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Vote for Cory Bowman for Mayor · Brian Thomas

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Speaker 2: Eight oh five. If you're fifty five KRCD talk station.
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Speaker 3: Happy Friday, Eve, who's really blessed to see Corey Bowman
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Speaker 3: yesterday's listener to lunch course running from mayor of the
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Speaker 3: City of Cincinnati. And hopefully he's got a chance more
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Speaker 3: probably more of a chance now than we've even seen
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Speaker 3: in a long long time. I think you have to
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Speaker 3: go back to Brad Winstrom's efforts to become mayor, and
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Speaker 3: he came in at forty seven percent, So there's a
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Speaker 3: glimmer of hope in that reality. Maybe Corey Bowman can
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Speaker 3: push it over the top of fifty percent. Welcome back
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Speaker 3: to the fifty five krs Morning Show in studio, Corey
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Speaker 3: Bowman Corey Bowman dot com.
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Speaker 4: Hey, thank you for having me, Brian, thank you for
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Speaker 4: all your listeners for having me. That was a fun
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Speaker 4: day yesterday. I'm glad you're able to be there. It
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Speaker 4: was awesome, awesome. I always love the food over at
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Speaker 4: Jim and Jacks too. They sleep on the Buffalo chicken wrap.
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Speaker 4: I always have that every time I'm there.
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Speaker 3: I had the fried fish and I strongly recommend it's
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Speaker 3: a really, really wonderful thing. Westside, Jim Kiefer was sitting
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Speaker 3: there eating his I'm like, well, I know what I'm
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Speaker 3: having for lunch, Dave, you give me one of those
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Speaker 3: so ice cool beer. Great fellowship, and you mentioned Dave
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Speaker 3: Hatter tech Friday's Tomorrow Morning. Every listener knows that regular
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Speaker 3: listeners on Friday at six thirty Mayor of Fort Wright,
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Speaker 3: and he showed up a listener lunch too. Sorry, Dave,
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Speaker 3: I forgot to mention you earlier. In addition, we saw
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Speaker 3: Christopher Smith and Steve Gooden, Liz Keening, Betsy Sunderman, I
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Speaker 3: just going down the list that I am, and Holly Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: It was awesome to see everybody come together, and I
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Speaker 4: mean it was a packed crowd, especially for an afternoon
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Speaker 4: lunch right there, mister Hatter. That was awesome meeting him
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Speaker 4: because I had heard his voice on your show.
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Speaker 2: You didn't know what he looked like. No, no, and
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Speaker 2: met him and you know, he was awesome.
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Speaker 4: Looks like, you know, some hippie that's able to just
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Speaker 4: you know, school people on every different subject imaginable.
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Speaker 2: So it was really cool to get in touch with him.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a he is just a brilliant, brilliant man.
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Speaker 3: Said wouldn't be How cool is it to have a
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Speaker 3: brilliant man like that as as your mayor? And I said, well,
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Speaker 3: how cool would it be to have Viva Gramis for
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Speaker 3: me as your governor? You know another person who's brilliant
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Speaker 3: and has really great ideas and has a problem solver.
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Speaker 3: So anyway, a little plug for tomorrow Tech Friday with
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Speaker 3: Dave had Ter. Good to see yesterday, Dave, if you're
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Speaker 3: out there Court Bowman, I was asking you. You have
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Speaker 3: it your church, your minister at your church, but you
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Speaker 3: also have this coffee shop. We've talked about it before.
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Speaker 3: Located in the West End. Yes, sir, what I would
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Speaker 3: say and correct me if I'm wrong? Would you describe
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Speaker 3: it as one of the struggling neighborhoods that we talk
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Speaker 3: about all the time in the Morning show, neighborhoods plagued
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Speaker 3: with crime or maybe roads are having a problem. There's
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Speaker 3: lots of empty space that could be developed. Am I
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Speaker 3: accurately describing?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 4: What I tell people is that the West End has
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Speaker 4: been really the dumping grounds of all these failed policies.
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Speaker 4: It just so happens that when these policies creep over
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Speaker 4: to Hyde Park or in these other neighborhoods.
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Speaker 2: Then people start paying it.
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Speaker 4: Actually, And so I think that's given me a perfect
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Speaker 4: perspective on what government programs do to a community that
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Speaker 4: really cripple it, that concentrate the poverty, that concentrate the crime,
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Speaker 4: shuts down businesses. But at the same time, the West
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Speaker 4: End is our home. That's an area that we believe
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Speaker 4: in most in Cincinnati.
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Speaker 3: I know you do, and you're committed to it. And
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Speaker 3: you had to convince your business partner that creating a
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Speaker 3: new business in that particular neighborhood was a good idea. Yeah, listen,
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Speaker 3: if you and I were having that conversation today and
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Speaker 3: you were talking about Brian, I really once you invests
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Speaker 3: I'm going to open a coffee shop, it's going to
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Speaker 3: be in the West End. Like I'd be like, wait
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Speaker 3: a minute, you mean right down the street from where
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Speaker 3: those buildings were getting shot at. You mean right down
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Speaker 3: the street from where those murders were, I mean right
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Speaker 3: down the street from where that drug dealing is going on.
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Speaker 3: And you would have said, yeah, it's worked out, though
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Speaker 3: it does.
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Speaker 4: And I think that this is kind of like what's
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Speaker 4: becoming like my life's pursuit as being a Cincinnatian.
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Speaker 2: You know, it's the heart.
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Speaker 4: It's always an uphill battle try to convince somebody that
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Speaker 4: Cincinnati chili is good that's not from Cincinnati. It's always
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Speaker 4: hard to convince somebody to be a Bengals or a
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Speaker 4: Reds fan that's not a fan initially. And so at
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Speaker 4: the same time, when it comes to the West End,
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Speaker 4: it's for people to see the potential based on whether
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Speaker 4: it be the crime or whether it be what they see.
