October 8, 2025 • 16 mins
Willie talks with Cincinnati mayoral candidate Cory Bowman about crime and safety in Cincinnati and his plan should he win the mayor's office.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Billy cunning in the Great America, and welcome to this floor.
Is sunny Wednesday after being in the tri States, and
of course Joe Black goes dominating the news athletically, and
according to Tony Benner and others, they have their sources
deep in the bowels of the Bengals locker room. Looks
like Joe Flack, who's going to start on Sunday in
Green Bay. The four to twenty five start gives him
an extra maybe three hours to get ready. So I
(00:28):
don't know how big the playbook's going to be, but
he's got an extra three hours to do a little
bit better than Jake the Snake Browning. But other than that,
we got big issues happening in River City, including the
mayor's race, and of course half to have pure of
all is running. He looks good, he smells good, he
dresses well. But the policies stink. But that's a different issue.
And joining you nine now is the Republican candidate for mayor,
(00:49):
Corey Bowman. And Corey welcome again to the Bill Cunningham
showing first of all as a father, as a business
owner in the West End, as kind of a normal person.
Why in the hell do you want to do this
When Kamala Harris got seventy seven percent of the vote
in the election in the city of Cincinnati, What is
Corey Bowman, the half brother of JD. Vance, want to
be the mayor of Cincinnati.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Well, Bill, first off, thank you so much for having
us on. You know, early voting just started yesterday. Me
and my wife went to the Board of Elections and
we voted. I will tell you who I vote for,
but I'm a little bias. You could probably figure that out,
you know. As far as me, you know, I've been
you know, pastoring and business owner in the downtown area
for about five years now. You raised in the area,
(01:34):
and for me, you know, just like many people on
both sides of the Yasle, we love this city. We
love the potential of this city. We love the sports
of this city except when we're playing and then we
kind of debate that every week. But besides that, you know,
we we care about the policies that affect the residents
of this city. And what I think is happening in
city Hall is that people have lost sight of what
(01:56):
truly impacts the residents of the downtown area. To neighborhoods
of our city, and that's what we've got to bring
it back to. You know, for me, my opinion is
that city Hall is nothing but glorified custodians. We've got
the keys to the city. We need to keep the
streets clean, we need to keep the streets safe. We
need to get a handle on crime from a city perspective,
(02:18):
and we need to make sure the money is spent properly.
And when you look through the budget of the city,
when you look at the crime that's happening in our city,
when you look at the potholes everywhere, you can tell
that people have lost sight of what truly needs to
be prioritized at city Hall. And that's why we're running well.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
We had another terrible event on the heart of the city,
of course, is Fountain Square, another event in which shots fired.
I saw a lot of cones out, maybe twenty to
thirty cones. Two people are involved a gunplay on Fountain Square.
And every time I talk to city council members, they
tell me crime is down, crime is down. Are the
books cooked in the city of Cincinnati to give us
(02:56):
a defined result? So to have pierreval and others can
run on the idea that crime is down. What everyone
knows crime is up. Are the books being cooked at
city council?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Well, this is what I hear from city council a lot,
is that the perception of people is their reality and
so it's perceived as unsafe. Well, you know, we used
to counsel in our church a lot of youth in
the inner city. And if a kid came in with
a black eye that he said that, you know, his father,
his mother, you know, beat him the night before. We
don't look at that child and say that their perception
(03:29):
is their reality. We know that their reality is their reality,
and we do something about it. So to tell people that, oh,
it's only a perception that downtown is unsafe, but yet,
you know, Fountain Square got shot up last night. We've
had three shootings in three days, two of them were hobicides.
Then that's a slap in the face to people, to
business owners, to single moms, to families that are living
(03:52):
in the area that experience this on a day to
day base. You know, you asked, are we cooking the books?
What I will tell you is that at our church
on Clark Street in the West End, we've had three
instances where forty to sixty shots have come by the
street and they have run into car windows, into residents' homes,
(04:13):
and a lot of it gets reported as just simply
property damage. Right it's not even being reported properly. And
then a lot of people don't even call nine one
one anymore in the West End specifically, because we know
it's not going to get dispatched properly. These are administrative
failures that's happening from the top down, and that's why
we're running.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Two thousand cars are reported it's dolen. There's probably thirty
to forty thousand car break ins in the city of Cincinnati.
