August 4, 2025 • 17 mins
Willie talks with Warren County Commissioner David Young to talk about the Cincinnati Open happening this week as well as the violence happening in Cincinnati.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
By Billy Cunningham, the Great America. Welcome to this Monday
afternoon in the tri stays so much going on, it's unbelievable.
How about Sloan, He's Scott Sloan. He's indispensable, of course,
been gone to last two week or ten days. He
was in Australia in the outback, in a hut somewhere,
looking down and he wanted to try to find some
dingo dogs and kangaroos. And he turns on Sky News
(00:24):
four hundred miles in the middle of Australia and Cincinnati's
the lead story in Australia, much less New Zealand and
around the world for what's happening here. Plus yesterday the
tennis tournament and Mason kicked off with a big grant
opening ribinser cut by Ben Navarro and of course John
Barrett and David Young, the Warren County Commissioner. The three
of them are the reasons we have the tournament, and
(00:46):
all began with David Young and then Barrett and then
Ben Navarro certainly playing into the idea of keeping the
tournament here instead of moving it to Charlotte. But until then,
David Young, Welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show and
Commissioner David Young and Warren County.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
How are you?
Speaker 3 (01:01):
How could I not be fantastic today living in Warren County?
Beautiful day tennis facility renovations come on on time, under budget.
I mean, it's just the way we roll up here, Willie.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
No question.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Now, are you considering to take off the next couple
of weeks, maybe go to Canada to celebrate your five
year old son's life, to take off when you're busy
in Warren County?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Is that a possibility?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Will you know? You know me long enough here. I
try not to be judgmental, but man, when crap hits
the fan, I mean, you know, and you're the man,
and the man's got to kind of be there.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Well.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
The other thing is it was known for that weekend
you had about now one hundred thousand people coming to
Cincinnati for the music festival. Add on top without one
hundred thousand people for the Reds baseball game. Add on
top of that, my new best friend is ice Cube.
Ice Cube and I are starting to rap together, and
he's here for the Big Three Tennis tournament. One might
think I'm going to schedule a vacation to celebrate the
(01:58):
life and times of my but I might want to
do it not that weekend, maybe the weekend before the
weekend after. But nonetheless I regress. Have you considered getting
together with your counterparts maybe in the Butler County and
Claremont County, in Boone Kenton and Campbell County and maybe
Dearborn County to have an intervention with the city of
(02:19):
Cincinnati to tell them how to run a government? Is
it a possibility if we got a f tab pirival
who Blondie sang about him about call me the American
Jiggelow that movie call me that's certainly GQ mayor that
we have as the leaders are on the tri State
got together and said, you know what, we got to
do an intervention with the city of Cincinnati.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Would you like to quarterback that effort?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Really, I believe it or not. I tried. I have
met in social settings with a couple of the leaders
of the county and the city and tried.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
To be hospitable.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
You know, I'm just a blue ash boy trying to
make it around this big old rock circle in the sun.
And somehow we've done okay. But I've actually tried to
talk to some of these folks, and the reception is
just I mean that everyone puts on these political partisan
hats immediately and they can't listen. And I certainly try
(03:21):
to listen. I'm not perfect. I don't know all everything
and try to learn different perspectives on things, and because
the one thing I do know is the definition of
insanity is trying to do the same thing over and
over and expecting a different outcome. I mean, who would
have thunk that during some of those big events you
just mentioned, when you have thousands, tens of thousands, it's
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not hundreds of thousands of people, a lot of which
are outside of our community coming into a small area
that trouble happens. Who would have funked that that actually
would have happened.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Well, to me, it's really unbelievable the incompetence of Cincinnati
City Council, especially the mayor and the city manager. And
also I love the family of Chief Thiji. Her family's
been in law enforcement for about ninety years and she
may be miscast as the police chief, but she's a
(04:12):
great cop. And to have that represent the city of
Cincinnati at this critical time is the worst pr that
one could ever imagine to occur. And I would have
hoped our bright mayor would have come up with a
better excuse than I wanted to celebrate the life and
times of my five year old son before he goes
to kindergarten two weeks for half a day session by
flying one thousand miles away to be in Canada because
(04:35):
it's too hot here. And I would have thought he'd
come up with a better excuse than that one. But
that's the best thing you could come up with. Het
came into the foxhole and said, you know what, I'm
a husband and a father first. You and I are
husbands and fathers first. However, when you sign on for
this kind of a duty, you're not one of nine,
You're one of one.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
You are it.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
You're the chief executive officer of a city, and to
schedule a vacation with a order of a million people
in town might not be the best idea, you know.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
What I'm saying, Probably not the best idea. And again,
you know, I'm happy to talk to Tennis, but since
we're on this subject, this is very very serious to me.
