Community Connection - April 30 2026 - Tina Cosby - Community Connection With Tina Cosby

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, no, the sweaters.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
It covers up all of that.

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Don't wear springs for it sweater, Well, that is true,
you're right, Yeah, that covers it all up.

Speaker 3 (00:08):
Uh three one seven for zero thirteen ten three one
seven four eight zero thirteen ten. Speaking of the month
of May, we're continuing our countdown to next week's May
primary elections here in the state of Indiana and Indianapolis
and Marion County.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
Of course, it's coming up Tuesday, May the fifth.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
It is coming up Tuesday, May the fifth, and we
continue to invite to the show as best we can, uh,
candidates who are asking for your vote.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Today, we're going to have another candidate end.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
He is the Democratic, another Democratic candidate for Marion County Sheriff,
Kelvis Williams. And he'll be coming up in our second
our as well as the Indianapolis Recorders.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
Danny bridges with sports. And since the month of.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
May is tomorrow and this is Danny's time, this is
Danny's Christmas, you know, oh, yes it is, we will
probably we'll start with auto racing. And since there have
been ongoing efforts the last three four, maybe even five
years to be for from the i MS, from the
Speedway for the Indianapolis five hundred and related events to

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be more inclusive, more of a reach out to community.
We want to make sure that we get that in
and Danny's Danny's done his part too by inviting inviting
people out for a tenderloin that he'll pay for if
you just come out and experience it and see what
it's all about.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
So but yeah, yeah, he did, and he's good for it.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
And I applaud Jimmy McMillan, their diversity chief and council
as well out there at the IMS for trying to
get our communities more involved, more so than just the
traditional race crowd. Exactly, a lot of folks have never
considered it because they never felt.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
Included none, that's true.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
Yeah, And I've had people say, Tina, why do you
why do you have Why is Danny always talking about racing?

Speaker 1 (02:03):
Ain't nobody interested in racing?

Speaker 3 (02:04):
Well, then I've had people say I like that, and
and these are this goes, it goes across all lines.
They say they like to hear it because they become
more interested in racing, or because they have some kind
of a racing tradition in their families, which we don't
often hear about so yeah, so well, you know we're
going to mix it up. So instead of having him

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rush at the end, and we'll let him open with that.
See how he what he says about that, because that
that again, that is his that's his thing. You know,
he loves it. He does like Christmas to Dan it
is five hundred comes now.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
I been.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
You know, I used to have to work, and sometimes
they say when you have to when when things are
mandatory and you have to do them, you don't tend
to enjoy him as much.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
And over the course of my career, my goodness, you're
out there a lot, a lot, a lot.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
And I am so happy for the people who enjoy
it because they truly get a real But I have
a cousin who his family has had tickets to the
Indianapolis five hundred for the last fifty years.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
Fifty years. Wow.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
Yeah, and he's still well, yeah, he's my cousin by marriage.
I should say that because I guess if I say
my cousin, it would be my family and he is
my family.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
But yeah, he his father started and then when his
father passed, he and his mother and then you know,
his mother said you take over. And so now he
and his yeah, he and his cousins go and that's
their reunion every year.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
Out of the track.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
That is something else, well, my dad exposed us to
when we were kids. So we were going to the
speedway often to watch races for practice. That's how we
were pretty much said.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
Yeah, well you know my grandfather, that was his whole thing.
He was into to go kart racing and racing because
he had his own of course, he mechanic and had
his own automatic transmission repair business and in addition to
some other things.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
But anyway, he loved going to.

Speaker 3 (04:03):
He called it the races, the races. He loved going
to the races. And he would go to North Vernon
all kinds of places to the races. And he truly
enjoyed the Indianapolis five hundred and he would take my
brothers and to me, I never really went. I don't
know why this, but anyway, he and his favorite coming

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up here was always Carburetion Day.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
Oh yeah, that's on Friday, Friday.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
Yeah, he loved he would spend the whole weekend up here.
You come up from southern Indiana, it's spend the whole weekend.
But I remember one of his all time favorites.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
And he liked the race. He loved the race, but
he loved Carbuation Day.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
Well you remember Willie t Ribs. He was the first
black driver. I was in Bump Day nineteen ninety one.
He became the first black driver to qualify in five
hundred did it dramatic fashion in the twenty ninth position.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
He was a good driver.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
He was a good driver. Qualified again in ninety three
for the seventy seventh running.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
And he found when when is that the year he
made the field?

Speaker 2 (05:02):
He made the field that year he started in thirtieth
position the outside wrote ten average speed of two hundred
and seventeen points seven eleven miles per.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
Hour, and she finished.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
She finished in nineteen ninety three.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
Yeah, yeah, I remember I got a one on one
with him.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
Oh you did, really?

Speaker 1 (05:20):
I told you I was. It was mandatory to cover
the rays, but that was a pleasure.

Speaker 3 (05:24):
That was an Aswer couldn't have been nicer, very informative.
Wanted to educate people about it, wanted to share his
enthusiasm about it, and you know, clearly explain the challenges
which when you get down to it, it's money and.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
Connection that's the that's the challenge it's for at that
level IndyCar formula when when you get up there, it's
money in connection.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
It certainly is you know, family pedigree, right, which gets
you money in connection.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
That's true. On twenty two, he was named Formula one's
Ambassador for Diversity for the Formula one.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
Okay, okay, did he go to F one after?

Speaker 2 (06:02):
I don't know what happened to one? Yeah, that's what
I thought, because he started racing was in nineteen eighty four.
He started climbing to his his car to some of
the victories. What was something the air shuffle. I guess
it was modeled after his friend Muhammad Ali.

Speaker 3 (06:19):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's all right. So but but will
Willy T was a great guy. It's still I mean,
he's still around. But I'm just he was fun. He
made the race interesting as well, and it was a
lot of fun. And I seem to remember. Yeah, so
you say he went to F one after?

Speaker 2 (06:37):
I think he did that. He was at least he
was named the Formula ones ambassador for her city.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
Okay, okay, great, great, great so but anyway, so this
will be Daniel, Danny's gonna have a treat today. Yeah, Christmas,
we're gonna we're going to start with that. And he's
coming a little later after the second hour. Yeah, after
the second now. But right now, as we say, each

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and every by the way, the lines are open three
one seven, four eight zero thirteen ten three one seven,
four eight zero thirteen ten for whatever may be on
your mind right now.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
Early voting still underway. Every day, happen seven.

Speaker 3 (07:20):
Days a week up until the fourth, which is the
day before, and you can vote all the way up
until noon on the fourth. If you want to early vote,
you can do that at the City County Building. But
after twelve noon on Monday the fourth, all early voting
cuts off. Everybody's getting ready for the you know, not
the general, but getting ready for the big primary, big
primary elections. So here we have some information for you.

(07:46):
As we said, early voting is underway downtown Indianapolis City
County Building. Will start there and work our way out
and the early voting hours and dates April twenty seventh
through May first, eight am to six pm. This is
at the Marin County Building Marion County City County Building
only twenty seven through May first, which is tomorrow, and

(08:12):
then on the weekend May fourth, eight am to noon
on all weekends at twenty fifth, May second, and third, Well,
what is this May fourth is until noon? Oh okay,
I see the second and the third. That's going to
be eleven to six. Eleven to six over the weekend,
so tomorrow eight to six, and then on the weekend.

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If you want to vote early and you're downtown and
you want to go to the City County Building tomorrow
or Sunday, you can vote from eleven to six. If
you want to go to the City County Building Monday,
you can only vote until noon. Only until noon, So
that's the City County Building, and of course two hundred
East Washington Street between Delaware and Alabama Street. Entrance to

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the City County Clerk's Office where the voting is taking place,
will be on the west side of the building off Delaware.
If you happen to see a couple of sheriff's deputies
or anybody in uniform, please do not be intimidated, be
polite and let them know that you are going to vote. Yes, now,
I will say, and I've said it tongue, and there's

(09:14):
nowhere else you could be going.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
You can't even be going to the bath you know, I.

Speaker 3 (09:18):
Use the bathroom as a restroom as an example, but
you there. I just didn't understand that. And I don't
know if he wanted me see his bright, shiny uniform.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
Or maybe that was it.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
Maybe, but he stepped.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
Right to me, you know, and I just kinda I
kind of stepped back a little bit.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
Where are you going?

Speaker 4 (09:37):
There?

Speaker 1 (09:38):
You going? May I help you? Where you going? May
I help you right here? To vote? Okay?

Speaker 2 (09:43):
Maybe he thought maybe he remembered you from being in TV,
and he thought.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
That's a nice one, though, very nice thought.

Speaker 3 (09:53):
Here's the thing with TV, you already know who you are,
because if I were there with TV, there'd be somebody
right beside me with the photography, know, with the camera
on the shoulder or what have you, or I would
be now the way they do it, they uh what
do they call them mmj's multimedia journalists. They would have
their own equipment with themselves right there right there. I

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or they used to call them one man bands and
now they're MMJ. Yeah, multi media journalists because it is
more than a one man band, because you're you're writing,
you're shooting, you're editing, and you're and you're posting to
the web, so you're doing all of those things. So
it is a multi media job as opposed to being

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a one man band, which is you shoot and and
uh report on your you know, you do it all.
You're the photographer and the reporter and that's it. That's
a one man band. And I guess you edit, so editing, yeah, yeah,
you have to edit yourself.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
But there was no such thing.

Speaker 3 (10:50):
I was there just me and I had a small billfold,
So couldn't mistake me for a media profession, no, I
guess not. No, I didn't have radio. I didn't have anything.

Speaker 2 (11:01):
And you can only go there for that reason.

Speaker 1 (11:04):
That's the only reason.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
And there if you if you have you seen the
setup down there, I have not.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
Oh my goodness.

Speaker 3 (11:11):
It's a sea of campaign uh stickers and what do
you call them? The yard sign the posters and everything.
I mean, you have to wade through it. And then
there's candidates and pull you know workers that are that
are there on behalf of the candidates shoving paper at
you and what have you. And so when you walk

(11:32):
through all of that and then inside and you go
up the shoot so to speak, where are you gonna
go he was, I keep saying that I need to stop.
But what I'm saying is don't don't let that intimidate
you or turn you back. Just smile politely and say, hey,
I'm going to vote, you know, and if anybody tries
to stop you, one eight hundred hour vote, one eight

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hundred hour vote, one eight oh our vote. Julie has
given us that number and would definitely definitely want you
to call. And there their folks are answering the phone,
live people, no questions asked.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
Just call them and they will help out.

Speaker 3 (12:15):
One eight hundred hour vote and that translates to eight
six six. No, wait a minute, did I say one
eight hundred our vote? You may it's eight six six
our vote, which is eight six six six eight seven
eight six eight three eight six six six eight seven

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eight six eight three The Voter Integrity hotline. Voter Integrity
hotline is eight six six hour vote, eight six six
hour vote. I was looking at another one eight hundred
number here, Okay, that's not it?