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Speaker 4: But this is an area that we believe in and
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Speaker 4: whenever I talk to my cowner, there's a lot of
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Speaker 4: different areas you can go to in Cincinnati, and all
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Speaker 4: of them are great neighborhoods. But I just have this
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Speaker 4: belief that you need to go where you're needed most,
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Speaker 4: not necessarily where the tolerance is going to be or
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Speaker 4: whether you're going to see the most success initially, but
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Speaker 4: go someplace where you can make a true impact and
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Speaker 4: then from that you're going to see success.
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Speaker 3: And since and I started out the question like how's
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Speaker 3: the business doing, and you would talk about your your
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Speaker 3: eyes lit up. You're like, Oh, it's really good. We
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Speaker 3: got this organic growth and development. You got a whole
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Speaker 3: bunch of young people from UC coming down to the
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Speaker 3: coffee show, people of all makes and models. I mean,
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Speaker 3: this is and it's a welcome environment. Other people saw
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Speaker 3: your success and are now starting to invest in the area.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: And so when the first year that we were there
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Speaker 4: was actually the year that we went to the Super Bowl, right,
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Speaker 4: and so the West End streets were actually lined up
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Speaker 4: with investors and developers that were ready to actually invest
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Speaker 4: in the West End and other areas of Cincinnati.
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Speaker 2: Well, and also FC Cincinnati is up around the street.
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Speaker 3: I mean that that was that was a big draw
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Speaker 3: for I mean they put that there in a struggling neighborhood.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I think with the idea that you're going to regentrify
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Speaker 3: the whole West End area through.
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Speaker 4: The well, what ends up happening is that a lot
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Speaker 4: of these city policies and it's two way battle. The
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Speaker 4: business owners are trying to find a way to be profitable.
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Speaker 4: So they're looking for all the incentives they can, They're
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Speaker 4: looking for all the tax breaks that they can, right,
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Speaker 4: But then On the flip side, you have a lot
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Speaker 4: of government programs, a lot of city initiatives that are
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Speaker 4: pushing for zoning or pushing for just a lot of
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Speaker 4: it's kind of victorial in my opinion. You're you're forcing
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Speaker 4: what a building needs to be in instead of letting
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Speaker 4: the market and the community decide what it needs to be.
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Speaker 2: I mean that like fascists would do.
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Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, maybe yeah, so but what I see it
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Speaker 4: as that really stunts the growth, and so a lot
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Speaker 4: of these initial developers and investors they kind of jump
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Speaker 4: ship once they saw that this was going to be
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Speaker 4: a long term thing. They're going to have to fight
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Speaker 4: the city on things. There's a lot of red tape.
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Speaker 4: But right now what we're seeing is that on our
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Speaker 4: specific block, the crime in our specific block has gone down.
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Speaker 4: And then also you have a lot of different development
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Speaker 4: that's finally starting to pick up in the area. And
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Speaker 4: that's what we need in these areas. We need thriving businesses,
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Speaker 4: we need grocery stores, we need to be able to
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Speaker 4: have things that the community can do. When you ask
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Speaker 4: anybody on the street, when you talk to them about
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Speaker 4: youth violence, they say, well, the youth don't have anything
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Speaker 4: to do right now, they only have homes to go
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Speaker 4: to that our government subsidize house that a lot of
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Speaker 4: times the water or the electric is turned off, and
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Speaker 4: then at night they don't really have any place to
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Speaker 4: hang out or anything to do because the businesses are
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Speaker 4: shut down. And we're looking to change that in the
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Speaker 4: West End and any other struggling neighborhood in Cincinnati.
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Speaker 3: I guess canoeing down the Mill Creek doesn't quite cut it. Then, sorry,
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Speaker 3: I had to take a cheap shot on that one.
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Speaker 3: I thought that was a preposterous idea. Well, and as
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Speaker 3: someone else turned in, Richard, thank you very much, rent
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Speaker 3: is cheap on the west in the West End, so
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Speaker 3: it's a good opportunity. They save money on that expense
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Speaker 3: while you're building this new growth. And so what all
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Speaker 3: this suggests and leads to is you live there, your
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Speaker 3: church is there, your business is successful there. You had to,
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Speaker 3: like others who walked away from the idea, navigate the
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Speaker 3: challenges of building that business.
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Speaker 2: And that's nowhere're navigating.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know where the red tape is, you know
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Speaker 3: where the stupid impediments are, and I presume that will
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Speaker 3: be top of your job priorities. If you're elected mayor,
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Speaker 3: that's one of the things you're going after.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, what we see is so what we're experiencing
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Speaker 4: right there, what my front row seat shows me is
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Speaker 4: that we need clean streets, we need safe streets, and
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Speaker 4: we need prospers streets. There was many people have heard
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Speaker 4: me say this, all right, but there was a week
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Speaker 4: where people couldn't even come to my business because of
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Speaker 4: the snowplower moval in our area.
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Speaker 2: And then if you look at the streets.
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Speaker 3: That's not a hilly neighborhood, no Mount Adams not talking
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Speaker 3: about Yeah okay.
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Speaker 4: And so for a business like us that's in our
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Speaker 4: first year, a week like that could be detrimental to
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Speaker 4: your business model. And so thank god that we had
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Speaker 4: the residential that were coming in their snow boots and
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Speaker 4: that we're walking in. But for a business that relies
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Speaker 4: on visitors in the city, that's huge, right. And then
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Speaker 4: you look at the streets. A lot of times we
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Speaker 4: have these trucks. This this happens so much to us
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Speaker 4: is that we'll see the construction crews come in, right,
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Speaker 4: We'll see the road crews come in, and we get
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Speaker 4: so excited about they're finally gonna do it, and then
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Speaker 4: they have one strip of stuff that they've taken out
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Speaker 4: because they're gonna put a water line or a gas
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Speaker 4: line in, and then they just patch that over. It's
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Speaker 4: the worst patch job I've ever seen. And then they
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Speaker 4: leave the street that way. I'm like, wait, we thought
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Speaker 4: they were gonna pave our road. We thought they were
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Speaker 4: gonna There's a pothole in front of my parking spot
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Speaker 4: on the side of York Street that's been there for
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Speaker 4: three years.
