Now Bill cunning into Great America. Of course, today is election day in
the state of Kentucky, my home state. And let's face it, I
had on Rob Sanders a couple hours ago and the turnout as of noon was
four percent in Kenton County. I wanted to check in with Jesse Brewer,
who's the Boone County commissioner. He runs Boone County with an iron grip,
including the airport, and Jesse Brewer, welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show.
So, as we sit here on mid afternoon on Tuesday, election Day,
how much of a turnout of voters have there been in Boone County so
far? At this point, you know, Willie is up this point right
now, we're sitting about six and a half percent turnout total, you know,
and that's h And that's actually a little better than I thought it was
going to be based on the early reporting numbers. You know, the early
voting. We had one point three percent early voting. I believe our abras
and Kitton only had a one percent early voting turnout. So people are just
better thing to do, you know. Maybe they're uh, I don't know,
maybe they're going to Valhalla trying to get some Scottie Scheffler memorabilia, or
maybe going to watch the arraignment they got postponed. I don't know what they're
doing, but they're not voting. Well. The thing is, it's consistent.
I think November is going to be a big turnout, assuming we have
Trump versus Biden or Trump versus Kamala Harris. It will be a big turnout,
I think. But is there a sense that you're a businessman basically,
and also of course I use the term a part time politician. Is there
a sense that we're tired of politics, We can't take it anymore. It
is disgusting, vicious attacks. Social media plays a part. What's your analysis
is the why people seem not to care? Well, that's spot on.
You know, we're used to seeing the nasty viciousness on the national level,
you know, especially with the twenty four hour news cycle from the major networks
and breathing down your throat or points of you and all the money being spent
on TV ads. Then last year in Kentucky we had a governor's race and
it was the most money on record spent in a campaign with the year and
Daniel Cameron, and it was you know, when you spend that kind of
money, it's not the flatter of your opponent or or or you know,
talk nicely about everybody you're you're attacking. And so then you had that last
year, and then this year in Boone County we had some pretty hotly contested
primaries. You know, we have three state House races and a state Senate
race on which are important races because that's the North Kentucky's voice in Frankfurt,
you know, at least part of North Kentucky's voice, and it's it's important,
but you get a lot of mussling. And I've had voters reach out
to me, especially in the sixty sixth district out towards Hebron. That one
was pretty brutal from both sides. A lot of a lot of a lot
of mailers, a lot of social media, a lot of signs, a
lot of accusations thrown around, and voters are just set up and they're tired.
I've had several voters reach out to mean saying they just were turned off
by it all. They didn't think they would see this right here in their
own neighborhood, in backyard, and here they are seeing it and they're just
worn out. I'm hoping we can get past this and get back to the
issues. But you know, when it comes to like when it comes to
like a Senate race, like whether it's Shared Brown or Daniel Cameron, big
time money shows up Cameron running for governor, but outside interest pour money in,
such as the George Soros, the Rockefeller Foundation, in order to make
sure left wing extremeistay in power. But in Kentucky when you have smaller races,
is this self funding or are there outside interest groups coming into Kentucky and
dumping large amounts of money. Yes, there are outside groups on both sides
of the of the Republican Party split. You've got the establishment Republican type folks,
and you have teachers unions and stuff like that throwing money behind candidates.
You get out of state liberty packs also thilling money in these races. So
you don't see that on a county level, but you do see it on
a local state level race. But you know, here in Boone County,
for example, we have you know, five or six state reps have a
portion of Boone County, whereas my race is county wide. So the district
for a state Rep race up here is smaller than a county race, but
you know that's the voice in Frankfort that you know, they get to.
