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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Here it is night first one to what the volcast got.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Showers likely to continue today, sometimes heavy rain sixty four
for the high. Showers are likely every night with underforms
thunderforms possible, dropping to fifty nine. Saturday, a high of
seventy rain is likely with heavy rain expected overnight, more
showers than a few strong storms forty five for the low. Finally,
showers will end during the day on Sunday, with a
(00:26):
floodwatch ending on Sunday morning fifty to to the high
rate on Sunday fifty three.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Right now time for traffic from the U S Out
Traffic Center.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
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Orthopedics soon. Sports medicine experience can help keep you moving.
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South Bend seventy five. Continue slow through Blackland, North Bend
seventy five. Break by say should come out of Florence
into the cut in the hill. There's a wreck on
daily at Galbreth and Lawrence Purn Road now blocked off
(00:55):
between fifty and Suspension Bridge due to high water. It's
just the beginning chuck Ingram on fifty five krs.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
The Talk station.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Hey, thirty fifty five KRCD Talk station, Hope you're heaven
a very happy Friday. Glad it's Friday. It's been a
great show this morning. Thanks for Jackie, producer Joe Stracker.
Of course Tech Friday with Dave Hatter and Keith Destric's
with the Bourbon Raffle. You got to get your Bourbon
Raffle tickets. Vek Rama Swami, thank you, Ed, I appreciate it.
And Congressman David Taylor follow by Welcome back to the
(01:28):
fifty five KRSEY Morning Show, running from Mayor of the
City of Cincinnati under the r Corey Bowman. Good to
have you back on the program. Good to be back,
Brian Corey Bowman dot com. Check him out, help him out,
get a sign, get us shirt, make a donation. It
will be so wonderful having a change in political affiliation
in the Mayor's office. Of course, he's going to be running.
(01:49):
I'm sure. I'm certain Corey's going to win the primary
and off to the races against our current administration. It's
been forty plus years since we've had a Republican and
I think Corey, over the weeks I've gotten to known
you in the many times you've been on the program
that get some good ideas for the city of Cincinnati.
But before we get to some of that, and to
talk about the event that's coming up, how is lunch
(02:11):
with Christopher Smitheman, that was a great lunch.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Actually, it was actually my first time in Jim and
Jacks and got to me a ton of amazing people
and talk to the owners. We're actually excited to probably
do an event there pretty.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Soon as well.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Yeah, they're great people. I'm actually going to be at
Jim and Jackson dining with Christopher today. We promised to
sit over a beer and talk some politics. So I'm
looking forward to seeing the guys at Jim and Jackson.
They're just super people. I think Christopher's got an office there, Corey,
he spends so much time there. I don't know if
he's got a cot in the back or what the
story is.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Oh, I know, I know.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
He was introducing me to even the homeless people out
on the streets. Man.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
He just knows everybody there.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Yeah, he does, he does. That's funny. Anniehow you've got
an early voting event coming up? If I recall correctly,
Pryce Lill Chilly next Tuesday, five pm.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
But I got that right.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Yes, that's our early voting kickoff. You know, you said
that you're fairly certain that will win the primary, but
you know, nothing's certain.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
We have to get people out to vote.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
So April eighth is early voting start, and we're asking
everybody to do everything you can to get out to
the polls and get out to vote for our primary
that ends on May sixth. But April eight is going
to be an awesome nun It is.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
And it's an opportunity for folks to actually meet you,
shake your hand, and talk face to face. I think,
like I said, your message is a good one, and
maybe get some people to help work on the campaign
as a consequence of that event.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Yeah, We've spent a lot of the beginning stages of
this campaign just meeting people, because I've been in politics
a grand total of about three months now and so
just meeting the right people, just like Christopher and others.
