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The "Smither-vent" - Episode 117 - Our Corrupt Government at City Hall · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Seven twenty in fifty five KCD talk station on a
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  Speaker 1: Monday that means former vice mayor of the city. Since
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  Speaker 1: Saint Christopher's Spiman provides us with an opportunity or gives
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  Speaker 1: we give them an opportunity to ventist Sleen, we call
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  Speaker 1: it the Smith Van on the heels of my father
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  Speaker 1: and the Monday morning Spleen event. Welcome back, Christopher. Great
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  Speaker 1: to hear from you, and a very very happy or
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  Speaker 1: Merry Christmas to you and your family, my friend.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Merry Christmas to you, Brian Thomas and your whole family,
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  Speaker 2: and Marry Christmas to your very loyal listening audience. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I am appreciative that they tune in to your show
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  Speaker 2: like I do, and they give me an opportunity, you know,
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  Speaker 2: on Monday mornings to express things to them. So Merry
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  Speaker 2: Christmas to all of them, and I thank you for
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  Speaker 2: the opportunity to share my thoughts. Brian. The first thing
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  Speaker 2: that's on my mind is an autopsy of the local
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  Speaker 2: election that we just went through, and I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: hone in on one specific part of it, and I
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  Speaker 2: want to read iterate this to the public. We were
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  Speaker 2: all lied to in Cincinnati as we went into the
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  Speaker 2: local election. This is not about Christopher Smitherman. This is
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  Speaker 2: not about Corey Bowman. This is not about Liz Keating
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  Speaker 2: or Steve Gooden, as some examples. This is about a
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  Speaker 2: corrupt government at City Hall. I mean everything that I'm
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  Speaker 2: saying now. The public deserved to know that we were
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  Speaker 2: in settlement talks for eight point one million dollars to
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  Speaker 2: give to protesters downtown. There is no way that the
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  Speaker 2: city manager, the mayor, the entire city solicitor's office, whomever
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  Speaker 2: you want to talk about, and the media should have known.
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  Speaker 2: They should have been digging, They should have been asking questions.
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  Speaker 2: They should have been trying to say, what should we
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  Speaker 2: know going into this election? This administration hid that from
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  Speaker 2: the public. Do I believe that it would have changed
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  Speaker 2: the outcome of the election. No, But we deserved to
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  Speaker 2: have that information because Brian Thomas, as a person, a
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  Speaker 2: media personality, would have done a deep dive into that
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  Speaker 2: would have educated voters prior to voting that City Hall
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  Speaker 2: was about to settle eight point one million or total
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  Speaker 2: of maybe ten million because the lawyers are getting two million,
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  Speaker 2: and that the city was going to have to issue
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  Speaker 2: judgment bonds by the way in order to pay that debt,
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  Speaker 2: because they weren't going to pay the debt. We are
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  Speaker 2: paying the debt. We forget. We act like Mayor pure
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  Speaker 2: vall is going into his pocket with his repolled cars,
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  Speaker 2: taking the money and paying out the ten million. He's
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  Speaker 2: not the people that are in the city who are
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  Speaker 2: paying that income tax. We are the ones paying this bill.
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  Speaker 2: We des to know that information prior to the election.
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  Speaker 2: There is no media outlet in this town that has
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  Speaker 2: put that in black and white for us to see.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not focused on the A point one. I'm focused
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  Speaker 2: on the corruption. I'm focused on they hid that from us.
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  Speaker 2: And this is what's wrong with our local government's public
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  Speaker 2: that we don't do a deep dive and we don't
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  Speaker 2: look back and we don't think why didn't they tell
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  Speaker 2: us that prior to the election. It was right after
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  Speaker 2: the election. Oh, we've got this settlement. We're not going
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  Speaker 2: to trial, we're not gonna fight this, We're gonna surrender
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  Speaker 2: and we're just gonna give out ten million dollars of
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  Speaker 2: your money, pay the lawyers two million, and then send
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  Speaker 2: out eight point one million dollars to everybody else. And
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna issue judgment bonds in order to do that.
