Sharon Coolidge of the Inquiry. Welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show, and
Sharon, can I share with you a little story about PG Sittenfeld, Absolutely
many years ago. As you may know, my attorney is Chuck Kmine Charles
Kmine, who used to be the mayor of Amberley Village. Good guy,
brandeice, brilliant guy. And he calls me up about I don't know,
fifteen years ago and says, I want you to meet someone who's the next
big thing in politics. I said, I like to meet him. So
we go to first watching Kenwood and that's the first time I met PG Sittinfeld
and I talked to him. I said, what do you Why do you
want to get into politics? Give all the right answers. What is your
goal? Well, my intermediate goal will be to run for city council hopefully
get elected. I think he was first or second the first time he ran,
which was unpresidented. And then I want to be the mayor and then
take it from there. I said, great, and an cordial conversation,
and I thought that guy is mark worked with something. There's something special about
PG Sittenfeld almost reminded me of Jerry Springer when I when Jerry was on council
and I was and I got to meet him and know him a little bit,
and we I said, PG sitting Feld is going to be I think
a big deal because he fits everything since that time. He's gone the Hives
Mountains, in the lowest valleys, He's experienced at all. And I made
the point I want to get your perspective on PG sitting Field. Then I'm
not safe for at night if PG sitting Feld is locked up in a federal
prison. He's a husband, a father of two little kids, and he's
already spent four and a half months. And I think what happened with the
sixth Circuit and the process is such that I think they're going to reverse the
conviction. Give me your perspective on PG sitting Feld, then we'll talk about
why I think they're going to reverse the conviction. Well, I mean,
I have to agree with you. Certainly, the streets aren't dangerous a PG
sitting felt on them. And I have to tell you, I grapple with
the idea of just where in the system the idea of corruption fits in at
the moment. With the idea that he is convicted of corruption, do we
say that that's okay and there's no jail time for it, because we're talking
about our very form of government. But at the same time, again,
I don't feel like the streets are dangerous with him on it, and you
know, it cost taxpayers a lot of money to keep somebody in prison.
He does even after he was arrested and he's no longer on counsel, he
was a productive member of society doing a lot of charitable work. We've heard
all about that at court, So I grapple with it. I don't have
a good answer for that. Before we talk about CPS is so much more.
What happens on the appellate level is that there are many Emikas Currie I
briefs that were filed, which are friends of the court. He had Republican
attorney generals like mccasey and others sending a brief to the court saying we're criminalizing
politics. And I think, what because of the way this happened yesterday,
I think he's going to be reversed. Because what happened is out at the
sixth Circuit level that they have all the briefs months in advance. Each of
those judges have four law clerks who pour over them so that then they know
all the issues. They go into the argument, and after the argument,
the three of them left the bench, went into a conference room and they
voted, yeah, whether to reverse remand or whether to affirm. And because
they said we're going to release PG Sittingveeld now on an or bond, to
me, that's an indication they're going to reverse it. Because the vote and
the conference had to be three zipper two to want to let him go free
because they amount an issue in opinion for another four to five six months,
which means he would have served most of his sentence. And then if it's
reversed, where does he go back to get his reputation? And let's play
this out a little bit, Sharon cooles, if he is reversed, and
would he be re elected to city council? Would he run again? Well,
I've had this very conversation several times today. Bill. A lot of
people do think that it is an easy path for him to run again.
If this is reversed, he'll have a court decision saying that this did not
happen, it was not corruption. Yeah, and he he did as you
said earlier, he has always seen this is his destiny. It was his
father who passed away with his dream for PG. I can't imagine him giving
up on that, even in the toughest of times. But if if this
is reversed, I just I really do have a very tough time thinking that
he gives up on that dream, and I think he gets right back on
the path that he was on. And now talking about my Jerry Springer analogy.
As a young man, I recall what happened with the prostitute in Newport
with the check and side. Lease was out there pounding the drum to lock
him up, and that didn't happen. But he was lower than whale done.
I mean at that point Jerry Springer could not be elected dog catcher.
Within a year or two he's back on council and within two years he's the
mayor. Explain that one. I think that people are forgiving, certainly if
people they feel like they know and connect with them, and Jerry Springer did
that, and certainly PG. Sittinceel does that he had a very real connection
with the citizens of this city. That corum was packed with supporters. I
have lots of emails to suggest that people still really support him, liked his
vision for the city, and this won't come in a silo if he were
if this gets reversed, if he decides to run for something, he will
be putting forward his vision and he will compare it to the current current vision
and then so people will have a choice and it will be, you know,
taking things in totality. People won't to say I love PG or I
don't love PG. I think they're really going to look at what they think
of what's going on with the city at that given moment, and I think
that is going to play into it. I predict they're going to reverse it,
which is why they set them free. Secondly, Page two, City
Council with charterrights, Republicans and Democrats for decades have represented all the interests of
the city of Cincinnati. So there have been some great council members, some
bad council members, some crooks, but mainly they're individuals that want to serve
the public. I cannot imagine a time in which if you go into the
streets of Cincinnati and say, can you name one member of city council,
it used to be you could say Charlie Lucan or Chris Mitherman. You could
say Bobby Starrn or Roxanne Quolls, you could say Mark Mallory. There's all
these names. I look at these names of these people, like Victoria Parks
or Anna Albie or Jeff Kramerding or Reggie Harris or Mark Jefferies. Mika Owens,
am I right to say that this is a dramatic city council because it
represents the far left wing of the Democrat Party. No Republicans, no Charter
rights. What does that say about the City of Cincinnati. Well, the
voters did select the slave of people to be their council members. But when
they voted, I think they were you know, there wasn't a lot of
choice. This last time. Only ten people ran for nine seats. So
that's a telling thing. I mean, people do need choice, so you're
not really looking at a lot of choice there, and so I think that's
part of it. But you know, they were new and so I really
feel like this next race in twenty twenty five is really going to be the
hard look because even after two years or two year council seats. Now,
even after two years for myself too, it's difficult to be like, well,
what'd you do or would you what didn't you do? You had to
get used to things, had to learn the lay of the land. But
after four years in twenty twenty five, I think that people are really going
to be looking and making some tougher decisions in their own heads of like what
they think the direction of the city is. We just had this total reset
after all of the corruptions and all new people, new mayors they chosen,
you know, new administrators, new city solicitors. Everyone was new for so
long. But at a certain point you say, okay, you've been our
people, yes or no. Yeah, Now lastly that's going to backlas.