And I really feel like this early voting kickoff is
going to be the start to the next phase of
the campaign, and that's mobilizing people, getting all the volunteers
(04:01):
the right.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Information to get people out to vote.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Well, one of the things that I really like about
what you're planning on doing if elected mayor at least
working toward it. I know you'll probably have an uphill
battle given the likely makeup of Cincinnati City Council, but
reducing the regulatory burden and moving the hell out of
the way when it comes to people wanting to redevelop neighborhoods,
individual building, smaller sort of flip type investors who can
(04:27):
come and rehab one of those dilapidated buildings around you know,
in your area on the West End and turn it
into a storefront or maybe livable space apartments. All of
that can be done city if the city we just
get the hell out of the way, right.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Yeah, Well, what I tell people is that's something we've
had a front row seat to. That's not just a
blanket statement that we're copy and pasted from.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
A Republican website.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
That's something that we've experienced downtown firsthand. And I've talked
with people, talk with local developers, and there's so many
hungry and investors and businesses and developers that can only
do maybe one or two properties at a time, and
sometimes the process can be just overwhelming for these people.
To where at the end of a year and a half,
(05:11):
two years of trying to fight for the right zoning
or the right construction paths, a lot of times they
end up just giving up, and that shouldn't.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Be the case.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Yeah, and I'm always reminded when I think about this.
The other person I knew had just a front row
experience of this was the late great Elmer Hensler, founder
of Queen City Sausage. He did a major plan expansion
and it took him forever. I mean, he's in an
industrial area anyway. It's not like he's moving into some
suburb and intruding on people's you know, view or landscape
(05:42):
or something like that. This is just another extension which
would create more which did create more jobs, generate more
revenue for the city. I mean, it was he had
to reach out. I'd like to reach out to to
elected officials and have them check into why and the
hell they were all standing in the way of this.
What is I mean, why would they want to stand
in the way of something that is so beneficial for
the city and something they profess to desire.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
Well, ultimately, you have to see yourself as are you
a city official that's elected to support the vision of
the residents or the vision of the entity of the city.
And I think that you need to always take the
residents' opinions and their dreams and their visions into account
because what we're seeing right now, and this is what
we're seeing with connected communities and a lot of these
(06:27):
other policies, is that overall they have this ultimate vision
that they want for these areas, and so they hold
these properties time on standby until they can get.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
All the ducks lined up in a row. But that's
not how it should be.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
You know, the local developers', local businesses, the residents, the
community councils, they should have the biggest impact in developing
the businesses and the properties and their communities.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Let's I tell you what hang on for a minute.
We'll just bring it back. Talk about a couple more issues.
I want to talk about crime a little bit with
Corey Bowman. He is running for mayor be it Price Sill,
Chile next Tuesday, five to seven pm. Hear what more
about what Corey has to say? Meet him in person,
ask him a few questions. He's a very approachable guy
and he'll be happy to do that. Eight thirty six
We'll one more with Corey Bumman after these brief words.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Fifty five KRC dot com. Thinking about buying your first home,
here's your Channel.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Nine first win of one the voecanst Lots of rain, showers,
heavy at times, and a high of sixty four.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
More showers and thunderstorms overnight.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Fifty nine seventy are high tomorrow with rain likely and
heavy rain it's expected. They say, down to forty five
overnight with more showers and a few storms than you
finally get the end of the showers sometime during the
day on Sunday. Also, the floodwatch ends on Sunday morning.
Sunday's high will be fifty two. They say it's fifty
three right now. It's time for traffic.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
From the U see Health Tramfick sept.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
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orthopedics and supports medicine experts can help keep you moving.
Schedule the same day appointment at ucehealth dot com. Southbound
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out of Erlinger into the cut cruiser working with an
injury accident on daily at Godbreth as well as Belmont
near Hamilton Avenue, Chuck Ingram on fifty five krc the
(08:12):
talk station.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Hey thirty nine I fifty five KRCD talk Station Barn
Thomas with Corey Bowman find one line at Corey Bowman
dot com.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Before I get to public safety, which I know you're
a big advocate of Corey, and I know you're also
a big advocate of education and of course helping our
children in the Cincinni public schools get better educated because
I think some of the some of them are are
being left behind demonstrably. So if you look at the
test scores real quick. Citizen watchdog Todd Zenzer, who I know,
you know, he actually has facts. He has actual documents
(08:44):
that support his analysis of things. He was a former
Inspector General, so he doesn't just pull things from his
sphinker and say them like so many other people. It
was an interesting post that he had on his Facebook
page that Joe Streckers saw and forwarded to me that
kind of chuckled like Joe did when he saw I know,
you know about potholes. You've experienced the problems with potholes
in the city. The roads are deteriorating all over according
(09:06):
to a presentation from the Sinsini Department of Public Service
at the Budget and Finance Committee this past Monday, I
believe it was March thirty first. Anyway, they say the
city repaired thirty seven thousand potholes between January and the
end of March. And as Todd pointed out doing the math,
if the department work five days a week, that means
they fixed five hundred and seventy eight potholes a day.
