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The "Smither-vent" - Episode 135 - Connecting the dots · Brian Thomas

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Speaker 1: Seven nineteen at fifty five krs BE Talk station. It's Monday,
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Speaker 1: which means it is that time. I always look forward
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Speaker 1: to Monday at this time. Christopher Smith and former Vice
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Speaker 1: mayor of the City of Cincinnati. It remains vocal, well
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Speaker 1: actually in certain cases a critic of the antics of
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Speaker 1: Downtown Cincinnati Council members as well as the Mayor. I
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Speaker 1: have to have purvoll ryl Long Iris rolling everybody else
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Speaker 1: behind the scenes. Christopher smithman for the Smith event. Welcome back,
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Speaker 1: my friend, always loving you having on the fifty five
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Speaker 1: KRC Morning show.
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Speaker 2: Brother, thanks for having me on. I know you know
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Speaker 2: what I'm going to talk about, but I'm going to say,
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Speaker 2: I'm going to connect dots this morning. You know it's
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Speaker 2: going to be connect the dots. But you know we're
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Speaker 2: rolling out a petition and we're trying to address the
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Speaker 2: chaos that you've been talking about on your radio show.
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Speaker 2: Everybody knows who's been watching the hiring of a second
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Speaker 2: law firm to determine why they have terminated or placed
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Speaker 2: chiefdg On administratively makes no sense, and we know that
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Speaker 2: we're burning money doing it. Frost Brown and Todd is
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Speaker 2: a very reparable law firm and they couldn't find anything.
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Speaker 2: They tried to come up with some adjectives, but they
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Speaker 2: really couldn't find anything because nothing is in her file,
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Speaker 2: nothing for thirty five years. So this is the chaos
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Speaker 2: at city haul and I'm going to connect some dots
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Speaker 2: this morning on why I think these things are happening.
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Speaker 2: So we had this big brawl in downtown Cincinnati and
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Speaker 2: members of council, city manager and mayor said go arrest
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Speaker 2: to white people, and Alex Travinski was that person escapegoat.
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Speaker 2: And at the end of the day they went to
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Speaker 2: Chief CGI and said side off on on this terrest warrant.
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Speaker 2: And I bet you the mayor and the manager, maybe
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Speaker 2: a member of council were all present making phone calls
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Speaker 2: to the chief saying I want you to sign off
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Speaker 2: on this arrest warrant and I'm going to connect this
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Speaker 2: through the petition and Chief said, no, I'm not going
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Speaker 2: to do that. They also then went to the two
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Speaker 2: detectives who had said I've investigated this and Alex Travinsky
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Speaker 2: is not guilty of anything. As a matter of fact,
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Speaker 2: he got his butt kicked down there, and matter of fact,
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Speaker 2: he didn't start to fight because I can show you
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Speaker 2: the video. I can show you where the fight started
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Speaker 2: if you want to see it. Mayor pure vault. He
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Speaker 2: didn't want to see it. Those two detectives said, I'm
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Speaker 2: not going to sign off. So then they went to
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Speaker 2: a captain who is now the interim chief and said
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Speaker 2: will you sign off on this? And he said he would.
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Speaker 2: Now the word is his thought process was I didn't
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Speaker 2: I don't want anybody else to be impacted by this,
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Speaker 2: so I'm going to sign off on it. But he
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Speaker 2: now has been elevated as she Fiji was moved out
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Speaker 2: into the interim position. And so the reality of it
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Speaker 2: is we now know all charges have been dropped. We
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Speaker 2: know that this escape goat of from city council. We're
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Speaker 2: talking about the mayor, the manager. Most of the members
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Speaker 2: of council were standing at that press conference demanding that
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Speaker 2: a white person be erected. That Chief Fiji stood up
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Speaker 2: to the city Hall, to the administration and said, I
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Speaker 2: won't do it. Just the timing of it of saying
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Speaker 2: it's now time for you to go. We don't want
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Speaker 2: you here, and I want to share with everybody listening.
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Speaker 2: Look for the FBI to be involved. This is serious.
