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Cory Bowman: Simple Services, Simple Solutions · Brian Thomas

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Speaker 1: Notably since we crashed yesterday. So what's the story here?
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Speaker 1: I've got voter IDs on the list of topics to
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Speaker 1: talk about with you, Corey Buwman, what's this all about?
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Speaker 2: Well? Yeah, so nationally we're seeing that. You know, for one,
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Speaker 2: I'm so mad that you eight up my time.
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Speaker 3: I think I'm gonna hang up on you too, So
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Speaker 3: I'm just.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, right.
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Speaker 3: For some reason, whenever I heard everything going on yesterday,
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Speaker 3: I know it's gonna be off topic here, but I'm
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Speaker 3: thinking out of all people who hangs up on the
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Speaker 3: Brian Thomas like one of the most open and awesome
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Speaker 3: guys on the radio here.
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Speaker 2: So you'll never have me.
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Speaker 3: Hang up unless I'm losing reception because I didn't pay
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Speaker 3: my bill or something.
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Speaker 1: But I think there's a government handout to keep that
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Speaker 1: cell phone bill paid if you want to look for it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah right, But you know we're talking about, uh, you
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Speaker 3: know a lot nationally when it comes to the Save Act,
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Speaker 3: and a lot of people are arguing what it comes
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Speaker 3: down to when it comes to voter ID. I do
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Speaker 3: want to say this. I've talked with a lot of
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Speaker 3: people downtown, a lot of people, and where we are
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Speaker 3: and when.
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Speaker 2: You ask them just a simple question. You don't start off.
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Speaker 3: The conversation with Republican or Democrat, but hey, does it
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Speaker 3: make sense to present an ID whenever you're voting. The
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Speaker 3: majority of people that you talk to agree, yeah, that.
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Speaker 2: Makes sense to present an ID. You have to present
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Speaker 2: an idea if.
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Speaker 3: You buyopack cigarettes or alcohol or anything else. And there's
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Speaker 3: not a lot of opposition to that in the areas
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Speaker 3: now I'm in, So I just kind of want started
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Speaker 3: with that and then.
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Speaker 2: You know, for me, I'm always wanting to bring it locally.
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Speaker 3: Locally, we have elections and I've been talking with a
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Speaker 3: lot of people and we just got past the dates
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Speaker 3: for people to sign up for precinct executives. A lot
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Speaker 3: of people don't know what that is, but basically we
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Speaker 3: have over five hundred precincts in Hamilton County and how
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Speaker 3: these elections works. Each precinct, you know, has a certain
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Speaker 3: amount of people that you go to polling stations in
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Speaker 3: those pre say to vote. And I think that that's
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Speaker 3: something that even starting off at the beginning of this year,
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Speaker 3: we've got to focus on when it comes to organizing
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Speaker 3: and about the issues that we care about to make
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Speaker 3: sure that we get ahead of it, not just for
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Speaker 3: the May fifth primaries, but obviously for the general elections
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Speaker 3: coming in November.
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Speaker 1: Fair enough. Well, I know that's an overwhelmingly in favor
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Speaker 1: of issue, and it makes perfect sense. And if you
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Speaker 1: have a real ID you got from the DMV, you've
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Speaker 1: already gone through the whole process with whatever you need
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Speaker 1: to get a real idea, the bursting and everything, and
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Speaker 1: that qualifies you to vote in federal elections in and
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Speaker 1: of itself. So I don't see so much of a
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Speaker 1: challenge anyhow.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean, you know how we ran the
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Speaker 2: mayor race.
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Speaker 3: I wasn't trying to get involved in national politics because
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Speaker 3: there's so many city issues that people care about, but
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Speaker 3: I just felt like I needed to at least express
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Speaker 3: from my perspective. You know, we pastor in the inner city.
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Speaker 3: We have coffe shop here, we talk to people on streets,
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Speaker 3: and no matter what it's said in the media, people
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Speaker 3: think that it's common sense to show an ID for voting,
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Speaker 3: and so a lot of that just kind of gets
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Speaker 3: clouded by the arguments of Republicans versus Democrat and even
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Speaker 3: our own representative, Greg Wims then he vote against sitting.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's kind of disenfranchised voters. But the people
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Speaker 2: that we're talking to downtown and the inter city, they
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Speaker 2: don't feel that way.