(09:29):
Do you buy that, Corey Bowman, Well, this.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
Isn't anything getst the workers that are trying to repair
these potholes with what they have available to them.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
But yeah, that number kind of seems a little bit
off to me.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Well, okay, and I'll tell you what. Let's do.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Let's say it's accurate. Doesn't that indicate And I know
we've had a bad winter, but you know we have
roads that have been falling apart now for years and
years and they have not year after year and I
don't know how many years you can go back, they
haven't met up with their obligation to fix a certain
number of lane miles annually. So this to me, if
there are that many potholes in three months, thirty seven
(10:09):
thousand of they fixed. That seems to me partly partially
a revelation of how far behind they have and taking
care of infrastructure.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
Well. Also in my mind too, if those numbers were correct,
because we drive around the city all the time, you'd
be seeing crews non stop outside fixing them, and you'd
be seeing the.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Roads kind of prepared.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
And last time I checked, even this last week driving around,
these potholes are still out there in record numbers.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
All right, So rather than buy something new, Mayor Corey
Bowman would concentrate on taking care of existing infrastructure. I
think that's a safe statement.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Isn't it.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
No, Absolutely, you have to just go forward with what's
important to the citizens. And right now the study show
you know, whenever you ask citizens what's most important to them,
they say that it's crime and its infrastructure.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Well, and I know crime, that's something I wanted to
pivot to. Crime is a problem. I think the days
of defund the police and the demonization of police are over.
When you've got a city like Seattle reversing its policy
and seeking to embrace and enhance its police department, you
know those days are over. So I always thought we
had a pretty good relationship with the since police Department.
(11:19):
I know there are some instances in some times when
we've had bad officers, but that exists in every profession
in this country. But the vast majority of the officers
proudly wear the uniform and proudly serve the neighborhoods and
communities they're in. I think the larger challenge here, Corey,
and it may have a direct relationship with why education
doesn't seem to be Our children seem to be failing
in education. You know, it's the deterioration of the family. You,
(11:42):
as a man of the cloth and as a family
man yourself, know that to have you know, a children
need to be taught, loved, cared for, and embraced at home.
They need to have a strong family foundation. They need
to be repercussions and discipline in the home. And I'm
not talking about physical discipline. My parents didn't have to
do that well a couple of times, but you know,
it's an expectation at home that you're going to go
(12:04):
to school, you're going to get the work done, and
if you need help, you're going to get some help.
There's just not enough of that out there and I
don't know that we can fix society's problems gangs run
and loose in the streets and looting stores and neighborhoods
unless they have a found or strong family structure. I mean,
can politicians can't change that though, can they?
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Well, you can encourage it, you know.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
I think that you know, with running for mayor, a
lot of people might come in and just say, you know,
I'm the savior of the city and I'm going to
fix everything. Well, there's certain a lot of responsibilities to
you as a mayor, and I think that you know,
politicians and city officials kind of need to realize that
that the whatever you're charged to be over, that's what
you need to do your best at. But I think
(12:47):
one of the key things, especially as a mayor in
that position, is you can set the standard of what
you support, you know, as far as what you are
openly and vocally supporting, and then their policies kind of
reflect that. So, yes, there is a crime issue. Yes,
it's really what we're going through. And as a pastor,
we see this it's a spiritual battle. This is a
(13:07):
spiritual thing that's happening in our city to where we've
got to get back to the roots of a family
and structure and discipline. But when you see people that
are trapped in areas to where like the West End,
we're at eighty seven percent government subsidized housing. Realistically, what
that means is that is that if a child grows
(13:27):
up in that area a half mile one way and
a half mile to the other, there is nobody that
is above the poverty line. And so when you have
policies that indicate that people are surrounded by poverties, surrounded
by abuse, surrounded by crime, there's no way out for them.
