Cory Bowman For Mayor

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:34):
A good mood. I'm always be in a good mood
on Friday, and I'm in a better mood because Corey
Bowman's in the studio again. Corey Bowman is always a
pleasure of seeing in person, and I hope the campaign's
going well. Of course, Corey is one of the choices
for mayors city of Cincinnati. The top two vote getters
among the three that are running for the position will
advance to November's election. And of course it's an unusual

(00:55):
occurrence to get any Republican elected in the City of Cincinnati,
as has been since nineteen eighty I think, but Corey
Bowman may have an opportunity. So good to see again,
my friend, welcome as always, Thank you so much for
having me. Brian.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
You got a lot of write ups lately. Yeah, yeah,
we've been pushing hard on it. Well, I guess there's
it's it's a blessing and it's a curse. I saw
Epic Times did a write up on you, which is,
you know, national level kind of coverage kind of thing
you mentioned to me before we started here this morning,
you said in New York Times got in.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
Touch with you. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
Yeah, So we we had had requests over ever since
that we announced, and there was one week where I
just said, you know, I'm gonna kind of filter through
all these messages, go through the contacts and just kind of,
you know, pursue these and that's kind of when all
these stories broke. And so we've been on Newsmax, News Nation,
Epic Times, Newsweek, ap Press all within the last two

(01:51):
or three weeks.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Well, you know, any coverage is great coverage unless they're
just kind of slandering your dragon ouse.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
Obviously, the best coverage is fifty five k don't blow.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Smoke out of my skirt, mister. And I'm happy to
have you on because, of course, I know that you
have the best interests of the city at Cincinnati, regardless
of what people's political stripes are within the city. But
you love the city. It's come through loud and clear.
My conversations with you I know you care about the city.
You were drawn back to the city after living in
Tampa for a while. It's where your wife wanted to

(02:21):
raise the kids. It's where you wanted to raise the kids.
You've invested in the city with your coffee shop, You're
invested in the community with your church. So you know
you're you're connected with the city, and I know you
care about it and you care about all the neighborhoods.
It's just come through loud and clear, and I go
back to my blessing and a curse thing. I think
one of the obvious regions. You get some national coverage
because you're the Jade Vance's brother, but you're not Jade Vance. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
So I whenever we first announced, you know, I just
knew that, no matter what, that was going to be
the headlines, just because of the connection there. You know,
I've stated multiple times that JD is an incredible role
model of mine. To see what he's been able to
accomplish just over the last two three years, it's just
insane to me. But really, what did it for us?
We obviously have the love for the city, are the

(03:07):
internal compass we've always had is to impact lives in
the city of Cincinnati. And so when I saw that
at the inauguration, the impact that he was able to make,
I was basically just inspired to say, hey, we can
play our part locally and make an impact in our city.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yeah. And some of the interviews you've done recently with
The enquire and of course the Epic Times and other outlets,
you kind of point that out. When someone raises something,
you know, issue wise, you always bring it back to listen. Yeah,
and I'm just sort of paraphrasing here. Listen, it's not
my issue to solve the problems in the Middle East.
My issue is to fix the day and potholes in

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the city of Cincinnati. That's what I'm to be focused on.
And that's a great point because our council people seem
to think it's important to pass resolutions regarding Palestine or
any random world problem that's going on, and that's not
their role. The role is to focus on and again,
fixing potholes among others. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
Absolutely, so when like I've said this that whenever we
first started getting the signatures to get on the ballot,
I was asking people two questions, Can I have your
signature to be on the ballot? And were the issues
that are most important to you? And we've heard time
and time again that it's money management, crime and infrastructure.
And I think what our elected officials and city governments

(04:24):
are failing to realize is that people from a local
level need their streets fixed, they need their crime down,
and they need the budget to be managed properly on
a local level. And so we can't just copy and
paste these federal issues when it comes to these local issues.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
Yeah, I was you don't know why I'm laughing as
you were talking. I wasn't laughing at what you were saying,
but when you mentioned the roads being fixed, I thought
it very comical. The Inquirer's article mayor candidates pick top projects.
So the Cincinnati Inquirer Scott Wortman asked, ever, really, what
you're what's the projects you think should be get fixed? First?

