Cory Bowman For Mayor

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to work. So looking forward to having a Monday free,
and I hope you are as well. Welcome back to
the fifty five Carsey Morning Show. On the heels of
Betsy Sunnoman running for Judge, endorsed by the FOP and
the Republican Executive Committee one hundred percent. We also have
Corey Bowman, who also scored the FOP endorsement. I presume
the Executive Committee endorse you to Corey. Welcome back to
the fifty five KRSE Morning Show.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Hey, good mor and Brian, thank you so much for
having us. Yeah, last night we were at the Executive Committee
and we got the official endorsement.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Wonderful and congratulations. Add that to your website along with
the other endorsements which you're piling up your reaction real quick.
Here to the no confidence vote that the FOP unanimously
endorsed against mayor have to have pervall.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
Corey, Yeah, well, I think that we've got to realize
what it actually represents. You know, the FOP is representing
the voices of our cops that really are trying to
do the best job that they can. They continue to
come into my coffee shop and tell me about administratively,
how things are not done properly, and so a vote
of no confidence, you know a lot of people say, well,

(01:27):
what weight does that carry? Well, those are your employees.
Those are the ones that are basically saying administratively, they
have no confidence in what you're doing. And I just
think that that speaks volumes because typically these brave officers
are just wanting to do their job. They're not wanting
to get political. And so it just shows the state
that our city's in right now.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
It really does, and I guess may as well dive
into the problem that is plaguing most everybody in the
city of Cincinnati. It seems the problem of violence. Corey Bowman,
where are you? What are your proposals?

Speaker 4 (01:59):
What we thank you?

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Actually, I can say, you know, what would your reaction
have been post beat down? I know it took Mayor
I have to have Purvoll three days to even issue
a response one of the specifically highlighted criticisms from the FOP.
You know, a good mayor would have been out there
right out front, considering it was a nationwide issue. The
whole thing went viral in a matter of moments. You
might have thought that he would step up to the
plate and say something right away. How would Corey Bowman

(02:22):
as mayor approach that situation and probably going to have
to deal with it after you're elected.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
Yeah, well I would have approached it very similarly to
how I did approach it, which I was responding that
Saturday that it was happening, and I was actually getting
work from the cops that we knew on the ground
and kind of what the status was of everything. Now, obviously,
when investigation is ongoing, you have to allow all the
factors to come out, So you can't just say things

(02:51):
that are automatically going to divide people. You've got to
let people know that, hey, we've got to let the
investigators do their job. We've got to let the Sinai
Police department do their job, but it's important to know
that your elected officials are at least on top of it,
and they're not just in the dark, you know. And
I tell people, I grew up with siblings, and whenever

(03:11):
we got in trouble or whenever we did something wrong,
we always went in the corner and we always got
our story straight before we actually came to mom and dad.
And that's exactly what's happening in city hall right now.
They can't react in real time because they have to
have this united front and they have to get their
story straight. But it's not about getting your story straight.

(03:34):
It's about reacting in real time so the public notice
that you're doing your job and that's not what's happening,
and so you have to be proactive. You cannot just
be reactive when it comes to these things.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
Well, and it seems to me to be the quote
unquote leaders of the black community, maybe the prominent voices
that are given credibility within the black community. Cecil Thomas,
you know, like Iris raw Rowley and others came out
almost immediately said that white guy who'd issued the slap
should be charged. I think that they knee jerk reacted

(04:06):
to that because you know, the prosecutor determined and the
law enforcement officials determined that they can never be that
a crime can never be proven in a court of law.
And yet here we are the city, actually a city
solicitor demanding the police department issue a citation. I don't
even get how that can happen, to be honest with you,
but they got into a knee jerk reaction.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
Yeah, well, that shows why there's no confidence from the FOP.
The FOP is stepping into roles that they really were
never meant to step into. Because if you have proper
leadership at the helm, you're not going to have to
make statements like this. You know, the Monday after the
fight happened, everybody wants to make it about what side
of the fights that we're taking. We're not taking any

(04:47):
side of the fight. We're taking a stance against the
violence and tapping in our city. And that is coming
from the top down. It's called trickle down and competence,
and it's coming from the mayor, the city manager's office
all ways to the chief of police. And so that's
why we need new leadership. But we have to focus
on what's happening with the violence in our city. But