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Speaker 1: Now, I'm sure they don't because it's something they probably
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Speaker 1: use almost on a day to day basis in their
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Speaker 1: real lives. What's the big deal I got to use
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Speaker 1: I got to pull that photo idea out for a
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Speaker 1: multitude of things. So a big deal with the voting
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Speaker 1: and actually makes sense because the integrity it will be
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Speaker 1: upheld and you know, flip it on its head. How
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Speaker 1: would the world react if this was a Republican issue
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Speaker 1: and that Republicans were going around championing this, you know,
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Speaker 1: just make an attestation that you are who you say
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Speaker 1: you are. We're not going to check it or back
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Speaker 1: it up. We're not gonna do any vetting. We're just gonna, oh, okay,
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Speaker 1: accept you at your word and let you vote. I mean,
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Speaker 1: the Democrats would be pulling their hair out. Maybe it's
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Speaker 1: the reason they really don't truly enjoy a majority opinion
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Speaker 1: of this country, and that's why they want to be
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Speaker 1: able to make it easy to when voting.
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Speaker 2: Maybe there's that.
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Speaker 3: No, that's but also one of the biggest things is
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Speaker 3: not just to have opinions about.
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Speaker 2: All these issues, but get involved locally.
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Speaker 3: You know, I'm in the area that I'm in. I
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Speaker 3: actually have a friend that I've met recently and we
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Speaker 3: talk on the streets just because we're neighbors. But then
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Speaker 3: I find out that he's been a part of an
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Speaker 3: organization that's been recruiting people to be precinct executives for
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Speaker 3: the Democratic Party. And he said that they recruited I
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Speaker 3: think over one hundred and ninety seven I think people
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Speaker 3: to be precinct executives for the Democratic Party in the city. Now,
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Speaker 3: this is a common sense guy.
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Speaker 2: And so I looked at it and said, well, it's okay.
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Speaker 3: It's okay for us to have these conversations about different
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Speaker 3: issues because we were talking about the race. And then
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Speaker 3: I said, hey, just let me ask you, as a Democrat,
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Speaker 3: how do you feel about what's going on with the
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Speaker 3: city as far as the city hall government.
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Speaker 2: He said, We're very frustrated. He said, we're very frustrated
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Speaker 2: because for.
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Speaker 3: Us, you know, we they had an issue with a
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Speaker 3: street clean that they were trying to get resolved and
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Speaker 3: it was backed up for months and months at a time.
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Speaker 2: Talking about the snowplower moval and everything going on, and
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Speaker 2: then we.
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Speaker 3: Started talking about, you know, the safety and public safety,
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Speaker 3: and that's a huge issue on both sides, and they're
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Speaker 3: not very happy with how things have been dealt with
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Speaker 3: in the West End. And so the more you talk
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Speaker 3: to people, you realize that these common sense issues are
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Speaker 3: important across the aisle.
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Speaker 2: And then but this other side is.
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Speaker 3: Fairly more organized when it comes to recruiting and getting
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Speaker 3: involved locally in the city, and I think that's something
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Speaker 3: that we have to change. We have to encourage people
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Speaker 3: get involved locally. Don't just you know, complain and then
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Speaker 3: move out when it doesn't work out. You know, we
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Speaker 3: have elections this year, we have elections every year and
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Speaker 3: important issues on the ballot constantly. I don't think that's
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Speaker 3: something to just give up on the city for. It's
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Speaker 3: something that we've got to get involved in locally.
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Speaker 1: Well, is this a top down effort on the part
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Speaker 1: of the Democrats that they have a measure of control
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Speaker 1: and organization over the Democrat Party within the city of Cincinnati.
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Speaker 1: Maybe is lacking on the Republican side of the ledger
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Speaker 1: Cory Bowman.
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Speaker 3: To somewhat, But also, you know, the organization a lot
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Speaker 3: of times comes because you know, there's just they're more
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Speaker 3: involved just overall, the party locally is more more involved
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Speaker 3: when it comes to organizing precinct executives. Because the guy
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Speaker 3: that I spoke to, he isn't like from the top
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Speaker 3: down on the Democratic Party.
