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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I did have a happy one to you. Brian Thomas.
(00:01):
Please to welcome on the heels of talking with Steve
Gooden running for since a city council. We have another
city council candidate who's gotten some outstanding endorsements. Welcome to
the fifty five Carter City at Morning Show, Gary Favors.
You can find him online. Help out his campaign, maybe
donate to it it Favors for the word for not
the number Favors for Cincinnati dot com. Gary, it's great
(00:22):
to have you on the morning show.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Thank you Brian for having me this morning.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Now real quick here before I let my listeners know
about these outstanding endorsements. What is prompting you to run
for Cincinnati City Council. I know you've been twenty five
years as a special education teacher with the Cincinnati Public Schools.
You are a decorated Army veteran, and salute to you
for your service to our country. What does Gary Favors
want to do for the city of Cincinnati as a
(00:47):
council member.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Well, the first thing, number one, thank you for recognizing
my service as a veteran and someone who's been in
as a teacher veteran. I believe in service. Number one.
I believe in serving people. And the city of Cincinnati
(01:11):
is near and dear to my heart. I graduated from
Roger Bacon High School, went off to college Carson Newman College,
then did a twelve year stint in the military where
I served in the Gulf War, and then came back
and pursued my career in education. So I have a
(01:33):
history of service. I have a history of serving people,
and really, at this time, we need leaders. We need
leaders that we'll step up and lead the city and
bring the city back to what I call its original state.
We have a lot of crime that's evident last night
(01:54):
and this morning, and so there's just a lot of
challenges in the city that we need to address, and
I feel it's time for me to step up and
put my skill sets in action.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Well one of those folks that agrees with you and
has endorsed you, gentlemen who comes to my morning show program,
he's often he is willing to do so. A guy
that I love and I've known for years, Ken Blackwell.
You've got Ken Blackwell's endorsement. I think that is an
impressive endorsement because those don't necessarily come easy mister favors.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
No, it doesn't. And I grew up under the Ken
Blackwell here as a council member, as he was a
council member and a mayor, so I got to see
Ken Blackwell in action. So I take that endorsement near
(02:49):
and dear to my heart rather and hold it in
treasure that he would endorse me. So it is a
great honor, along with some of the other endorsements that
I have. But I think that is probably one of
the greatest honors to have someone at his stature.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Heymen, that carries a lot of endorsement, most notly for me,
but ignore my opinion, but my listening audience thoroughly appreciates
with the work of Ken Blackwell over the years. You
also not to understate the value of it. The Fraternal
Order of Police have endorsed you, the Hamlin County GOP
has endorsed you, and you also got the endorsement of
the Right to Life for Greater Cincinnati. So you're racking
them up, Gary, and I think a lot of people
(03:30):
see some really really positive in you, and I want
to pivot over as we go to the break to
to ask I want to ask you about the youth.
I know you've had you actually taught incarcerated juveniles facing
charges of murder and aggravated robbery, rape, and some other
very serious crimes. When you're over teaching at the Hemlin
County Justice Center. I want to talk to you about
your experience there because we seem to have a tremendous
(03:52):
problem with young people these days. We'll talk more with
Council candidate Gary Favors find them online favors for Cincinnati
dot com after I mentioned foreign exchange, because I want
you to have a great automotive repair detalk station. Have
you Friday Brian Thomas talking with since a council candidate
Gary Favors favors for Cincinnati dot com where you find
Gary learned about his issues and what he's all about.
(04:15):
And I know you have education experience or you were
a teacher. You were twenty five years of a special
education teacher in since public schools. But also you did
some work at the Hamilton County Justice Center where some
juveniles in jail and they had some serious crimes they
were charged with. You worked with them, you reached out
with them. He tried to be an inspiration for them.
You've got to you know, singing praise from Marion Alswagger,
the Adult Education coordinated their Hamilton County Sheriff's Office on
(04:37):
your web page, Gary, we have a problem with youth
in downtown Cincinnati. Now you have to have purvol Recently,
I guess decided that he is going to allow Police
Chiefdiji and the police officer to enforce the curfew, a
curfew that was on the books for a long time
but rarely enforced. And there may be some reasons for that.