And so I'm all four policies that help lift people up.
(13:48):
But when your policies are keeping people in bondage the
rest of their life, and that includes with the family structure,
that includes with job opportunities, that includes with having a
home that people can call their own, our policies at
the local level are not encouraging that at all. And
that's what I would change if people will vote.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
For me and you know, offer vocal support and encouragement,
reach out to the community leaders, the ministers, the pastors,
the priests, the rabbis, and maybe help coordinate a collective
effort that isn't about race, baiting and complaining and demanding
more of this than that, but just collectively working together
to better homes and communities and home LIFs. You know,
(14:31):
I mean, and I think that that spirituality can help that.
A lot we have gotten away from spirituality, as you
might notice, and I really think that has a profound
impact on the direction of society.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Well.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
Also in the downtown areas, a lot of people have
been so afraid of pushing a spiritual aspect of this.
And it's not about just cramming doctrine or cramming religion
down your throat, no, but it recognizing that church helps
the community. It's recognizing that these personal convictions that people
have through these relationships and through these established community leaders,
(15:05):
whether it be pastors or rabbis or priests, whatever that
might be. We've been so afraid to talk about these
things in our cities for the sake of offending people.
I think people are so set up with how things
are going to where I think they're willing to offend
some people to be able to say, Hey, what are
the things that are actually going to help this city,
What are the things that are actually going to help families.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
In this city?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Amen to that Corey Bowman dot com.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Everybody's going to be over at the Pricel Chile next Tuesday,
Westside Institution. It is, and it starts at five. You
can help Corey out, learn more about him, and kick
it off. Early voting begins, and it's important that we
early vote. You've got to get out and vote Corey.
Best of luck with the event next Tuesday, and off
to the races from my perspective, and I hope you
(15:51):
do a really good job.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Thank you Brian so much.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
We'll talk again soon, my friend eight forty seven fifty
five care see the talk stations.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Don't go away.
Here it is night first one to what the volcast got.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Showers likely to continue today, sometimes heavy rain sixty four
for the high. Showers are likely every night with underforms
thunderforms possible, dropping to fifty nine. Saturday, a high of
seventy rain is likely with heavy rain expected overnight, more
showers than a few strong storms forty five for the low. Finally,
showers will end during the day on Sunday, with a
(00:26):
floodwatch ending on Sunday morning fifty to to the high
rate on Sunday fifty three.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Right now time for traffic from the U S Out
Traffic Center.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Don't let injuries slowed you down the U see Health
Orthopedics soon. Sports medicine experience can help keep you moving.
Schepsule with the same day appointment at UCA health dot com.
South Bend seventy five. Continue slow through Blackland, North Bend
seventy five. Break by say should come out of Florence
into the cut in the hill. There's a wreck on
daily at Galbreth and Lawrence Purn Road now blocked off
(00:55):
between fifty and Suspension Bridge due to high water. It's
just the beginning chuck Ingram on fifty five krs.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
The Talk station.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Hey, thirty fifty five KRCD Talk station, Hope you're heaven
a very happy Friday. Glad it's Friday. It's been a
great show this morning. Thanks for Jackie, producer Joe Stracker.
Of course Tech Friday with Dave Hatter and Keith Destric's
with the Bourbon Raffle. You got to get your Bourbon
Raffle tickets. Vek Rama Swami, thank you, Ed, I appreciate it.
And Congressman David Taylor follow by Welcome back to the
(01:28):
fifty five KRSEY Morning Show, running from Mayor of the
City of Cincinnati under the r Corey Bowman. Good to
have you back on the program. Good to be back,
Brian Corey Bowman dot com. Check him out, help him out,
get a sign, get us shirt, make a donation. It
will be so wonderful having a change in political affiliation
in the Mayor's office. Of course, he's going to be running.
(01:49):
I'm sure. I'm certain Corey's going to win the primary
and off to the races against our current administration. It's
been forty plus years since we've had a Republican and
I think Corey, over the weeks I've gotten to known
you in the many times you've been on the program
that get some good ideas for the city of Cincinnati.