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Speaker 2: He's part of a separate organization.
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Speaker 3: But they're coming out to try to recruit because there's
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Speaker 3: issues they care about that they don't feel like has
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Speaker 3: been representing them. Right, So I think that's a huge thing.
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Speaker 3: We got to take note of this.
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Speaker 2: You know, I even talk to our Secretary of State,
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Speaker 2: you know, during the.
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Speaker 3: Election whenever I saw the primary, and I just said that,
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Speaker 3: you know, when you see the numbers coming out in
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Speaker 3: the city, but also it's only a thirty percent turnout,
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Speaker 3: so there's a lot of potential voters that just don't
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Speaker 3: turn out. So we've got to get better at this
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Speaker 3: because I don't believe this is a Hey, we just
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Speaker 3: need to make these lines even more solid to where
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Speaker 3: these are Democrat areas, these are Republican areas. I think
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Speaker 3: that diversity of thought and opinion is what needs to
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Speaker 3: be the backbone of all these elections, and we need to,
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Speaker 3: you know, continue that, we need to continue.
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Speaker 2: To put our voices forward.
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Speaker 3: I mean, you've had Signal ninety nine on, You've had
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Speaker 3: a lot of you know, Todd Zenzer and a lot
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Speaker 3: of these voices that are on. They're bringing out these
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Speaker 3: issues that continually need to be put out and that
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Speaker 3: that conversation is so vital in our city.
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Speaker 1: It really is. And that's why I love having you on, Corey,
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Speaker 1: because you continue this conversation, remind people that you know,
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Speaker 1: it's possible for you to maybe make a change. You
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Speaker 1: just got to get involved. So to the extent we
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Speaker 1: have a top down structure with regard to conservative politic
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Speaker 1: in the city of City of Cincinnati. I'm going to
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Speaker 1: annoint you at least for the time being, and we're
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Speaker 1: going to continue with Corey Bowman on other city related issues.
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Speaker 2: See the talk station.
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Speaker 1: It's seven nineteen if you've got ker City talk station.
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Speaker 1: Happy Friday after the top of hour News eight oh
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Speaker 1: five with Marcel Sturbis. Mister Sturbrig's gonna be in studio
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Speaker 1: talk about why he is running for Secretary of State
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Speaker 1: and of course hopefully he won't have a meltdown and
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Speaker 1: start cursing into the microphone. I stump button to work
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Speaker 1: on him too, But now I don't think that's gonna
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Speaker 1: happen with Marcel Jack Winsor. At eight thirty. In the meantime,
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Speaker 1: Corey Bowman, I was, do you know.
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Speaker 2: That's it?
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Speaker 1: I don't. Democrats are certainly more organized when it comes
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Speaker 1: to voting, and within the city Cincinnati. I know, the
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Speaker 1: voter turnout you already mentioned in the last star was terrible.
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Speaker 1: I just it was so broken hearted that the issues
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Speaker 1: that we were talking about in advance to the November election.
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Speaker 1: I guess we're ignored by the voters weren't taken seriously.
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Speaker 1: I mean the whole zoning thing with Hyde Park, and
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Speaker 1: now I realized that they effectively got since a counselor
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Speaker 1: listened to them and they pulled the plans for Hyde Park.
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Speaker 1: But we had the whole bond Hill thing, and I
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Speaker 1: don't know if that got undone. But there were a
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Speaker 1: lot of reasons for people to come out, and they
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Speaker 1: just didn't. And I suppose are there are Republicans not
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Speaker 1: registered in the city, Corey Bowman. Clearly, if they are,
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Speaker 1: they didn't show up. But I'm just wondering does the
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Speaker 1: Republicans that live in the city of Cincinnati to the
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Speaker 1: extent there are any do they just think it's not
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Speaker 1: even worth their while registering what's the problem here, Corey Bowmen,
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Speaker 1: if you could break it down or if you even know, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so I think.
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Speaker 3: That this is, you know, just a combination of everything.
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Speaker 3: It was just a lot of different issues all at once.
