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Speaker 1 (00:12):
It's seven oh six. I think'bout cares do talk stays
named Brian Thomas. Always pleased to see in studio the
man who's keeping his eye on the shenanigans going on.
And there are so many shenanigans going on. I'm surprised
he's able to keep track of it. Todd Zenzer, former
US Inspector General. Now we have basically he's the inspector
General for Hamilton County and most notably City of Cincinnati.
(00:34):
Welcome back, Todd Zenzer. It's always great seeing you, brother.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Thank you, Brian. It's always good to be here.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
And he, of course is we Citizen Watchdog is what
we effectively call him. That's the name of his podcast,
Citizen Watchdog. You can find it, and we're gonna learn
about his latest podcast, probably going to blow your mind.
But this is gonna be This hour is gonna fly
by a noe time.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Todd. We've got so much to talk about. Really, I'd
dwelt a whole lot.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
I had Smith ament on for a volume two of
the Smith Event yesterday because of the equity whatever that
committee is that advanced the proposal to amend the zoning
laws in Hyde Park seven to two vote, and then yes,
of course, city council voted seven to two to alter
Hyde Park's zoning laws, zoning laws which the City of
(01:22):
Cincinnati imposed upon all the neighborhoods, the connected community zoning laws, right, okay,
So they took away every community's ability to control their
own destiny. And that wasn't even that long ago, was it?
Because you and I talked about it last June. Last June,
and then yesterday they undid their own blanket rule for
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the entire city of since sant connectic communities by allowing
a variance to the connected communities and building in what
eighty five foot versus the fifty foot limitation, one hundred
and twenty bedroom, a hotel, and this whole new development
that it sounds like the vast majority of High Park
residents did not Were you at council meeting yesterday.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I wasn't a council yesterday. I was at the committee
meeting on Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
So you saw what was there, You saw what was
going on.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Absolutely, it was just incredible that in the citizens that
spoke were some of the most passionate, sincere articulate witnesses
you ever wanted to hear and it just seems and
somebody mentioned it yesterday. I watched it on TV. A
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citizen came forward yesterday and he said, you know what,
at the end of that committee meeting, three or four
of these council members had prepared remarks that they were making.
They prepared them ahead of time, which tells all of
us how that they had made their minds up before
they even walked into the room. So what is the
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charade all about? And that's what we keep getting with
this city council and with this city mayor. Is they
do all these things and they may make it look like, oh,
the communities involved, and we're taking your issues into consideration.
They couldn't be farther from the truth. These city council
members made up their mind long ago and there wasn't
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anything that these citizens could do to change their minds.
And that's really what has to change in city Hall.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Well, and you told me all air, and I wasn't
even aware of it, because Hyde Park got organized to
stop this. They were loud, they had campaign signs or
save the Square or whatever. I mean, it was almost
like a campaign for political office in terms of their
opposition on this and the targets, of course, were the
members of the city council and the mayor. It wasn't
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the entire community of Hyde Park over some bond issue
or whatever. They were just focusing their attention on elected
officials in the City of Cincinnati, Right.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
But you said this happened also in bond Hill.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Yes, sir, there was a development in bond Hill that
was proposed. Developer came in, met with the communit unity
up there, they all supported it. He goes back and
he changes the plan and he makes it. He makes
it look like the neighborhood approved it. What he was
finally proposing was not what the community voted on, Jill
(04:16):
bait and switch. Yes, very much so. And that's another
one where the city council just went with the developer.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Well connected developer.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Well, for this city council, they're all well connected.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Yeah, you didn't coin the phrase. The last time you
were here.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
You pointed out on this Hyde Park issue that we're
talking about very well connected developers. In other words, big
developers with a lot of money that fun campaigns and
get things done for them that the ordinary, everyday voting citizen,
the constituent can't get done.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Right, what's interesting is one of the witnesses in supporting
the project that spoke at the meeting was a lobbyist
for the developer.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
I knew you were going through.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I think it was maybe like a family member or
one of the owners of the developer or something like that.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Rumor is that she wants to run for city council.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Oh geez, Well, what I.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Think is that if that's the case, and this city
council loves developers as much as they seem to love developers,
maybe one of them would get up, give up their
seat or give up their spot on the blue ticket
they give to this lobbyist. Why not?
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
I don't know if it would represent a change for
the good or the better or worse. It's just impossible
to know at this point. But what I draw from
this is clearly this dictatorial council ignores the will of
its voters, ignores the will of the citizenry, violates this
representative democracy process. They're supposed to take into consideration what
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the majority of those folks out there want, and they
just basically raise their metaphorical middle finger at everybody in
Hyde Park and said screw you.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Well, it's been reported to me that Jeff Cramerdin was
being interviewed yesterday on the radio and he called the
citizens impediments and that's consistent with a grant that the
city prepared for HUD that called the citizens barriers. So
that's really that's that's the city council in a nutshell.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
That's it. You know. I'm sorry, that's disturbing.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
It's very disturbing. But there are two people on the
city council who get it, I know, the Vice mayor
and Scottie Johnson. And it's like, why aren't we listening
to the citizens here? And they just didn't carry the
day well.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Tee Lee readings a little difficult, and I was going
to ask to you know who you were planning on
endorsing at the tail end of this discussion, but was
since we only have a couple minutes left in the segment.
I when Corey Bowman was on He's going to be
back on this program tomorrow, by the way, folks, if
you want to tune in for that. But when Corey
Bowmen was in here last time, we talked about this
issue and I said, you know what, Hyde Park votes
pretty blue. They're for pretty much Democrats over there, I said,
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because they are being ignored this city council and the
mayor aren't worthy of their support. Are going to alienate
so many people in Hyde Park. I said, Corey, you
may have a really good opportunity to at least maybe
get some campaign contributions and perhaps a good chunk of
the voters over in Hyde Park to vote for you.
The primaries coming up. If you know, this is just
(07:21):
this is the top two. They don't break it down
into party. So if the Hyde Park residents want to
really show how angry they are, they should overwhelmingly vote.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
For Corey Bowman.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
And I'm encouraging everybody in the City of Cincinnati do
the same thing. Wouldn't it be hilarious if Corey Bowman
came out as the top vote getner over aftab per Ball.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
That would be something, Brian, I would be amazing.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Yes, I mean, we can have a party in celebration
the we're just that accomplishment, not that he would ultimately
become mayor, but just for the people to voice their
discontent and their absolute outright outrage over what happened yesterday.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
I think it'd be awesome.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Well, I hope, I hope that's the case, and I
hope they carry that through to the general election.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Well I do too, and so I suppose I can
conclude from that that you are supporting Corey Bomer.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Oh yeah, absolutely, you know. And every day it just
this Mayor reinforces that position, like on this over the
weekend when he appeared at this fifty to fifty one
protest downtown.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
He was They didn't even have a permit to block
the streets, and there he was blocking the streets with
the rest of them.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
He was giving it everything he could, just like AOC.
