Brandon Nixon for City Council

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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happy Wednesday to you. I like the man that's in
my studio. Just got a chance to meet Brandon Nixon.

(00:22):
My friends in the Cincinnati Greatest Cincinnati, Cincinnati area, those
within the confines of the City of Cincinnati. Resident's going
to be voting on a new mayor this fall. They're
voting on new council members, and now they have an
extra option Brandon Nixon, who's in studio, and he I
think has seen the light. Brandon, it's been a pleasure
talking with you off air, and it's good to have
you on the show this morning. Thank you so much.

(00:43):
Thanks for inviting me. Well, it's a pleasure, man. I
understand you are currently registered as a Democrat, all right, yes,
and you have plans of shifting party affiliation, yes, all right,
but there's a window to do that and you're not
in that window. So all right. People are going to say, well,
he's a Democrat. But as I asked you off air,
and I suspected. I knew the answer to the question

(01:04):
when I asked it. You feel as though the Democrat
Party left you? Yes, and what specifically? I mean, you've
had conversations with Orlando Sanza, who I dearly love, and
you've engage with him, and what was this sort of
moment where you kind of saw the light?

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Number one. I think that they act like that. The
Republican Party don't believe in black man. And I think
that the Republican Party is not divided. The Prosian Party
got different ways how they do it. And I think
the Dimmer Party is brainwash. I think the Demmin Party,

(01:42):
you got to be a yes man or they pick
favoritism of the Democrat Party. If you're not in the
first nine, you're not gonna get no vote. And I
think that that's sad.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
Well, it is sad, and it's it's almost as though
there's a collective brainwash. You know, people don't after the name,
then they just simply will not vote for anybody. They
don't look close enough at issues. Yeah, yes, if they
really focused on it and said, all right, well is
this issue the way this particular official is going to vote,
what their platform stands for? Is it going to be

(02:15):
beneficial to me or not? And I think Democrats love
to claim that what they're trying to do for you
is going to help you, when in fact it really
only helps them. Yes, what part of town you live in?
I live in Westwood. I understand you were not an
original Cincinnati native. Oh, you made the right choice of
moving here. Go ahead, let them know it's gonna have

(02:36):
to come out at some point.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Yes, I'm from a town called Oliria. It's about twenty
minutes from Cleveland and Go Browns. And I'm happy to
be a man in sixty years. I'm happy to be here.
I live about myself. Before I moved down here, I
was I used to live in Kenyon Heights. I was
on a Kenya hid community council for three years and

(02:58):
campaign for campaign for a lot of people. I met
a lot of people, and at that time I woke
up and say, you know what, I'd like to Republican Party.
You know they care about me. They this is what
I got to say. You know, I'm not a yes man.
They understand what I was coming from, and I'm happy
I'm making that decision.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
Well, I think, at least in so far, as the
overall platform. Republicans I think are more about safety, roads, bridges, infrastructure,
and public safety. You know, if if government is going
to deliver on something, let's keep that as the front burner.
Stuff what I see out of this mayor maybe you
can comment on it, like things like connected communities. You know,
the zoning that they flat out blanketed all neighborhoods with

(03:41):
in the City of Cincinnati without any input from the
various neighborhoods or community councils. You will abide by these
zoning rules and then lo and behold. You know Hyde Park,
well connected developers show up to get a waiver from
Connected Communities and they're given that even though the residents
of Hyde Park don't want it. I mean, what, what's
your take on that kind of thing going on? No one.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
I hate community. I hate it. It's terrible, you know.
I look at them like bullies going to a neighborhood,
and I work with Hyde Park two getting signatures too.
I did that helped them out too, and I think
they need to take a just take it away. I
think that it's not right how you could just take

(04:25):
a neighborhood from somebody like Bond Hill they did Bond
Hill that they did different other neighborhoods like that. I
think that they need to take away stop changing thing.
If it's not broken, don't mess.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
With it, right or you know, if it's not broken,
don't fix it, of course, but at least listen to
what your constituents ask are asking for and don't do
the polar opposite of it. I mean, that's a hard
lesson they're learning right now. With this Hyde Park petition
that's going to be on the ballot. I mean, you know,
the residents I think are going to come out in
large amounts in the city and vote in favor of
repealing the the waiver from the council. They're angry, yes,

