Tristan Rader

It's interesting.

Your colleague, Tristan Rader, we've interviewed him before, and he's done some of that hard work in finding bipartisan partners to actually push forward on these bills.

So he is in those caucuses as a Democrat.

He is working with Democrats and with Republicans at that level to try to propose things that ask the question.

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Ohio State Representatives Tristan Rader and Gene Schmidt have even been working to pass House Bill 821 that would name the Loveland Frogman as the state's official cryptid.

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That comes out next Tuesday.

Might have been.

I know current state rep Tristan Rader is a part of the.

So

Tristan jumped on board.

The Senate version hasn't even been assigned a committee.

But the bill is about, it just requires, you know, more transparency and And I did talk to the sponsor in the House, Representative Tristan Rader from Cleveland suburbs, Democrat.

And he said that the House needs to start having this discussion because I said, you know, this is you know, we have a two year legislative session which ends at the end of 2026.

So all bills that don't pass die and you have to reintroduce them next year.

Um, we have had one of our first elected, like, actually Democratic socialists, um, here in Cleveland, which is, uh, a councilman.

And then, like, in our state house, which is Tristan Rader, he has been elected as a, um, you know, state rep in Ohio.

It's so, it's, like, huge.

You know, and you're working, you said, you said yourself you're working with other independent candidates, right? Um, most notably, and you shared with this with me earlier, Tracy, um, Tracy Tackett.

Here are a few of those comments.

Ohio State Representative Tristan Rader weighed in and said, "Healthcare should and can be a right in the ris- richest country in the world." Many people mentioned other examples of things largely considered to be rights that require the services of others, like access to public education, for example.

And someone with the Instagram username scott.matros commented, "What a terrible perspective on caring for the most vulnerable in our society." A handful of people in the comments posted that they agreed with Redpath, that healthcare is not and never has been a right.

If you want to weigh in, you can find that clip on our Instagram page at The Sound of Ideas.

Yeah.

So currently, me and Tristan Rader, one of our state representatives, are working together to change that.

that.Yeah, absolutely.

Right, as if you haven't already had, had it hard enough