Speaker 2 (12:52):
All right?

Speaker 1 (12:52):
Here we go.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
In addition to that too, tenapp first sixty six our
vote BMV. They are extending they're hours of operation for
Monday the fourth and Tuesday, the fifth hours from May
thirty to eight pm on Monday, and then on Tuesday
open from eight to from six am to six pm.
And they said all of the branches are prioritizing processing

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transactions and include new, amended, or renewed or replacement identification cards,
lender permits, driver's licenses, and clds. Love it, all of
which are valid ID cards that can be used for voting.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
Okay, love it, love it, love it.

Speaker 3 (13:31):
And again, please, if you're listening and you see anything
out of the ordinary or looks shady, shenanigans, what have you,
Or if you see anything especially good that you know
you'd like to pat, a poll worker or you know
whoever's doing their jobs, report that as well. It is

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eight six six our vote, eight six six six eight
seven eighty six eight three eight six six six eight seven,
eight six eight three. If you can't remember the numbers,
just remember eight six six our vote, eight six six

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our vote. So you know what, get your papers straight
here there it is, get your paper it is yep,
there it is there, it is so yeah and so there.
And then after all of that, okay, we're giving you
downtown for Indianapolis, Sumia and if you have any questions
for Indianapolis and Marion County only go to vote dot

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Indy dot gov. Vote dot Indy dot gov, vote dot
ind dot gov.

Speaker 1 (14:41):
Now you can vote early from now until.

Speaker 3 (14:45):
Uh May third, from now until May third at the
following locations the City County Building.

Speaker 1 (14:51):
It gave you all of.

Speaker 3 (14:52):
The times and dates for that, the additional the additional
sites that are online, the satellite site.

Speaker 1 (14:59):
So week Eric, do you want to share the.

Speaker 2 (15:03):
De Caater Township Government Center, Franklin Township Government Center, Indianapolis
Public Library, Fort Ben Branch, Indianapolis Public Library, Pike Branch.
You can vote there, Crandwick Park, Harry Township Government Center,
Saint Luke's United Methodist Church, and Warren Township Government Centers.

Speaker 1 (15:22):
Yeah, and I had great you can vote early there.

Speaker 3 (15:25):
Indeed, I had a friend call me and say that
the Pike Township Pike Branch of the Indianapolis Public Library
is now opened after a nearly two year renovation.

Speaker 1 (15:36):
Wow, that's over there.

Speaker 3 (15:38):
Yeah, it's right almost adjacent to the parking lot there
at Pike High School.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
So it's still there.

Speaker 1 (15:43):
Okay, Yeah, it's still there. Yeah, it's still there.

Speaker 3 (15:45):
The one that that they just built is in Pike Township,
but it is called the Michigan Road branch. Oh okay,
because it's on Michigan The Pike branch is where it
used to be. It's just renovated right there.

Speaker 1 (16:00):
Leave on Zion Bonsville Road.

Speaker 3 (16:01):
Yeah, Zionsville Road, right by the high school. So it's
back and open for business. And so they called and
wanted me to make sure that I shared with everyone,
because they live in Pike, of course, and they said
the well, they were excited because they don't live but
two minutes or three minutes from the library. And they
said it is now open after I think nearly to

(16:22):
your renovation project.

Speaker 1 (16:24):
So Pike has two branches.

Speaker 3 (16:25):
Pike Township has two branches of the Marion County Public Library.
The one that says Pike is the one that's always
said Pike Branch, which is over there on ziz Is Road.
The other one for everybody any and everybody to know
about is right there on Michigan Road.

Speaker 2 (16:41):
So that's on that one on Michigan Road is on
the east edge.

Speaker 3 (16:44):
The very almost the outer is almost in Washington Township
exactly exactly.

Speaker 1 (16:50):
And the other is on the far not far west,
but it's west.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
It's west, yeah, right there on Zionsville, just south of
seventy first Yes, all right.

Speaker 3 (16:58):
Yes, yes it is yeah, just south of seventy first Street.
So there are all of the locations.

Speaker 1 (17:05):
So uh.

Speaker 3 (17:06):
And again, if you live outside of Indianapolis and Marion County,
we're giving Marion County because that's our county of license
and pretty much you know area we serve, but we
also serve the donut counties. And we don't want to
leave you out either because we know everybody that listens
doesn't necessarily live in Indianapolis and Marion County. So you
can always go to Indiana Voters dot I in dot gov.

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It's easy, Indiana Voters dot I n dot gov for
information on your respective sites. And that's Johnson County, Hendricks County,
Hancott County, Hamlton County, Shelby, bo Moon, you know, all
of the all of the surrounding counties. So you can
go to Indiana Voters dot I in dot gov, Indiana

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Voters dot I n dot gov. So there's that the
other thing, Eric that I want to and again, the
lines are open for whatever may be on your mind
as far.

Speaker 1 (18:01):
As elections are concerned.

Speaker 3 (18:03):
There was one more thing that we shared once, but
I want to share it again, and that is that
they are looking for poll workers, and they are going
to pay for poll workers, and you can earn up
to two hundred and forty dollars two hundred and forty
dollars to help your neighbors vote. To learn more, go

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to poll worker ind dot gov. It doesn't look like
there's an s on there. Poll workerd dot gov, poll
worker p o l l worker indi dot gov to
sign up. And they asked me when I went down
to vote, Ms Cosby, can you please share this on

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the air. We would love that because we could really
use the help, and we're going to pay, I said,
I will tell them so. Usually you know when you
say volunteers, you mean volunteers. They're they're looking for workers
that they can pay.

Speaker 2 (18:58):
And that money can help on gas.

Speaker 3 (19:00):
Yeah, gain help quite a bit. I mean, two hundred
and forty dollars for the day. Isn't bad pay? Is
there bad pay at all?

Speaker 2 (19:09):
Not at all?

Speaker 3 (19:10):
Up to two hundred and forty dollars. I guess it
depends on what the job is. I think it's between
one eighty and two forty if I'm not mistaken, but
it says up to to forty, so maybe that's all
of them.

Speaker 1 (19:20):
But the election day, this is for election day, and.

Speaker 3 (19:25):
Of course the hours election day are six am until
six pm. Again, the election day hours are six am
until six pm.

Speaker 1 (19:34):
And we are to remind you.

Speaker 3 (19:37):
That because there's going to be I don't know how
many vote centers, oh, well over one hundred, close to
two hundred vote centers here in Indianapolis and Marion County
that are going to be open on election day. The
vote centers are going to be open on election day.
So you can go to vote dot Indy dot gov,
vote dot Indy. No, wait a min here we go
vote yeah, vote dot Indy dot gov. Vote dot Indy

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dot gov. Go to that site and you can find
out where all of the vote centers and satellite centers are.
But they wanted to make sure that everyone knew that
even though the polls close at six, if you are
in line when the polls close at six, you still
get to vote. Now, if you roll up to your

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respective site at six oh three or six oh four,
you're out of luck.

Speaker 1 (20:26):
You cannot.

Speaker 3 (20:27):
But if you are there in the place and everything else,
and they have not gotten to you by the closing
time at six, Do not leave. You are entitled to
be able to vote. If you are just arriving at
six oh three or six oh four or six oh five.
You cannot vote if you are in line when the
polls close. You are to stay in line because you

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are entitled to be able to vote because you were
there and they simply had not gotten to you.

Speaker 1 (20:56):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (20:57):
I want to make that clear, and we're going to
remind people of that a lot because a lot of
times folks may look at their why oh it's six o'clock, Well, I'm.

Speaker 1 (21:04):
Not going to get in, I gotta go. No, no, no, no,
no no. Do not do that.

Speaker 3 (21:09):
Contrary to that, don't roll up at three or four
or five minutes after and say I'm only a few
minutes late.

Speaker 1 (21:15):
It's only one or two minutes.

Speaker 3 (21:16):
Come on, you're gonna No, they're not gonna do it.
They're not gonna do it, And out of fairness to
those who did get there on time, they shouldn't do it, okay,
And because there are so many vote centers that are
making it convenient and easy within you know, five minutes
of wherever you may be in the city or the county,

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which so many people have said that they did a
fantastic job where they located these vote centers there. I know,
there's always a reason. You know that maybe even falls
through the cracks of what we're saying. But please plan
accordingly to get there. If you are going to vote
on election day, to get rid of all of the

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possibility of an election day, vote early.

Speaker 1 (22:03):
That's all he gotta do. You can vote early.

Speaker 3 (22:05):
You can either go down to the city county building
and vote, or you can go to one of these
satellite locations. There's a total of eight total of eight
places where you can vote if you need to vote early,
so that you don't have to run the risk of
any possible or potential any possible or potential conflicts. Even

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though there are vote centers that are making it easier, Yeah,
there are things that happen. There are even a vote
center that's right next door. You can't get to it, Okay,
I get that, Or you can't get to it until
six oh two or six oh five.

Speaker 1 (22:41):
That's unfortunate.

Speaker 3 (22:42):
But with as many opportunities, especially on the weekend, weekdays
early to almost the entire month to get this done early.
If you wait until election day, that's fine, but just
make sure you have an ironclad plan to get your
vote in before the polls closed, or well before you

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even get close too close to the closing time, because
we simply don't want to lose anybody.

Speaker 1 (23:10):
We just don't want to lose anybody.

Speaker 3 (23:12):
So again, if you are interested, if you are interested
in earning a little extra money on election day, the
flyer reads, help your community vote.

Speaker 1 (23:22):
Become a poll worker.

Speaker 3 (23:24):
You could earn up to two hundred and forty dollars
to help your neighbors vote. To learn more, visit poleworker
dot Indi dot gov. Visit poleworker dot dy dot gov. Again,
visit pollworker dot Indy dot gov, and that will be

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a place to go.

Speaker 1 (23:47):
That website, it is the address.

Speaker 3 (23:49):
Go to that address to find out more about earning
up to two hundred and forty dollars on election day.
Here's another public service, public service announcement for the elections
and election voting.

Speaker 1 (24:04):
Elections and the like. Heard a little bit about it yesterday.

Speaker 3 (24:08):
They as promised, they sent me the information souls to
the polls. You all are aware of that. You know
what that is, your vote matters. Free transportation to the
Indianapolis City County Building during early voting. That's coming up Sunday,
May third. Sunday, May third, Souls to the Polls will
provide free transportation to the Indianapolis City County Building during

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early voting on Sunday. Now it says here that departure
times vary per site, but there will be pickups at
locations and drop offs at the City County Building for
early voting return drop off to the original pickup location.
Each location requires a site coordinator. Here are the locations.

