Citizen Watchdog Todd Zinser

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In the meantime in studio, Todd Zinzer, former Inspector General
and hosts of the Citizen Watchdog podcast. Good to have

(00:46):
you back in Todd. It's always a pleasure.

Speaker 4 (00:47):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Brian, good morning man. He's got his fingers on the pulse.
What's going on all around the area, including the city
of Cincinnati. We've got some interesting things to talk about
in the city of Cincinnati. First off, how's the Citizen
Watchdog podcast going?

Speaker 4 (01:00):
Oh, it's going, it's going great. I really enjoy it.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Great. I bet you do. You get talked for a
full hour or whatever on you know when.

Speaker 4 (01:06):
I try to keep it to about ten minutes or so.
Oh no, kidding, yeah, So people don't have to listen
to me for that.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Oh, come on, man, you're interesting, and again you have
all the facts. Let's start with this, since at council
meeting yesterday apparently they had a million three laying around
that wasn't used from last year the capital Project fund.
You watched this whole council meeting on this, this debate
over where to use that money.

Speaker 4 (01:31):
Yes, I did yesterday and the ultimate.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
Vote was to buy a couple of dump trucks to
try to better manage the snow removal, but also spend
three hundred thousand dollars on the Camp Washington skate park project.
Something I had no idea about. Is there a skate
park lobby out there or something.

Speaker 4 (01:49):
There are a lot of enthusiasts for skates and BMX
bikes and things like that, and they have organized and
for the last I'm not sure exactly how long, but
it's a million dollars skate park.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (02:03):
That f TA have Purvol mayor of Purvol kind of
took on as a project and they needed this three
hundred thousand to finish the project. And it's probably going
to be done right around the time where they need
some ribbon cutting for the campaign.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Of of course it will be now the question is
do they have money for maintenance and upkeep of the
aforementioned skatepark once it's built.

Speaker 4 (02:29):
Well, I don't think that's currently in the budgets.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
They'll talk about that, no, okay, because they're supposed to
have money to fix the roads, and I know a
lot of people are having some problems with the fact
that the roads haven't been fixed and have been quite
neglected for years and years. That's right, yep, huh, okay,
ignore what you've built and build something else so you
can have a ribbon cutting ceremony. Now, I'll acknowledge I

(02:52):
would much rather have a kid ride around a BMX
bikes or skateboarding outdoors in the sunshine than sitting in
his basement watching our video games and drinking mountain dew
code red. I mean, the health benefits cannot be ignored.
But see going back, Yes, we want this, that and
the other thing. We have a list of things we
want from the city, including a skate park. But if

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the city can't afford or neglects everything it already is
responsible for, then I'm the kind of person that would
say no, no, no, we need to deal with what
we've got already, and once we find ourselves in a
budgetary position where we can say we fixed that already.
We've taken care of the infrastructure, We've dealt with the
whole broken windows concept. Now let's entertain ideas about where
this is, where the next capital expenditure is going to be.

(03:37):
Who's got ideas? One hand's going to be raised saying
we need a skateboard park, and there'll be a multitude
of other hands that get raised saying no, no, no,
we want this, and no, no, no, we want that.
For example, I know there were hands raised in terms
of where to spend this money because Vice Mayor Jan
Michelle lemon Kearney wanted this money to go to the
Clifton Cultural Arts Center headquarters and Artworks Creative Campus Art Park.

(03:59):
I've never heard of those, and why would she want
money to go there as opposed to say, this skate
park or buying the dump trucks to deal with the
snow removal. Do you know anything about these organizations? Tod
Z insert well Artworks. Artworks is one, pig Works is

(04:20):
a second one. Oh, and then I think the Cultural
Center is a third one. And they were basically all
trying to tap into this one point three million. Pig
Works is the group that promotes or operates the Fine
Pig Marathon and all the associated events, and the head

(04:41):
of Pigworks actually is the I think he is the
editor of the Business Courier. But they came in looking
for money to finish what some brick and mortar brick
and mortar headquarters up in Walna Hills, I believe, really,
And in his testimony he said that they generate like
twenty million dollars worth of economic activity as a result

(05:05):
of the marathon, and I don't think Artworks had quite
the same economic story. But these are groups that fall
into this leverage support category that we talked about last time,
and you actually had a caller yesterday who talked about it.
It's the same thing he I think I met him
at the budget hearing that was held up in Price

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Hill a couple of weeks ago.