And I think I've been on your show repeatedly talking
about the importance of the urban core. People have talked
to me, you know, multiple times, Oh, are you going
to do something with the Bengals, Oh what are you
(05:23):
doing with this? Oh what are you doing? And I've
said repeatedly it's critically important for their region to have
a strong, successful, vibrant urban core and that all starts
Willy in my opinion, and you and I have actually
talked about this because you know, when it started with
these street takeovers where people are doing burnouts and taking
(05:45):
off their life and plates and the cops literally stand
by and watch them. But yet I know people that
were parking their high end cars in front of their
restaurants and there'd be fifteen since an APD down there
with tow trucks towing them and turning it into a
thing that literally happens. So now you've got this huge
opportunity to say, there's so much money that's been invested,
(06:08):
the Bengals, the Reds are right there in the hunt,
all these people are wanting to come downtown to the
banks OTR. It's all happening. And then the number one
thing of government in my opinion, on the national level,
it's national defense, and on the local level, it's public safety.
Nothing else matters. Water running is obviously critical, sewers, pottholes,
(06:32):
all that stuff. But if you are not safe in
your family's not safe in your home and in your community,
nothing else literally matters, really, and the City of Cincinnati,
in my opinion, is failing at that number one task.
And I have been so resident to and just I've
avoided being hardcore critical of Cincinnati, and at this moment
(06:54):
in time, I am. I mean, I sit on the
economic Development board for the region, and it's like, man,
we're trying to convince these large companies to come and
relocate and do this in the region, which is which
is great, but it's like if you have restraints on
your law enforcement and tell them literally, don't do this,
(07:15):
don't engage with that, let this activity go on. And
there's this impression that it's you can do whatever the
heck you want in an urban core. How am I
with a strong conscious supposed to tell people please come
and relocate your business to downtown Cincinnati.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Well, all the news conferences, hell, has only been one
or two with the mayor. He seems to be saying
things are good, I'm okay, you're okay. Crime is down,
which is a bunch of bs. Maybe the reporting of
crime is down, but crime itself is way up because
many citizens do not want to report crime, but that
happens to them. I have a posting here by a
(07:53):
certain group in which they talked about the number of
shall we say, break ins and cars and this one
Hoss says that did you know that last night which
would have been Saturday night Sunday morning, and District two
had over one hundred thefts from auto's car break ins,
several of them ending up with auto thefts. All this
within a twelve hour period from Saturday night into Sunday morning.
(08:15):
I'm glad the mayor and the chief are honest about
the crime stats and declining help from the state to
crush crime because they have it all under all under control.
And I can't tell you how many times in Hyde
Park there were fifteen or twenty car break ins and
when you're nine to one one, they can't send an officer.
They don't have facilities to that. They say, just deal
with it with your insurance company and auto. If you've
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had your car broken into, it is a felony and
it's a serious crime, but it's blown off. We have
hundreds of youths wilding in the streets of Cincinnati, breaking curfew,
but it's not enforced. We have hundreds of people every
day downtown open air smoking pot which is illegal, not enforced,
have open air drug use, needles, and prostitution in and
around Saint Francis Seraph Church on Liberty Street. And so
(09:01):
when the crimes, little crimes are not enforced, the message
is sent, no problem, and now they want to get
after the judges. You know Judge Carrie bloom and Juvenili
courts as a social activist who has a nosering and
tattoos all over a body, and she thinks that at
one or two serious felonies by sixteen year olds is
not a big deal. They are released immediately. And Judge
(09:21):
William Mallory, who's a good guy. My wife served with
him on the Court of Appeals. Everybody likes Bill Mallory,
but he sets four hundred dollars cash bonds for those
with guns holding up people with.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Guns to the head. That cash bond is four hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
And so you put all that together, plus you have
the worst generation of parents in American history. There ought
to be parenting classes in the city of Cincinnati, that
doesn't take place. Can you smell when I'm cooking before
we talk about the tournament.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Willie, Now that I was in such a great mood,
and now you've got me all fired up because again
I want to take it back to my heart breaks
for the citizens of downtown Cincinnati because they've invested their money,
because there was a re vitolation, revitalization going on. There's
a lot of business activity down there. I love going downtown.
