Todd Zinser - Citizen Watchdog

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Do anything Trump does.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
I think he knows what we are doing every day, what
we have to you know. Fifty five KRCD Talk Station

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seven oh six I fifty five Kercite talk Station, A
very Happy Friday slash Valentine'sdad. Everybody. Brian Thomas always pleased
to look across the studio table here and see Todd Zends,
their former inspector general. He knows where the low hanging
fruit is as well. Todd Senzer, welcome back, man. It's
great to have you in studio. You're brilliant, and you're
very informative, and you benefit every one of my listeners

(00:46):
when you show up. That means a lot to me.
Let's before we guy dive into and you can explain
what Rising fifteen is and we'll deal with some local
shenanigans and other things. We're just having this off air
conversation about the Democrats just screaming their head off about
the revelation of all this fraud, wasting abuse and the

(01:07):
efforts to stop it. You know, Billionaire Elon Musk. Billionaire
Elon Musk. It's like, wait a second, you're defending the
literally indefensible in saying that these cuts shouldn't be made.
I mean, they are showing that it's the low hanging fruit,
the dumb, the stupid, the ridiculous, the waste. And I

(01:28):
read this, the editorial board point this, so you want
proof of government fraud. I had to read it because
all of this information, all of the areas of fraud,
wasting abuse, previously identified under the Biden administration's people two
hundred and thirty three to five hundred and twenty one

(01:48):
billion annually in fraud from the Government Accountability Office last year,
and then it just goes on and on and on.
People in the Biden administration identified this, and so that
Elon Musk is now and Donald Trump are now doing
something about previously identified areas of fraud wasted abuse, and
now they're screaming about it as if it isn't real.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
Right. The interesting thing, Brian, is that the GAO, the
Government Accountability Office, is actually an arm of Congress. So
it's their own auditor. It's Congress's own auditor that's coming
up with this. So members of Congress should not be
complaining about what they're finding. You would think that.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
That Elon Musk is coming in and threatening to molest
their children or something. I don't know how to frame it,
but I just stand in awe and aghast, in a
state of disbelief over the loud, screaming, angry cries of
these elected officials, and I think, wait a second, you
were elected. You have constituents. These constituents presumably participated in

(02:56):
work ergo, paid into the federal government via the income
tax system and most notably, separate line item Social Security system,
thinking at some point that they were going to reap
the benefits of getting a Social Security check. Elon Musk
comes out and says, look, dead people are getting checks.
People that aren't entitled to get Social Security checks are
getting your money. CBOs identified for years the Social Security

(03:19):
is painfully underwater, so everybody's at risk of not even
getting it. And that's if it's a well oiled, non
corrupt machine. But in response to him pointing this out,
they scream and try about how he's taking your Social
Security benefits away. How do they answer to their own
constituents with something.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
Like that, Well, unfortunately, I think the constituents that they're
worried about are the constituents that support them and make
the most noise about Trump or not having enough money
to do certain things that those are the people they're
listening to. They're listening to the people that have been
feeding off the federal government for all these years.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
Okay, In the follow up question, which I know the
answer to because I asked it before we started, are
there that many people out there getting this money in
a form of like recipients of no into the non
government organizations or feeding at the trough of some ridiculous
program paid for by the American taxpayer.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yes, there's there. There are those people, and there are
also people like members of the military industrial complex, all
of these iron triangles that orbit the federal government. You've
got that issue too, But you know that's alive and well.
Here in Cincinnati there are I don't know, forty or
fifty different groups that the city funds on an annual

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basis with you know, fifty thousand here, two hundred thousand there,
and it's I mean, there's a name for it, but
it's it is.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
Yeah. You can't stay it on the air, though, because
that's just the non compliant.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
But that's the way the system is right now, Charlie Foxtrot,
not only in the United States but here locally as well.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
But just using springing from your the framing of that,
and I'm not disagreeing with your analysis or assessment of that.
The City of Cincinnati doles out these dollars, Is that
coming from the city's general fund, which is fueled by
Cincinnatians and the the the income tax that they pay
into the general fund.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
Yeah, it's all coming out of there. It's all coming
out of the city's general fund.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
So it's a city version of what the federal government
is doing exactly. This problem is beyond systemic.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
Yes, it is.

