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Smither-Vent - Reimagining Law Enforcement and Leadership in Cincinnati · Brian Thomas

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Speaker 1: So twenty one on a Monday, is that time. Always
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Speaker 1: look forward to Monday's at this time because it gets
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Speaker 1: talked to the former Vice many of the city. Since
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Speaker 1: I soon to be counselman again, I'm praying and I'm
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Speaker 1: hoping the City of Cincinnati residents show up in for
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Speaker 1: us to vote for at least Christopher Smithman for council
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Speaker 1: next Tuesday. Welcome back, Christopher. It's pleasure having you on
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Speaker 1: as always.
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Speaker 2: Oh, thank you so much for having me on. Just
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Speaker 2: to share with you, my voice is a little shanky,
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Speaker 2: a little weak, but that's just because we're working really hard,
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Speaker 2: a lot of doorder door work. But let me share
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Speaker 2: this with you. Brian, First, thank you for acknowledging the
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Speaker 2: work that council Member good And and I were doing pre
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Speaker 2: emptim being preemptive of what you're talking about. Meeting, we
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Speaker 2: saw the decline and police officers. This is what is
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Speaker 2: very important for your listening audience to digest. This is
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Speaker 2: a defund reimagine as a collective council. So they're not
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Speaker 2: interested in getting more officers because through attrition, being silent
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Speaker 2: on the issue, they're getting what they want. They want
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Speaker 2: fewer officers. They want counselors responding to nine to one
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Speaker 2: one calls, and clearly they've been sitting the message that
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Speaker 2: they don't support cops. And so we've seen this going
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Speaker 2: on over the last four years with his mayor, we've
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Speaker 2: seen it with the members of council, and so none
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Speaker 2: of us should be surprised. I just want you to
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Speaker 2: know that they don't have to tell you it. They're
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Speaker 2: just allowing attrition to get them where they wanted to be,
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Speaker 2: which was defund in their minds. Reimagine higher consultants, higher
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Speaker 2: counselors for nine one one calls and really just undermine
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Speaker 2: our law enforcement. And what has happened as a result
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Speaker 2: of that is we've see longer times response times for
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Speaker 2: our officers to get to you when you need when
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Speaker 2: you need help. We've seen youth take over our downtown
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Speaker 2: right where officers we don't have enough officers, and then
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Speaker 2: those officers that are there are really being told not
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Speaker 2: to do proactive policing, don't ask questions. This mayor has
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Speaker 2: just discovered in the last two weeks law enforcement notice
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Speaker 2: that he's saying, man, now it's the police chief. She
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Speaker 2: has become the scapegoat for his failure and this city
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Speaker 2: manager who is the CEO. So the reality of it
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Speaker 2: is is this has been a councilor sighters really appreciate
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Speaker 2: you highlighting that. Council Member Good and I were trying
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Speaker 2: to get ahead of what you see now with attrition
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Speaker 2: with our officers.
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Speaker 1: And it's worse now than it was when you introduce
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Speaker 1: the motion to allocate the funds to hire police officers,
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Speaker 1: isn't it it is?
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Speaker 2: I mean, we lost more than that's happening? Is we
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Speaker 2: have because our officers are in drop. Two hundred of
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Speaker 2: them are saying I want to retire. I know they
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Speaker 2: can retire right now to the community. We can go
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Speaker 2: from nine thirty to seven hundred and thirty overnight. Yep.
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Speaker 2: They can all walk away if they want to. And
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Speaker 2: if we keep harassing them and not allowing them to
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Speaker 2: do their job and not supporting them, you're going to
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Speaker 2: see a high attrition. You're going to see me if
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Speaker 2: God puts me in a position to be elected, you're
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Speaker 2: going to see me immediately focus on retention. How do
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Speaker 2: we retain those two hundred officers that are in drop
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Speaker 2: because we need them to help train the new officers
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Speaker 2: that we're bringing in We don't want to just have
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Speaker 2: a young police force. I need those older trained officers
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Speaker 2: to do those that six months of training that's so
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Speaker 2: important for our officers. So this is a scary time community.
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Speaker 2: I'm hoping that citizens across the fifty two neighborhoods are
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Speaker 2: really thinking and they're voting right like their lives dependent
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Speaker 2: upon it, because we're seeing that it really does. Here's
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Speaker 2: the good news, Brian Thomas, you are really loved in
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Speaker 2: this community. I knock on doors and I'm not just
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Speaker 2: like shining light on you a way just to say it.