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  Speaker 2: While we're in settlement talks with Chief Washington, while we're
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  Speaker 2: in settlement talks with Chief cg meaning we know there's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be other settlements that were coming. We were aware
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  Speaker 2: of those things. We were absolutely unaware of this. And
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  Speaker 2: this is big because it absolutely impacts our police department.
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  Speaker 2: It impacts our budget, It impacts our trust of them,
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  Speaker 2: meaning we were to weigh in and said, no, we
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  Speaker 2: don't want you to settle that case. We want this
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  Speaker 2: to go to trial. What are our options as the taxpayers.
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  Speaker 2: The taxpayers were never brought in where there were any
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  Speaker 2: public hearings, any discussions for us other than them voting
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  Speaker 2: on the settlement. But we didn't have an opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: weigh in. Those who are paying the bill had no
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to weigh in and say we want to go
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  Speaker 2: to trial. I'd rather pay fifty million dollars and say
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  Speaker 2: we had our day in court. They give them a
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  Speaker 2: point one million. Is that fair, Brian Thomas?
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  Speaker 1: It's fair that you hold that opinion, Christopher. I understand
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  Speaker 1: where it's coming from all day long, and you know
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  Speaker 1: to the extent they were able to reveal what was
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  Speaker 1: going on in settlement negotiations.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: It could have been governed by the attorney clan privilege
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  Speaker 1: or but the reality that the lawsuit was filed and
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  Speaker 1: where we were in the lawsuit and what the subject
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  Speaker 1: matter of the lawsuit was should have been a topic
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  Speaker 1: of regular conversation. So we're at least all aware. And
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  Speaker 1: this settlement didn't come out of right field, which it
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  Speaker 1: seems to have come out of right field.
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  Speaker 3: Christopher.
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  Speaker 2: That right field that you described is the corruption that
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  Speaker 2: their lives, their lives, the corruption you and I understand
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  Speaker 2: it didn't come from right field. And if we had
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  Speaker 2: a paper of record that was willing to do their
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  Speaker 2: job to ask the tough questions that the way they
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  Speaker 2: used to do thirty or forty years ago, we would
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  Speaker 2: have had this information. And right now there's no opinion
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  Speaker 2: that's going in the paper saying this was wrong. The
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  Speaker 2: way it was handled was wrong. We were in the
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  Speaker 2: middle of an election and this government should have provided
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  Speaker 2: this information to the public. Where is that article? It
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  Speaker 2: doesn't exist. Does everybody seems to be working together, Brian
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  Speaker 2: Thomas to undermine the people. And this is what is
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  Speaker 2: so frustrating and why I wanted to start my my
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  Speaker 2: spleen bit this morning say I'm not focused on the
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  Speaker 2: eight million, eight point one million. I've already talked about that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm this morning talking about the corruption of the eight
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  Speaker 2: point one million and that's all tied into the Irish
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  Speaker 2: Roly contract that just happened to happen right after the election.
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  Speaker 2: Let's just drop down another six hundred and fifty plus
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  Speaker 2: thousand dollars to her. By the way, right after the election.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, two days later you call corruption? Hold on corruption. Well,
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  Speaker 3: I know he has more on his mind. We're out
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  Speaker 3: of time.
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  Speaker 1: In the segment seven twenty seven, we mentioned very quickly
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  Speaker 1: my friends are calling electric for residential electric needs. It's
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  Speaker 1: calling electric and I don't know, but I have a
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  Speaker 1: really strong cuency.
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  Speaker 3: Deep Talk Station.
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  Speaker 1: Seven thirty one fifty five Ker City Talk Station Bryan
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  Speaker 1: Thomas with a former vice mayor of the city since
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  Speaker 1: Saint Christopher's smitheman and.