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Antioch Fountain of Grace Church seven o four East thirty
second Street, right here in Indianapolis. Purpose of Life Church
thirty seven oh five Kessler Boulevard, North Drive, East Side
Baptist Church twenty eighth one North Baltimore, Saint John Missionary
Baptist Church sixteen fifty one Doctor Andrew J. Brown Avenue

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and Olivette Baptist Church forty one, forty one North High
School Road. You're right here again in Indianapolis, and so
as we were saying Souls to the Polls, free rides
to get it looks like it's going to be after church.
The I don't have the exact times. But if you

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heard of a location that you can go to on
Sunday that may be more convenient to you than not
give them a call. Okay, I mean there's one, two, three,
four five locations, and I'll give them to you again.
I'll give those locations to you again. Anti Fountain of

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Grace Church, the Antioch Fountain of Grace Church, seven o
four East thirty second Street. Okay, that's one second location,
Purpose of Life Church, Purpose of Life Church, thirty seven
oh five Kessler Boulevard, thirty seven oh five Kessler Boulevard,
North Drive. Okay, that's number two, number three east Side

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Baptist Church, the east Side Baptist Church right there at
twenty eight on one North Baltimore.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
Number four Saint.

Speaker 3 (26:32):
John Missionary Baptist Church sixteen fifty one, Doctor Andrew J.
Brown Avenue, Saint John Missionary Baptist Church, sixteen fifty one,
Doctor Andrew J. Brown Avenue, and number five Olivet Baptist
Church forty one forty one North High School Road. Again
Olivett Baptist Church, forty one forty one North High School Road.

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So there you have the souls to the polls, your
vote matters. Free transportation to the City County Building during
early voting. It'll be first Sunday for Sunday, so if
you go to church, have communion and do your thing,
you can get a free ride down to the City
County Building to early vote.

Speaker 1 (27:16):
Again.

Speaker 3 (27:17):
Pick up locations and drop offs at the City County
Building for early voting. The times will vary from each location,
but each location will have a site coordinator.

Speaker 1 (27:28):
Okay, let's take a quick break right here and we'll
be back with more. There are some if you want
to well, we got callers.

Speaker 3 (27:34):
We got callers three one seven four eight zero thirteen
ten three one seven four eight zero thirteen ten. When
you come back, we'll take your calls. We'll be right back.

Speaker 5 (27:44):
Let's get back to the conversation. It's Community Connection with
Tina Cosby, brought to you by Child Advocates, a champion
for justice, opportunity and well being for children on Praise
Am thirteen ten ninety five point one FM.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
And we're back with Community Connection. Back to the phone lines.
As we were saying in Eric, just one more thing,
the souls to the polls. Yes, even though I gave.

Speaker 3 (28:10):
The locations I neglected, I didn't go all the way down.
If you have information about any of the locations or
any of the outreach of Souls to the Polls, you
can call Tara Johnson. You can call Tara Johnson and
her number is three one seven eight six nine seven
three six one. Again her number three one seven eight

(28:32):
six nine seven three six one, And you can go
ahead and call Tara Johnson john for any questions.

Speaker 1 (28:38):
But Souls to the Polls is great. Love it, love it,
love it, love it.

Speaker 3 (28:42):
And it typically, like I said, they typically have it
scheduled for after most Sunday services. And I do believe
it's eleven to six at the City County Building, eleven
to six, and.

Speaker 2 (28:53):
It says departure times they vary per site as well.

Speaker 3 (28:56):
Yes, yeah, they would have to. Everybody don't get out
the same time. Some three o'clock, some at some at eleven.

Speaker 1 (29:07):
I mean, it all depends, you know.

Speaker 3 (29:09):
I know our service window was shortened during COVID because
of the the the YouTube in the church. I go
to the YouTube, uh, and you only have so much
time in the window. So the service time, amount of
time on the service was you know, modified to fit
into that window so that.

Speaker 1 (29:29):
More people who are watching online.

Speaker 3 (29:31):
Could get the full service, so exactly some of them
stayed with that. I know ours did to a point.
I mean, there is a lot more flexible now, but it's.

Speaker 1 (29:40):
It's still fairly you know, fairly all about. Let's get
in there, get into.

Speaker 2 (29:45):
Yeah, I know, yeh with us, we start right at eleven.

Speaker 1 (29:49):
Yeah, yeah, right at eleven.

Speaker 2 (29:50):
Our pastors always said, if no idy's here but me,
we're starting at eleven.

Speaker 1 (29:54):
There you go until we'll start there, you go right
on time. I love that. Anybody climbing over you excuse me,
excuse me? How to get in it?

Speaker 3 (30:03):
Let let's go back to the pult line three one
seven zero thirteen ten three one seven for eight zero
thirteen ten and again.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
Uh, you may want.

Speaker 3 (30:10):
To seriously consider souls to the polls. Something fun to
do with a group of folks. You know, maybe a
group of y'all can just hop on a bus and
run down there and then come on back.

Speaker 1 (30:21):
So there you go, absolutely, Robert, go ahead, how are you?

Speaker 6 (30:25):
Oh hieing? How you doing it?

Speaker 1 (30:29):
I'm doing well, how are you doing?

Speaker 7 (30:30):
Uh?

Speaker 6 (30:31):
It's okay. We're gonna have a fun Friday right now.

Speaker 1 (30:33):
Well, since his Thursday, we'll do that okay, right to pardon.

Speaker 6 (30:38):
Well, we don't. We don't start with a argument, not all.
I went on conversations.

Speaker 5 (30:43):
Don't we have?

Speaker 6 (30:44):
Yes, they have about some rip tips. Hey, here's what
you said. Listen, Oh that's a I said, uh, yeah,
you ready to have this young lady and myself who
helps me, We'll go buy some rip yesterday? Say it
was forty four dollars and you said, oh, I said,
it's twenty two dollars. And you said that's an average

(31:06):
one price. So I asked Eric yesterday and Jane your
I said, suppose I wanted to take your staff. And
here's the scenario. I want to take ed Day and
miss TC. I want to take y'all for lunch. They

(31:27):
called myself, and we're gonna go. We're gonna gonna get
these red tips. Now this is a lunch and all
of us got some new tips. And then they bring
the bills to me and that would be eighty eight dollars.

Speaker 7 (31:46):
Bus And.

Speaker 6 (31:49):
I'm like, she must be high. Lad. I was hung
for a laughter. But I'm asking you, is that reality?

Speaker 8 (32:00):
Man?

Speaker 6 (32:01):
It's a big quite Franks.

Speaker 1 (32:04):
So I guess what you're saying is that's not reality.
Is that what you're saying, that's not reality.

Speaker 6 (32:10):
Mail, No, you can't forty four You can't pray if
me and you went out Bucks in Chicago. Uh, we're
gonna go to the night Blake. If I'm taking you
and your staff out, I'm taking I'm taking here, I'm

(32:32):
taking you.

Speaker 1 (32:35):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 6 (32:36):
Now do you think or even you?

Speaker 1 (32:42):
I may so I got to be an indictment of me.

Speaker 6 (32:48):
No, guess what I said.

Speaker 1 (32:51):
Okay, Well, we're men, We're the ones who feel really Okay,
there we go again. Okay about saying all right, go ahead.

Speaker 6 (33:07):
Are if I say you and your staff out and
we're gonna get some real py do we have to
pay after I get that eighty dollars?

Speaker 7 (33:20):
Fact?

Speaker 6 (33:22):
Is that reality?

Speaker 1 (33:23):
Well you know what I think reality, based on what
you're saying, is subjective.

Speaker 3 (33:28):
Okay, so if you are looking at reality through a
certain lens, then perhaps that's not your reality. My reality
is based on lived experience. I don't know what your
reality is based on, but my reality, Eric's reality. All
of our realities are based on lived experiences and based
on what I've been living and what I've been experiencing

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for a long time and watching trends or what have you.
It is not out of the ordinary to go to
a soul food restaurant and pay twenty dollars for a
rib dinner.

Speaker 1 (34:03):
It's just not And if you take, if you take four, no,
I say, bed Nerve, I'm sorry. I didn't hear what
you said. What do you just say?

Speaker 2 (34:17):
I think he's saying. He's not saying, he's not saying dinner.
Just the rib chips themselves say some for you, something
for me, some for.

Speaker 1 (34:24):
But no, but go ahead, Eric, hold on, Robert, go ahead, Robert.

Speaker 2 (34:29):
I was going to say, maybe you're thinking, you know, maybe, Okay,
there was a time it was a lot cheaper to
get rid chips. Everything was cheaper. So the new reality
might be now that that's what you have to pay.
Because everybody's raised their prices for one reason or another.
It's not necessarily fair. You may not feel it's right,
but that's where they've set prices for now. It's like

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if gas is four fifty nine a gallon. It didn't
used to be, it shouldn't be, but they've set prices
there for now. That's what you have to pay at
this point. That's sort of the new re reality.

Speaker 3 (35:00):
Unless it changes, and it has nothing to do with
me being high maintenance. By the way, my live reality,
my live reality is simply the reality that I live
and that I see on the regular. Now, I don't
really I'm not a fan of rib tips. I just
I'm not not really a big fan of ribs. But
it doesn't surprise me at all that one order of

(35:23):
rib tips would be twenty two dollars. It's just not
out of It's just not it is.

Speaker 2 (35:28):
It just is.

Speaker 6 (35:30):
But that's what you said yesterday.

Speaker 3 (35:32):
And I'm saying it again today, and I'll say it
again tomorrow and the next day and the next day.

Speaker 6 (35:39):
That's why I mean, if you want to be it's
fun Friday, if you won't be on the reel, you know,
I want to take you out. I want to take James.
I want to take hey, I will take your step out.

Speaker 1 (35:52):
Well that's very kind, thank you.

Speaker 6 (35:56):
But the thing is, you know something, we're just going
out for lunch here. I mean, y'all, you look at
the picture.

Speaker 3 (36:08):
You know, well, you know, we appreciate the invitation. And
I'll let James. I think you're speaking for James, and
number one, lunch is not realistic in terms of what
we do every day because we are on the air
from one to three, so there is no lunch for us.
But on the other hand, thank you so much for
the invitation. We appreciate it. But you know, for the

(36:29):
sake of conversation, which is what we're doing. We're just
having a conversation. I see your point, hopefully you can
see ours, and we're all good.

Speaker 1 (36:36):
We're good. But I appreciate you.

Speaker 6 (36:38):
I'm just saying that if y'all do, if y'all singer
out of place, I'll pay the toll. I'll flip it
for you because I'm in a wheel team. But if
y'all finger out of place. Hey, hey, y'all want to
lunch after you do your show, after you do your show, man,

(36:58):
I don't have.