But before we get to some of that, and to
talk about the event that's coming up, how is lunch
(02:11):
with Christopher Smitheman, that was a great lunch.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Actually, it was actually my first time in Jim and
Jacks and got to me a ton of amazing people
and talk to the owners. We're actually excited to probably
do an event there pretty.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Soon as well.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Yeah, they're great people. I'm actually going to be at
Jim and Jackson dining with Christopher today. We promised to
sit over a beer and talk some politics. So I'm
looking forward to seeing the guys at Jim and Jackson.
They're just super people. I think Christopher's got an office there, Corey,
he spends so much time there. I don't know if
he's got a cot in the back or what the
story is.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Oh, I know, I know.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
He was introducing me to even the homeless people out
on the streets. Man.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
He just knows everybody there.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Yeah, he does, he does. That's funny. Anniehow you've got
an early voting event coming up? If I recall correctly,
Pryce Lill Chilly next Tuesday, five pm.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
But I got that right.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Yes, that's our early voting kickoff. You know, you said
that you're fairly certain that will win the primary, but
you know, nothing's certain.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
We have to get people out to vote.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
So April eighth is early voting start, and we're asking
everybody to do everything you can to get out to
the polls and get out to vote for our primary
that ends on May sixth. But April eight is going
to be an awesome nun It is.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
And it's an opportunity for folks to actually meet you,
shake your hand, and talk face to face. I think,
like I said, your message is a good one, and
maybe get some people to help work on the campaign
as a consequence of that event.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Yeah, We've spent a lot of the beginning stages of
this campaign just meeting people, because I've been in politics
a grand total of about three months now and so
just meeting the right people, just like Christopher and others.
And I really feel like this early voting kickoff is
going to be the start to the next phase of
the campaign, and that's mobilizing people, getting all the volunteers
(04:01):
the right.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Information to get people out to vote.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Well, one of the things that I really like about
what you're planning on doing if elected mayor at least
working toward it. I know you'll probably have an uphill
battle given the likely makeup of Cincinnati City Council, but
reducing the regulatory burden and moving the hell out of
the way when it comes to people wanting to redevelop neighborhoods,
individual building, smaller sort of flip type investors who can
(04:27):
come and rehab one of those dilapidated buildings around you know,
in your area on the West End and turn it
into a storefront or maybe livable space apartments. All of
that can be done city if the city we just
get the hell out of the way, right.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Yeah, Well, what I tell people is that's something we've
had a front row seat to. That's not just a
blanket statement that we're copy and pasted from.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
A Republican website.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
That's something that we've experienced downtown firsthand. And I've talked
with people, talk with local developers, and there's so many
hungry and investors and businesses and developers that can only
do maybe one or two properties at a time, and
sometimes the process can be just overwhelming for these people.
To where at the end of a year and a half,
(05:11):
two years of trying to fight for the right zoning
or the right construction paths, a lot of times they
end up just giving up, and that shouldn't.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Be the case.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Yeah, and I'm always reminded when I think about this.
The other person I knew had just a front row
experience of this was the late great Elmer Hensler, founder
of Queen City Sausage. He did a major plan expansion
and it took him forever. I mean, he's in an
industrial area anyway. It's not like he's moving into some
suburb and intruding on people's you know, view or landscape
(05:42):
or something like that. This is just another extension which
would create more which did create more jobs, generate more
revenue for the city. I mean, it was he had
to reach out. I'd like to reach out to to
elected officials and have them check into why and the
hell they were all standing in the way of this.
What is I mean, why would they want to stand
in the way of something that is so beneficial for
the city and something they profess to desire.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
Well, ultimately, you have to see yourself as are you
a city official that's elected to support the vision of
the residents or the vision of the entity of the city.
And I think that you need to always take the
residents' opinions and their dreams and their visions into account
because what we're seeing right now, and this is what
we're seeing with connected communities and a lot of these
(06:27):
other policies, is that overall they have this ultimate vision
that they want for these areas, and so they hold
these properties time on standby until they can get.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
All the ducks lined up in a row. But that's
not how it should be.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
You know, the local developers', local businesses, the residents, the
community councils, they should have the biggest impact in developing
the businesses and the properties and their communities.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Let's I tell you what hang on for a minute.