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  Speaker 3: Heyby Mack Christopher.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: One of the interesting things I talked to Andre Ewing.
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  Speaker 1: Brother Drey was on the program last Friday, and I
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  Speaker 1: asked him specifical about i IRIS, who's been has very
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  Speaker 1: influential and he said, and I'm boiling down his comments too,
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  Speaker 1: And I asked him directly along the lines of well,
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  Speaker 1: if Iris Rawley had been against a FTAB per vol
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  Speaker 1: for whatever reason, if he rubbed her the wrong way
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  Speaker 1: or didn't agree to extend this contract for another however
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  Speaker 1: many years, the six hundred and fifty thousand dollars contract
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  Speaker 1: we learned about after the election, would it have changed
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  Speaker 1: the election? I specifically said, would Corey Bowman have won?
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  Speaker 1: And he said yes. Now, he's one man with one opinion,
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  Speaker 1: But that suggests that Iris Roley wields a tremendous amount
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  Speaker 1: of power among those who show up to vote in
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  Speaker 1: the city of Cincinnati.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, don't. I don't think. I don't agree there, But
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  Speaker 2: that's okay. I really have high respect for Andre. He's
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  Speaker 2: in his service to our city. But what I will say,
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  Speaker 2: and I think that both of us, Andrea and I
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  Speaker 2: would agree that she actively campaigned for him. So you
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  Speaker 2: have a contractor that's getting lots of money, and she's
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  Speaker 2: actively following Corey Bowman around, screaming at him, shouting at
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  Speaker 2: him during the debates or any event that he might
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  Speaker 2: go to. She's showing up and clowning. She was an
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  Speaker 2: arm of his campaign. The public doesn't understand that if
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  Speaker 2: you're a city employee, you're not supposed to do that.
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  Speaker 2: But what they've done is they they're slicing this thing. Well,
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  Speaker 2: she's not an employee, she's a ten ninety nine er.
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  Speaker 2: She's a contractor. So therefore, as she takes our money,
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  Speaker 2: she can engage directly in politics. She had a nepotism
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  Speaker 2: by giving fifty eight dollars an hour to family members
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  Speaker 2: and hooking up friends down there. And by the way,
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  Speaker 2: we had a whole discussion publicly about invoices that were submitted,
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  Speaker 2: lack of true transparency on our ROI helping young people.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of us believe that that money could be
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  Speaker 2: spent very differently with better outcomes. But why after the
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  Speaker 2: election do you give her the contract? It was a
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  Speaker 2: reward public. You did your job, soldier, you went out
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  Speaker 2: there and campaigned for me I want, and now you
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  Speaker 2: get your money. That's what we call corruption. We should
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  Speaker 2: have had all of this information. And by the way,
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  Speaker 2: the city manager isn't asking any more questions about what
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  Speaker 2: she's doing, how she's submitting her invoices, who's getting paid what,
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  Speaker 2: Knowing that family members are getting paid, friends and family
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  Speaker 2: are getting paid, no questions at all. Public. But guess what,
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  Speaker 2: elections have consequences. We knew that going into the election,
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  Speaker 2: and many in the city just didn't care. They were
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  Speaker 2: just so for Oh, I'm not going to vote for
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  Speaker 2: Corey Bowman. I'm going to vote for this guy right here.
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  Speaker 2: And then we find out after the election that his
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  Speaker 2: cars are being repolled. That you and I know as
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  Speaker 2: just financially literate people, that when your cars are being repolled,
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  Speaker 2: that they're calling you, writing you, reaching out to you.
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  Speaker 2: Your payment isn't made. He asks like, oh, this just
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  Speaker 2: fell out of the sky. They just came and refold
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  Speaker 2: my car in front of the city hall public. That
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  Speaker 2: is absolutely untrue. This is a guy that doesn't even
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  Speaker 2: know how to manage his own checkbook, and he's now
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  Speaker 2: taught now in charge of managing a billion dollar budget, which,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, we have a massive deficit that this
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  Speaker 2: city's going to have to resolve because COVID dollars are gone.