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Speaker 3: You know, I've mentioned before the precinct executives. Basically what
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Speaker 3: this is that you have over five hundred precincts in
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Speaker 3: Hamilton County.
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Speaker 2: Put somebody over each precinct, and then they're in charge
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Speaker 2: of kind of rowling.
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Speaker 3: That small group of people to be able to say, hey,
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Speaker 3: let's find the Republicans in this area, or let's find
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Speaker 3: the affiliates and just you know, talk about these issues
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Speaker 3: and try to get people to come out and vote.
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Speaker 2: That's something that in the cities that the Democrats are
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Speaker 2: very organized on.
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Speaker 3: You know, I believe that we need to kind of
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Speaker 3: just recognize the flaws and recognize the things that we see.
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Speaker 1: That's more organized within the party along the party struture
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Speaker 1: you just talk about with these different committees. But also
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Speaker 1: we've been made aware of and I do believe that
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Speaker 1: it's true a lot of the money the city hands
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Speaker 1: out to non governmental organizations, goes to very left leaning,
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Speaker 1: already well organized NGOs that have a very powerful voice
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Speaker 1: as they're going around doing their NGO work in the
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Speaker 1: community to spread that left wing political message, so that
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Speaker 1: that in and of itself comes built into the package
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Speaker 1: when they hire one of these groups, doesn't it.
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Speaker 3: No, you're actually you're absolutely right, and there's actually something
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Speaker 3: that we need to address too, and that that comes
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Speaker 3: down to the polling stations, because you know, on election day,
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Speaker 3: you know, for me, we're in the West End, and
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Speaker 3: you know, whether this is just the Republicans need to
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Speaker 3: be more active in these areas as well, or we
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Speaker 3: need to kind of address this, but there's a lot
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Speaker 3: of government subsidized housing.
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Speaker 2: That is in the city.
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Speaker 3: And one thing I realized on the election day was
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Speaker 3: that the polling stations, a lot of these polling stations
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Speaker 3: on election day are in the lobbies of these housing.
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Speaker 2: Events, the lobbies of these housing units.
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Speaker 3: So people come, they come down and because a lot
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Speaker 3: of you know, Republican you know, representation or whatever won't
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Speaker 3: go in there or won't be in the lobby there,
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Speaker 3: there's a Democrat representative that hands them a blue slip
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Speaker 3: and this specific election. A hot topic was benefits and
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Speaker 3: staff benefits and everything, and.
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Speaker 2: So what every worker was told was that.
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Speaker 3: Hey, every person comes in, you give them the blue sheet,
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Speaker 3: you say vote blue, otherwise.
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Speaker 2: You're going to lose your benefits.
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Speaker 3: And that's just something to where you're guaranteed to have
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Speaker 3: thousands of votes right off the bat because the organization. Now,
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Speaker 3: you know, I'm in an area to where a lot
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Speaker 3: of people rely on these benefits and it's important aspect
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Speaker 3: of the community.
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Speaker 2: But at the same time, on the other side, if
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Speaker 2: we're to tell people, hey, we need to get people.
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Speaker 3: Off of government assistance, well you have to have substitutes.
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Speaker 3: You have to have programs in place to be able
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Speaker 3: to give people a leg up, offer jobs, offer things.
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Speaker 3: So there's a lot of different sides to each of
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Speaker 3: the coins.
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Speaker 1: Well, I guess you said they were handing out the
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Speaker 1: blue sheets. It's just there was no Republican counterpart there
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Speaker 1: doing the same thing with the pink slips.
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Speaker 2: They weren't barred from organizations. No, they're not barred.
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Speaker 3: So that's the thing that you know, I think like
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Speaker 3: when I said that, there's a lot of different aspects
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Speaker 3: of it. That is, one is that the organization of
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Speaker 3: the Republican Party. This isn't bad talking by the top.
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Speaker 3: It's just I want to encourage everybody that lives in
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Speaker 3: the city of Cincinnati get involved, because it takes volunteers,
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Speaker 3: it takes poll workers, it takes precinct executives, It takes
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Speaker 3: people on every precinct to be able to rally people
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Speaker 3: to get out and vote and talk about those issues.