Speaker 3 (05:29):
It is.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
You can feel free to make me better, Todd, I
make me feel better about this. You're not.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
It is baked in, that's for sure.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
It's very What do you think the landscape of the
economy would look like if the plug just got pulled
on all this extraneous and I will use the word
crap because that's exactly the way I feel about it.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
Well, not only do you have to stop these programs,
but you have to stop you have to stop funding
them through taxes. If we didn't have all these programs,
we wouldn't be paying all these taxes and the economy
would The economy would have the money instead of the
federal government or the state.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
Government fueling industry and business and goods and services that
the economy thrives on because people actually want what they're
providing exactly.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
It's more the free market system that's been corrupted.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
You know, it breaks my heart to say this, but
you know, looking at this landscape and the just absolute
opposition to curbing this fraud, waste and abuse, and the
size of the national deficit and the debt service we're
paying on it, you know deep down that it's going
to require a collapse of the fiat currency in order
to write the ship and to end this from happening,

(06:40):
which basically is going to end the fiat currency. And
I don't know how we're going to be able to
survive as a nation without the fiat currency. I mean, it's.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
We're quickly racing to the bottom. We're going to crash
here if these efforts of those and the president aren't successful.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
Well, you know, my mom will make this comment from
time to time. God bless you, Mom. You know, I
love you to death. Eighty five years old, and she's like,
basically of the mindset, and so many people are, well,
it looks like that's something bad's gonna happen, but least
I won't be around when it does. Is that kind
of the mindset of our elected officials. I mean, somebody
like Nancy Pelosi's about one hundred and sixty five years

(07:18):
old anyway, or Mitch McConnell, they're gonna die before it
hits the fans. So they don't have any feel feeling
like they have any obligation to do anything to write
the ship.

Speaker 3 (07:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
Well, these some of these members who are senior, like
Mitch McConnell and Nancy Pelosi, they just can't give up power.
And that's that's what that's what it's all about. These
these elected officials want to retain their their power.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
Is that's like a DSM five diagnosable illness.

Speaker 1 (07:44):
I would agree with you.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
I mean, you're eighty five years old now. Not to
use my mom's age, I don't know how old Mitch
McConnell is, but you know, let's face, he's old.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
He's close.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
Don't you think with the millions and millions of millions
of dollars in value that you are worth literally sitting
on cash, sitting on home property, you got it all made.
You only have a few more years in the normal lifespan.
Why don't you just drop it and go and enjoy yourself,
play golf, or play with your grandkids or great grandkids,
or something like, why do you need to keep this office? Yeah,

(08:14):
it's kind of sad, isn't It's it's pathetically sad. It's embarrassing.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
Well, the voters have something to do with that also.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
Well, no, I know it's easy to say that out
loud when we have to, you know, sort of look
at the mirror and ourselves and decide. Wait a minute, jeez,
that's right. I did vote to keep that guy in office,
right right. Paint a pretty dreary picture here this morning,
but it's reality. Light has to be shed on it.
I thank god that Elon Musk at least has the

(08:43):
ability to shed light on it. I'm sorry, billionaire Elon Musk.
God remember to put that in there. From now and
apparently the rules have been issued so we can sort
of semi wage to the class warfare while the guy
who doesn't even own a big house or even stuff
and things and is willing to do all of this
work and identify fraud wasting to be for free doing

(09:03):
good things because he wants America to survive. Go ahead,
scream about him evil unelected official doctor Fauci seven fifteen
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Speaker 2 (11:45):
Nineteen fifty five Krcity Talk Station by Thomas Always please
talk Todds in their former Inspector General. He's got his
fingers on the pulse of all the crazy stuff that's
going on in the world. And let us pivot over
to local crazy, moving away from federal level. You kind
of alluded to it earlier. We talked about Cincinnati doling
out money to NGOs, and you know all the organizations

