Brandon Nixon for City Council

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Seven thirty year fifty five KR se detalk station Happy Friday.
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who may have control over a lot of that. After
the election this November, Welcome back to the fifty five

(01:15):
KRC Morning Show, Brandon Nixon, who did get enough signatures.
He's on the ballot along with his campaign manager, Cherise,
who is responsible for getting all the signatures collected. Good job, Chariz,
Welcome back, Brandon. Good to have you both in the studio.
That's a campaign going excellent. Excellent at the campaign excellent.
We learned in a lot, we got a lot of

(01:35):
endorsements coming in. We're doing good. I'm glad to hear
that doing good. Now you're a resident of Westwood, I
share you the story I saw last night, just one
of many illustrations of the crime problem we have in
the city. And like I think, it was twenty cars.
According to Channel nine reporting, twenty cars had their windows
smashed in and of course smashing grabs are a common
thing in the city. All happened over Wednesday, night and

(01:59):
at the end Thursday morning. You know a golf air.
You said, that's happened to you. It happened to me
about two years ago. My car got broken into coming
to work. At that time, they had the Kia boys.
I called the police and they told me they couldn't
do nothing about it because it been happening. But I

(02:19):
believe that the policy that our mayor have is not working.
And I think we have more cops on the foot,
and we have a neighborhood watch that one of my
plans are going to have about investment in Savor community,
then we could do that. I like the idea of
getting people involved. Yes, I mean that's a challenge though,

(02:41):
I mean, you know it would wouldn't it be nice
if we all lived in neighborhoods where if someone had
information about who perpetrated the crime, their immediate normal reaction
would be to get in touch with the police rather
than say nothing. Yeah, police have been about complaining about
that reality for years. So if you can't get people
to drop a dot, how do you think you, Brandon,

(03:02):
are going to engage people to get them to get
off the butts out of their houses and walk and
be and participate in a community watch organization.

Speaker 4 (03:10):
Well, we gotta go back to the base and knock
on doors. You know, I'm not afraid to knock on
doors talk to people. I'm not afraid just to set
up a event and trying to get people to come in.
I'm a big believer in the community council. We could
go on and talk to them because I was a
community council for Kenny Hip for three years. And I
think that we stop being lazy and trying to take

(03:30):
pictures or trying to post on foks of me, that
we gotta do the groundwork and knock on doors and.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
Talk to the sentences Cincinnati.

Speaker 4 (03:38):
That's what I love doing, talking to people, seeing what
they complaints and seeing what how can we improve or
do that.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
You know, and I have to imagine you strengthen numbers.
If you're with a group of your neighbors, let's say
five or six, you get together, you decide you're going
to dedicate one night a week, we're gonna walk around,
begin to get pick a number. Eleven pm. We're gonna
hang out, walk around the neighborhood for a couple of hours,
you know, drink a cup of coffee, out to do
our thermost enjoy each other's company. But just being physically

(04:07):
present in any area probably would drive crime away. At
least you're not gonna have criminals committing crimes right there.
I mean, I know somebody's out there screaming with the
radio going yeah, what about the drive by shootings and
they unload four magazines and all that. I just really
can't see that happening with a community with an organized
community walk.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
No prove it with data.

Speaker 4 (04:26):
Back in my dad in the ninety it worked with
a program called the neighborhood Watch. Yeah, and it worked
because when we go on vacation, my dad had a
next door neighbors say hey, watch our house or you know.
I grow with all of that and keep crime down.
And I think that if we all work together and
start working against each other, we could make crime go down.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
You know the way you just characterize that. I didn't
realize it until just now. We have a community watch
program in my neighborhood. It's not organized informal, but everyone's
looking out. If you remember which Missus Kravitz, that's everybody.
It's a real comforting reaction. Might be, why in the

(05:08):
hell are they looking out the window and figure out.
I don't care as long as you're looking out the windows.
Look With Brandon Nixon and his campaign Manager series, we
got more to talk about, maybe get some ideas from
Brandon about beyond that, how to deal with crime and
some other issues that he thinks going on in the city.
Why is he motivated to run for Sincinni City Council.
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Speaker 1 (07:17):
Seven thirty nine fifty five kr CD talk station Happy Friday,
talking with the city council candidate Brandon Nixon, who was
kind of enough to bring his campaign manager Shares in
with him, and she's responsible for making sure he got
enough signatures. He will be on the ballot, so we've
got great options. We talked about your your political affiliation previously, Brandon.