Speaker 4 (05:29):
And these are this is a prime example of how
the Democrats have gotten support in the community. They have
numerous nonprofits NGOs, et cetera that they distribute about twenty
million dollars to and they have this relationship where they

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feed off each other.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
So the city taxpayer dollars go to these outside organizations
for the serving whatever purpose, and then presumably the outside
organizations then beyond what they are structured or built to
do and accomplish, like run the Flying Pig Marathon, also

(06:13):
serve as a political wining to help the council people
and the mayor and the vice mayor get re elected.

Speaker 4 (06:20):
Yes, there's actually there's actually a word for it, Brian.
It's called client teleism. Oh really, yes, you can look
it up. It's called client teleism. And I do have
a podcast on it and where I read a couple
of definitions, and it's exactly what's going on. The groups
and the politicians form this relationship where it's, you know,

(06:43):
they help each other out.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
Well, I yeah, it sort of sounds like what PG
Sittenfolde got in trouble for. I mean, can I say
that out loud? I mean it sounds very analogous.

Speaker 4 (06:56):
Well, exactly. And the the protections that are necessary to
make sure that all these are arm's length, it's very
very important. I don't really think they exist. Here's here's
on this leverage support. The city manager has a like
a process for people to apply and they go through

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and they fill out an application, etc. They justify their request.
But then somehow, after the city manager makes her recommendation,
the mayor gets to provide extra money to whoever he
wants there, and then the city council gets to add
money to whatever they want. And last year, the city

(07:41):
manager came in with a recommendation for like four million
for a certain list, and by the time they were done,
it was raised one point five million dollars. Because of
what this mayor wanted and what the council wanted. The
mayor gave an extra two hundred and fifty thousand dollars
to one group just with the stroke of a penanty.

(08:02):
I don't know how he does it, that's how it
looks anyway, And I did talk about that at the
budget hearing. I had two things I thought they should
do at the budget hearing. One was be more transparent
about how that works. But the other one was I
think they should have something in the budget about what
the mandatory costs are, what are the requirements by the

(08:24):
federal government, the state government, the city charter, what must
we spend money on, and break it out into mandatory
versus discretionary and all of these.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
Like the federal government has mandatory and discretionary.

Speaker 4 (08:37):
Exactly so that when we start giving money around, we
have to make sure that we provide sufficient funds for
those things that we must do.

Speaker 1 (08:45):
Well in a certain respect. And I mean this with
the highest praise. You're kind of the powerless Elon Musk
in the situation because you're raising this whole like, well,
you know, we got a litany of multi billion dollar
programs that we're now finding out about that no one
knew about, that our taxpayer dollars are funding, and that
Elon Musk is bringing it to our attention. This is

(09:08):
the kind of thing that needs to be brought to
the City of Cincinnati taxpayer's attention because they may be
looking at their front door to road that hasn't been
touched in twenty years, it's got potholes in it, and
they're frustrated as hell. And then we find out that
somebody's got their hand in the cookie jar and have
to have purvalls decide how much money they're going to get, yeah,
for political purposes.

Speaker 4 (09:25):
I actually looked into the internal audit function for the
city and on their website, for example, they say that
what they do, they say a bi annual risk assessment,
which seems a little too frequent, But so I put
in a records request to see the risk assessments. Well,
they actually don't do risk assessments. So when you have

(09:47):
situations like a fleet of snow removal vehicles that can't
remove snow that should be picked up in a risk assessment,
how they are operable exactly, but they don't do risk assessments.
Apparently makes they say they didn't have the resources to
do it.