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Speaker 2: Never been fixed before.
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Speaker 4: And so this is kind of what we see is
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Speaker 4: we get this excitement once we see the road crews
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Speaker 4: come in. Then we realize, oh gosh, they're only gonna
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Speaker 4: take one strip or like a three foot strip of
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Speaker 4: the road just to put a line in and then
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Speaker 4: patch it over.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, asking the obvious question, I mean, logically and reasonably speaking,
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Speaker 3: they have obligations to make sure the roads are paved.
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Speaker 3: There are four hundred million dollars behind in their obligation,
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Speaker 3: years and years behind in doing that. All the equipment's
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Speaker 3: right blank and there you did your little line, probably
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Speaker 3: you did your little sewer line fix. Why don't you
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Speaker 3: go ahead and fix the road up while you're at
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Speaker 3: rather than patch it. You're all here here, You've got
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Speaker 3: another illustration of what you, as an elected official, have accomplished.
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Speaker 2: On behalf of the West End. We repaved a road
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Speaker 2: that it happened in in College Hill.
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Speaker 4: We were living College Hill on the first I think
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Speaker 4: it was the first month that we moved in our house.
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Speaker 4: When we moved there for College Hill, all the crews
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Speaker 4: came out. We're all so excited. We're like, oh my gosh,
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Speaker 4: they're going to repave our It's a road where a
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Speaker 4: school is, there's many residential this is going to be amazing.
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Speaker 2: I kid you, not right down the middle.
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Speaker 4: I'm not talking about like from like the north end
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Speaker 4: of the street to the south end of the street.
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Speaker 2: Half of the street.
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Speaker 4: I'm talking about straight down the center line of the street.
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Speaker 4: They paved one half of the road. The other half
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Speaker 4: the road is garbage, but one half the road is
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Speaker 4: brand new pavement and they left it there and that's
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Speaker 4: how it stayed for two years. And we're like, you
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Speaker 4: only finish half the job, what are you coming back?
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Speaker 4: And that happens a lot in the city because they're
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Speaker 4: only trying to do the bare minimum. Because to be
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Speaker 4: honest with you, the budget is not prioritized, it's not
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Speaker 4: principal enough to be able to make sure that this
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Speaker 4: is at the.
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Speaker 3: Forefront, which would be a perfect springboard we get back.
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Speaker 3: I wanted to let you let my listeners hear about
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Speaker 3: your one million dollars what it could do argument, and
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Speaker 3: we'll talk about that in the context of them handing
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Speaker 3: out say seven million dollars to so called non governmental organizations.
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Speaker 3: You know, every little bit adds up, and what the
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Speaker 3: power of one million dollars. It sounds like it wouldn't
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Speaker 3: have any it would be pretty profound. More with Mayor
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Speaker 3: Oal candidate Corey Bowman, I encourage you to head over
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Speaker 3: to Coreybowman dot com. Help not get a yard sign,
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Speaker 3: maybe throw some money as way as we fast approached
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Speaker 3: Brian Thomas with Corey Bowman running through Mayor of the
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Speaker 3: City of Cincinnati and studio again Corey Boman dot com,
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Speaker 3: Corey we engaged in an interesting conversation. I found it
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Speaker 3: interesting anyway. I thought it was worthy that you passed
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Speaker 3: this information along to my listeners. What you can do
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Speaker 3: with a million dollars? And we always talking these giant
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Speaker 3: bundles of money, but you give some great illustrations of
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Speaker 3: a couple of programs which effectively were ten million dollars
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Speaker 3: in a pile of money. You can explain where that
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Speaker 3: money went, and then use that ten million dollars to
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Speaker 3: explain what could have been in a government city government
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Speaker 3: that had a better understanding and better prioritization list, it
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Speaker 3: could have brought a lot of what we really truly
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Speaker 3: need in the city rather than what it ultimately went for.
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Speaker 3: So let's go into that analysis.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, so one of our biggest issues that we're facing
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Speaker 4: is budget, Right, where's the money going? Because you have,
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Speaker 4: let's say a one point nine billion dollar proposed budget
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Speaker 4: for the upcoming year. Where's the money gonna go?
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Speaker 2: Right?
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Speaker 4: And so a lot of people say that all we're
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Speaker 4: playing from behind, we're working with one hundred million dollar deficit.
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Speaker 4: But no budget is perfect. But what I view it
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Speaker 4: as is that every budget needs to be guided by
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Speaker 4: principles and priorities. If you have proper principles in your budget,
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Speaker 4: what that means is that you're gonna avoid corruption, You're
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Speaker 4: gonna avoid this money being used for things that it
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Speaker 4: shouldn't be used for. And then priorities, you're gonna make
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Speaker 4: sure that even though there's a lot of things we
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Speaker 4: can put money into, the money is going first and
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Speaker 4: foremost to the things that matter most of people, which
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Speaker 4: is crime and infrastructure. That's what's needing to go right now.
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Speaker 4: And so recently there was an article that came out
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Speaker 4: that a million dollars was given to a local basically
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Speaker 4: a landlord that monitors affordable housing in the city. Now
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Speaker 4: we have gotten complaint after complaint about there being people
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Speaker 4: defecating on the streets of these are on the front
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Speaker 4: steps of these tenants, doors, ac, and heat that's not
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Speaker 4: being run properly. I've got somebody that would buy my
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Speaker 4: church that lived one of these properties said that her
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Speaker 4: and her four children didn't have heat for the first year,
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Speaker 4: all right, and then they didn't have HVAC.