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Speaker 2: It's the truth. You know. Whether I'm in Oakley, which
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Speaker 2: I was yesterday, I had a woman and she's listening.
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Speaker 2: She said, I always listen to Brian Thomas. And she
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Speaker 2: now has moved, I believe, to Tennessee, but she was
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Speaker 2: here visiting her son in Oakley. She took my literature.
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Speaker 2: She said, I always listen to Brian Thomas. I'm going
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Speaker 2: to take your literature into the house. Tell my son
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Speaker 2: that I want him to vote for you. I'm telling you,
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Speaker 2: I get this kind of I was in Columbia Tusculum.
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Speaker 2: A couple came out, Oh yeah, I listened to Brian
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Speaker 2: Thomas all the time. He makes sense, he has comments
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Speaker 2: and it doesn't matter where I go. And let me
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Speaker 2: also tell you one other thing, this notion that African
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Speaker 2: Americans who live in our city aren't listening to your
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Speaker 2: show because they're saying the same thing. Right. So the
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Speaker 2: reality of it is we just have to do better
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Speaker 2: with participation because right now I've been told that only
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Speaker 2: seven one hundred people have voted. If that's true true,
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Speaker 2: that is a dismal number. Community. We've got to do better.
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Speaker 2: We can't just talk our way out of this. Love
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Speaker 2: is a verb, And if we really want to change
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Speaker 2: things down in city Hall, we really want to change
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Speaker 2: what's happening in the mayor's office, you gotta hear my voice,
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Speaker 2: you gotta hear Brian Thomas's voice, you gotta hear your
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Speaker 2: family and friends, and you got to get out and vote.
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Speaker 2: If you have somebody that's sick or shut in, somebody
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Speaker 2: that needs help getting to the ballot to go vote,
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Speaker 2: that you are obligated to make sure that those kinds
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Speaker 2: of things happen before the election on November fourth, are
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Speaker 2: on that day. And the last thing that I know,
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Speaker 2: because we're going to break there are so many traditional voters,
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Speaker 2: voters who do not believe in thirty days. I heard
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Speaker 2: that on so many doors, whether it's Hyde Park or
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Speaker 2: Mount Lookout or Mount Washington, they're waiting to vote on
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Speaker 2: November fourth. If that happens, we're going to see a
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Speaker 2: major shift in what's happening here on Council. If the
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Speaker 2: vote turnout continues to be very low and then all
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Speaker 2: of a sudden on November fourth, you see all the
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Speaker 2: traditional voters come out and say, you know what, I'm
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Speaker 2: going to weigh in on this election because many of
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Speaker 2: them are registered from the election last year. There's not
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Speaker 2: an issue of registration, Brian Timas, this is an issue
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Speaker 2: of participation.
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Speaker 1: Amen.
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Speaker 2: And so you can't talk, You can't show up at
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Speaker 2: your neighborhood pub and say you're frustrated with what's happening,
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Speaker 2: and then you don't vote.
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Speaker 1: Seven thirty one here if you give u KRCD talk
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Speaker 1: station by Thomas with Christopher Smithman vote Smitherman among others.
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Speaker 1: I could give you a list of candidates I'd vote
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Speaker 1: for if I was in the city of Cincinnati, but
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Speaker 1: one thing is for certain, I would definitely vote if
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Speaker 1: given the opportunity. Christopher, and I don't want to interject,
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Speaker 1: but I you've told me that you've knocked on doors
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Speaker 1: where people aren't even aware that there's an election next week.
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Speaker 2: I that's true.
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Speaker 1: I just that is mind blowing. That really is just impossible.
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Speaker 1: That shows that that particular could be voter never ever
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Speaker 1: doesn't even watch a local news show. I mean, you
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Speaker 1: couldn't watch Fox nineteen or something, and I know there's
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Speaker 1: an election coming up at some point, so not even
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Speaker 1: that amount of political input is in their life. So
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Speaker 1: that's a frightening reality.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it is. But the reality is that when I
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Speaker 2: knock on that door and I talk to the voter.
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Speaker 2: That's why it's so important to do some of the
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Speaker 2: door to door work that we do, is it does
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Speaker 2: inform them. They say thank you to us, thank you
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Speaker 2: for coming by and reminding, and thank you for personally
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Speaker 2: being here. It almost shocks them when they open the
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Speaker 2: door and there's somebody standing on the other side and
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Speaker 2: they're saying, Hey, my name is Christopher Smitherman, and I'm
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Speaker 2: here knocking on your door asking you for your vote
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Speaker 2: and explain what my platform is so that when you
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Speaker 2: go to the polls, you vote. You're informed at least
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Speaker 2: about my candidacy. So the good news is it's not
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Speaker 2: like they're slamming the door going I'm not going to vote.