(12:07):
that are supported by that, which are the ones that
screaming yell every time someone tries to fare it out. Fraud,
waste and abuse. But rising fifteen. Remind my listeners about
this because I seem to recall reading an article or
talking about a little bit in the morning show maybe
when you were here. This is about the fifteen quote
unquote underserved neighborhoods within the City of Cincinnati.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
Yes, there are three members of city Council who have
identified fifteen neighborhoods that have been underserved. It's not clear
whether that's historically or current or both. And they entered
a motion back in October of twenty three to set

(12:48):
up two special funds for these neighborhoods. And remember that
in October of twenty three is when we were campaigning
for and against the sale of the railway.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
Yeah, uh huh.

Speaker 1 (13:01):
This is all geared towards letting constituents know that they're
going to get a piece of the railway money. So
this motion set up a special two special funds for
these neighborhoods. What they called a railroad fund and what
they called an Economic development fund. And the idea back
then as it is now, is to take ten percent

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of the proceeds from the railway sale that the city
is given every year by the Railway Trust Board and
put it into this railroad fund and let that accumulate.
And it also establishes a seven member advisory board that
basically controls that money.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
So we have an advisory board that controls the railroad money,
and they take the interest generated off the principle, ten
percent of which goes into a separate fund which is
managed and organized by a completely separate entity. Let me
guess who are appointed by the mayor.

Speaker 1 (14:00):
Yeah, it's.

Speaker 2 (14:03):
Yes, yes, huh so Okay, now wait, all right, let's
follow the money here. Okay, let's just say that happens.
I guess. Definitionly speaking, do we even know what underserved?

Speaker 3 (14:15):
Is no?

Speaker 1 (14:16):
And that's one of the problems these fifteen neighborhoods. The
motion has an exhibit attached that they say is the
demographic and socioeconomic data that they use to identify these
fifteen neighborhoods. That exhibit wasn't attached to the motion when
they filed it with When they filed it with the

(14:37):
council last week, I had to go down to the
clerk's office to get a copy of the exhibit. It's
basically one page, and the socioeconomic and demographic data includes
the population of the neighborhood, the racial makeup of the neighborhood,
and the median income of the neighborhood. That's it. Nothing

(15:00):
about unemployment levels, nothing about education levels, nothing about crime,
nothing about blight. Just race and income.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
That's Todd founding his hand in emphasis about what he's
talking about. I had a listener complaining to me because
when I moved my boom mic, it's a little squeak
to it. He said, it drives me crazy. So I've
been trying never to touch my mic. I just want
to let him specifically know it was you being making
a strong point. I don't have a problem with the Todd,
trust me. I just want to let listeners know that
I was aware of it. But movie back, Okay, fine,

(15:34):
you got you've identified these neighborhoods. Let's just say and
we say find that the demographic and and and identified information.
And we haven't talked about the source of who gathered that.
I don't know where that came from. Was it identified
on the document? So we have no idea who compiled it.
How will these funds be used to transform and underserved

(15:54):
neighborhood into a served neighborhood.

Speaker 1 (15:58):
Well, that's that's to be seen. This advisory group that
the Emotion would set up, I guess is supposed to
come up with a plan for spending this money.

Speaker 2 (16:08):
But is the argument Now, Let's let's move over to
the foundation for the sale of the railroad, which is
to use the interest generated by the principle to work
on previously existing projects.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
Right, and a.

Speaker 2 (16:24):
Previously just in project in this particular case is the
mere existence of a neighborhood that they have called underserved.

Speaker 1 (16:31):
Well, that's hard to say, because what the what the
emotion also does, or what they try to do, is
is swap money. In fact, yeah, the vice mayor actually
use that term a money swap, where oh, they're not
going to use railway money, They're gonna take an equivalent
amount of the railway money out of the general General

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Fund and put it in it in their special railroad.

