Andrew Brenner

By the way, it's real interesting.

The same newspaper back, uh, during Ohio's COVID response, there was a state senator, he's still a state senator, he's finishing his term out, uh, Andrew Brenner.

Uh, his wife made some comment about Amy Acton requiring papers.

Remember she said, "I'd love to have immunity certificates to go back to normal life." Well, his wife called that out and, and he kind of retweeted it or republished it.

And, you know, as we talk about trying to get bipartisan support for this, because that is a hurdle to overcome, being a Democrat in the Ohio legislature.

Obviously, Andrew Brenner represents Delaware County.

We've seen Delaware County become a very fairly urban county in recent years.

I mean, Delaware County or Delaware, the city itself, becoming 50,000, 60,000 people.

And then the whole southern part of that.

Do you expect to work with or try to work with some of these Republicans that represent these more growing counties, for example, Republican Senator Andrew Brenner, trying to get something done?

Absolutely.

I mean, I get along great with Senator Brenner, Senator Blessing down in Cincinnati, who represents part of the city of Cincinnati, an urban district.

... and I'm, like, singlehandedly, like, be gone, virus, stay out.

[laughs] State Senator Andrew Brenner said, "Remember, Amy Acton is a doctor who gave horribly bad recommendations to Governor DeWine, which led to hundreds of thousands of kids falling behind in schools, business failures, lockdowns, and unnecessary regulations that didn't help anyone." Now, that's a mic drop, because that's right.

Okay, so the ones who pushed back, uh, Handsome Cthulhu, "I don't like her, but I voted no because I don't see Ohio taking any actionable course to disqualify her from anything." Uh, so okay.

Jay Scott says, "If Vivek wasn't running, she'd be nowhere close in the governor's race.

So this is the second time that lawmakers have introduced this bill.

So it was introduced last General Assembly and then reintroduced at the very start of this General Assembly by Republican Senator Andy Brenner.

He introduced it in January of last year, but it really hasn't moved.

You know, it rewrites this decades old law that related to those franchise agreements that you mentioned.