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Speaker 2: It's just that I don't know there's an election. And
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Speaker 2: some of you been said I don't know who you are,
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Speaker 2: which is which is a great humbling experience to pop
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Speaker 2: my little bubble. Hey guy, who are you? Yeah, how
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Speaker 2: I'd love to hear your story. I view that as
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Speaker 2: a as a as a as an opportunity because they're
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Speaker 2: not approaching me with this preconceived notion of who I am.
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Speaker 1: That's a good point.
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Speaker 2: I take that opportunity to share it, you know, and
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Speaker 2: and then I keep it moving. But your show is
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Speaker 2: very popular across the city, and I just you know,
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Speaker 2: just the nice things they say about you and your
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Speaker 2: show and how they're informed about what is happening in
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Speaker 2: the news because they don't feel like our local paper,
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Speaker 2: The Inquirer, does a good job, and so they're searching
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Speaker 2: for places to get their local news, and you're one
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Speaker 2: of the places people are turning to. And it's not
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Speaker 2: just that they're turning to you because you're giving the news.
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Speaker 2: Here's what I want to say is they trust you.
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Speaker 2: It's not that you're just giving them the news. Is
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Speaker 2: they're trusting what you're saying because there's so much distrust
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Speaker 2: out there about the news that they've been getting over
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Speaker 2: the last decade. And so it's very very interesting. People
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Speaker 2: are listening to you for local news. They're not going
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Speaker 2: to their Sunday paper anymore. They're saying, hey, man, let
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Speaker 2: me turn this radio station on at five or six
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Speaker 2: o'clock in the morning as I'm getting ready to figure
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Speaker 2: out what's going on in my city. Well, and that
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Speaker 2: is not an exaggeration.
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Speaker 1: Well, I sure appreciate it, Christopher. I mean I hear
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Speaker 1: that from you, and I hear it in almost absolute disbelief.
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Speaker 1: It's a pleasure knowing that you're talking to people who
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Speaker 1: listen to the program and trust me. Man, my only
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Speaker 1: goal is to search for and try to find truth
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Speaker 1: amid all of the what I would characterize as bs
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Speaker 1: that's floating around in the world. I want one's best
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Speaker 1: for everybody. I really truly do. And I'll be critical
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Speaker 1: of you, know me, I'd be critical of you if
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Speaker 1: you started running a foul of my log I.
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Speaker 2: Have been in the past, you have been and always agreed,
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Speaker 2: and that's what's so healthy and we are good friends.
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Speaker 2: But here's what I'll also share with you is that
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Speaker 2: people will say, you give them the facts, then they
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Speaker 2: can inform, they feel informed. Then you say, hey, okay,
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Speaker 2: here's my opinion about the fact path right. It's not
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Speaker 2: like you're like telling them just all your opinions. You're
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Speaker 2: like saying, here are the facts, here's my opinion about
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Speaker 2: the facts. What are yours? And I think that's the
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Speaker 2: difference that people are getting. It's just like that puff
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Speaker 2: piece that you're talking about that the mayor just wrote,
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Speaker 2: right and put it in the paper, it's nothing but lies.
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Speaker 2: You're reading that and you're going, this is nothing but
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Speaker 2: lies that the mayor has put in the paper as
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Speaker 2: a puff piece trying to convince. But guess what, because
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Speaker 2: the news journalism they're either lazy because they're not challenging
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Speaker 2: what he's written, or they are literally colluding with his
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Speaker 2: campaign to try to undermine the person he's running against,
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Speaker 2: Corey Bowman. But it's bad either way. That's why you're
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Speaker 2: reading that. So we could listen to the hypocrisy and
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Speaker 2: all the line.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, if someone had a lot to show
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Speaker 1: for their administration. This article or this op ed piece
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Speaker 1: from Area to have pearlvow would have sounded a hell
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Speaker 1: of a lot different. I mean, he could have just
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Speaker 1: listed one after another all of his major accomplishments that
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Speaker 1: have happened over the last four years. And all I
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Speaker 1: see is, you know, we've you know, we rebuilt trust.
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Speaker 1: Did you mean what does that mean? Our goal is
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Speaker 1: forty thousand in the units over the next ten years.