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  Speaker 2: There's no more offsets, so they're going to actually have
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  Speaker 2: to roll up their sleeves and actually do some work
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  Speaker 2: down there. But at the end of the day, this
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  Speaker 2: election was let me pay everybody off. Here's your eight
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  Speaker 2: point one million, two million dollars to the lawyers. And
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  Speaker 2: by the way, the lead lawyer is Irish Rowley's total
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  Speaker 2: best friend, meaning al Gerhardstein and Irish Rowley are tied
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  Speaker 2: at the hip. They're all this is the guy that
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  Speaker 2: brought the collaborative agreement to the City of Cincinnati. He
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  Speaker 2: wrote it. So Iris and him are on the same team, right,
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  Speaker 2: This is all the same thing. I would not be
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  Speaker 2: surprised that she wasn't even at the table for the negotiates,
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  Speaker 2: because they will bring Iris into the room. If you
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  Speaker 2: talk to the president and the FOP president, they bring
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  Speaker 2: her into meetings that there's no way in hell she
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  Speaker 2: should be in the room discussing anything. But my point is,
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  Speaker 2: at the end of the day, it boils down to
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  Speaker 2: one feed corruption and the second thing it boils down
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  Speaker 2: to is there what is the ROI the violence and
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  Speaker 2: skill happening throughout the winter. The violence will continue in
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  Speaker 2: the summer, and all of these people will continue to
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  Speaker 2: get paid.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the what results do we get from our
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  Speaker 1: money question? That no seems to be asking or following
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  Speaker 1: up on. Christopher Smithman hold on will come back just
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  Speaker 1: a moment here. I want to mention de talk station
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  Speaker 1: here at fifty five Karrose Detalk station, Christopher smithment on
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  Speaker 1: the phone doing an admirable job pointing out the fraud
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  Speaker 1: corruption going on in downtown Cincinnati. Christopher, what else is
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  Speaker 1: on your mind today?
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  Speaker 2: Look what is happening in Minnesota with the corruption. We
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  Speaker 2: have to keep our eye on that. There were thirteen
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  Speaker 2: people charged this week for medicaid fraud. Now, what is
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  Speaker 2: medicaid right? Medicaid is that safety net service that provides free,
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  Speaker 2: low cost health coverage for millions of people Americans who
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  Speaker 2: are in the category of low incomes. Why wouldn't the
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  Speaker 2: Democrats be I'm really angry to hear that someone from
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  Speaker 2: other countries were taking advantage of Americans who deserve and
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  Speaker 2: need the safety net services in the tune of eight
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  Speaker 2: billion dollars of corruption coming out of one state. So
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  Speaker 2: you know they're not serious because they're trying to explain
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  Speaker 2: this away. Put it on the back pages, no real articles,
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  Speaker 2: no deep dives. Thirteen people's were thirteen people were charged
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  Speaker 2: for medicaid fraud. Fifth week. Oh there going to be more?
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's that's on top of the ones who
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  Speaker 1: already charged. I mean, it's we're entering into the billions
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  Speaker 1: of dollars stolen in fraud, waste, and abuse.