But how is it and where's this problem coming from?
As much time as you spent with young people, do
(05:00):
you put your finger on the exact cause of these problems?
Because as I see from the comments about you, you're
the one that came in every day listen to to
these young people, gave them inspiration, You gave them a
sense of purpose and hope. I always go back to
the point my mom and dad did that for me. Gary.
You know, if you have a stable home life, you've
got parents looking out for you and wondering where in
the hell you are at one o'clock in the morning.
(05:22):
You know that's what actually works. Is that the genesis
of society's problems, or maybe just the problems in the
city of Cincinnati, or is it something that transcends that, Gary.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Well, I think Brian, you sort of not sort of
you hit it on the nail on the head. Is
that we have lost that family piece. I grew up
with a mom and dad who stressed education. That was
my primary job. Let's go to school, get a good education,
(05:55):
listen to the teachers, respect one another, and to value
my faith in God. So my parents instilled in me
the values of what and I thank God where I
(06:15):
am now. I would be where I am now if
it wouldn't have been for my church family. So it's
that village. I think we've lost that village of family,
and so that is an overwhelming issue. I think when
our young people are doing things that are out of character,
(06:40):
out of pocket, that they want to be heard, they
want to be listened to. And the primary thing I
think our kids want is they want to see after
high school, can they land a job that's making a
decent salary that they can live on and become productive citizens.
(07:04):
I think one of the things I've often said, we've missed.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
The art of the tradesmen.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
It's the art of getting our kids steered into jobs
that will lead to high paying salary jobs that they
want to have. So I think we need to work
with our school system to address and help them address
some of the things that they need support on with
(07:34):
sin say public and helping our kids with mentorships in
some of these trades. And I think we have some
things going on in the city, but we need to
collaborate better. We have a lot of good things going
on in the city, but it needs to be a
joint effort of collaboration. And some of these things may
(07:55):
be in place, but I bring those skill sets to
the table City Council, and my hope is the voters
will see that my education background in years of experience
working at Gamble High School Woodward High School to help
kids and to live in and to help families is
(08:19):
what I believe in. And advocating for.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Families and helping families, And here's where I wanted to go,
and I want to get your reaction to this. Quite often,
you know, if law enforcement is left with the aftermath
of a terrible home life, or you know parents that
don't care, or parents that aren't president parents, maybe you
have drug or alcohol issues, whatever, they're not caring about
their kids. They're not raising them responsible, but they aren't
(08:42):
raising them to have the respect that your mom and
dad taught you that you know, you had to go
to school, that was in your mom and dad insisted
on its same with mine. I always mentioned the greatest
gift my parents ever gave me, beyond life was education.
They were insistent about that. All these outreach programs, teachers
are left with unruly students that come from these problematic
(09:02):
home lives. Would it be a better direction to focus
if we're going to focus government resources on something. And
I'm not saying don't have youth programs, but how about
programs directed at new parents or parents generally to get
them on the right track and remind them how important
they are to play an active role in their children's lives.
Are going to end up with a you know, another
(09:23):
criminal element coming out on the streets. Is that even
a concept that anybody's considered.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Gary, Yeah, And you're right on point, Brian, is that
I think we haven't looked at helping our parents because
what I found that some of our parents are very young, yeah,
and they're trying to work. They're trying to hold out
the job too. They're trying to do the best they can.
(09:48):
And I think a lot of our parents are trying
to do the best best they can. A lot of
our kids are being raised by grandparents, right and I
work with the family young man that's been raised by
his great great grandmother at one point before she passed away.
We're talking about two to three generations. So I think
(10:10):
we we have to look at the whole family. We
have to look at where can the church fit in?
Where can and it's there is no single answer that's
going to solve the problem, but I think the church
has a huge piece of play in in our community
(10:33):
and helping our kids. We just need to what I
call do the basics, go back to the basics. Our
community is filled with resources. Talbot House, You've got so
many social agencies in the city that can lend a hand.