He looked like AOC.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
He did, going on and on.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
About this individual deported to El Salvador, just going on
and on about it.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
The MS thirteen wife beating gang member that had been
arrested and already adjudicated a gang member.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
That guy, that guy, Yeah, yeah, I just can't. I
just can't, family, man.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
I just can't go there. He looks mainstream. Aftab Purval
is not mainstream.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
He isn't at all. He's as left as they come,
because from the same tink of socialist cloths AOC. We
will continue with Todd's in or Oursin's our citizen Watchdog.
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Speaker 1 (11:31):
Seven nineteen fifty five KRCD talk station Brian Thomas with
Citizen Watchdog Todd Zenzer, former Inspector General, keeping his eye
on the craziness going on in downtown Cincinnati and pivoting
over Cincetti apparently has some green ambitions. I know this
is your latest podcast, Citizen Watchdog. Find out where you
get your podcast, Todd, what's this insanity all about?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Well, Brian, I, like everybody else, see what's happening at
the federal level with funding and the E and the
Department of Energy, and the money that the city has
been getting on climate activities is going to end. And
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you don't hear anybody at city Hall talking about what
they're going to do differently. But Since two thousand and eight,
the city every five years has updated their Green Plan
Green Cincinnati Plan. It started in two thousand and eight
with mister Mallory. He called the plan a climate protection plan.
(12:34):
I don't know if he was protecting us from the
climate or protecting the climate. And then every five years
they have updated their Cincinnati Green Plan. In every five
years it gets more and more extensive and really radical,
I mean really extreme. The twenty twenty three Green Cincinnati
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Plan is probably the most comprehensive of climate change bible
that you would ever want to see. It covers the
whole gamut of civilization basically in Cincinnati, our food, our energy,
our look at some others, mobility, natural environment, resilience, and
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climate adaptation. They have these eight focus areas, and each
focus area has one to three goals, and then each
goal has all these activities that they want to accomplish
and furtherance of that goal. And you look at these
things and well, first of all, you don't know whether
it's really happening or not, and you don't know exactly
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what they're doing, you don't know how much all this
is costing, and they just go about their business like
this is the main thing, and it's not the main thing.
And I, based on what I've been doing, if the
city has to cut back on spending, this would be
the area to cut back. If they stopped all these
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activities tomorrow, nobody would notice. Nobody would notice that, Oh, well,
we're not going out trying to promote people to get
on plant based diets anymore. Nobody's going to notice that.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
I didn't even realize they were out promoting people to
get on plant based diets anyway.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Yeah, that was that was a goal in the twenty
eighteen plan.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Maybe then they I guess they embraced the idea of
pairing back snap benefits to take out sugary beverages and
and and and fatty foods and doritos.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
So that's a good question, Brian. I don't know if
they would go for that or not.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
No, they wouldn't go for that because that would deprive
people of choice, the choice that they're arguing they shouldn't
have because they want you to eat plants. Yes, so
none of this makes sense. It doesn't really make Well,
let's let's look at it from a broader element. How
many we have, like two hundred and eighty thousand people
or dollars roughly, Yes, in a defined space that's a
city of Cincinnati. The geographical limitations. That's as far as
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their power extends. What do they really truly think can
be accomplished by imposing all of these edicts and mandates
on a finitely, if very infinitely comparently small space within
the state of Ohio when everybody around us isn't doing this.
More fundamentally, outside of the country, like China and India
and Turkey and other large producers of pollutants, they're not
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doing it anyway. We're all breeding the same damn air.
What possible benefit can any of this have on impacting
the climate so that somebody could make that argument, I
think it makes them certifiably insane.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Yeah, well, I think that the EPA is going to
do something about this CO two and endangerment.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Of it's plant food for God's sake.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Right, So the city. I think that they are following
the Democrat orthodoxy. But one of the things, as they
do with the Green Cincinnati Plan is their tentacles go
out even further. They've got about seventy different community organizations
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and nonprofits that are on board, and they're giving money
to these groups, yeah, to do all these things, and
they build this constituency, but it's that constituency really isn't
in the neighborhoods as far as I can tell, maybe
a couple of neighborhoods. But I really don't think the
people in West Price Hill or East Price Hill are
really thinking that the city is putting a dent into
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the greenhouse gases. They claim they are some kind of dent. Oh,
we've reduced greenhouse gases in the city of Cincinnati by
x percent or something like that. But the greenhouse gases
only affect the atmosphere at a very high level. So yeah,
it really doesn't do anything.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
And I suspect the folks in Price Hill or Avondel
or pick A neighborhood are probably a little bit more
worried about the property tax bill and putting food on
the table and inflation and stuff that really matters. And
this all is taking money away from resources that might
go to well, I don't know, phil potholes or improve
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the the the neighborhood. From a broken windows theory connected standpoint,
you know.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Right, well, if they put as much energy into planning
fixing the roads as they have in this Green Cincinnati plan,
we would see a lot more progress on our infrastructure.
But I've been trying to figure out how much money
this is all costing. It's not easy to track through
the city, but so far it looks like in two
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thousand and four they received forty five million dollars in
federal grants and then the city spent their own money
to about nine million dollars for green New Green Cincinnati activities,
and so a lot of that money is just going
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to go away. And they have people on staff. The
city has people on staff, especially in their Office of
Environment and Sustainability, I think is what they call it.
I mean, they basically have this attitude, we eat what
we kill. So they file all these grant applications with
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the federal government. Yeah, the head of the office was
quoted in the newspapers saying that, oh, he's They've put
applications in for between sixty and eighty million dollars. And
so you have people writing these grants. When you get
their grants, you have to manage the grant and it
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consumes so much energy and part of the city staff
that I don't know how they're making progress in some
of these other areas.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
I don't think the point is to make progress, Todd.
I think the point is to fund non governmental organizations
and put money in those folks pockets who probably do
live out in the suburbs and really nice multi hundred
thousand dollars homes and enjoy the fruits and benefits of
the American taxpayers labor while not accomplishing a single thing.
I don't think they're out there actually do anything. I
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think they're just out to put money in their own pocket.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Well, it's a very the city of Cincinnati is very
high risk when it comes to these nonprofits. So far,
they've got leverage support that they give out to the community.
That's about fifty groups or so they had. Then they
started this Act for SINSI, which is their violence prevention program.
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That's got another seventy sixty seventy groups, and then the
Green Cincinnati Plan has over one hundred groups. Lord that
they are trying to organize or that they all of.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Whom have salaries and need to be funded before any
actual work and be done or something can be actually
accomplished out in the world to achieve whatever goal it
is they were formed to achieve.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Yeah, well this is this is this is a very risky,
risky proposition to have all this city money going out
to all these different groups and nobody's really overseen it.