(05:07):
let's go back to the Monday after the fight. I
woke up put a suit on because I just felt like, Hey,
whatever's coming today. I didn't schedule anything, I didn't play anything.
I just said I'm going to be ready for today.
And from nine am on my phone was blowing up.
I was taking interviews with national media, and national media

(05:28):
had flown in reporters from all over the country. And
I looked at them, because I mean, I'm no big deal.
I'm looking at them like, why are you interviewing me
right now? And they looked at me and they said,
We've tried to contact city Hall since Saturday. We've tried
to contact the police chief since Saturday. Nobody is responding
except for you and the president of the FOP right now,

(05:51):
and so this is the only information on the ground
that we have to work with. And so that just
shows the importance of being proactive about reaction in real
time and showing the public that you're doing your job
and you're on top.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
Of instens You know, the one criticism I've had of
virtually every media outlet, if not all of them, is
that every time they even write your name down. It's
always followed up by brother half brother of JD. Vans,
which I think detracts from you your message. You're not Jdevans.
You have different thoughts, opinions and ideas. Yes you are related,
but you're not walking around running. I mean, I'm the

(06:25):
brother of JD. Van's ticket. But that that mere fact,
in spite of the fact that I view it as
a negative thing in terms of the reporting that they
always mention it is probably one of the reasons National
News wants to even talk to you. You're a candidate
running in a very blue city with what they perceive
to be very little chance of winning. And if history
is any indication, Corey, you know the reality of it

(06:46):
Cinsia City since ant is very blue. So I think
it's an excellent thing though, that you have that advantage
because National News wants to talk about it, and you're
getting a lot of good press over it.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
No, I mean, and you know when it is all
this violence happening, you know all these you know, political
strategies and everything they want to stay why, well, oh
this is really going in your favor. Let me make
it abundantly clear. Twenty two people being shot in the
month of August in Cincinnati is not working in my favor.
We need to get a hold of this right now,

(07:19):
because people are getting shot, people are dying. I mean,
there's things happening, and I could we could talk about
it later in the show. But even last night, I
was downtown at the Banks, I was on Newport at
the Levee, actually drove through Queensgate right where the person
was shot at Taco Bell this morning one am. Yeah,
And so I actually was in real time reaction to

(07:39):
that on social media last night, trying to figure out
and get a handle on what was going on. This
This is a state of our city that I'm not
happy with. This isn't about a political aspiration. This is about,
you know what, some people got to step up and
start doing their job because people's lives are on the line.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
No doubt about it.

Speaker 3 (07:59):
You know what.

Speaker 1 (07:59):
I I appreciate your words that you know this isn't
I hate that death and murder and people dying in
yours to my benefit as a political candidate. That's the
truth and the reality of it. But I hear where
you're coming from. You know, as a man of faith,
most notably, you know you have your own church. You
minister to people. I can appreciate the value of life

(08:20):
and that you hold life as very valuable. You know,
I'll even draw a parallel Donald Trump. You give him
all the crap in the world that you want, but
he obviously and demonstrably wants to end death. He wants
to end wars. Why because I mean he keeps going
back to it. People are dying. Well, here in the
city of Cinnati, people are dying, Corey Bowman, you obviously
care about that.

Speaker 3 (08:40):
No, absolutely, And so where are my churches. We have
a church in the West End, and it's right on
the corner of Clark and John Street. And there's actually
a gentleman he probably wouldn't mind me, you know, talking
about like this, but he's lived across the street, and
anybody in the community a lot of times, you know,
especially if they're more on the liberal side, but they don't, like,
they don't want a church there. And it's not just

(09:01):
because that they want the community to have some type
of retail. They wanted to have some type of business,
and so when they see a church coming in they
immediately have negative thoughts. But about probably about a week
and a half, two weeks ago, the Shelman comes up
and says, Hey, it's all water under the bridge. My
car just got shot up last night. I'm tired of
what's going on right now in our city. We got

(09:23):
to do something about it. So we talk about FOP endorsements,
we talk about the Republican endorsement. The endorsement that I
care most about is the people that are living on
the streets of Cincinnati, and those are the people that
are being affected by what's happening right now. These aren't
red or blue issues. These are right and wrong issues,
and we've got to.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
Do something about Amen. If I may be so bold,
let's pause. Bring Corey Bowman back, find my on line
Coreybowman dot com. Help him out of his campaign. You
use some common sense and leadership in downtown Cincinnati. Moore
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Speaker 1 (10:47):
Fifty five KR CED talk station Happy Friday, Brian Thomas.
The Corey Bowman run from Mayor of the City of
Cincinnati Coreybowman dot Com Corey Bouman pivoting over to I'm
speaking on the continuing topic of violence in the city.
You know, it's really distressing to talk to someone like
Sarah Herringer, whose husband was stabbed to death in their
over the Rhine apartment. Not only do we learn that