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Speaker 2: If you if the mayor and the manager and any
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Speaker 2: member of council were trying to get a law enforcement
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Speaker 2: offerer to sign off on something that they know is
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Speaker 2: not true, that is a problem. That is corruption. And
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Speaker 2: I'm letting you know that that Alex Travinski, you know,
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Speaker 2: I'm not talking directly to his lawyer. This is just
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Speaker 2: my compe sense. This will be the next massive lawsuit
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Speaker 2: against the City of Cincinnati in federal court. And when
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Speaker 2: they walk in and depose those detectives, when they Deposegi,
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Speaker 2: She's gonna tell the whole story. She's gonna sit that
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Speaker 2: have nothing. I'm gonna tell you everything. Why David say
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Speaker 2: administrative leaving not termination is because what she fig knows
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Speaker 2: what they don't want her to talk about, and they're
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Speaker 2: not smart enough to know that under deposition, she's not
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Speaker 2: lying for anybody. She's gonna tell the whole truth, nothing
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Speaker 2: but the truth. And somebody at City Hall's going down
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Speaker 2: And it's not gonna be a year, it'll be a
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Speaker 2: three year lawsuit. It'll be something massive. But at the
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Speaker 2: end of the day, I believe that this was the
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Speaker 2: thing that lit the wick that this city manager decided
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Speaker 2: without conversating with city halls, no member of council. This
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Speaker 2: is what she says. She says she didn't conversate with
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Speaker 2: the mayor, which I don't believe, and decided that she
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Speaker 2: was going to get rid of Chief Fiji. She was
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Speaker 2: the fall person for this whole case.
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Speaker 1: Wow, old statements from the former vice mayor of the
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Speaker 1: City of sin Sinnave and more to break down. We're
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Speaker 1: going to bring Christopher back and talk about some of
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Speaker 1: these more of this on this issue seven twenty five
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Speaker 1: right now for five or station Brian Timas a former
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Speaker 1: vice mayor of the city St. Christopher's Smitheman, So what
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Speaker 1: we call the Smithavn. Christopher Smithman, you got this petition
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Speaker 1: and apparently now it's been approved. I know there seem
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Speaker 1: to be some wrinkle in your petition to change how
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Speaker 1: police and fire chiefs are hired and fired in the city,
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Speaker 1: But it's a charter amendment that would require a majority
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Speaker 1: of city council to fill or vacate, in other words,
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Speaker 1: fire the top positions. You would need seven of the
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Speaker 1: nine council members and of course they would engage, hopefully
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Speaker 1: in a thoughtful debate about hiring and firing some people
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Speaker 1: are against the Now with the background of what you
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Speaker 1: just talked about with Alex Stravinsky, the group that some
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Speaker 1: of the council members, the city manager demanding that a
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Speaker 1: charge be filed against the men when there was no
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Speaker 1: criminal conduct reported by the officers on the scene. Let
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Speaker 1: me ask you a question. They're gonna put these two
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Speaker 1: in the same context. It was Cincinnati, Scott Wartman, since
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Speaker 1: a Quires Wartman who was interviewing, have to have purble
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Speaker 1: about this amendment that you're proposing. But also Scotty Johnson,
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Speaker 1: former police officer now councilman. Scotti Johnson said this amendment
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Speaker 1: would be reckless, claiming that a police chief having to
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Speaker 1: answer to nine council members would be chaotic, saying that
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Speaker 1: most people on council don't have a clue what the
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Speaker 1: Cincinnat police chief or fire chief even does. Wait a second,
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Speaker 1: didn't they intervene and force well ultimately interim police Chief
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Speaker 1: Henny to issue a citation when no one else, including
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Speaker 1: Police Chief Fiji, thought that there was a crime there
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Speaker 1: and would not cite the guy. Aren't they already micromanaging
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Speaker 1: the conduct of the police, Christopher, I know it's a
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Speaker 1: rhetorical string of the babbling question.
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Speaker 3: But the point, no, no, The only thing that would
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Speaker 3: add is we have to make sure that we continue
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Speaker 3: to remind your listening audience that they said a white person.
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Speaker 2: They didn't say an American, they didn't.
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Speaker 3: Just say a man or they said, oh, go and
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Speaker 3: arrest a white person.
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Speaker 2: That's right. And at that point, if you remember, the
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Speaker 2: Chair of Law and Public Safety's Gotti Johnson said he's
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Speaker 2: got one in the chamber, right. I mean, there was
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Speaker 2: some very wild language that was being used around this incident,
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Speaker 2: and all of them were wrong.
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Speaker 1: In Cyndiaria, We're wrong.