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Speaker 1 (12:01):
Seven nineteen I fift about KIRCD talk station eye opening
conversations so far right into the gate with Todd Zendler.
You can find his podcast Citizen Watchdog and learn about
this kind of thing all the time. And we all
learned a new word this morning. At least I did
CLIENTELESM and I mentioned PG Sittinfeld because we had this
project and PG essentially was convicted of the quid pro

(12:23):
quoll concept right where he said, ah, you line my
political action committee with some money and we'll get this
project approved. That's pretty much it. That's right now with
these these outside organization, these non governmental nonprofits that have
their hand in the city taxpayer dollars cookie jar and
are rewarded with apparently random arbitrary decision making by on

(12:45):
the part of the mayor and others to get money.
As you pointed out, that their proposals are submitted to
the city manager. The city manager hands over the her
recommendations and then he arbitrarily can raise them. As you
mentioned last time, he raised it, what a half million
dollars in an original four million dollar ask, right, but
no discussion or anything, right.

Speaker 4 (13:06):
Nothing in the budget about that, nothing.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
In the budget. Clientileism here's the definition, is a political
system where goods or services are exchanged for political support. Essentially,
it's a quid pro coo relationship where politicians and voters,
voter or groups groups politicians or political elites provide benefits
individuals like jobs, grants, or public services in exchange for

(13:29):
electoral support or loyalty. That's the quid pro quo. It's
not them handing money in order to get a project done.
It's the city randomly and without oversight, handing money out
to these groups knowing that they will get those groups members.
And you know, people work in the streets form spreading
the information regular election exactly? Is that not equally corrupt?

(13:51):
Is it that not an exchange of value for value?
Even though it doesn't involve them handing money to the politician,
it just works the other way around.

Speaker 4 (14:00):
I think it's it's in a gray area, to be sure, Brian.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
You're so yeah, you're so delicate. Todd Zenzer, Well, I'm
calling it out. It should be a federal probe in that.
I mean, they looked into PG Sentinfeld, didn't they.

Speaker 4 (14:13):
Yeah, Well, Cincinnati is kind of the perfect size for
this type of environment because it's not that big, and
the politicians are still close enough to these nonprofits and
local groups that this can flourish.

Speaker 1 (14:28):
Okay, did they did they speak at this meeting yesterday?
These groups?

Speaker 4 (14:34):
Yes, they did they. In fact, Artworks had several witnesses
and the Pig Works had several witnesses. I'm not sure
about the Cultural Center. There was definitely somebody there speaking
on his behalf. But so did the So did the
local ask me a rep come in and thank them

(14:57):
for the support for the equipment for the fleet?

Speaker 3 (15:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (15:02):
I said that. That one quote kind of cracked me
up from the union head, which was which was pretty funny.
Because clearly one of the discussion points was this is
not going to solve our problems and so far as
dealing with snow removal in the future. It was a
Jeremy mccleesh the Union Local Union two forty representative quote.
While it seems like it's a minute drop in the bucket,

(15:25):
meaning these two dump trucks, at least it's something in
that bucket. So it didn't solve the problem. It's one
baby step toward getting a fleet that actually works and
conserve the needs of the city. So you can make
an argument that at least that expenditure of capital was
is going to provide something for the residents, as opposed
to these other organizations which are merely going to provide

(15:47):
political support for the elected officials there.

Speaker 4 (15:50):
Yeah, well, these groups do provide services, but it's all
tied into the.

Speaker 1 (15:57):
Yeah, but what of all the other groups that provide
services that all also asked for money, but this didn't
necessarily get it.

Speaker 4 (16:02):
Well that's a good point because last year there were
over ninety groups that made application for these funds, and
there were thirty five in that group that got funded,
So about a third of the groups that apply got money.
The other thing that to remember about yesterday's meeting is
Seth Walsh basically said, well maybe we can borrow money,

(16:26):
yeah for the fleet.