(11:07):
ankle monitors don't work, and that, you know, the corollary
to the problem that she was elaborating on her experience.
And living in over the Rhine for multiple years in
a row with her late husband Patrick, they became desensitized
to gunfire. In other words, it happened so often that
it wasn't even something that would draw their attention, unless,

(11:29):
of course, the bullet came so close that it whizzed
by and Patrick had to dive onto the ground of
their building, of their home to avoid what he thought
was being hit by gunfire. But that she talked about it,
it just was an every day occurrence so often that
if you heard the gunfire, it's like you don't even
call the police. Why bother. It's like it's happens all
the time. You live in the West End. Your church

(11:51):
is on at five oh three Clark Street. You have
your your your King's Arms coffee shop which is in
West End too, on Bay Miller Street. You live in
in the West End. Is that your experience as well,
Because we had some a lot of recent West End shootings,
including them what thirty plus gun shots fired at a
building recently.

Speaker 3 (12:10):
Yeah, yeah, so what there was actually a couple of
nights ago is forty shots fired at six pm. Forty
shots fired at six pm and one block away was
pap High School practicing football on the field one block away.
So that's what we're dealing with. And when you talk
to citizens that are in the West End, but this
is this is in a lot of the two neighborhoods.

(12:33):
Is that yes, they have been desentitized because a lot
of these shops just go unreported or if it hits
a building then it's categorizes property damage, not as a sheeting.
And one of the developers that I know, he went
up to his building just recently and he saw that
there was a slug in the side of his building.

(12:53):
But that's not going to get reported, you know, that's
the casing that won't be found. So these are things
where people are like, what's the point and you know,
I want to talk to the voter when it comes
to that. Over the years, many people have had the
same reaction when it comes to voting, what's the point
in voting? Well, this election is incredibly important and November fourth,

(13:14):
we've got to get people out to vote because the
last mayor election, only twenty six percent of people voted,
and that speaks volumes. That's not speaking against the seventy
three percent that didn't vote. That's saying they didn't have
really a chance or something that represents them on the ballot.
So why did out and vote? But that's changed this
year with twenty six candidates for city council. We've got

(13:38):
choices for mayor, we've got choices for judges. We've got
to make our voices hurt. Well, amen to that.

Speaker 1 (13:43):
I guess I have to just wonder, you know, whatever
became a shot spotterer. I mean, we do we have
information to the actively used shot spotter, because at least
we get it ahead.

Speaker 3 (13:54):
Hi, I'm glad you mentioned that, just because you know,
I mean, because y'all. But in the West End, so
right by our coffee shop. I look, I'm following the
scanner and it says a shot spotter reported. I believe
it was four gun shots that were fired right on
Bay Miller Street, which is right by our coffee shop. Yeah,
so I literally texted. I texted one of my friends
who lives on that street but lived like about probably

(14:18):
one house down from where it was reported, and I said, hey,
did you hear this? He said, I don't remember hearing anything.
I've been here for the last ten minutes, but it
was reported about ten fifteen minutes ago. But that same
person has told me that they've asked for the shot
spotter's data for their community to try to get a

(14:38):
sense of what's going on, and they and they've been
refused that information possible time.

Speaker 1 (14:43):
That's kind of what I was suspecting because it had
the technology. It does show you roughly where the gunfire
occurred through triangulation, that's how the thing works. You think
that would be information to be readily available to the
general public because it's going to show you where most
of the gunshots are coming from. And something tells me
if you had a mass that showed where the fires are,
where the gunfire has been detected, would probably be the

(15:04):
same neighborhoods in areas regularly.

Speaker 3 (15:08):
Oh yeah, but here's the thing that what you just said,
the transparency having the data available, You've got to go
in the corner with your sibling and make sure that
you got your story straight before you come to mom
and dad. And so if the data doesn't line up
with your story, then they're not going to make it available.
There's actually, you know, tats and facts that are being
withheld on the public record right now in several cases.