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Speaker 2: Yes, they were all wrong. All of them could have
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Speaker 2: gone down and said, hey, I'd like to see all
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Speaker 2: of the video. I'm the Chair of Law in Public Safety,
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Speaker 2: I'm the city manager, I'm the mayor, and see that
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Speaker 2: Alex Stravinsky did not start that fight. And what kills
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Speaker 2: me is this was going in an election. We can't
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Speaker 2: forget that when they were trying to gin up emotional
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Speaker 2: responses from black Americans that live in Cincinnati by saying, hey,
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Speaker 2: let's play to the worst and lowest common denominator. They
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Speaker 2: were playing what we call race politics going into the election.
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Speaker 2: And they didn't care whether they destroyed Alex Stravinsky's reputation.
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Speaker 2: They didn't care when they arrested him. And that's why
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Speaker 2: he should file a lawsuit for one hundred million dollars. Jesus,
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Speaker 2: he should file a lawsuits like every other black American
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Speaker 2: has filed against municipalities for civil rights issues. He should
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Speaker 2: do the same. It'll be one of those cases where
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Speaker 2: the country's gonna have to ask the question to white Americans,
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Speaker 2: Black Americans, Latino Americans, and Asian Americans have the same right.
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Speaker 2: Is racism real? I say it is. I say it
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Speaker 2: was racist that they stood at that press conference and
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Speaker 2: demanded that a white person be arrested.
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Speaker 1: It is.
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Speaker 2: So I don't need to hear I don't need to
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Speaker 2: hear from this mayor or any member of council about
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Speaker 2: what I'm doing as far as a petition. Here's what's
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Speaker 2: really happening. The mayor is really controlling this with a
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Speaker 2: hit in hand. There's no way the city manager terminates
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Speaker 2: any fire chief, any police chief without the knowledge of
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Speaker 2: the mayor, period. And so the mayor wants to hold
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Speaker 2: their power. City council wants to deny. They don't want
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Speaker 2: to really be involved. If you go ask the nine
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Speaker 2: members of council, if you ask anybody in the media.
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Speaker 2: They are chasing these nine members of council around, no comment,
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Speaker 2: no comment, I don't really know what's going on. The
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Speaker 2: city manager made the decision. She didn't talk to me.
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Speaker 2: That's what they like. No accountability, bringing the nine members
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Speaker 2: of council. When would you hear an elected say I
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Speaker 2: really don't want to have any more power. The petition
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Speaker 2: empowers them, It gives it. It takes power away from
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Speaker 2: the city manager and gives it to the nine members
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Speaker 2: of council. They don't want the power because they want
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Speaker 2: to stand in front of all of us and say,
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Speaker 2: I don't know, I have no idea. But they're the
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Speaker 2: hit in hand. They're the ones that are really pulling
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Speaker 2: the puppet strength of the manager and we don't know
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Speaker 2: about it. And I'm saying, list end this, Cincinnati, please
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Speaker 2: listen to this type of advice, this type of constructive,
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Speaker 2: very serious advice from the former Vice mayor. This is
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Speaker 2: a very good petition that citizens of Cincinnati should sign
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Speaker 2: and we should vote in the affirmative we get when
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Speaker 2: it gets on the ballot in November.
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Speaker 1: N till September fourth to get sixty nine hundred signatures,
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Speaker 1: and I have all the confidence in the world people
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Speaker 1: will sign it, Christopher. But doesn't what you just say
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Speaker 1: make more absurd? Aftab Pervol's response when asked about your petition,
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Speaker 1: he said, it seems concerning to make decisions around our
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Speaker 1: city's key public safety leadership more political. There is nothing,
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Speaker 1: nothing political going on behind the scenes as things exist,
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Speaker 1: is there, Christopher Jeese Louise right, And when we.
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Speaker 2: Come back, we can talk about somebody who's not even elected,
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Speaker 2: who's not an administrator, who's a consultant by the name
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Speaker 2: of Iren Browley, who's right down there in city Hall,
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Speaker 2: having the full year of the city manager and really
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Speaker 2: directing the decisions of our police department.
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Speaker 1: Through her and maybe one of the people advocating and
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Speaker 1: make sure a white guy got charged in that brawl.
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Speaker 2: M I will speculate on that and the depositions is
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Speaker 2: all going to come out.