(05:02):
You know where you stand on the issues, and have
to have purvols pave roads. That's his number one newly
paved road in purbise apodles. And of course you mentioned
existing infrastructure roads also as your number one need for
the money, whatever the money you've spent on. But I mean,
given the roads situation and the cities inability to keep

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up with what they're obligated to fix year after year
after year. I mean, how long the Democrats been in control?
How long does they have to have been around He's
only now saying pave the roads. Well, that's what I
don't get is that. I think it was at the
debate where he stated that we inherited a four hundred
million dollar deficit, and I'm sitting there thinking, well, who
do you think you inherited from. We haven't had a

(05:44):
Republican mayor since nineteen eighty and so it's the reality
of it is that you can't just say right now, oh,
this is what we're for in an election year. You've
had four years to fix the roads. You've had four
years to put these things on the priority list or
your budget. We've had multiple years where we've had maybe
a surplus or we've been able to look at the

(06:05):
budget and see where it could go towards these priorities.
But time and time again, we're getting promises that have
not been made, that have not been kept, and the
citizens are tired of it. And when I talk to people,
I'm just telling this right now, everybody says it's an
impossible situations in uphill battle. Half the people I talked
to on the streets that are fed up with what's

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going on. They've voted Democrat in the year's past and
they are just tired of it. So this race is
not a Republican or Democrat issue. It's are we going
to actually keep promises to the citizens and the residents
of Cincinnati, or we're just going to play the same
games for the next four years. You know what, as
you put it that way, and you're right, fixing the

(06:47):
roads is not a partisan stripe. This isn't like talking
about sanctuary city or not. This isn't you know, talking
about you know, social enacting some social welfare program or not.
You know, they tend to fall on concern servative versus
liberal topical issues. But I want my damn road fixed.
You know, I remember this guy named Fred called in

(07:08):
you fix my damn road. I said, I kind of
wanted to make that a sort of a punchline or
an off repeated phrase. Fred needs his road fix. He's
not a Republican, he's not a Democrat. Maybe he is,
maybe he isn't. He doesn't care. Politics, doesn't enter the equation.

Speaker 3 (07:20):
No, and I'm damn roads, and I'm just telling you
right now, these are the games that are being played.
This is an election here, so you will see all
these elected officials all of a sudden now start posting
things and start making comments publicly that yes, we need
to fix our roads. But I'm tired of governments that
are not being proactive. They're being reactive, and that's what

(07:42):
we have to fix, is that from day one. I'm
going to be sworn in as mayor in January, and
we're going to have a January, February and March winter
to where the first thing we need to do is
put that as a priority. How are the snowplows, how
are these affecting our roads? What is the summer that
we need to prepare for or the damage to these roads?
And then let's bring on more capacity to our roads

(08:04):
to be able to take on larger events starting next year.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
Well, and it's you know, behind the scenes, it's been
well documented, at least as I've been explaining, had had
explained to do, you know, from folks like citizen watchdog
Todd Zenzer, who really is great at shining the light
on the financial woes that we're talking about. And we
need some of those details a little bit. But that
provoll views everything through the lens of equity and global

(08:28):
climate change. Whatever the issue is in front of him,
he's going to be thinking about that. So as you
we're talking about we need to be prepared to deal
with the roads as winter arrives, getting ahead of it
and knowing what you need by way of equipment, what's working,
what is broken down, what do we need to have fixed,
what do we need to acquire. I mean, he would
be thinking, well, we need to make sure it's electric.

Speaker 3 (08:46):
Well, no, here's the thing though, too, is that I
believe it was yesterday he just posted that. You know,
he was supporting an initiative that you know, raised up
these leaders in a fifteen minute city policy type of thing.
And I'm like, Cincinnati has fifty twoighborhoods, We have all
these unique areas. You can't apply these policies of a
fifteen minute city to the entire Cincinnati proper. It will