How can we work together? Talvert House has an excellent
(10:54):
program for dads helping dads. Have a father right now
who's very involved with this child's education, and he's a
single day and I applaud him stepping up and advocating
for his child and making sure his child gets what
he needs and getting the education he so deserves. So
(11:20):
I just think it goes back to when I was
growing up. I had so many people. Even if I
stepped out a lot, there would have been neighbors, there
would have been the church. There would have been a
whole flew of people around me saying you got to change,
You got to turn this around right and get back
on track. So I was blessed. And I do understand that,
(11:44):
you know, parents are overwhelmed, but we need to bring
back the village that I so often talk about.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Right, well, you know it takes that engaged parent, though
I mean, I mean part of me wants to say, well,
that's a job of a parent. You know, why would
we need a program to have someone actually carrying about
their own offspring. But this is the reality we have.
You know, I'll just get an introjection with it about church.
It's the parents. It's the family that will introduce a
young person to the concept of religion. And I'll tell
you what. That's the way it happened to my family.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Gary.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
And when mom and dad weren't around and I was
hanging out with my buds, you know who I was
worried about looking down over me and what bad things
I might do. It was God right. There was always
that extra parent right there who could see everything and
know everything, and you couldn't escape them. Look one more
with Gary Favors going to ask about oh, is that
it is that all the time we have? Oh Gary,
(12:35):
I'm sorry, I want to ask you about affordable housing,
but apparently you don't have any additional time.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
So yes, I do have to get to work and
serve my families and my kids, which I'm holding very
high scheem. But you know, we can definitely come back
good and carry on this conversation. But Favors for Cincinnati
is my website.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Took the words right out of my mouth, Gary Favors,
It's been a pleasure. We'll get you back on before
the election because I do want to ask you about
what is affordable housing and your ideas about it. Thanks Gary,
Having a wonderful weekend, seven forty seven right now at
fifty five KR seed time,
I did have a happy one to you. Brian Thomas.
(00:01):
Please to welcome on the heels of talking with Steve
Gooden running for since a city council. We have another
city council candidate who's gotten some outstanding endorsements. Welcome to
the fifty five Carter City at Morning Show, Gary Favors.
You can find him online. Help out his campaign, maybe
donate to it it Favors for the word for not
the number Favors for Cincinnati dot com. Gary, it's great
(00:22):
to have you on the morning show.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Thank you Brian for having me this morning.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Now real quick here before I let my listeners know
about these outstanding endorsements. What is prompting you to run
for Cincinnati City Council. I know you've been twenty five
years as a special education teacher with the Cincinnati Public Schools.
You are a decorated Army veteran, and salute to you
for your service to our country. What does Gary Favors
want to do for the city of Cincinnati as a
(00:47):
council member.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Well, the first thing, number one, thank you for recognizing
my service as a veteran and someone who's been in
as a teacher veteran. I believe in service. Number one.
I believe in serving people. And the city of Cincinnati
(01:11):
is near and dear to my heart. I graduated from
Roger Bacon High School, went off to college Carson Newman College,
then did a twelve year stint in the military where
I served in the Gulf War, and then came back
and pursued my career in education. So I have a
(01:33):
history of service. I have a history of serving people,
and really, at this time, we need leaders. We need
leaders that we'll step up and lead the city and
bring the city back to what I call its original state.
We have a lot of crime that's evident last night
(01:54):
and this morning, and so there's just a lot of
challenges in the city that we need to address, and
I feel it's time for me to step up and
put my skill sets in action.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Well one of those folks that agrees with you and
has endorsed you, gentlemen who comes to my morning show program,
he's often he is willing to do so. A guy
that I love and I've known for years, Ken Blackwell.
