Adam Koehler for Commissioner

Episode Transcript

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If you have Karri se Me talkstation. Hope you're having to have you
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it without further ado in studio aspromised a man who is going to be

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next Canilton County Commissioner. Dear God, please let it happen, Adam Taylor.
Always a pleasure having you in studio, man, thanks for having me.
Brian and that shirt you're wearing isawesome. Guys, you can't see
it, but Brian's shirt is verystylish today. Well, thank you very
much. Got judge to Paula Tanawan, so I had you know kind of
oh you dress up little bit.Yeah, we're on Zoom together, so
yeah, we've quite often exchanged commentsabout each other's garb, but this one

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will throw them a curveball. Anyway, Adam your website, I want to
recommend my listeners check it out AdamKeaylor ko e h l e r Adam
Keller dot com. You get apop up that will offer an opportunity if
you get a yard sign. Apparentlya lot of yard signs out there,
most notably on the west side.We need more people elsewhere in Hamilton County
to get the Adam Keller yard signs. That's right, and actually a decent

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mount in Mount lookout I've been gettingoh good. Yeah, had one guy
he said, give me fifteen,No kidd, Yeah, Tom Brinkman wanted
ten. And yeah, there wasanother guy that won a fifteen. Part
of these places and I'm going it'sgreat to deliver signs myself. Yeah,
because they get to drive around thecounty and places that I didn't even know
existed. I've never been in mylife and go to some of these places
and now I'm like, man,what I've been doing living in you know

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where I live this whole time.We're a longtime resident of the city.
Yeah. Yeah, Deer Park.Places in Deer Park really nice. I
mean I was driving around out there, like, wow, this is this
is a great place to live.You got American flags still on the roads.
Mount Healthy places like that It's likethese are nice neighborhoods. I'm in
Simms Township where I live, gotAmerican flag hanging in front of my house.

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Every day, I probably display thecolors. I'm happy to do so.
I got flag retirement ceremony coming upthis Sunday as well. Over in
Union Township. There are a bunchof patriotic folks over there, and I
get to do that with flag retirementceremony every year. Looking forward to this
Sunday as well. But beyond that, I been mentioning all morning and every
time I talk to you, andwe know Hamilton County is turning blue,

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and dear God, we need tokeep Hamilton County prosecuting Melissa Powers elected.
How important is that? But alsothe makeup of the county commission it's all
Democrats, and it now my perception, and correct me if I'm wrong.
Since you're running for county commissioner,maybe you're more in tune to what's going
on with the Commissioner's office than Iam. But I don't hear a peep
in the reporting local news. Idon't hear is are they doing anything?

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Are their problems? Do we havebudget issues? I know our property taxes
are through the roof. We're goingto talking to Sarah Wolf coming up at
eight oh five. She represents agroup of Hamilton and County home owners that
are fighting against these outrageous property taxThat's a fix that's going to have to
come from Columbus. But I knowyou're on that too. You understand the
plight of the homeowner here in thegreater Cincinnati area, Hamilton County notably,
but it's just silence deafening. Butand you've brought this up before, and

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he brought it up off air whenwe had Liz Keating on since at council
the only Republican, but at leastshe served as an alternative voice. Things
would make it into local reporting becauseshe would be the contrarian. She would
offer the alternative to the lockstep ofthe Democrats on council. It elevated things

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to a discussion level. When everybody'son the same political party, it's like
it just goes through and whatever ithappens to be, we're like, where'd
that come from? Well, anypandering initiatives that they have that you know,
take money from, say things thatcould be long term fixes, like
hey, let's invest some money intothis Forbes under thirty event that was happening

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where he had all the these businesspeople come in. They didn't want to
put any money into that. Ifyou saw the latest budget update, they
decided to put some more money intothese nonprofits and some of these other things,
and they actually one of the councilmembers actually spoke out against giving money
to the s Forbes under thirty.So the overall sense is that small business

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initiatives don't matter as much as someof the things you see that you're like,
well, that just came down fromDC, Right, that just came
down from the main party, andeverybody just kind of says okay to it.
Right, So this money that couldbe going into things like supporting the
business community end up going into theirlittle agenda items, right, Yeah,