(09:09):
not make sense to a city that is built on hills,
that has snow, that has rain. Yes, we are for
public transportation, but when it makes sense. And what's happening
right now is we're copying pasting all these federal issues
or all these national ideologies to a very unique city
to where we have to think for Cincinnati.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
Yeah, it's I think it's a global fluming it like
it was Agenda fifty one years back, that sort of
was the beginning of all this sort of fifteen minute
city conversation. That's a global thing.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
That's sort of a I didn't even need my coffee
this morning talking about this.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
My Lord, I'm getting fired out seven to fifteen right now.
We'll continue. We get a full hour with Corey and studio,
get more issues, including Hyde Park. It's interesting developments going
on out there and an issue that I think Corey
might generate some some backing from my otherwise left leaning
friends in Hyde Park as well. They should consider Corey.
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Speaker 1 (12:15):
Seven twenty fifty five krs DE talk Station Happy Friday,
Corey Bowman by my line at Corey Bowman dot com
find him in my studio right now talking to him
about the issues in the city CINCINNTI about which he
really truly cares. And I think one of the things
that differentiates you between you and and after that Parlol
again going back you focus on city issues. He seems
to think he's playing on a national stage, I mean

(12:37):
advocating for you know, broader global principles when the city
is since Ana has got so much issues on so
many issues on its plate, but when it comes to
actual city issues, I mean, I am shocked over the
council and the Mayor's treatment of Hyde Park on this
most recent waiver that they allowed a waiver in the

(12:59):
face of what the community obviously did not want, this
building proposal, what the height restrictions removed, and this specific
development being approved by the council, in the face of
what the residents of Hyde Park were shouting and screaming about,
saying no, no, no, you're going to change the character
of our community. Cities filled with multiple communities. You pointed

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out at it earlier, but that is the second slap
in the face. The first slap in the face was
to every community in the entire city of Cincinnati by
forcing the zoning changes with this connected Communities proposal.

Speaker 3 (13:31):
Yeah, yeah, you're absolutely right. And I want to point
out too that you know when you said that this
is not just a slap in the face to Hyde Park,
but to all the communities, this has already been done
and bonded. Yeah, it's been but here's the thing about
a lot of these areas. It's already been done, but
it's been done in areas to where they don't necessarily
have the financial backing in their communities to be able

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to fight it like Hyde Park has. So I really
believe that Hyde Park has just been this thing that
has ignited so many communities, so many neighborhoods in Cincinnati
just to know is this cannot happen in our communities?

Speaker 1 (14:04):
Well, and I understand that since a business career is
reporting that the neighbors in Hyde Park want to take
that issue to the voters, I think they're com planning
on putting a ballot an issue to h Yeah.

Speaker 3 (14:13):
Absolutely, And what I keep running on as well is
that we have to see this race as issues, not
necessarily as party affiliation or candidates. These are key issues
that have impacted our city for the previous years and
an issue like Hyde Park, you put that on the ballot,
you're going to get a voter turnout of people that
want to make their voices heard.

Speaker 1 (14:34):
Well, I suppose at the outset, if you were mayor,
you would not have advanced the Community a Connected Communities
proposal in the first instance, because you have experience with
dealing with City of Cincinnati in terms of developers. We've
talked about this before.

Speaker 3 (14:47):
Yeah, and so we're not against just like the people
in Hyde Park, we're not against development. There needs to
be growth. There needs to be development in city. We
have so many historically beautiful properties that are vacant right now,
and we actually need to be taking advantage of these.
You don't want to talk about housing crisis. There are
properties all over Cincinnati that developers over the years, from

(15:10):
what I know, have been itching to be able to
remodel these and to be able to sell them at
market race, to be able to have housing in the community.
But they're being torn down or at least hindered by
this red tape of the city.

Speaker 1 (15:24):
But and I'm as you were talking about that, I
was thinking, isn't that crazy? The city spent so much
money offered so many tax and centers and property tax
waivers and all that to redevelop over the Rhine, and
all those buildings were not knocked down. They were converted
into residences and they pay and the streets were taking
care and they of course they got the street car.

(15:45):
Oh my god, the streetcar, streetcar, street car. You know,
Washington Park was redeveloped as an incentive for people to
move and I think that was a wise investment, right there,
a lost place.