We'll just bring it back. Talk about a couple more issues.
I want to talk about crime a little bit with
Corey Bowman. He is running for mayor be it Price Sill,
Chile next Tuesday, five to seven pm. Hear what more
about what Corey has to say? Meet him in person,
ask him a few questions. He's a very approachable guy
and he'll be happy to do that. Eight thirty six
We'll one more with Corey Bumman after these brief words.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Fifty five KRC dot com. Thinking about buying your first home,
here's your Channel.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Nine first win of one the voecanst Lots of rain, showers,
heavy at times, and a high of sixty four.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
More showers and thunderstorms overnight.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Fifty nine seventy are high tomorrow with rain likely and
heavy rain it's expected. They say, down to forty five
overnight with more showers and a few storms than you
finally get the end of the showers sometime during the
day on Sunday. Also, the floodwatch ends on Sunday morning.
Sunday's high will be fifty two. They say it's fifty
three right now. It's time for traffic.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
From the U see Health Tramfick sept.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Don't let injuries slugg it down, but you see health
orthopedics and supports medicine experts can help keep you moving.
Schedule the same day appointment at ucehealth dot com. Southbound
seventy five breaks through Blachland northbound seventy five break lights
out of Erlinger into the cut cruiser working with an
injury accident on daily at Godbreth as well as Belmont
near Hamilton Avenue, Chuck Ingram on fifty five krc the
(08:12):
talk station.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Hey thirty nine I fifty five KRCD talk Station Barn
Thomas with Corey Bowman find one line at Corey Bowman
dot com.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Before I get to public safety, which I know you're
a big advocate of Corey, and I know you're also
a big advocate of education and of course helping our
children in the Cincinni public schools get better educated because
I think some of the some of them are are
being left behind demonstrably. So if you look at the
test scores real quick. Citizen watchdog Todd Zenzer, who I know,
you know, he actually has facts. He has actual documents
(08:44):
that support his analysis of things. He was a former
Inspector General, so he doesn't just pull things from his
sphinker and say them like so many other people. It
was an interesting post that he had on his Facebook
page that Joe Streckers saw and forwarded to me that
kind of chuckled like Joe did when he saw I know,
you know about potholes. You've experienced the problems with potholes
in the city. The roads are deteriorating all over according
(09:06):
to a presentation from the Sinsini Department of Public Service
at the Budget and Finance Committee this past Monday, I
believe it was March thirty first. Anyway, they say the
city repaired thirty seven thousand potholes between January and the
end of March. And as Todd pointed out doing the math,
if the department work five days a week, that means
they fixed five hundred and seventy eight potholes a day.
(09:29):
Do you buy that, Corey Bowman, Well, this.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
Isn't anything getst the workers that are trying to repair
these potholes with what they have available to them.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
But yeah, that number kind of seems a little bit
off to me.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Well, okay, and I'll tell you what. Let's do.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Let's say it's accurate. Doesn't that indicate And I know
we've had a bad winter, but you know we have
roads that have been falling apart now for years and
years and they have not year after year and I
don't know how many years you can go back, they
haven't met up with their obligation to fix a certain
number of lane miles annually. So this to me, if
there are that many potholes in three months, thirty seven
(10:09):
thousand of they fixed. That seems to me partly partially
a revelation of how far behind they have and taking
care of infrastructure.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
Well. Also in my mind too, if those numbers were correct,
because we drive around the city all the time, you'd
be seeing crews non stop outside fixing them, and you'd
be seeing the.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Roads kind of prepared.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
And last time I checked, even this last week driving around,
these potholes are still out there in record numbers.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
All right, So rather than buy something new, Mayor Corey
Bowman would concentrate on taking care of existing infrastructure. I
think that's a safe statement.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Isn't it.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
No, Absolutely, you have to just go forward with what's
important to the citizens. And right now the study show
you know, whenever you ask citizens what's most important to them,
they say that it's crime and its infrastructure.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Well, and I know crime, that's something I wanted to
pivot to. Crime is a problem. I think the days
of defund the police and the demonization of police are over.