There was a case in Cleveland, for example, where one
of the council members was perpetrating some fraud schemes through
these nonprofits in Cleveland the same way. In one case,
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he got one of the nonprofits to put his girlfriend
on the payroll for five thousand a month. And then
the other case he got is he got a I
think a development corporation, a local development corporation, to sell
property to his girlfriend.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
That's pauseive. We need an inspector general, is what we
need to have.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Oh, we definitely need one, Bryan, Yes.
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Seven thirty two fifty five KR See the talk station
Brian Thomas with citizen Watchdog Todd Zenzer, former Inspector General.
And we have a couple of minutes here, since I
suppose the conversation on fiscal responsibility also dovetails into the
attacks on Elon Musk, let's pause on that one's I'm
gonna give a little bit more attention. You got to,
(24:48):
I know you had something to say about Greg Landsman
getting in trouble with his failure to report his stockish
or stocks.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Well, yeah, back during the campaign it came out that
he failed to make disclosures for basically his whole first.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Term, as is required under law. Exactly, it's been a
law for a long time, yes, And.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
So he came out and said, well, I'm supporting legislation
that would prohibit members of Congress from UH trading in stocks. Well,
that went by the wayside. Now the new proposal is
to force members to put all their stock into a
blind trust or something like that, and he supports that,
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but in the meantime he had to dump hundreds of
thousands of dollars in stocks in order to walk the
walk the talk.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Oh that's hilarious. Well they did call him out on
it's there to disclose, so and and and through these
revelations we also found out that he was invested in
defense contractors.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Yeah, he's very hypocritical in terms of in tobacco companies too, right, Yeah,
what what he talks about out on the campaign and
where he puts his money.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
So he's not a green investor.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
No, he's going for the money.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
He's going for the money, right, And you know, I
suppose a prudent investor in spite of the fact whether
they like war, appreciate war, want to get out of wars,
knows that the wars are perpetual. We manufacture a lot
of munitions and sell them off to other countries. So raytheon,
let's get some money. Rathon.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Well, what's funny is that he must know that many
members of Congress go into Congress with little money and
come out of Congress with a lot of money. And
that's all being done through the stock market. Yep, and
so he's got to know that. So maybe that's why
(26:42):
he has been reluctant to dump those stocks last See.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Yeah, he knows what Congress is going to vote on,
what's coming up with the proposed legislation, is what's likely
to pass, and knows where, how which companies are going
to benefit as a consequence of it. It's degreased palm
index that Nathan backg Recking ed Fink and invented before
they retired. Whoever had the most lobbying money going into Congress,
they'd pick those companies. They put him in one fund.
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I don't know how it ended up working out in
terms of return on investment, but something tells me it probably.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Worked out pretty well. I would think it did more
with Todd Zenzer.
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Seven fifty five KRCD Talk Station Brian Thomas with Citizen Watchdog,
former Inspector General Todd Zenzer and the kind of topics
that we talk about, Todd.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Are just mind blowing.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
I mean it angers me and I just stare and
disbelieve that our elected officials actually go down these various
roads that they have gone down, that they disregard the
citizens will in the case of High Park. They're pursuing
these green agendas with all these hundreds of non governmental
organizations without accomplishing a single thing. Hopefully this federal dollars
will dry up. But I think, as you said off air, though,
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probably just go ahead and redirect like road road repair
money and critical infrastructure money to continue the pursuit of
a green agenda to the I mean, to the detriment
of everybody in every neighborhood in the city.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Yeah, it's it's going to be a choice for them
down the road when all this federal money drives up
and they have to make a decision on what they're
going to cut. I don't have a lot of confidence
that they're going to look at the green Cincinnati plane
and say, oh, yeah, we don't need that. They're gonna
make They're going to continue to make that a priority.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Well, and I can't imagine that being a magnet for
business and industry if you want to draw people into
the city, you want to allow them to have choices
about where they live and what they live in, and
ability to drive in and out of it so they
can escape it if they need to. Anyhow, And that's
what employees of big incorporations would want to Big corporations
want to g GE.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Right, Yeah, did they move out? They That's right, they did.
How's that working that for them? Anyhow?
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Justice Department just released an additional what they called the
Greatest Hits the other day. Attorney General Pambondi, this is
the Doge related conversation. City's fiscal responsibility, coupled with the
outrage that I know you felt when you saw one
of our elected officials, councilwoman, talking about burning teslas and
attacking Elon musk Um.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
Let us see here.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
They cut two million dollars used for quote, national listening
sessions of individuals with lived experience close quote asked jo
just Treger this morning if he's had lived experience, and
he has, and of course I've had fifty nine years
of lived experience. I don't know what the hell that means,
but we just cut two million dollars. It was going
to that six hundred and ninety five dollars six hundred
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and ninety five thousand dollars for a quote. Excuse me,
this is great and you're one of the most intelligent
people I know.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
Tell me what this is?
Speaker 1 (31:49):
A parallel, convergent, mixed methods case study research designed to
assess the efficacy of police departments, LGBTQ liaison services.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
WHOA how about that?
Speaker 1 (32:03):
That's a mouthful six hundred and ninety five grand of
the taxpayer money. Anyway, the list just keeps getting longer
and longer, and yet they're out there calling Elon Musk
a Nazi and destroying Teslas and Tesla dealerships and Tesla
charging stations. Once the darling of the Green agenda now
is become an evil person because he's pointing this stuff out.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
That's right. Yeah, When a council member, Anna Albi, when
they passed a resolution a couple of weeks ago to
support the federal employees, and then if you look at
the resolution, it basically just slams the administration about cutting
this and cutting that, and she was triggered big time
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when it came to this. They all get a chance
to talk about the resolution. So when it came to
Miss Albi, she said, well, we're all talking very calmly
about this, we should be angry. And she just went
off and she started accusing Elon Musk of going around
and harming people and harming our community and our residents
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from top to bottom, and just she she seemed like
somebody that might just go out in Kia tesla. That's
the way she seemed to me.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
And a guy again, you know, it's like five minutes
ago in your life, experience lived experience time was the
darling of the Green agenda, was the greatest guy on
the planet because he invented the best electric vehicle out there,
no more emissions. We're all going to save the world.
And he becomes evil because he shows that there are
hundreds of thousands of Social Security numbers out there in
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the world for people that are over one hundred and twenty.
That he reveals all of these insane programs that are
on their face absolutely indefensible that he's running. He's endeavoring
to run the federal government more efficiently like a real company,
as opposed to squandering our labor in the form of
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taxpayer dollars. That's all bad, all because some federal employee
in a useless department loses their job, they don't cry
shed a single tier when some other business fires employees
or goes to reorganization. I mean, I used to work
for Anthem. I went through three reorgs. They lost people,
they changed the departments, they shifted things down, they got
rid of middle management. There wasn't an article in the
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paper even written about it, and not a tear shed.