Speaker 3 (15:54):
It does a lot of music exactly. It's a beautiful area,
Washington Park OTR. It's and in credible, But we're still
dealing with a lot of these issues of you know,
basically putting these you know, developments in place that do
not enhance the character of the community. And I think
like in the West End, we already know that there's
a lot of vacant historic buildings that are in West

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End and there's a lot of potential for us in
the community. But we're watching what's happening in Hyde Park
right now because we see it as they could come
along some big developer that has his hands in the
pockets of the city and just knows that they can
develop an entire area in the West End, but completely
disregard the voice of the community council and completely disregard

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the voice of the.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
People, especially if they're, in the words of Toddsen's are
well connected developers.

Speaker 3 (16:48):
Never forget and I'll say this too, these issues right now.
We're in the middle of a primary. Right now, we're
in early voting May six, Tuesday as a primary. So
a lot of people are talking about, you know, you've
vote now. We vote November. That's what a lot of
people talked about in Hyde Park. But they can vote
right now to make a statement that hey, we're done
with city officials that are not listening to our voice.

(17:11):
So I would encourage people to get out and.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
Vote, you know, and I advocated earlier that even if
my left leaning friends in Hyde Park, if they want
to make a statement, if they're angry enough about this
to start a ballot initiative to take back control or
Hyde Park, even if it puts a distaste domestic, I
never vote for a Republican We're not talking about a
Republican Democrat issue here, We're talking about a bipartisan reality.

(17:35):
Shouldn't you be able to control your own neighborhood at least,
I perceive that as a bipartisan cast a protest vote.
Vote for Corey Bowman. And if you advance, you know,
I would love to see you win the overall count.
Perwall coming second, fine, but if you beat Perwall, that
is going to send a shot over the bout of

(17:55):
these clowns and maybe they'll start caring about local community.
Let's make a statement this May.

Speaker 3 (17:59):
You know, and I will say this because I think
that a lot of people, and especially in a lot
of neighborhoods that are outside of downtown area, they think
that hey, it's just a lost cause that there's clear
lines of voters on only one voter votes for this
side and only one voter votes for this. But I'm
telling you, I've been shocked at some people that have

(18:20):
come into my cough shop and the way they talk
and the way that they look. You're like, there is
no way this person would ever ever ever vote for me.
And then we have these these conversations and they say,
I'm so glad you're on the ballot. I'm going to
be voting for you this May. I'm going to be
voting for you this November, and I'm shocked at it.
So there's so much unity behind the community and the

(18:41):
neighborhoods of Cincinnati that want to see change.

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Speaker 1 (21:13):
Seven thirty one. I think about KRCD talk station Corey
Bowman in studio. Find him online Corey Bowman dot com,
get a T shirt, put a sign in your front yard,
vote for him on Tuesday. It's my recommendation. Talking about
city issues and one of the sad realities what's going
on in the city of Cincinnati, and this is one of those.
Do you believe your eyes? You believe what a politician
is telling you? Crime and reality can be seen by

(21:36):
the residents of the city of Cincinnati. They know what's
going on versus what the mayor he currently would say,
which is he's arguing the crime is actually down. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (21:44):
I it was during the debate where I think it
was in the final remarks where the current mayor said
that crime is down. And I'm seeing more and more
in articles that he's doubling down on that he's actually
running on that that crime is down. And when you
look at this, and when you look at everything, you
can manipulate things however you want, as far as if
you want to look at certain whether it be homicides

(22:06):
that might be down by fraction, but when it comes
to overall assaults and burglaries and shootings and traffic violations.
But what I tell people is that if you are
living downtown or if you have a business downtown, you
know that nothing could be farther from the truth. When
people say the crime is down, we are hearing the gunshots,
We are seeing even the unreported crimes that are happening

(22:27):
on a daily basis unreported.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
And that's the point. I know you've had you contacts
within the city of Cincinnati reach out to you when
they experience these incidents. You know, video cameras, ring doorbell
type of stuff. People will give you that and provide
you and show you what's going on. Yeah, you mentioned
to me a woman with a baby and a stroller
got a bullet went byer.