But guess what I'll do now. I'm not going to
say I'm never going back downtown, but I'm going to
(10:10):
have an uber driver drop me off at the front
of the restaurant and then pick me up at the
front of the restaurant. And that's it. Don't walk around, literally,
I'm not walking around. No. And because there's an image
that's justified of bad stuff happens. And this isn't new, Willie.
I mean, you're playing Joe Dieters. Wasn't his His son
(10:31):
was almost you know, knocked out with the Knockout game,
however many years ago. I mean, this stuff happens a lot.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Jonathan Dieters. Uh, you know, one punch, one out. It's
kind of a game. You got to get nine innings
to win, and poor Holly. We have comments coming up
later from her Holly an interview with Tricia Mackie of
Fox nineteen.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
But the game is played.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
You need one punch and one out, and you get
nine of them and you win the game. And Jonathan
Dieters is walking just walking around. He had the wrong
skin color and he got pounded. One punch, one out
And except for a kindly black African American female who
put herself between the attackers and Jonathan Deeters, he might not.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Be alive today.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
And this is the only difference about this video is
that it was videoed. I had Steve Gooden on the
other day that talked about the street takeovers all over
Clifton near the Mayor's home, in front of that police,
front of that fire department. They can't get out and
they call on one scout car shows up and says,
I need help. I got two hundred people in the streets.
They've blocked either ends of Ludlow Avenue. They're singing and dancing,
(11:36):
using drugs and smoking, walking around with AK forty sevens
And that's in Ludlow Avenue by Clifton.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Talk about what's happening on the banks.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Talk about the banks have to have their own private
security guard because of the behavior of so many kids.
And on top of that, before we talk about the
tennis tournament, Western and Southern can hire their own police force.
Procter and Gamble has their own police force, Kroger has
their own police force. Joseph Auto Mode have their own
police force. The rest of us don't have a private
ability to hire own police and Kroger has told many
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of its employees if you feel uncomfortable coming to Cincinnati,
stay home.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
And do your job from home.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Isn't that a problem, It's a huge problem. Again, my
heart breaks for this, but it's tragic, but it's real
and what's going to happen. I'm concerned with a vibrant
urban core for the region. It has to be because again,
you lose downtown Cincinnati. All the suburban counties that you
mentioned that are doing so great that that starts affecting us.
(12:37):
So you need a strong urban core and it starts
with public safety. And it's not just an image. There's
a reality that the priorities in the urban core are misplaced.
And my heart breaks for those residents. They don't deserve
to live in a place like that, and people that
are visiting the community should not be in fear of
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a personal attack or even getting kicked in the head
while they're on the ground, and potentially that's attempted murder.
In my book, someone's trying to kill someone. If someone's defenseless,
laying on the streets and getting kicked in the head,
someone's trying to kill you. That's not okay.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
If you're mayor, we're to talk about but we got
to talk about tennis tournament. But if the mayor of
the city manager had held a news conference quickly and said,
you know what, on this one, we screwed up. We
made serious mistakes. I took a week off when I
shouldn't have taken a week off. There should have been
either the National Guard or a lot of police officers
in every street corner, especially from midnight to six o'clock
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in the morning.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
That's when trouble takes place. We're going to so much better.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
But listening to the news conferences, everything's great, everything's good,
it's working, crime is down.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
That doesn't fill us with the idea.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
That if this event happens again, which of course it will,
that there'll be actual recompense. I'm shocked by the fact
that those who committed these offenses are having high bonds,
which has never happened.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
But the judges are being told.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
You know how judges are act when told to do
certain things, they don't like it. The judges are being told,
you've screwed up. Be part of the solution, and judges
don't like that. Now, let's move on quickly. The tennis tournament.