According to shot spotter, there's at least twenty thousand bullets
flying around the city every year. Think about a number
of twenty thousand bullets flying around that are picked up
by shot spotter. There's thousands more not picked up by
shot spotter. We have a police force down about twenty percent,
(04:55):
and so if crime is down supposedly twenty percent, it's
only down because twenty percent fewer cops are arresting people.
If cops aren't available to arrest anyone, of course, crime
is going to be down because cops are not arresting anyone. Plus,
can you address yourself to solutions. One of the solutions
a lemon kearney and have to have puival, is to
(05:16):
have a program where arm robbers are paid about one
thousand dollars a month not to commit armed robberies and
are giving travel vouchers to other cities to enjoy themselves
to get out of the cauldron of the city of Cincinnati.
You think it's a good idea to pay arm robbers
one thousand dollars a month of tax payer money not
to commit more arm robberies? Is that a good idea?
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Well, I'll say this, if you're paying arm robbers, then
a lot of people might choose a different profession to
try to get benefits of that payment in the next
few weeks ahead. But I will say this that we
do have solutions for this, and these solutions come from
the people that are boots on the ground. You know
when you say that phrase crime is doubt, I've said
(05:57):
to cop after cop that city Hall states that crime
is down, and immediately, I'm telling you right now, every
single one of them roll their eyes emphatically whenever they
hear that, because they know it's not true. They know
that they are trying to come up for air every night.
I've had officers that come in to my shop and
they'll look at me and say, if you don't win,
(06:17):
I'm going to consider early retirement because it is a
craftstorm of what's happening from the administration. These are officers
that care about our city, that got into the job
to be able to protect and serve, and so our
solutions from the top down are we're going to allow
the police offers to enforce the law. We're going to
remove any of these divisive initiatives like Actor SINCI or
(06:39):
three to one one or art programs that divide the
police department from the communities that they want to serve.
And then we're going to totally look at the ECC,
the Emergency Communication Center, and make sure that our call
takers are dispatchers in our administration in that department is
going to be run by people that have police experience
(07:00):
and know what they're doing. We're going to be doing
a lot when it comes to that, but I think
the biggest aspect is allowing the cops to do their job.
Because I talked with an officer right before the WBN
fireworks and I asked them, Hey, is there anything that
we need to make aware on social media to give
you guys some help, Like do we need to call
in for help from the state, Do we need to
(07:21):
call in for help from other sources? And the officer
looked at me and said, we just want to be
able to do our job. And that is the general
consensus of what I get from CPD. They're not asking
for help from the state or federal They're just asking
to be able to do their jobs effectively. And every
decision that's being made from the administration has political aspects
(07:44):
of it, and they hate that. They just want to
be able to protect and serve Corey Bowman.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
As far as your relationship, your half brother is JD. Vance.
I mentioned earlier that Kamala Harris got seventy seven percent
of the vote in the city of Cincinnati. Is your
brother's presences the vice president of the United States? Is
that a positive or a negative in the city of Cincinnati.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Well, for me, my relationship with my brother is always
going to be positive. I'm never gonna be ashamed of
where my brothers come from and where he's taken himself
because in just such a short amount of time, he's
come from abject poverty, coming from the struggles that many
people in the nation know about, to then going to
the Marine Corps and then going to graduating early from
(08:29):
Ohio State University from Yale, and then rising up to
the Vice President of the United States as a family member.
I'm so proud of where he's come from. But at
the same time, I need people to understand that we're
running this race not as like a plant from the
federal government. We're running this race because we are trying
to do our part to help our city. And that's
(08:50):
exactly why we're running.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Yeah, have you thought about bringing your brother into help
with the campaign.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
My brother loves Cincinnati. You know, when we talk, I
will tell people this is that at the end of
the day, I need to have a brother, you know,
more than a political advisor. Because we talk about our kids,
we talk about you know, Star Wars, we talk about
all these other things. And he's got a lot of
bigger fish for fry whenever he's in the position that
he's in, and so when we have those moments together,
(09:19):
that's what we talk about. Now when it comes to help,
he's completely on board with what we're doing. He's endorsed us,
But I think that this has to be a race
that we're running and showing people that we're running this
for Cincinnati because the opposition that my opponent is trying
to use the city and trying to use all these
positions to try to get up to a higher level
(09:39):
in DC, whether it be a cabinet position or whatever.
