This is the FCB podcast Network. This is Pillow Talk with Ali Michelle on the podcast Network. Welcome back to another episode of pillow Talk with Ali Michelle. I am your host, Ali Michelle. Today I have a very very very interesting guest who I You guys are going to fall in love with him just as I did. And with that we're rolling right into it. Today. I would like to introduce you to the Ohio Secretary of State, who too is running for the United States Senate, Frank Loose. How you doing. I'm doing great, Ali, We're excited. You know, it's election season. We've got an important election coming up next Tuesday. And yeah, you're right working hard out on the Senate campaign that's next year in where we've got a primary and a general election, and the mission's clear. I'm an army guy talk in terms of mission a lot. My missions to beat Shared Brown and help us put our country back on track. I agree with that. So before we get to the nitty gritty, I started something new on my show and you are the first person to participate. So it's it's called break the Ice. So essentially, what I do is ask you to pick a number one or two and I already have questions that have been pulled. So I'm going to ask you and you just give me your best answer and we'll go from there. Are you ready? All right, let's go with number one? All right? Oh yes, I'm so happy. Okay. So if you had to sing a karaoke song right now, in this very moment, what would you sing? Journey Don't stop believing? Oh I like that. That's a cheesy choice, but especially after a night out with friends, that always that always feels good and I love belting that one out. That gives the crowd going. If I you know, in every bar you'll hear them. You know, well we all start screaming that song. So you know that you have a great that you have great taste in music. Tell us who you are, what you're about, and yeah, So my name is Frank LeRose. I grew up in the Akron area and I had a few experiences as a kid that really helped form who I am. I worked on a farm. I love that, In fact it was it was a great lesson in work ethic and and and and that kind of thing. I still go back there when they're bailing hay and stuff like that. Just it was an assume way to grow up working on a farm as a kid. And the other real formative experience for me was I was involved in the boilouts, and for me, my boy Scout leader was my hero still is a guy named Bill Maher who was a World War Two veteran. We lost him a couple of years ago in his late nineties after a long, full life. But I got to hear stories around the campfire about being part of the Normandy invasion, about liberating a concentration camp, and I remember thinking, man, I want to live a life of service to others. I want to do something like what Bill did and do my part to leave this place better than we found it. I knew from a young age I wanted to enlist in the Army, and my parents thought it was a terrible idea. They said, no, you got to go to college. But my heart was set on it and I signed up. After that, I was looking for a new challenge. I became a Green Beret, got to serve on a special Forces team to point to Iraq, Morocco, Omon and really had a great experience with that, serving with some of our country's finest soldiers. It was a real honor to be able to do that. Came home to Ohio after that experience, went to school at Ohio State, earned a business degree, got involved working on campaigns. I was too old to join a fraternity at twenty eight years old at that point, so I my social circle was people that worked on political campaigns. And I found something with a real purpose, and I thought, here's a way that I can make a difference and give back, and then decide I'd run for the State Senate kind of on a wing and a prayer. I was running in a really tough district for a Republican, but I wont. In twenty eighteen, I was elected Secretary of State. What really excites me about this office is that we're responsible for two things that are really empowering in the life of an individual. We help people vote, and we help people start businesses. And so I'm the person responsible for making sure that a state of eight million registered voters has elections they can trust, where it's easy to vote and hard to cheat. That's something we're proud of. But we're also the office where people start a new business. So if you're ready to live that American dream of being an entrepreneur, We want to make it easy to start your business so that you can thrive right here in Ohio. So that's exciting and something I love, and I've been doing that now for the last five years. But I decided a few months ago to launch this campaign for the US Senate and the reason, in my mind is very clear. We've got a country to save. It's not exaggeration at this point to say that America is heading in the wrong direction. And I think each generation has been responsible for making this country a little bit better, whether it's the you know, winning the World Wars, or getting us through the Great Depression, or the Civil Rights movement, each generation putting a man on the moon. Each generation has done something to leave this country better than they found it. And I'm starting to worry that if we don't act quickly, that our generation I'm forty four, is going to be the first one in American history to leave this country weaker, poorer, and less secure. And I'll be darned if that's going to happen on our watch. This country is worth fighting for. I decided when I was eighteen this country is so precious it's even worth dying for. And