Our first locally produced transcript is the interview with Bryan Flannery, democratic candidate for governor:
George Nemeth: Hi. This is George Nemeth of Brewed Fresh Daily, and we’re here with Bryan Flannery. I’m here with Democracy Guy Tim Russo, and Bill Callahan of Callahan’s Cleveland Diary. Bill, first question.
Bill Callahan: Well I guess I should just go straight to the main question, because you’re famous for (I’m sorry; don’t take this the wrong way) being a one-issue candidate, in the sense of having the entire candidacy really organized around the work you’ve been doing on school financing. So why don’t I just ask you to describe what it is you are proposing, what it is you want to try to move forward, and particularly talk about the revenue side of it, because that’s one of the areas that people raise constantly.
Bryan Flannery: Right, and then what’s amazing with that, even the end of that question, Bill, is that people are talking about the revenue side. Before I got into this whole school funding mess (it is a mess), people weren’t talking about revenues. What they were talking about is, “How do you fix it?â€? and it was basically the opinion of most leaders in the state that you can’t fix it, and I have taken time over the past almost ten years working on a solution that works that does fix it, and now the question isn’t “How do you fix it?â€? It’s, “How do you pay for it?â€? and a simple answer is, “How do you not pay for it, if you know how to fix it?â€? But I love to talk about what this does….
Read the entire transcript here.
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