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Speaker 1: That certainly will be a wonderful gift from litigation. Don't
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Speaker 1: go away. More with Christopher Smithman, including a little rundown
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Speaker 1: about his upcoming empower You summinar on Thursday seven PM
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Speaker 1: of what the future is for the City of Cincinnati.
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Speaker 1: Pause for a moment. Let me mention my friends at twenty
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Speaker 1: two three on Route forty two between Mason.
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Speaker 2: And Left, see the talk station.
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Speaker 1: Seven thirty nine if anybod kers talk station action on
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Speaker 1: the weather chance of spotty showers Wednesday afternoon, without further
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Speaker 1: ado more with Christopher Smitheman has got to the power
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Speaker 1: you someone are coming up, but you want to get
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Speaker 1: a little bit more to talk about. Maybe the Irish
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Speaker 1: Roly consultant issue is also crupt into the equation here, Christopher.
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Speaker 1: That also political. If she's involved, it's political.
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Speaker 2: It is. And what I want to be clear about
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Speaker 2: is the reason Alex Travinsky's case is going to be
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Speaker 2: so significant and will make national news is that there
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Speaker 2: is this narrative that black Americans can't be racist. That
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Speaker 2: is not true. And so what is going to be
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Speaker 2: proven in the court of law is you're going to
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Speaker 2: have an elected official who has all the power, the
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Speaker 2: President pro tim, the Chair of Law and Public Safety,
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Speaker 2: the Vice mayor of the city, the mayor of the city,
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Speaker 2: all saying go out and arrest the white person, and
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Speaker 2: directing our highest officer, our police chief, to go and
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Speaker 2: execute that arrest and when she refused, and then they
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Speaker 2: went to the detectives, and the detectives refused. They found
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Speaker 2: somebody who would tyne off on it all based on race.
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Speaker 2: And so this notion that black Americans can't be racist
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Speaker 2: is going to be challenged in federal court. It is
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Speaker 2: going to be an astronomical case because it's gonna it's
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Speaker 2: gonna show, it's gonna really send them a tidal way
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Speaker 2: across our fifty states. Everybody better wake up that the
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Speaker 2: human condition of race is with all of us. There
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Speaker 2: is no race that can't be racist. Period. You can
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Speaker 2: make judgments. There is no race that can't be prejudiced. Right,
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Speaker 2: you can prejudge, and then you could take it to
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Speaker 2: the next levels. Matter of fact, I have prejudices myself.
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Speaker 2: I do not like selfish people that really bothered me.
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Speaker 2: That is a prejudgment that I have and I have
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Speaker 2: to work through it. So prejudices occur. Everybody isn't a racist,
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Speaker 2: but your race in itself does not pull you out
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Speaker 2: and say I can't make decisions based on race. And
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Speaker 2: so when you have all of these electors with all
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Speaker 2: of this power, the whole government standing out a mic
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Speaker 2: saying you better arrest a white person. Don't tell me
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Speaker 2: that's not racism. That's exactly what that was. And here's
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Speaker 2: a man who got his head kicked in like a
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Speaker 2: football for everybody to see, for the whole world to
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Speaker 2: witness by black Americans just because he was standing out
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Speaker 2: there white. Because what they lied about is they said
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Speaker 2: he used the inWORD. There's no proof of that. There's
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Speaker 2: no video of that. If you heard the inWORD, you
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Speaker 2: couldn't tell whether it was those in the crowd using
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Speaker 2: the inwork or whether it's somebody that was getting their
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Speaker 2: head kicked in using the inWORD. There's no proof of that.
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Speaker 2: Here's the proof we have. He didn't start to fight.
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Speaker 2: Somebody came and punched him in the back. We got
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Speaker 2: that on video, and we know that members of council
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Speaker 2: stood and so the whole city. You're better go arrest
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Speaker 2: a white person and guess what that is racism? And
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Speaker 2: that's what I want to share with the whole world
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Speaker 2: this morning, that black Americans can be racist. And we
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Speaker 2: absolutely saw it on that day. It was the worst
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Speaker 2: of the worst. A President pro tem that said they
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Speaker 2: got what they deserved. The President pro tem, a black
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Speaker 2: American and you've got the Chair of Law and Public
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Speaker 2: Staking who's saying my petition is bad, saying go out there,
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Speaker 2: I got one in the chamber. Yeah, and now we
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Speaker 2: know that everything they said was a lie.
