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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Pleased to welcome to the fifty five KRC Morning Show.
(00:02):
Running for Cincinna City Council. Guess what open voting? It's
you can vote today if you want, go to the
Hamil County Board of Elections cast to vote. It's early voting.
We have until the first Tuesday of November to get
the vote. Casts. Don't let it go your vote. Your
vote is worth so much in downtown Cincinnati, only twenty
five maybe thirty percent of we lucky you're going to vote,
meaning you have a lot of power in your vote,
and you might want to consider Lakita Cole as a
(00:23):
choice running as a Charter Right candidate. Lakita Cole dot com,
l A k. E. T A. Colecol dot com. Lakida Cole.
It's great to have you here on the fifty five
KRC Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Good morning, Good morning, Good morning Cincinnati.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Well, I hope people remember that you hap happy to
do it. You did serve as a city council member,
You were chief of staff, council aid, a state legislator.
You held senior roles within community a city administration. You
obviously have a connection of familiarity with the system, so
people can't call you inexperience, Lakita, Let's jump right to
police chief THREESA Thigi. She was put on administrative leave,
(00:59):
and I guess according to her lawyers, no reason whatsoever
was cited. They did not cite some sort of you know,
problem with her work experience. How she It's just it's
a big mystery. And her lawyer was out yesterday saying
that she can only be dismissed for costs because she's
been an employee for more than six months, so the
city charter prevents her from being let go. But I
(01:21):
don't know what her status is, whether she's been fired
or merely placing your own administrative leave crosses that barrier.
But this all seems to be very politically motivated as
we fast approached the November election day. What's your take
on this, Lakita Cole.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I definitely agree with that, And it's ridiculous because just
a month ago they, the city manager and the mayor
was just praising her. So you know, a month later,
you're making her escapegoat, and you know, just the way
they're doing things is just chaotic, and it just shows
you that there's no real vision down there. There's no
you know, lack there's a lack of urgency of what
(01:58):
to do. And you know, you know, you can't sem
out fire her because there is violence. There's no police
chief in this country can guarantee you that there's not
going to be violent, right, you know, And and it's
just it just tells you that there's so much dysfunction
going on down there. I mean, look what they did
with the fire chief. They're gonna have to back cut
(02:19):
on that. It's just it's just totally dysfunction and chaotic.
It just shows you that this, you know, the mayor
and the city manager, it seems like they don't know
what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
I think you summed it up quite nicely. They're lakita.
I mean, this is almost a mirror image of what
they did to uh, to the to the fire chief.
I mean, he's one of his case wrongfully terminated. He's
waiting to get a big check written by the taxpayers
of the City of Cincinnati. It looks like check number
two exactly. Yeah, check number two is coming.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Our way exactly exactly. What's gonna happen with with the police.
With the police chief, I'm like getting together. I mean,
it's it's you got news conferences. Like I said, just
last month, you were praising her right job. So now
you put on you you call her back in, so
you changed her in front of all the police chiefs.
You know, this is just not the way you handle
(03:08):
things now.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
But the nature of the role as police chief or
fire chief as the case maybe, has changed dramatically since
Issue five passed. No longer do the members of the
unions of the police force choose their own police chief.
It's now in the hands of two people, the mayor
and the city manager. So they have a tremendous amount
of control and sway over the job because they're in
a position to fire someone. I guess they could make
(03:30):
up cause, but they could get easily rid of it.
So it's been suggested. I heard it from the FOP president.
I've heard it from others that she was following the
directive of aftab Purvol and the city manager. So she
did what they said, and in doing what they say
in terms of law enforcement, crime became a real problem.
(03:51):
So by following their directive she ends up without a job,
or at least on administrative leave. I'm not quite sure.