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Speaker 1: Well wait a second, you haven't built any because he
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Speaker 1: did you say, we've already built this many units. Our
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Speaker 1: goal We just he just set that goal most recently,
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Speaker 1: so I mean again, it's just this. It's almost like
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Speaker 1: a dodge or a dodge dib duct, dive and dodge
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Speaker 1: kind of five to use a dodgeball kind of thing.
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Speaker 1: It sounds like he's actually done something, but it's just
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Speaker 1: a fluffy statement. We delivered laying the foundations for a
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Speaker 1: city built for the people who make it great. What
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Speaker 1: does that mean? What specifically did he do that makes
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Speaker 1: the city great for the people who live there. I'm
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Speaker 1: sort of it. I'm waiting for it, looking for it.
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Speaker 1: I still can't find it, even after reading his own words.
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Speaker 1: Seven fifty five kr s de talk station. Well more
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Speaker 1: here with Christopher Smithman, always enjoying our conversations and truly
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Speaker 1: truly hope for the betterment and the good of the city.
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Speaker 1: Since nay independent Christopher Smitheman is among any council members
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Speaker 1: you select, and remember when voting, only vote for the
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Speaker 1: top maybe three, four, maybe five. You don't vote for
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Speaker 1: all nine. That way your vote doesn't get watered down,
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Speaker 1: right Christopher smiimen.
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Speaker 2: That is absolutely right. I want to really before I
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Speaker 2: get off, just talk about again the termination of police
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Speaker 2: chief fig. It was very it was done in a
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Speaker 2: very disfunctional way, and to have this is a detail.
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Speaker 2: Last Wednesday, when all members of council came together after
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Speaker 2: the termination, this was on Wednesday, not one member of
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Speaker 2: council said a thing, not a thing, community, how is
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Speaker 2: your police she fired in this kind of way, and
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Speaker 2: you don't ask one question. Nobody. It's as silent on
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Speaker 2: the issue as if it's not happening. This is like
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Speaker 2: Procter and Gambles CEO is terminated and the border directors
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Speaker 2: get together and nobody talks about it. Well, if it's
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Speaker 2: a private company, it's behind closed doors. But this is
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Speaker 2: a public body, and so the public body, right, there's
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Speaker 2: a there's a demand for them to speak to the
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Speaker 2: issue of one of your top directors. Anybody in any
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Speaker 2: city would say, who are your top directors? Police and fire?
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Speaker 2: You just terminated your police chief in the most grotesque way,
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Speaker 2: and not one member of council had a question for anything.
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Speaker 2: Speak to it, what's happening, reassure us about what's going on. Brian.
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Speaker 2: This is what is so dysfunctional about having all nine
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Speaker 2: Democrats a democratic mayor, because you're getting this group think
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Speaker 2: and this mayor is hurting them. When I say heard,
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Speaker 2: I'm saying in a figurative way. He's basically saying, hey,
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Speaker 2: don't say anything about this before the election. We're going
18:47
Speaker 2: to deal with this after the election. We're going to
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Speaker 2: pay her a lot of money after the election, because
18:51
Speaker 2: that's what's going to often ultimately happen. But no reassuring
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Speaker 2: that they are providing the oversight, that that's why we
18:59
Speaker 2: elect them to be there.
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Speaker 1: Well, you're I think you're right in anticipating a check
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Speaker 1: will ultimately be written to Police Chief Fiji forget her wrongful.
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Speaker 1: You know, administrative lead placement are ultimately firing. We don't
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Speaker 1: know which strection it's going to go, but this is
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Speaker 1: act number two. They did this to the police chief
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Speaker 1: or fire chief Washington. They set themselves up wrongful termination.
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Speaker 1: Was that not under our current administration's watch? Christopher?
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Speaker 2: Yes?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, how about that?
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Speaker 2: That's the same city managers terminating now the fire chief
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Speaker 2: and the police chief. And you're telling here's the other
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Speaker 2: thing members of council could have done this week. Two
19:35
Speaker 2: members of council could sign a motion to call a
19:39
Speaker 2: special session of council immediately convenience. It only takes two
19:45
Speaker 2: you're telling me, out of nine members of council. Community,
19:48
Speaker 2: with the firing of your police chief, there are two
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Speaker 2: members of council that are willing to call a special
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Speaker 2: session to bring the city manager in and say what
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Speaker 2: is going on? Make it makes sense? Explain it to
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Speaker 2: us Christ not one, I mean, we don't have two.
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Speaker 1: Well, we all know how it's set up. Remember Issue
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Speaker 1: five that gave the power of hiring and firing to
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Speaker 1: the city manager and the mayor exclusively. They are exclusively responsible.