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Speaker 2: There's leaking, there's mold.
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Speaker 4: And when they called a complain, the actual people, the
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Speaker 4: organization that is running this affordable housing, right they are saying, hey,
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Speaker 4: just wipe it up with bleach. There's no proper procedures,
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Speaker 4: there's no pest control, there's no anything. And this organization
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Speaker 4: that has had so many different complaints just received from
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Speaker 4: the city manager's office a million dollar grant and so
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Speaker 4: a million dollars going to a lot of people say, oh,
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Speaker 4: where's that going to go in this grand scheme of things? Right,
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Speaker 4: let me tell you what a million dollars can do,
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Speaker 4: because if you look at the city budget, this stuff
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Speaker 4: adds up, one million dollars actually can equal to at
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Speaker 4: least and this is conservative, right, This isn't with you
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Speaker 4: negotiating contracts properly. But let's just say, based on what
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Speaker 4: we're seeing, a million dollars can have one center line
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Speaker 4: mile of road completely paved. I'm not talking about patch,
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Speaker 4: I'm not talking about managed. I'm talking about completely paved, right,
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Speaker 4: or two if you're only doing half exactly right, and
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Speaker 4: then one million dollars can also let's not forget that
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Speaker 4: sixty four percent of our fire trucks right now with
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Speaker 4: the CFD, they need either maintenanced or replaced, and so
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Speaker 4: a million dollars can actually provide a fully equipped fire truck,
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Speaker 4: which saved lives.
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Speaker 2: That is actually huge.
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Speaker 4: When it comes to crime prevention, because you're gonna be
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Speaker 4: able to get to crime scenes quicker, you're gonna be
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Speaker 4: able to prevent things a lot quicker there. And then
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Speaker 4: a million dollars also conservatively can get the ball rolling
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Speaker 4: on ten new CPD officers. When it comes to actually
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Speaker 4: doing let's say a lateral hiring class or let's say
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Speaker 4: onboarding people with training. Ten a million dollars can do
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Speaker 4: that as well for ten new police officers. So now
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Speaker 4: let's go into the programs. Because a lot of people say, oh,
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Speaker 4: it's just a little bit here, a little bit there. Right,
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Speaker 4: let's look at there's seven point two million dollars that
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Speaker 4: just got granted to Harrison Avenue. Now, a lot of
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Speaker 4: people when they hear that, they're, oh, they're gonna pave
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Speaker 4: the roads, they're gonna fix things, They're gonna do that
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Speaker 4: Hill's Viaduct is along Harrison Avenue.
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Speaker 2: This is going to be awesome.
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Speaker 4: Seven point two million dollars toward speed humps, speed humps
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Speaker 4: and traffic.
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Speaker 2: Prevention, right, but not repaving, not repaving.
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Speaker 4: And then you have three point two million dollars that
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Speaker 4: win to Act for Cincy, which is a city manager
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Speaker 4: crime reduction initiative that has nothing to do with the
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Speaker 4: police force, and that was done under the guise of, hey,
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Speaker 4: we're going to see crime decrease. Well, I think we
16:27
Speaker 4: need our money back based on what we're seeing with
16:29
Speaker 4: this summer. So let's just say that ten million dollars, right,
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Speaker 4: ten projects, ten million, two projects, ten million dollars. And
16:36
Speaker 4: that's just a fraction of what goes into a lot
16:38
Speaker 4: of these programs, a lot of these nonprofits, a lot
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Speaker 4: of these things. A million dollars for a lot of
16:43
Speaker 4: these nonprofits pays ten administrative salaries. That's all it does.
16:48
Speaker 4: For other nonprofits that don't even get city funding, a
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Speaker 4: million dollars could actually help shake city blocks. It could
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Speaker 4: help feed people properly, could help do a lot because
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Speaker 4: a lot of nonprofits in the city they don't even
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Speaker 4: want to pursue. I talk with a major I'm not
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Speaker 4: talking about small I'm talking about a major nonprofit in
17:06
Speaker 4: the city that has buildings with their names on it, right,
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Speaker 4: And they said that they don't pursue city funding because
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Speaker 4: they know the stipulations or the strings that will be.
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Speaker 2: Attached to it.
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Speaker 4: And these are people that provide free HVA or free
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Speaker 4: AC units during the summer for people. They provide free groceries,
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Speaker 4: free housing for those that are needing a leg up.
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Speaker 4: They do amazing work in the city. They come in
17:29
Speaker 4: my coffee shop all the time talking about what they're doing,
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Speaker 4: and they're based on volunteer base and they're based on donations.
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Speaker 4: So you give it an organization like that proper funding,
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Speaker 4: Oh dear god, they're going to be able to shake
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Speaker 4: the whole city. But they won't even pursue city funding
17:44
Speaker 4: because they realize there's always strings attached, and a lot
17:47
Speaker 4: of the organizations that do get city funding, all they're
17:50
Speaker 4: doing is painted administrative salaries and making sure that their
17:53
Speaker 4: family members are getting jobs.
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Speaker 2: And that's it.
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Speaker 3: That is a bold statement you just made there, but
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18:10
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Speaker 3: you off, because yes, you do know about it. You
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Speaker 3: talk about a million dollars in what it can accomplish
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Speaker 3: by the way of you know, lay miles or acquisition
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Speaker 3: of trucks or funding you know, ten police officers for
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Speaker 3: a year. Then I thought of well the railroad money.
