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Every week we bring you the same
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Billy cunning in The Great American Red
Spaceball kicks off at five forty.

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Believe it or not. The Reds
are still in great contention, a game

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and a half out of the last
wild card. They had the Tigers a

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night starting about five forty, and
the Tigers are terrible after three games,

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including a business special on Thursday.
Then go to New York Mets and the

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Mets are terrible while they're play the
Jets play the Jets, and the Mets

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and the Giants, and the Yankees
play them all together. Then come back

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home against the Twinkies. How can
you call a team the Twinkies. That's

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a different issue, but until then, David Young is the Commissioner the commission

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of Warren County and Dave Young,
welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show.

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Two issues are percolating. Number one. We had on John Barrett about a

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week or ten days ago, Western
and Southern Chair who was almost close.

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He said, the ball is on
like the one yard line, not quite

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done that the tennis tournament, he's
very optimistic is going to stay. All

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the media says that's not going to
happen. When we had you on about

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a month ago before the tournament started, it was very optimistic. Here we

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are on September the twelve, twenty
twenty three. There was going to be

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an announcement made a month or two
after the end of the tournament. We're

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about a month into the road down
the road. Give us a full report

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first of all on that before we
talk about theft and lows and more.

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Please continue. Well, we like
to think that no matter how much we

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love my beloved reds war Bengals,
those are especially now FC Cincinnati, which

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is somewhat of the global asset.
Yeah, the Rids and Bengals were national

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assets. Yeah, they played a
couple of international games. The Western Southern

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Tennis Open held in Mason here in
Warren County, is literally a global asset.

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It's seen around the world when the
doll would pay would play in uh

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of those events. Literally the entire
country of Spain would shut down to go

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watch their national hero. This is
a big, big deal internationally, and

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it's very desirable, and you know, we're all about the free market in

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Warren County and the city of Charlotte. One of our competitors values this asset

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on one hundred and thirty million dollars, and actually about a week ago,

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Willie, they increase their number by
an additional twenty seven million plus a little

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more of this. They're basically at
one hundred and sixty million dollar value of

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trying to take our asset away.
Are they going to be successful? They

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are not going to kick our asset, Willie. Let me be clear,

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We're going to keep it. Well, there you go. I don't want

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to say we're going to keep it
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My intent is to keep it.
My intent is to keep it. But

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like any good negotiator, I'm not
negotiating it in public. We have made

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strides in the last ten weeks or
so because, honestly, to be clear

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to the public that this tournament was
gone. Bimaka said that on different meetings

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that this tournament was gone until about
ten weeks ago and things changed and we

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are right there close to the goal
line where we're close. It's not guaranteed

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this tournament still can leave, But
just to be clear, I think we're

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in really, really good shape.
So if you, if you were a

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betting man, you would say the
probability of its staying is greater than the

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probability of it leaving. In my
humble opinion, that is my position.

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All right, it's a costing the
taxpayers more money because the State of Ohio

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is flushed with money. They have
billions and billions of extra money. Warren

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County doesn't have a credit card.
You pay everything in cash, bags of

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cash, so it's going to be
more public involvement. I'll say this Willie

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that if the free market has established
a price, the state of Ohio is

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an unbelievably good financial position. They
have a billion dollar fund to do things

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exactly like this. Warren County is
in arguably the best financial shape of any

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county in the United States. Definitely
in the state of Ohio. We just

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did a tax holiday last year where
we did not collect our portion of property

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taxes from our residents. We are
in unbelievably good financial shape. We know

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how to manage money. And I'll
say this, Willie, I don't like

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to lose, and I especially don't
like to lose when it comes to money.

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And if we think this is a
worthy investment, we think it's a

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worthy investment. So, David Young, the Commissioner of Warren County, you

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would not allow Charlotte, the queen
city of the South, the kick our

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assets. Is that what you said? Listen, I'm ready to fight for

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our asset like you wouldn't believe.
I'm from Blue Ash, Willie. I'll

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get in there and fight for that
asset, and I'm going to kick somebody

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else's asset. So the little tree
that grew is now a big oak.