(07:39):
Why you are shown as being registered Democrat. You've left
the Democrat Party, yes, and can I ask you your motivations.
I was speculating because there was an article that Gallup
I believe released some stats. Nationally speaking, anyway, the Democrats
lost two point one million members. Republican Party actually gained

(08:01):
two point four million, and so Democrats have been sole
searching since the twenty twenty four presidential election. Oh my god,
where'd we go wrong? And Okay, being a former Democrat,
you're on your way to the Republican Party. I know
it's in between party affiliation cycles. So we're not going
to hold it against Brandon. Why are you leaving? What
are your motivations?

Speaker 3 (08:21):
I woke up?

Speaker 4 (08:24):
It just simple because you have to be in. They click,
and if you now and they click, you can't run.
You can't do anything. I feel more comfortable with the
Republican Party. I mean being independent because I could. I'm
not a yes man and if you say something, they'll
kick you out. And in some of their policies you
look at now, Number one is the black community. You know,

(08:47):
you keep saying, you know, you keep want African America
keep voting for you, but you're not doing enough for
their neighborhood. Neighbors still look the same out of the twenty
years that they've been running in Cincinnati.

Speaker 3 (08:57):
What do they have to lose to change?

Speaker 1 (08:59):
Right? Well, See, this has been my point all along.
And I know the Republicans have been demonized over the
years such so much such if you say Republican out
loud in some circles, they're like, oh, Republicans, it's that
knee jerk reaction. And you have a guy like former
President Joe Biden who says on the national television that
if you don't vote Democrat, you ain't black. The audacity

(09:24):
of not anybody to say that, but for a white
old guy like him to say.

Speaker 3 (09:31):
Something like that, I'm the leader of the free world, right, Yeah, I.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
Mean, I've always expressed outrage like if I were if
I try to put myself in the position for black person,
if I were black, I would be frankly and I'll
say it out loud, pissed off. Nobody speaks for me.

Speaker 3 (09:44):
No, no, no, And for me it's for me.

Speaker 4 (09:49):
It's sad because that when I say I'm independent, or
if I'm not I'm not going to Republican, I get
all kind of names.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
And it's very sad about that.

Speaker 1 (09:58):
Now, do you try to engage folks who react that
way and say, wait a second, he has But I mean,
I always say I got to explain that. The boil
down point is if you're if the minute someone, if
you're engaged in a discussion back and forth, legitimate debate,

(10:18):
and someone resorts to name calling, you can chalk one
up in the win Colling because name calling is not debate.
That is the last passion. That is someone who is
completely run out of ideas. So have you ever tried
to engage in a debate with one of these people
who has that immediate knee jerk reaction, Oh my god,
you're a Republican.

Speaker 3 (10:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (10:37):
I tell people, don't judge me by the letter of
a Democratic republic judging by how my character is, Johnny,
how like going to help your family in the future,
don't judge to become Republican. I like Democrats. I like
some of Democrats, but it's not about the D and
the R. And it's all about how you are put
your platform going to be It's all about how you're

(10:57):
going to help your family going to be anygether build
a city better for everyone.

Speaker 3 (11:02):
That why we got to meet and greet.

Speaker 4 (11:04):
Coming soon, We're going to invite Democrat, Republicans and Independence
to come and all come together. And that how we
could save Cincinnati. That's how we could be there for Cincinnati.
I'm tired all that divided, I'm tired of everything. Why
can we work together and make Cincinnati great again? It
makes Cincinnati a best city again?

Speaker 1 (11:26):
Okay? And I like the idea of organizing these community organizations,
keep an eye out of the neighbor's house, do some
walking patrols. All that I think would go a long
way to help out. We got to, obviously have a
problem with with young people. I know they're enforcing the curfew.
You you say, no, they're not. But do you think
I just generally speaking that a real, actually enforced curfew

(11:49):
was a good idea for young people.

Speaker 3 (11:51):
No, yes, well you're running No, because that how cannot
say that.

Speaker 4 (12:01):
You're taking they freedom away. Plus at the same time
that I think the parents need to be there. Plus
our police officers not babysitters. They are not babysitters, And
I think the start with the parents. We have our
mirror that had plans, but he depends not going through

(12:22):
and he missed the point that the people have been
asking him that they need help in the hotspot and
been annoying. I'm taking pictures. But now something happened. You
want to now you want to do something, you and
city council. It been happened over over years and years,
and they've been annoying.