Federal employees aren't really doing anything and not even shown
up at work. They're out in the street protesting over
it and turning Elon Musk into somehow the head of
the National Socialist Party well nazi.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Yeah, Well, the federal government has already has personnel rules
in place to do everything that's being done. It's not
like they've come in and invented things. In fact, they're
being very generous with this, the buyout and the way
the buyout. Oh sure, and it has to be done.
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And for a member of city council to think that
we don't spend enough money and that we shouldn't be
cutting is just irresponsible.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Listen, two trillion in additional expenditures from the federal government
annually beyond what they spend and take in in taxes.
We've dug ourselves into a monumental hole almost thirty seven
trillion dollars. The debt service is already a trillion dollars,
and someone's advocating to continue down that path. That person
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is either financially as ignorant as a post or is
desirous of the end of the United States of America
as we know, because it's going to crash our fiat currency. Yeah,
she came off as a nefarious or stupid in either
case stupid.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
It's very emotional, no question about that.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Let's continue with Todd's zenser one more segment. I wish
we could talk for an entire day. Todds Enzer Gate
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come and enjoy the beauty of the surrounding. It is
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so well maintained. It's springtime, the flowers are coming up.
They got these winding trails. It's trankful, it's peaceful. It's
a great location for prayer and reflection, especially when you
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Chuck Ingram on fifty five kre and see the talk station.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
It's Seine fifty five KR city talk station. Certainly an
eye opening hour here in the fifty five carre Sea mornings.
She would always did with is when toddzensers in the studio,
former Inspector General. Citizen Watchdog is his podcast check it out.
He's one of the few sources of information that we
get like this, and I am just I feel blessed
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to be in a position to let folks know about it.
I think so few people really realize how our city
is being governed and what their objectives are, and they
seem to have nothing to do with the day to
day lives of the people that live in the city
of Cincinnati.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
Todd, Yeah, looking at this green Cincinnati Planet's almost as
if there's two different efforts in the city. One is
kind of the police, and fire, sewers, water, and then
there's this other group that's doing all these things about
the climate and it's kind of behind the scenes for
the most part. Yeah, and it's very well funded, very
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well staffed, and it's energy and effort on the part
of the city staff that could be redeployed to help
with these core services. Exactly, Brian.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
I mean, our infrastructure is falling apart, and they're always
complaining about insufficient dollars. L was, what is that? What
are the motivations for selling the railroad? Absolutely, and then
we find out there's tens of millions of dollars being
thrown out there to hundreds of organizations for the purpose
of achieving some inachievable or unachievable climate goal.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
Yeah, I mean, and the workforce keeps getting bigger.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
Along those lines. Along those they're not hiring more people
to fix the roads or keep things sewn together.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
The hiring is going on in the city manager's office
and in the administrative staff in city Hall.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
If we can get people to apply for the job,
I mean, think of all the additional police officers we
can have. We can have a full contingent of police officers. Yeah,
that is a mystery to me why they're not fully staffed.
They seem to have this you know, one hundred or
one hundred and so deficit in terms of vacancies, and
it's just does I don't really understand it or pay
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them more?
Speaker 3 (39:57):
I mean, you know, I mean the police officers.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
If you want to get more people of quality and
caliber that meet whatever expectations you have from a police officer,
if you just put that nonsensical expenditure of money that's
going into I don't know whatever green project, and you
just offer them they need it for five, five thousand
or ten thousand dollars extra year, you might get more
people signed up.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
For the job. Yeah. Well, they're not doing things to
attract candidates to the police force. In fact, they have this,
they have this defund the police effort going on with
three one one where they've hired what they call community responders. Yeah,
and they're sending those folks out to some of these
scenes instead of the police.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
Not armed, not prepared, not trained law enforcement officers are
more like defusers or counselors or something.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
Yeah, they're supposed to be mental health counselors and things
like that.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
Yeah, talk to some cop when things go sideways? Are
you gonna want a real cop there? You're gonna want
someone who's gonna talk about your feelings.
Speaker 2 (40:58):
Yeah, it seems to me if they want to do that,
it should be under the police department, and and that
would be a position that they could use to develop
and recruit more police officers. Have him start out as
these community responders and recruit them for the police force.
Speaker 3 (41:12):
That's an excellent idea. Gee imagine that, Oh, Todd, I'm
not quite sure where to go.
Speaker 1 (41:17):
You are supporting Corey Bowman though, I want to absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 2 (41:20):
Corey is very down to earth. I think he has
very very good intentions, and I think he wants to
be a good mayor.
Speaker 1 (41:29):
Well, you know, I've met him so many times, and
he is a good man. Yes, you know, he's a
sincere human being. I think he would be open to
some of the concepts that you talked about today. He
does absolutely want to better the city in terms of
taking care of infrastructure and making things well easier to develop.
I mean, he experienced his own problems in his own
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neighborhood with developers who wanted to come in and do
some good for the neighborhood, only to be stopped by
the City of Cincinnati.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
Yeah, well, he's not going to be like arm mayor
that it always seems that the mayor is auditioning for something,
or that he's trying to get his ticket punched by
the National Party or by somebody in Washington. That there
is an agenda out there, we just don't know exactly
what it all includes.
Speaker 1 (42:14):
Well, and fortunately we have u Toadzender to talk about
what the agenda is behind the scenes, that they are
in fact pushing real time right now and where the
valuable and finite taxpayer dollars are actually being sent. Well,
one can only keep our fingers crossed that that evil
man Elon Musk will finally shut down massive quantities of
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cash for these stupid green programs and those people will
have to go out and find real jobs. Toddsenzer get
in touch with his podcast Citizen Watchdog. You know you're
always welcome on the Morning Show. We could do this
like every single day. From my standpoint, we never would
accomplish getting through all the issues. But I cannot thank
you on behalf of all of my listeners for the
work that you do that you pay attention to all this.
(42:57):
You keep tabs on it, you write about it, you
do a podcast on it, and you're willing to come
on here on the morning show from time to time
to well vent your spleen, get it all of your system,
and make people more aware of the what I will
call shenanigan.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
So I appreciate it, Prian.
Speaker 3 (43:09):
My pleasure.
Speaker 1 (43:10):
Man.
Speaker 3 (43:10):
It has really been a treat having you on the show.
Speaker 1 (43:13):
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Speaker 2 (43:47):
This report
It's seven oh six. I think'bout cares do talk stays
named Brian Thomas. Always pleased to see in studio the
man who's keeping his eye on the shenanigans going on.
And there are so many shenanigans going on. I'm surprised
he's able to keep track of it. Todd Zenzer, former
US Inspector General. Now we have basically he's the inspector
General for Hamilton County and most notably City of Cincinnati.
(00:34):
Welcome back, Todd Zenzer. It's always great seeing you, brother.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Thank you, Brian. It's always good to be here.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
And he, of course is we Citizen Watchdog is what
we effectively call him. That's the name of his podcast,
Citizen Watchdog. You can find it, and we're gonna learn
about his latest podcast, probably going to blow your mind.