Speaker 2 (16:55):
Fund, demonstrating as I always like to demonstrate the fungibility
of money. Oh you're not kidding and switch, We're only
gonna use for existing infrastructure. So it's okay to sell
the railroad. It'll free up all these funds. We can
get some projects done, okay, and then that will free
up money that should have come from the general General
Fund and allow it to be used for other brand
new stuff and things.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
Right well, we said, after the sale was approved by
the voters, we made several recommendations on how to strengthen oversight,
and one of them was to establish a floor, a
spending floor that you're going to spend X number of
dollars on infrastructure, and then whatever comes in from the

(17:34):
railway goes on top of that. That's how we're going
to be spending more on infrastructure. Instead, they want to
take the existing level of funding, take that away from
infrastructure and use it for all these other things, new
stuff and things, not even infrastructure things.

Speaker 2 (17:50):
I know, yeah, you know, and everybody knows which road
is floating around the back of my mind. Sunset, which
is still like this landmark looks like a war zone
from Ukraine or Gaza Strip.

Speaker 1 (18:01):
I went down there yesterday, Brian.

Speaker 2 (18:02):
It's even more so, I know, listen, that's why it's
my favorite illustration.

Speaker 1 (18:06):
It's got a lot of potholes.

Speaker 2 (18:08):
That's the way I take when I go over to
like Price sal Chili for listener lunch, or you know,
maybe Chandlers over on the west side, and it's like God,
bless it, I should come up with an alternative route
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Speaker 2 (21:05):
Seven fifty five KRCIT the talk station. Brian Thomas with
former Inspector General Todd Zenzer in studio. We're trying to
unpack this rising fifteen and uh Shenanigan's declaration, at least
from my perspective, certainly, just Trekker's perspective. All right, Todd,
real quick, care, let's sum it up. They take ten
percent of the U of the interest earned off the

(21:25):
railroad investment they put into a separate account. They have
a new independent seven member board that is going to
allocate that money. And really big question mark how long
it's going to be in that fund. I guess it's
an annual expenditure of ten percent. Every year, ten percent
of the railroad money goes into this fund.

Speaker 1 (21:44):
That's my understanding.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
Okay, And whoever these members are, we don't know. They're
not elected officials, are they They're huh, Well, let's just
scream that out loud over and over again. So seven
unelected officials are going to have complete control and say
over how this money gets allocated or spent on any
given project in these fifteen quote unquote underserved communities.

Speaker 1 (22:07):
Well, technically they're going to make a recommendation to council.
But if the council sets up this advisory board to
tell them, you know, how to robber sent exactly.

Speaker 2 (22:17):
Now, you were in council on a Wednesday speaking on
an opposition against this. Yes, I was what arguments did
you make to them and how were your arguments received?

Speaker 1 (22:25):
Well, the thing about claiming your two minutes to the
City Council is they don't respond to you.

Speaker 2 (22:30):
They really sit there and play on their phones.

Speaker 1 (22:32):
Yes, so I made four points and then I asked
that they withdraw the motion. The first one I said
is that this thing is drenched in politics. It came
about during the campaign regarding the railway sale. It was
I said, it was political. Then it was drenched in politics.

Speaker 2 (22:52):
Now WCPO referred to it as reparations. Yes they did.
I mean that was in their reporting on it.

Speaker 1 (22:57):
That was back in October twenty three. Yes, us, and
if you read if you read the motion, you'll get
an understanding of why they said that.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
All right, Well, did your I mean, I know you
see your comments are ignored like most people, but generally speaking,
I mean, is there concern among council members about going
forward and moving forward with this, about the the repercussions
that they might get.

Speaker 1 (23:18):
Well, I did send an email to the mayor and
the council members and the city manager with these points,
and I got one response from a council member, Jeffries,
and he pretty much agrees with us with with my concerns.
So that was one member that I got some feedback from,

(23:38):
But I haven't heard anything from any of the other members.

Speaker 2 (23:42):
What of the railroad Board don't they have say over this?