So that's where we're starting. That's starting to gel. Right now, Let's
see what happens. We feel about what has happened. Well, they got
the uh, the mamas and the papa is together on what to do with
the city because it's facing a huge crisis financially and I don't see any any
strength or courage to implement with the executives of Procter and Gamble and Fifth Third
Banks say that needs to be done, which is increase taxes, increase fees
and sell asset. Is that report doa at city Council because since that thing
late, it's just somebody put it in a drawer. And what's happened,
Well, I have to tell you, you know, they are seeing how
much of it is feasible. That is a very city hall thing to do.
But the thing that I'm looking for and I don't feel like has happened
is and I appreciate everyone who read all of my stories or any stories that
hasn't written on this. I want to know what the people think about the
things. Do they want to sell golf courses? Do they want to regionalize
their water district? Do they want to pay a trash feed? Are they
willing to pay more earnings tax? I have not seen a betting of this
to the public and what the public's reaction is. And I actually don't want
to city council to do anything until we really hear from the public and what
citizens want. And that's playing out right now with connected communities. What do
the citizens want? I haven't seen this much engage be done something from a
citizen's point of view and having their voices heard. I think there's a new
like, folks, people are paying attention to what's happening at city Hall,
so before they do anything. I want to know what the people think.
Lastly, the inquir has a big editorial up came up about an hour ago
about Iron out of right, CPS superintendent, and it's written in such a
way that CPS board made a mistake, and I certainly agree with that.
I've had her on the show. She was open. I don't get a
lot of a request of anyone like her to come on my show, and
she got ahold of my producer instead of like to come out with Bill Cunningham.
I said, oh, bring her on. She answered all my questions,
made a lot of sense. She got sideways with the union. Now,
from my perspective, that might be a good thing. Do we know
why Iron out a right other than the general generic adjectives as to why she
was fired because right now, lack of communication, What the hell does that
mean? I don't know what that means. And the test as allys continue
to be bad. But the unions weren't getting out of her what the unions
wanted is that the reason? You know, But the unions do represent huge
slots of people, So I take the union issue out of this, and
there just didn't seem to be support from any faction inside the education system.
In recent you know days, we've heard a lot from leaders that we all
know and in different segments of the city. There just didn't seem to be
a lot of support right from any which way nobody, which is really that
was the kind of a telling thing. I don't know her, and I
really don't want to weigh in city hall. City Hall keeps me so busy,
like I keep half an eye on the Board of Education. The one
thing that I really hope going forward. I'm a mother and I do live
in the suburbs. My son goes to Oak Hills High School, and you,
as a mother, I care about one thing, the education he is
getting. I don't care about who the names of the people are. And
this is a lot of drama. I love to cover drama. City hot
and I get it. But going forward, I want to hear the word
education, education, education, out of everything that's happening. It's so important,
and I think that's what parents want. The futurest Commission, if we're
going to believe the futurest Commission out of the clear blue throws like a side
eye and is like the schools are a problem that we need to have better
education I'm not saying that that is not a Sherry Coolidge take on anything.
It was in the Futureist Commission report as an aside, and so to look
at that, that's just what I would like everyone to focus on. So
we're focusing on the children, especially post pandemic. When was the last time
we heard so much? During the pandemic? Kids are falling behind? Are
they? I don't know what are the outcomes of all of this. So
anyway, taking just the personalities out of it, like I'm just like,
I'm focused on the kid. Lastly, I would say this, there's about
thirty six thousand kids in CPS. If you take maybe twenty five hundred at
Walnut and the Monassori schools have about another four thousand, it's six or seven
thousand. Thirty thousand of the thirty six kids are locked in an environment where
there's about seventy percent truancy rates and not showing up chronically absent. The test
results including Walnut and the Monassories are pretty good. Take those out of the
mix, which is the great majority of CPS, it's awful. It's terrible,
and firing ironet or right doesn't make any of these scores any better.
It doesn't improve the behavior of the students anymore, and it doesn't prepare them
for the world of the twenty first century that you and I operate in.
It's I mean, it's tough out it's not easy. It's tough. And
you've got to have a foundation of a good education public of private, which
is the base for your adult life. And if that doesn't happen and you
spend twenty foived dollars per per kid per year, we got a problem.
Sharon Cooleidge, get my best of burrough Love and all the people at the
Inquiry and once again, thanks for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. And
Sharon Cooleidge, you're a great American. Thanks for having me. God bless
you. Let's continue with more if line becomes available, which it never does.
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