(15:31):
And so this is something to where I'm telling people,
you know, when as far as national goes, you might
try to paint this one way or another, but we
are going to allow this to be the most transparent
administration in city Hall that there ever has been. We've
got to make the data available for people. We've got
to let people know what's going on. We can't gas

(15:52):
like people. But then we have to have solutions to
these problems. We have to have a strong police force.
We've got to build a sense of community with the
police force, not just have community initiatives that divide the
police from the communities they serve. And then we've got
to re look at this strably. Everything that's going on,
from the chief of Staff, the administrative staff of the Chief,

(16:12):
to the ECC, the Emergency Communications Center, these are all
things that we just have to audit through, evaluate and
make sure that people are doing their jobs properly.

Speaker 1 (16:22):
All right, well, Corey, we get back from the upcoming
break here, which is right in just a second. Here,
I'm going to ask you what you would do by
way of approaching additional resources in terms of being offered
assistance with law enforcement, and what you would do by
way of acceptance or rejection. Of course, we have the
governor of the state of Ohio offering assistance, and we
horse have the President of the United States offering assistance

(16:43):
with Corey Bowman, mayor Corey Bowman except either of those,
we'll I'm going to ask him that coming up. Also
going to ask him about how the meeting went at
the farm on Wednesday. Air pollution monitors are going up
all around the city of Cincinnati, and apparent we also
have a problem with graffiti that locally reported just yesterday.
Stick around eight twenty five more with Bowman coming up.

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Speaker 1 (17:59):
Twenty seven fifty KRCD talk station. I'm very happy Friday
to you, Brian Thomas with mayor ol candidate Corey Bowman.
Find him on line, help him out Coreybowman dot com.
Corey Bowman stick them with the topic of crime in
the city. I realize, and it's painfully aware to everybody
in the city of Cincinnati who's bothered to pay attention.
The crime is real, the gunfire is real, The murders

(18:20):
are real, the property crimes and everything else is all real.
Yet we have an administration mayor perval, the city manager,
maybe even to some extent, the police chief. Don't know,
but all of the city council members the silence absolutely deafening.
And whan you suggest crime is a problem, they try
to deny it, saying no, no, no, no. Crime rates down,
crime rates down, crime rates down. In other words, don't
believe your own eyes. Don't believe your own ears. Just

(18:42):
listen to me, elected official trying to make the city
of Cincinnati sound like a great, wonderful crime free experience.
That's not reality. But if you paid attention to reality,
and you listen to the citizens complaining about crime, and
if you look at the stats and you look at
the shot spot and all that, you might think, hmm,
we're down two hundred police. We need to do something
about this. We need to get on top of crime.

(19:03):
We need to take advantage of all the available resources
that are out there to address crime. Now, the governor
of the state of Ohio, Mike Dwaine, had already offered
some measure of assistant state police, for example, patrol on
the highways in order to free up local CINCINNTI Police
department officers to do well crime fighting work. That's fine,
but you also have Donald Trump sort of making a

(19:23):
general offer. He never highlighted or illustrated Cincinnati as being
a problem. He's focusing on the major cities where clearly
there's a massive crime problem. But he sent the National
Guard into d C because he's allowed to legally, can't
do it in other cities. But he at least offered,
if you want my help. Look what I was able
to do in DC. We cracked down on crime. They
only had one murder in the past two weeks, where

(19:44):
they normally have one every thirty six hours. Look it works,
property crimes down, carjackings down eighty percent, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
You two, if you're out there, could get the assistance
that I'm offering. Corey Bowman, you're you're mayor of the
City of Cincinnati. What do you do when you hear
about offers of help out there? Do you take them
up on it? Or do you run the risk of
maybe alienating your voters by accepting like the National Guards showing.

Speaker 3 (20:06):
Up for a while now, I mean, if you have
asked me you know, several weeks ago. I think that
there's some things that you know, and I still believe
that that administratively, the city just has to take care of.
I talked to a police officer, there was actually four
of them in my cop shops a couple days ago,
and I was just asking, Hey, we've got the WB

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and fireworks coming up. What do you think we need
to do. I'll put a blast out, anything to save lives,
anything that protect people. What from your recommendation do we
need to have like double the force, do we need
have over time? Do we need to call help? And
this is what the officer said. They said, we just
need to be able to do our job. They and
that's just when they spoke to me, that they're being

(20:50):
told to not pursue, They're being told to just walk
on eggshells when it comes to the arrest or the convictions.
That's something that just right now, you've got to switch
that mindset that these officers they're not handcuffs anymore, that
they can do their jobs. But I mean every so
last night I'm driving actually through Queen's Gate around midnight

(21:12):
because I took my boy out to a late night movie,
just me and him, and so we drove back home
through Queen's Gate, and so I drove through that area
of Taco Bell probably about an hour before that shooting occurred,
and that just kind of hit home there too, because
I realize we're in a I mean, it's even worse
than a lot of people realize. We do need help.