Speaker 1 (23:47):
Well, that is a great that is a great question,
Brian and I. Actually the railway Board met this past
week also, They met on Tuesday afternoon, and I went
there to make a couple of points about a different issue.
You and I thought the meeting was encouraging. I didn't.
They are putting up a new website where they are

(24:08):
going to require information from the city about what projects
are underway, how much money is being used, and what
the status of those projects are. That's news to me
because during the campaign I got the impression that they
really weren't going to be too involved in how the
money was spent. So from my perspective anyway, that was
a positive development.

Speaker 2 (24:29):
Absolutely, that's the kind of transparency we deserve. Absolutely, if
you want to know where the money's being spent, they
will let you know. It's right there on the site.
I think that's an absolutely fabulous idea, and I'm actually
shocked that it's happening.

Speaker 1 (24:41):
I was very encouraged by it.

Speaker 2 (24:44):
They have a fiduciary obligation to monitor those dollars.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
Well, that's my argument. I mean, I used the story
about when I was at the Transportation Inspector General's office,
we had the Federal Transit Administration under our purview, and
my boss used to call them a religious organization because
they would throw billions of dollars out the door and
just pray that it was properly used. That's not the

(25:08):
way to go. If you're giving money out, you did
you make sure that it is used for the purpose
that you that you dispersed it.

Speaker 2 (25:15):
So, going back to our conversation at the outset of
the program, literally every government government entity is doing this
kind of thing, Yes, throwing money out the door and
never paying attention to see what it's done out in
the world, how much people are making off of the allocation,
who is benefiting from it, or more fundamentally, if that
allocation if deemed Appropriate's why the money went out the door.

(25:37):
Actually does anything.

Speaker 1 (25:40):
Right well, some agencies that give out money grant make
grants and things like that. Some do a better job
at overseeing what happens than others, but they got a
long way to go.

Speaker 2 (25:50):
Well, Brent Toddsen's er back, He's in studio for the
full hour. This is just very informative Todd, and I
can't thank you enough for you know, for showing up
at these meetings on behalf of the taxpayers, for you
providing your useful insight and giving them i think a
more informed opinion about the legality of this, how it's

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gonna work, and bringing to their attention that this could
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Speaker 2 (28:34):
Seven forty one Here fifty five KRC the talk station,
Happy Friday, Happy Valentine's Day, and an enlightening morning show.
Since Todd Zinzers and Studio Form Inspector General telling us
all about this rising fifteen and it is a motion,
it has not been passed yet, correct, That's correct, all right,
So I'm not going to restate what the parameters are

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for this. Bottom line is railroad money going into a
separate fund to be allocated among fifteen communities. Now, I
know you've done a couple of podcasts on this on YouTube.
You have a YouTube channel which is called citizens Watch
Citizen Watchdog with Todd Zenzer. Yes, and you've done two
full programs on this alone.

Speaker 1 (29:16):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
Now, obviously you filled up a lot of time on
your your program on YouTube again, Citizen Watchdog with Todd Zenzer.
You mentioned to me off air something that has passed,
which is the City in City on Track Plan, the
City on Track Plan. Now doesn't that already deal with

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the allocation of railroad fund money.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
Yes, that was the whole point of the plan.

Speaker 2 (29:42):
So this would interfere with a previously passed proposal for
spending the money.

Speaker 1 (29:48):
Yes, I think it really confuses things. Remember that the
campaign to sell the railway started with this idea that
there's four hundred million dollars of deferred mateents that the
city is grappling with, and the plan was to sell
the railway and start attacking that deferred maintenance. So they

(30:08):
came up with a City on Track plan, and it
broke it down into different areas parks and recreation, roads
and bridges, you know, et cetera, and then it distributed
those funds across those subjects and across the neighborhoods where
deferred maintenance has been identified. I don't know why they

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just don't look at that plan and see what projects
exist within those fifteen neighborhoods and make those a priority.

Speaker 2 (30:37):
I think I suspect the reason why. It's because fixing
a road in a neighborhood, or fixing an existing piece
of infrastructure that they own and therefore have an obligation
to maintain, does not change anything. On that slip that
was not posted with this recent motion, you identifying neighborhoods

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with income disparities. That's right, because a fixed road does
not change the income disparity.

