Linda Matthews for City Council

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A six here at fifty five kr CD talk station
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aviation expert Jay Rattle. I've got some great stuff talk
about with Jay, and I am pleased to welcome back
to the fifty five KRC Morning Show and initial congratulations
Linda Matthews who's running for Cincinni City Council and score
the all important Republican endorsement. Lynda Matthews, Welcome to the

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morning show. It's great to have you on.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
Thank you, Brian, good morning. I'm glad to be here.
Thank you for having me on your show.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
I am glad that you are on the ballot and
that we have a choice. I mean, I wish I
could vote in the election. I certainly would cast the
vote in favor of you. Lynda Matthews. You are from
North Avendue Dale, and according to your op ed piece
and the other information I've read, you've served on the
High GOP Central Committee, which is awesome. You're an owner
of a business, the Millennium Group two whizes in parmaculture, agriculture,

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energy efficiency, and you also served as president of the
North Avondale Neighborhood Association as well as a Central State
University trustee. Well, that's an impressive background. Lenda Matthews. What's
driving you? What is your motivation to run for Cincinnati
City Council. Let's start there.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
Well, I'm running for city council because there's nine Democrats
on there with a Democratic mayor, and this decisions that
they're making is costing the public. It's costing the taxpayers,
and I want to run to represent the people and
do a better job than what they're doing right now.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
Better job, I hope.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
In terms of crime, which was the subject matter of
your op ed piece, you actually went on a ride
along with the CINCINNTI Police Department. That's something Christopher Smilman
is constantly harping on. The mayor needs to do ride alongs.
The collective Sincena City Council members all need to do
ride alongs and they might get a better sense of
the reality of crime in the city. What was your
experience when you did the Friday night ride along?

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Well, Brian, I rode along with District three and District four.
One thing that I realized and I found out the
Cincinnati Police Department is doing an outstanding job. You know,
they put their lives on the line every day to
keep us safe. And so kudos to the Cincinnati Police Department.
And they are some phenomenal men and women, and they

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there's a lot of things that they need, and as
they're Cincinnati City Council women, I'm gonna make sure that
they get it. They're just doing an outstanding job and
keeping our city safe well even though there's stretch very thin,
but they're still out there doing their jobs and I'm
very proud of them well.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
And I know part of your off ed piece address
the reality that Governor de Wine Columbus basically is offering
a variety of different resources. Obviously, we're about two hundred
officers short of the what we needed is twelve hundred
officer contingent. We're at like nine hundred and four. They're
expecting by calendar year I think it was twenty twenty eight.
Under the current budget, we're going to be down to

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nine hundred and twenty three officers, even though we have
more recruit class lined up and they're going to engage
in lateral hires. So we're still going in the opposite direction, Linda,
it seems really scary, but governed of wines offering resources,
and yet the mayor hasn't taken them up on all
of it.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
Not all, not on all of it. You know, he
offered them the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections, the
Ohio Department of Youth Services, the Ohio Department, the Ohio
Investigative Unit. The governor has offered a great some great
services that Cincinnati needs to the leadership and administration needs

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to work with the governor now. The Ohio Department of
Rehabilitation and Corrections, they provide support to Cincinnati by helping
to find you know, probation area people who are on
probation and paroles who are in validation of their post
release control agreement and so right now and then we

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also have the Adult Parole Authority as well. And under
the Adult Parole Authority, you know, we have two people
out here right now that have uh you know, they
can't find them as far as violating their probation. We
have Tremble, who was who murdered someone. And we also

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have Burning Hindline, who is a rapist and they can't
find them. And one was released in May and one's
you know, involuntary manslaughter. So we need to Adult Parole
Authority to help with Cincinnati. Considering the judges are trying

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to do this new program by shutting down all the
closing all the substations, and you know we can't. I'm
so against that, you know, closing down our substations. We
have three thousand people in the county that are on
probation with misdemeanors and selamies, and Hamilton County needs helped

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supervise in these felony probation areas and paroles and people
are on probation. So I don't understand their their their
thought processing this, but it's it's crazy. Well I saw
to accept all these services.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
Yeah, I agree, any It's it's like the energy approach,
you know, everything all and above. Let's look at everything.
If there's other areas that we can get some assistance
from from Columbus and we should take it. I agree
with you completely and remind my listeners what these substations do.
Because I saw Judge Wendy Cross send on an email
the Common Police judges for a secret meeting to end

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these probation stations. Why would they disband them? But let's
start with what those substations actually accomplish.

Speaker 3 (05:59):
Well, from what I understand, they monitor people who are
on probation and paroles, and they work with law enforcedforcement
or fescinety Police Department, where the FOP have said that
they want to continue to work with these these substations
because they help them in investigations and things like that.

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So they are a very vital part and keeping our
community safe. So I don't understand it. I really don't.
I don't understand giving up parole a candy bar to
do well, you know, to change his behavior. I just
think it's absolutely ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
I saw that list of like treats that they hand
out for people on parole who don't commit crimes. I
find the whole concept defensive. Linda Matthews, we can agree
on that one all day long. What we need is
a full CONTINUSI of police officers. Obviously, we have a
finite number of dollars that need to be budgeted. I
know this current mayor is all about other different policies,
but if you're on council, I presume you would prioritize

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law enforcement over all of the other things on people's
lists that they want to accomplish.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
That's right, because safety is capital. When you have a
safe city, it brings people that want to come in
and open up their businesses, tourism, and with the businesses,
it creates jobs. But if you don't have a safe environment,
businesses are going to close and tourism is going to stop.