Speaker 3 (36:59):
No Problemly, well, thank you, I appreciate that. Okay, I understand.
I understand, Robert, I do understand, and we do. Thank you,
and and thank you for calling in and clarifying the
point that you made yesterday. But as you said, uh,
and as you said, the say I said the same
thing yesterday that I'm saying today. But but reality has
nothing to do with being high maintenance.

Speaker 2 (37:19):
No, no, that's that doesn't. I don't know where that
came from.

Speaker 3 (37:23):
You know, folks, they you know if well, if you
don't agree with my point of view, then you must
be there. You go high maintenance or whatever. So that's okay.
I'm used to that too. I'm used to that too.
I'm just not it's been a call me. But thank
you for that. I guess that's a compliment.

Speaker 1 (37:44):
I don't know. Anyway, let's go to mister Russell. Mister Russell,
are you there?

Speaker 9 (37:48):
Go ahead?

Speaker 3 (37:50):
Wow, I know, I know, yeah, it is, but it's
not It's not unthinkable that an order rib Tips is
going to cost you twenty bucks.

Speaker 1 (38:03):
It's just today. It's just not unthinkable. It's it's more
reality than not.

Speaker 6 (38:08):
But you know, but you.

Speaker 8 (38:09):
Know, that might be an opening for maybe a new segment.
You can have restaurants call in the report, a weekly
report in terms of their pricing, and that would be
good advertising for them as.

Speaker 1 (38:24):
Well as they pay for it.

Speaker 3 (38:28):
Sales would love that, and you know, I'll pass it
along to them, but they'd have to pay for it.

Speaker 8 (38:33):
Yeah, that might be a new new opening year.

Speaker 1 (38:36):
Sales would love that, would bring it, bring it, bring it, yes, indeed.

Speaker 8 (38:42):
Yeah, but but but also I wanted to say that
with the election coming up, primary election, a lot of times,
particularly people that haven't voted in a while or new voters,
they might not be clear. Especially with all of the
uh obsification. I guess you could say, uh uh smoking

(39:06):
this murkiness. Uh. In terms of who can vote and
who can't vote, there was a recent decision that that
students can use their student ID to vote, and there
was a question about that. You know, maybe it would
be be good to get a clarification, make sure people

(39:27):
know exactly who can vote. And you know, they're talking
about women changing their names because they got married. You know,
there's a lot of a lot of confusion out.

Speaker 1 (39:36):
That that's true.

Speaker 8 (39:38):
So and then the other thing, you know, this is
the primary election, which basically the set up so each
party can choose their representatives for the general election. Yes, okay, so,
but independence in Indiana, people that are not affiliate any
with any particular party. They can vote in either primary,

(40:02):
either the Democrat primary or Republican primary. Depend upon the
people that they feel are best in terms of their
own interests, so they can you know, they independence can
still vote. A lot of times they say people don't
turn out to vote in primary elections because you know,

(40:23):
they don't want to declare a party or whatever. But
you know, in Indiana, you don't necessarily have to be
in a particular party. You just have to decide which
primary election you want to vote in.

Speaker 3 (40:36):
You follow me, Yeah, absolutely, So I think I think
it would be good to make sure that that's clear
to people.

Speaker 8 (40:43):
And then also there's a lot of confusion about people
that have been say incorporate incarcerated, and can they vote,
And I just think it might be good.

Speaker 3 (40:55):
How going to do all that on Monday and probably
Tuesday as well, because Julie will be here with this Tuesday.
Miss Cordelia is going to be with us Monday. Ryan Mears,
uh Mary County prosecutor, He's going to be with us Monday,
and he will definitely be able to clarify that point.
So we're going to make you know, a lot of
house cleaning, so to speak, and reminders either the day,

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both on the day before and the day of the primary.
But thank you for that reminder, mister Russell. That's a
good point. It's very good.

Speaker 8 (41:23):
And if I have a question, you know, you mentioned
that they were paying uh POE workers on election day workers.
They're paying for early boiling POE workers too.

Speaker 3 (41:35):
That that I don't know because they didn't tell me,
and they.

Speaker 1 (41:38):
Just asked me to uh to share this flyer.

Speaker 3 (41:42):
But I think if you, uh, you know, you go
to poleworker Indie dot gov.

Speaker 1 (41:46):
Uh, that would be explained there. I would think.

Speaker 3 (41:49):
Let me see there's a number here too, boy, let
me see three one seven three two.

Speaker 1 (41:56):
Can you see that number with eric? You don't have it.

Speaker 3 (41:58):
I don't have that with Let me let me find oh,
you know what, I think I can find it here.

Speaker 8 (42:04):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (42:04):
But that that was not made clear to me because
I guess I didn't ask if that would if that
involved or included early voting guests.

Speaker 1 (42:11):
A very good question. Here we go, Uh oh yeah,
here we go.

Speaker 3 (42:16):
Here's the number and I'm gonna put it on this
thing that I have three one seven three two seven
five one zero zero, and you.

Speaker 1 (42:26):
Take option four.

Speaker 3 (42:29):
Option four three one seven three two seven five one
zero zero Option four. Or you can email where's a
poll visit poll worker dot Indy dot gov. Poll worker
dot Indy dot gov. They have another one. You can

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email workers at Indy dot gov. That's the email. This
is the website. Poll worker dot Indy dot gov is
the website. Phone number three one seven, three two seven
five to one OHO option four is the number. And
if you want to email them directly, you can email
workers w O r K E R S at Indy

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dot gov.

Speaker 2 (43:13):
That's just an Indianapolis.

Speaker 1 (43:15):
That's just an Indianapolis.

Speaker 8 (43:18):
Well what about the number four, Tara Johnson? But with
close to the polls questions.

Speaker 3 (43:24):
Tara Johnson's number is three one seven eight six nine
seven three six one, And I'll give it to you again.
Three one seven eight six nine seven three six one.

Speaker 1 (43:44):
Okay, great, all right, thank you, mister Russell, appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (43:48):
We can let's squeeze in one more before we go,
because we do have a we have another candidate, certainly.

Speaker 1 (43:54):
Yeah, Kelvis Williams for sheriff.

Speaker 3 (43:56):
He's going to be up next, Sharon, go ahead, How
are you good?

Speaker 9 (44:01):
Afternoon?

Speaker 10 (44:01):
Teaing that Eric, I was just listening to the guy
about the red You there's not too.

Speaker 8 (44:07):
Many places you can go to.

Speaker 6 (44:09):
You're gonna you're not gonna spend twenty dollars or more
for decent meal.

Speaker 1 (44:13):
Well that was my point, but.

Speaker 3 (44:16):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (44:17):
I didn't you're not.

Speaker 8 (44:18):
No, I'm not solution is you, bube?

Speaker 7 (44:22):
Will you pay for what.

Speaker 10 (44:23):
You either you want or you don't want it?

Speaker 7 (44:25):
And I remember.

Speaker 6 (44:26):
About five years ago or before the pandemic, we used
to sell dinners at church, and back.

Speaker 8 (44:32):
Then it was like fifteen dollars.

Speaker 2 (44:33):
Yeah, like sure, yeah, you know food is high.

Speaker 8 (44:37):
Hey, that's not bad.

Speaker 3 (44:39):
I remember when when I was younger, our church they
used to have this thing called Chicken on call, and
you just the sisters of the church went in the
basement fried chicken and made meals. And then you just
call the churches. I want to I want a meal
brought over to miss something, you know, miss miss miss
Mary or Miss Eloise or you know, miss Lucy. They
all would call it, what bring one over here? Or

(45:00):
bring three?

Speaker 7 (45:01):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (45:02):
And I think it was like three dollars to five dollars.
It was very inexpensive. Then you know Chicken on call,
it was all just chicken, chicken di.

Speaker 6 (45:11):
Chickens and you know what that's going to show you.

Speaker 11 (45:20):
What's going out?

Speaker 3 (45:21):
Well and now now let me let me let me
back it up for him. I will give him credit.
He did say he would he would, even though we
can't accept the offer.

Speaker 1 (45:28):
He would pay, he did volunteer to pay, he did,
he did so that it won't happen.

Speaker 3 (45:36):
But uh, we really appreciate it though. That's very kind.
But but no, it just is. And and I don't
I don't know where people can find like you say.
And and this is the thing, Eric and I were
talking about this, the point you just made a few
minutes ago.

Speaker 1 (45:51):
If you want it, you're gonna buy it. If you
don't want it, you don't.

Speaker 3 (45:54):
And and I, you know, we were saying yesterday the people,
you know, eating out is considered something special. Usually we're
going to eat out or we're gonna do whatever. And
so people don't mind paying a little extra or paying
what it is because it's a it's a it's a
treat you eat out. So yeah, and so that's how
a lot of folks rationalize the extra cost or this

(46:14):
or that.

Speaker 1 (46:15):
And if they don't like the cost, they don't buy it.
So your point was very well made. If you if
you want it, you get it. If you don't, huh.

Speaker 6 (46:25):
And chicken up chicking up for three dollars.

Speaker 1 (46:28):
Chicken on call for three dollars, abezer. That's where I went.

Speaker 8 (46:35):
To your happy Mother's Day.

Speaker 1 (46:37):
Well, same to you, same to you. Thank you so much, Sharon,
I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (46:42):
Maybe he's thinking of a time maybe twenty years ago.
I don't fifteen years when you go to the Golden Arch.

Speaker 1 (46:51):
Yeah, it's going to cost you know, it's cost you
more than if you sit down at a restaurant. Really,
what don't go to Chick fil a?

Speaker 2 (46:57):
No? Oh my, there's not exactly and no tip there.
You don't tip there. But although there was a woman
who was asked the tip.

Speaker 3 (47:05):
You gotta be careful though, now because a lot of restaurants,
we talked about this before, and a lot of these
places they will put their tip in there.

Speaker 1 (47:12):
Anyway.

Speaker 3 (47:12):
That's very true and individual and it doesn't have to
be a party of six.

Speaker 1 (47:17):
Or more, because I can't remember the last time we
were eating out. A bunch of us were eating out
and they gave me the.

Speaker 3 (47:25):
Bill and I said, it said gratuity, and it had
twenty percent. And so there are folks at the table
that were saying, oh, you already decided you're worth twenty percent.
And you know, because we all had individual tickets, because
it was just a group thing out, we all had
individual tickets and he said, well, yeah, he said, you
can change it though, if you want, because they bring

(47:46):
those little computers to the table of course, you know, yeah,
and so you can change it. But how do you know,
how do you know we want to tip you anyway?
That's true, but they already had the tip. And I said, well,
y'all be careful, don't add any extra and then they
all started laughing. I said, don't add an extra tip
because he's already got his tip.

Speaker 1 (48:02):
But and I left it at twenty percent.