Speaker 1 (31:04):
Right. What I liked working for the Transportation Department is
that roads and bridges and infrastructure should not be political.
It's all they own. It's all about public safety and
economic development and things like that. That's why you need infrastructure.

Speaker 2 (31:22):
Well, and I also retract part of my conclusion on
that because maybe I pin with a bit of a
broad brush because these so broken windows that you know,
if you have a neighborhood a bunch of broken windows,
people think it's all My god, is a terrible neighborhood,
and they don't want to invest in it. They don't want
to move into it. Fix the windows, fix the streets,
fix the roads, and it may inject much needed capital,
jobs and possibilities for people that are there.

Speaker 3 (31:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (31:43):
Well, the people in a neighborhood support the whole broken
windows thing, at least in many of the neighborhoods. Yeah,
I would say, And why wouldn't you? Absolutely?

Speaker 2 (31:50):
I mean, if it reduces crime and statistically it's proven
to do that, then yes, embrace it. It's like I
want police in my neighborhood because it is. Uh, well,
I did into bad guys hanging out in the corner
and selling drugs. Yes, absolutely, Wow, I'll remind my listeners
Citizen Watchdog with Todd Zenzer. Just pop it into your

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search engine and YouTube or pop out of the YouTube
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and regularly watch it because he's Todd has got brilliance
and beyond just this one topic, which we will continue
to dive on into identifying some of the other areas
that we need to watch out or in the next segment,
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Speaker 2 (34:46):
If you about KRCDE Talks station. Very happy Friday to you,
and at this time we're going to turn our attention
briefly away from Todd Zenzer and talk to Officer Lisa
Big with the Sinsint Police Department Crime Stoppers. Lisa, Happy
Friday and happy Valentine, and who are we looking for?

Speaker 6 (35:04):
Good morning, We are looking for Curtis Allen. He's wanted
for domestic violence. Curtis Allen. I know, I know you
hate that. He's a black veil. He's fifty three years old,
he's five foot seven, one hundred and eighty pounds. He
has a history aggravated burglary and other domestic violences, and
he frequents Saint Martin's Place in Cheviot.

Speaker 2 (35:27):
Man, just walk away, don't beat up on your spouse.

Speaker 1 (35:31):
Ah.

Speaker 2 (35:32):
Anyway, if we have information on where we can find
Curtis Allen, and please please drop a dime if you do,
who are gonna call Lisa Baker?

Speaker 6 (35:40):
Give Crime Stoppers a call at five one three three
five two thirty forty, or you can submit a tip
anonymously at Crime dash Stoppers dot u S.

Speaker 2 (35:50):
You'll be doing society a favor getting this guy locked up.
You will be eligible for a cash reward. You will
remain anonymous, underscoring that Lisa have a wonderful weekend. Thank
you very much for all that you and the police
department do. I hate domestic violence, folks, Todd, you know
child molester's number one. Then guys who beat up on
their wives?

Speaker 1 (36:08):
Yes, absolutely, goduckah.

Speaker 2 (36:12):
And you know I'm talking to you. You're out there listening.
You beat up your wife? Why do you do that?

Speaker 3 (36:21):
Anyway?

Speaker 2 (36:22):
Citizen Watchdog with Todd Zinzer on YouTube, Todd and pivotingel
back to what else anything else we need to know
by way of exclamation points on all the reasons why
this rising fifteen sounds so unbelievably right for corruption? If
I can just boil it down to that conclusion.

Speaker 1 (36:37):
Yeah, the this motion was put forward on the on
February five at the February fifth meeting, and during that meeting,
the Vice Mayor said the quiet part out loud. She
told the council we promised this during the campaign. Well,
she may have promised it to certain constituencies, but that

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wasn't the promise that all the voters received. All the
promise that we received is that this money would be
spent on existing infrastructure to attack the four hundred million
dollars worth of deferred maintenance.

Speaker 2 (37:12):
You don't know to whom this promise was made. It
was not a campaign out on the road campaign out
loud pledge that maybe Sharon Coolidge from the inquire could
have reported on or something like that. Well, yes, does
this sounds suspiciously like PG Sittenfeld, if you elect me,
or you give funds to me for my campaign, then
I will give you this this, this Rising fifteen program.