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  Speaker 2: Right, not one billion, not one billion that they started with, right,
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  Speaker 2: you and I know this thing might hit eight, nine,
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  Speaker 2: ten billion dollars. That this is a deep hole, showing
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  Speaker 2: that the gu governors should have known or did know,
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  Speaker 2: that congressional members should have known or did know they
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  Speaker 2: were at campaigned events getting money from these people who
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  Speaker 2: were defrauding our government, taking money from the poor, from medicaid,
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  Speaker 2: the people that Democrats say they care so much about,
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  Speaker 2: and then took the money and sent it to their country, right,
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  Speaker 2: took lavish trips, traveled all around the world first class,
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  Speaker 2: spending our precious federal dollars for the poor. That is
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  Speaker 2: what is so crazy about this public That you have
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  Speaker 2: Democrats that are turning because they're more interested in gaining
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  Speaker 2: power in the midterm elections. They're more concerned about that
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  Speaker 2: than they are in exposing this fraud. So what they're
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  Speaker 2: trying to do is act like the federal government. Trump
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  Speaker 2: is on some rage, he's trying to undermine something. All
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  Speaker 2: he's doing is showing us here's a here's a state
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  Speaker 2: that is that is absolutely a deep state that is
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  Speaker 2: engaging in fraud against the poorest people in our country,
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  Speaker 2: our Americans who do who need this medicaid, these medicaid
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  Speaker 2: dollars that they've been taking, siphoning that money off for
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  Speaker 2: their own personal gain in order to help political candidates,
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  Speaker 2: and sending the money to Somalia. And by the way,
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  Speaker 2: Somalia is on that list consistently ranked as one of
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  Speaker 2: the most corrupt countries in the on the globe. So
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  Speaker 2: we already know, meaning people who are the world knows
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  Speaker 2: that Somalia's government doesn't have it together. And now all
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  Speaker 2: of a sudden we're seeing eight billion dollars of fraud,
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  Speaker 2: medicaid fraud. We've got to keep saying medicaid fraud. That
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  Speaker 2: that tells you that they were from the poor. The
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  Speaker 2: thing that the Democrats say they care so much about.
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  Speaker 1: Bryant Well, and you can focus on, yes, the program
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  Speaker 1: is designed to help the poorest out there, and yes,
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  Speaker 1: the Democrats typically hold the mantra of the party in
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  Speaker 1: favor of helping the poor. But this is an insult
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  Speaker 1: to every tax payer, taxpayers out there. Because I'm glad
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  Speaker 1: part of my taxpayers dollars go to Medicaid program because
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  Speaker 1: I want to help those in life's margins. Well, you
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  Speaker 1: know what, they don't care about monitoring the program so
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  Speaker 1: much so that you know they're they're they're wasting billions
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  Speaker 1: and billions of the dollars that you earn going to
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  Speaker 1: work every day and not doing anything about it. They
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  Speaker 1: can't admit that this is a good thing, the Democrats,
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  Speaker 1: because it exposes a weakness in the program. It's built
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  Speaker 1: to not find fraud, wasted abuse, or if it's run
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  Speaker 1: by an administration that doesn't care to look into it,
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  Speaker 1: they just ignore it, and the fraud wasted abuse continues
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  Speaker 1: and probably increases because word gets out that there aren't
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  Speaker 1: going to be any repercussions. Look new sheriffs in town.
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump, he gets doge going. They start looking out
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  Speaker 1: into the world and all these problems the PPP loans,
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  Speaker 1: the COVID relief money, everything else. They discover fraud, fraud, fraud, fraud,
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  Speaker 1: and every American taxpayer should be pissed off. If I
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  Speaker 1: may be so bold to use that phrase. They can't
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  Speaker 1: acknowledge it, they can't admit it, they can't concede it's
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  Speaker 1: a victory for the American taxpayer that we found all
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  Speaker 1: this and you know what, they're not even done yet
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  Speaker 1: finding all this, Christopher, they're.
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  Speaker 2: Not And the reality of it is, you and I
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  Speaker 2: understand you're on the right nerve here, Brian Thomas, because
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  Speaker 2: these programs they're taking money from us, and they're saying
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  Speaker 2: they're helping the poor, and what you and I are
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  Speaker 2: finding out they're not that they're taking our money and
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  Speaker 2: they're siphoning that money off of their own personal gain.
