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Bill DeMora

Bill DeMora

Ohio State Senator

Oct 8, 2026

42:41
Mm-hmm.
42:42
And these things can get up to over 30 miles an hour, depending on if you, how you, uh, hook them up.
42:47
And obviously, there are people that can hook 'em up to make 'em go quicker.
42:50
I mean, these things, riding one of those things on the sidewalk, hitting a pedestrian who's got...
42:54
I mean, that's, I mean, that's gonna cause serious injuries.
42:58
And these kids riding these e-bikes without a helmet, God forbid they hit a bump in the r- and, and hit a crack in the road or a bump in the sidewalk, and boom, they have no helmet on.
43:09
Again, every week you read about somewhere in the country, somebody being seriously injured or killed riding these e-bikes 'cause they're going so fast, um, and they just don't...

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51:28
Uh, whose charge there? The kid, the parent, and who pays to get the bike back?
7:06
Mm-hmm.
7:06
And these things can get up to over 30 miles an hour, depending on if you, how you, uh, hook them up.
7:12
And obviously, there are people that can hook 'em up and make 'em go quicker.
7:15
I mean, these things, riding one of those things on the sidewalk, hitting a pedestrian who's got...
7:19
I mean, that's, I mean, that's gonna cause serious injuries.
7:22
And these kids riding these e-bikes without a helmet, God forbid they hit a bump in the r- and, and hit a crack in the road or a bump in the sidewalk, and boom, they have no helmet on.
7:33
Again, every week you read about somewhere in the country somebody being seriously injured or killed riding these e-bikes 'cause they're going so fast, um, and they just don't...

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15:53
Uh, whose charge are the kid, the parent, and who pays to get the bike back?
29:52
Would it be like police departments, sheriff's deputies issuing citations if they see a young kid on one of these bikes without a helmet? Would it be like that? Like our officers and our deputies have to be on the lookout?
30:02
Yes, they do.
30:03
And what's going to happen is someone asked me this morning on a radio interview I was doing.
30:08
If somebody in Upper Arlington, if some 13-year-old kid in Upper Arlington gets killed on one of these things, I guarantee you the police in Upper Arlington are going to start paying a lot more attention to who's riding these bikes and if they're legal or not.
30:18
The same thing anywhere else.
30:19
Unfortunately, sometimes it takes an accident, some child getting seriously injured or killed before police will pay attention.
30:26
And listen, our police have way much, a lot to do, have way more serious things to maybe concentrate on.
32:21
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?
80:01
We want to go back to those days?
80:04
Well, I guess they do, although I don't think my colleagues have a clue about bookies.
80:09
I'm sure they never had a bookie.
80:10
I mean, I had a bookie when I was young.
80:13
I didn't think anything about it.
80:15
I thought everybody had a bookie.
80:19
And, you know, luckily the statute of limitations is up on all that stuff.

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88:16
Does that make sense?
3:53
What would the bill do? What's the current law in Ohio when it comes to a 16 or 17 year old marrying an adult?
4:00
So the current law is that if a judge gives permission and if the parents want it, then it can happen, which is, again, ridiculous because, as you just stated, if you're under 18 and marry somebody who's over 18, you become basically their property because you have no legal rights.
4:16
You become a ward of your husband or wife, but most times it's older age men marrying underage women.
4:26
My colleagues somehow think that...
4:29
And one of their issues is that why should we tell anybody how old they have to be to be married? And I say to them, well, we tell kids how old they have to be before they can drive, before they can vote, what age they have to be to buy liquor and tobacco.
4:42
But we don't tell them, but we can't tell them how old they have to be to be married.
4:45
I mean, it's ridiculous.
5:56
Where is it right now? What's keeping it from moving? What's the ideology holding us up?
18:57
For the upcoming governor's race, DeMora thought the Democratic Party needed an unconventional candidate who could get those voters back.
19:06
Our state had switched.
19:06
I mean, Trump had just beaten Hillary by eight points.
19:10
I don't think we had anything.
19:11
We had no, nobody on the court.
19:14
We had nobody, no elected official.
19:15
And so we needed somebody to try to energize the party, and at that point in time, I thought, you know, Jerry Springer is that person.

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24:48
In fact, it captured what Bill DeMora saw in Springer's potential candidacy.

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