But this is gonna be This hour is gonna fly
by a noe time.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Todd. We've got so much to talk about. Really, I'd
dwelt a whole lot.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
I had Smith ament on for a volume two of
the Smith Event yesterday because of the equity whatever that
committee is that advanced the proposal to amend the zoning
laws in Hyde Park seven to two vote, and then yes,
of course, city council voted seven to two to alter
Hyde Park's zoning laws, zoning laws which the City of
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Cincinnati imposed upon all the neighborhoods, the connected community zoning laws, right, okay,
So they took away every community's ability to control their
own destiny. And that wasn't even that long ago, was it?
Because you and I talked about it last June. Last June,
and then yesterday they undid their own blanket rule for
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the entire city of since sant connectic communities by allowing
a variance to the connected communities and building in what
eighty five foot versus the fifty foot limitation, one hundred
and twenty bedroom, a hotel, and this whole new development
that it sounds like the vast majority of High Park
residents did not Were you at council meeting yesterday.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I wasn't a council yesterday. I was at the committee
meeting on Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
So you saw what was there, You saw what was
going on.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Absolutely, it was just incredible that in the citizens that
spoke were some of the most passionate, sincere articulate witnesses
you ever wanted to hear and it just seems and
somebody mentioned it yesterday. I watched it on TV. A
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citizen came forward yesterday and he said, you know what,
at the end of that committee meeting, three or four
of these council members had prepared remarks that they were making.
They prepared them ahead of time, which tells all of
us how that they had made their minds up before
they even walked into the room. So what is the
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charade all about? And that's what we keep getting with
this city council and with this city mayor. Is they
do all these things and they may make it look like, oh,
the communities involved, and we're taking your issues into consideration.
They couldn't be farther from the truth. These city council
members made up their mind long ago and there wasn't
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anything that these citizens could do to change their minds.
And that's really what has to change in city Hall.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Well, and you told me all air, and I wasn't
even aware of it, because Hyde Park got organized to
stop this. They were loud, they had campaign signs or
save the Square or whatever. I mean, it was almost
like a campaign for political office in terms of their
opposition on this and the targets, of course, were the
members of the city council and the mayor. It wasn't
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the entire community of Hyde Park over some bond issue
or whatever. They were just focusing their attention on elected
officials in the City of Cincinnati, Right.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
But you said this happened also in bond Hill.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Yes, sir, there was a development in bond Hill that
was proposed. Developer came in, met with the communit unity
up there, they all supported it. He goes back and
he changes the plan and he makes it. He makes
it look like the neighborhood approved it. What he was
finally proposing was not what the community voted on, Jill
(04:16):
bait and switch. Yes, very much so. And that's another
one where the city council just went with the developer.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Well connected developer.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Well, for this city council, they're all well connected.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Yeah, you didn't coin the phrase. The last time you
were here.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
You pointed out on this Hyde Park issue that we're
talking about very well connected developers. In other words, big
developers with a lot of money that fun campaigns and
get things done for them that the ordinary, everyday voting citizen,
the constituent can't get done.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Right, what's interesting is one of the witnesses in supporting
the project that spoke at the meeting was a lobbyist
for the developer.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
I knew you were going through.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I think it was maybe like a family member or
one of the owners of the developer or something like that.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Rumor is that she wants to run for city council.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Oh geez, Well, what I.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Think is that if that's the case, and this city
council loves developers as much as they seem to love developers,
maybe one of them would get up, give up their
seat or give up their spot on the blue ticket
they give to this lobbyist. Why not?
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
I don't know if it would represent a change for
the good or the better or worse. It's just impossible
to know at this point. But what I draw from
this is clearly this dictatorial council ignores the will of
its voters, ignores the will of the citizenry, violates this
representative democracy process. They're supposed to take into consideration what
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the majority of those folks out there want, and they
just basically raise their metaphorical middle finger at everybody in
Hyde Park and said screw you.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Well, it's been reported to me that Jeff Cramerdin was
being interviewed yesterday on the radio and he called the
citizens impediments and that's consistent with a grant that the
city prepared for HUD that called the citizens barriers. So
that's really that's that's the city council in a nutshell.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
That's it. You know. I'm sorry, that's disturbing.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
It's very disturbing. But there are two people on the
city council who get it, I know, the Vice mayor
and Scottie Johnson. And it's like, why aren't we listening
to the citizens here? And they just didn't carry the
day well.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Tee Lee readings a little difficult, and I was going
to ask to you know who you were planning on
endorsing at the tail end of this discussion, but was
since we only have a couple minutes left in the segment.
I when Corey Bowman was on He's going to be
back on this program tomorrow, by the way, folks, if
you want to tune in for that. But when Corey
Bowmen was in here last time, we talked about this
issue and I said, you know what, Hyde Park votes
pretty blue. They're for pretty much Democrats over there, I said,
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because they are being ignored this city council and the
mayor aren't worthy of their support. Are going to alienate
so many people in Hyde Park. I said, Corey, you
may have a really good opportunity to at least maybe
get some campaign contributions and perhaps a good chunk of
the voters over in Hyde Park to vote for you.
The primaries coming up. If you know, this is just
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this is the top two. They don't break it down
into party. So if the Hyde Park residents want to
really show how angry they are, they should overwhelmingly vote.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
For Corey Bowman.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
And I'm encouraging everybody in the City of Cincinnati do
the same thing. Wouldn't it be hilarious if Corey Bowman
came out as the top vote getner over aftab per Ball.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
That would be something, Brian, I would be amazing.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Yes, I mean, we can have a party in celebration
the we're just that accomplishment, not that he would ultimately
become mayor, but just for the people to voice their
discontent and their absolute outright outrage over what happened yesterday.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
I think it'd be awesome.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Well, I hope, I hope that's the case, and I
hope they carry that through to the general election.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Well I do too, and so I suppose I can
conclude from that that you are supporting Corey Bomer.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Oh yeah, absolutely, you know. And every day it just
this Mayor reinforces that position, like on this over the
weekend when he appeared at this fifty to fifty one
protest downtown.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
He was They didn't even have a permit to block
the streets, and there he was blocking the streets with
the rest of them.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
He was giving it everything he could, just like AOC.
He looked like AOC.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
He did, going on and on.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
About this individual deported to El Salvador, just going on
and on about it.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
The MS thirteen wife beating gang member that had been
arrested and already adjudicated a gang member.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
That guy, that guy, Yeah, yeah, I just can't. I
just can't, family, man.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
I just can't go there. He looks mainstream. Aftab Purval
is not mainstream.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
He isn't at all. He's as left as they come,
because from the same tink of socialist cloths AOC. We
will continue with Todd's in or Oursin's our citizen Watchdog.
Get a load of this folks Cincinnati's green ambitions. I
haven't gotten the details yet, but based upon the look
on Todd Zenzer's face, and I know he did a
podcast about this the other day, be prepared to be disgusted.