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  Speaker 2: That is so frustrating. Because our federal tax rates are
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  Speaker 2: so high, they keep taking more and more money. They
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  Speaker 2: keep saying they got to tax the heck out of
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  Speaker 2: us because there's not enough money. We need more money
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  Speaker 2: for safety and that services. And what the president and
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  Speaker 2: the administration is saying is no, we don't. All we
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  Speaker 2: have to do is identify where the corruption is. They're
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  Speaker 2: splenting of money. People are taking the money and using
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  Speaker 2: it for their personal gain. Let's get that out of
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  Speaker 2: the system and then see if we can lower taxes
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  Speaker 2: because we actually don't need as much. This just has
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  Speaker 2: me so angry because we have so many single moms
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  Speaker 2: out there, we have so many people who have disabilities,
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  Speaker 2: We have veterans out there who are depending on Medicaid
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  Speaker 2: as a safety net service for them. This hits everybody
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  Speaker 2: out here who needs safety net services. Democrats out here
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  Speaker 2: who do not understand where you and I are talking about.
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  Speaker 2: We are finding out that a governor and administration knew
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  Speaker 2: all about this most likely or should have known that
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  Speaker 2: eight or nine billion dollars was being taken out of
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  Speaker 2: Medicaid in order to help that state and those the
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  Speaker 2: poor people there. Many they were not getting the services
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  Speaker 2: they should have gotten because the money, the money was
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  Speaker 2: being stolen.
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  Speaker 1: Get the nail on the head on that one, Christopher,
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  Speaker 1: just one of a multitude, you know. I started out
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  Speaker 1: this morning having a go at the federal government itself.
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  Speaker 1: Joni Ernst asking for why the United States Postal Service
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  Speaker 1: can't account for twenty one thousand buildings. USPS doesn't even
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  Speaker 1: know what they're using them for, pivoting over the Pentagon,
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: failed its audit for the eighth consecutive year. They can't
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: pass an audit. They don't have the records to show
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: where the money's going. See this exists in every area
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: of government. I want accountability from the folks within government.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Trump administration Biden administration doesn't matter. I want accountability for
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: all these programs. I want some follow up. I want
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: some people like inspectors general minding the shop and looking
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: to see. First off, one is the program doing what
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: it's supposed to do, actually helping those on life's margins? Too,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: is the program being abused by fraud? And the answer,
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: at least in Minnesota was yes on that one. Wait
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: for it for the Pentagon. Maybe that someday they'll pass
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: an audit, we'll find out what they did.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: Give me one more minute. This will get your blood
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: boiling real quick, because this is why this Okay, this
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: is what happens. They then go to race and they
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: want to make you a racist and everybody a racist
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: for talking about what's happening with Somalia. So you're a
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: Somalian you now you say you're talking about the fraud.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: Now all of a sudden, you're a racist because you're
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: you're identifying the fraud. I want the public to know,
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: you've got to not allow them to get it to
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: the identity politics and get us away from the subject
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: matter of the corruption.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: That stipid argument to do that. It's just stupid. They
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: do it because people are doing it.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Because people cower in the in the in the face
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: of the accusation when it's not supported by any evidence whatsoever.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: I don't care if it's the Remulakians coming from the
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: planet of Remulac it started stealing, it doesn't matter. It's
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: the people who stole it. They stole what defines my
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: and your anger. People stealing money, anyone an American money.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter what country they came from, It doesn't
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: doesn't matter what part of the world they live in.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: But this is what they're doing right now. They're going
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: to Democrats are going to continue to try to do it.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: They're trying to call anybody that calls attention to this
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: a racist or an uncle Tom or someone who is
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: not connected. And I say, stay on this bone, follow
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: this story, and let's make sure we get Minnesota all
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: cleaned up here and this eight billion and nine billion dollars.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: We follow the money all the way to Congress and
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: figure out who was involved, put them in handcuffs, and
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: hold them accountable.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: You got my vote, they are you got my vote. Christopher.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much. I appreciate you. Brian Thomas Mery,
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: Christmas to you, brother
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: Merry Christmas to you and your family at all.