I'm not trying to do that. I'm actually just trying
to use my relationship with the SS to try to
impact Cincinnati in a positive way.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
When I talked to business owners, there is one on
the banks that was in the Inquirer day. It's like
a mini martive sorts. He said. Every day, there's six
to ten fe every day coming in. He said. He
started using cameras. It turns out to be twenty to
thirty thefts every day from his store, he said, calling
the police, Cincinni Police, this is at the banks. This
(10:11):
isn't maybe in price Ill somewhere. It's worthless because they
have so many thieves coming into a store that people
walk in, take his tough and leave. And of course
he's about to leave the banks because he can't live
like that. You have many other individuals who were in
Oakley and at Hyde Park that had massive car break ins.
They don't call the police. They hit the nine to
one one picked up, Okay, we'll send a car. A
(10:33):
car doesn't come, and then they call back and say
I like to make a police report, and then nine
to one operator will say, well, we'll note that. And
so there's a feeling in the citizens of Cincinnati that
when crime takes place, it will not be memorialized, it
will not be noted. If the police are demoralized, they
don't show up. If you've been hired the past five years,
you're told as a police officer in Cincinnati, don't pull
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people over for speeding violations or minor traffic. You might
have to go hand on because there's no license. If
your car is broken into, a just deal with the
insurance company. If your store is robbed repeatedly, maybe the
store owner said in the banks fifty to sixty times
a week he has known thieves enter his store a week.
So over a month, we're talking about two to three
(11:16):
hundred thefts, none of which are recorded. So it's not
surprising that crime is down. Also, when cops tell me
there's been two people taking their curfew violation centers because
the kids are now telling the cops how old are you?
I'm eighteen? Okay, you got your ID with you? I
don't have any ID. Cops can't arrest anybody on a curfew,
and cops don't want to arrest anybody on a curfew.
(11:37):
So shots are fired, blood running in the streets. Shopkeepers
are being looted, Individuals are having violation of their personal
space in their cars. Bullets are flying into homes. None
of this is recorded as crime because they don't call
the police. And so how do you respond to the mayor?
Tomorrow night at Xavier there's a big, great debate there
(12:00):
and I'm sure the Democratic Party has already stocked the
audience in order to say patting themselves on the back.
I looked this morning in the inquiry lemon Kearney and
others are talking about crime is down, crime is down,
crime is down. It is a lie. How do you
tell the truth when the entire media in this town
and others are treating this issue of crime as if
it is something better than it's been in the past,
(12:21):
when we know it isn't. Ben Now you got me
a little bit fired up. I wish we had citizens
who would actually report crime and the city would note
what's being done. And like on Fountain Square, I saw
about twenty eight cones on Fountain Score at five point
thirty pm yesterday. I'm watching Shriek Palolo last night, and
once again on Fountain Square there's a sense that it's
(12:42):
the ok Corral. We have people being robbed, we have
women being sexually assauted, we have cars being broken into,
we have businesses being looted, and the city's mayor act
as if I see here and speak no evil? How
do you deal with all that? Tomorrow night? There's a
question in there somewhere.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Well, I'm telling you, Bill, what's been happening on the streets.
Every single thing that you just mentioned that is what
the citizens of Cincinnati are experiencing. And what you said
is how are people reporting crime? How are people doing this?
If people are fed up, this is what they have
to do. They have to go to the Board of
Elections during early voting, and they have to make their
(13:21):
voice heard. We have a debate tomorrow night. It's not
so much just focusing on the bat of the past.
We've got to focus on the hope for a future.
And I think that's what many people in Cincinnati have lost.
When everybody saw Joe Burrow run his foot, run his toe,
that everybody lost hope. When everybody saw that final inning
of the second game against the Dodgers. There's a lot
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of hope that gets lost. And when people are seeing
what's happening in our city, a lot of hope is
getting lost. But I'm here to tell people we have plans,
we have policies. We know this isn't rocket science. We
can bring this city back. We can be able to
help our communities, the ones in low poverty, that are
business owners, the people that have expressed their interests that
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they're tired of where the city is going. We can
actually make a difference. And this starts with this election.