I mean, I think I smell a rat here Lakeiita Cole.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
I'm in total agreements with you, quite quick. A Ducts
is a duck, quite quack, and this is why it's
definitely impairedive for what you said at the beginning. We
have to change what's going on down there. Not only then,
I'm gonna tell you, you know, we definitely need to
get a recall, a ballot initiative, a recall for the mayor,
a valid initiative. And it also shows you that this
(04:24):
function of what when we passed that the only person
that can bring up the city manager for firing is
the mayor. I just don't think that that's will be
the way it should go. I think there needs to
be something where maybe the supermajority can bring up the
city mayor ser up as well. But they have this
in the hands of one person, and especially when that
(04:45):
person don't know what they're doing, and it's obvious because
look what happened, Look what's going on. I mean, never
in the mystery have I ever heard you had to
have eighteen thousand citizens from one neighborhood do a go
forward a ballot initiative on an issue that you passed
the council pass. I'll tell you that this council is
(05:06):
so dysfunctional.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Lakita, I can't believe. I'm so happy you brought that
up because I was clearly going to ask you about
Hyde Park, but also Bondhill. So I see your website
and I love the way you've outlined your platform. C
l E see Community Council reformed the oh oppose connected
communities zoning one size fits all. You are not entitled
to choose your own destiny any of the fifty two neighborhoods.
(05:30):
I thought that was offensive. Clearly, Hyde Park thought of defensive.
We don't have to get a ballot INITIATI on which
made have to have pro ball pull the plug on
the well connected development waiver a community to community connected communities.
Bondhill had a similar problem. I think every neighborhood should
be able to control their own destiny when it comes
to housing and development.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
I totally agree. Last Friday, you know I'm the vice
president of Bondham Community Council. Last Friday I spent my
Friday evenings with the community count with our community trying
to come up with some type of way that we
can work through the of the day break issue and
get a benefit of agreement or something we can actually
developer try to sell back. I mean, we should not
(06:11):
be having him to spend on our Friday evenings doing
this because of this city council and its administration just
will not listen. Right, they are so dysfunctional, but yet
they seem to think they know what's going on, and
they do not. They are so disconnected. I wish I
had a D in my name so I can say disconnected.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Cracking me up, Lakita. All right, so we have a
crime problem. Obviously, I suppose if you were in charge,
would you have accepted all of that? I wan underscore
this word free offer of assistance from governor to Wine.
He offered Ohio State Police, Ohio State But you police
to work every day of the month. Mayor, I have
(06:52):
to have provo. At first only took two days and
now he's up to total of four days. Crime is
a twenty four to seven all month long problem, Lakida,
What would you recommend her? If you were in his position,
would you have taken all the relief that the Wine
was offering?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
You know, no, Because I'm gonna be honest with you,
I'm fearful that they would be you know, we would
be over police and they don't know our community. However,
what I would do, what I would make sure that
we have what we had before under the one of
the police sheets. We had those pockets of like community
area policing, We had citizens on patrol, we had our
(07:27):
community leaders out there in those pockets where they were
the crime was very high and up and that therefore
people can pay attention what's going on. I don't believe
that you make this school also the escapegoat about what's
going on down up Found Square. What you do is
is when I was in school, we had those Metro
buses diverted from away from downtown. In fact, what they
did is they brought the kids directly to the schools.
(07:50):
That's what they need. That's what needs to happen. You
need to work with the Metro and figure out a
way having those kids go directly to the schools and
not in diverted away from downtown. Never in my history
of ever sing Swat having to patrol Feutain Square, Swat
patrolling Felton Square. That is disfunctional at its highest level.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
I understand and obviously we have a growing problem with
young people in society, and I personally. Look, Kitty, you
can disagree with me if you want, that's fine. I
believe it's the consequence of the breakdown of the nuclear family.
I know, I don't know how you grow up. But
I had a curfew in the house. And if I
wasn't home by curfew and I didn't call ahead of
time saying I needed some extra time, I was in
(08:30):
for a world of hurt. My parents would be sitting
there waiting for me to walk in the front door.
So I wasn't able to run a muck. Now, if
we could, if if government could change the reality of
what's going on in any given household, fine, but you can't.
A teacher can't change the life that that child has
grown up with. As much as we wanted, they're overwhelmed
with a challenge. So I know you've you've got a
(08:52):
like reaching out ideas about listening to parents and talking
directly with youth. How come might we use that concept
to change what's going on with our young people?