(09:19):
Perhaps First, save money, go to affordable imaging services, just
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have to pay five thousand dollars at a hospital imaging
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I paid six hundred dollars because they needed a contrast
four hundred and fifty without a contrast, six hundred with
a contrast. That's all you pay. It's at affordable imaging services. Yes,
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it's the same kind of equipment the hospitals use. Yes,
medical professionals are operating it. No, my doctor had no
issues whatsoever with the scan or the radiologist report, just
like the last couple of times I did it.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
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Seven nineteen fifty five KRCD talk station Brian Thomas with
Citizen Watchdog Todd Zenzer, former Inspector General, keeping his eye
on the craziness going on in downtown Cincinnati and pivoting
over Cincetti apparently has some green ambitions. I know this
is your latest podcast, Citizen Watchdog. Find out where you
get your podcast, Todd, what's this insanity all about?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Well, Brian, I, like everybody else, see what's happening at
the federal level with funding and the E and the
Department of Energy, and the money that the city has
been getting on climate activities is going to end. And
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you don't hear anybody at city Hall talking about what
they're going to do differently. But Since two thousand and eight,
the city every five years has updated their Green Plan
Green Cincinnati Plan. It started in two thousand and eight
with mister Mallory. He called the plan a climate protection plan.
(12:34):
I don't know if he was protecting us from the
climate or protecting the climate. And then every five years
they have updated their Cincinnati Green Plan. In every five
years it gets more and more extensive and really radical,
I mean really extreme. The twenty twenty three Green Cincinnati
(12:56):
Plan is probably the most comprehensive of climate change bible
that you would ever want to see. It covers the
whole gamut of civilization basically in Cincinnati, our food, our energy,
our look at some others, mobility, natural environment, resilience, and
(13:20):
climate adaptation. They have these eight focus areas, and each
focus area has one to three goals, and then each
goal has all these activities that they want to accomplish
and furtherance of that goal. And you look at these
things and well, first of all, you don't know whether
it's really happening or not, and you don't know exactly
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what they're doing, you don't know how much all this
is costing, and they just go about their business like
this is the main thing, and it's not the main thing.
And I, based on what I've been doing, if the
city has to cut back on spending, this would be
the area to cut back. If they stopped all these
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activities tomorrow, nobody would notice. Nobody would notice that, Oh, well,
we're not going out trying to promote people to get
on plant based diets anymore. Nobody's going to notice that.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
I didn't even realize they were out promoting people to
get on plant based diets anyway.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Yeah, that was that was a goal in the twenty
eighteen plan.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Maybe then they I guess they embraced the idea of
pairing back snap benefits to take out sugary beverages and
and and and fatty foods and doritos.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
So that's a good question, Brian. I don't know if
they would go for that or not.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
No, they wouldn't go for that because that would deprive
people of choice, the choice that they're arguing they shouldn't
have because they want you to eat plants. Yes, so
none of this makes sense. It doesn't really make Well,
let's let's look at it from a broader element. How
many we have, like two hundred and eighty thousand people
or dollars roughly, Yes, in a defined space that's a
city of Cincinnati. The geographical limitations. That's as far as
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their power extends. What do they really truly think can
be accomplished by imposing all of these edicts and mandates
on a finitely, if very infinitely comparently small space within
the state of Ohio when everybody around us isn't doing this.
More fundamentally, outside of the country, like China and India
and Turkey and other large producers of pollutants, they're not
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doing it anyway. We're all breeding the same damn air.
What possible benefit can any of this have on impacting
the climate so that somebody could make that argument, I
think it makes them certifiably insane.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Yeah, well, I think that the EPA is going to
do something about this CO two and endangerment.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Of it's plant food for God's sake.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Right, So the city. I think that they are following
the Democrat orthodoxy. But one of the things, as they
do with the Green Cincinnati Plan is their tentacles go
out even further. They've got about seventy different community organizations
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and nonprofits that are on board, and they're giving money
to these groups, yeah, to do all these things, and
they build this constituency, but it's that constituency really isn't
in the neighborhoods as far as I can tell, maybe
a couple of neighborhoods. But I really don't think the
people in West Price Hill or East Price Hill are
really thinking that the city is putting a dent into
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the greenhouse gases. They claim they are some kind of dent. Oh,
we've reduced greenhouse gases in the city of Cincinnati by
x percent or something like that. But the greenhouse gases
only affect the atmosphere at a very high level. So yeah,
it really doesn't do anything.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
And I suspect the folks in Price Hill or Avondel
or pick A neighborhood are probably a little bit more
worried about the property tax bill and putting food on
the table and inflation and stuff that really matters. And
this all is taking money away from resources that might
go to well, I don't know, phil potholes or improve
(17:12):
the the the neighborhood. From a broken windows theory connected standpoint,
you know.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Right, well, if they put as much energy into planning
fixing the roads as they have in this Green Cincinnati plan,
we would see a lot more progress on our infrastructure.
But I've been trying to figure out how much money
this is all costing. It's not easy to track through
the city, but so far it looks like in two
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thousand and four they received forty five million dollars in
federal grants and then the city spent their own money
to about nine million dollars for green New Green Cincinnati activities,
and so a lot of that money is just going
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to go away. And they have people on staff. The
city has people on staff, especially in their Office of
Environment and Sustainability, I think is what they call it.
I mean, they basically have this attitude, we eat what
we kill. So they file all these grant applications with
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the federal government. Yeah, the head of the office was
quoted in the newspapers saying that, oh, he's They've put
applications in for between sixty and eighty million dollars. And
so you have people writing these grants. When you get
their grants, you have to manage the grant and it
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consumes so much energy and part of the city staff
that I don't know how they're making progress in some
of these other areas.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
I don't think the point is to make progress, Todd.
I think the point is to fund non governmental organizations
and put money in those folks pockets who probably do
live out in the suburbs and really nice multi hundred
thousand dollars homes and enjoy the fruits and benefits of
the American taxpayers labor while not accomplishing a single thing.
I don't think they're out there actually do anything. I
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think they're just out to put money in their own pocket.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Well, it's a very the city of Cincinnati is very
high risk when it comes to these nonprofits. So far,
they've got leverage support that they give out to the community.
That's about fifty groups or so they had. Then they
started this Act for SINSI, which is their violence prevention program.
(19:39):
That's got another seventy sixty seventy groups, and then the
Green Cincinnati Plan has over one hundred groups. Lord that
they are trying to organize or that they all of.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Whom have salaries and need to be funded before any
actual work and be done or something can be actually
accomplished out in the world to achieve whatever goal it
is they were formed to achieve.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Yeah, well this is this is this is a very risky,
risky proposition to have all this city money going out
to all these different groups and nobody's really overseen it.