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Speaker 1: And say we want if you want to draw conclusions
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Speaker 1: that are negative to Alex Stravinsky, pivot over to Holly,
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Speaker 1: because the day that the President pro tem was referred
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Speaker 1: to was not just Alex getting what he deserved, but
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Speaker 1: also Holly, who got punched in the face, merely rendering
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Speaker 1: aid to someone who's the victim of the beat down
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Speaker 1: that was directed at her as well.
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Speaker 2: Can you imagine love in the box watching that video.
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Speaker 2: Can you imagine any of us in there saying this
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Speaker 2: makes any sense? And so the city better get ready
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Speaker 2: with what we call a judgment bond, right, meaning so
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Speaker 2: many judgment bonds have happened do to in the in
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Speaker 2: the in the in the early two thousands, in the
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Speaker 2: in the nineties police misconduct. There are things that happened
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Speaker 2: that were bad in this city that birthed the collaborative
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Speaker 2: agreement that needed to be changed within our police culture,
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Speaker 2: not just here but across the country. But this is
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Speaker 2: an example of where you have government where black Americans
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Speaker 2: are in power, and they were telling everybody in the city,
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Speaker 2: in the region, you better go arrest a white person.
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Speaker 2: And they found a person named Alex Travinsky. They arrested him.
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Speaker 2: And by the way, the judge that said no charges,
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Speaker 2: black American blackmail judge said, listen, we're throwing We're throwing it.
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Speaker 2: We're throwing the charges out. So good luck city Hall,
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Speaker 2: good luck Irish Lowly, good luck all of you people
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Speaker 2: who had conversations with Chief Fiji and directed her to
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Speaker 2: arrest somebody. Because when this case is all over and
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Speaker 2: she's sitting down for a deposition, if she says that
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Speaker 2: the mayor, do you call me that the city manager
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Speaker 2: did it call me that I heard from the chair
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Speaker 2: maybe of Law and Public Safety, that maybe I heard
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Speaker 2: from the Vice mayor. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is
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Speaker 2: going to get involved if they're not involved already, and
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Speaker 2: if they aren't involved, they should get involved.
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Speaker 1: If I was a betting man, Christopher, I'd have my
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Speaker 1: money down on them being involved. So I'll tell you
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Speaker 1: what you got ton empower you Someminar coming up on Thursday,
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Speaker 1: wanna pause, bringing back and let's talk about a little
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Speaker 1: bit of what you're going to be talking about coming
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Speaker 1: up seven forty five right now. One more with Christopher
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Speaker 1: smith before we get the money money Brian seven nine,
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Speaker 1: I think you about car City Talks Stasian Brian Thomas
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Speaker 1: with Christopher Smithman wrapping up a Monday Morning Smith e Van.
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Speaker 1: Here we'll hear from Brian James up the top of
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Speaker 1: the our News Monday Monday's Brian James, a bunch of
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Speaker 1: topics with him, and real quick here, Christopher. I know
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Speaker 1: you're doing it in a seminar empower You Thursday night,
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Speaker 1: seven pm at the empower Use Seminar Studio or log
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Speaker 1: in from home empower you America dot Org. And I
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Speaker 1: know you're going to be talking about the future of
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Speaker 1: the City of Cincinnati. I just have to get this
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Speaker 1: out because it's driving me crazy. Christopher, our wonderful lords
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Speaker 1: and masters City of Cincinnati, the mayors and a bunch
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Speaker 1: of council people showed up on I guess Friday, to
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Speaker 1: put a shovel in the ground, Oh Lord of Lords,
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Speaker 1: great wonderful the Center Hill Solar Ray project, which they
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Speaker 1: claim is going to develop ten megawatts of solar power energy,
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Speaker 1: paid for by twenty four million dollars. It's going to
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Speaker 1: be managed by an outside entity called U Power Energy,
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Speaker 1: which I looked up as kind of a real woke
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Speaker 1: so called energy provider or consolidatedor whatever they do. But
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Speaker 1: it's it's farmed out. I don't know what the purpose
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Speaker 1: of this Christopher is, but to the extendus and efforts
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Speaker 1: for the city of Cincinnat to have an impact globally.