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Lakita Sure, yeah, So I have been to out there
talking with the young people. I spend some time. But
the again, I spend some time with Woodward, and many
of those kids are saying they really just want an
opportunity more than just fast foods. And they also want
a place to go our recreation center. Because I said,
well what about our recreation centers. They don't feel like
they're inviting and the opening to them. Many of them
saying that they go in, they can't come back out.
(09:22):
They go in and they leave, they can't come back.
If they go to get something to eat, they can't
come back in. It's just not an open and welcoming
environment for them. So we have to make sure that
if we have these recreation centers in our communities, they
open to them, to have somewhere for them to go.
You're absolutely right. We can't police somebody inside their home.
But we can't do is demand some opportunities for these
(09:44):
young people. But demand, for example, you have the trades,
you have apprenticeships. These young kids are looking for an opportunity.
They don't want to just hang out. They don't want
to just have a fast food restaurant. They want more.
They want a career path and that's what we need
to have. We need to bring back as I keep CCY,
and bring it in house, yes, and not have it
out outside house. To have it in house well, we
(10:05):
actually can control the milestones and making sure that it's
doing what it's supposed to do and if not, then
we change courses.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Trades are a great option for literally anybody. You can
earn what you learn, and artificial intelligence cannot take away
a plumber's employment or electricians for that. For that example,
see Community council reform, OH appose Connected Communities, zoning, l
listen to citizens in youth e expand council transparency. Lakitacole
(10:33):
dot com. Read about her platform, learn about her and
it's open voting. You can go ahead and vote for
Lakita if you like Lakida, best of luck, vote for Cole.
Go to the polls, vote for col I. Love it.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Very nice conversation, say vote Look, look both smarter, vote
for Charter.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
There you go, and you got Steve good in the
midst too. We're all big fans of Steve Gooden as well.
Good luck, Lakita, Best of luck if you get elected,
bring about some pop that have changed for the city
that we all love.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
I will thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Eight fifty six fifty five kros the talk station
Pleased to welcome to the fifty five KRC Morning Show.
(00:02):
Running for Cincinna City Council. Guess what open voting? It's
you can vote today if you want, go to the
Hamil County Board of Elections cast to vote. It's early voting.
We have until the first Tuesday of November to get
the vote. Casts. Don't let it go your vote. Your
vote is worth so much in downtown Cincinnati, only twenty
five maybe thirty percent of we lucky you're going to vote,
meaning you have a lot of power in your vote,
and you might want to consider Lakita Cole as a
(00:23):
choice running as a Charter Right candidate. Lakita Cole dot com,
l A k. E. T A. Colecol dot com. Lakida Cole.
It's great to have you here on the fifty five
KRC Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Good morning, Good morning, Good morning Cincinnati.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Well, I hope people remember that you hap happy to
do it. You did serve as a city council member,
You were chief of staff, council aid, a state legislator.
You held senior roles within community a city administration. You
obviously have a connection of familiarity with the system, so
people can't call you inexperience, Lakita, Let's jump right to
police chief THREESA Thigi. She was put on administrative leave,
(00:59):
and I guess according to her lawyers, no reason whatsoever
was cited. They did not cite some sort of you know,
problem with her work experience. How she It's just it's
a big mystery. And her lawyer was out yesterday saying
that she can only be dismissed for costs because she's
been an employee for more than six months, so the
city charter prevents her from being let go. But I
(01:21):
don't know what her status is, whether she's been fired
or merely placing your own administrative leave crosses that barrier.
But this all seems to be very politically motivated as
we fast approached the November election day. What's your take
on this, Lakita Cole.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I definitely agree with that, And it's ridiculous because just
a month ago they, the city manager and the mayor
was just praising her. So you know, a month later,
you're making her escapegoat, and you know, just the way
they're doing things is just chaotic, and it just shows
you that there's no real vision down there. There's no
you know, lack there's a lack of urgency of what
(01:58):
to do. And you know, you know, you can't sem
out fire her because there is violence. There's no police
chief in this country can guarantee you that there's not
going to be violent, right, you know, And and it's
just it just tells you that there's so much dysfunction
going on down there. I mean, look what they did
with the fire chief. They're gonna have to back cut
(02:19):
on that. It's just it's just totally dysfunction and chaotic.
