAUSE SHE WON'T FACE AN
00:26:22OPPONENT IN NOVEMBER EITHER.
AND ON THE OHIO SUPREME COURT,
00:26:28CHIEF JUSTICE MAUREEN O'CONNOR
REMAINS, HAVING HAD NO PRIMARY
00:26:30OPPONENT AND NO DEMOCRATIC
CHALLENGER THIS FALL.
00:26:32REPUBLICANS PAT FISCHER AND PAT
DEWINE WILL FACE DEMOCRATS JOHN
00:26:34O'DONNELL AND CYNTHIA RICE,
RESPECTIVELY.
00:26:38THAT'S IT FROM THIS WEEK'S
PRIMARY, AND FOR THIS WEEK.
00:26:41FOR MY COLLEAGUES AT OHIO PUBLIC
RADIO AND TELEVISION, THANKS FOR
00:26:43WATCHING.
IF YOU'D LIKE TO ASK QUESTIONS,
00:26:45MAKE COMMENTS, OR WATCH THIS
WEEK'S SHOW OR EARLIER EPISODES,
00:26:47PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT
STATENEWS.ORG, OR WATCH ON THE
00:26:51OHIO CHANNEL'S WEBSITE OR AT
IDEASTREAM.ORG/OHIO.
00:26:56AND YOU CAN FOLLOW JO INGLES,
ANDY CHOW AND ME ON TWITTER.
00:26:58AND PLEASE JOIN US AGAIN NEXT
TIME FOR "THE STATE OF OHIO".
00:27:10>> SUPPORT FOR THE STATEWIDE
00:27:36BROADCAST OF THE STATE OF OHIO
COMES FROM THE LAW OFFICES OF
00:27:38PORTER, WRIGHT, MORRIS AND
ARTHUR, LLP.
00:27:40HELPING BUSINESS AND INDIVIDUALS
WITH COMPLEX LEGAL PROBLEMS IN
00:27:44OHIO, ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND
AROUND THE WORLD.
00:27:47ON LINE AT PORTER WRIGHT.COM.
AND FROM THE OHIO EDUCATION
00:27:51ASSOCIATION, REPRESENTING
120,000 MEMBERS, WHO WORK TO
00:27:55INSPIRE THEIR STUDENTS TO THINK
CREATIVELY AND EXPERIENCE THE
00:27:58JOY OF LEARNING.
Note : Transcripts are compiled from uncorrected captions