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their typical party agenda items, nongovernmental organization, supporting left wing causes.
That's they could fill in the blankon that for probably several days. In
terms of where money goes. Ifyou think about it, you know,
Ohio's shifting right, I would argue, right now, Hamilton County shifting right.
I looked back at the numbers ofthe past County Commission races and some

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of the things that were happening.And I don't know if you guys know
this, but Matt O'Neill and SmithermanSmitherman Rand is an independent. Matt O'Neil
ran as a Republican in twenty twentyor twenty twenty two against Dumas. Both
of them together actually had more votesin Dumas. Yeah, I know you're
going to open up that wound againbecause we'll have well, our friend is

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Chris Smitherman, right, I know, but the two of them together,
if it was just say one personrunning, you almost wonder would we have
a Republican on the county Commission rightnow? Yeah, because in when twenty
twenty was rolling around, it wasfor me especially, it was you know,
Dumas and Matt O'Neil in twenty twenty, right or not Dumas, Sorry,

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Yeah, Denise and Matt O'Neil.Denise ended up with almost sixty percent
of the vote and fifty eight percent, so you had like a sixteen point
swing or something there. I feellike that swing closed in twenty twenty two.
Yeah, if you look just atthe row, look at the wrong
numbers, right. So now I'mlooking at my race and I'm like,
wow, there's an actual possibility.Like, you know, the reason I

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run is because there's nobody else that'sgonna run. Everybody just assumes Republicans are
dead in the water when it comesto city races or county races. Somebody's
got to get out there. Yougot to make them spend money, you
got to make them earn it.You know, they always talk about,
you know, democracy, we're losingdemocracy, especially when they talk about Trump.
Right, But but they're just finewith them just walking in de seats

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in these urban areas, right withoutspending a dime, and people just assume
they're just gonna get elected in right, that's not democracy. Like you have
to have somebody like over, that'sright, that's roll it over and just
letting it happen. And luckily,the GOP has a complete has a full
slate this year, so you've gotsomebody you can go out and vote for.
You know, you don't have tojust avoid a county election because there's

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nobody running. You've got somebody inevery possible place. So guys, the
big thing is get out there,get that Republican slate card, go on
the Hamilton County GOP site. Andvote down ballot and make sure you get
out to vote. One of theproblems here in Hamilton County is people don't
vote down ballot. Believe it ornot, they do. Right again,

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the perception is among the more conservativeminded folks, the wins taken out of
their sales. It's like, that'sa foregone conclusion. What's the point why
even bother? Now in the presidentialelection near those folks will get off the
couch and they will vote for youknow, say Trump, and they'll vote
for you know, Senator hopefully,you know, Bernie just there are legitimate
races that are worthy of getting themon the couch. But the down vote,

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it's like, screw it, whybother? This is just a waste
of time, and you know,you just end up not even casting a
ballot. Down the vote. Wehave a chance this year. Abortions not
on the on the menu. Right, it's done at Ohio, it's done
part of the constitution. It's alreadyfigured out. So they can't play that
card anymore. Right, that's alreadydone. And you have this shift to
the right, not just in Ohio, but it's bleeding in their places.

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This is historically, I mean,you and I just growing up. This
has always been a conservative area.At some point, you know, they
worked their magic on people and theydid their spin and everything and got folks
to shift more towards the left.You've got a move now. And I
keep an eye on the poles.I watch these YouTube videos every night that
pull in all these polls, andthey look at the aggregate, they look

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at the betting markets, they lookat all these things. It's amazing how
much things are shifting. With theAfrican American vote. Trump got I think
eight percent of the African American votelast time. Now CNN is projecting he
gets twenty one percent of the AfricanAmerican vote. When you consider the city
of Cincinnati's about fifty percent African American, that changes a lot of things.