Speaker 3 (48:04):
But you have to watch those things because a lot
of people when they get the you know, the little
thing back and it's you know, they just automatically total
it up with the extra tip.

Speaker 1 (48:13):
Don't do that.

Speaker 2 (48:14):
I always say, let me look at that Oh see yeah,
can I look at that post? Then you can ask
for a receipt. Could I get a printed receipt with
that as well?

Speaker 1 (48:22):
Just to make sure that I do usually get a printed.

Speaker 2 (48:24):
That's a good idea, because I know that's not Some
restaurants are even charging eating fees. If you're eating in
the restaurant, you don't see it it. Maybe if you
look at your receipt might see that that fee. And
some are asking for what do they call it? A kitchen?

Speaker 1 (48:39):
Yeah, kitchen for your kitchen, same thing. It's all gratuity
on top of the on top of it.

Speaker 3 (48:44):
Yeah, no, yep, it's all it's all built in gratuities
that they can now they can now charge because State
Excise says.

Speaker 2 (48:51):
That's right, you're right, certainly does so. Can we have
it removed if they put it on I don't want
to pay it.

Speaker 3 (48:57):
You can't have you can't have the thing removed, but
you don't have to add to it. Because I asked,
believe you me. I asked, I said, so do I
have to pay this? And they said, well, yeah, because
it's part of your the overall thing, and we have
to put that in there, so it's built in.

Speaker 1 (49:10):
I'm like, okay, they have to put it in.

Speaker 2 (49:12):
They didn't ask us about it, didn't.

Speaker 3 (49:14):
Ask I said to me, that's taking money that I
didn't that. I didn't validator, right, I didn't agree.

Speaker 2 (49:20):
Yeah, we didn't agree with that.

Speaker 3 (49:21):
I didn't consent to. Well, that's just the cost of
the meal. I said, okay, okay, so there we go.

Speaker 2 (49:27):
Interesting.

Speaker 3 (49:27):
Hey, Kelvis Williams, candidate for sheriff, is up next. We're
gonna be right back right after this.

Speaker 5 (49:50):
W t l C A m W two three six
c R, Indianapolis broadcasting from the praise Indy Indigo Studios,
Indiego boldly moving Indi Forward. It's Community Connection with Tina Cosby,
brought to you by Child's Advocates, a champion for justice,
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Speaker 3 (50:12):
And we're back with Community Connection and as promised, another
candidate for office in the upcoming primary election Tuesday, Tuesday.
This coming Tuesday. Three one seven four eight zero thirteen
ten is our number. Three one seven four eight zero
thirteen ten is the number of the lines are open.
Our guest, Kelvis Williams. He is a Democratic candidate for

(50:33):
Sheriff of Marion County, currently serving as Marion County Sheriff's
Departments and Deputy Chief Executive Officer Chief Williams.

Speaker 1 (50:41):
Welcome, Welcome to the show. How are you doing today?

Speaker 2 (50:43):
Thank you for having me?

Speaker 1 (50:46):
There you go, okay, thank.

Speaker 2 (50:47):
You for having me. I'm doing well, doing well.

Speaker 3 (50:49):
You know when I saw you a few minutes ago
out in the lobby, I said, oh, you don't look
like you've been run because you know some of the
candidates have come in and look, oh, I just need
to take a quick nap and I'll be all OK.

Speaker 1 (51:00):
You know, I'm tired of what have you looked? Arrested?
So I'm assuming you're taking it all in stride.

Speaker 12 (51:05):
I'm taking it all in stride, getting my rests, doing
my campaigning, trying to do it the right way.

Speaker 3 (51:11):
So can you tell us about yourself for the listeners,
who you are and you know how all of this.

Speaker 1 (51:16):
Came to be.

Speaker 12 (51:17):
Yes, my name's Calvis Williams. Of course, I was with
the State Police for twenty five years. When I retired there,
I retired as a major and I was responsible for
homeland security. Right after nine one one, I was a
layas on to the State of Indiana with the federal government.

Speaker 2 (51:35):
While I was.

Speaker 12 (51:35):
There at the State Police, I did a lot of things.
Ran the Logistics Division, which issued everything a trooper used
from his shoes to his hat, to his car to
his gun. I was responsible for the fleet of sixteen
hundred vehicles engineering section that went around the state and
repaired the eighteen districts at that time across the state.

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And I was able to build five new districts when
I was there with the State Police. Of course, that
was a multi million dollar budget that I was responsible for.
When I left the State Police, I went to the
Harley Davidson store.

Speaker 2 (52:10):
I'm a motorcycle enthusiast. Ah.

Speaker 3 (52:14):
I was wondering how that that connects.

Speaker 1 (52:16):
So my brother is a Harley enthusiast too in Texas.
So anyway, go ahead.

Speaker 2 (52:22):
That was a fun job.

Speaker 12 (52:24):
I was hoping we could get motorcycles when I was
on the State Police, but that never happened until a
year after I left.

Speaker 1 (52:31):
Of course you planned the seat.

Speaker 12 (52:33):
Yes, So, young man by the name of Frank Anderson,
who I was very familiar with on the State Police,
called me and asked me, when he was sheriff, that
I come run his fleet at the Marion County Sheriff's office.
I could not tell Frank Anderson no. He's such a
great man back then and he still is. I still
think about him every day. So I accepted his offer,

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came over to the Sheriff's office in two thousand and nine,
rose from lieutenant to captain to major, and now I'm
a deputy chief and executive officer to the sheriff.

Speaker 2 (53:05):
I have been there. It'll be seventeen years in September.

Speaker 3 (53:08):
Yeah, So your career has been varied from you know,
I guess living in your passion with the Harley thing,
to the State Police to the Marion County Sheriff's Department.
Have you always aspired to become the sheriff of Marion
County or is this something that.

Speaker 1 (53:26):
Just kind of happened to choose you.

Speaker 12 (53:29):
Well, you know, I think every policeman, police officer, I
should say, men and women who take the job, at
some point in their career think about being the chief
or think about being the sheriff. I surely did, and
in both areas I had thought about being. I'd like
to be the superintendent of the State Police one day.

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That didn't happen. But when I got to the Sheriff's
office and I had folks like Frank Anderson who wanted
me to be the sheriff and endorse me. The current Sheriff,
Kerrie Forrestah has talked to me about it and endorsed me.
Eva Tally Sanders, a great lady from the Sheriff's office
and in the community, has endorsed me. So I decided

(54:11):
that I would do it. And I'm actually glad I did.
I'm looking forward to hopefully winning the election and becoming
the sheriff.

Speaker 3 (54:19):
So you're here asking for the votes of listeners who
are listening, And by the way, three one, seven, four, eight, zero,
thirteen ten, if you would like to talk to the
sheriff's candidate, Kelvis Williams. So you're here asking for their votes,
can you let them know why they should choose you
over your opponent.

Speaker 12 (54:39):
I have got forty plus years of law enforcement experience.
A lot of those years have been in administrative and
leadership roles on the State Police. I was promoted after
five years. State Police saw my skills and abilities as
a young trooper, and they figured that I could do
other things. And after five five years on the state Police,

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I was promoted into administration, then the supervisory roads as
a squad sergeant. As a lieutenant, supervised over one hundred
and ten folks in the Record's Division, and then the
Logistics Division is where I supervised quite a few folks,
responsible for a lot of cars and a lot of people,

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a lot of equipment, and a lot of money. I've
also been to two prestigious law enforcement schools, the FBI,
National Academy and the Northwestern University School of Police Staff
in Command.

Speaker 2 (55:36):
And that's exactly what it what had done for me.

Speaker 12 (55:41):
It helped me or enhanced the skills and abilities that
I already had. I don't think my opponent has been
at those schools. My opponent doesn't have the administrative skills
and abilities that I have. Being the executive officer to
the sheriff, I'm included on all all major decisions that

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are made by the Sheriff's office, from HR decisions to
budget information to personnel issues. I'm included on all those,
and he gives me input and I'm learning quite a bit,
have learned quite a bit about how to run a
large agency.

Speaker 1 (56:18):
So you're saying that you're already in part doing it.

Speaker 2 (56:23):
That is correct.

Speaker 3 (56:23):
Okay, okay, So if you become sheriff, if you clear
the primary and win in November, if the Republicans do
feel a candidate, if you become sheriff, what can people expect?

Speaker 1 (56:36):
What can the community expect of you?

Speaker 12 (56:38):
The community can expect first of all, in the sheriff's office.
If folks don't know, we are one of the lowest
paid agencies in the state. I'm sorry, in the county
and the surrounding Donut counties. We need to retain our
good deputies that are out here. We send folks to
the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy. Once they get their STIs,

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they can go any place, and a lot of them do.

Speaker 2 (57:03):
So.

Speaker 12 (57:04):
One thing I've got to do is get our pay up,
get our benefits up so we can retain and keep
our good deputies where we don't lose them. The other
thing sex offender registry. We have about eighteen hundred sex
offenders in this county. Now, I've got a little personal
experience with the sex offenders. When I was a young trooper,
me and my wife were married and she had three

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young brothers that one summer came to live with us.
My landlord at that time had a gigantic farm and
he asked if my three young brother in lass would
be able to go with him one day to his
farm and make a little money. I asked him and
they decided yes, I would like to do that. So
they came back that evening and they had money in

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their pocket. Well, the next day when he came to
pick them up, they didn't want to go. So after
he left, I questioned them that they didn't want to go,
and they all told me, one, one by one, he
would separate them and he would fondle them. Now, if
you are a person that's going to fondle a relative

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of a known policeman that is renting for that tells
me that a sex offender would do it any place, anytime,
in any way he can. Once I got that reported
and a warrant issued, I went to his house, picked
him up, took him to jail, locked him up, and
of course I had to move.

Speaker 2 (58:30):
But still that just told um, I mean.

Speaker 12 (58:35):
Yes, And that told me that the eighteen hundred sex
offenders we have in this county, about five hundred of them,
and what I would call violet, we checked them once
a month. I planned to check them more than once
a month. And the normal I shouldn't say normal. The
other sex offenders in the county are checked every three months,
and I planned to boost that up and check them.

Speaker 2 (58:57):
More than they are now.

Speaker 1 (58:58):
How are the boys now?

Speaker 12 (58:59):
But they are well, they are good, they're grown, they're
adults and they're doing well. The other thing, we have
inmates in our in jail. On a daily basis, we
have about twenty four hundred. Not everyone in our jail
is a bad person. Some of them have just made
a bad mistake. I would like to we have programs
in the jail that it's going to assist them when

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they get out, but I would like to beef that
up more.

Speaker 2 (59:23):
I would like to give these.