Speaker 1 (12:39):
That right, So they're reacting to a problem that's been
festering for a long long time. Because this was a
particularly egregious and outrageous crime that happened. Yeah, and it's
all on video and everybody's going, really, that's.

Speaker 3 (12:54):
The city of Cincinnati.

Speaker 1 (12:55):
But that's the city of Cincinnati. You've been living in.

Speaker 3 (12:57):
Yes.

Speaker 4 (12:57):
And the one thing I want to say too, it
was the article how all the murders of young kids
today at the West End. They promise people for cameras
and they still don't have it. And that's crazy.

Speaker 3 (13:10):
You know, city.

Speaker 4 (13:11):
Council members don't go down there and see how everything is.
They want to take pictures, they want to sit on front.
The best way to be a canon is go down
to to West End and Evandale and all the other
one to walk down there, talk to the people, see
how can you fix it? Stop thinking you know everything.
You don't because you don't live in them neighborhood.

Speaker 3 (13:31):
You live in.

Speaker 4 (13:32):
Clifton and you live in Hyde Park and everything, and
that's ridiculous, you know, do stop being lazy and go
down there and talk to the citizen cucinat And that
was I loved doing when I was on a campaign.

Speaker 3 (13:44):
Turn I'm still doing that.

Speaker 4 (13:45):
That's the best thing I love doing, talking to people
and my campaign magicer to tell you I talk.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
For a I t I'm glad to hear that. We'll
bring him back and we'll talk a little bit more
what Brandon Nixon has to say and find out what
in your engagement with members within the various neighborhood's what
they want, you know, not whether there R and D.
But listen, I think we need to do this. There's
got to be some great ideas swirling around out there,
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Speaker 1 (15:57):
It's seven forty eight forty nine KER City Talk station.
Brandon Nixon running for city council with his campaign manager.
Who may be eligible for a crime stopper Bad Guy
of the week A Lord Cheries. Welcome back Officer Green.
Timothy Green from the Sinceey Police Department. Thank you for
everything that you and the police do for us. Who
are we looking for today? And I think we might

(16:18):
have found out? Who is?

Speaker 5 (16:20):
Good morning Cincinnati, Please, we are looking for William Defferent.
Mister Deffern is wanted by the Ohio Adult Parole Authority
for a selony parole vialation. Mister Deffern was originally charged
with drug trafficking, escape, and failure to register. William Deffern
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too and two hundred and twenty five pounds. William Deffern
has a history of assault and was last known to
live in New Richmond, Ohio. Listeners, if anyone has information
on where police can find William Defferent, please call crime
Stoppers at five point three three five two thirty forty
or submitted to online at crime Desk Stoppers.

Speaker 1 (17:02):
Do us maybe getting a call here at about five minutes.
My guest in studio recognize the guy he works at?
What the speedway? He works at a speedway that she
goes into. She knew exactly who it was when he.

Speaker 3 (17:14):
Shut up on.

Speaker 1 (17:16):
Anyway, Thank you, officer Green. His picture is on my
blog page fifty five kerosey dot com. We'll catch ourselves
another one next week. Have a wonderful weekend, tiy. Yeah,
that's great all. And on top of everything, I do
have to acknowledge and point out he's a tattoo face guy.
So he's got a cross in the center of his
eyes forehead and some tears coming out of his eyes. Anyway,
have fun, observe him, and Cherise is probably gonna drop

(17:40):
a dime cash reward. Cherise, you will remain eligible, although
the world knows now that you are the one that
fingered it. Anyway, Brandon, she's Brandon Nixon's campaign manager, And
what are you hearing about Just let's stick with crime
for a moment because I want to pivot over to
the crumbling infrastructure brand, which you're aware of as well.

(18:01):
But what are you hearing from folks just generally speaking,
if there's ideas floating around there in any given neighborhood,
what are you hearing.

Speaker 3 (18:09):
About the parents?

Speaker 1 (18:10):
Well, about crime generally? I mean, does it keep coming
back to that.

Speaker 4 (18:13):
Yes, communication because they say that the city council is
lying to them about when they say about crime is down,
crime is down, it's not.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
Yeah, don't believe your eyes fail your eyes.

Speaker 4 (18:24):
And I think the big problem is communication because you know,
some don't know when when the city council is.