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Speaker 3: We got a billion in change piled on the bank account,
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Speaker 3: earning interest speaking through investments, and uh, well have we
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Speaker 3: gotten a check on that yet? And if it is so,
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Speaker 3: how much, where's it gonna go? And what could we
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Speaker 4: So this is what you know the current mayor and
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Speaker 4: administration is saying, which you are getting your first checks
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Speaker 4: this year this year of fifty four million dollars from
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Speaker 4: the railroad purchase. So how it is structured is that
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Speaker 4: you get the one point six billion dollars, you put
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Speaker 4: it in a trust and then you are investing that and
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Speaker 4: then based on your interest received, based on your return
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Speaker 4: on investment, then the city is getting payments of fifty
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Speaker 4: four million dollars a year, let's say, and that is
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Speaker 4: spepecifically supposed to go to where it was promised. So
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Speaker 4: existing infrastructure is their categorization of and so they can
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Speaker 4: they have started initial programs of paving certain sections of
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Speaker 4: roads and certain areas of the city to be able
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Speaker 4: to just say that, hey, they're using the fifty four
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Speaker 4: million dollars. But this is the problem that's happening right now,
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Speaker 4: is that, first off, how it's being held. There's a
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Speaker 4: trust that's holding the one point six billion dollars, and
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Speaker 4: we're only seeing a very small percentage of increase when
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Speaker 4: it comes to our return on investment. Second on that,
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Speaker 4: so you're looking at maybe one to three percent increase
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Speaker 4: on that, right, So a lot of times it doesn't
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Speaker 4: even cover the inflation. It definitely doesn't cover the inflation
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Speaker 4: of the costs of the road. And so you're seeing
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Speaker 4: an inflation rate of let's say, fifty fifty percent. Is
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Speaker 4: the last time I checked fifty percent inflation rate of
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Speaker 4: the cost of the materials to be able to pave
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Speaker 4: a real cost? Yeah, so the material costs. So already
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Speaker 4: we're losing money based on this railroad sale. But hey,
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Speaker 4: the deal has already been done, so we got to
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Speaker 4: figure out how to spend it properly. But what I
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Speaker 4: tell people is how we hold it properly because a
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Speaker 4: lot of these funds under the guise of investment, are
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Speaker 4: going to things that will never be able to return
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Speaker 4: on our investment. So let's say you look at twenty
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Speaker 4: million dollars of West End mortgages. Right, twenty million dollars
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Speaker 4: of this fund is going toward West End mortgages. Now
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Speaker 4: on their books the assets they say that, hey, this investment,
22:42
Speaker 4: we're getting our interest. So you're seeing a return on investment.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 4: But I know how forgivable loans work. I know how
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Speaker 4: all these different things on the books. You can justify that, yeah,
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Speaker 4: we have assets on the books, but these aren't coming
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Speaker 4: back to the city.
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Speaker 3: I'm just telling you that right now, are they getting
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Speaker 3: market rate interest rates? Like currently mortgages are running around six.
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Speaker 4: But here but here's the thing, Brian, what's a market
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Speaker 4: right interest on a forgivable loan? What's a market straight
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Speaker 4: market rate interest on a loan that's just going to
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Speaker 4: be taken off your books.
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Speaker 3: Eventually, kind of like forgiving student loans, right, you know,
23:13
Speaker 3: the money, your interest and then magically.
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Speaker 2: So it's just kind of a shell game.
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Speaker 4: And then also with this fifty four million dollars, it's
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Speaker 4: come in the people that wrote it a lot of
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Speaker 4: a lot of the people that wrote the contracts were
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Speaker 4: on the conservative front, saying that our biggest fear is
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Speaker 4: that there's going to be a shell game in the
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Speaker 4: budget right to where they're going to divert funds from
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Speaker 4: the city budget and use the fifty four million dollars
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Speaker 4: a year for the things that were supposed to be
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Speaker 4: spent through the city budget. Because the fifty four million
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Speaker 4: dollars was supposed to be It was supposed to help,
23:43
Speaker 4: it was supposed to add on top of it. It
23:45
Speaker 4: wasn't just supposed to do substitute for other funds.
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Speaker 2: And well, that's you're making the same are going to
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Speaker 2: make all the time. Money's fungible exactly.
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Speaker 3: You get fifty four million dollars in it must go
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Speaker 3: to existing infrastructure. Well, you were supposed to be fixing
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Speaker 3: existing infrastructure. And how to hew'd you get four hundred
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Speaker 3: miles or four hundred million dollars behind in lane miles
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Speaker 3: that comes from the general fund, the annual allocation.
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Speaker 4: Of the priorities of the budget.
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Speaker 3: Give the fifty four million, and you put that over
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Speaker 3: here in the existing infrastructure pile, which no longer the
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Speaker 3: road miles no longer need to be funded by the
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Speaker 3: general budget. That means they can throw things at woke projects,
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Speaker 3: green projects.
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Speaker 4: Well, Alton Goos, I'll tell you this. They can recategorize
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Speaker 4: things as well. So when you have a category of
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Speaker 4: existing infrastructure, they can categorize that as a railcar, as
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Speaker 4: a streetcar, as public transportation, or as any of these
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Speaker 4: other things that they deem as existing infrastructure. They can
24:43
Speaker 4: even deem certain things. When it comes to public safety,
24:45
Speaker 4: that's another thing. Sixty four percent of our budget goes
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Speaker 4: toward public safety. So on the books you can't say
24:50
Speaker 4: that we're defunding the police. But a lot of these
24:53
Speaker 4: funds aren't going to the police. They're going toward community initiatives.
24:57
Speaker 4: They're going toward things like Act for Cincy only, toward
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Speaker 4: things that have nothing to do with a proper police force.
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Speaker 4: And so it's this huge shell game of recategorizing things
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Speaker 4: so that on the books it looks like you're spending
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Speaker 4: the money where it doesn't need to go. Now, let's
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Speaker 4: go toward the issue of potholes.