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Well, you know, and thatshift does not shock me. Black people
are smart, They feel it.They know what the result of policies are.
They feel inflation just like everybody else. Right, And you know what,
you know, I was advocating forschool choice earlier. Look at this
idiot from Chicago, the head ofthe Chicago Teachers Union, talk about how
white people don't want black people toread. I mean, how what kind
of insanity is that what we wantConservatives not. It's not a color issue,

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it's a political philosophy. We likechoice when it comes to education.
Give everybody choice, everybody, blackpeople, white people, Asian people.
I don't care what race, creed, religion you are. Everybody should want
choice and that shouldn't bear a politicalstride. The only thing that's being protected
are the teachers union. And ina city like Chicago, only twenty one
percent of eighth graders are proficient inreading. Who doesn't want young people,

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black, white, or Asian oranything else to read? Sounds to me
like the teachers union. It mightbe worse than Cincinnati. Well, there's
a nineteen percent college readiness rate.If you guys can go look at the
US News and World Report. Nineteenpercent college readiness rate in since public schools
and it's about the same numbers asChicago. When it comes to reading and
math is insane. I don't evenknow how these kids are graduating. But
if you think about it, Brian, this whole thing is about monopolies.

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Right. Once, if you're ifyou're in a primary, you're a Democrat.
Right, Just pretend you're a Democrat. Me and you are both Democrats.
We're in a primary race, youget the teachers union endorsement, who
wins that race? I do exactlyhands down, almost everybody on council and
in those kind of commission if theyran in a primary and they got the
teachers union endorsement, are they goingto call out the failures of the public

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schools? Of course not. They'rejust going to let that go, right,
because they want to keep that teacher'sunion endorsement. You know what bothers
me, though, is that thatteacher's union endorsement, given the epic failure
of the unions, you know,handling and management of education period, that
that vote means something, you knowwhat I mean, It's like I wouldn't

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want it because you know, thatwould suggest that I'm in favor of this
monopoly that they have which is failingour children. And know, this is
not an indictment of all teachers.It's a simple social reality that the schools
are underperforming. Blame parents for notcaring, Blame social media, Blame maybe
the teacher's union, maybe the agendathat's being pushed in schools, maybe them
not focusing enough on the core readingskills, writing skills, and mathematics skills

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and incorporating all this left wing ideologywhich is using up valuable education time in
the name of what I don't know. Well, then they just forced the
superintendent out. They vote had tovote of no confidence at the teachers' union
or on the board, and theyvoted her out. She ended up just
quitting because you know, they putpressure on her and it's like, was

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she not performing? Is it They'retrying to hide something and she is trying
to change things. I don't knowwhat it is. But now you have
an African American woman who is runningthose schools. Now she no longer has
a job. She had to stepaside. You know, it's it's insane
what's going on there, the infightingand you see that on County Commission as
well. You see that same infightingwith the three people we have up there.

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Meanwhile, nothing's getting done, thekids are suffering. You've got the
sin and I'm a product of sincea public schools, I went to school
on over the Rhine for eight years. You've got a public school to prison
pipeline. Is what's going on downthere. You've got a forty percent chronic
truancy rate in the Cincinnati Public schoolsSCPA, which is the school I went

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to school for the grade and formerArt's great school, great teachers, very
dedicated to helping out the kids.Walnut Hills speaks for itself. You look
at the numbers, great school.You take those two schools out, they've
got ninety percent graduation rates. Youtake those two schools out, it would
be insane. I mean you would. The numbers would look so terrible.

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I mean they I don't know.The federal government have to send somebody down
to fix this thing. It's inbad shape. Let's possible We'll bring back
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twenty two fifty five KRC detalk station. You have a choice when it comes
a county commissioner this November big election. Adam Kaylor an actual conservative that cares
about finance, cares about budget,it cares about allocating resources appropriately, and
cares about investment in the county.And speaking of that, you off air
mentioned and I hadn't heard about this. Oh yeah, the the closure of

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Procter and Gamble facility, there's likea wint in facility that they decided to
I guess they're shutting it down orthey're just moving jobs from it, but
it's around a thousand jobs, threehundred of them, and I'm guessing that's
upper management type folks. They're goingto be heading back downtown to the Twin
Towers down there, and then therest of them are just going to get
moved back up to Mason. Soonce again you've got an aging facility in

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the city, no reinvestment back intothe city. It's going out to Mason
where they have these beautiful facilities.We had a bunch of land, you
know, Mason gave them a sweetheartdeal years ago. But the product of
Cincinnati, you could tell, isstarting to fall off, right these companies
instead of reinvesting back into the city. You know, it's a lot easier