so isn't it also worth living for. And that's the decision that I've made, is to live to help make this country better and stronger. And that's why I'm running for the US Senate. Wow, that gave me. I'm not even exaggerating like Goosey's because that was literally one of my next questions is you know, America wants our country back, right, so we the people are We're mad. We are literally mad. And you just covered everything in that right there, because we're in uncharted waters, like uncharted waters, and it's just a really weird time. And that brings me to you know, as millennials, some of us some still have not voted once in their life. And I just turned thirty and I voted for the first time at the Trump election. But I do know many others who refuse to vote because they don't really understand the severity and how sacred that really is and how important it is to protect our home. We have a messy house and it is time to start cleaning it up. And I'm so glad that you are so dedicated to that from what I just heard. And Ellie, let's think about the power of a vote too. And you know, we all have friends that say, man, I don't get involved in politics, all right, Well, that's like saying I don't get involved in weather. It's going to impact you. But unlike weather, we can change politics. And the power of free people to choose their leaders is really remarkable. For thousands of years that people have lived on this rock, there's never been that chance until recently. We can choose who our leaders are. We can set a new course for our nation. I've traveled around the world and observed foreign elections in places like Ukraine. I was in Nigeria last year for their presidential election. I saw people vote for the first time in Iraq when I was there, where they were risking their lives to cast a ballot. Here, it takes just a couple of minutes. You get a free sticker and you know that it's a trustworthy process. There is no reason not to make your voice heard, and it does really make a difference. Yeah. Yeah, And like some of my friends even are I don't want to vote. I don't want to get into politics. I'm like, you don't have to be you know, like me, you don't have to be this far into it. But to just understand what's going on, and so I participated in my Nieces school. I volunteered for the Halloween party and of Ukrainian boys was in her class. Doesn't speak much English, but he had a US Army costume, and that to me just spoke volumes for a little ten year old to represent US but coming from another country. So the power of us and we should embrace that. America. Listen, when we get involved in things around the world, we're we're the good guys. And that doesn't mean that we get involved in things that aren't in America's interest, to be very clear, but when America leads the world safer. More importantly, when America leads were safer and more prosperous. And this is a big differentiator between me and some others. I think that it's not American strength that causes problems around the world, it's American weakness. When we're weak, then you see invasions of places like Ukraine that would have never happened if Trump was still in the White House. When America's weak, you see Iran give the green light to Hamas to go kill Israelis that would have not happened if President Trump was in the White House. This administration, the Biden administration has been weak on our border on Ukraine with the withdrawal from Afghanistan. We need to get back to a place of American strength. That's one of the reasons why I'm such a strong supporter of President Trump and why I'm supporting him for election next year. Oh my gosh, I'm so happy that you said that. It's just it's, you know, because there's so many people that are very anti him still, and it's the proof is in the pudding. He made it better. Everything about our country and the world alone was better. So as social media, we all know, like that's you know, that's where we get our daily news now as millennials and gen zers. But there's good and there's bad when it comes to social media. What are your thoughts on the anti Israeli propaganda. Our Vice President said some pretty interesting things the other day about the hate on Palestinians, but war is war. Innocent children are suffering in a so people, what are your thoughts on the anti Israeli propaganda. Let's start by putting this into perspective. On October seventh, there were more Jews murdered brutally murdered than any day since the Holocaust. These blood Thursday Hamas terrorists broke through the border wall at Gaza and flooded into the southern Israeli towns, places like Starote where I was just eight months ago, Places like Kafar Azah, this little farming village where I was eight months ago, where forty children were brutally murdered. This is the kind of thing that needs to bring back the memories of when we say never again, when we go to a Holocaust memorial and we say never again. The way that we actually put those words into action is by standing with Israel. Because Israel didn't stop this fight, but they've got every right to end this fight. And what that means is they need to eradicate Hamas. You can't negotiate with people that want you dead, you can't reason with them. Israel has to eliminate Hamas, and that's what they're doing right now as we speak. And the fact that there are knuckleheads on American college campuses who are somehow equating Hamas and Israel as though they're equal, as though one side and the other are are are the same, is completely It's ugly, and it's