Very impressive.

Well, y- it was one of those things that we've been looking at it for some time.

We've been having conversations about whether we should do this.

There certainly were calls for it, and then we saw the price of diesel spike, and we saw the price of gas spike, and we saw it remain there.

And we said, "Look, Ohioans all over the state are asking for cost relief.

This is an opportunity for Republicans yet again to provide that cost relief, uh, for them." And Vivek acted as, in many ways, a convener in this case.

Um, Vivek obviously has been on the road.

Yeah.

This is, uh, Beth Lear, and I wanted to ask you, since you've been crisscrossing the state with Vivek, what is the number one thing Ohioans are bringing up to the two of you one on one?

Well, it's a variety of things, really, and, and it, a lot of it comes in the form of the costs that people are facing right now.

A lot of it comes in the form of, uh, people wanting to see more economic opportunity in the state.

And let's talk a little bit about the costs.

We've had plans since the very outset of this campaign to do a variety of things to bring down costs for Ohio, and chief among them, property taxes.

We've been, uh, we were at the outset talking about our plan to bring down property taxes in this state and deliver the largest property tax rollback in this state's history, our plan to put Ohio on a pathway to eliminating its income tax.

We're already, as you know, Beth, uh, 'cause you voted for it, uh, the second lowest income tax rate of any state with an income tax.

What does a candidate do that for? Why is that happening?

And you, I think you were in the House at the time, May of 2020, you introduced a bill that would have immediately ended Ohio's stay-at-home order and limit Amy Acton's and the state health director's ability to give similar orders to I don't know that that bill, I'm not sure what happened to it, but that's exactly what needed to happen not only in Ohio but in every state because it was a clear overreach of government at the time.

Absolutely.

I was actually at the Senate.

I believe the bill number was Senate Bill 311.

We did get it over the finish line.

We did eventually pass it.

Unfortunately, the governor vetoed it.

So talk to people about those concerns, and they're real.

Why is Ohio the place to put your business?

Well, Ohio's made some major progress as far as improving its business environment.

We've tried deliberately to become a more pro-growth environment.

When I got into the legislature back in 2015, we had seven income tax brackets.

The highest was 7.5%.

Starting next year, as you already know, Hugh, we're gonna be at 2.75% flat tax bracket.

And you add on top of that the occupational licensing reforms to try and bring more workers to Ohio, the fact that we're trying to get a lot of this wokeness out of our higher education institutions, get them back to the basics of educating Ohio students who will have skills to enter the workforce, uh, there's a lot of things we have going for us.

Dave Yost told me about that, yeah.