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to go out to the burs,a lot easier about the Warren Claremont County
build things out there. And thisjust goes to show. And I don't
know if you know, but yougo out to Mason, you got people
out walking the round with their kids, their families. You know, you're
very close to Mason. I'm inSims Township, so yeah, so you
know, and you know, I'mnot a huge like live out in the
middle of the suburbs of the city. I've always been in the city,

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Price Hill, Westwood, Downtown,Mount Auburn, like these are my neighborhoods,
and I love the city. Iwant to stay in the city,
but I'm it's going to turn intoMemphis. That's where we're heading. Oh
my word. And if that doesn'tregister with my listeners, anybody goes,
what's what's the deal with Memphis?Go to Memphis. It is a very,
very, very sorry state of affairsin Memphis right now. Well,

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look at Detroit. Look at whatyou know, going up to Detroit years
ago, you know for the Autoshow. Every year, we'd drive up
there. You know, we'd hangout, we'd walk. What's going on
in Detroit? Nothing to do?Right? You just go to the Joe
Lewis, you know, convention Centerand you go watch you know, some
cars and everything. But there wasn'tanything. And now you have to get
all these billionaires to come back inwhen everything hits rock bottom and nobody wants

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to do anything with it. Theyjust come in, They scoop up lane,
they scoop up buildings. Now they'regoing to invest in it, but
it had to get almost completely shutdown, yeah, for them to want
to come in and invest anything inthere, because now they're buying things,
you know, ten cents on thedollar. There you go. It was.
It's one of the few places actuallystill has affordable housing because it looked

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like a post apocalyptic environment after theauto industry collapse. And I mean you
look neighbored, row after row afterroll of empty vacant houses and just dilapidated
buildings and neighborhoods that were completely gone, and it's just well and there you
go again at buying opportunity. Thankfully, you know, like phoenix rising from
the ashes. Good things can happen, But do we need to let it

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get that bad before it happens?In Hamilton County, Well, they're ignoring
crime. I mean, you've gotall this stuff happening, especially down your
Government Square, and that's always beena problem down there. Yeah. I
talked to Ken Cover from the FOPjust the other day about the crime in
downtown and people not cooperating with police, and that's always been a problem.
Yeah, they just don't, youknow, and you keep getting gas lit
by these people who really and Iget it. Look, I want people

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to come downtown too. I wantCincinnati be vibrant. I want people walk
in the streets. I love thebut you can't pretend things aren't happening,
and they will. I don't knowhow many of you guys out there are
on Twitter. If you're active onTwitter, follow my Twitter still underscore hustling.
You can look me up at himfrom Price Hill. It's insane every

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time I mention anything. I wason the street car the other day.
Yeah, a twelve year old kid. He's going person to person trying to
sell a bus pass on a streetcar. That's free, right. All
these people are riding the street carbecause's free, right. They're not looking
to get on the bus necessarily therecould be some overlap. But this kid's
going person to person saying, Hey, I got this bus pass. You
know I want you want to buythis bus pass for thirty dollars or whatever

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he's selling it for. This ladysays no. He starts arguing that.
She's like, you need to getaway from me, or I'm gonna slap
you, right, next thing,you notice, kid's putting up his dukes
like he's gonna fight this woman.He's swinging in the air. Everybody on
the bus is like what is goingon? As Kid's like twelve and you
just go. This person vers comesup to me. I got my headphones
on, pretend he doesn't exist.He tries to trade the bus pass for
a bicycle off this guy who broughthis bike onto the bus. Guy's like,

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no, there's a bicycle. Hesaid, well, wy don't you
just give it to him. He'slike, no, it's my bike.
He's like so. It was justit was crazy to me. And then
he tries to fight this older manwho stands up and actually tries to defend
himself, and the kids tell himto get off the bus. Let's fight
outside. It was crazy. Likeyou were a regular user of public transportation.

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Yeah, oh I grew up ridingthe Metro. I mean I used
to ride to thirty two, theten, the thirty three, all from
Price Hill. You see you ridethe street car as well, the street
car right by my house. Isthis an unusual occurrence or is this something
that you have seen. You saidyou got maced on the bus. Oh
I got masd on a bus.Yeah, some some kids from lower Price
Hill. I was from up onthe hill, so lower price sal kids
that like the upper price soll kids. So you know we had some problems.