Get educated on what the city council members that are
running stand for, and then you have a choice between
Aft Purvall and Corey Bowman. And I'm asking every single
person Unlike the other side, I don't feel that I'm
entitled to a vote. I don't feel that I'm entitled
(14:25):
to somebody putting a sign in their yard or getting
the word out. But what I will do is work
my butt off to say I want to earn that vote.
We have policies, we have plans, and we have a
heart for this city and we're not going to look
at party lines. We're going to look at what's going
on Cincinnati. And if that's the case with what you feel,
then I would encourage every single person get out and vote. Vote,
(14:47):
vote for Corey Bowman for mayor Cincinnati.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
What does your website? Many want to know if they
want to get involved in help. What is your website
of any.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
The website is Coreybowman dot com and Cory bow We've
got all of our structure in place. Every financial contribution
from here on out is going toward ads, and it's
going toward getting the word out to as many people
as possible that there's an election happening November fourth, and
that we actually have a choice. Because you're mentioning seventy
(15:16):
seven percent of the vote went the other way for
the presidential election. This is because people don't see a
point in voting in the city of Cincinnati. But there's
a sleeping giant of conservative values. There's a sleeping giant
of people that are moderate, that see common sense on
both sides, and they want to get out and make
their voices heard. I'm telling people you've got a choice
(15:37):
on November fourth, get out and vote, vote, vote.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
All right, Corey Bowman, thank you. Your opponent looks good,
smell is good, acts great, but he stinks as the mayor.
Let's continue, Corey Bowman, You're a great American. And thanks
for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Thank you, Corey, Thank you, Bill, to you and all
your listeners. It's not or being on.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
God bless America. Let's continue with more and there it is.
And do I have hope, Yes, I always have hope.
I always have hope. Look at the Yankees last night,
losing six to one, and everyone stood up for Aaron
Judge and guess what the Yankees won. And I know Paul
O'Neill is happy about that. That's a different story. But
the city must be saved and Corey Bowman is the
man that can save it. Bill Cunningham News Radio seven
(16:21):
hundred WLW
Billy cunning in the Great America, and welcome to this floor.
Is sunny Wednesday after being in the tri States, and
of course Joe Black goes dominating the news athletically, and
according to Tony Benner and others, they have their sources
deep in the bowels of the Bengals locker room. Looks
like Joe Flack, who's going to start on Sunday in
Green Bay. The four to twenty five start gives him
an extra maybe three hours to get ready. So I
(00:28):
don't know how big the playbook's going to be, but
he's got an extra three hours to do a little
bit better than Jake the Snake Browning. But other than that,
we got big issues happening in River City, including the
mayor's race, and of course half to have pure of
all is running. He looks good, he smells good, he
dresses well. But the policies stink. But that's a different issue.
And joining you nine now is the Republican candidate for mayor,
(00:49):
Corey Bowman. And Corey welcome again to the Bill Cunningham
showing first of all as a father, as a business
owner in the West End, as kind of a normal person.
Why in the hell do you want to do this
When Kamala Harris got seventy seven percent of the vote
in the election in the city of Cincinnati, What is
Corey Bowman, the half brother of JD. Vance, want to
be the mayor of Cincinnati.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Well, Bill, first off, thank you so much for having
us on. You know, early voting just started yesterday. Me
and my wife went to the Board of Elections and
we voted. I will tell you who I vote for,
but I'm a little bias. You could probably figure that out,
you know. As far as me, you know, I've been
you know, pastoring and business owner in the downtown area
for about five years now. You raised in the area,
(01:34):
and for me, you know, just like many people on
both sides of the Yasle, we love this city. We
love the potential of this city. We love the sports
of this city except when we're playing and then we
kind of debate that every week. But besides that, you know,
we we care about the policies that affect the residents
of this city. And what I think is happening in
city Hall is that people have lost sight of what
(01:56):
truly impacts the residents of the downtown area. To neighborhoods
of our city, and that's what we've got to bring
it back to. You know, for me, my opinion is
that city Hall is nothing but glorified custodians. We've got
the keys to the city. We need to keep the
streets clean, we need to keep the streets safe. We
need to get a handle on crime from a city perspective,
(02:18):
and we need to make sure the money is spent properly.