Speaker 1 (16:27):
Yeah, so bond.

Speaker 4 (16:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (16:31):
It's it never ends, it never ends. This is just
actually consider this quite disturbing. And you mentioned about the
oversight pursu into what federal guidelines dominate this or.

Speaker 4 (16:45):
Well, the auditors go in and they look at certain
operations in the city and they have to follow or
they say they follow the government audit standards that generally
accepted government audit standards, and that basically talks to the
level of evidence you need to make a finding and
kind of how you have to go about planning your
work and the right steps for conducting an audit right,

(17:09):
those types of things. So they say that they do
their work according to those standards, but part of those
standards is to get your operation reviewed by another audit group.

Speaker 3 (17:18):
They don't do that.

Speaker 4 (17:20):
So they say they do their work according to audit standards,
but they never have anybody come in and check and
verify to tell people, yes, they do their work by
the standards.

Speaker 1 (17:31):
And let me guess they don't do that step as
critical as it is, because they claim they don't have
the money to do it.

Speaker 4 (17:37):
That's what they told me.

Speaker 1 (17:38):
Yes, well they just found one point three million dollars
yesterday that would kind of fund that effort several years.

Speaker 4 (17:44):
Anyhow, I'm not going to argue with you, that's for sure.

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General Citizens watch Dogs podcast. Let's I'm just appalled at
what we just got done talking about Todd, and I
don't know if anything can be done about it, but
it just seems like it's a system built on corruption. Honestly,

(20:31):
it's a boiled down a thing that I can conclude.
Let's move over to connect the communities and what's going
on in Hyde Park and Hyde Park's going to have
none of it. Their citizens are standing up to this
redesigned redevelopment proposal. The buildings are too big that their
planning is going to change the character of the neighborhood.
They don't have a sufficient parking factored in. Other small
businesses are worried because they need the parking spaces that

(20:52):
are up there, and if they're flooded with a whole
bunch of humanity without parking spaces, it's going to disrupt business.
So it's a I want to say it's nimby, but
there their complaints sound justified. But the whole project in
the remaking of Hyde Parks where was built on this
connected communities idea right where they got rid of and
changed the zoning laws.

Speaker 4 (21:10):
Well there's the the issue with connected communities is that
the city just rezoned connected communities would just pass last July. Yeah,
Now this developers coming in is very influential developers coming
in and once a variance from that basically, oh.

Speaker 1 (21:28):
Is that is that it? I thought the zoning, the
change in zoning was what brought about this concept.

Speaker 4 (21:35):
No, this what the what the people in Hyde park
are saying is hey, you just fooled with the zoning rules.
Why don't we just keep to what the current zoning
rule says. And the developer wants to construct a boutique
hotel and wants it to be three stories higher, yeah,

(21:55):
than any other building around, and they say they need
to do that to make the hotel profitable. But there
was testimony from one of the witnesses that spoke that
their analysis was that this hotel's not going to be profitable.
So there's some discrepancy there between the developer and one

(22:16):
of the citizens who came and spoke, but there's no
effort to reconcile those kind of things. The hearing was Friday,
five and a half hours and at the end of
five and a half hours, the members of the commission
those that chose to show up. There were three members
of that planning commission that were absent, which is highly irregular.

(22:37):
But at the end of five and a half hours
of forty and fifty people talking or speaking, they had
a fifteen hundred page a meeting packet. They had seven
hundred letters that came in opposing this. But at the
end of five and a half hours, I think they
took maybe ten or ten minutes each. The remaining commissioners

(22:58):
took about ten minutes to make a decision. So it's
it's really a joke of a process and the absentee members.
If you understand who the developer is, they're very influential
in the city.

Speaker 1 (23:17):
Yeah, high watched onto those words very influential the first
time you said it. Yeah, very influential.