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But yeah, I mean you alwaysgot stuff like that. People that
don't like each other see each otheron the bus. I mean up in
Cold Rain. I think there wasa fight. You remember that. It
was a few months ago. Thisis crazy. Craziness exists. We'll continue
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good man. I was fern A, Jim Neil, we're just talking about
that, Adam Kaylor and studio,and I said, hey, we got
to talk about Hamilton County and thecrime rates and the sheriff's apartment, which
you kind of commissioners are responsible for. Adam Kayler dot com is where you
find Adam who is running for countycommissioner. We have a choice and we
need some some difference of opinion ratherthan the lockstep, quiet passage, under

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cover of darkness of literally anything Democratagenda focused. Adam is a freshing,
a refreshing alternative of that. Solet's pivot over to the Hamilon County Sheriff's
office. I know you're your entireplatform really is focusing on accountability, responsibility,
minding where the dollars, the preciousand few dollars that we have,
where they are going, and ensuringthat they are you know, being used

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for the most important and valuable things. Now, biggest part of the Hamilton
County budget Sheriff's department. I haveno idea what's going on in the sheriff's
department right now. It's like radiosilence, much like Cincinnati City council or
the county commissioners there. Since areyou aware of what's going on? I
know we still have problems with thejail on and off, and crime is

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obviously a problem. What's your takeon the Sheriff's department. Well, anything
involving criminal justice gets you know,pushed to the side because they're obviously failing
at it at the city and thecounty level as far as leadership goes.
You hear about the since hey police, you hear the police chief come out.
She says, they're one hundred andtwenty officers short the sheriffs. It's

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the same worst too. Ken Kobrawas on the other day. More people
are signing up for drop, morepeople taking early retirement, there lives an
officers to other district. It's justit's a frightening thing going on. Well,
and the apparently the sheriffs are twohundred officers short, oh wow,
if you talk to them. Theproblem is and this is what Jim Neil
told me. And I'm at allthese events now with Jim Neil. And
he's a price Ill guy too,price Hill. He's a South Fairmount you

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know, he grew up in bothplaces, so we connect over being from
the west side and just be growingup around that stuff. But Jim tells
me one of the big problems ispeople don't want to be police under bad
leadership, without question. They don'twant to serve the public when they know
they're not supported by the leadership inthe city. They're not supported. They're
demonized for being police officers and protectingus, all right. That's that generally,

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that's not within the police department demonizedby three SODIJI. They're demonized by
the public at large, these nongovernmental organizations and these anti police you know,
defund the police type movement people whobroadbrush paint all of them as a
bunch of inherently racist irreparably, youknow, the I just don't understand it,
and look, look across this greatland of ours, and here's why

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a lot of Black Americans are movingover the conservative side of the Ledger.
Their neighborhoods are falling apart because ofthese stupid defund the police movements. There's
no one around that to provide publicsafety, and there's no overlap, so
there's no working together. I mean, in a way, I kind of
feel like they try to keep thecounty people out of the city in a
way. The police, and thisis another thing Jim Neil brings up all

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the time. The city police andthe county officers should be working together.
Absolutely collaboration. There needs to bemore. He was unbelievable with the collaboration.
I feel like, and you know, I'm not in you know there,
so I don't understand. But fromwhat I what he tells me,
the collaboration is kind of broken down, and there's a there's a lack of

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funding for what they actually need.We need to make sure we're safe.
If we're not safe, businesses aren'tgoing to move here, families aren't going
to move. Moved everything out toMason. It's safe out there. People
are out walking their kids, walkingwith their kids, walking their dogs.
You know, it's just like pleasantatmosphere. I mean you go over to

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places like Hyde Park and Mount Lookout, and I mean they self police pretty
much out there too. But yougo to some other neighborhoods, it's a
problem. I mean, my wifedoesn't want to walk out of the house
in Mount Auburn. You go,you know, a couple of minutes north,
you go a couple minutes south,and there's problems. We got drug
dealers hanging out behind our house onVine Street. They've been there forever.
Actually said, I might just gobuy a bench and put a little digital