anti Semitic, and anybody who is out there waiving Hamas flag. What they're doing is engaging in ugly anti semitism. Now let's also be clear, because you're talking about social media. The way that we get information, yeah, is on social media, and Hamas is very good at propaganda. They are flooding the zone with false information. They're flooding the zone. Look at what happened with the hospital. Just a week ago, there was an Islamic jihad rocket hit a hospital and the Hamas statement that came out was that it was Israel's fault. The mainstream media didn't question that. They just ran with it. They just ran with it as though it was fact. The proof was later exposed that it wasn't Israel that hit this hospital, it was their own rocket that malfunctioned. But people believed that stuff, and we're you know, protesting and violently trying to storm American embassies around the world. That kind of thing is dangerous. But here's what we need to understand. Hamas uses human shields. This is the simplest way to understand this. Israel uses rockets to protect their civilians. Hamas uses civilians to protect their rockets, and so as Israel moves through Gaza to eliminate this terrible thread, there are going to be some civilian casualties, even though Israel tries really hard to avoid that. They drop leaflets, they warn people, they tell them to get out, but Hamas intentionally puts pavilions in harm's way and then they use that to put out social media to make people sympathetic to Hamas. Understand that Hamas and their backers Iran are responsible for any bad thing that happens right now in Gaza. It's not the Israeli's fault. It's Hamas and Iran that have caused this problem. Yep, I totally agree, and I hope that you know, those that are listening and will listen to this fully understand what you're saying is truth. And social media is just flooded with the bull crap propaganda pushing weird different ideologies. For what reason that brings me into you know, issue one that has to do with the most innocent and most vulnerable is the ones in the womb, and I want you to if you could, can you please explain how important this is. Many folks are totally misunderstanding what this entails. Can you, like break it down in simple terms because of lot of women think we're quote unquote losing healthcare. A lot of commercials are false advertising. How can you, in the position you are in reassure women that you know voting no is is not taking away from your healthcare, saving saving lives lives. I was just on the phone last night with a friend I went to high school with who was confused about this, and so I was trying to make it clear exactly what Issue one does. So let's understand that if Issue one passes, it is the most extreme pro abortion law in the country. It would put Ohio further than California or Massachusetts. It would allow late term abortion through the very end of pregnancy. So imagine a fully formed child that can feel pain, that could survive outside of the womb, being brutally killed as a result of this. The ugliest thing in here is that it takes away parental involvement. Listen, my daughters need a permision slip to get an aspirin at school, or permission from parent to get a tattoo or a piercing. But if Issue one passes, then some guidance counselor from their school could ship them off to a planned parenthood facility without their parents knowing, and this life altering, life ending procedure could be performed. It's completely it's completely crazy. And here's where even our friends that are pro choice should understand this. This goes too far for them. Also, this is not just about you know, abortions being performed in the first couple months of pregnancy. This goes to the extreme and pro choice Ohioans should reject this as well because it really is radical. Yeah, yeah, I completely agree, and I believe in Ohio we already have it up to twenty one weeks, which I think is still too much. You know, a life is a life. You know, science proves. They want to scream about science for the last three years, but then want to deny science right now. But it's really ugly what they're trying to do. And understand this too. The reason why they're doing this in Ohio in twenty twenty three is that they want to prove that it can be done so they can take it nationwide in twenty twenty four. Ohio's a test market. If you have a new consumer product or a new menu at your fast food restaurant, you test it in Ohio and if it sells here, then you do it throughout the country. And so that's what the left is trying to do. They're trying to prove that they can win this in Ohio and then go to their tech billionaires on the coasts and get funding to do this in the rest of the country in twenty twenty four. And so in this case, the world's watching, the nation's watching. Ohio needs to stand up and stand for life and say we're not going to have this radical, brutal late term abortion, no parental involvement kind of a law in our state. I didn't know that about Ohio. So that's very interesting and it's a scary time I think for you know, women like me who stand for life and stand for parental rights, and some people failing to understand that a lot of people want to take away your power. A lot of people want the power to tell your kids what to do. I have to remind my friends this all the time, Like you have the power to go into that school and demand change or if you don't like how they're saying something, you have that right. So if that's taken away, that's that's going to homeschooling. Home schooling