(21:34):
We do need help. So the city itself is an
island under itself. Politically, a lot of times they alienate
themselves because they don't believe with the or the politics
of the state or the national But we've got to
put that aside right now. We've got to accept all
help that we can right now, especially a weekend like
what we have coming up with WEV and fireworks with

(21:56):
Labor Day weekend, We've got to make people make sure
that people feel safe. We've got to make sure that
people are safe. It's not just about the perception, it's
about the reality that people need to be protected and safe.
And so I believe that we need to take whatever
help that we can right now. They need to assess
the situation. If it means state government, but even you're
seeing the results on the federal level as well. That's

(22:19):
a very dangerous issue to talk about bringing the federal
government in, but the reality of it is that people
are getting shot in our city and we've got to
explore every option we can. Put the politics aside, put
the red or blue aside, and say, hey, what do
we need to do help wise to be able to
protect our citizens.

Speaker 1 (22:39):
Yeah, and I guess I have to put at least
to interject a positive spin on at least my perception
of the WB and fireworks. You get a half a
million people or five hundred thousand people down there, half
a million additional folks going down to the waterfront, and
it's a great event. And I think historically this is
the forty ninth year that they've been doing this. Historically,
it's not a problem from a crime standpoint, and I

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think that's because there are strength in numbers. You know,
there may be some idiot out there who might want
to commit a crime or punch you in the face,
but if they're surrounded by us a throng of people
who are not on that side of the equation, they
run a big risk of well retaliation from the masses
right then and there, kind of like akin to what
we saw in that beatdown kind of thing. But see
that occurred at three o'clock in the morning, when there

(23:21):
weren't that many people milling around on the streets. You know,
you had two people walking out of a bar going
to their car or whatever. When you're isolated and you're alone,
I would think that presents a greater opportunity for crime.

Speaker 3 (23:33):
Yeah, but also to the word that I use is escalation.
You've got to be able to have a proper police
presence to prevent things from escalating because you know, for
me in especially in the West End, but we see
it in the downtown area at the Bank and the
central business district that there's a lot of situations where, hey,
emotions get high, tempers get heated, you know, people you know,

(23:57):
kind of crowds get together, and it's not necessarily the
numbers that are going.

Speaker 5 (24:02):
To deter it.

Speaker 3 (24:02):
But a lot of times if they see that there's
police presence, if they see that there's people around that
will prevent it from being escalated, well then that is
what's going to stop it. But that's what's happening, is
that a lot of times you don't see that police
presence or you don't see that just for the sake
of optics, and so if something does escalate, they think, hey,

(24:23):
there's no consequences to this because there's nobody around that's
going to stop me. So then the emotions just get
more and more. So that's what I would say. I
go back to July fifth. You know, July fifth for
me was a Saturday night. I'm driving in the West End.
There's about forty kids outside about two blocks away from
my church, and they're shooting fireworks into windows that are

(24:43):
open while they are driving, and so I called. Now,
there's no cops around, but I called up nine one
one and I said, hey, you don't need to dispatch
a city responder or an ARC. You need to dispatch
CPD because it might not be what you know, what
you want to dispatch right now, but this is going
to escalate. And I said, somebody needs to get down here.

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I've drove by. Fifteen minutes later. This is about nine
o'clock at night. Still there was about fifty kids now
and there was nothing dispatch well at midnight that so
midnight that night, three hours later, LAB gets shot on
that corner. And so that's what I'm talking about. It
is that we have to be prevented. If we have

(25:24):
to prevent the escalation from happening, and right now I
don't have any confidence in the current administration to do that,
especially at events like the WBN. And like you said,
it's not about when the events are going on. Afterwards,
people want to go to a bar, they want to
hang out afterwards. They'll be out until one a m.
Two a m. Three am during third shift in the
central business a lot of them are going to park

(25:46):
in Queen's Gate right where this shooting happened, at Taco Bell,
right where multiple shootings have been happening. They're going to
park there to walk over to the web and fireworks.
What happens when they walk back. So these are the
things that we have to consider.