Speaker 4 (23:24):
So why did these three planning commissioners fail to show up?
When was the last time three commissioners didn't show up
for the same meeting? Is because they knew they were
going to upset the citizens by voting for the project,
or they were going to upset the developer for voting
against it, and they just couldn't show up. I don't

(23:47):
really know, but I think I think that's highly irregular.
I wrote to the mayor and the city council and
I thought that those commissioners should be replaced. They ought
to get rid of them, put some new people in
that are going to represent the citizens.

Speaker 1 (24:01):
Hull, or put people in there that represented the very
influential developer.

Speaker 4 (24:09):
Well, I think that's the problem. I think that influential
developer already has some people on the commission that are
very very helpful to them.

Speaker 1 (24:16):
So what is the status of the project.

Speaker 4 (24:20):
Well, the developer has purchased the property that they need
to purchase, but this issue is it passed three to
one in the Planning Commission to go forward on the project.
So now it goes to a committee of the City
Council and it needs to pass through that committee to
go to City Council. But the way the City Council

(24:41):
operates is every member of the City Council are also
members of every committee. So once this issue goes to
the committee, and I'm not sure when it's scheduled, that'll
be it they'll get. It'll be either approved or not
approved at that meeting.

Speaker 1 (24:57):
Going back to your point that this is is a
very influential developer. I think we can see the writing
on the wall, can't we.

Speaker 4 (25:04):
Yeah. And and what's what's really bothersome is we went
through this in connected communities. There there's a community in
bond Hill that went through this. They put the public
through these sarades of community engagement and input. Uh. And
it's like Charlie Brown in the football. Every time the

(25:25):
community comes forward thinking they're going to be able to
kick the football, the city takes it away at the end,
and it's it's a pattern that just recurs through all
these all these planning commission issues.

Speaker 1 (25:38):
Well, I have to observe as we move into a
break here that if the if the citizen who made
the comment that the project will not be profitable, the
hotel then won't be just a dose of healthy shot
in Florida for all of us to enjoy and watch
the thing just tank under its own weight.

Speaker 4 (25:57):
Well yeah, if it goes forward, I guess, but you
just don't want to get there. And the only thing
the developer said in response to that was, oh, well,
we have two insurance companies that said that it will
be profitable or that it's a good application or something
like that. But how after five and a half hours,
and that's not the only discrepancy in the testimony, can't

(26:20):
how can the Planning Commission just not decide to look
further into those discrepancies? Take a recess, go back, look
through the record. You've got the thing on tape, watch
the hearing again, and then come back and articulate your decision.

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Speaker 1 (29:01):
Amen to that, Brother todds Ends are calling at Shenanigan's
and revealing the seemingly corrupt nature of city government Former
Inspector General todds Enzer spending enlightening conversation and disheartening as well. Yeah,
I mean talking about the you know, these handout to
friends are going to work on campaigns ultimately, and it's

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all city taxpayer money and it's just really heartbreaking. And
the development of Hyde Park also seems, you know, just
built in corruption as well. Let's move over to the
alternative response crisis and we can continue the Shenanigans declarations
on all this give us a reminder about the ARC program,
would it. Well?

Speaker 4 (29:40):
ARC stands for Alternative Response to Crises and the mayor
and the city manager started this as a pilot program
back in twenty two, twenty two, and it is essentially
an effort to send non police to certain police service

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calls nine to one one calls where somebody, I guess
it's the computer system, a combination of the computer system
at dispatch and dispatcher's deciding whether they should have a
police officer respond or a non police officer respond.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
And these are calls into nine one one. Yes, all right,
Well that immediately to me suggests a need for a
police officer. But I know that there are certain times
people call nine one one in a non emergency situation.
But this is for psychological breakdown kind of things.

Speaker 4 (30:33):
Or well that's how it was sold. Back many many
years ago, certain cities started what they call co responder programs.

Speaker 1 (30:41):
CO as in a police officer plus.

Speaker 4 (30:43):
Correct that we're there to support the police when there
were mental health issues in a situation or in a call.
And after George Floyd, that co responder program kind of
shifted to a alternative to police objectively, a defund the police. Yeah,

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that was kind of a big part of the defund
the police is to have more calls answered by non
police officers.