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Speaker 1: Well. Any critical part of the upholding the integrity the vote,
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Speaker 1: beyond having a photo ID, which we need in Ohio,
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Speaker 1: is having people from both parties work in the polls.
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Speaker 1: It's why always applaud the poll workers, the folks that
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Speaker 1: are signing you in. You got to have Republicans and
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Speaker 1: Democrats there to resolve any problems that might crop up
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Speaker 1: with regard to improprieties. But moving outside of that component,
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Speaker 1: you need volunteers to spread the message and offer the
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Speaker 1: alternative by handing out pink slips in areas where they're
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Speaker 1: handing out blue slips. That should just go without saying.
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Speaker 1: But that's party organization, and you know, absently the party
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Speaker 1: sort of you know, taking the laboring or on spreading
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Speaker 1: the word that listen, there are only going to be
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Speaker 1: Democrats handing out blue slips unless we get some people
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Speaker 1: in there. You know, warning, wait, warning, please volunteer and
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Speaker 1: help us do this valuable important work.
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Speaker 3: No, you're absolutely right because for me, you know, we
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Speaker 3: ran a race last year and we're running as a candidate,
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Speaker 3: so we were focused on getting.
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Speaker 2: Our voice out there.
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Speaker 3: But the things I saw behind the scenes this year,
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Speaker 3: you know, I've spoken with the leadership of the party
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Speaker 3: and everything, and I want to be involved locally to help.
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Speaker 2: It's not just about back talking the top. There's a
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Speaker 2: lot of people that just do that.
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Speaker 3: I will say that a lot of people just simply
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Speaker 3: want to backtalk the top of.
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Speaker 2: The leadership instead of just getting involved.
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Speaker 3: And I would encourage people, instead of just doing that,
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Speaker 3: put your money where your mouth is and volunteer at
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Speaker 3: these poling stations because it's not just about organization.
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Speaker 2: It's about the numbers of people involved. The numbers of
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Speaker 2: people that.
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Speaker 3: Are actively involved on the other side are more and
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Speaker 3: so we've got to change that. And everything that they're
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Speaker 3: doing to get their votes is available to get you know,
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Speaker 3: on the Republicans side, as far as the organization, as
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Speaker 3: far as pink slips, as far as precinct executives as
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Speaker 3: far as the organization goes, we have every ability to
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Speaker 3: take advantage of those things as well, so we need
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Speaker 3: to do it. So this year for twenty six, you know,
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Speaker 3: there's a lot of key races going on and I'm
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Speaker 3: just doing my best to get the voice out there
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Speaker 3: on these issues to get people involved.
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Speaker 1: And Republicans are gonna have to laboring one doing this
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Speaker 1: because they don't have the financial leg up that our
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Speaker 1: taxpayer dollars going into city government have when they hand
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Speaker 1: out money to NGOs to help them campaign more with
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Speaker 1: I looked up and I saw the rundown as Joe
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Speaker 1: Strecker was telling me he was supposed to be over
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Speaker 1: at seven to twenty five. Do you have to leave
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Speaker 1: to take your kids to school man. If you do,
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Speaker 1: it's okay, No.
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Speaker 3: I could I can sigarette for a little bit longer,
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Speaker 3: for sure. I'm I'm just getting their lunch ready right now.
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Speaker 1: Okay, you go ahead and prepare the lunch. Is it
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Speaker 1: going into like a a Scooby Doo lunchbox with with
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Speaker 1: the old thermos in it?
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Speaker 2: There, Cory, We've got we've.
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Speaker 3: Got Minecraft lunch box, and then I've got a game
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Speaker 3: Boy lunchbox.
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Speaker 1: They're still out there the lunchbox, as I'm pleased to
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Speaker 1: hear that. Anyway, did you see the over the line?
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Speaker 1: Apparently three CDC is going to be offering a free
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Speaker 1: earth a ten dollars valet service. You drop your car
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Speaker 1: off in the thirteen hundred block of Vine. It will
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Speaker 1: take you anywhere in the city for ten bucks. Are
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Speaker 1: they offering this, sir? I guess they'll bring people to
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Speaker 1: the West End if you want to park there. Did
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Speaker 1: you see this and what's your reaction to this? It's
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Speaker 1: I don't trust that people maybe valet parking my car.