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scale on it for him because they'resitting on the wall out there and he's
somewhere to set right. I mean, it just they're not gonna do anything
about it. Miles just giving placethat they're not going anywhere. But it's
it's it's there is a demonization oflaw enforcement, right, And I know
you and I I mean we werekids once. Right, You're out here
doing bad stuff. All the copsmessed with them. We're run. We
had respect for him, You hadrespect for him, right, But not

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anymore. These kids don't have anyrespect for law enforcement. They're told that
law enforcement is bad. Nothing thatthey do is bad. Right, So
you have a lack of police officers. They can't walk out around the street.
You call the police unless there's agun involved. You're not going to
get anybody to show up. Youneed people like Jim Neil, old school

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guys who understand what's going on,who aren't afraid to get out there and
walk in the community. We hadour rally last week or over the weekend
for the down A headquarters on reading. Jim gets out there right after that,
gets he gazul Krue, got somekids with him. They go out
there. They start walking around overthe rhine, talking to people asking,
you know, hey, I'm JimNeil, shaking hands, doing what people

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should be doing, building relationships inthe community. You don't have that because
you just don't have enough officers tohandle everything that's going on. Yeah,
and that was another thing we talkedabout the other day with Ken Kober is
they are reactor. They're not proactiveanymore. There's not enough officers out there
to get out and engage in thiscommunity involvement. I got a listen to
Mississippi Jim and his idea was weneed more police officers interacting with young people

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all colors and stripes. Yeah,that's exactly right. And if we had
some extra officers around, maybe theycould engage in that proactive engagement. Right
now, they can't even manage anemergency call run unless, as you point
out, it's prioritized because there's agun involved. More than Keler coming up.

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It's a wreck between one twenty nineand Curseling Chuck Ingram on fifty five
krc the talk station seven fifty fiveKRCD talk station online. You can check
them out. Adam Kayler or Koehlerdot com. Adam Keller dot com,
runner for Hamlin County commissionis in thestudio. We're talking about the issues,

(29:25):
and we talked about public safety,which is issue number one for you.
Check out his issues page right there. Numero UNA of public Safety talking about
collaborative agreement, partnership and working withinvarious communities. With this holistic approach,
you do support, mental health services, substance abuse treatment. I used to
be a complete decriminalization guy, beinga little ill libertarian, like why criminalize

(29:48):
self abuse? Rug abuse? Imean, if you want to kill yourself
with drugs, I mean, that'syour prerogative. But what we saw,
and I guess Oregon was the statewhere they completely decriminalized. They had to
go to the exact opposite direction.The law law enforcement component facilitates getting people
into treatment programs right without that legalintervention by law enforcement. And I know

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it's you know, beating up onpeople who were already on hard times,
and we get all that, butat least gives them an option to get
out of the abuse cycle. Andthat's so critically important. I mean,
Brian, I got out of theabuse cycle. I mean I asked my
dad one time, and he wasaround when we were kids, right,
he never paid child support. Wedidn't have much anything. We had a
lawn chair in our living room thatone of the plastic ones that folded up

(30:32):
three ways the straps, you rememberthose, Butcher, Sure, Yeah,
that was our couch. And wehad no furniture. I mean, we
had nothing, and my dad wasn'taround, but uh, you know,
every once in a while he'd showup. He told me one time he
did four thousand hits acid, fourthousand. Oh my. He used to
sell drugs. He was at theworkhouse. You remember the workhouse. Oh
sure, he was at the workhouse, eating the nasty food and everything they

(30:52):
used to give you up there.But he was a drug deal was a
pimp. He used to go.He ran away when he was sixteen.
Apparently, you know my grandpa,God rest, his soul was abusive to
the kids, go get drunk.He was a former army guy, had
a glass eye from shrapnel on theboat one time in the Pacific. But
you know he had a hard lifeand you know treated the kids hard.
Well. Pops runs away sixteen,he's selling drugs up in Clifton and just

(31:14):
got into that whole culture and he'syou know, Schitzo, he's you know
Skitzo issues and he just had problems, right So, I mean it was
in my own family. But luckilyhe left when we were like five or
six. That cycle broke. Likemy brother and I, neither one of
us do drugs. We don't drink. My mom told us, hey,
if you want to, you wantto be like your dad's start drinking because
it was a family thing or GermanIrish right, like it's it was just