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Speaker 3: All right, Gonna pause, Yeah, because this sounds like it's
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Speaker 3: got legs. Corey Bowman, it's eight thirty five. We'll find
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Speaker 3: out about potholes, including the one that's outside of his
25:23
Speaker 3: coffee shop, coming up eight thirty five. Right now, if
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Speaker 3: you have carecy, the talk stations stick around.
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Speaker 2: Fifty five kr?
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Speaker 4: Is that okay? How can we get this done with
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Speaker 4: the quickest that we quickest time possible based on our
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Speaker 4: current city pacing, based on the history of what we're
25:36
Speaker 4: seeing in Cincinnati and the current city pacing of our
25:39
Speaker 4: road crews, it would take forty years, forty years to
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Speaker 4: pave all those roads in Cincinnati, and so that is
25:46
Speaker 4: unacceptable in my mind. So then when you look at
25:49
Speaker 4: let's let's put a rush on this, what can we do? Well,
25:51
Speaker 4: there's a lot of different options. You can work with state, county, state,
25:54
Speaker 4: and federal with DOTS to be able to make sure
25:57
Speaker 4: that the programs are done properly. You can get ten crews,
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Speaker 4: you can get even twenty five crews, two hundred and
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Speaker 4: fifty crews, depending on how you want to lay this
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Speaker 4: thing out. And then I mean, if you want chaos
26:08
Speaker 4: in the city, but then a proper city after afterwards,
26:11
Speaker 4: you could do it in a year and a half.
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Speaker 2: To two years. Everything can be shut down. Everything will
26:15
Speaker 2: be shut down. Everybody.
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Speaker 4: Hey, yeah, Massessaria, but hey, in a year and a half,
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Speaker 4: two years, you're gonna come out of your house and
26:22
Speaker 4: every road's gonna be paved, and it's gonna be like
26:24
Speaker 4: that Wizard of Oz phase where Dorothy comes out and
26:27
Speaker 4: its color now.
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Speaker 3: Right, and then they'll ignore it for a long, long, long,
26:30
Speaker 3: long time, and then the roads will fall apart again
26:32
Speaker 3: because they're not taking care of real time with what's
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Speaker 3: falling apart real time, And that's how you get behind
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Speaker 3: the eight ball like we are now.
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Speaker 4: Also, you got to look at like some roads, even
26:41
Speaker 4: if you repave them, you're gonna have to redo. And
26:43
Speaker 4: I'm not talking about repaving. I'm talking about like you're
26:46
Speaker 4: gonna have to restructure the capacity of your infrastructure to
26:49
Speaker 4: take on more add from a two lane to a
26:51
Speaker 4: four lane, or add another highway, another on ramp. There's
26:54
Speaker 4: a lot of different things that you got to take
26:57
Speaker 4: in consideration with that.
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Speaker 3: But I would argue that the currentaman being so enlightened
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Speaker 3: and green, they're not interested in adding any vehicles. They're
27:05
Speaker 3: not interested in coping with an increase in the number
27:08
Speaker 3: of cars. They want to reduce the number of cars.
27:10
Speaker 3: Get on a bike and ride. That's the mentality they have.
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Speaker 4: I want to say this too. By chance, if there's
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Speaker 4: anybody that is a proponent of public transportation that's watching
27:19
Speaker 4: or that's listening, I'm not against public transportation. When you
27:23
Speaker 4: go to major downtown areas, when you go to let's
27:26
Speaker 4: say New York Chicago, they thrive off their public transportation.
27:30
Speaker 4: So in our downtown area, we do need to actually
27:32
Speaker 4: consider things. And this is an official endorsement, but you
27:35
Speaker 4: got to be able to have conversations about the single
27:38
Speaker 4: lane public transportation lanes, whether it be with your buses
27:43
Speaker 4: or whether it be with your street cars or monorails
27:46
Speaker 4: or subways. Everybody wants to talk about the subway tunnels,
27:49
Speaker 4: and I'm like, I get it. We want to have
27:51
Speaker 4: subways in the city. But at the same time, we
27:53
Speaker 4: got to be able to fix our roads that are
27:54
Speaker 4: on the surface right now, and then based on our
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Speaker 4: current public transportation. I'll tell you this. Our Cincinnati Fire Department,
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Speaker 4: they it's it's very hard for them to do their
28:05
Speaker 4: job because a lot of times they're in line with
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Speaker 4: a streetcar or you know there they have to abide
28:10
Speaker 4: by the line of where that car is going, and
28:12
Speaker 4: so it makes it harder for them. So these are
28:14
Speaker 4: things that you always have to consider and if we
28:17
Speaker 4: can work together, we can have a proper plan. I'm
28:19
Speaker 4: looking at it probably I mean I want to rush
28:22
Speaker 4: it and say five years, but you're talking about five
28:24
Speaker 4: to ten years to where the infrastructure of our city
28:27
Speaker 4: can go to a complete new level, to where not
28:30
Speaker 4: only are you paving the roads properly, but when it
28:33
Speaker 4: comes to the capacity for future championships. Let's say NCAA
28:38
Speaker 4: wants to have a tournament here. Let's say that we
28:40
Speaker 4: want to have concerts here. We're backed up on a
28:42
Speaker 4: Tuesday afternoon with no events when it comes to traffic,
28:47
Speaker 4: So it's not just about okay, let's throw on public transportation.
28:50
Speaker 4: It's about let's look overall what our capacity needs to
28:53
Speaker 4: look like from an infrastructure standpoint to be able to
28:55
Speaker 4: take this on. And I think that based on what
28:58
Speaker 4: I'm seeing, there's clear ways. So we can do that
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Speaker 4: if we have proper relationships with the county, with the state,
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Speaker 4: with the federal with DOTS and everybody involved in the.