(05:03):
I mean they're expecting it. Hey listen, you know there
but for the grace of God, go life. They did
it to the Hyde Park, they did at the Bond Hill.
They pretty much did it to all of us with
connected communities. I'm not gonna have any more of this.
I'm saying no. No. I'm saying no too.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
And like I said, my platform is giving back, getting
back to the community, and that's my mottol because we
need to have a voice in city Hall. And they
have a voice in community council and we don't have
one right now because they worrying about making money, worry
about having billing apartments, and that's not right. The first

(05:37):
thing you'repped to the public safety and you're not doing that.
We got potholes in here, we got crime going around
and our mayor is taking pictures or worry about national stuff.
We didn't hire. We didn't vote you in for national.
We will vote you in for local. And that pissed
me off. Yeah, I understand that. You know.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
It's what if Christopher Smith and former vice mayor, comes
on my program every week and we do it. He
does this Smith their vent revents his spleen and he
is all over that because they'll vote on resolutions that
involve like Israel and Palestine or something like wait a
second one. It has no impact at all. And why
in the hell you spind on your wheels and wasting
time voting on things over which you have zero control.

(06:15):
How about fixing Madam Road? Right? Yes? Yes?

Speaker 2 (06:19):
And another thing is that it's like I know one
consul man talm about that community council is terrible, but no,
they don't understand that. I was Community Console for three years.
We do it voluntarily. We love our neighborhood. We tried
doing our best to help each neighborhood. Each neighborhood is unique, unique,

(06:41):
and it's a shame how they don't respect us.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
And that's a big step in the face. Well, who
knows better than someone who lives in a specific neighborhood
than them? I mean, your problems in your neighborhood, and maybe
you can identify some problems that you feel that have
not been addressed by the city but are completely different
than whatever problems if they have any in Hyde Park Square.
So do you feel like your community, your your local

(07:06):
neighborhood has been overlooked, left out, or otherwise neglected by the
City of Cincinnati. Yes, in what particular ways. Number One
is crime, crime, crime, crime is a big thing. You
got a lot of a company in that one.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
Yeah, potholes Because I was I live off of my
Tanna and mustain and the road was terrible. I had
to get my car, take pictures trying to get hit,
take a bit and put on Facebook and to hey,
you know that we were going through Every morning I
worked early in the morning, I had to dodge and
I'm playing foggy, you know, and then get my tire fixed,

(07:39):
you know. But it's ridiculous. I understand that, you know,
funding everything, but just be real. Just worry about our
public safety and worrying about going on, worrying about the
White House.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
I'm with you all day long on that talk with
Brandon Nixon. You can find him on Facebook. He doesn't
even have a campaign web page. We'll be looking for
that down the road a little bit. But if you
go to Facebook elect Brandon Nixon for Cincinnai City Council,
you can get some information about the man who I'm
talking with in studio today. And we're going to take
a pause right now, Brandon, we'll bring it back. I
want to talk to you specifically about crime and some

(08:17):
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you have some thoughts or ideas about what you would
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Speaker 1 (11:24):
It's a twenty fifty five Yer City talk station. Enjoying
my conversation with Brandon Nixon, finding my Facebook. If he
elects Brandon Nixon for since a city council, he is
a reform Democrat. He will become a member of the
Republican Party when the window opens up. But he's already
I learned over the break and props to you. You
know the right people went through a whole bunch of names.
You're friends with west Side Jim the kingmaker on the

(11:45):
west Side, and you also remember the west Side Republican Party.
Of course, yes, that's where you see Jim. I mentioned
Pryce sl CHILEI that's how we went down that road
because he mentioned my Tanna Avenue. I said, did you
ever have to drive on Sunset? My listeners know, oh man,
I constantly complain about that. It's like a road out
a gaza or something. When are they ever going to
fix that one? Money? Well, okay, moving over to crime.