You've got Ken Blackwell's endorsement. I think that is an
impressive endorsement because those don't necessarily come easy mister favors.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
No, it doesn't. And I grew up under the Ken
Blackwell here as a council member, as he was a
council member and a mayor, so I got to see
Ken Blackwell in action. So I take that endorsement near
(02:49):
and dear to my heart rather and hold it in
treasure that he would endorse me. So it is a
great honor, along with some of the other endorsements that
I have. But I think that is probably one of
the greatest honors to have someone at his stature.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Heymen, that carries a lot of endorsement, most notly for me,
but ignore my opinion, but my listening audience thoroughly appreciates
with the work of Ken Blackwell over the years. You
also not to understate the value of it. The Fraternal
Order of Police have endorsed you, the Hamlin County GOP
has endorsed you, and you also got the endorsement of
the Right to Life for Greater Cincinnati. So you're racking
them up, Gary, and I think a lot of people
(03:30):
see some really really positive in you, and I want
to pivot over as we go to the break to
to ask I want to ask you about the youth.
I know you've had you actually taught incarcerated juveniles facing
charges of murder and aggravated robbery, rape, and some other
very serious crimes. When you're over teaching at the Hemlin
County Justice Center. I want to talk to you about
your experience there because we seem to have a tremendous
(03:52):
problem with young people these days. We'll talk more with
Council candidate Gary Favors find them online favors for Cincinnati
dot com after I mentioned foreign exchange, because I want
you to have a great automotive repair detalk station. Have
you Friday Brian Thomas talking with since a council candidate
Gary Favors favors for Cincinnati dot com where you find
Gary learned about his issues and what he's all about.
(04:15):
And I know you have education experience or you were
a teacher. You were twenty five years of a special
education teacher in since public schools. But also you did
some work at the Hamilton County Justice Center where some
juveniles in jail and they had some serious crimes they
were charged with. You worked with them, you reached out
with them. He tried to be an inspiration for them.
You've got to you know, singing praise from Marion Alswagger,
the Adult Education coordinated their Hamilton County Sheriff's Office on
(04:37):
your web page, Gary, we have a problem with youth
in downtown Cincinnati. Now you have to have purvol Recently,
I guess decided that he is going to allow Police
Chiefdiji and the police officer to enforce the curfew, a
curfew that was on the books for a long time
but rarely enforced. And there may be some reasons for that.
But how is it and where's this problem coming from?
As much time as you spent with young people, do
(05:00):
you put your finger on the exact cause of these problems?
Because as I see from the comments about you, you're
the one that came in every day listen to to
these young people, gave them inspiration, You gave them a
sense of purpose and hope. I always go back to
the point my mom and dad did that for me. Gary.
You know, if you have a stable home life, you've
got parents looking out for you and wondering where in
the hell you are at one o'clock in the morning.
(05:22):
You know that's what actually works. Is that the genesis
of society's problems, or maybe just the problems in the
city of Cincinnati, or is it something that transcends that, Gary.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Well, I think Brian, you sort of not sort of
you hit it on the nail on the head. Is
that we have lost that family piece. I grew up
with a mom and dad who stressed education. That was
my primary job. Let's go to school, get a good education,
(05:55):
listen to the teachers, respect one another, and to value
my faith in God. So my parents instilled in me
the values of what and I thank God where I
(06:15):
am now. I would be where I am now if
it wouldn't have been for my church family. So it's
that village. I think we've lost that village of family,
and so that is an overwhelming issue. I think when
our young people are doing things that are out of character,
(06:40):
out of pocket, that they want to be heard, they
want to be listened to. And the primary thing I
think our kids want is they want to see after
high school, can they land a job that's making a
decent salary that they can live on and become productive citizens.