Speaker 3 (22:45):
Yeah, it's it's insane. So it was just last week
I got sent a video of a you know, it
was a you know, a residential camera, you ring doorbells
type of thing. But yeah, it was a major shooting
that happened in Grant Park area. And I was just
watching on my phone that bullets are flying by this

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lady with a stroller and a baby. And I'm sitting
here and you see, like all these people running on
the street. And this is our city, this is in
our home of Cincinnati, and this isn't just a one
time thing. This is happening on a regular basis. And
we have to be able to have policies in place
that are actually addressing these issues and not just sugarcoating everything.

Speaker 1 (23:27):
Well, and you know, outword, out loud support for the
police department, you know, marketing on the part of an
elected official, call the police, work with the police. You
want to save community, Quit dissing the police, Quit not.
You know, don't quit withholding information. In other words, you know,
if you know about a crime, offering the information to
the police so you can help solve it and then

(23:48):
can get the bad guys off the streets. I mean,
that's an advocacy campaign that should have been run years
and years ago. When the silence seems to me deafening
from the mayor as well as the council members themselves.

Speaker 3 (23:58):
Well, let me tell you this. When we first announced
being mayor, I did not come in here with any
policies or any opinions that I was going to just
run on no matter what. I did my work to
basically have conversations with people that are boots on the ground,
people that experience this on a daily basis, and then
I started developing my conclusions based on the experiences of

(24:22):
the city, not only my own, but others. And I'm
telling you, I've had so many conversations with Cincinnati police officers.
And I'm talking about not just one, not just two,
I'm talking about multiple ones. And they have such a
heart for our city. They have such a heart for
our community. They have such a heart to protect and serve.
They are in it for the right reasons, and they

(24:42):
are tired of being seen as the bad guys. They're
tired of being seen as this only a last resort,
you know, we look at what happened, what's happening at
the banks?

Speaker 1 (24:51):
They have a.

Speaker 3 (24:52):
Twenty one and over evation limit, right, But who do
you think is enforcing that. I've actually talked with the
police officers and there's a third party securities, a security
firm yet. But this is the thing about it, is
that when you do that, and you don't involve CPD
in that, then if an incident does happen, nobody on
the street knows who the good guy is, who the
bad guy is. When it comes to the security officer,

(25:14):
they don't know who's an authority really, they just see
it as well as this a bouncer, is this a
security officer?

Speaker 1 (25:19):
What is it?

Speaker 3 (25:20):
And then when CPD does get involved, they're seen as
this ultimate authoritarian bad guy that comes in. And then
the paperwork is a nightmare because now they're not just
dealing with one person or one side, they're dealing with
a security team. They're dealing with all these other variables
in these reports, and so it's a nightmare for CPD.

Speaker 1 (25:39):
Well and I just I honestly don't get the whole
twenty one order thing. You get a security team surrounding
the Dora area checking IDs. They don't have any legal authority,
and I get the motive and the point behind it. Well,
there's nothing but bars in there anyway, if you're under
twenty one, you shouldn't be there. But it's an open
kind of public space. I don't know how much they

(26:01):
think they can accomplish with that, because I doubt these
security officers are even going to be armed if something
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Speaker 1 (28:35):
Seven fifty five KRCD talk station Find Time. It's Corey
Bowman in studio talking issues in the city of Cincinnati.
You know, I asked him Afair because he does have
a coffee shop in the West End. That's an area
you obviously care about and you're hoping to develop. And
it's one of the illustrations you had when it comes
to real estate development that the city stands in the way.
But I ask you how business has been since you,

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you know, started running from Mary and you said, it's
it's picked up, and you were really happy because you
obviously it's nice to have your personal business benefit from it,
but it's brought exposure to your neighborhood. Absolutely. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (29:08):
I mean our heart is the West End, and so
if anybody's unfamiliar with it, you know, you have basically
Central Parkway and where Tiquel Stadium is and then you
have the Highway and kind of nestled in those two
areas is the West End from the north and the
south of it. And it's an amazing community. Some of
the most beautiful architecture and residential buildings there are. So

(29:33):
they've actually filmed you know, movies there and everything. But
I'll tell you this that our coffee shop through the
last two and a half years of opening showed us
that the residential side of the West End is so strong.
It's such an amazing community that really prides itself on
growing properly, that includes everybody, and it's just it's just

(29:53):
an insane thing to see that this area has not
seen the fullest potential that it can be. And I
really believe that that's because a lot of the red
tape that we're seeing.