Speaker 1 (31:13):
These are not trained officers, and these are people who
are not armed, correct.

Speaker 4 (31:17):
That's correct. And I'm not really sure what type of
training they go through or what their background is. Personally,
I don't have a problem with trying to support the
police when they have situations where there's a mental health crisis.

Speaker 1 (31:31):
Right, but that would require a trained mental health professional, right.

Speaker 4 (31:35):
But they should be associated or aligned with the police,
not with the city manager's office.

Speaker 1 (31:41):
And this group is aligned with the city manager's office.

Speaker 4 (31:43):
Yeah. They actually work for the Emergency Communications Center, which
the city manager last year, I believe, moved that emergency
communications center into her immediate office. So yeah, the ARC
program resports to the city manager or the head of
the emergency contact center.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
And they are funded.

Speaker 4 (32:07):
Oh yes, they're a big part of the city manager's budget.
And see here, here's here's the thing. There's no way
in the world if I if I were running that
police department, I've got background in law enforcement, not police necessarily,
there's no way I would let another operation working in
my same environment. You're setting up conflict, turf wars, all

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the rest of that. There's no way I would allow
that to happen.

Speaker 1 (32:35):
Well, and if the situation deteriorates, you got one of
these ARC folks showing up and the situation goes from
non violent into a violent situation, which I'm sure any
police officer will tell you can happen from time to time.
They're not in a position to help to deal with
that crisis.

Speaker 4 (32:49):
Yeah. Well, for example, when you look at the when
you look at the data, the uh, the ARC program
only responded to like a miniscule.

Speaker 1 (33:00):
I saw your editorial on that was point zero zero
six percent of the total calls that came in.

Speaker 4 (33:06):
Right, But contrast that thirty eight percent of the calls
were for trespassing, which last time I checked, was a crime. Yeah,
but apparently it is more towards homeless people trespassing on.

Speaker 1 (33:24):
So it's it's it's basically don't arrest people for breaking
the law kind of program. We don't want to give
these people a record, don't we need less policing. We
just need to like show what emotion or something along
those lines.

Speaker 4 (33:38):
I think that's I think you're putting your finger on it, Brian.

Speaker 1 (33:41):
All right, and with two hundred police officers needed to
make the full compliment of the city police department, let
me guess they have aspirations to take that money that
would otherwise go to fund the police department to get
more of these arc folks out into the world rather
than police officers.

Speaker 4 (33:56):
Well, that's what I think. That the the ARC program,
the people that work for the our program are much
less expensive than a police officer, that's for sure. But
just just knowing how I operated with my budget, if
I had vacancies, I was concerned that I would lose
some money down the road if they say, you're not

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using your money for what you're supposed to be using
it for, so we're going to use it for something else.
And I don't want the police department to get into
that situation now.

Speaker 1 (34:25):
But the problem with the police department isn't for you
know that they've got these spaces that they intentionally are
not filling. It's they need a compliment of trained police officers,
people from the world who want to choose this as
a career after having been demonized for so long. A
lot of people who otherwise would have become law enforcement
officers aren't going to the academy or signing up for
the job.

Speaker 3 (34:45):
Right.

Speaker 4 (34:45):
I'm very concerned that Cincinnati may have a reputation is
not a good place to be a law enforcement officer.

Speaker 1 (34:51):
Yeah. I know that to be a fact because I
have lots of friends in the Since a police department
now is low, that's got to be fixed.

Speaker 4 (34:58):
I mean, if Corey Bowman gets in there, that's one
of the first things he needs to fix is what's
going on with law enforcement in the city.