There was a case in Cleveland, for example, where one
of the council members was perpetrating some fraud schemes through
these nonprofits in Cleveland the same way. In one case,
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he got one of the nonprofits to put his girlfriend
on the payroll for five thousand a month. And then
the other case he got is he got a I
think a development corporation, a local development corporation, to sell
property to his girlfriend.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
That's pauseive. We need an inspector general, is what we
need to have.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Oh, we definitely need one, Bryan, Yes.
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Seven thirty two fifty five KR See the talk station
Brian Thomas with citizen Watchdog Todd Zenzer, former Inspector General.
And we have a couple of minutes here, since I
suppose the conversation on fiscal responsibility also dovetails into the
attacks on Elon Musk, let's pause on that one's I'm
gonna give a little bit more attention. You got to,
(24:48):
I know you had something to say about Greg Landsman
getting in trouble with his failure to report his stockish
or stocks.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Well, yeah, back during the campaign it came out that
he failed to make disclosures for basically his whole first.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Term, as is required under law. Exactly, it's been a
law for a long time, yes, And.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
So he came out and said, well, I'm supporting legislation
that would prohibit members of Congress from UH trading in stocks. Well,
that went by the wayside. Now the new proposal is
to force members to put all their stock into a
blind trust or something like that, and he supports that,
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but in the meantime he had to dump hundreds of
thousands of dollars in stocks in order to walk the
walk the talk.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Oh that's hilarious. Well they did call him out on
it's there to disclose, so and and and through these
revelations we also found out that he was invested in
defense contractors.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Yeah, he's very hypocritical in terms of in tobacco companies too, right, Yeah,
what what he talks about out on the campaign and
where he puts his money.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
So he's not a green investor.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
No, he's going for the money.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
He's going for the money, right, And you know, I
suppose a prudent investor in spite of the fact whether
they like war, appreciate war, want to get out of wars,
knows that the wars are perpetual. We manufacture a lot
of munitions and sell them off to other countries. So raytheon,
let's get some money. Rathon.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Well, what's funny is that he must know that many
members of Congress go into Congress with little money and
come out of Congress with a lot of money. And
that's all being done through the stock market. Yep, and
so he's got to know that. So maybe that's why
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he has been reluctant to dump those stocks last See.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Yeah, he knows what Congress is going to vote on,
what's coming up with the proposed legislation, is what's likely
to pass, and knows where, how which companies are going
to benefit as a consequence of it. It's degreased palm
index that Nathan backg Recking ed Fink and invented before
they retired. Whoever had the most lobbying money going into Congress,
they'd pick those companies. They put him in one fund.
(27:07):
I don't know how it ended up working out in
terms of return on investment, but something tells me it probably.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Worked out pretty well. I would think it did more
with Todd Zenzer.
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Seventy nine is going to be the high. Spotty rain
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Seven fifty five KRCD Talk Station Brian Thomas with Citizen Watchdog,
former Inspector General Todd Zenzer and the kind of topics
that we talk about, Todd.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Are just mind blowing.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
I mean it angers me and I just stare and
disbelieve that our elected officials actually go down these various
roads that they have gone down, that they disregard the
citizens will in the case of High Park. They're pursuing
these green agendas with all these hundreds of non governmental
organizations without accomplishing a single thing. Hopefully this federal dollars
will dry up. But I think, as you said off air, though,
(30:00):
probably just go ahead and redirect like road road repair
money and critical infrastructure money to continue the pursuit of
a green agenda to the I mean, to the detriment
of everybody in every neighborhood in the city.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Yeah, it's it's going to be a choice for them
down the road when all this federal money drives up
and they have to make a decision on what they're
going to cut. I don't have a lot of confidence
that they're going to look at the green Cincinnati plane
and say, oh, yeah, we don't need that. They're gonna
make They're going to continue to make that a priority.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Well, and I can't imagine that being a magnet for
business and industry if you want to draw people into
the city, you want to allow them to have choices
about where they live and what they live in, and
ability to drive in and out of it so they
can escape it if they need to. Anyhow, And that's
what employees of big incorporations would want to Big corporations
want to g GE.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Right, Yeah, did they move out? They That's right, they did.
How's that working that for them? Anyhow?
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Justice Department just released an additional what they called the
Greatest Hits the other day. Attorney General Pambondi, this is
the Doge related conversation. City's fiscal responsibility, coupled with the
outrage that I know you felt when you saw one
of our elected officials, councilwoman, talking about burning teslas and
attacking Elon musk Um.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
Let us see here.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
They cut two million dollars used for quote, national listening
sessions of individuals with lived experience close quote asked jo
just Treger this morning if he's had lived experience, and
he has, and of course I've had fifty nine years
of lived experience. I don't know what the hell that means,
but we just cut two million dollars. It was going
to that six hundred and ninety five dollars six hundred
(31:39):
and ninety five thousand dollars for a quote. Excuse me,
this is great and you're one of the most intelligent
people I know.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
Tell me what this is?
Speaker 1 (31:49):
A parallel, convergent, mixed methods case study research designed to
assess the efficacy of police departments, LGBTQ liaison services.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
WHOA how about that?
Speaker 1 (32:03):
That's a mouthful six hundred and ninety five grand of
the taxpayer money. Anyway, the list just keeps getting longer
and longer, and yet they're out there calling Elon Musk
a Nazi and destroying Teslas and Tesla dealerships and Tesla
charging stations. Once the darling of the Green agenda now
is become an evil person because he's pointing this stuff out.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
That's right. Yeah, When a council member, Anna Albi, when
they passed a resolution a couple of weeks ago to
support the federal employees, and then if you look at
the resolution, it basically just slams the administration about cutting
this and cutting that, and she was triggered big time
(32:46):
when it came to this. They all get a chance
to talk about the resolution. So when it came to
Miss Albi, she said, well, we're all talking very calmly
about this, we should be angry. And she just went
off and she started accusing Elon Musk of going around
and harming people and harming our community and our residents
(33:07):
from top to bottom, and just she she seemed like
somebody that might just go out in Kia tesla. That's
the way she seemed to me.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
And a guy again, you know, it's like five minutes
ago in your life, experience lived experience time was the
darling of the Green agenda, was the greatest guy on
the planet because he invented the best electric vehicle out there,
no more emissions. We're all going to save the world.
And he becomes evil because he shows that there are
hundreds of thousands of Social Security numbers out there in
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the world for people that are over one hundred and twenty.
That he reveals all of these insane programs that are
on their face absolutely indefensible that he's running. He's endeavoring
to run the federal government more efficiently like a real company,
as opposed to squandering our labor in the form of
(34:00):
taxpayer dollars. That's all bad, all because some federal employee
in a useless department loses their job, they don't cry
shed a single tier when some other business fires employees
or goes to reorganization. I mean, I used to work
for Anthem. I went through three reorgs. They lost people,
they changed the departments, they shifted things down, they got
rid of middle management. There wasn't an article in the
(34:21):
paper even written about it, and not a tear shed.