Speaker 1 (30:04):
And that's where I wanted to pivot, because you brought
up a story off air about you. You have a guy
across the street who's been fighting for years to develop
the building. He finally got his permits through it. How
long did it take him?

Speaker 3 (30:14):
Yeah, So the last time I talked, there's there's multiple
people involved in it. I believe the investor had put
I think he said like one point two million in
it without seeing one bit of construction in it so far.
And then the guy that's heading up the construction, he's
I mean they finally got to go ahead, they finally
got the go ahead to start the construction for it.

Speaker 1 (30:32):
They're putting you.

Speaker 3 (30:33):
Know housing in there, or you know units or condos
or whatever you want to call them apartments, and then
they've got they're going to have an amazing business underneath
as well, and it's just going to do add a
whole other aspect of revitalization to the community and it's
going to be incredible. But he's fought for three years
for this, through permitting, through getting the right zoning, and

(30:54):
through everything. So I think it The funniest thing about
it is that the day I'm talking about the that
they got approved, immediately all the construction crews just pulled
up and just started getting to work. And I was like, dude,
you move fast, because he's been using like our coffee
shop kinds as a makeshift office. And he's like, bro,
I've had this in the queue for three years. I've
been ready to go. They're going to get this thing

(31:16):
done probably in six months, and that could have been
done two and a half three years.

Speaker 1 (31:20):
Yeah, that's what really fundamentally bothers me. It's everything the
city claims it wants. It's investment, it's potential additional residents
who might potentially be paying taxes. There's a business there
that's going to generate tax revenue. It's going to bring
more activity to the neighborhood, which will then hopefully have
a multiplying a factor with others. Oh wait, look there's

(31:41):
an empty building right there. I can read, Oh I
can do what that guy did. So it's almost as
if the current mayor and council they just pay lip
service to the idea that they want this, but they
do everything they can to stop it from actually happening.

Speaker 3 (31:54):
That's when I realized there was something wrong because when
we first started the coffee shop, A big reason why
we started as well is because it was the year
after the Super Bowl, right, and so we go to
the Super Bowl. All eyes are on Cincinnati during that time,
and I'm talking about the three to four months after
the Super Bowl. Our streets were lined with investors and

(32:15):
developers that were ready to just take the entire West
into another level. And I'm talking about these were local people,
and they can only do one or two properties at
a time. Two and a half years later, most of
those buildings that they were looking at, they didn't even
want to touch them because of all the red tape.

Speaker 1 (32:30):
That's just so sad. And you know there's another draw
in the neighborhood that's sc Cincinnati.

Speaker 3 (32:34):
Yeah, it's an incredible community. Like every FC game that
goes on, we've got fans that are welcome by our
shop and scarves, and these are residents of the community. Like,
we love what's going on, but we just need to
happen quicker, get the hell out of my way. Yeah, exactly.
The community is gonna I feel like the community is
gonna thrive no matter what. We just got that grit
to us. But then at the same time, it's like, hey,

(32:56):
let's make this easier on people to be able to
revitalize these neighborhood without bringing on big time people that
are a part of the larger vision of our elected officials.
How about we incorporate the vision of the community, not
the overall vision of the elected officials.

Speaker 1 (33:12):
Well connected developers Corey Bowman. One more segment with Corey
before we hear from one of those German guys. Mike
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Speaker 1 (35:41):
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you looking for this week?

Speaker 6 (36:04):
If I'm reading it correctly, it says out outlaw. I
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on not one, but three counts of felling probation violation
from theft charges. Christopher Thompson is a white male. He's
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eighty pounds. He has a history of theft and receive
a stolen property in a frequent North Side.

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And he's an outlaw. Well, you know what, for a
neck tattoo, at least it's accurate. He should be easy
to find as long as he's not wearing a turtleneck.
And if someone knows where Christopher Michael Thompson's hiding out,
what do they need to do?

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Speaker 1 (36:52):
You will remain anonymous. If you did, Lisa and the rest,
you'd be eligible for a cash reward and you'll be
doing society a big favor. Lisa Baker, you keep up
the great work at the Sinsame Please Department. Thank God
for reaching every one of you, and we'll catch ourselves
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check him out if you just want to levity see
the neck tattoo. Back to Corey Corey Bowman in studio.