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And these businesses that are left, you know, are losing
money in their investment. So we have to keep safety
as priority number.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
One, Priority number one. That makes so much sense London.
Nobody can argue with that, in spite of what they
want to believe. Now, I guess you're so great on
law enforcement. Check you've satisfied all my listeners in that regard. Now,
in terms of local direction, obviously the city council saw
it had a deer in the headlights moment. The other
day the ballot initiative was circulated. It's on the ballot,

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or at least it was. They voted at least going
to solidify the vote today to repeal these variants that
they granted to Hyde Park's well connected developer. In spite
of the fact that folks in Hyde Park didn't want
that kind of development, so they've unrung that bell. I
think they've viewed it as a political liability to ignore
the constituents. But they also have a problem with connected Communities,
which was rolled out over every neighborhood, and I know

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some of the neighborhoods didn't agree with that particular rollout.
Where are you, Lynda Matthews Canada for since a city
council insofar as neighborhood control over local development.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
Well, we have fifty we have fifty two unique communities,
and every community deserves to have to say and what's
being developed in their communities. I say, I would vote
to repel connected communities. So that's just how I feel
about that. We need to repel it and go back

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to the drawing board and come up with something else.
Because when you're doing development in these communities, to the
developer needs to deal with the community first before you
bring it to the agenda of city council. That's where
the problem was.

Speaker 1 (09:10):
That just makes too much sense. You know, you can't
run on that platform.

Speaker 3 (09:15):
No, no, And so I did go down to City
Hall and told them, you know, hey, with the Budget
and Finance Committee, and I just basically told them, you know,
hopefully they've learned their lesson because now everybody is looking
at them and what's going on down in city Hall,

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and that the citizens are not happy with all nine
of those people on city Council. So they're looking and
they're paying attention, and hopefully they will learn from uh
this project in Hyde Park Square.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
And Bondhill too. The bond Hill folks got got ignored
as well. So we can't we can't just this just
the Hyde parkation is a city wide reality.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
It's not.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
Yeah, and you know, also Linda Matthews there, but for
the grace of God, go on. There's some other neighborhood
who they have who hasn't had any attention paid to it.
Hyde Park is an illustration of what could happen. You
got to be active, You got to raise your voice,
and you need to engage, and you need to go
a different direction as far as counsel, and I think
Linda Matthews is an ideal choice in that regard. Four
hundred million dollars behind in road repairs. This problem did

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not happen overnight. Linda, road repairs, Where is that in
your list of priorities?

Speaker 3 (10:32):
Look, we need to We have potholes that will lift
your car off the street. All you have to do
is go up Sunset going up to Pricefield, right and
that would tell you the story right there. I mean,
I don't know about their deferred maintenance, but we need
these potholes filled. It's just it's just crazy. Even in

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my ride along with our police department, we went on
versus streets that was just horror and it's like, how
can you not I know, the people who are taxpayers
are reporting these things to Cincinnati. I don't understand why
they're not killing these potholes. I mean, they would literally
lift your car up off the streets. Some of them
are so big they are ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
I've experienced that.

Speaker 3 (11:18):
You know, it's just ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
Thank you for.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
Mentioning such, said Linda. I think that road, that road
is the poster child for the problems in the city,
says Roads.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
Okay, so I.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
Won't even bother bringing up the bother bringing up the
street car Linda Matthews. Linda Matthews, I would like to
hope you have a website. I know my listeners might
want to help you out financially. They might want to
get t shirts, yard signs, might want to go door
knocking for your campaign. That did again, you did get
the endorsement of the Republican Party. Did I have to
ask you this? Did you get the the FOP endorsement

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as well, Linda?

Speaker 3 (11:51):
I did. I did get the FOP endorsement as well
as the GOP, the Hamilton County Republican Party. So I'm
happy about that. And if somebody, if anyone would like
to help me our donations work on my campaign, they
can visit my website at Votelyndamatthews dot com.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
Vote Linda Matthews dot com. And I expect I think
the announcement is going to come out today. Hopefully you'll
get the Fire Department Union endorsement as well.

Speaker 3 (12:20):
Yes, hopefully, so you deserve it.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
You deserve it.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
Lynda Matthews.

Speaker 2 (12:24):
You've got a space here in the fifty five Carssey
Morning Show my listeners, and I wish you all the
best and really hope this is residents of the City
of Cincinnati choose a different direction. Why not try it?
We know what doesn't work. Let's try a new path,
Linda Matthews, is an excellent idea. Thank you, Linda for
the time you spent my listeners and me on the program.
I'll look forward to talking with you again real soon,
and I wish you all the best as we fast

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approach November.

Speaker 3 (12:47):
Thank you, Brian, looked good talking.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
To you always a pleasure.

Speaker 2 (12:50):
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