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Speaker 3: Community, a coordinated effort with a unified goal. The problem is,
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Speaker 3: and everything you saying makes sense, and I'm sure you
29:13
Speaker 3: know that the current council makeup and the mayor would
29:16
Speaker 3: not disagree conceptually with what you've got. The problem is
29:21
Speaker 3: it is not a priority with exactly. There are more
29:25
Speaker 3: important fluffy ideas to chase, or NGOs with woke policies
29:29
Speaker 3: to chase. There's NGOs out there. They're going to fulfill
29:32
Speaker 3: their green green objectives for the city. And all of that,
29:36
Speaker 3: you know, may sound wonderful looking at it in a
29:39
Speaker 3: factual vacuum, it's not when you look at it in
29:44
Speaker 3: a city that is literally crumbling.
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Speaker 4: Yes, and so that's what we have to folks on.
29:48
Speaker 4: I know, if Christopher Spintherman's listened to me, he's probably
29:51
Speaker 4: going to be mad at me because I get in
29:53
Speaker 4: the weeds of all these details. He tells me, just kiss,
29:56
Speaker 4: you know, keep a simple stupid But the thing is
29:58
Speaker 4: that when we say practical budgeting, when we say infrastructure,
30:03
Speaker 4: when we say crime, we have a plan. We know,
30:06
Speaker 4: we know based on what we're seeing. We're surround ourselves
30:09
Speaker 4: with the right people. And I really believe that one
30:11
Speaker 4: election can turn this thing around. But we have to
30:14
Speaker 4: get people out to vote a man.
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Speaker 3: Since you brought up the fire department earlier, I want
30:17
Speaker 3: to give a shout out to Michael Washington, the fire
30:20
Speaker 3: chief that was terminated wrongfully. He was a listener lunch yesterday,
30:23
Speaker 3: the first time I got to Meetium and he's a
30:24
Speaker 3: hell of a good guy. So Michael, if you're out there,
30:27
Speaker 3: it was wonderful senior at lunch yesterday. Stick around, folks,
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Speaker 3: got one more segment with Corey Bumman. Be right back
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Speaker 3: after these brief words.
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Speaker 3: Happy Friday. He checked friend of me, Dave had to
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Speaker 3: to lunch yesterday as well, and Corey Bowman is in studio.
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Speaker 3: Corybowman dot Com again shout out with the website. You're
31:43
Speaker 3: doing a debate with AFTAB actually two of them.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, we just I mean, so for the one that's
31:49
Speaker 4: officially confirmed is October ninth, and it's going to be
31:52
Speaker 4: at Xavier University. They have a ballroom set up. I
31:55
Speaker 4: believe there's a capacity of about five hundred that they're
31:58
Speaker 4: agreeing to, and so that will be moderated by Kevin Aldridge.
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Speaker 4: He's the one that did the primary debate before. So
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Speaker 4: that's going on. Unfortunately, what's looking like is that the
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Speaker 4: public tickets are sold out. They were sold out fairly quickly,
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Speaker 4: in about twelve hours. So yeah, we're suspicious about that one.
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Speaker 4: How many they give you so personally we have I
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Speaker 4: believe twenty five per candidate. Xavier and their faculty has
32:24
Speaker 4: two hundred tickets, so they're distributing those out and then
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Speaker 4: the public. There was a public registration link that went
32:31
Speaker 4: fairly quickly.
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Speaker 3: And not being familiar with Xavier University, it's current political climate,
32:36
Speaker 3: I'm just wondering if it's a bastion of conservatism at
32:39
Speaker 3: that Catholic university. Great students of Xavier, you're a politician
32:44
Speaker 3: right there, you're not gonna call him out, all right,
32:46
Speaker 3: that's wonderful. So two debates then that's the ninth with
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Speaker 3: the one that's sold out at Xavier, and then you
32:52
Speaker 3: have a local twelve debate. You're going to be on
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Speaker 3: Channel twelve at six pm on the fifteenth.
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Speaker 4: Right, Yes, we're finalizing all the agreements on it right now,
33:01
Speaker 4: but that's what it's looking like, is that at six
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Speaker 4: pm on October fifteenth, during the six o'clock news hour,
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Speaker 4: we will be live there.
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Speaker 3: Good and in terms of debate prep, I'm thinking maybe
33:13
Speaker 3: Todd Zenzer might benefit you having him in your corner.
33:16
Speaker 3: Todd Zenzer, citizen watchdog, a brilliant man. And here how
33:19
Speaker 3: about this Todd Zenzer citizen watchdog city manager under the
33:26
Speaker 3: Corey Bowman administration. Todd, if you're out there, I'm gunning
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Speaker 3: for you, man. You couldn't put a more brilliant person
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Speaker 3: and a more suited person in that role. I'm just saying,
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Speaker 3: just saying, not trying to control your administration. Vice Mayor
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Speaker 3: Christopher Smithman. Anyway, real quick here joke. Drecker found this
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Speaker 3: before me and props again, and I mentioned this in
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Speaker 3: the morning Signal ninety nine. She is out on Facebook
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Speaker 3: and does a wonderful job stand up on top of
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Speaker 3: city matters as well, kind of like Todd Zenzer, except
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Speaker 3: more from a law enforcement perspective. But if she sees
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Speaker 3: shenanigans going on, she calls him out. So Purvol in
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Speaker 3: his ribbon cutting ceremony like efforts is out there announcing
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Speaker 3: how he You know, the city paid off two undred
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Speaker 3: and nineteen million dollars in medical bills and oh my god,
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Speaker 3: aren't we great for over one hundred thousand residents, And
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Speaker 3: as it comes to find out, according to the Signal
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Speaker 3: ninety nine, I guess and other reporting on it, they
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Speaker 3: spent one point four five million dollars and bought the
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Speaker 3: two hundred and nineteen million dollars in outstanding debt. So
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Speaker 3: it's like a bankruptcy thing, you know, it's like you're
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Speaker 3: gonna get pennies on the dollar when you're a creditor.
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Speaker 3: The providers apparently had written this off is not recoverable,
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Speaker 3: but it's on the books. Two hunred nineteen million dollars.