And when you look through the budget of the city,
when you look at the crime that's happening in our city,
when you look at the potholes everywhere, you can tell
that people have lost sight of what truly needs to
be prioritized at city Hall. And that's why we're running well.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
We had another terrible event on the heart of the city,
of course, is Fountain Square, another event in which shots fired.
I saw a lot of cones out, maybe twenty to
thirty cones. Two people are involved a gunplay on Fountain Square.
And every time I talk to city council members, they
tell me crime is down, crime is down. Are the
books cooked in the city of Cincinnati to give us
(02:56):
a defined result? So to have pierreval and others can
run on the idea that crime is down. What everyone
knows crime is up. Are the books being cooked at
city council?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Well, this is what I hear from city council a lot,
is that the perception of people is their reality and
so it's perceived as unsafe. Well, you know, we used
to counsel in our church a lot of youth in
the inner city. And if a kid came in with
a black eye that he said that, you know, his father,
his mother, you know, beat him the night before. We
don't look at that child and say that their perception
(03:29):
is their reality. We know that their reality is their reality,
and we do something about it. So to tell people that, oh,
it's only a perception that downtown is unsafe, but yet,
you know, Fountain Square got shot up last night. We've
had three shootings in three days, two of them were hobicides.
Then that's a slap in the face to people, to
business owners, to single moms, to families that are living
(03:52):
in the area that experience this on a day to
day base. You know, you asked, are we cooking the books?
What I will tell you is that at our church
on Clark Street in the West End, we've had three
instances where forty to sixty shots have come by the
street and they have run into car windows, into residents' homes,
(04:13):
and a lot of it gets reported as just simply
property damage. Right it's not even being reported properly. And
then a lot of people don't even call nine one
one anymore in the West End specifically, because we know
it's not going to get dispatched properly. These are administrative
failures that's happening from the top down, and that's why
we're running.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Two thousand cars are reported it's dolen. There's probably thirty
to forty thousand car break ins in the city of Cincinnati.
According to shot spotter, there's at least twenty thousand bullets
flying around the city every year. Think about a number
of twenty thousand bullets flying around that are picked up
by shot spotter. There's thousands more not picked up by
shot spotter. We have a police force down about twenty percent,
(04:55):
and so if crime is down supposedly twenty percent, it's
only down because twenty percent fewer cops are arresting people.
If cops aren't available to arrest anyone, of course, crime
is going to be down because cops are not arresting anyone. Plus,
can you address yourself to solutions. One of the solutions
a lemon kearney and have to have puival, is to
(05:16):
have a program where arm robbers are paid about one
thousand dollars a month not to commit armed robberies and
are giving travel vouchers to other cities to enjoy themselves
to get out of the cauldron of the city of Cincinnati.
You think it's a good idea to pay arm robbers
one thousand dollars a month of tax payer money not
to commit more arm robberies? Is that a good idea?
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Well, I'll say this, if you're paying arm robbers, then
a lot of people might choose a different profession to
try to get benefits of that payment in the next
few weeks ahead. But I will say this that we
do have solutions for this, and these solutions come from
the people that are boots on the ground. You know
when you say that phrase crime is doubt, I've said
(05:57):
to cop after cop that city Hall states that crime
is down, and immediately, I'm telling you right now, every
single one of them roll their eyes emphatically whenever they
hear that, because they know it's not true. They know
that they are trying to come up for air every night.
I've had officers that come in to my shop and
they'll look at me and say, if you don't win,
(06:17):
I'm going to consider early retirement because it is a
craftstorm of what's happening from the administration. These are officers
that care about our city, that got into the job
to be able to protect and serve, and so our
solutions from the top down are we're going to allow
the police offers to enforce the law. We're going to
remove any of these divisive initiatives like Actor SINCI or
(06:39):
three to one one or art programs that divide the
police department from the communities that they want to serve.
And then we're going to totally look at the ECC,
the Emergency Communication Center, and make sure that our call
takers are dispatchers in our administration in that department is
going to be run by people that have police experience
(07:00):
and know what they're doing. We're going to be doing
a lot when it comes to that, but I think
the biggest aspect is allowing the cops to do their job.