(12:09):
I thought it was an amazing revelation after the last
couple of years, uh, the mayor and council and the
police department telling us over and over again crime in
the city is down. Oh look, I have to have
pro ball police chief threat strategic and several other city
leaders did acknowledge that, in fact, yes, crime is actually up,
particularly over the Rhine. Boy, it's jumped up. We've got
more murders now at this time than we did last year,

(12:32):
a lot of property crimes, car thefts, it's all going on.
That's a real problem problem in your neighborhood too. I guess, yes,
what do you I mean? You said you had an
interesting story along these lines. Let's talk about that and
then we'll find out what your ideas are.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
The story was I wrote a paragraph about crime and
to the mirror, and I have somebody call me and
told me that I was a dis I was wrong
for dissing the mayor out like that in public. And
I was like, well, I got freedom of speech. I

(13:06):
got the right because I paid. I'm a text player.

Speaker 1 (13:09):
I pay. But that person told.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
Me that I was wrong and I need to stop
doing it. And at that time was at work, and
I told him. I was like, well, you can't stop me,
because that now I thought. I'm happy because now y'all
seeing me, you know, I feel special now because y'all listen.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and I'm happy about that. Well, that's
actually kind of refreshing that you brought them out to
challenge you. What was the subject matter? If I can
ask me what were you complaining about, I would just
complain about the crime period. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
And it's sad because you see a lot of African
American youth is dying.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
Oh it's terrible.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
Yeah, and you see a lot of elders tell me
walking around they're afraid to go outside because they want
they don't want to get jumped. You see, you can't
go to OTR because you got a group of teenagers
are going to start jumping people. Like I said, I
got a seventeen year old son and I'm afraid for
him to go to I'm taff because the jump there
you see a gentleman that pass away.

Speaker 1 (14:11):
You've got murdered. I'm sorry, I got murdered in his
own place.

Speaker 2 (14:13):
Yes, and that's sad because I want that can say
that the police can't be everywhere, right, But I think
you stop lying to us, Stop saying that crime is
down and crime is not down.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
Don't lie to it. Just tell the truth and to
try to find something to fix it. Well, you know,
one of the things I think is lacking, particularly into
the Purvole administration. Okay, they'll pay lip service to the
police every once in a while, but they don't seem
to be actively involved in supporting them. Talking about the
police as a positive thing for neighborhoods, the idea of

(14:46):
law enforcement being there and being present, it's not a
bad thing, it's a good thing. Neighborhoods. You should embrace
the police. Police, embrace the neighborhoods, work cooperatively together in
your neighborhood. Do you get the sense that people do
not like the police, or that they think the police
are outright evil force that shouldn't be around. Yes, you
have that, that's the impression. Yes, Oh that's a shame.

Speaker 2 (15:06):
Yes, because my car got broken into at that time
the Kia boys and it took the police about an
hour and a half to come out.

Speaker 1 (15:17):
Well that's lack of police officers. Yes, I mean they're
too busy going after the murderers and the gangs of
roving teenagers out there. They don't have time for a
property theft, right, right, But I mean, but does that
can come pret And I mean if there were more
police around and they showed up quicker. That will be
a good thing, right, Yes, okay, kind of That's where
I'm going to in terms of the attitude. Yes, people
want more police presence to keep their neighborhoods safer and

(15:40):
address the nine one one calls. Yes, right, okay, Now
we got that cleared up as a little for I mean,
because there's there, seemed to be, at least within the
black community, this attitude that police are all racist, there's
nothing but an evil force. I don't want them around,
and I find that hard to believe. Police provide some
measure of safety and protection for a community.

Speaker 2 (15:59):
Yes, and I do support in the blue too good
and that's a good thing, especially particularly in these trying times.

Speaker 1 (16:06):
Well, I'll tell you what, Brandon, it's been great talking
with you, a pleasure to introduce you to my listening audience,
and I'm sure maybe you and I will have more
conversations between now and the fall. I wish you the
best of luck on your campaign and get out there
and mix it up with folks, get them talking. Thank you.
I appreciate everything you did. It's my pleasure. Folks stick around.
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