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Speaker 3: But anyway, well, I would say it's over If it's
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Speaker 3: overseen by three c DC, they'll make sure that it's trustworthy.
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Speaker 2: I definitely, you know, that for sure. As far as
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Speaker 2: coming over the West End, I haven't heard specifically anything
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Speaker 2: on that.
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Speaker 3: I've just heard it about the OTR so far, but
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Speaker 3: obviously they'll probably take.
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Speaker 2: People over to the west that is of how close
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Speaker 2: we are right across the street.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I think that as far as like transportation downtown,
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Speaker 3: you know, during the may oral race, a lot of
16:26
Speaker 3: people are very passionate about public transportation in our city,
16:30
Speaker 3: and I think that there's this kind of idea that
16:33
Speaker 3: all Republicans are just against public transportation in the city.
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Speaker 2: Well, if you go to any major city in.
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Speaker 3: America, you need public transportation, you need ways to get
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Speaker 3: around because parking is a little bit more difficult for
16:45
Speaker 3: people visiting, and.
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Speaker 2: So it's an important aspect of it.
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Speaker 3: But you know, I think that as far as the
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Speaker 3: valet service, it will probably help a lot of people.
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Speaker 2: The only thing that you know, I kind of see it.
16:56
Speaker 3: As is that three CDC and a lot of organizations
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Speaker 3: like these have had to pick up responsibilities that I
17:03
Speaker 3: see city services need to be responsible.
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Speaker 2: For as far as public safety or as far.
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Speaker 3: As maintenance of certain properties and everything like that. So
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Speaker 3: that's something that I was trying to push during the race.
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Speaker 3: Is that city services need to step up when it
17:18
Speaker 3: comes to certain things, so not too much responsibility is
17:21
Speaker 3: on these businesses downtown, all right.
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Speaker 1: And in one more issue I'm going to ask you about.
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Speaker 1: It was a meeting yesterday apparently since a Councilman Mark Jeffries,
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Speaker 1: along with members of the faith community, and the City
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Speaker 1: of Cincinnati have proposed the creation of a brand new fund,
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Speaker 1: the Harm to Hope Cannabis Reinvestment Fund, which they want
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Speaker 1: two and a half million dollars that the city receives
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Speaker 1: for the recreational marijuana tacks two and a half million
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Speaker 1: dollars to fund the activities of this new organization to
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Speaker 1: the extent it's created expungement, led abatement, youth employment, and
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Speaker 1: workforce development programs to be applied in neighborhoods affected by
17:58
Speaker 1: past marijuana criminal penalties. They say they're going to create
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Speaker 1: a community Advisory Board to oversee the fund distribution. Another layer,
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Speaker 1: and then I guess, go out into the world and
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Speaker 1: do wonderful things. I thought we had a lot of
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Speaker 1: entities and organizations that already took care of these various
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Speaker 1: elements that they want to pay for with the marijuana
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Speaker 1: tacks have you. Do you know anything about this and
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Speaker 1: what's your reaction to it?
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Speaker 2: Corey Bowman, I think just broadly I would speak to
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Speaker 2: because you know, as.
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Speaker 3: Far as the organization, as far as the inner workings
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Speaker 3: of that, I have to do some more research to
18:30
Speaker 3: make sure that you know, we're not speaking out a
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Speaker 3: turn here, But I will say this that it's kind
18:36
Speaker 3: of the same language of a lot of things that
18:38
Speaker 3: we've seen in the past. Community initiatives, nonprofits, organizations, committees,
18:43
Speaker 3: a lot of different groups oversight things, and then it's
18:46
Speaker 3: all being funded by increasing of taxes.
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Speaker 2: And that's kind of the same thing that we just
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Speaker 2: see over and over again. All to work on public safety.
18:55
Speaker 2: We don't need to really strengthen the police force.
18:57
Speaker 3: We need to have a lot of community initiatives, need
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Speaker 3: to have a lot of nonprofits getting worked on.
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Speaker 2: We need to have all these programs for the community,
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Speaker 2: and then we fund.