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Speaker 3: City shows up, hands him a check for one point
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Speaker 3: four to five million, and they wiped that off the book.
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Speaker 3: So the American run around talking about how he got
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Speaker 3: two hundred and nineteen million dollars in debt relief. Well,
34:43
Speaker 3: and signal points that listen, if you're Medicaid, you don't
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Speaker 3: have you don't know how any medical you already have
34:48
Speaker 3: medical coverage, you're not having bills Medicare. You may have
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Speaker 3: some copays, but you're still covered in the senior years.
34:54
Speaker 3: And people with private insurance are expected to pay their
34:57
Speaker 3: deductibles in premiums like the rest of us, which most
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Speaker 3: of us do. So the conclusion is, hmmm, who actually
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Speaker 3: was benefiting from this payoff of hospital bills? And how
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Speaker 3: is it the purvol is getting away with saying I
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Speaker 3: go re loose to it an I two million dollars
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Speaker 3: was one point four or five million dollars translated to
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Speaker 3: at least a mile and a half of paved road.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: The only thing I'll say about that because you know,
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Speaker 4: I don't want to discredit the joy that somebody would
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Speaker 4: get from having medical debt, you know, removed in the city.
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Speaker 4: But I find it very very I don't think it's
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Speaker 4: a coincidence the timing of it. That's what I will
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Speaker 4: say with it, because, yeah, what we're what we're dealing
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Speaker 4: with with the city is that every election year, a
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Speaker 4: lot of these programs get accelerated. A lot of these
35:45
Speaker 4: things get put to the forefront because of an election year.
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Speaker 2: But then you mean like canoes in the mill Creek.
35:51
Speaker 4: But the thing is is that then the the three
35:54
Speaker 4: years after the election, people get treated like garbage. They
35:58
Speaker 4: get ignored. There's no transparency when it comes to the administration,
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Speaker 4: there's no sense of care when it comes to those
36:04
Speaker 4: three years. But then once the election year hits, well,
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Speaker 4: that's when we're able to be more active on social media.
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Speaker 4: That's when we're able to make all these promises. And
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Speaker 4: for me, I mean for somebody that this is my
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Speaker 4: first run in politics, it just seemed fairly obvious to
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Speaker 4: me what was going on. Yeah, but then at the
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Speaker 4: same time, it's like, hey, I guess this is how
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Speaker 4: a lot of people play the game. This isn't something
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Speaker 4: that I plan to do for me. It's more so, Hey,
36:29
Speaker 4: whatever our administration is focusing on, that's going to be
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Speaker 4: what we're focusing on from year one, year two, year three,
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Speaker 4: year four, and then in four years our track record
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Speaker 4: is what's going to speak louder than our campaign strategy
36:42
Speaker 4: for the next.
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Speaker 3: Year, of course, and you'll be able to offer a
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Speaker 3: comparison of administrations one versus the other. Corey Bauman, I
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Speaker 3: wish you all the success in the world. I truly hope,
36:52
Speaker 3: and you know, I don't know how you're gonna do
36:54
Speaker 3: is mayor if you get elected, but I'm willing to
36:57
Speaker 3: encourage people to give it a shot. We know what
36:59
Speaker 3: we've got currently. Most people are unhappy about at least something.
37:03
Speaker 3: I think crime maybe number one on that issue. Of late,
37:06
Speaker 3: we've had all these horrific stories Ereah Herringer and Holly
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Speaker 3: and the shootings. I mean, you mentioned this morning when
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Speaker 3: you came in to me somebody else got shot in
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Speaker 3: the back.
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Speaker 4: Well last night somebody in Avedale in the back. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: and so this is something that we're seeing and we
37:20
Speaker 4: can't just sit there and say, hey, it's so bad,
37:23
Speaker 4: give us a shot. I really need people to know
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Speaker 4: that we have the plans, we have the structure, we're
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Speaker 4: surrounding ourselves with the right people, and I really believe
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Speaker 4: that we can turn this thing around with a one election.
37:34
Speaker 4: It really takes just practical mentalities when it comes to
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Speaker 4: city Hall, prioritizing the budget and making sure that you're
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Speaker 4: spending the money properly, make sure that you're putting the
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Speaker 4: priorities on infrastructure and crime, and that's what we're running on.
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Speaker 2: And so if.
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Speaker 4: Anybody's out there's listening, that you if you're a Cincinnati voter,
37:50
Speaker 4: the last date to register too is October sixth. We've
37:54
Speaker 4: got to get out there and vote, so make sure
37:56
Speaker 4: to check your registration status. I believe it's vote Hamilton
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Speaker 4: count and then early voting starts October seventh. A lot
38:03
Speaker 4: of people want to focus on November fourth as the election.
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Speaker 4: I encourage every single person out that's listening, get out
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Speaker 4: there and vote early, and then, just like Christopher Smithman says,
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Speaker 4: we have to be strategic when it comes to our votes.
38:16
Speaker 4: So vote for three four or five city council candidates.
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Speaker 4: Don't vote for all nine, vote for three four five
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Speaker 4: city council candidates that you believe in.
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Speaker 3: Corey Bowman outstanding advice. That's advice that Christopher Smithan also
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Speaker 3: passed along yesterday during listening to lunch. Great having you
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Speaker 3: in studio again. Best of luck, Coreybowman dot com to
38:35
Speaker 3: help Corey out in his efforts and learn a little
38:37
Speaker 3: more about the man. Congressman Warren Davidson was on the
38:39
Speaker 3: seven o'clock Hour talking about the government shutdown as well
38:42
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38:57
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38:59
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39:04
Speaker 3: with Congressman Davidson tomorrow, Tech Friday with Dave Hatter, among others.
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Speaker 3: The other things going on, just Drecker God Bless you, sir,
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