Because I talked with an officer right before the WBN
fireworks and I asked them, Hey, is there anything that
we need to make aware on social media to give
you guys some help, Like do we need to call
in for help from the state, Do we need to
(07:21):
call in for help from other sources? And the officer
looked at me and said, we just want to be
able to do our job. And that is the general
consensus of what I get from CPD. They're not asking
for help from the state or federal They're just asking
to be able to do their jobs effectively. And every
decision that's being made from the administration has political aspects
(07:44):
of it, and they hate that. They just want to
be able to protect and serve Corey Bowman.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
As far as your relationship, your half brother is JD. Vance.
I mentioned earlier that Kamala Harris got seventy seven percent
of the vote in the city of Cincinnati. Is your
brother's presences the vice president of the United States? Is
that a positive or a negative in the city of Cincinnati.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Well, for me, my relationship with my brother is always
going to be positive. I'm never gonna be ashamed of
where my brothers come from and where he's taken himself
because in just such a short amount of time, he's
come from abject poverty, coming from the struggles that many
people in the nation know about, to then going to
the Marine Corps and then going to graduating early from
(08:29):
Ohio State University from Yale, and then rising up to
the Vice President of the United States as a family member.
I'm so proud of where he's come from. But at
the same time, I need people to understand that we're
running this race not as like a plant from the
federal government. We're running this race because we are trying
to do our part to help our city. And that's
(08:50):
exactly why we're running.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Yeah, have you thought about bringing your brother into help
with the campaign.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
My brother loves Cincinnati. You know, when we talk, I
will tell people this is that at the end of
the day, I need to have a brother, you know,
more than a political advisor. Because we talk about our kids,
we talk about you know, Star Wars, we talk about
all these other things. And he's got a lot of
bigger fish for fry whenever he's in the position that
he's in, and so when we have those moments together,
(09:19):
that's what we talk about. Now when it comes to help,
he's completely on board with what we're doing. He's endorsed us,
But I think that this has to be a race
that we're running and showing people that we're running this
for Cincinnati because the opposition that my opponent is trying
to use the city and trying to use all these
positions to try to get up to a higher level
(09:39):
in DC, whether it be a cabinet position or whatever.
I'm not trying to do that. I'm actually just trying
to use my relationship with the SS to try to
impact Cincinnati in a positive way.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
When I talked to business owners, there is one on
the banks that was in the Inquirer day. It's like
a mini martive sorts. He said. Every day, there's six
to ten fe every day coming in. He said. He
started using cameras. It turns out to be twenty to
thirty thefts every day from his store, he said, calling
the police, Cincinni Police, this is at the banks. This
(10:11):
isn't maybe in price Ill somewhere. It's worthless because they
have so many thieves coming into a store that people
walk in, take his tough and leave. And of course
he's about to leave the banks because he can't live
like that. You have many other individuals who were in
Oakley and at Hyde Park that had massive car break ins.
They don't call the police. They hit the nine to
one one picked up, Okay, we'll send a car. A
(10:33):
car doesn't come, and then they call back and say
I like to make a police report, and then nine
to one operator will say, well, we'll note that. And
so there's a feeling in the citizens of Cincinnati that
when crime takes place, it will not be memorialized, it
will not be noted. If the police are demoralized, they
don't show up. If you've been hired the past five years,
you're told as a police officer in Cincinnati, don't pull
(10:56):
people over for speeding violations or minor traffic. You might
have to go hand on because there's no license. If
your car is broken into, a just deal with the
insurance company. If your store is robbed repeatedly, maybe the
store owner said in the banks fifty to sixty times
a week he has known thieves enter his store a week.
So over a month, we're talking about two to three
(11:16):
hundred thefts, none of which are recorded. So it's not
surprising that crime is down. Also, when cops tell me
there's been two people taking their curfew violation centers because
the kids are now telling the cops how old are you?
I'm eighteen? Okay, you got your ID with you? I
don't have any ID. Cops can't arrest anybody on a curfew,
and cops don't want to arrest anybody on a curfew.
