Cory Bowman For Mayor

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Seven oh five fifty five Caros De Talk Station, Happy Monday.
You do a choice when it comes to elections. Of
course your vote counts and every vote matters, and maybe
we could change the direction of the city of Sinceing
by going a different route politically. Joining me Merrill candidate
Corey Bowman find him on line at Corey Bowman dot com. Corey,
welcome back to the morning show. It's pleasure to have
you on this morning.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Hey, it's always great to be on.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
Thanks for having me. Brian, quick question, I want to
put you on the spot. If you're not going, are
you planning on being at Jim and Jacks for the
VVA GRAMA Swamman Christopher Smitheman summit that's going on this evening.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Yes, we believe in open discussion and we encourage anybody
that whatever voice that you have to attend.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
That's wonderful to hear. Now your reaction to the press
conference happened over the weekend, Ugus first, Mayor, I have
to have Purvall Police Chief Dji and share along the
city manager along with community leaders including Damon Lynch. The
third perval had this to say, it's overt racial tensions
that have been claimed by irresponsible leaders who have unfortunately
cynically tried to take advantage of this awful fight and

(01:18):
try and divide us. I read that and I wrote,
loll after it. I mean, we've been living a reality
the left is it loves to divide us. They're the
ones that divide us constantly over every possible issue, political
and social. This is what they're all about. Divide and
conquer is a strategy for the Left. So I find
it a little bit hard to swallow. I mean, look

(01:41):
at like since George Floyd, they have used that to
take advantage of this fight and try to divide us.
Racial tensions claimed by irresponsible leaders. I mean, this has
been going on for a long time. Anyway, your overall
reaction to the press conference and where we stand on
this incident, Corey Bowman.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Yeah, Well, like you said, there's a lot of people
trying to turn this into divisive issue, But I don't
see how it can be divisive when you're just going
against the violence that's happening downtown. If I wants you
to take a side, and there's certain things of the
details of the investigation, I believe as an elected official,
you do have to tell people. Hey, the investigations ongoing,

(02:22):
we have to wait for all the factors to come out.
I agree with that, But what I don't agree with
is just sitting your residence in the dark and not
telling anybody anything and letting everybody kind of fend for themselves.
And then when the information does come out, all you're
doing is criticizing the social media. All you're doing is
criticizing the media for not technically doing your job of

(02:45):
informing the people. And that's what we have to realize
is that city Hall, the chief, the mayor, they were
silent for an extended amount of time while all this
was going on, and the nation's eyes were on our
city and the elected officials responsible for informing the people
about what's going on, and they failed to do so.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
Yeah, the silence was deafening. We didn't hear from the
mayor until Monday, if I recall correctly, he was out
of town in Vancouver.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yeah, and I get it. You know, there's there has
to be vacations, there has to be time off. But
when all the eyes of the nation are on our
city and this is what's happening, and so from my perspective,
I woke up on Monday morning, you know, and there
was a lot of discussions that was happening over the
weekend from people what's going on about the fighter, about
the violence. And I want to say that number one,

(03:34):
these videos for people that live downtown and live in
the Cincinnati area, it's just a reminder of what we've
had to go through over the last months of the
summer with a poorly managed city that has let crime
just override the streets of our city. You know. So
but anyway, I woke up on Monday and my phone
was ringing off the hook from media. And this is

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national media, you know, not one side of me, but
this is all media outlets that some of them were
flying in from the from their national headquarters to try
to get news on this. And they told me specifically
that nobody from city Hall, nobody from the police department
officials were making any comments, and so they were just

(04:17):
trying to get information to tell people what's going on,
and there was silence from city Hall.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
Well that under the I mean, as an elected official,
you're going to have to run in and deal with
situations that you wish you didn't have to deal with.
It sounds to me like they're by ignoring it. They
thought that it was just going to go away. This
is viral. I mean it took viral video to bring
it to the attention of even local media who hadn't
reported on it until what on Sunday or something.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
Yeah, and you know everybody says, oh, you can't just attack,
you got to provide solutions. Well, we've been providing solutions
with our campaign and what we would do differently. And
Friday night or Saturday morning was a perfect storm of
all of these dismanaged policies in the city that have
encouraged its violence to happen on a regular basis. You know,

(05:06):
let's talk about, you know, the emergency communications center, how
they didn't have a delegated dispatcher in line for the events.
Let's talk about the curfew, how officers were specifically told
to not cite for violations and so basically they're glorified babysitters.
A short staff force is trying to enforce a curfew,

(05:26):
but not enforce a curfew. And then let's talk about
how there was not adequate cops that were downtown. And
then on top of this, let's talk about how the
chief said that there was only one nine to one
one call. And when they played that, I'm telling you
that's the bold faced live because at the screenshot of
a lady that called off a Fourth Street at three
zho three am and she said that they were very

(05:48):
dismissive on the line.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
Wow, that's a development that I was not aware of.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
Yeah, I'm trying to get the word out on that
because that was just an actual both face locked when
you say that there's one nine one one call. Now,
I was waiting for it because a lady approached me
on the street while I was doing an interview and
she said, I tried to call I called nine to
one one. She told me about her experience. She said
that it was during the fight and she was trying