Speaker 1 (26:01):
That's that isolation when you're away from the crowd component
that I was kind of thinking about when we were
talking about the fireworks.

Speaker 3 (26:07):
Good point.

Speaker 1 (26:08):
Corey Bowman coming up at a thirty six ifty five
krcite talk station. We'll continue our conversation with Mayor ol
candidate Corey Bowman online Coreybowman dot com after these words.

Speaker 3 (26:17):
Fifty five KARC dot com Summer the talks station.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
Hey, thirty nine fIF you have kcdtalk station. Brian Thomas
with Mayor ol candidate Corey Bowman, help him out, Mayor
of Cincinnati. I like that, ring Mayor Bowman. Coreybowman dot
coms where you find him and help him out, and
I encourage my listeners to do that. Corey pivoting over.
We already talked about ShotSpotter. No, we are not allowed
to have that data. They will not allow it. You've
asked for it, you can't get it.

Speaker 3 (26:44):
We want it.

Speaker 1 (26:44):
We'd like to know where the gun fire is. We're
not allowed to have it, but we'll be able to
log on any time we want, any moment of day
to check out what the Purple air Flex monitors are
reflecting in terms of local air pollution. Apparently they've sent
out thirty seven of these under the City air Watch project,
so we can know what the particulate level is in

(27:07):
any given neighborhood. Comes at a rather sizable cost, but
they have money for that, and we're allowed to have
that data real time. Corey Bowman. Your reaction is this
a priority for a Bowman administration?

Speaker 3 (27:19):
Well, here's the thing. I mean, I'm not. When I
posted this, a lot of people thought, oh, you're against
air quality. You know, no, like I mean, obviously I
want clean air, everybody else wants sean air. But the
priorities are they're putting up the air pure fire unit.
But yet, let's not forget that there was actually a
eleven year old kid, Dominic Davis, that was shot in

(27:42):
that area two years ago in the West End, and
they were promised to have cameras installed to cut down
on crime in the area. So wait, we can actually
install air monitors, but we can't, you know, install the
cameras that were promised to the families of Dominic Davis.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
Yep, speaking volumes right there with that short sentence, Corey Bowman. See,
because Mayor I have to have Parvall. It's widely reported
and I think Christopher Smithman's comment on this numerous time
among others that Mayor I have to have Parvoll has
said in the past that with any issue that's presented
to him, he always starts and views it first and
foremost through the lens of equity and the environment.

Speaker 3 (28:25):
Yeah, so this is all has to do with priorities,
you know. For the City of Cincinnati, I've told people
this that the only flag that I'm going to stand
by and fly at city Hall is going to be
the USA Ohio and the flag of Cincinnati, and that's it,
because those are the only agendas that we're trying to
push from city Hall. Clean streets, safe streets, and propers streets.

(28:49):
And then when it comes to this, the priority has
to be public safety, it has to be your crippling roads,
and it has to be that you're spending the money properly.
And then on top of that, if you have the
ability to helping in other areas or other issues with
the city. But the priorities have to be the main
government focus, which is crime, infrastructure, and making sure the

(29:11):
budget is going to the right people. And that's what
we're fighting for.

Speaker 1 (29:15):
And apparently the City of Cincinnati over the past several
what probably decades, has dug itself a four hundred million
dollar hole in terms of being behind in road repairs.
You mentioned it as being a priority infrastructure, and that's
part of infrastructure. How would Mayor Corey Bowman get on
top of this problem that's been festering.

Speaker 3 (29:34):
For so long. Well, one thing I would say is
that we've got to pursue proper contracts with the right
people that know how to do our roads. Properly. You know,
we we we apparently sold three hundred acres of amazing
land that was owned by the city that could have
been out for us for years, but we sold this

(29:56):
to be able to fix the roads. We sold the
railroad to be able to just put money towards this.
I have no FOP issue, no confidence, and they are
oppid leadership. I have no confidence in this current administrator,
the current administration's ability to make sure that these funds
are going towards the right thing. Because you see how

(30:16):
Sunset by the way, how Sunset doing Ryan.

Speaker 1 (30:20):
My favorite street to illustrate they still have as far.

Speaker 3 (30:27):
As I know.

Speaker 1 (30:27):
Fortunately I haven't had to be on Sunset for a while,
but we'll be making our way back to pricell Chilli
soon enough for a listener launch and so all experience.