Speaker 12 (59:24):
Folks some tools, some opportunities, some things that they could
use when they get out, so if they could be
productive citizens within our community. Our deputies need training as well.
As I said earlier, everyone in the jail is not
a bad person. We don't need to treat everybody in
a hostile way. They all need to be treated with
respect and dignity as I would want my relatives treated

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if they were in a jail facility. And the last thing,
all of the residents of Marion County deserve due process.
We don't have ice detainees in our jail anymore. I'm
going to leave it that way.

Speaker 1 (01:00:02):
I was going to ask about that, but go ahead,
I'm going.

Speaker 12 (01:00:04):
To leave it that way. Don't want ice around in
our jail at all. If they come to our jail
and they have a subpoena or a warrant for somebody,
we will make sure they get that person, but we
will not have their detainees in our jail anymore.

Speaker 3 (01:00:19):
Yeah, and that was going to be my question as
far as so the Sheriff's department will no longer cooperate
with ICE?

Speaker 1 (01:00:26):
Is that what that is? Or I mean, how has
that been resolved?

Speaker 12 (01:00:29):
It had been resolved. We had a conversation with ICE.
Of course, we have a contract. In the contract pretty
much says that it includes the FBI, it includes the
at after US martiall service. We took that contract and
we separated ICE out of that contract.

Speaker 1 (01:00:46):
So where will they're holding be now?

Speaker 2 (01:00:49):
Someplace out of Marion County, not.

Speaker 1 (01:00:51):
In Marion County and certainly not in Marion County jail.

Speaker 3 (01:00:54):
And so for those who don't know what the sheriff does,
I guess we got a little bit ahead of the game.
But what is So the Sheriff's department is definitely in
charge of the justice center down there.

Speaker 1 (01:01:04):
What else? What are the other duties of the sheriff.

Speaker 12 (01:01:07):
We are in charge of the community Justice Center, were
in charge of the city county building and several other
county owned buildings. We issue all the warrants in the county,
We serve all the judicial papers, for the.

Speaker 2 (01:01:21):
Courts in the county.

Speaker 12 (01:01:23):
We take care of the sex offhend, the registry, and
we have a criminal division that kind of looks at
crimes and things that happen within our jail. And of
course we have the jail which is our main bread
and butter.

Speaker 1 (01:01:38):
Okay, all right?

Speaker 3 (01:01:39):
And so as far as the population in controlling the
population of the jail, is that on the Sheriff's plate
as well, or does that have to do with another department,
because you know, the Community Justice Center obviously was built
to ease overcrowding at the old jail. So is there

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something within what the sheriff does to make sure that
that doesn't happen again other than ice with the new
contract that you just said.

Speaker 12 (01:02:08):
Yes, the two jails we had before, we had a
population of about three thousand folks between the old jail
and Jail two. Today the new jail, we can have
up to a population of twenty two nine hundred and
eighty five people. On average we have about twenty four hundred.
But there is a you have to have some space

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in that number because you have to move people around
day to day, change just block from a male block
to the female block.

Speaker 2 (01:02:37):
We have the juvenile.

Speaker 12 (01:02:39):
So once we get to a number of about twenty
seven hundred, that becomes critical for us. Okay, that was
one reason that we did not want to have our
ice detainees in the jail anymore. But some of the
other things that we now have to worry about. It's
homelessness since they made that a crime, and I don't
understand why we might see some of those folks. One

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thing about our jail, we have quite a few folks
in our jail with mental issues. Kelvis Williams does not
think they.

Speaker 2 (01:03:10):
Need to be in jail.

Speaker 1 (01:03:12):
I've heard that from a lot of.

Speaker 12 (01:03:13):
We should have facilities where they can go to get
the help that they need. Our jail is not equipped
to take care of those folks. We have some folks
in there that help them, but they don't need to
be in jail.

Speaker 2 (01:03:24):
No, And that's one thing that I would like to do.

Speaker 12 (01:03:27):
Get with our community, get with folks in the state,
and I've been talking about that, trying to come up
with concern with issues, places, things that we can do
for our mentally ill patients to have a place to
go to get the treatment that they really need.

Speaker 3 (01:03:43):
And that's definitely something that the sheriff if elected, could do.

Speaker 2 (01:03:46):
Yes, okay, I would try my best to make that happen.

Speaker 3 (01:03:49):
Three one seven, four eight zero thirteen ten three one
seven for eight zero thirteen ten. Our guest is Chief
Kelvis Williams. He is running to become the next sheriff
of Marion County. Is a Democrat in the primary and
hoping to clear the primary and head on to November
if there is a candidate in November. So we'll have

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to see how you strong. Do you suspect that the
Republicans will field a candidate.

Speaker 2 (01:04:15):
Yes, I do. They have never not failed it.

Speaker 3 (01:04:18):
At Okay, yeah, they just because we were under the
impression earlier that whoever wins the primary essentially wins in December,
because the Republicans have not failed a candidate, but there's
that window where they can technically do something and have
somebody run against whoever clears the primary and the Democratic side. Correct,

(01:04:38):
that is correct, Okay, that's what I thought.

Speaker 1 (01:04:40):
Okay, it just explained here differently the other day.

Speaker 3 (01:04:42):
But anyway, that's the correct because I did talk to
another person here who does politics in that EI. We
have a caller that has a question, Joyce, you have
a question for a chief Williams.

Speaker 13 (01:04:55):
Yes, thanks for taking my call, Erting. No, yeah, yeah,
I've had an experience. They have like bugs in the
and then the people in and out the recivism rate,
and then these people in and out y'all might have
a mental problem. I'm not sure if it's the inmates
or the people, because when I was in there after

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being a w RECT, I digress AnyWho.

Speaker 1 (01:05:22):
When which which? Okay, which which?

Speaker 10 (01:05:25):
Which of the jail?

Speaker 1 (01:05:27):
Okay, which jail were you in? Just uh, you were
in the justice the community Justice. You've been down there
since it's been open.

Speaker 10 (01:05:37):
In June of last year, lockdown for five days that
somebody pulled a gun on me.

Speaker 3 (01:05:42):
Okay, okay, okay, okay, So what is your question for us?

Speaker 10 (01:05:46):
The conditions of that jail currently and then the recivism
rate with the people flowing in. They act like his
club Chase and they provide drugs for these nuts. I'm
sorry for.

Speaker 3 (01:05:57):
These Joyce, you gotta be you got Okay. What is
your question for the candidate he's.

Speaker 10 (01:06:03):
Involved in the situation currently, What is your question for him?

Speaker 14 (01:06:07):
Okay?

Speaker 10 (01:06:08):
My question is what does he intend to do to
improve the conditions because they wasn't even passing out pads
and the women's and they came in there talking about
how it stump. How you going to improve that if
you don't intel? Okay, but the training part is good.
I enjoyed that conversation about getting people trained. That is

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always okay, official.

Speaker 3 (01:06:30):
Okay, So all right, thank you, Joyce. I appreciate you're welcome.

Speaker 10 (01:06:34):
Tina, all right, thank you.

Speaker 6 (01:06:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:06:38):
So her concern after having been locked up was that
conditions were unsanitary.

Speaker 12 (01:06:47):
What I would do as the sheriff, I would make
it a daily routine trip from my office to the
jail to make sure that our jail is clean.

Speaker 1 (01:06:59):
Have you heard those concerns and complaints before we have?

Speaker 2 (01:07:02):
Yes, okay, okay.

Speaker 12 (01:07:03):
I would make sure that our jail is clean, the
food that we're serving our inmates is reasonable. I would
even go as far as take a tray myself and
make sure that what they are eating is decent. I
would make my rounds through the cell blocks and make
sure that they are clean, make sure that our cleaning

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staff and our deputies are doing everything that they can
to make sure that we have a sanitary facility or
a living space for the inmates that are there.

Speaker 3 (01:07:33):
So what led to those conditions and are they being
addressed now?

Speaker 2 (01:07:37):
They are being addressed every day.

Speaker 12 (01:07:39):
When our deputies in the jail find a location that
has a problem, as you might or might not know,
sometime inmates will do things to make the jail worse
than what it is.

Speaker 2 (01:07:51):
They might.

Speaker 12 (01:07:54):
The best way to say it bodily functions within a
cell block because they're mad, they're upset. When we find
out that that's happened, we do make it.

Speaker 2 (01:08:03):
We make it. We go in, we clean that cell block.

Speaker 12 (01:08:07):
We make sure that it's nice, tidy, and ready for
inmates to come back in. I have seen a lot
of inmates that go through some issues, some disturbances, and
sometimes they do make a mess within a cell block,
but it's up to us to clean it, and we
always do once we find out it's there.

Speaker 3 (01:08:29):
How much is recidivism a function of the sheriff? I mean,
I understand that the recidivism for the I guess, for
state corrections officers, for IMPD, for the sheriff's department. It's
a concern, But how much of that is actually a
function of law enforcement.

Speaker 12 (01:08:49):
It should not be a function of law enforcement. But
as the sheriff, I think it would be. I think
it's my responsibility as the keeper of the jail to
give these folks tools, things that they can use to
keep them from coming back.

Speaker 3 (01:09:06):
So there is some skin in the game in terms
of addressing that as well as others that are out
there trying to address recidivism.

Speaker 12 (01:09:13):
You are correct. We have three programs within the jail.
We have a program block for the men, a program
block for the women, and a program block for the juveniles.
We teach them self respect, we teach them discipline. We
have motivational speakers come in who have been in their
shoes and have made some advancement in their life to

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talk to these folks. We have brought in athletes with
big names to give these folks hope that yeah, one
day you can be like me. I was in your shoes,
look at me now. So we do have those programs.
I've actually went into those programs that I've actually talked
to the ladies. I've talked to the men, and I've
talked to the juveniles, and I've encouraged them to please

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listen to what these folks are telling you. Make sure
that if there's any questions you have or anything we
can do to help you in your situation once you
get out.

Speaker 2 (01:10:06):
Please let us know.

Speaker 3 (01:10:08):
Yeah, you typically hear about recidivism with institution correctional institutions
as opposed to what would be considered holding yes institutions.
But it's still a concern and if something that can
be addressed by all means, the Sheriff's department can address it.
Thank you for that, Joseph, go ahead. How are you, Joseph?
Are you there?

Speaker 7 (01:10:29):
Yes?

Speaker 14 (01:10:29):
Yes, I'm here, yes, yes. The question I wanted to
know is as far as the say civilian review board,
are you like that? Are or for that? And I
wanted to know as far as when you go with

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the people with mental conditions when the police go out,
is there are people with clinical experience that go with
the Please make you on what would you do different
from now? Maybe change if you were elected in that song?

Speaker 2 (01:11:07):
Okay, I can.

Speaker 12 (01:11:09):
I'll answer your first question. First, civilian review board. I
think our sheriff office today does a fantastic job of
providing information to anybody when things happen in our jail.