parents' rights is one of the parents' rights. Is one of the main things that I'm focusing on in my Senate campaign as well, and one of the reasons why I'm spending all of my free time right now out campaigning with school board candidates. If you do nothing else, make sure you pay attention. Of course, vote no on issue one, but pay attention to who's running for school board in your community and support the conservative, reasonable people that are running for school board because we've got bureaucrats at the local, state and federal level who think it's okay to step between a parent and their child. I'm the only candidate in the Senate race that has school aged children learn and I have an eight year old, a ten year old, and a twelve year old, and we're not interested in co parenting with the government. We want our children to be raised with our values, and I think that's what every parent should want. It's time that we stand up for parents rights again. That's a major major issue that I'm focusing on in the Senate race as well. I love that I can relate to you guys so so much for the fact that I too, I'm in a kinship program with my nieces, so they're in my household right now, which is seven, and then I have ten, and then my son, you'll my son's twelve, So I can't it's I adore you, like I instantly just fell in love with you as a candidate, just because you're relatable and a lot of issues that we have with you know, politicians and stuff is we're not we can't relate. And I think that since you gave us a little bit inside of your home that I hope this resonates with a lot of listeners and my followers, and I did want to touch base if you have a moment. So again with social media, you know, our kids watch social media. I watch, I'm on social media. That's you know, my platform. And so it's flooded with its gen zers and millennials. Again, like I said, it's it's part of our news outlet. So we see a lot if they're not censored or you know, flagged for misinformation. But we see a lot of talk about the border crisis. There's a lot of those quote sleeper cells sneaking in from our border. It's a lot of there's a lot of uncertainty here. Like I said, it's unchartered waters we're freaking I'm freaking out. My one of my sisters just went to New York and I had to tell her to be careful and what do you think we should do to protect our borders and our future of our country. Well, I could hear in your voice that that you're afraid about this, and we all are. The Biden administration admitted just a couple of weeks ago that thousands of people on the terrorist watch list have come across the border. This one, for me, is a another area where I have the experience to actually go to the Senate and make a difference because I served on the border. I was part of a counter narcotics task force. Allie, let me tell you. When I was there twenty two years ago, we would go out on patrol with the border patrol at night and we would find the smugglers coming across the border carrying children, precious innocent children. When the border patrol would search them, they would find bags of drugs in the diapers of the children. Now, there's a special place in hell for somebody that would put a bag of cocaine in the diaper of an innocent child, thinking that we weren't going to search there. It's worse now because what's coming across the border is fentanyl. In Butler County, Ohio, just a couple of weeks ago, just a traffic stop, somebody who's pulled over for a traffic violation. There was a dog, a canine with the police officer. They found one enough fentanyl to kill one point five million people in a little four door sedan on the side of the road in Butler County. And we know where that poison is coming from. It's chemicals from China mixed together in Mexico, smuggled across the border by the these cartels that should be defined as foreign terrorist organizations so that we can use the full power of the government to stop them. Now, listen, we know how to secure a border. It's building the wall. It's building fences and physical barriers and walls. It's putting sensors and cameras on both sides of the wall so we know what's going on. And then it's also taking away the incentive to come here illegally. I've been very clear that there should not be any amnesty for those who come here illegally. If you break our law, if you come here illegally, you should never be able to have US citizenship. You should never be able to have government benefits. We should fix the asylum process so people don't just come and get a slip that says all right, appear in court in a year and a half, and then they're set loose to go do what they want. This administration, the Biden administration, and Shared Brown are culpable for the invasion that's occurring on our border. When I get to the Senate, this is going to be job one. I hope they fix it before then, But in twenty twenty five, when I get to the Senate, if it's not fixed, this is going to be job one. Secure the border and fix our immigration system so we stop rewarding lawlessness. Well that you said when I get to the when I get to the Senate, not if when i'm I love your I love your enthusiasm, I love your you know your bravery, and I love everything that you're staying. I just can't say it enough. Like your confidence is amazing. And people that I know personally want to talk about, oh, well, they're keeping children locked up in these cages. How can you reassure them that that's not the case, Like that's not true. And I try to say there's people that are you know, there's