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Don Leonard

Don Leonard

Democratic nominee for Ohio's 15th Congressional District and former Clinical Professor of City and Regional Planning at The Ohio State University.

Oct 8, 2026

14:35
Right
14:35
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14:35
I put on my typology here, socialists are where government owns the means of production, where it's government that makes your smartphones, your eyeglasses, your pens.
14:45
I don't think anybody that I know wants their smartphone being manufactured by the state of Ohio or the American government.
14:52
I think what's happened in America is the traditional left has become so compromised by Clintonomics, which was, from my point of view, just a poor imitation of Reaganomics.
15:04
You know, think about it.
15:06
It was Bill Clinton that signed the North American Free Trade Agreement and created that giant sucking sound as all those factory jobs went south to Mexico.

6 MINS LATER

21:01
... who may not know who Don Leonard is, and isn't sure that they're gonna come out to vote this year?
BethanyHOST
15:17
Okay, so what can Congress do to make housing more affordable for our working families?
15:25
This is so important, so important.
15:28
Right now we're seeing, especially here in Central Ohio, it would take your typical high school, even college graduate, till their 40s or 50s before they'd be able to afford to buy their first home.
15:39
That is not what's on the brochure of the American dream.
15:42
We were not meant to be a society of renters.
15:46
I, myself, my mom had never bought her first home until I was in college.
15:54
We had a tough go of it, so I'm by no means looking down on renters, but I also know how important it was that at least by the latter part of midlife, my mother started accruing some equity that would be there for her to help sustain her in her retirement.

9 MINS LATER

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24:54
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