(31:37):
a family thing that was handed down. Well, that cycle broke with us
luckily, right. Yeah. Andwhen you talk about mental illness, when
you talk about issues, substance abuseissues, I mean I grew up in
Price Oll with a bunch of kidslike me, right, except their parents
drank some of them. Fathers werestill around physically abused them. These kids
were growing up like the kid Imentioned on the bus. They're not afraid

(32:00):
of adults, They're not afraid ofanybody. These were the kids that were
in the gangs that were jumping us, that were you know, you couldn't
You had to watch where you weregoing. You were afraid to get on
the off the bus because somebody wouldbe there that you didn't like and they
would try to fight you or jumpyou. I mean kids were driving around
Price in the nineties, gangloads ina car just looking for somebody to jump.
I mean, I've been jumped Idon't know more times than I can

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count on probably two hands. Andpeople are like, how is that even
possible? Well, if you grewup in the burbs in a gated community
and your little call to sack.You don't understand how that works exactly,
but we are and it's not asbad as it was in the nineties,
but I can see the trend startingto go back. It all ties back
to mental health, substance abuse problems, all this stuff. If you can't

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fix that, if you don't haveenough funds allocated for things like that,
then there's no point in anything else. Everything else is just going to fail
because you got all these people thatare sick that need help. Mental health
is getting worse with social media andall this other stuff on top of that.
That's what's different from the nineties.You got people, especially young women,
who think they've got to keep upwith all these other girls. You've

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got these TikTok influencers that are tellingyou they're millionaires at the age of twenty
five, and which is all,yeah, yeah, exactly, crap.
So you've got so many things,so many pressures on these kids. I
just see it's a problem, andwe're raising another generation of mentally ill people.
I appreciate your candor and willingness totalk about your childhood and giving us

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that perspective because you have actually livedthat life and living that life, and
growing up under the circumstances that yougrew up in, and you're continued living
in the city of Cincinnati in arather crime britten neighborhood. Apparently, if
you got drug dealers hanging out andyou basically your backyard, you see the
problems and you have some solutions thatyou can bring to the table having lived

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and grown up with it. Whatan interesting thing. A politicians actually has
some ideas based upon his own experience. I'm forty six well more with Adam
Kaylor, and we're going to hearfrom sarre a Wolf who's got some ideas
about taxes. She represents Hamilton Countyhomeowners fighting against outrageous property taxes that we're
all living with. Maybe Adam hasa word or two on that. She'll
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It's above cursing chuck Ingramont fifty fiveKR. See the talk station seven to
fifty one after you I care seethe talk station. We talk in taxes

(36:49):
over the five of the Our newsis Sarah Woolf fighting against outrageous property tax.
Of course folks in Hamilton County arerealizing the shock of that. I
just keep looking at my property taxbill. Can't real I just closed my
mind how expensive it's gotten. Butas a county issue, that's something that
has to be settled in Columbus,though, right, I mean, is
there really anything that as a countycommissioner Adam Kaylor for commissioner, can do

(37:12):
to deal with the outrageous taxes?Here in the well, I was said,
a picnic up in col Rain RepublicanClub picnic up there, and Melissa
Powers was up there and she wastalking about some of the things, and
then Bill Blessing came in. BillBlessing was talking about all the stuff they're
working at the State House. Andthen missus Wolf who's coming on at eight
o'clock. She sent me over thisBill that's being proposed now where the property

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tax increases are going to be tiedto inflation, right, and they're going
to max out at four percent,So some years they may be less than
four percent, but it's going tocap it at a four percent increase.
I like that idea. I'm aproblem with the idea, right. I
was actually thinking, like, whydon't we phase these in because when they
did the property tax assessments, itwas pretty much the peak of the market.

(37:57):
When now you have these high interestrates. When you have high interest
rates, and I'm a licensed realtor, generally, when you have high interest
rates, the prices of the homesgot to come down because people have a
budget they're trying to stick in withand you have to figure out a way
to get them in that budget.So when the interest rates go up,
you have to tell the home owners, hey man, you got to come
down these prices. Well, thoseprices are starting to come down, but
they were assessed at the higher amisexactly so in the post COVID reality of

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everyone you know, staying in theirhome, not selling or you know,
going out into the world and buyingup real estate that a lot of people
well used to be able to affordnobody can afford it anymore. We got
to ask yourself, if they assessthese things at a much higher value in
three years from now, when theyreassess it, if these housing prices actually
come down, are they currently stealingfrom us more than they should? Right?