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Speaker 3: It by increasing taxes or misappropriating funds in our city budget.
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Speaker 2: And I just think that we've kind of got to
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Speaker 2: simplify things, you know. It's I go back to these
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Speaker 2: cameras that we're fighting for in the.
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Speaker 3: West End right now, there's so much red tape and
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Speaker 3: just so much, so many middlemen when it comes this.
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Speaker 2: You have to have a committee approved this, you have
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Speaker 2: to do this, you have to go through CPD.
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Speaker 3: Then you have to go through the contractor that supply
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Speaker 3: to the cameras well. Then they have a separate company
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Speaker 3: that installs the cameras, and then they.
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Speaker 2: Have to go through Duke Energy for.
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Speaker 3: The fire, you know, and then all to fly for
19:38
Speaker 3: the fiber for the electric and all these different things.
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Speaker 2: And yeah, there's work that you have to go through
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Speaker 2: to get these things done. But it just seems like
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Speaker 2: the current mindset is more.
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Speaker 3: Government, more regulation, more red tape, and it just it
19:52
Speaker 3: hinders a lot of the efficiency that we can see
19:54
Speaker 3: in our city and it's wasting money.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, they know this in advance. They know the
19:59
Speaker 1: hurdles that they have created are going to create impediments
20:03
Speaker 1: to a quick response to getting the cameras up in
20:06
Speaker 1: much needed neighborhoods. And yet they promise it and you
20:09
Speaker 1: fast forward a couple of years and it still hasn't
20:11
Speaker 1: been done. Well, they only have themselves to blame for
20:13
Speaker 1: not remembering that they have all the impediments that are
20:15
Speaker 1: going to if they started right away to do it,
20:17
Speaker 1: it would still delay the project probably for a year
20:19
Speaker 1: or so, but they got that to overcome before they
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Speaker 1: can deliver. But they don't even bother lifting a figure
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Speaker 1: to start the process. You know, great representation and leadership
20:27
Speaker 1: we have here in the city.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, And I've spoken with the people behind the scenes.
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Speaker 3: The guys that are supplying the cameras are very frustrated
20:35
Speaker 3: because they can install the cameras, but that gets.
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Speaker 2: Outsourced to another company and then that company has to
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Speaker 2: get improved with this or that, and it's just it's
20:43
Speaker 2: taking a long time.
20:43
Speaker 3: And this is what people have told me, is that
20:45
Speaker 3: this is stuff that we could have proactively been working
20:48
Speaker 3: on the last two years, but now we're getting placed
20:51
Speaker 3: with all these impossible numbers that.
20:52
Speaker 2: We have to get done by a certain time period,
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Speaker 2: when it could have just been.
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Speaker 3: Finished over the last few years if we will have
20:58
Speaker 3: just proactively been pursued doing it. And I think that's
21:01
Speaker 3: what has to change, is that we don't just find Okay,
21:04
Speaker 3: what is the news making a big deal about this week,
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Speaker 3: and that's what we need to address. Let's look at
21:10
Speaker 3: potential problems in our city and let's proactively work toward
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Speaker 3: getting it done as quickly and efficiently as possible, not
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Speaker 3: just wasting money.
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Speaker 2: Just I mean the type of government that we have
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Speaker 2: right now.
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Speaker 3: They'll see a problem and they'll spend forty million dollars
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Speaker 3: just for a committee to research what the solution actually is,
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Speaker 3: and then six months later that solution will be, oh, well,
21:33
Speaker 3: we need to research more, we need to have a
21:35
Speaker 3: separate committee to do this. And it's just like, that's
21:38
Speaker 3: the type of mentality that we have. Let's just get
21:40
Speaker 3: stuff done. And I think a lot of citizens, including
21:43
Speaker 3: Democrats in our city, are just very frustrated with.
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Speaker 2: This because it's simple services, simple.
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Speaker 1: Solutions, simple services, simple solutions. Corey Bowman, former Mary Old candidate.
21:54
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21:56
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22:02
Speaker 1: Get those kids off to school, and I hope you're
22:03
Speaker 1: they're happy with the lunch you made for him. We'll
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Speaker 1: talk next week. Brother, have a great weekend and happy
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