Speaker 3 (30:35):
The thing is is that in our budget, we have
our kids suns that's supposed to go toward our roads,
and then we're supposed to be doing adding on top
of that with the railroad funds, and you can just
tell by our city streets if this ain't happening. We've
got to be able to prioritize the budget to make
sure we've got to get the right contract in place,
because let's not forget a couple of weeks ago, the

(30:56):
city announced basically a game show contest that says, hey,
present your ideas of how we can fix our potholes
for a prize or for a chance to be able
to be the one that fixes our potholes. I'm like,
this is your job. You're supposed to have the right contract,
you're supposed to know the right people. You're supposed to

(31:16):
pursue this in a proactive way to where our streets
are paved, not just patched. And so that's going to
be a priority for us, is that we're going to
in the same way that you need to accept help
from anything from state and federal that is offered if
you're in a chance to where you need it. We
need to be able to look at solutions outside of
our city to say who can do this the best,

(31:38):
Who can make sure that we pay every road in
Cincinnati within a two years time print. We need people
to feel not only safe from a crime standpoint on
our streets, they need to feel safe that they're not
going to fall into potholes or sinkholes in our city
as well. Well.

Speaker 1 (31:55):
Corey Bowmen. I got a couple of second left on
the break, but I'll go ahead and pause because we'll
wrap things up the next segment. Apparently graffiti is a
problem as well, and I also want to hear about
how the event at the farm went on Wednesday that
you and Todd Zenzer and Christopher Smith and attended. Will pause,
Corey Bowman, one more segment here on this Friday.

Speaker 3 (32:11):
I'll be right back.

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Speaker 1 (33:05):
Hey forty seven fifty five KRCD talk station Bryan Thomas
with mayoro candidate Corey Bowman again online Corey Bowman dot
Com like what I'm hearing this morning. Corey Always like
what I'm hearing from you, especially when you contrast it
with what we've currently got. A better path does exist,
and one of the things you got to get on
top of is mayor. Apparently we have a graffiti problem
in town. Was just written about a Wlwe's Aaron Thomas

(33:26):
reporting and speaking with some residents. Apparently it's a real
profound problem in the north Side, but graffiti all over
the place. A lot of people are complaining about it.
We've had several hundred graffiti tags and the city Department
of Public Service is responsible for removing graffiti, but only
on public property. But if a property owner gets hit,
you have an obligation to remove that graffiti within thirty days,

(33:48):
and according to the reporting quotes, to clean up that
graffiti can cost between two hundred and fifty and thirteen
thousand dollars. That's a big wait for a home owner,
especially when they have a thirty day window. Do you
notice a graffiti problem in the West End?

Speaker 5 (34:03):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (34:03):
Absolutely. You know, it's a funny story about this.

Speaker 5 (34:07):
You know where I live, right across the street, there's
a there's a billboard of a law firm, and that
thing has been tagged with graffiti multiple times.

Speaker 3 (34:18):
To keep on putting the same billboard up, and it
keeps on getting tagged, and so, you know, just as
a funny, you know thing, I'm just trying to entertain myself.
I gave a call to the law firm and I
just said, hey, I was talking to the secretary. I said,
let your partners know that if they're tired of getting
their billboard tagged with graffiti, then vote for Bowman for Cincinnati.

(34:39):
Maybe you contribute financial, maybe contribute financially to our campaign.
And she just laughed. And I don't think the message ever.

Speaker 1 (34:46):
Got no, probably not. Let me guess, Blake Baslin, no
another one. But I thought that was the solid guess.

Speaker 3 (34:54):
I'm sorry, that's the easiest number to remember though. But
the thing is is that, uh, you know, I've got
I've got four kids. You know, three of them are
walking right now. The three of them have the ability
to hold a crayon in their hands. And if they
know that there's no consequences, my walls are going to

(35:14):
be filled with SpongeBob square pants, their names written in
backwards letters, all sorts of stuff because just say know
that they're going to be able to get away with it.
And so that's what's happening in our state is that
people are running around. I mean, you've got new bridges,
new construction that's happening. It gets tagged the next week,
and there's no consequences to it. You know, that's something

(35:35):
that we've got to crack down on. But like I say,
it comes down to administratively, is there any type of
law and order? Is there any type of discipline that's
happening from the top down? And I see, I see
a bright future. You know, we actually touched on that
at the farm on Wednesday, to where I realized that
people can't just focus on the bad that's happening in
the past. We've got to focus on the good that

(35:56):
can happen in the future.