(37:13):
I think your your message is a strong one, Corey.
I hope people go out and support you, and we'll
see as we move forward to November, you'll have more opportunities.
I suppose to debate, have to have parvall. We didn't
really touch a lot about the finances and I have
just been blown away by toddsens Or citizen Watchtock toddszins Or.
He is. I mean, he's a former Inspector General for

(37:34):
the United States, so he's on top of financial matters
and knows where the money problems are and he has
identified a lot of them. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (37:42):
Absolutely, and this is something that has to be a
part of a new way of what we're seeing in
our city government is we have to audit. We have
to be able to kind of go through everything with
a fine tooth comb and really see how the money
has been spent. Because we can say all we want,
all the need far out waighs the budget far out

(38:03):
weighs all this. And you can have all these excuses
for taking on more debt as a city. But when
you're not managing what you have in your hands properly,
there's something that's off. There's something that you can just
see it and when you look at what's how things
have been happening, especially with Todd Zenzer, you know, kind
of exposing certain things. What I like to say is
that no budget's perfect. There's no like official perfect budget

(38:28):
template that you can use. But what has to happen
is priorities That is what sets a good budget is
that your priorities and your principles. So I believe that
the priorities have to be these public services, they have
to be the infrastructure. But then your principles have to
be you're not going to be shady when it comes
to any of these dealings. You're not going to do
these backdoor deals. You're also going to publicly kind of

(38:50):
expose what are these board members of these certain agencies
or these.

Speaker 1 (38:54):
Certain things going on? What they seems like the business
of government currently in the city it is to fund
all these non governmental organizations out in the community.

Speaker 3 (39:03):
Well, we see that too, because a lot of times
when these developers, like what we just talked about in
the last segment, when they're the biggest issues that they're encountering,
a lot of times isn't with the city themselves, it's
with organizations that are tied in that are basically saying, oh, well,
you can't buy this building unless it fits in line
with this vision, and it's just they're all on the

(39:23):
same page when it comes to it. I believe that
when you look at the budget, practically you got it.
There's ways that we can decrease taxes. There's ways that
we can increase priorities when it comes to things that
matters most. It's just we have to get in and
just figure out what's the best way to seward what
we have.

Speaker 1 (39:42):
Cory Bowman always impressed with what you have to say,
and I can just hear the passion for the city
in your voice, and I think that's so important for
voters to take away. And I tell you what if
you're going to you know, in terms of foot traffic again,
I go back to this hot button issue with zoning,
and I think you know it's going to all people
to the polls. And again we'll make an appeal to

(40:04):
Bond Hill residents and Hyde Park residents and literally everybody
in any community within the City of Cincinnati that feels
like they got stung by the dictatorial mandates of connected
communities thrown on your neighborhood without your input. You may
welcome it conceptually, but when you think about it in
terms of your right to steer the direction of your community.

(40:25):
Even if you want to steer it that way, fine
do it. But there are a lot of communities out
there that didn't want to steer their community in that direction.
So you got an opportunity for change. Here Corey Bowman
dot com is where you find Corey on the issues,
help support his campaign, and here a free plug. Where's
your coffee shop? Coffee shop is at nineteen hundred Bay

(40:45):
Miller Street. It's nineteen hundred Bay Mill Streets right in
the West ten and we're open from eight to three
eight am to three pm Monday through Saturday. All right,
swing by, maybe the first time you've ever been to
the West End. I'm not saying necessarily doing it to
give Corey money, but if at least it's a reason
to swim by the community, maybe you're a developer out there,
maybe you might want to invest in that wonderful opportunity

(41:07):
that exists now. And you may be kicking yourself down
the road after Corey becomes Mare and it transforms itself
into an amazing, amazing, money making, big draw community that
I hope, I think Corey has in mind for the
future there, Corey, Good luck man, I hope it all
works out well for you. Thank you so much for
having me my pleasure. Brother, h don't go away those
German guys, at least one of the two. Mike Kisel

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joins a program to give us the information with the
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