Federal employees aren't really doing anything and not even shown
up at work. They're out in the street protesting over
it and turning Elon Musk into somehow the head of
the National Socialist Party well nazi.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Yeah, Well, the federal government has already has personnel rules
in place to do everything that's being done. It's not
like they've come in and invented things. In fact, they're
being very generous with this, the buyout and the way
the buyout. Oh sure, and it has to be done.
(34:57):
And for a member of city council to think that
we don't spend enough money and that we shouldn't be
cutting is just irresponsible.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Listen, two trillion in additional expenditures from the federal government
annually beyond what they spend and take in in taxes.
We've dug ourselves into a monumental hole almost thirty seven
trillion dollars. The debt service is already a trillion dollars,
and someone's advocating to continue down that path. That person
(35:29):
is either financially as ignorant as a post or is
desirous of the end of the United States of America
as we know, because it's going to crash our fiat currency. Yeah,
she came off as a nefarious or stupid in either
case stupid.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
It's very emotional, no question about that.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Let's continue with Todd's zenser one more segment. I wish
we could talk for an entire day. Todds Enzer Gate
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They got these winding trails. It's trankful, it's peaceful. It's
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First on the forecas it's going to be mostly excided today,
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and evening seventy nine the high overnight it's going to
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(37:30):
Northbound seventy five slows out of Erlwiner into the cut.
Chuck Ingram on fifty five kre and see the talk station.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
It's Seine fifty five KR city talk station. Certainly an
eye opening hour here in the fifty five carre Sea mornings.
She would always did with is when toddzensers in the studio,
former Inspector General. Citizen Watchdog is his podcast check it out.
He's one of the few sources of information that we
get like this, and I am just I feel blessed
(37:59):
to be in a position to let folks know about it.
I think so few people really realize how our city
is being governed and what their objectives are, and they
seem to have nothing to do with the day to
day lives of the people that live in the city
of Cincinnati.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
Todd, Yeah, looking at this green Cincinnati Planet's almost as
if there's two different efforts in the city. One is
kind of the police, and fire, sewers, water, and then
there's this other group that's doing all these things about
the climate and it's kind of behind the scenes for
the most part. Yeah, and it's very well funded, very
(38:39):
well staffed, and it's energy and effort on the part
of the city staff that could be redeployed to help
with these core services. Exactly, Brian.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
I mean, our infrastructure is falling apart, and they're always
complaining about insufficient dollars. L was, what is that? What
are the motivations for selling the railroad? Absolutely, and then
we find out there's tens of millions of dollars being
thrown out there to hundreds of organizations for the purpose
of achieving some inachievable or unachievable climate goal.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
Yeah, I mean, and the workforce keeps getting bigger.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
Along those lines. Along those they're not hiring more people
to fix the roads or keep things sewn together.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
The hiring is going on in the city manager's office
and in the administrative staff in city Hall.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
If we can get people to apply for the job,
I mean, think of all the additional police officers we
can have. We can have a full contingent of police officers. Yeah,
that is a mystery to me why they're not fully staffed.
They seem to have this you know, one hundred or
one hundred and so deficit in terms of vacancies, and
it's just does I don't really understand it or pay
(39:55):
them more?
Speaker 3 (39:57):
I mean, you know, I mean the police officers.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
If you want to get more people of quality and
caliber that meet whatever expectations you have from a police officer,
if you just put that nonsensical expenditure of money that's
going into I don't know whatever green project, and you
just offer them they need it for five, five thousand
or ten thousand dollars extra year, you might get more
people signed up.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
For the job. Yeah. Well, they're not doing things to
attract candidates to the police force. In fact, they have this,
they have this defund the police effort going on with
three one one where they've hired what they call community responders. Yeah,
and they're sending those folks out to some of these
scenes instead of the police.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
Not armed, not prepared, not trained law enforcement officers are
more like defusers or counselors or something.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
Yeah, they're supposed to be mental health counselors and things
like that.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
Yeah, talk to some cop when things go sideways? Are
you gonna want a real cop there? You're gonna want
someone who's gonna talk about your feelings.
Speaker 2 (40:58):
Yeah, it seems to me if they want to do that,
it should be under the police department, and and that
would be a position that they could use to develop
and recruit more police officers. Have him start out as
these community responders and recruit them for the police force.
Speaker 3 (41:12):
That's an excellent idea. Gee imagine that, Oh, Todd, I'm
not quite sure where to go.
Speaker 1 (41:17):
You are supporting Corey Bowman though, I want to absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 2 (41:20):
Corey is very down to earth. I think he has
very very good intentions, and I think he wants to
be a good mayor.
Speaker 1 (41:29):
Well, you know, I've met him so many times, and
he is a good man. Yes, you know, he's a
sincere human being. I think he would be open to
some of the concepts that you talked about today. He
does absolutely want to better the city in terms of
taking care of infrastructure and making things well easier to develop.
I mean, he experienced his own problems in his own
(41:51):
neighborhood with developers who wanted to come in and do
some good for the neighborhood, only to be stopped by
the City of Cincinnati.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
Yeah, well, he's not going to be like arm mayor
that it always seems that the mayor is auditioning for something,
or that he's trying to get his ticket punched by
the National Party or by somebody in Washington. That there
is an agenda out there, we just don't know exactly
what it all includes.
Speaker 1 (42:14):
Well, and fortunately we have u Toadzender to talk about
what the agenda is behind the scenes, that they are
in fact pushing real time right now and where the
valuable and finite taxpayer dollars are actually being sent. Well,
one can only keep our fingers crossed that that evil
man Elon Musk will finally shut down massive quantities of
(42:35):
cash for these stupid green programs and those people will
have to go out and find real jobs. Toddsenzer get
in touch with his podcast Citizen Watchdog. You know you're
always welcome on the Morning Show. We could do this
like every single day. From my standpoint, we never would
accomplish getting through all the issues. But I cannot thank
you on behalf of all of my listeners for the
work that you do that you pay attention to all this.
(42:57):
You keep tabs on it, you write about it, you
do a podcast on it, and you're willing to come
on here on the morning show from time to time
to well vent your spleen, get it all of your system,
and make people more aware of the what I will
call shenanigan.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
So I appreciate it, Prian.
Speaker 3 (43:09):
My pleasure.
Speaker 1 (43:10):
Man.
Speaker 3 (43:10):
It has really been a treat having you on the show.
Speaker 1 (43:13):
Seven fifty five fifty five KRC, de Talk Station, The
return of Mandy Gunnasakara. She is the conservative pundit. In
honor of offer or other of y'all fired, we are
going to sort of continue along the same lines the
media and the left's obsession with ousting Pete Hegsatt and
their defense of the MS thirteen wife beater. That's after
the top of the our news, followed by iHeart media
(43:34):
aviation expert Jay Ratliffe at a thirty I'll be right back.
Speaker 4 (43:38):
Hus happens fast, stay up to date at the top
of the hour. Not going to be complicated, It's going
to go very fast. Fifty five KRC the Talk Station.
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