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Speaker 1: I just look in the four years of Russia's full
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Speaker 1: scale invasion of Ukraine. That war has generated three hundred
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Speaker 1: and eleven million metric tons of carbon dioxide, which volume
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Speaker 1: is contributed is comparable to the annual greenhouse gas emissions
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Speaker 1: of France and half of Germany every single year. So
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Speaker 1: two entire countries worth of carbon dioxide has been belched
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Speaker 1: out in the world because of one conflict. Now, that
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Speaker 1: doesn't take into account all the volcanoes that have blown up,
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Speaker 1: the wildfires that have gone on, the other military conflicts
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Speaker 1: raging in the world that have also put out tons
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Speaker 1: and tons of carbon dioxide in the world. Do you
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Speaker 1: think the city of Cincinnati can have any impact globally
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Speaker 1: on carbon dioxide? Don't answer it. I know the answer
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Speaker 1: is no. So why in God's name of the spending
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Speaker 1: valuable and scarce city taxpayer dollars to do this crap.
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Speaker 2: It's because of its value signally to their base. They
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Speaker 2: want to run for something else. So imagine a commercial
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Speaker 2: where they're in a primary, not a general election, and
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Speaker 2: they want to say I've done something. This is seeding
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Speaker 2: red meat to their base. But see, I just if
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Speaker 2: they're doing something.
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Speaker 1: But it's not doing anything.
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Speaker 2: It's just it's telling me you're you're logical. It's not
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Speaker 2: that this is this is them playing politics with our money.
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Speaker 2: If it were their money, they never do it. But
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Speaker 2: when they're in a primary, watch what I tell you.
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Speaker 2: Watch Mayor pure Vall with a commercial highlighting this project.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, running for Congress, running for running for president
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Speaker 2: in his mind, running for governor. Right, he's going to
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Speaker 2: he's going to highlight this, but he's willing to spend
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Speaker 2: our millions and millions and millions of dollars in order
20:23
Speaker 2: for him to do it. We know that it's meaningless,
20:26
Speaker 2: we know that it's a it's a it's a mess.
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Speaker 2: And what makes it even crazy is that we have
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Speaker 2: a thirty something million dollar deficit at the same time
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Speaker 2: and what they're going to try to tell the tell
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Speaker 2: the citizens of cinciniety in some way, this is going
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Speaker 2: to impact the deficit. We're gonna save money. And that's
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Speaker 2: that's your point. This is a waste of money, it's
20:44
Speaker 2: a waste of time. And if you talk to any
20:48
Speaker 2: dealership right now, anybody's running a dealership what cars, aren't
20:53
Speaker 2: selling electric cars. They're sitting there right. The reality of
20:58
Speaker 2: it is, there's a backlash to see me one day
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Speaker 2: said they wanted an electric fire truck. I mean, the
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Speaker 2: reality of it is, Look, look, none of this stuff
21:06
Speaker 2: makes sense, and so that's why you see now what
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Speaker 2: does make sense is making a car's more efficient, gas
21:13
Speaker 2: vehicles more efficient, which is absolutely happening. Your vehicle is
21:16
Speaker 2: more efficient today than it was thirty years ago, ten
21:19
Speaker 2: years ago, five years ago, no question about it. Right,
21:22
Speaker 2: But electric cars are bougie, meaning you'll have to have
21:25
Speaker 2: an electric car and a gas car if you're going
21:28
Speaker 2: from Cincinnati to Detroit four hundred miles, or you're trying
21:31
Speaker 2: to go from here to Florida. You can't go on
21:33
Speaker 2: one charge. And there isn't a system in place to
21:37
Speaker 2: support an electric car. So all of those liberal people
21:40
Speaker 2: out there that are driving cars and trying to make
21:42
Speaker 2: us feel bad about it. The reality of it is
21:44
Speaker 2: you and I know it is literally just value signaling
21:48
Speaker 2: or it is some type of economic statement. I can
21:51
Speaker 2: afford this car and another car because you cannot have boat.
21:55
Speaker 2: You gotta have one. It's the truth. It's the truth.