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Speaker 1: In other words, they're the two people to home treatment.
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Speaker 1: Any police chief or any fire chief reports to. They
20:21
Speaker 1: are their respective bosses. Correct, Okay, they take the directive
20:25
Speaker 1: from their bosses, just like we all do out here
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Speaker 1: in the real world. We do what our bosses tell
20:29
Speaker 1: us to, even if we think it's stupid. This is
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Speaker 1: a rethink. Reimagine defund the police administration. Gee, I can
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Speaker 1: only imagine what direct is purvoal and Long gave to
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Speaker 1: Police Chief Diji in the doing of her business or
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Speaker 1: her job, and ultimately, within a couple of weeks of
20:44
Speaker 1: him standing arm in arm in him praising her and
20:46
Speaker 1: how great a job that she's been doing for the city,
20:49
Speaker 1: ends up placing her an administratively because while things are bad,
20:53
Speaker 1: but he just woke up to three out he's been
20:54
Speaker 1: telling us for the last three years how crime is
20:57
Speaker 1: not a problem, only to wake up right in a
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Speaker 1: van to the election to realize maybe the people think
21:02
Speaker 1: crime is a problem. Maybe crime actually is a problem.
21:04
Speaker 1: I gotta find somebody to blame. It must be the
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Speaker 1: police chief. She's running the system wrong. Huh okay? And
21:11
Speaker 1: who's directed was she operating under? Whose instructions was she following?
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Speaker 1: It's like, look in the mirror, I have to have
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Speaker 1: The reason you're firing her is because she was doing
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Speaker 1: what you were telling her to do.
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Speaker 2: Right. There lies a million dollar check they're going to
21:24
Speaker 2: have to write her, right, and so then you you
21:26
Speaker 2: insult us by saying you're now going to hire an
21:29
Speaker 2: outside consultant to bury her. Right. She has nothing in
21:33
Speaker 2: her record community for thirty five years, nothing in her file.
21:37
Speaker 2: Think about yourself, any but professional out there who's working.
21:40
Speaker 2: There's nothing in your file. You've given the institution thirty
21:44
Speaker 2: five years, and now they're going to hire some outside
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Speaker 2: person to come in and evaluate her job after Retroact
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Speaker 2: fired her.
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Speaker 1: Hindsight's twenty twenty, isn't it, Christopher? Oh look we found
21:57
Speaker 1: a skeleton from twenty five years ago. Oh, she should
22:01
Speaker 1: have done something, but she did something differently, and so
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Speaker 1: in spite of the fact that didn't make it into
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Speaker 1: her permanent record and she was a reprimanded otherwise held
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Speaker 1: accountable for what she did back then, We're gonna do
22:10
Speaker 1: it now. That's a setup for disaster, right there, a
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Speaker 1: setup for it.
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Speaker 2: And West Side voters are fired up, buddy, I can
22:18
Speaker 2: tell you that. Now. I don't know if that translates
22:21
Speaker 2: to them coming out and participating in the political process
22:24
Speaker 2: and voting, but I can tell you that places like
22:28
Speaker 2: Saddamsville and Price Hill, and places like Western Hills, which
22:32
Speaker 2: is where she went to high school, and Westwood. Look, buddy,
22:35
Speaker 2: they are fired up and they're watching it. We just
22:38
Speaker 2: don't know if it's going to translate to that registered
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Speaker 2: voter actually taking the action and taking five to ten
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Speaker 2: minutes out of their schedule and coming in voting on
22:46
Speaker 2: November the fourth. We don't know, but I can tell
22:49
Speaker 2: you they are very, very concerned about this council. The
22:53
Speaker 2: other news that I can share with you with I
22:55
Speaker 2: heard this all over Columbia, Tusclum. I heard it in
22:59
Speaker 2: our mount Lookout or High Park. I'm just gonna make
23:02
Speaker 2: sure Bond Hill or Roselan. I'm a Democrat. Listen, I'm
23:07
Speaker 2: not voting for any of them on council. The Democratic
23:10
Speaker 2: Party has left me. I don't even know this party.
23:14
Speaker 2: I can't tell you how frequently I heard that from
23:19
Speaker 2: people in Cincinnati. So some people are saying I'm not
23:23
Speaker 2: showing up, which I encourage them to make sure they
23:26
Speaker 2: do show up. You know, whatever's going on, you know,
23:29
Speaker 2: we need you to show up. However you're going to vote, participate.