Can you tell the American people it starts? I think
it started yesterday. What's happening today? Monday afternoon, what's happening
the rest of this week? Give me a full report.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
The real matches start tomorrow through the eighteenth men's finals
on Monday the eighteenth. Really, it's transformative, and you and
I have been talking about this for a long time
and it's actually come to completion that there was this idea,
there was a plan, it was sold, the Cincinnati corporate
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community stepped up in a matter of weeks and it
all came together so literally that day that the tournament
ended last year, they started ripping out old fixtures in
that stadium to start this process, Willie. They did a
two hundred and sixty million dollar expansion of that campus
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in forty four weeks. It's literally unbelievable. Most people can't
build a house, and you can't build a house in
forty four weeks, and they did this on time, under budget,
and it's working. It's unbelievable. The players that I've talked
to that have shown up, from the number one player
in the year world Ynick Center, to Andre Agasi to
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stephie Goff. All the people I've interacted with over the
last couple of days are talking about this site being
so unbelievable and wanting to come here, because again, it's
not just about the two weeks of this tournament. Really,
the pickleball facilities, the player facility, the overlook that's looking
down on pickleball, that's going to have its own restaurant
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and bands up there for live entertainment. That's going to
be a entertainment mecca for people that want to be active,
participate in racking and paddle sports. That's all happening and
going down. Tennis tournaments, the NCAA tournaments. We're in the
hunt for those now. There's so many things that are
now going to be part of the culture at that
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stadium and then pay off the people of Warren County
in the state of Ohio and the city of Mason
that all invested in that tournament and stepped up and said, hey,
we don't do stuff like this. We're so fiscally conservative.
But when it mattered, it mattered, and we saw the
you know, we saw the importance of it, and the
people of Warren County now stepped up and that is
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their facility.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
It's wonderful. And without you it wouldn't have happened. Same
thing about Barrett, same thing about Navarro. It wouldn't have happened.
But you were the instigator. They said, let's see if
we can keep it here. But I'll be in touch
later this week or next. There will be no riots
in Warren County. It is a safe place to go.
It's wonderful. And once again, David Young, Warren County Commission,
thanks for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. May God
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bless you and God bless America. David Young, thank you
very much, God bless you. Willie all right, let's continue
with more. Now, that's how to run. That's how to
run a tournament. That's how to run large numbers of
people coming. It's being run correctly by competent individuals. I
would encourage the mayor and the city manager to listen
to those around them and government that can tell them
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how to be competent. Let's continue. Bill Cunningham, News Radio
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By Billy Cunningham, the Great America. Welcome to this Monday
afternoon in the tri stays so much going on, it's unbelievable.
How about Sloan, He's Scott Sloan. He's indispensable, of course,
been gone to last two week or ten days. He
was in Australia in the outback, in a hut somewhere,
looking down and he wanted to try to find some
dingo dogs and kangaroos. And he turns on Sky News
(00:24):
four hundred miles in the middle of Australia and Cincinnati's
the lead story in Australia, much less New Zealand and
around the world for what's happening here. Plus yesterday the
tennis tournament and Mason kicked off with a big grant
opening ribinser cut by Ben Navarro and of course John
Barrett and David Young, the Warren County Commissioner. The three
of them are the reasons we have the tournament, and
(00:46):
all began with David Young and then Barrett and then
Ben Navarro certainly playing into the idea of keeping the
tournament here instead of moving it to Charlotte. But until then,
David Young, Welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show and
Commissioner David Young and Warren County.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
How are you?
Speaker 3 (01:01):
How could I not be fantastic today living in Warren County?
Beautiful day tennis facility renovations come on on time, under budget.
I mean, it's just the way we roll up here, Willie.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
No question.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Now, are you considering to take off the next couple
of weeks, maybe go to Canada to celebrate your five
year old son's life, to take off when you're busy
in Warren County?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Is that a possibility?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Will you know? You know me long enough here. I
try not to be judgmental, but man, when crap hits
the fan, I mean, you know, and you're the man,
and the man's got to kind of be there.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Well.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
The other thing is it was known for that weekend
you had about now one hundred thousand people coming to
Cincinnati for the music festival. Add on top without one
hundred thousand people for the Reds baseball game. Add on
top of that, my new best friend is ice Cube.