Speaker 3 (37:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (37:37):
Well, I would think that she made the promise to
the movers and shakers and those fifteen neighborhoods. But I
think it's probably narrowed down to even fewer neighborhoods in
the fifteen that they were making promises to. But we
don't really know exactly who, huh, But I think there
were individuals that were made promise.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
Like you'll be on the board if you if we
get this through, if you get me elected, we established
this Rising fifteen program, we're gonna let you control the money.

Speaker 1 (38:10):
Well, yeah, along those promises, along those lines.

Speaker 2 (38:13):
Absolutely, maybe someone in law enforcement could look into that,
because again I'm just thinking of PG sitting Feld, who
recently was in the news since you lost this appeal.

Speaker 1 (38:24):
You know, on PG. The thing that I've always wondered
is why were they doing business in a hotel room.

Speaker 2 (38:31):
Yeah, that's a red flag.

Speaker 1 (38:32):
That's absolutely a red flag.

Speaker 2 (38:34):
So host people, if your quote unquote doctor is scheduling
surgery at a motel six, then you've got a real
problem on your hands for that plastic surgery that you want. Yeah, Todd,
I'm not sure how to unpackage this any further than
we have unless there's other details that you want to
just put exclamation points on the subject matter.

Speaker 1 (38:52):
Well, again, I think people need to understand what the
statuses of these funds. The trust fund has actually grown
by almost one hundred million dollars.

Speaker 2 (39:03):
Well, the market's been doing really well. Yes, if it
hadn't grown by that much, then you have to worry
about being mismanaged.

Speaker 1 (39:09):
Right, So yeah, it's not that great of a return.
It's like five point five or something percent.

Speaker 2 (39:13):
So it's consistent with like S and P five hundred
kind of growth.

Speaker 1 (39:17):
Yes, And in September of twenty four, this is the
way the law is written. For some reason, the Trust
Fund Board decided to spend or send fifty six million
dollars to the city. But they get that on July
the first, and they get it in four tranches July

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every quarter. So my argument to the board was that
I hope they gauged the city's ability to spend that money,
so that if you give them twenty five percent of
that on July one, you need to find out on
October one, whether they've even used it, whether they've spent it,
because if they're not spending it, the trust fund should

(39:59):
keep it and let it earn more money.

Speaker 2 (40:01):
Amen.

Speaker 1 (40:02):
So, like I said at the meeting at the Railway
Trust Board, I was encouraged. I think I don't think
we're that far apart in terms of considering that.

Speaker 2 (40:13):
Well, if someone can ray if there is some legal
objection to this, you know, it's not consistent with the
nature of the fund, the purpose of the fund. It
would be a violation of our produciary duties to let
ten percent of this money come out and go really
anywhere other than existing infrastructure. They the board would be
the ones to raise that type of challenge if it

(40:34):
could be raised.

Speaker 1 (40:35):
Well, I wish they would, but it's really not clear
how directly involved they're going to get like that. I
think they're just want to turn on and off to
spicett of money and then disclose to the public of
what's happening with that money. I think they're going to
leave it up to other parties to really well.

Speaker 2 (40:51):
I would think that they have a larger role than
that in this entire equation.

Speaker 1 (40:55):
Todd would I would love that I recommended that they
appoint a compliance officer that looks at the board's compliance
as well as the city's compliance with the law. I
recommend that back in November of twenty three. I don't
think they're going to go that far, but that's what
I would do.

Speaker 2 (41:13):
I nominate former Inspector General Todd Senser for that position.
Anybody out there want to second that motion. Todd, thank
you so much for coming in studio. Had no idea
about this or the details of it. And you're the
one that's got the era, like I said, hand on
the pulse of what's going on in the city of Cincinnati.
And I can't thank you enough. And I know the
listeners appreciate what you're doing, and certainly I would like
to think the residents of the City of Cincinnati do

(41:34):
as well. We'll have you on back again real soon.
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