Speaker 1 (35:58):
Yeah, And the problem with graffiti is I but not
only is it unsightly and ugly, quite often represents gangs
and things. But it's almost like it becomes a competition.
One guy tags and does some artistic piece of work,
and then someone else and comes over and tries to
outdo them, tags over it, or does multiple tags next
to it. It just gets worse and worse and worse
if it's not immediately addressed. So getting in front of

(36:19):
it is difficult, but dealing with the aftermath needs to
be done expeditiously. Corey Bowman, you'll do that. And you
know what, I have a suggestion, and here I'll be
optimistic and say, when you get elected mayor, you're gonna
get to be able to choose the people who are
going to serve and be around you and offer you advice.
I presume the Bowman administration will not hire and retain
Iris Rowley, which was currently a paid consultant, but you

(36:44):
might want to hire and I would encourage it if
he's up for the job. Todd zenz Er, Citizen Watchdog.
He was at your meeting at the farm on Wednesday.
That guy is just pure brilliant Corey Bowman. I think
he will be a major asset to the city of
Cincinnati if he is put on the salary to ride
herd over all the Shenanigans that we identify.

Speaker 3 (37:04):
No, you're exactly right, and let's not you know there
there's actually people that are good that are working in
the city. I mean, there's six thousand employees in the city.
And what I realized, and I've talked a todd about this,
he's a great asset to our city. And I definitely
think that there needs to be more involvement in the
future and we're we're in talks with that with him

(37:24):
about that. But at the farm, you know, on in
Del High on Wednesday night, which by the way, is
you know, packed room, and about half the room was
actual city voters came to hear us. So a lot
of people talk about, oh, why are you in Del High. Well,
you know, half a mile away is the city limit,
so there's a chance that people in the city might

(37:45):
actually drive a half a mile away to come see.
So that was a great nice We had a great response,
a lot of people enthusiastic. But like I said, there
it's very easy to talk about the crime and the
state is that our city's in But you've got to
give people hope. And one thing I found over the
course of these seven eight months of this campaign is

(38:08):
that there we do really have an amazing opportunity to
turn our city around. You know, with this election that's happening,
it's not just a mayoral election. We've got twenty five
candidates that are on the ballot for council. There's a
lot of great names like our friend Christopher Smitherman, Linda Matthews,
this Keating, there's a lot of other people that are

(38:29):
on and you know these aren't like you, so official
endorsement front of how that works, but I would encourage
people to do your research because these are great people.
But one election. One election, and the mayoral position from
day one is able to put in a new city manager.
Obviously with the approval of the council. That city manager

(38:50):
appoints new police chiefs and fire chief and then on
top of that you also appoint the new vice mayor.
And so this is something to where with one election
we can take out and I'm not talking about like
take out everybody, it's just but there's some real problems
that have happened over the course of the years, and
it's been with people in administrative positions that have been

(39:12):
there for years and they don't have the city's best
interest at heart. We can turn this thing around. We
can actually have clean streets, we can have safe streets,
we can put the right people in administratively for public safety,
and then we can actually put the budget in a
way to where we're putting the money right back where
it needs to go and that's benefiting the citizens of Cincinnati.

(39:34):
And so I'm very optimistic about that.

Speaker 1 (39:36):
I'm optimistic for you and a turnaround for the city.
I just love the city so much, and I just
hope the voters do the right thing and choose a
different path, try something different. Obviously the path that we've
been on for a long long time now is not
service well. Coreybowman dot Com Corey, thank you for the
time you spell my listeners of me today. Have the
best of luck on the campaign trail. You know you
always have a spot here on the fifty five KRSE

(39:56):
Morning Show. Have a safe weekend, enjoy the fun over
the weekend. There's lots going on and a great opportunity
to experience the city of Cincinnati at Riverfest. Of course,
don't be frightened about it. I think it's a great event.

Speaker 3 (40:08):
Corey. Take care of yourself, Brian, if I could, I
want to mention one final thing. We are having a
door knocking on Saturday at twelve o'clock. We'll be announcing
that on our social media our websites today. But if
people want to get involved, go to Corey Bouman dot
com and.

Speaker 1 (40:22):
You can get in touch with us Great Corey Bowman
dot com. Corey will talk again again. Have a wonderful weekend.
Best of health and love your beautiful family. Take care
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