(07:04):
I think one of the things I've often said, we've missed.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
The art of the tradesmen.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
It's the art of getting our kids steered into jobs
that will lead to high paying salary jobs that they
want to have. So I think we need to work
with our school system to address and help them address
some of the things that they need support on with
(07:34):
sin say public and helping our kids with mentorships in
some of these trades. And I think we have some
things going on in the city, but we need to
collaborate better. We have a lot of good things going
on in the city, but it needs to be a
joint effort of collaboration. And some of these things may
(07:55):
be in place, but I bring those skill sets to
the table City Council, and my hope is the voters
will see that my education background in years of experience
working at Gamble High School Woodward High School to help
kids and to live in and to help families is
(08:19):
what I believe in. And advocating for.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Families and helping families, And here's where I wanted to go,
and I want to get your reaction to this. Quite often,
you know, if law enforcement is left with the aftermath
of a terrible home life, or you know parents that
don't care, or parents that aren't president parents, maybe you
have drug or alcohol issues, whatever, they're not caring about
their kids. They're not raising them responsible, but they aren't
(08:42):
raising them to have the respect that your mom and
dad taught you that you know, you had to go
to school, that was in your mom and dad insisted
on its same with mine. I always mentioned the greatest
gift my parents ever gave me, beyond life was education.
They were insistent about that. All these outreach programs, teachers
are left with unruly students that come from these problematic
(09:02):
home lives. Would it be a better direction to focus
if we're going to focus government resources on something. And
I'm not saying don't have youth programs, but how about
programs directed at new parents or parents generally to get
them on the right track and remind them how important
they are to play an active role in their children's lives.
Are going to end up with a you know, another
(09:23):
criminal element coming out on the streets. Is that even
a concept that anybody's considered.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Gary, Yeah, And you're right on point, Brian, is that
I think we haven't looked at helping our parents because
what I found that some of our parents are very young, yeah,
and they're trying to work. They're trying to hold out
the job too. They're trying to do the best they can.
(09:48):
And I think a lot of our parents are trying
to do the best best they can. A lot of
our kids are being raised by grandparents, right and I
work with the family young man that's been raised by
his great great grandmother at one point before she passed away.
We're talking about two to three generations. So I think
(10:10):
we we have to look at the whole family. We
have to look at where can the church fit in?
Where can and it's there is no single answer that's
going to solve the problem, but I think the church
has a huge piece of play in in our community
(10:33):
and helping our kids. We just need to what I
call do the basics, go back to the basics. Our
community is filled with resources. Talbot House, You've got so
many social agencies in the city that can lend a hand.
How can we work together? Talvert House has an excellent
(10:54):
program for dads helping dads. Have a father right now
who's very involved with this child's education, and he's a
single day and I applaud him stepping up and advocating
for his child and making sure his child gets what
he needs and getting the education he so deserves. So
(11:20):
I just think it goes back to when I was
growing up. I had so many people. Even if I
stepped out a lot, there would have been neighbors, there
would have been the church. There would have been a
whole flew of people around me saying you got to change,
You got to turn this around right and get back
on track. So I was blessed. And I do understand that,
(11:44):
you know, parents are overwhelmed, but we need to bring
back the village that I so often talk about.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Right, well, you know it takes that engaged parent, though
I mean, I mean part of me wants to say, well,
that's a job of a parent. You know, why would
we need a program to have someone actually carrying about
their own offspring. But this is the reality we have.
You know, I'll just get an introjection with it about church.
It's the parents. It's the family that will introduce a
young person to the concept of religion. And I'll tell
you what. That's the way it happened to my family.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Gary.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
And when mom and dad weren't around and I was
hanging out with my buds, you know who I was
worried about looking down over me and what bad things
I might do. It was God right. There was always
that extra parent right there who could see everything and
know everything, and you couldn't escape them. Look one more
with Gary Favors going to ask about oh, is that
it is that all the time we have? Oh Gary,
(12:35):
I'm sorry, I want to ask you about affordable housing,
but apparently you don't have any additional time.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
So yes, I do have to get to work and
serve my families and my kids, which I'm holding very
high scheem. But you know, we can definitely come back
good and carry on this conversation. But Favors for Cincinnati
is my website.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Took the words right out of my mouth, Gary Favors,
It's been a pleasure. We'll get you back on before
the election because I do want to ask you about
what is affordable housing and your ideas about it. Thanks Gary,
Having a wonderful weekend, seven forty seven right now at
fifty five KR seed time,
Brian Thomas News
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