You know, we've got five or so of of the one hundred of voices
in Frankfort in the House, and so they look at those as pretty important
seats the past or the state legislative issues and agendas. Kind of you get
money up forwards it on both sides. Jesse Bruh, this is a different
issue. But you live in Boone County and the CDG is critical the development
of the tri state. You know, I think Boone County, Kenton County
important counties. Hamilton County is the heart that beats the Try State kind of
with all the shootings and the murders and the open air drug markets and police
demoralized. In the city of Cincinnati, what's happening with hundreds of youths running
around at night? God knows what they're doing. It's not good. What
is your sense of law and order in the city of Cincinnati From a Boone
County perspective, you know, it's not good. I mean, I'm very
definitely, very conscious of where I go downtown and win, especially if I
have my family with me. I've got I still got some little ones at
home and my wife and I got girls, and I think about that kind
of thing. If I'm going to be in certain parts of downtown in time
of day or what's going on and subjective to that, you know, I
don't have that same sense of feeling over here in Kentucky, especially in Boone
County where things are different, or even in the suburbs of Cincinnati, you
know, and what's happening in Boone County. You can live in Boone County
and you can actually go to a pretty good pub school. You can be
in Boone County and if you're down nine to one one, the odds of
a cop showing up are pretty good. If a vicious crime is committed in
Boone County, the odds are pretty good that the perpetrator is going to be
arrested. Then you don't have judges that will bounce them out of jail before
the paperwork is done. Correct. You know, We've got a really good
Commonwealth Attorney and Lewis Kelly that is very pro law enforcement, very pro order.
We've also got very good judges that you know, don't tolerat any nonsense,
want to put people out on the street. And so if you mess
up in Boone County, you're going to get hammered, as you should.
If you commit to commit a serious crime of robbery or or all of our
citizens or anything like that, then you're gonna they're gonna get you. And
they're pretty good at their job. And that's one of the reasons why I
like living there and Jesse. I speak to Rob Sanders about this, that
a lot of the crime from Cincinnati is leeching over across the river. He
wants to build a wall. I'm not sure that can done. I had
on Butler County officials about a week ago. There were three kids from CPS
since the public schools that thought, okay, it's easier to break into cars
in Westchester than breaking into cars and avon Dale or Eveston. And so they
went up there, three of them, and they broke into forty cars,
causing tens of thousands of dollars worth of damage, and all three were arrested
after a police chase, and two of the three had handguns in their possession,
much like the kid that was killed Addison was killed on a car break
in in Mount Auburn. Those kids are ready to kill you. If you
come out to defend your car or to question them, you could be killed.
Now, the two of them went to juvenile court, one went to
adult court. One was eighteen, one was seventeen, one was fifteen,
And the fifteen and the seventeen year old are still locked up. They don't
understand their parent, the mom doesn't understand why they can't come home. And
then the eighteen year old and now facing years in prison. And so when
a lot of the fruit's been picked in Hamilton County, they're going to move
out to Boone, Kenton and Campbell County and Butler County to commit crime.
What would happen to two or three kids in Boone County if they break into
forty cars, cost tens of thousands of dollars worth of damage, fleeing and
eluding police, wrecking the car, jumping out, uh chase down, cought,
and then two of the three have guns in their possession and they're going
to juvenile court in Hamilty County. Because of Judge Bloom, they would be
released immediately immediately released. What would happen in Boone County? Did the same
kids doing the same thing send the message to the criminals in Cincinnati. What
not to do? I think you're going to see a very similar situation what's
happened until on Butler County. They're not going to You're gonna have a lot
of parents. You're gonna have those parents calling constantly and if they don't understand
why their kids aren't out yet, and they're probably not going to get out
for quite some time and there because they're going to be obviously a minute to
society and in a threat to public safety, and they're going to be handled
appropriately. I wonder what happened to this city of Cincinnati. All right,
lastly, here we're sitting here, what message could you give the Kentucky voters,
the great majority of whom are not voting today. It's time to pull
us close at six o'clock, so you got about three and a half or
four hours. What message can be sent to go there and participate, you
know, get out there and vote, make your voice heard. I also
want to take a moment to just as an elected official in Boone County,
to remember the Boone County Republican Party. I want to apologize to all the
voters who have just been inundated with constant mail constant text messages, constant social
media signs everywhere, and right of ways and negative non negative messaging. And
I get it myself too, but that does not represent all of us.
That does not represent all the members of the party and all elected officials.
And please have some hope and come out and participate. Use an exercise.