Ice Cube and I are starting to rap together, and
he's here for the Big Three Tennis tournament. One might
think I'm going to schedule a vacation to celebrate the
(01:58):
life and times of my but I might want to
do it not that weekend, maybe the weekend before the
weekend after. But nonetheless I regress. Have you considered getting
together with your counterparts maybe in the Butler County and
Claremont County, in Boone Kenton and Campbell County and maybe
Dearborn County to have an intervention with the city of
(02:19):
Cincinnati to tell them how to run a government? Is
it a possibility if we got a f tab pirival
who Blondie sang about him about call me the American
Jiggelow that movie call me that's certainly GQ mayor that
we have as the leaders are on the tri State
got together and said, you know what, we got to
do an intervention with the city of Cincinnati.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Would you like to quarterback that effort?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Really, I believe it or not. I tried. I have
met in social settings with a couple of the leaders
of the county and the city and tried.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
To be hospitable.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
You know, I'm just a blue ash boy trying to
make it around this big old rock circle in the sun.
And somehow we've done okay. But I've actually tried to
talk to some of these folks, and the reception is
just I mean that everyone puts on these political partisan
hats immediately and they can't listen. And I certainly try
(03:21):
to listen. I'm not perfect. I don't know all everything
and try to learn different perspectives on things, and because
the one thing I do know is the definition of
insanity is trying to do the same thing over and
over and expecting a different outcome. I mean, who would
have thunk that during some of those big events you
just mentioned, when you have thousands, tens of thousands, it's
(03:41):
not hundreds of thousands of people, a lot of which
are outside of our community coming into a small area
that trouble happens. Who would have funked that that actually
would have happened.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Well, to me, it's really unbelievable the incompetence of Cincinnati
City Council, especially the mayor and the city manager. And
also I love the family of Chief Thiji. Her family's
been in law enforcement for about ninety years and she
may be miscast as the police chief, but she's a
(04:12):
great cop. And to have that represent the city of
Cincinnati at this critical time is the worst pr that
one could ever imagine to occur. And I would have
hoped our bright mayor would have come up with a
better excuse than I wanted to celebrate the life and
times of my five year old son before he goes
to kindergarten two weeks for half a day session by
flying one thousand miles away to be in Canada because
(04:35):
it's too hot here. And I would have thought he'd
come up with a better excuse than that one. But
that's the best thing you could come up with. Het
came into the foxhole and said, you know what, I'm
a husband and a father first. You and I are
husbands and fathers first. However, when you sign on for
this kind of a duty, you're not one of nine,
You're one of one.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
You are it.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
You're the chief executive officer of a city, and to
schedule a vacation with a order of a million people
in town might not be the best idea, you know.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
What I'm saying, Probably not the best idea. And again,
you know, I'm happy to talk to Tennis, but since
we're on this subject, this is very very serious to me.
And I think I've been on your show repeatedly talking
about the importance of the urban core. People have talked
to me, you know, multiple times, Oh, are you going
to do something with the Bengals, Oh what are you
(05:23):
doing with this? Oh what are you doing? And I've
said repeatedly it's critically important for their region to have
a strong, successful, vibrant urban core and that all starts
Willy in my opinion, and you and I have actually
talked about this because you know, when it started with
these street takeovers where people are doing burnouts and taking
(05:45):
off their life and plates and the cops literally stand
by and watch them. But yet I know people that
were parking their high end cars in front of their
restaurants and there'd be fifteen since an APD down there
with tow trucks towing them and turning it into a
thing that literally happens. So now you've got this huge
opportunity to say, there's so much money that's been invested,
(06:08):
the Bengals, the Reds are right there in the hunt,
all these people are wanting to come downtown to the
banks OTR. It's all happening. And then the number one
thing of government in my opinion, on the national level,
it's national defense, and on the local level, it's public safety.
Nothing else matters. Water running is obviously critical, sewers, pottholes,
(06:32):
all that stuff. But if you are not safe in
your family's not safe in your home and in your community,
nothing else literally matters, really, and the City of Cincinnati,
in my opinion, is failing at that number one task.
And I have been so resident to and just I've
avoided being hardcore critical of Cincinnati, and at this moment
(06:54):
in time, I am. I mean, I sit on the
economic Development board for the region, and it's like, man,
we're trying to convince these large companies to come and
relocate and do this in the region, which is which
is great, but it's like if you have restraints on
your law enforcement and tell them literally, don't do this,
(07:15):
don't engage with that, let this activity go on. And
there's this impression that it's you can do whatever the
heck you want in an urban core. How am I
with a strong conscious supposed to tell people please come
and relocate your business to downtown Cincinnati.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Well, all the news conferences, hell, has only been one
or two with the mayor. He seems to be saying
things are good, I'm okay, you're okay. Crime is down,
which is a bunch of bs. Maybe the reporting of
crime is down, but crime itself is way up because
many citizens do not want to report crime, but that
happens to them. I have a posting here by a
(07:53):
certain group in which they talked about the number of
shall we say, break ins and cars and this one
Hoss says that did you know that last night which
would have been Saturday night Sunday morning, and District two
had over one hundred thefts from auto's car break ins,
several of them ending up with auto thefts. All this
within a twelve hour period from Saturday night into Sunday morning.