Speaker 1 (35:04):
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Speaker 1 (37:17):
Seven fifty two five karos talk station at top of
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plus the Damn Davis Deep Dive at eight thirty. In
the meantime, you got a couple more minutes with Todd Zenzer.
Let's talk about the election coming up in November we
obviously have a one Republican candidate option, at least one
that seems actually to be a Republican And you mentioned
him in the last segment, Corey Bowman, I mean, just

(37:39):
given the topics you talked about this morning in this hour,
I mean, I wish Corey all the luck in the world.
I just think I don't think he knows what he's
getting into. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (37:49):
Well, on the surface, the incumbent administration tries to make
it look like everything's going great. But if you start
looking below the surface, yeah, there are a lot a
lot of ishs.

Speaker 1 (38:00):
But a lot of issues that deserve a different set
of eyes. Yeah, exactly, So a worthy endeavor to go with,
Corey Bowman. And I asked you about the Charter Rights
off air. They seem to have lost a profile at
all in the city. They used to have a really
good showing and they always had Charter Right members or council.
They're a good governance kind of run party.

Speaker 4 (38:20):
That's right. Their values are good government. There are members
of the Charter Committee from both sides of the aisle, yeah, across.

Speaker 1 (38:31):
You describe them off air as an eclectic group. Yes,
I like that. So Europe on the board.

Speaker 4 (38:36):
Yeah, I was recently asked to be on the board.

Speaker 1 (38:39):
So are we going to see some Charter Ight candidates
coming out this fall?

Speaker 4 (38:42):
Well, I think they're talking about that, so we'll see
what happens.

Speaker 1 (38:45):
Well, but maybe they'll have to form a coalition government
because of Corey Bowman. Actually, at least maybe kind of
having to a possibility at this given the kind of
things you're talking about the failure of this administration and
the last several administrations to deal with the problems that
all Cincinnatians face, like crumbling infrastructure and there woke ideology
and throwing money at every kind of pet project that's

(39:07):
that that comes their way. Heck, you might get some
Republicans elected. Liz Keating was the most recent Republican elected,
so it can be done. Maybe you get some Charter rights,
some Republicans, and of course there'll be Democrats as well.
You'll have to form a coalition government.

Speaker 4 (39:23):
Yes, that would I think that would be helpful.

Speaker 1 (39:27):
It certainly would, because it would at least involve the
exchange of different ideas. And usually when you have an
open discussion and an exchange of ideas from different sides
of the ledger, quite often the best plan forward emerges
and is followed.

Speaker 4 (39:42):
Yeah, you can see that. Up until recently, the city
council was very homogeneous and there was no dissenting votes
or anything. But lately I've seen several cases where there
is some cracks in the in the coalition up there
on a city council.

Speaker 1 (39:59):
Well, like yesterday, for example, in the vote on what
to do with this one point three million dollars exactly. Huh. Well,
it did provide a wonderful springboard for you to bring
to our attention what seems to be a quid pro
quot thing going out there in the world with money
coming from the city and going out to these non
government organization.

Speaker 4 (40:15):
I think that's a big area of concern.

Speaker 1 (40:18):
Well, and it's worthy to look into further. I would
just suggest I cannot thank you Todd zenzer On behalf
of everybody that lives in the city of Cincinnati, for
being a watchdog and for looking into this and for
providing just a wonderful explanation for the problems that they're
facing and the potential for corruption which clearly exists based
upon the way you've described it. It's just a wonderful

(40:40):
service you're providing and I know you don't get paid
for it.

Speaker 4 (40:43):
Well, it's funny, Brian. You know I'm on a federal pension,
so in my mind it's your tax dollars at work.

Speaker 1 (40:49):
Well, God bless you for doing it, Todd Zinzer. I
love having you on the program and I look forward
to doing it again. In the meantime. Tune into Citizen
Watchdog at Todd's podcast. How often you do it? Did we? Oh?

Speaker 4 (40:59):
I tried to. Well, I've only started last month and
I've got eight episodes.

Speaker 1 (41:04):
Great, well, we'll look forward to another one. Check it
out where you get your podcast. Citizen Watchdog. Todd's been wonderful.
Thanks again, and don't go away, folks. We get the
inside scoop coming up with Brightbart reporter Randy Clark, who's
going to be talking about the border.

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