When you've got a city like Seattle reversing its policy
and seeking to embrace and enhance its police department, you
know those days are over. So I always thought we
had a pretty good relationship with the since police Department.
(11:19):
I know there are some instances in some times when
we've had bad officers, but that exists in every profession
in this country. But the vast majority of the officers
proudly wear the uniform and proudly serve the neighborhoods and
communities they're in. I think the larger challenge here, Corey,
and it may have a direct relationship with why education
doesn't seem to be Our children seem to be failing
in education. You know, it's the deterioration of the family. You,
(11:42):
as a man of the cloth and as a family
man yourself, know that to have you know, a children
need to be taught, loved, cared for, and embraced at home.
They need to have a strong family foundation. They need
to be repercussions and discipline in the home. And I'm
not talking about physical discipline. My parents didn't have to
do that well a couple of times, but you know,
it's an expectation at home that you're going to go
(12:04):
to school, you're going to get the work done, and
if you need help, you're going to get some help.
There's just not enough of that out there and I
don't know that we can fix society's problems gangs run
and loose in the streets and looting stores and neighborhoods
unless they have a found or strong family structure. I mean,
can politicians can't change that though, can they?
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Well, you can encourage it, you know.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
I think that you know, with running for mayor, a
lot of people might come in and just say, you know,
I'm the savior of the city and I'm going to
fix everything. Well, there's certain a lot of responsibilities to
you as a mayor, and I think that you know,
politicians and city officials kind of need to realize that
that the whatever you're charged to be over, that's what
you need to do your best at. But I think
(12:47):
one of the key things, especially as a mayor in
that position, is you can set the standard of what
you support, you know, as far as what you are
openly and vocally supporting, and then their policies kind of
reflect that. So, yes, there is a crime issue. Yes,
it's really what we're going through. And as a pastor,
we see this it's a spiritual battle. This is a
(13:07):
spiritual thing that's happening in our city to where we've
got to get back to the roots of a family
and structure and discipline. But when you see people that
are trapped in areas to where like the West End,
we're at eighty seven percent government subsidized housing. Realistically, what
that means is that is that if a child grows
(13:27):
up in that area a half mile one way and
a half mile to the other, there is nobody that
is above the poverty line. And so when you have
policies that indicate that people are surrounded by poverties, surrounded
by abuse, surrounded by crime, there's no way out for them.
And so I'm all four policies that help lift people up.
(13:48):
But when your policies are keeping people in bondage the
rest of their life, and that includes with the family structure,
that includes with job opportunities, that includes with having a
home that people can call their own, our policies at
the local level are not encouraging that at all. And
that's what I would change if people will vote.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
For me and you know, offer vocal support and encouragement,
reach out to the community leaders, the ministers, the pastors,
the priests, the rabbis, and maybe help coordinate a collective
effort that isn't about race, baiting and complaining and demanding
more of this than that, but just collectively working together
to better homes and communities and home LIFs. You know,
(14:31):
I mean, and I think that that spirituality can help that.
A lot we have gotten away from spirituality, as you
might notice, and I really think that has a profound
impact on the direction of society.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Well.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
Also in the downtown areas, a lot of people have
been so afraid of pushing a spiritual aspect of this.
And it's not about just cramming doctrine or cramming religion
down your throat, no, but it recognizing that church helps
the community. It's recognizing that these personal convictions that people
have through these relationships and through these established community leaders,
(15:05):
whether it be pastors or rabbis or priests, whatever that
might be. We've been so afraid to talk about these
things in our cities for the sake of offending people.
I think people are so set up with how things
are going to where I think they're willing to offend
some people to be able to say, Hey, what are
the things that are actually going to help this city,
What are the things that are actually going to help families.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
In this city?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Amen to that Corey Bowman dot com.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Everybody's going to be over at the Pricel Chile next Tuesday,
Westside Institution. It is, and it starts at five. You
can help Corey out, learn more about him, and kick
it off. Early voting begins, and it's important that we
early vote. You've got to get out and vote Corey.
Best of luck with the event next Tuesday, and off
to the races from my perspective, and I hope you
(15:51):
do a really good job.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Thank you Brian so much.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
We'll talk again soon, my friend eight forty seven fifty
five care see the talk stations.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Don't go away.
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