It just shows you that this, you know, the mayor
and the city manager, it seems like they don't know
what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
I think you summed it up quite nicely. They're lakita.
I mean, this is almost a mirror image of what
they did to uh, to the to the fire chief.
I mean, he's one of his case wrongfully terminated. He's
waiting to get a big check written by the taxpayers
of the City of Cincinnati. It looks like check number
two exactly. Yeah, check number two is coming.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Our way exactly exactly. What's gonna happen with with the police.
With the police chief, I'm like getting together. I mean,
it's it's you got news conferences. Like I said, just
last month, you were praising her right job. So now
you put on you you call her back in, so
you changed her in front of all the police chiefs.
You know, this is just not the way you handle
(03:08):
things now.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
But the nature of the role as police chief or
fire chief as the case maybe, has changed dramatically since
Issue five passed. No longer do the members of the
unions of the police force choose their own police chief.
It's now in the hands of two people, the mayor
and the city manager. So they have a tremendous amount
of control and sway over the job because they're in
a position to fire someone. I guess they could make
(03:30):
up cause, but they could get easily rid of it.
So it's been suggested. I heard it from the FOP president.
I've heard it from others that she was following the
directive of aftab Purvol and the city manager. So she
did what they said, and in doing what they say
in terms of law enforcement, crime became a real problem.
(03:51):
So by following their directive she ends up without a job,
or at least on administrative leave. I'm not quite sure.
I mean, I think I smell a rat here Lakeiita Cole.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
I'm in total agreements with you, quite quick. A Ducts
is a duck, quite quack, and this is why it's
definitely impairedive for what you said at the beginning. We
have to change what's going on down there. Not only then,
I'm gonna tell you, you know, we definitely need to
get a recall, a ballot initiative, a recall for the mayor,
a valid initiative. And it also shows you that this
(04:24):
function of what when we passed that the only person
that can bring up the city manager for firing is
the mayor. I just don't think that that's will be
the way it should go. I think there needs to
be something where maybe the supermajority can bring up the
city mayor ser up as well. But they have this
in the hands of one person, and especially when that
(04:45):
person don't know what they're doing, and it's obvious because
look what happened, Look what's going on. I mean, never
in the mystery have I ever heard you had to
have eighteen thousand citizens from one neighborhood do a go
forward a ballot initiative on an issue that you passed
the council pass. I'll tell you that this council is
(05:06):
so dysfunctional.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Lakita, I can't believe. I'm so happy you brought that
up because I was clearly going to ask you about
Hyde Park, but also Bondhill. So I see your website
and I love the way you've outlined your platform. C
l E see Community Council reformed the oh oppose connected
communities zoning one size fits all. You are not entitled
to choose your own destiny any of the fifty two neighborhoods.
(05:30):
I thought that was offensive. Clearly, Hyde Park thought of defensive.
We don't have to get a ballot INITIATI on which
made have to have pro ball pull the plug on
the well connected development waiver a community to community connected communities.
Bondhill had a similar problem. I think every neighborhood should
be able to control their own destiny when it comes
to housing and development.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
I totally agree. Last Friday, you know I'm the vice
president of Bondham Community Council. Last Friday I spent my
Friday evenings with the community count with our community trying
to come up with some type of way that we
can work through the of the day break issue and
get a benefit of agreement or something we can actually
developer try to sell back. I mean, we should not
(06:11):
be having him to spend on our Friday evenings doing
this because of this city council and its administration just
will not listen. Right, they are so dysfunctional, but yet
they seem to think they know what's going on, and
they do not. They are so disconnected. I wish I
had a D in my name so I can say disconnected.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Cracking me up, Lakita. All right, so we have a
crime problem. Obviously, I suppose if you were in charge,
would you have accepted all of that? I wan underscore
this word free offer of assistance from governor to Wine.