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Speaker 2: But they are telling me they're very concerned collectively about
23:37
Speaker 2: this administration, this Democratic administration and Democratic Council, and they're
23:42
Speaker 2: saying it is the worst they have ever seen. Now
23:45
Speaker 2: I can tell the community, I am not exaggerating when
23:49
Speaker 2: I tell you We've been working hard. We've been knocking
23:52
Speaker 2: on a lot of doors, and we're talking to people
23:54
Speaker 2: who are very wealthy, people who are middle class, working
23:58
Speaker 2: every day, people who don't have a lot of resources.
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Speaker 2: And the message is CULD is silent majority of a
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Speaker 2: drum beat that they are very concerned about the direction
24:07
Speaker 2: of this city. And I think that those voters that
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Speaker 2: are coming out are going to come out and send
24:12
Speaker 2: a message everybody isn't going to return on this council.
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Speaker 2: I really believe that, and I think if more voters
24:18
Speaker 2: come out, we can have a major upset in the
24:21
Speaker 2: mayor's office. Harder to do, but we can have it
24:24
Speaker 2: because people are fed up with like like this ouphed
24:29
Speaker 2: that you're reading, which is so disconnected from the reality
24:32
Speaker 2: of the voter. They don't get it, they don't understand.
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Speaker 1: Sounds like you have a note of optimism in your
24:36
Speaker 1: voice on turnout, Christopher, I can only pray that you
24:39
Speaker 1: are right in that regard. And again, one final effort
24:42
Speaker 1: to get the listeners to go out and vote and
24:44
Speaker 1: for those outside, listen real quick. Here Christopher Corey Bowman
24:47
Speaker 1: had the biggest fundraiser so far of his campaign. That
24:51
Speaker 1: event I spoke about in Wyoming. Wyoming isn't even part
24:55
Speaker 1: of the city of Cincinnati, but their lives are so
24:58
Speaker 1: impacted by what happens in the city. And one of
25:00
Speaker 1: the messages to the group was listen, if you don't
25:02
Speaker 1: live in the city, and you don't, you're here in Wyoming,
25:05
Speaker 1: you have businesses there, and they people raise their hand, Yes,
25:07
Speaker 1: you have friends that live in the city. People raise
25:09
Speaker 1: their hands and said, yes, everybody knows somebody that's in
25:12
Speaker 1: the City of Cincinnatian lives there, call them up and
25:15
Speaker 1: encourage them to vote. It's the only thing you can
25:17
Speaker 1: do with the outside. You don't have an ability to
25:19
Speaker 1: really sway anything other than write a check. And we're
25:22
Speaker 1: fast approaching the election, so maybe those efforts are really
25:25
Speaker 1: kind of gone by the wayside. But you can still
25:28
Speaker 1: make a phone call and express a few words of
25:30
Speaker 1: encouragement and hope for a change in the direction of
25:34
Speaker 1: the City of Cincinnati. It'd be good for everyone in
25:37
Speaker 1: the tri State, including my friends out in Warren County
25:40
Speaker 1: and Claremont County and Boone County and northern Kentucky. We're
25:43
Speaker 1: all impacted. What these guys on council do, Christopher.
25:46
Speaker 2: Still we are. Hey, Brian, let me just say this
25:49
Speaker 2: to you. I was invited this past week to go
25:52
Speaker 2: to Otr and Mohawk. Those two communities came together and
25:58
Speaker 2: had a meet and greet. They are very impacted by crime,
26:03
Speaker 2: just like you said, they're investing heavily in property there
26:07
Speaker 2: business that are businesses that are located there, and they're
26:10
Speaker 2: all telling me listen to me. I mean, one guy
26:13
Speaker 2: held up his phone and used some profanity and I
26:15
Speaker 2: won't disclose that. But they're so angry that they feel
26:19
Speaker 2: like this council, in this mayor, they completely abandoned them
26:22
Speaker 2: after they've invested so much money in the OTR and
26:26
Speaker 2: in Mohawk and they feel like they've just been completely abandoned.
26:29
Speaker 2: And so I'm sharing with you them inviting me into
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Speaker 2: their home. And this was a large swath of people
26:36
Speaker 2: who lived, business owners, people that live in those neighborhoods. Boy,
26:40
Speaker 2: they are really hot and they are not casting votes
26:43
Speaker 2: for collectively for this, for this, for this particular council.
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Speaker 2: Thank you for allowing me to have a voice here,
26:48
Speaker 2: Brian Thomas, you're the man. Brother. Welcome Smith follow me.
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