Speaker 2 (01:11:23):
If I was going to put a board together, a.

Speaker 12 (01:11:25):
Civilian review board is a handpick board by whoever the
sheriff might be, and believe me, he'll have some influence
on decisions that are made. I would like to see
a merit board for the sheriff's office. A merit board
would do the same thing, but they would also be
chosen by the city, county council, So therefore that would

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be that independent or disconnect where these are not people
that are directly appointed by the sheriff. That's what I
would do instead of a civilian review board. But I
have to say, we do a fantastic job today of
putting information out whenever there's an issue in the jail.
We have never not tried to hide anything. We have

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been as transparent as we possibly can. We actually use
faith based community when there's an issues, and we put
out statements on everything that happens before we are even asked.
So instead of a merit I'm sorry, instead of a
civilian or a view board, I would rather see a
merit board that they would look at not just incidents

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with deputies the things that they've done, but they would
also look at who we appoint as deputies. They would
be involved in pay a lot more than just looking
at incidents that happened in the jail to answer your
second question. The Sheriff's office does not have any units
that go out on a call. As you very well know.

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In the merge, we don't have the enforcement arm anymore.
That's all done by the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department. To
give them kudos, they do have a unit that's called
MCAT and off the top of my head, I can't
remember what those initials stand for, but they are folks
that go out when an officer gets to a call

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and he thinks or believes that there might be someone
involved that does have a mental problem, they will go
out and assess that person and decide what the officers
or the im PD department needs to do to assess
that person. Sheriff Department doesn't do that, but IMPD does.

Speaker 1 (01:13:37):
Indeed.

Speaker 3 (01:13:37):
Okay, MCT Mobile Crisis Assistance Team. That's the Mobile Crisis
Assistance Team and they have been fairly effective at least
they exist and they're expanding, and you know, certainly glad
to have that assistance team in place. Last question, Sam,
go ahead, you have a question for a Chiefilliams.

Speaker 15 (01:14:01):
Yes, I do, and thank you for your service.

Speaker 9 (01:14:03):
They're keeping us safe.

Speaker 2 (01:14:05):
You're welcome very much.

Speaker 8 (01:14:07):
Oh, thank you.

Speaker 14 (01:14:09):
Something that the mayor.

Speaker 15 (01:14:12):
Suggested, it's been years and years ago in which there
be a place for the homeless where people are instead.

Speaker 9 (01:14:19):
Of putting them in jail or at whatever, putt them
in in a place in which they would get housing
and food and mental health and finding out what their
educational level is and then put them in a place
in which they can live on their own get a job.

Speaker 15 (01:14:37):
Is that something that the Sheriff's department, with the idea
with the police department could do. And in terms of
helping those that are homeless and getting them off taking
an apartment building or something that's empty and turning around
and whether they get the mental.

Speaker 9 (01:14:55):
Health and the educator, find out what educational level.

Speaker 15 (01:14:58):
They are, and and the encouragement to get on their feet.

Speaker 11 (01:15:03):
But that assessments, you know, have a skill and have
where they feel there, they're in the community, and they've
got resources where they can get.

Speaker 9 (01:15:16):
Their help they need.

Speaker 1 (01:15:17):
Okay, Okay, good question, Thank you, Sam, Thank.

Speaker 12 (01:15:20):
You that that is a great question. Uh I'm going
to answer that this way. The sheriff department by itself
does not have the resources to uh do those type
of things. But but the sheriff department can and will
get involved with the community and other organizations, state agencies,

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uh different organizations around the city that are willing to
help to build these apartments or to rent these buildings, because,
believe me, young lady, we don't want the homeless in
our jail. That is not the right place for them,
just like it's not the right place for the mentally
ills to be in our jail. I have been talking
to some folks around the state about that very issue,

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especially when they made homelessness of crime, we knew we
would have to do something, and we are in the
process of talking to several folks now about how we
can have a statewide initiative to do something for the
homeless folks, to do something for to mentally ill folks,
to make sure that they are in a safe place

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at night in the evenings and not in the jail
where they really do not need to be.

Speaker 3 (01:16:31):
Yeah, I once interviewed a gentleman and he was a
regular at the jo I'm chuckling because he even knew
but he would tell he would tell us on camera
that he didn't he didn't like really having to be
on the street in the winter time, so he would
get arrested. So that, and he would he would become

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a trustee whatever. The jail staff know him and everything.
And then as soon as the weather warmed up and
it was okay to be out on the street the
whole time.

Speaker 1 (01:16:58):
Do you have a population like that? Yes, because he
was he was, he was very honest.

Speaker 3 (01:17:02):
Yes, yes, today I don't like I don't like living
in a house or whatever, but I will go to
jail for the winter because it's warm and I can
play basketball like that, Bibe said. But it was interesting
that he capped to it. He said, yeah, it's me, Yeah,
we do.

Speaker 12 (01:17:17):
You know, when Central State closed, the idea was to
put the mental uh facilities in the neighborhoods, right, they
closed Central State, But the second part to that never happened.
And that's why we have a lot of those folks
on the street that are homeless and they're in the camps.

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And we have actually assisted IMPD and other folks cleaning
out those camps and finding out the ones that really
need help and want to get off the street. Some
of them don't, a lot of them do, and we
use what we call the Assessment Intervention Center. Their issue
is they are only a twenty eight bed facility so

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they cannot.

Speaker 2 (01:18:01):
No, they just don't have enough room.

Speaker 12 (01:18:03):
And those are some of the folks that I'm talking to,
along with other folks across the state, because we got
to have a fix for these homeless folks. We got
to have a fix for folks that have mental issues
so they can get right and become productive in the community.

Speaker 1 (01:18:20):
Indeed, Kelvis Williams is the name.

Speaker 3 (01:18:23):
Kelvis Williams wants to be your next sheriff of Marion County.

Speaker 1 (01:18:27):
Chief Williams.

Speaker 3 (01:18:28):
How can people find out more about you, get in
touch with you? Go to your website contact info.

Speaker 12 (01:18:34):
I guess I have a website Kelvist Williams for Sheriff.
If you put that in your search in your browser,
I'll pop up and everything about me you will see
right there, and I hope you will enjoy reading it.

Speaker 1 (01:18:47):
Alrighty, And where will you be?

Speaker 3 (01:18:50):
You're going to be out and about it all the
different early voting sites up through up to and through
election day.

Speaker 12 (01:18:54):
Yes i am, And as soon as I leave here,
I'm headed up north to one of the voting sites
up north.

Speaker 3 (01:19:00):
Okay, Well, thank you, Chief Williams, and all the best
to you in your campaign, and good luck.

Speaker 2 (01:19:04):
Thank you for having me right, thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:19:06):
Sports is next with the recorders. Danny Bridges.

Speaker 5 (01:19:08):
Right after this, let's get back to the conversation. It's
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(01:19:30):
on Praise Am thirteen ten ninety five point one FM.

Speaker 3 (01:19:34):
And we're back with Community Connection and let's get straight
to it.

Speaker 1 (01:19:37):
Danny Bridges with Sports.

Speaker 2 (01:19:39):
Oh yeah, let me get that. Let me get his
music here.

Speaker 1 (01:19:44):
Okay, there it is there, it is.

Speaker 8 (01:19:52):
There.

Speaker 1 (01:19:52):
We go, there, we go.

Speaker 3 (01:19:56):
Are you there, Danny, Let's see so what Yeah, I'm here.

Speaker 7 (01:20:03):
I've got a question.

Speaker 1 (01:20:04):
Okay, go ahead, shoot.

Speaker 7 (01:20:07):
How much money have you made selling that soundtrack? I
mean millions and millions of copies sold.

Speaker 1 (01:20:14):
Somebody needs to tell me. I want in on it too.

Speaker 7 (01:20:21):
I think I should get some of that as well,
because it never it was never around until I showed up.
So I have to have at least ninety nine percent
of the action.

Speaker 1 (01:20:31):
Okay, we'll talk about the action. I tell you what. Alrighty, alrighty, alrighty.

Speaker 3 (01:20:39):
So hey, Danny, tomorrow is the month of May, and
you know what that means in Indianapolis, let's get right
to it.

Speaker 1 (01:20:46):
What's going on.

Speaker 7 (01:20:47):
Well, it's uh, you know. I think about how many
days of my life I have spent out there, and
it's it's all good. I mean, no one has ever
made me go out there, never would have to. I
love to be there, but so much has changed over
the years, some of it for the good, some of

(01:21:09):
it you could argue not so good. But the one
be in my bonnet this week, I don't know, maybe
the last couple of weeks, is that this race has
always been about thirty three cars, eleven rows of three.
It's tradition, just as much as anything else out there
is tradition, and there'll be thirty three cars on race day.

Speaker 6 (01:21:31):
But the way.

Speaker 7 (01:21:33):
That came down the pike this year to reach that
number was probably something a purist like me, I'll take
the problemly out. A purist like me just couldn't really reconcile.
And as I wrote this.

Speaker 3 (01:21:48):
Week, I was going to say, you wrote about that
in this week's recorder.

Speaker 1 (01:21:52):
Now out for the day.

Speaker 6 (01:21:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:21:54):
For those who don't follow any car closely, I encourage
you to. I think it's some of the greatest and
you'll ever watched. However, on the races away from the
Nanapolis Motor Speedway, there's anywhere from twenty four to twenty
six cars that will start the race, depending upon the week,
where they're at, things of that nature. And as we know,

(01:22:17):
we have thirty three here locally for the five hundred,
and the difference is generally made up on or by
rather established teams who run an extra car, more teams
that will have a one month only program, and one
of the two prevails generally. And you know, historically back
in the day that was bumping and there were a

(01:22:37):
number of cars and a number of different chassis and engines.
That has changed dramatically. It's a spec series. Everything is
the same as far as the displacement of the engine
that tires the chassis. So we've dealt with that for
a while. But I just as they came down, you know,
to the finalization of the entry list, and I kept thinking, well,

(01:23:01):
we've got thirty one, what's going to happen here? And
then obviously Able Racing Abel that is Jason Abel the driver.
His father owns that team and they were the thirty
second team to enter. But that's still ut the slot
open and how that came together for number thirty three
is the is the question in my mind, not the question,

(01:23:24):
but the problem about it was Roger Penske Boight Racing
and another entity, HMD Racing. Catherine leg Will drive that car.

(01:23:45):
I'm not roll enthused about the principals who in essence
are subsidizing this team to make that thirty three mark
a reality. I do understand their tradition and the importance
as it pertains than to in Nanapolis five hundred, but
I just would of liked to see it happen differently.
And some people have emailed me today said hey, somebody

(01:24:08):
needed to write that, and some people tell me I
was out of my mind it didn't matter. So there's that, right.
Everyone says that from time to time, but I'm a
little concerned about that. I don't think they pay too
much attention to what I'm concerned about when they make
executive decisions. But it's not what we've seen historically, And

(01:24:29):
I guess the big concern I would have is that
the owners of the series, the owners of the racetrack,
you just stay out of the subsidy business.