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to let the dispatcher know or the call taker know
that there was a fight going on. She said the
call taker was very dismissive and rude. And this was
at three oh three am. And this is a lady,
she's actually a very prominent, you know, influential lady in
the financial district. And so when she told me that,
she sent me her screenshot and then I see on

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the press conference, hold the police, she says, there's only
one phone call and it happened at three oh six am,
and so when they released the recording, I was waiting
to hear the lady's voice because I was like, Hey,
maybe I by a chance to only talk to the
one person that called I one one. But that was
not the case. And we're getting reports that there were

(06:57):
calls and so that was a lie. And if you
hear on the actual phone call itself that was released
by the gentlemen who called, there are sirens at the
end of the phone call. And so the police were
informed before that as well, well, what.

Speaker 1 (07:12):
Do you think of or Mayor I have to have
provol sort of a change in his viewpoint with regard
to law enforcement. We got the Wine announcing that he's
going to deploy the state Highway patrol to free up
some of the officers so they can I guess, patrol
the streets. Provoll said that will allow them to do that.
He said, you're going to see police officers on foot
You're going to see police officers on bike patrols. You're

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going to see police officers in squad cars. They're going
to see police officers on segways and on segways that
have three wheels. We are prioritizing the visibility in our
urban core in order not just to maintain safety, but
to make sure people feel safe when they're going out. Well,
seems like something that people have been clamoring for for
a long time. Where's the mayor been since he was
elected and prior councils who are pro defunding the police.

(07:55):
This is a complete one eighty.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yeah, if you've been paying attention in a city hall,
you know that this is a one ady. But this
is the game plan for anybody that's in an election
year that you're going to be reactive, not proactive. And
this is the reality is that if you are elected office,
you have to be able to see into the future.
You got to be able to see what's ahead, and
you've got to be able to plan ahead and just

(08:19):
prepare the people or prepare the streets to be safe.
And this is a little too little, too late, in
my opinion, because this is something that from the top
down is trickled down in competence from our city hall
and we've got to get a change.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
In leadership, including the Chief of Police and the city manager,
Corey Bowman.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
Well, so my public statement on Monday was I called
for the public resignation of city manager sharel Law. A
lot of people you know we're calling for the resignation
of the mayor. Well, we're doing that in November. You
can make your voice heard and vote for Corey Bowman
in November fourth against mayor aft have pear of ale.
But I'm trying to educate people on the reality of

(09:04):
city government is that we have a CEO type which
is the city manager. The city manager is responsible administratively
for implementing policies throughout the city. This isn't just about
the crime. This is about We've had terrible snowplower moval,
We've had terrible potholes and infrastructure situations. We've had time
and time again problems administratively with the city. And then

(09:29):
the city manager, to top it all off, does appoint
the Cincinnati Fire chief and the police department chief. And
so if you call for the chiefs resignation, which I
think that people have a valid response to that, but
you have a city manager in place that will put
somebody that's more incompetent into their place. And so we've

(09:51):
got to realize that this is from the top down
and competence from the leadership.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
Corey Bowman dot com where you find Corey and that
help mountain his campaign and make show up tonight at
Jim and Jackson the River five point thirty. It's going
to be a crowd. I presume. I know there's a
counter protests scheduled across the street now, Corey, I don't know.
I mean Vivak Ramaswamy and Christopher Smithman, the leaders of
this particular meeting are interested in finding solutions. That was

(10:16):
the point of it. I mean, set it out loud.
They're not there to filment violence and anger, as Iris
Rawley would suggest, but an opportunity to maybe get your
voice heard and see Corey Bowman and shake hands and
again Corey Bowman dot Com to help his campaign. I
hope it goes well tonight, Corey. I hope it's uneventful
at least in terms of violence or anger, and I
hope you do come up with some good solutions. It's
a great opportunity for people to get the message out.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
No, Brian, thank you so much. And finally, if it's okay,
I'd like to say that that is a key issue
with everything going on is the game plan is divide
and conquer from the other side, and we cannot allow
that to happen. We have stood against any type of hay,
any type of racism. We denounce anybody on either side
that would cause violence to the other side for any

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type of reason. That is what we're fighting against, and
we're trying to get people to focus on the main issue,
which is trickled down in competence from the top down.
We've got to change.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
Leadership, change leadership for the betterment of all people, regardless
of political stripes in the city of Cincinnati. That's what
your message is, Corey Bowman. That's all I've heard from
you from the get go, and I know you personally
and truly believe that you are a man of competence
and of your word and someone who's certainly looking for
peace and not violence and division. Corey, wish you the

(11:31):
best of luck. Man. You and I will talk again
real soon.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
I hope absolutely. Thank you so much, Brian.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
Sure, thank good luck. Tonight seven sixteen fifty five K
see the talk station. Christopher Smithman will be there at
Jim and Jacks on the River, and you can pretty
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