(08:15):
I'm glad the mayor and the chief are honest about
the crime stats and declining help from the state to
crush crime because they have it all under all under control.
And I can't tell you how many times in Hyde
Park there were fifteen or twenty car break ins and
when you're nine to one one, they can't send an officer.
They don't have facilities to that. They say, just deal
with it with your insurance company and auto. If you've
(08:35):
had your car broken into, it is a felony and
it's a serious crime, but it's blown off. We have
hundreds of youths wilding in the streets of Cincinnati, breaking curfew,
but it's not enforced. We have hundreds of people every
day downtown open air smoking pot which is illegal, not enforced,
have open air drug use, needles, and prostitution in and
around Saint Francis Seraph Church on Liberty Street. And so
(09:01):
when the crimes, little crimes are not enforced, the message
is sent, no problem, and now they want to get
after the judges. You know Judge Carrie bloom and Juvenili
courts as a social activist who has a nosering and
tattoos all over a body, and she thinks that at
one or two serious felonies by sixteen year olds is
not a big deal. They are released immediately. And Judge
(09:21):
William Mallory, who's a good guy. My wife served with
him on the Court of Appeals. Everybody likes Bill Mallory,
but he sets four hundred dollars cash bonds for those
with guns holding up people with.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Guns to the head. That cash bond is four hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
And so you put all that together, plus you have
the worst generation of parents in American history. There ought
to be parenting classes in the city of Cincinnati, that
doesn't take place. Can you smell when I'm cooking before
we talk about the tournament.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Willie, Now that I was in such a great mood,
and now you've got me all fired up because again
I want to take it back to my heart breaks
for the citizens of downtown Cincinnati because they've invested their money,
because there was a re vitolation, revitalization going on. There's
a lot of business activity down there. I love going downtown.
But guess what I'll do now. I'm not going to
say I'm never going back downtown, but I'm going to
(10:10):
have an uber driver drop me off at the front
of the restaurant and then pick me up at the
front of the restaurant. And that's it. Don't walk around, literally,
I'm not walking around. No. And because there's an image
that's justified of bad stuff happens. And this isn't new, Willie.
I mean, you're playing Joe Dieters. Wasn't his His son
(10:31):
was almost you know, knocked out with the Knockout game,
however many years ago. I mean, this stuff happens a lot.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Jonathan Dieters. Uh, you know, one punch, one out. It's
kind of a game. You got to get nine innings
to win, and poor Holly. We have comments coming up
later from her Holly an interview with Tricia Mackie of
Fox nineteen.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
But the game is played.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
You need one punch and one out, and you get
nine of them and you win the game. And Jonathan
Dieters is walking just walking around. He had the wrong
skin color and he got pounded. One punch, one out
And except for a kindly black African American female who
put herself between the attackers and Jonathan Deeters, he might not.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Be alive today.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
And this is the only difference about this video is
that it was videoed. I had Steve Gooden on the
other day that talked about the street takeovers all over
Clifton near the Mayor's home, in front of that police,
front of that fire department. They can't get out and
they call on one scout car shows up and says,
I need help. I got two hundred people in the streets.
They've blocked either ends of Ludlow Avenue. They're singing and dancing,
(11:36):
using drugs and smoking, walking around with AK forty sevens
And that's in Ludlow Avenue by Clifton.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Talk about what's happening on the banks.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Talk about the banks have to have their own private
security guard because of the behavior of so many kids.
And on top of that, before we talk about the
tennis tournament, Western and Southern can hire their own police force.
Procter and Gamble has their own police force, Kroger has
their own police force. Joseph Auto Mode have their own
police force. The rest of us don't have a private
ability to hire own police and Kroger has told many
(12:07):
of its employees if you feel uncomfortable coming to Cincinnati,
stay home.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
And do your job from home.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Isn't that a problem, It's a huge problem. Again, my
heart breaks for this, but it's tragic, but it's real
and what's going to happen. I'm concerned with a vibrant
urban core for the region. It has to be because again,
you lose downtown Cincinnati. All the suburban counties that you
mentioned that are doing so great that that starts affecting us.