Speaker 1 (18:33):
Some don't know what the council member names is No,
you can include me among them. I was reading the
list of the ones that are running for re election
and it's like it's just as if they never existed.
They aren't out in the news regularly. And you know,
to your point, this is something Christopher Smithman, who's also running,
has been making for a long time. Our leaders need
to be out there and engaged and encouraging people. Going

(18:56):
back to our point earlier to drop the dime. Sure
he's I mean, you know, you wouldn't be great for
to have mayor I have to have Purval walking around,
maybe showing up in the West End after they unload
four magazines into a group of people. You know, we
need to get in touch with police, We need to
work with police. We need to celebrate the police. I'm
working on rebuilding the police force. We've allocated money and resources.
We're gonna put the damn cameras up. That brand is

(19:17):
demanding that they haven't put up, but that it doesn't
happen until after something terrible happens.

Speaker 3 (19:22):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (19:22):
So how many more lives have to be lost before
we say, hey, let's do something anything? And the idea
that people have become sort of accepting the fact that
there's gunfire that's going on all the time. I don't
know if you hear gunfire in your neighborhood in Westwood,
Yes you do. Sarah Heringer was on her husband stabbed
to death and over the rhyne, and she talked about
on My morning show. She so used to gunfire that

(19:44):
you almost don't even pay attention to it anymore. It
happens all the time. Wow, So all right, I would
pivot over to what I considered to be a at
least an unspoken but yet an actual acknowledgment of incompetence
from city government. This program, they paid forty thousand dollars

(20:05):
to an outside firm to engage in outreach. They got
a five thousand dollars cash prize to the individual or
group of individuals who can come up with a better
plan for staying on top of potholes. To me, potholes
is not rocket science. I mean, what does that suggest
to you? Brandon number one? I think that that's ridiculous.

(20:27):
We have money for the railroad. Why can't the money
from the railroad to fix that it existing infrastructure.

Speaker 3 (20:33):
It's funny.

Speaker 4 (20:34):
Another thing is we need to fund the police, because
use that money for potholes that our police need equipment,
Our police needs stuff, and y'all vote no for it.
You could use that money to fund the police. I'm
a big believer in fund the police, and I think
that we need to do that and certain other things.
I think we need to fix our neighborhoods. You know,

(20:55):
you waste money for potholes, but other neighborhood like Evandale
and West End and other other neighborhoods, other neighborhoods is
not getting the funds like a high park or on
some other Clifton nothing like that.

Speaker 1 (21:12):
Yeah, they do express some outright favoritism for you know,
neighborhoods like Over the Rhine. How much money do they
pump into over the Rhine to regentrify it a lot? Yeah,
and then they ended up angering a whole lot of
people because they can afford to live there. Although with
the crime rate going up, that tends to impact real
estate value, so maybe Over the Rhine will then become
more affordable.

Speaker 4 (21:32):
Well that's why I'm sorry cutting out Bryan, but I
I'm a big noe for connect communities. I'm a big
noe for it because you know why Number one is
each neighborhood got community council doing a good job. And
I don't want nobody from New Jersey gonna tell me
what to do with my neighborhood or and I don't
want city council with all the power.

Speaker 3 (21:51):
And that's ridiculous. Each neighborhood is unique.

Speaker 4 (21:53):
You neighbor know what they are doing, and I think
that they just need to keep it like that, stop
trying to fix things that not broken.

Speaker 1 (22:01):
It's not broken.

Speaker 3 (22:02):
Yeah, that's coming.

Speaker 1 (22:03):
Since government that one size fits all, Le's government.

Speaker 3 (22:08):
I believe in Le's government.

Speaker 1 (22:09):
Less government, springing from my personal little libertarian philosophy. And
I think I heard from Scharissa Software that you're in
the same place I am, Cherisa. I love that. Well.
I'll tell you what, Brandon. I wish you all the best.
Brandon Nixon. You can find him on Facebook, I think,
is that where your primary site is.

Speaker 4 (22:25):
The website is coming soon, and I want to say,
in late September, our meeting Greek gonna be coming. Well,
I will send fires and we'll send out and you're
welcome to come to Brian Thomas. You watch, you and
your wife and your family welcome to come. But that's
coming soon. And just vote for Brandon Nixon, like I say,

(22:45):
fix it with Nixon, and and talk to me at
Let Brandon Nixon.

Speaker 1 (22:52):
For since A City Council. YEA, elect Brandon Nixon until
he gets his regular web page up. Elect Brandon Nixon
for Cincinnati City Council on Facebook. Looking at the page
right now, great shot at you, Brandon, A nice big
smile on your face. I wish you all the best.
We'll talk again before the election, I'm certain. Take care
of yourself. Have a wonderful weekend. Seven fifty six. Right
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