(11:37):
So shots are fired, blood running in the streets. Shopkeepers
are being looted, Individuals are having violation of their personal
space in their cars. Bullets are flying into homes. None
of this is recorded as crime because they don't call
the police. And so how do you respond to the mayor?
Tomorrow night at Xavier there's a big, great debate there
(12:00):
and I'm sure the Democratic Party has already stocked the
audience in order to say patting themselves on the back.
I looked this morning in the inquiry lemon Kearney and
others are talking about crime is down, crime is down,
crime is down. It is a lie. How do you
tell the truth when the entire media in this town
and others are treating this issue of crime as if
it is something better than it's been in the past,
(12:21):
when we know it isn't. Ben Now you got me
a little bit fired up. I wish we had citizens
who would actually report crime and the city would note
what's being done. And like on Fountain Square, I saw
about twenty eight cones on Fountain Score at five point
thirty pm yesterday. I'm watching Shriek Palolo last night, and
once again on Fountain Square there's a sense that it's
(12:42):
the ok Corral. We have people being robbed, we have
women being sexually assauted, we have cars being broken into,
we have businesses being looted, and the city's mayor act
as if I see here and speak no evil? How
do you deal with all that? Tomorrow night? There's a
question in there somewhere.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Well, I'm telling you, Bill, what's been happening on the streets.
Every single thing that you just mentioned that is what
the citizens of Cincinnati are experiencing. And what you said
is how are people reporting crime? How are people doing this?
If people are fed up, this is what they have
to do. They have to go to the Board of
Elections during early voting, and they have to make their
(13:21):
voice heard. We have a debate tomorrow night. It's not
so much just focusing on the bat of the past.
We've got to focus on the hope for a future.
And I think that's what many people in Cincinnati have lost.
When everybody saw Joe Burrow run his foot, run his toe,
that everybody lost hope. When everybody saw that final inning
of the second game against the Dodgers. There's a lot
(13:42):
of hope that gets lost. And when people are seeing
what's happening in our city, a lot of hope is
getting lost. But I'm here to tell people we have plans,
we have policies. We know this isn't rocket science. We
can bring this city back. We can be able to
help our communities, the ones in low poverty, that are
business owners, the people that have expressed their interests that
(14:03):
they're tired of where the city is going. We can
actually make a difference. And this starts with this election.
Get educated on what the city council members that are
running stand for, and then you have a choice between
Aft Purvall and Corey Bowman. And I'm asking every single
person Unlike the other side, I don't feel that I'm
entitled to a vote. I don't feel that I'm entitled
(14:25):
to somebody putting a sign in their yard or getting
the word out. But what I will do is work
my butt off to say I want to earn that vote.
We have policies, we have plans, and we have a
heart for this city and we're not going to look
at party lines. We're going to look at what's going
on Cincinnati. And if that's the case with what you feel,
then I would encourage every single person get out and vote. Vote,
(14:47):
vote for Corey Bowman for mayor Cincinnati.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
What does your website? Many want to know if they
want to get involved in help. What is your website
of any.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
The website is Coreybowman dot com and Cory bow We've
got all of our structure in place. Every financial contribution
from here on out is going toward ads, and it's
going toward getting the word out to as many people
as possible that there's an election happening November fourth, and
that we actually have a choice. Because you're mentioning seventy
(15:16):
seven percent of the vote went the other way for
the presidential election. This is because people don't see a
point in voting in the city of Cincinnati. But there's
a sleeping giant of conservative values. There's a sleeping giant
of people that are moderate, that see common sense on
both sides, and they want to get out and make
their voices heard. I'm telling people you've got a choice
(15:37):
on November fourth, get out and vote, vote, vote.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
All right, Corey Bowman, thank you. Your opponent looks good,
smell is good, acts great, but he stinks as the mayor.
Let's continue, Corey Bowman, You're a great American. And thanks
for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Thank you, Corey, Thank you, Bill, to you and all
your listeners. It's not or being on.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
God bless America. Let's continue with more and there it is.
And do I have hope, Yes, I always have hope.
I always have hope. Look at the Yankees last night,
losing six to one, and everyone stood up for Aaron
Judge and guess what the Yankees won. And I know Paul
O'Neill is happy about that. That's a different story. But
the city must be saved and Corey Bowman is the
man that can save it. Bill Cunningham News Radio seven
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