(12:37):
So you need a strong urban core and it starts
with public safety. And it's not just an image. There's
a reality that the priorities in the urban core are misplaced.
And my heart breaks for those residents. They don't deserve
to live in a place like that, and people that
are visiting the community should not be in fear of
(13:01):
a personal attack or even getting kicked in the head
while they're on the ground, and potentially that's attempted murder.
In my book, someone's trying to kill someone. If someone's defenseless,
laying on the streets and getting kicked in the head,
someone's trying to kill you. That's not okay.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
If you're mayor, we're to talk about but we got
to talk about tennis tournament. But if the mayor of
the city manager had held a news conference quickly and said,
you know what, on this one, we screwed up. We
made serious mistakes. I took a week off when I
shouldn't have taken a week off. There should have been
either the National Guard or a lot of police officers
in every street corner, especially from midnight to six o'clock
(13:38):
in the morning.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
That's when trouble takes place. We're going to so much better.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
But listening to the news conferences, everything's great, everything's good,
it's working, crime is down.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
That doesn't fill us with the idea.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
That if this event happens again, which of course it will,
that there'll be actual recompense. I'm shocked by the fact
that those who committed these offenses are having high bonds,
which has never happened.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
But the judges are being told.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
You know how judges are act when told to do
certain things, they don't like it. The judges are being told,
you've screwed up. Be part of the solution, and judges
don't like that. Now, let's move on quickly. The tennis tournament.
Can you tell the American people it starts? I think
it started yesterday. What's happening today? Monday afternoon, what's happening
the rest of this week? Give me a full report.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
The real matches start tomorrow through the eighteenth men's finals
on Monday the eighteenth. Really, it's transformative, and you and
I have been talking about this for a long time
and it's actually come to completion that there was this idea,
there was a plan, it was sold, the Cincinnati corporate
(14:42):
community stepped up in a matter of weeks and it
all came together so literally that day that the tournament
ended last year, they started ripping out old fixtures in
that stadium to start this process, Willie. They did a
two hundred and sixty million dollar expansion of that campus
(15:03):
in forty four weeks. It's literally unbelievable. Most people can't
build a house, and you can't build a house in
forty four weeks, and they did this on time, under budget,
and it's working. It's unbelievable. The players that I've talked
to that have shown up, from the number one player
in the year world Ynick Center, to Andre Agasi to
(15:25):
stephie Goff. All the people I've interacted with over the
last couple of days are talking about this site being
so unbelievable and wanting to come here, because again, it's
not just about the two weeks of this tournament. Really,
the pickleball facilities, the player facility, the overlook that's looking
down on pickleball, that's going to have its own restaurant
(15:47):
and bands up there for live entertainment. That's going to
be a entertainment mecca for people that want to be active,
participate in racking and paddle sports. That's all happening and
going down. Tennis tournaments, the NCAA tournaments. We're in the
hunt for those now. There's so many things that are
now going to be part of the culture at that
(16:08):
stadium and then pay off the people of Warren County
in the state of Ohio and the city of Mason
that all invested in that tournament and stepped up and said, hey,
we don't do stuff like this. We're so fiscally conservative.
But when it mattered, it mattered, and we saw the
you know, we saw the importance of it, and the
people of Warren County now stepped up and that is
(16:30):
their facility.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
It's wonderful. And without you it wouldn't have happened. Same
thing about Barrett, same thing about Navarro. It wouldn't have happened.
But you were the instigator. They said, let's see if
we can keep it here. But I'll be in touch
later this week or next. There will be no riots
in Warren County. It is a safe place to go.
It's wonderful. And once again, David Young, Warren County Commission,
thanks for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. May God
(16:51):
bless you and God bless America. David Young, thank you
very much, God bless you. Willie all right, let's continue
with more. Now, that's how to run. That's how to
run a tournament. That's how to run large numbers of
people coming. It's being run correctly by competent individuals. I
would encourage the mayor and the city manager to listen
to those around them and government that can tell them
(17:12):
how to be competent. Let's continue. Bill Cunningham, News Radio
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