He offered Ohio State Police, Ohio State But you police
to work every day of the month. Mayor, I have
(06:52):
to have provo. At first only took two days and
now he's up to total of four days. Crime is
a twenty four to seven all month long problem, Lakida,
What would you recommend her? If you were in his position,
would you have taken all the relief that the Wine
was offering?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
You know, no, Because I'm gonna be honest with you,
I'm fearful that they would be you know, we would
be over police and they don't know our community. However,
what I would do, what I would make sure that
we have what we had before under the one of
the police sheets. We had those pockets of like community
area policing, We had citizens on patrol, we had our
(07:27):
community leaders out there in those pockets where they were
the crime was very high and up and that therefore
people can pay attention what's going on. I don't believe
that you make this school also the escapegoat about what's
going on down up Found Square. What you do is
is when I was in school, we had those Metro
buses diverted from away from downtown. In fact, what they
did is they brought the kids directly to the schools.
(07:50):
That's what they need. That's what needs to happen. You
need to work with the Metro and figure out a
way having those kids go directly to the schools and
not in diverted away from downtown. Never in my history
of ever sing Swat having to patrol Feutain Square, Swat
patrolling Felton Square. That is disfunctional at its highest level.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
I understand and obviously we have a growing problem with
young people in society, and I personally. Look, Kitty, you
can disagree with me if you want, that's fine. I
believe it's the consequence of the breakdown of the nuclear family.
I know, I don't know how you grow up. But
I had a curfew in the house. And if I
wasn't home by curfew and I didn't call ahead of
time saying I needed some extra time, I was in
(08:30):
for a world of hurt. My parents would be sitting
there waiting for me to walk in the front door.
So I wasn't able to run a muck. Now, if
we could, if if government could change the reality of
what's going on in any given household, fine, but you can't.
A teacher can't change the life that that child has
grown up with. As much as we wanted, they're overwhelmed
with a challenge. So I know you've you've got a
(08:52):
like reaching out ideas about listening to parents and talking
directly with youth. How come might we use that concept
to change what's going on with our young people?
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Lakita Sure, yeah, So I have been to out there
talking with the young people. I spend some time. But
the again, I spend some time with Woodward, and many
of those kids are saying they really just want an
opportunity more than just fast foods. And they also want
a place to go our recreation center. Because I said,
well what about our recreation centers. They don't feel like
they're inviting and the opening to them. Many of them
saying that they go in, they can't come back out.
(09:22):
They go in and they leave, they can't come back.
If they go to get something to eat, they can't
come back in. It's just not an open and welcoming
environment for them. So we have to make sure that
if we have these recreation centers in our communities, they
open to them, to have somewhere for them to go.
You're absolutely right. We can't police somebody inside their home.
But we can't do is demand some opportunities for these
(09:44):
young people. But demand, for example, you have the trades,
you have apprenticeships. These young kids are looking for an opportunity.
They don't want to just hang out. They don't want
to just have a fast food restaurant. They want more.
They want a career path and that's what we need
to have. We need to bring back as I keep CCY,
and bring it in house, yes, and not have it
out outside house. To have it in house well, we
(10:05):
actually can control the milestones and making sure that it's
doing what it's supposed to do and if not, then
we change courses.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Trades are a great option for literally anybody. You can
earn what you learn, and artificial intelligence cannot take away
a plumber's employment or electricians for that. For that example,
see Community council reform, OH appose Connected Communities, zoning, l
listen to citizens in youth e expand council transparency. Lakitacole
(10:33):
dot com. Read about her platform, learn about her and
it's open voting. You can go ahead and vote for
Lakita if you like Lakida, best of luck, vote for Cole.
Go to the polls, vote for col I. Love it.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Very nice conversation, say vote Look, look both smarter, vote
for Charter.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
There you go, and you got Steve good in the
midst too. We're all big fans of Steve Gooden as well.
Good luck, Lakita, Best of luck if you get elected,
bring about some pop that have changed for the city
that we all love.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
I will thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
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