21:58
Speaker 2: I'm driving this electric car. You can see this. But
22:01
Speaker 2: when they park that car and they're taking their family
22:03
Speaker 2: to Florida, they don't get in that electric car because
22:05
Speaker 2: there is not a system in place in order to
22:08
Speaker 2: charge that car. Now to your point of this, wonderful
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Speaker 2: Dan reaganall, that's how I tie empower you. What a
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Speaker 2: wonderful organization, wonderful people who've been working and working and
22:20
Speaker 2: working to just educate. Meaning they're saying, I want to
22:23
Speaker 2: empower all of you out here with information. And I'm
22:27
Speaker 2: honored months ago that they have invited me to come
22:31
Speaker 2: and talk. And so there'll be a number of issues
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Speaker 2: that I will talk about. Our budget deficit, for example,
22:38
Speaker 2: you'll hear me talk about the Cincinnati Pension Plan, the
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Speaker 2: retirement system plan, which is very very important to taxpayers
22:45
Speaker 2: in the city of Cincinnati. You're hearing me talk about
22:48
Speaker 2: the police department and the pension and the negotiations of
22:51
Speaker 2: the FOP right that coming up right now, you're going
22:54
Speaker 2: to have the fire department coming in with their negotiations.
22:58
Speaker 2: That's why you see city Hall saying I'm broke, I'm broke,
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Speaker 2: I'm broke, I'm broke, because they know that police, Fire,
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Speaker 2: ask me and code are coming to the table to
23:06
Speaker 2: negotiate their contract. And they always do this during those negotiations.
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Speaker 2: But this mayor doesn't have good sense because he's out
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Speaker 2: here spending money on music venues, on solar panels, over
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Speaker 2: here giving eight point one million dollars to people downtown
23:21
Speaker 2: who are involved in a riot. They are just throwing
23:24
Speaker 2: money all around. But when they get to the table
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Speaker 2: to tell everybody else, that's bro But I'm just so
23:28
Speaker 2: honored to be there and participate and empower you and me.
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Speaker 2: Just they're giving information because it's really nonpartisan. It's just
23:38
Speaker 2: here's the information, and then people citizens are able to
23:41
Speaker 2: ask questions about what is actually going on, and that's
23:44
Speaker 2: the key. But I want to end by telling you this,
23:47
Speaker 2: Brian Thomas. I want everybody to just close their eyes
23:51
Speaker 2: as we close out, and I want you to think
23:55
Speaker 2: about a press conference of all white people, a white mayor,
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Speaker 2: a white city manager, of majority white members of council.
24:03
Speaker 2: Close your eyes and think about that. And there's an
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Speaker 2: incident in downtown Cincinnati where white citizens are beating the
24:10
Speaker 2: hell out of Black Americans in the middle of the street,
24:14
Speaker 2: kicking them in the head, acting like they're in some
24:17
Speaker 2: wrestling www powers, slamming them to the ground right, punching
24:23
Speaker 2: them and knocking them out. Imagine white citizens doing that
24:27
Speaker 2: collectively to five or ten Black Americans in the middle
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Speaker 2: of downtown Cincinnati. Imagine that, and imagine these white electors
24:35
Speaker 2: get on the mic and say, at the end of
24:37
Speaker 2: this and you better go and arrest a black Americans.
24:43
Speaker 2: You better arrest a black Americans. Tell me if you
24:47
Speaker 2: wouldn't see an uproar on MSNBC, CNN, Fox News everywhere,
24:53
Speaker 2: tell me that Irish role he wouldn't be marching in
24:56
Speaker 2: downtown Cincinnati if there were a group of white people
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Speaker 2: beating Black Americans like animals in the middle, punching Holly,
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Speaker 2: a black woman in the face, and knocking her out
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Speaker 2: where all of us thought that that black woman was dead.
25:09
Speaker 2: This was a white woman, right. If they're so in
25:12
Speaker 2: bold in that city, Hall that they think that they
25:15
Speaker 2: can go on a mic as black Americans in our culture.
25:19
Speaker 2: This is this woke democratic a base and say go
25:24
Speaker 2: arrest a white person who has now been completely vindicated, Yeah,
25:28
Speaker 2: completely vindicated. If anybody who's listening to this knows that
25:32
Speaker 2: if this was reverse right, if black, if white people
25:36
Speaker 2: were on a mic and saying the same thing, we
25:39
Speaker 2: would have holy crap breaking out in the city of
25:41
Speaker 2: Cincinnati right now. Why didn't it break out here? Black
25:46
Speaker 2: Americans can be racist and we've got to hold them
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Speaker 2: accountable in court here?
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