Speaker 1 (01:24:41):
What do you say about that? Eric, Stay stay out,
stay stay out. Hey, your friend Jeff has a question
for you before we get too much further into this, So.

Speaker 7 (01:24:52):
Jeff, that would be fantastic.

Speaker 1 (01:24:53):
Okay, Jeff, go ahead, Danny if.

Speaker 16 (01:24:56):
Anybody can answer this questions you all right?

Speaker 7 (01:25:00):
How about that afternoon, Jeff e.

Speaker 16 (01:25:03):
You my friends and Tina and Eric, you go wait
as will we got we gotta resolve this once and
for all.

Speaker 4 (01:25:10):
Okay, who is the goat? Lebron or mj because it
has resurface again. So Danny, Uh, your knowledge of wisdom,
I know you can you can squash just immediately.

Speaker 7 (01:25:27):
Well, I'll tell you what. Uh you ever heard of
a guy named Will Chamberlain?

Speaker 6 (01:25:33):
Yeah, I seen him for That's.

Speaker 7 (01:25:36):
That's my goat. Now, look, you could certainly argue the
Lebron Michael Jordan debate.

Speaker 8 (01:25:43):
Uh goes on.

Speaker 7 (01:25:44):
Forever and will go on forever if I have to
change between one of those two. I mean, the longevity
that Lebron has demonstrated is incredible, and then I look
at Jordan being firstly unstoppable for a six or seven
championship period of time. So I'll toss that pint up,
but I'll revert back to world Chamberlain to me, I
always thought he was the most dominant player, and I'm

(01:26:07):
gonna stick with that. I know I'm stepping your question
a little bit, but.

Speaker 3 (01:26:13):
No, I would think the same thing, though, I mean,
are those the only two choices we have?

Speaker 1 (01:26:18):
Because I'm like.

Speaker 16 (01:26:19):
You, actually I'm a Bill Russell guy. Okay, okay, Kerman,
karm then here's the other but no, read I brought magic.

Speaker 2 (01:26:34):
There you go again, There.

Speaker 1 (01:26:36):
You go again. I guess the conversation is endless.

Speaker 7 (01:26:39):
Yeah, I guess Oscar Robertson was pretty oh yeah, yeah,
he played with.

Speaker 2 (01:26:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:26:48):
Okay, well though, yeah, because I think it puffed hup
on Est.

Speaker 4 (01:26:52):
The other day.

Speaker 16 (01:26:53):
And I don't know who Brown, I don't know one
of those sportscasters. And I thought Lebron wait in on it,
but you know, he really going in details. I said, well,
anybody can answer this. Quinn is Danny Bridge and I
you know, and.

Speaker 6 (01:27:09):
Danny and Danny we trust.

Speaker 1 (01:27:12):
Okay, all right, thank you, thank you, Jeff. Thanks appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (01:27:17):
So anyway, Danny, I'm kind of like you. You know,
it's not I don't think it's side stepping. I just
I think is very narrow if you narrow it down
to those two, because Goat was all encompassing if you
ask me, well, it is.

Speaker 7 (01:27:30):
But uh, you know, I I encourage people, let's talk
about Lebron James for a minute. I don't know how
much longer he's gonna play. I don't expect him to
play a whole lot long. In fact, I think next
year will probably be it for him. So I encourage
people to try to get out and see him play,
you know, in person if they can, certainly soak up

(01:27:52):
as much as you can via the television set as well,
because I truly believe that we're seeing something that is phenomenal,
and you don't get to see that type of thing
on a regular basis. So perhaps there's another Lebron type
out there that we haven't seen yet, and I would
welcome that. I hope I live long enough, But I
would simply say this that I've been highly entertained by

(01:28:15):
an exceptional athlete who I happen to think is a
very interesting human being as well, and I hope that
when he does hang it up, he'll use this tremendously
big platform that he has built and that he has
earned to continue to benefit those less fortunate, whether it
be school children, whether it be those that are in
need of all types of social services, what have you.

(01:28:38):
He's made a mark. Now he'll have time to concentrate
on that more. I think after next season, and I
don't want to put him to retirement yet. I'm just
thinking when more years sounds about right. But where he'll
be at next year is also an interesting situation. I
don't believe the Los Angeles Lakers are willing to pay
him fifty million dollars again to play for them. I

(01:29:00):
do believe they want him back. Something's got to give
there will he take a take at? If he doesn't, where.

Speaker 8 (01:29:06):
Will he go?

Speaker 7 (01:29:07):
But it'll be interesting to watch. But you can't go
wrong watching either Michael Jordan or Lebron James in their prime.
It's it's been one heck of a ride, and I'm
fortunate to have seen all of it, and I'm really,
uh yeah, really please with it.

Speaker 3 (01:29:22):
So what do we have to look forward to this
month of May out at the Speedway Because and I
talked to Eric about this. You heard us talking maybe
you did earlier that I really have to applaud the
efforts of IMS to be more inclusive, bringing more community
into the full experience. Of the NDY five hundred. Jimmy

(01:29:43):
McMillan and his team have done a phenomenal job.

Speaker 1 (01:29:46):
But you know, but it continues.

Speaker 3 (01:29:48):
I mean, there's still work to be done, but I
appreciate the outreach and you know, there's there's enthusiasm in
communities building towards the race that hadn't been there before.
So there's that.

Speaker 7 (01:30:00):
Well, no question, Jimmy does a phenomenal job. He does
a yeoman's job. He's always trying to make the mix better.
As far as diversity is concerned, There's been other people
as well, including Roger Pinsky, but Dinker, Doug Bowls, they've
all had a hand in it. I want to mention
Mark Miles as well. He's the gentleman who appointed one

(01:30:23):
Jimmy McMillan. So yeah, I think that there's a reasonably
accurate assessment of the need for such as they continue
to offer various ways in which those people who have not,
for whatever reason been able to take advantage of the
applismotor speed who are given access to it, whether that

(01:30:45):
be children, adults, and everybody in between those two numbers.
So hats off in that regard. I think when you
talk about what we see this month. I think we're
going to see a couple of things that are old school.
I think we'll see some competitive racing. I think a
lot of cars that are relatively even. Therefore it comes
down to who's driving and got the ability more so

(01:31:06):
than someone else. I do believe that will take place.
I also think the race is going to be on television.

Speaker 2 (01:31:12):
Again.

Speaker 7 (01:31:13):
They haven't announced the cell.

Speaker 3 (01:31:15):
Yeah there's the Yeah, the cellout's been announced. Yeah, they
announced the sellout.

Speaker 7 (01:31:19):
They're they're, well, they're close to it. I mean they're
they're they're getting ready to lift the curtain and say, hey,
we're going to put it on television locally.

Speaker 1 (01:31:27):
They put it on TV, but they did make the
announcement that it sold in Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:31:31):
Well that's that. That goes hand in hand with it.
So that'll that'll be good for a lot of people
who can't make it out for whatever the reason, or
simply choose not to go to get an opportunity to
take a look at it and become hooked at it.
Like I didn't say, oh, I don't know fifty years ago,
but uh no, I I honestly do you believe though
that I understand that what goes into uh lifting the

(01:31:54):
black out. You have to protect the gate. It's an
extremely expensive proposition, uh to mote and to present. And
so when you have sold your seats and protected the gate,
lifts the blackout, and I do believe they will again.
And UH that gives everyone more of an opportunity to
be it in live, live picture. But I think it's

(01:32:18):
I think it's important for anybody who hasn't been before
to see it once. Live television does a great job,
but it just doesn't do it justice in terms of
everything that goes on out there from oh, I don't know,
probably nine am to four in the afternoon. Not a
regular normal day.

Speaker 1 (01:32:37):
It's a full day. It is a full day.

Speaker 3 (01:32:39):
By the way, Danny got another caller, UH couldn't stayn
the line, but agreed with you, UH that Wilt is
the goat.

Speaker 1 (01:32:48):
So there you go.

Speaker 7 (01:32:49):
There we go. At least one person thinks I'm right.
That's a start.

Speaker 16 (01:32:53):
Yeah, I'll tell a quick story.

Speaker 7 (01:32:55):
I had a chance to meet Wilt Chamberlain once. It
was a brief encounter. If you recall well after Wilt
retired he did some coaching. I could coach for a
short time in the ABA for the San Diego Conquistador
is actually Billy Shephard. Billy Shepherd, Billy Shepherd from the Indianapolis,
Central Indiana area, actually played on that team. And so anyway,

(01:33:19):
long story short, I had a chance to talk with
him briefly, and obviously I was a bit younger. But
the thing I asked him was do you think you
could play today? And what kind of numbers could you
put up? He says, I have no doubt I could
lead the league in rebound and that was pretty much
end of the conversation. Keep in mind that was that

(01:33:42):
was circle probably what nineteen seventy two or three, leave
it out of the league for three four years. He
made it clear like if I come back, I'll leave
the league in rebound. And I'm like wow. And he
was bigger than life, physically, bigger than life.

Speaker 1 (01:34:00):
How tall is it? How tall is yeah? How tall?

Speaker 13 (01:34:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (01:34:02):
I mean I think he came it at about seven
to one and a half.

Speaker 1 (01:34:04):
Okay, okay, Uh, no doubt, he can no doubt.

Speaker 7 (01:34:10):
Well, let people forget. And is his ability as an athlete.
You know, he was a phenomenal athlete in many sports.
And uh, I honestly feel like there's some records that's
still with his name on that it will never be eclipsed.
But that's just me talking on a beautiful sunshiny day
and talking.

Speaker 1 (01:34:29):
We did so thank you so much for sitting in
with us. We will get back with you shortly.

Speaker 3 (01:34:34):
I got a lot of a lot of stuff that
I know is going to be taking place throughout the month.
So we'll just check in with your schedule to see
when you're available.

Speaker 7 (01:34:41):
Okay, Well, look forward to do it every week. And
I want to invite you and your producer and your
engineer to come out. And didn't have the motor speedway,
I'll buy you a tender one.

Speaker 3 (01:34:50):
Hey, all right, sounds like I'm playing all righty, Thank you,
Danny care.

Speaker 1 (01:34:53):
All right you too. We'll talk with you soon, alrighty.

Speaker 3 (01:34:56):
And that is all the time we have for right now,
because the music is playing as always. Thank thank you
for listening. Our website, PRAISEINDI dot com. Williemore Jr. On
the radio is up next for Eric Garnes and myself.
I'm Tina Cosby and this is a community connection.

Speaker 8 (01:35:09):
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