You're right. You know there's people in other parts of the world that die
for this opportunity to vote. So he please, please and convened yourself for
a few minutes and stop by the poland castor vote. You know everyone says
negative campaigning is a bad thing. Almost every politician does it. Shared Brown's
been an office senator from Ohio since the early days of the Nixon administration.
He's been in office now for fifty years. And he's got he's going to
raise one hundred million dollars and convince people in Ohio that he works with Donald
Trump. He's got this big add up where Donald Trump's handing him a pen
thanking him on southern border. Then Shared Brown also has commercials saying that he's
cured cancer and diabetes. Now he's running a negative ahead against Bernie Marino,
who was a who owned car dealerships, calling him a used car dealer and
coming up with some video of him talking about getting car washes every week,
so to be a business owner as a negative, and all the money I
can't imagine one hundred million dollars spend in the state of Ohio on a US
Senate race that pays one hundred and forty thousand dollars a year, And so
I wish I'll join you, Jesse Burn and saying the best thing a candidate
can do is this is who I am, this is what I've done,
this is what I propose. And if I'm in office, tell me the
things you've done in office, and if you get reelected, tell me the
things you're gonna do in your next term. But don't spend all your money
in time calling the other guy everything but a white man. Do you agree?
I agree. I don't care what someone did five years ago, twenty
years ago, twenty five years ago. I don't or allegedly did. I
don't care about that. Tell me what they're doing now, what you're gonna
do if you get the job, and why you're different than the candidate you
run against. Well, I like the ban negative campaigning, but I guess
that's impossible. But it's amazing to me that out of state interest are spending
money in Kentucky to manipulate the state legislature in Frankfort. That's unbelievable. It's
been going on for quite some time and is growing. It seems like more
and more every election cycle. Jesse Brew, you're a great American from Boone
County. Airport's in good shape. Is that right? Yes, sir,
Airport's in great shape. More frontier, just put in saw in the news.
Four more non connect four more connecting flights, direct flights, the destinations.
Candice McGraw, who runs our airport over there, she is just a
gem. She's actually the president of the if I'm gonna get this right,
but of all the airports CEOs in the world, she is the president of
that organization and she lives right here in Boone County. She has announced retirement
coming up soon. Says she had to give about a two year notice to
retire because there's big shoes to fill and she is responsible for a lot all
the success her and her team that you see at CBG now. So she's
one of those quiet giants behind the scenes that people don't realize the contributions and
impact that she had than the entire reasons, so she will be missed.
Jesse Brewer from Boone County, you're a great American, especially your comments about
the city of Cincinnati. Hopefully after Peer of All also known as PG Peer
of All will pay attention and if his first, second, and third priority
is public safety, he's failed at number one, two and three. Pay
the cops more support the cops, lock up vishes criminals, and the streets
will be safer. And Jesse Brewer of Boone County, once again, thank
you for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. And Jesse, you're a great
American. Thank you, thank thank you. God bless America. Let's continue
with more less than a ten percent turnout. Now, one of two things
are happening. One people are extremely happy with everything going on they don't want
to change. Or number two, they're stupid one or the other. So
I voted in every election that I can vote in, and I've become knowledgeable
on the issues. But one thing I say repeatedly, please pay attention.
If you're a dumbass, don't vote. If you wake up and say it's
today the primary day, and conduct your tomorrow. If you don't know the
issues, don't know the candidates, have no idea what you're doing, and
you're a dumb ass, don't vote. I'm a dumb ass too about a
bunch of stuff. I know about the fluvial processes of geomorphology, but there's
many aspects of life I know nothing about, and I'm a dumbass when it
comes to politics. I'm not a dumb ass. I know what I'm talking
about, I think. But if you're a voter and you have no clue
as to what's on the ballot, why it's on the ballot, who the
candidates are, simply don't show up and cast out in a sense, make
your relevant the ballot of someone who's informed, whether you're a Democrat or Republican.
And there's lots of good Democrats, believe it or not, there's lots
of good Democrats who are informed, but just don't show up to vote on
primary election day, walk in and say, by the way, what am
I voting for here? That means you're a dumb ass. That means you're
stupid, That means don't vote. Well, let's continue. Line becomes available
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