(38:45):
So why not phase this in oneyear? You know you maybe add
a little bit next year, nextyear. Right, That's one idea I
had. I asked Bill Blessing aboutHe said that's totally possible. He had
some other feasible ideas, but this, this tied to inflation thing, I
think would really work. And whenmissus Wolf comes on, I mean she's
going to blow your mind. Imet with her last week. She is

(39:06):
active, she really wants to seethis stuff change, and she's been up
at County Commission. She's given themsome ideas at County Commission, they've largely
been ignored. But once again,you've got people in the community that want
to see things changed and they're justnot being heard. And of course on
your list of issues is addressing propertytax increases and maintain affordability. You're about

(39:28):
affordable housing. You want to getrid of some of the roadblocks that the
county has in place to developments andagain making things easier, so there's some
flexibility and that's an important one.And the upsetting thing is is a majority
of these this increase is just goingto go to a failing public school system.
So if you're out in the middleof the county somewhere, you're you
know, maybe you're an older person. You know, you're on a fixed

(39:50):
income, Your property taxes are goingup, and you've got to pay for
a school system you probably don't havekids in, you may never have had
kids in. And it's just themoney just seems like it's just well and
thrown down a drain. And it'sunconstitutional according to the Ohio Supreme Court,
which twenty years ago rendered I saidthat our current way of funding schools unconstitutional.

(40:12):
Have they fixed it yet? No? No, Here we go status
quo in spite of the fact thatwhat we are currently doing is illegal.
That is, I have never understoodhow this can uh not with the libertarian
sense. Is this is what frustratesus. This is what says this isn't
fair. You know, the taxationin general and out of Matthews up at
the State House is actually working toget rid of the state tax. Yeah,
which would be great. In myopinion, I menders more competitive.

(40:36):
You got to be able to compete. How do you compete when your taxes
are crazy? You got Tennessee withno state tax, and look what's happening
there. I should bring up thestadium tax. Oh my god, the
stadium tax on top of everything else. Well, they're talking about one hundred
million dollars if the Bengals are kickingin. Actually, that's coming from the
NFL. So there is a systemin place at the NFL where essentially they
loan you money, right, Sothis isn't coming out of their pocket the

(41:00):
Bengals, the NFL is actually loaningthem this one hundred and something million dollars.
But the banks we have a newlocker room, Yeah, for a
new litry or whatever. Yeah,but really they don't have to necessarily pay
that back with their own money.That gets paid back using revenue sharing.
So the Bengals really don't. They'renot It's not really like it's coming out
of their pocket necessarily. The Brownsaren't aren't done any these skills, right,

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so it's easy for them to givethat one hundred million dollars. And
I know some of the council membersor the commissioners are pushing for more money
to come from the NFL, butthe chances of that happen are probably slimmed
to none. Unless you're building anew stadium and increasing the fan experience like
drastically like they're doing in Tennessee,like they're doing in Jacksonville. A lot

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of times, the NFL doesn't reallykick in that money. From what I
understand, well, that whole thingis just an absolute well, let me
use a military term, Charlie foxtrotfrom the get go anyway, I don't
Keller wish we had more time.It's been nice spend in the hour with
you. I wish you the bestof luck and I strongly encourage my Listen's
kidd Yard sign donate to the camp. Learn more about Adam. He's got
a huge breakdown of all the issuescounty issues at his website. Adam Kaylor

(42:06):
ko E H L E R.Adam Kayler dot com. Adam wish you
the best of luck. We needyou, We need Melissa Powers, we
need Sheriff Neil, we need GOPjudges GOP judges dot com. So you
know who to vote for who's toughon crime, who's gonna help transform the
county into a wonderful magnet of opportunity, which is what we need. Adam,
I know you're the man for thejob. Folks, stick around.

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We're gonna hear from Sarah Wolf onthe Hamilton County property taxes and what's being
done about it, hopefully, plusJudge Innapolitano at eight thirty. I'll be
right back. If it's happening,people coming across the border, bring down
inflation, Future America. It happenshere on fifty five KRZ, the talkstation