a market for children. It's true, it's real, it's there. It's not a conspiracy. I would rather them be, you know, in a place where I know our soldiers and our people are watching over these these little babies, and then instead of having them go free and then be shipped off who knows where. Never forget that America is the good guys, and we have been and we continue to be. Uh. Yeah, there is a crisis on our border that's both a public safety and national security crisis, but also a humanitarian crisis. These people that are trying to come across the border are desperate because of the failed, dangerous countries they're coming from. That's a Central American problem largely. And you know, we know that human trafficking is a real thing. It's modern day slavery, and so what's happening down there involves some very difficult decisions when people have to be detained and held for a period of time, and the United States of America acts in a way that is humane, I can tell you that's not the case in a lot of these Central American countries where these people are coming from you know, it's such a scary thought. But so do you like tic tac or do you hate it? I tell you what, Given my work as an Army green Beret and some of the classified briefings that I've gotten, I've got some concerns. But I'll just say that the control that the Chinese Communist Party has over TikTok really worries me. TikTok in China is educational videos. They're trying to educate children in China. TikTok here in the US is something very different, and so I've got some concerns about it. Would that be like maybe a proposal to maybe have America own more of it? I tell you what, I am open to suggestions on this one. I want to learn more about it. I do think that American ownership of an entity like that would would make me feel a lot better. But I know for a fact that, for example, people in my line of work in the special operations community are told not to have it on their phones. Members of the federal government are told do not download that app because of some very real security concerns that go along with it. And so that's a real thing that we have to be aware of. Yeah, so what makes you different than your other opponents. I'm the battle tested conservative. Talk is cheap. It's easy to say whatever you want to say when you've never run for wide office before. But I'm the one that has a one hundred percent pro life voting record. Nobody else in the race does. I'm the one that has a one hundred percent pro Second Amendment voting record, nobody else in the race does. I'm the one who has a consistent record of voting to cut taxes, and that's what we need. We need that in Washington. We've got people in DC Republican and Democrat political insiders that agree on spending more of your money on nonsense government programs. We need to cut taxes. We need to cut spending at the federal government level. I'm also the only one in the race who's not a millionaire. And again, we celebrate prosperity, and that's wonderful that people have been financially successful, But Lauren and I aren't millionaires. The other two candidates are. Lauren and I are thousandaires. And so we know what it means to struggle, we know what it means to sit there after we put the kids to bed at the end of the month and try to figure out how we're going to pay the bills. And that real experience and that real empathy that I have for the struggles that normal Ohioan's face, I think will make me a much better senator because I know that this economy is hurting people. I know this firsthand. It's about seven hundred and fifty dollars a month that cost of living has gone up. And so you know, I'm one that believes that the solution isn't hiring more irs agents like Joe Biden and Sharon Brown have proposed. The solution is not trillions of dollars of federal spending. The solution is unleashing American prosperity through the free market, cutting taxes, streamlining regulations, helping entrepreneurs get their start so that they can start the next great American businesses and put people to work. That's how we return to prosperity, not more government, more freedom. See tell them up with you again all over again. So where can people follow you? How can they get more information about your campaign? Yeah? So our website is Franklerooes dot com. I'd ask you to sign up to be part of our battle tested team at frankleros dot com. If you're willing, maybe think about throwing a couple bucks our way. We're a grassroots campaign. We're working hard to raise the money that we have to raise because that's how you beat Shery Brown next year. And so we've had thousands of Ohioans that have pitched in with just five or ten bucks on our website at franklerose dot com. And then you can find us on all the different platforms that just at frank LeRose, on Facebook, Twitter, or x LinkedIn YouTube, all the different social platforms also, by the way, yeah yeah, well maybe not that one. So then you said truth Social, you're on true Social too, Yes, yep, absolutely. Well again, I think you're extremely relatable. Thank you so much for coming on my show. It's been a real real honor. And you have my vote, Ali, that means a lot. And listen, you're a courageous, smart, young female voice in the conservative movement and that makes a difference. So don't back down, don't let them cancel you, don't let them intimidate you. I know you won't, but what you're doing truly makes a difference. Oh, thank you, well, Thank you again. 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