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So when would the announcement be made
at all? They said? John Barrett

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said, a month or two after
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we're a month down the road.
Would you anticipate something by say Halloween?

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Before that? If I'm in their
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made, they need to break ground
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it's expanding the facility here in Mason. They need to do that sooner rather

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than later. Because now we're only
ten months away from them moving things into

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the facility here in Mason, and
then they're only twenty two months away from

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having to move it into Charlotte.
So they need to get going. So

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I think the decisions we're talking about
her of two three four weeks. Okay,

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Page two is a headline. When
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think of money, and I think
of power, and I think of American

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capitalism, which has created the middle
class, the greatest economy in the world,

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despite the fact we find so much
wrong with it. There's no place

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that'd rather be than in America,
no place or rather live in the dry

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state. While I was at a
function last night at the Xavier Sintas Center

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where I met some of the leadership
of Xavier plus many others about important issues.

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It was a great get together.
Many are talking about moving to Warren

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County into Boone County because of what's
happening in the city of Cincinnati, which

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is a gross increase in the income
tax, plus the safety issue issues there.

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Shots being fired in the gaslight district
at little three year old birthday parties

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are being disrupted with bodies thrown out
of car doors and Clifton. Things are

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not good, But headline CNBC shrink
and theft losses near one billion dollars at

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Lows. Here's how much they're costing
other retailers. I'm watching a collapse of

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civilization. I would assume there's massive
theft happening in Warren County somewhere, but

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when it's discovered, the indicted individual
goes before a conservative jury and goes to

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prison. That doesn't happen in many
other urban areas. What was your reaction

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as a business leader when it's shrinking
theft losses at lows in one year approach

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a billion dollars. Please tell me
your reaction, you know, Willie,

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I started off my career managing money
for other people and four owen k plans

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and things like that, so I'm
fairly well versed in a lot of things

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I don't know. One of the
things I do know is you know some

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of the Wall Street terminologies and things
like that. And here in the last

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couple of years, there's been a
new word that has appeared in financial statements

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of company. That word is shrinkage. Shrinkage is another term for theft,

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and that our inventory is just gone
and it is not one or two companies,

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it's across the board. And before
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I want I want your listeners to
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two annual shrink loss from lows nine
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for comparison purposes, ten years ago, that number was three hundred and fifteen

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million. It averaged around three hundred
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a sudden, four hundred million,
then five hundred million, and twenty twenty

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twenty twenty one, seven hundred and
eighty six million, and just since last

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year at just under eight hundred million, it went to almost a billion dollars

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just at lows because people are literally
going in and taking the money. Target

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second quarter shrinkage two hundred and nineteen
point five million dollars shrink in a quarter

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quarter. They're on pace to do
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Macy's second quarter eleven point two billion, TJX TJ Max one hundred and

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fifty million higher than the year before, Dick's Sporting Goods twenty seven millions dollar

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tree eighty eight million for the quarter, times all of those times for so

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that is what's going on in our
society. That's what's going on with our

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retailers. And there is a direct
correlation with areas that have high shrinkage and

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loss of stores. And who does
that hurt? The god fearing, law

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abiding citizens of those areas because the
stores go away because people steal and rob

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them blind and they can't afford to
keep the doors open. It hurts those

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residents who we all care so much
about, My goodness, we're taking those

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stores and grocery stores away because they
can't stay in business. In certain areas.

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It's amazing if you have fifty percent
off, you're getting some cash in

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the door to pay the products.
But when Lows and other retailers lose one

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billion dollars a year on shrink each
and theft, and it's accelerating, it's

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not going down, it's going up. When that occurs, those customers who

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use those stores are going to complain, holler, moan about the fact that

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there's food deserts, or there's retail
deserts, or no one's coming here.

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And this is a small number of
people. And one thing, there's always

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been some internal theft happening with employees
walking out the door but this is industrial

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strength. These are the gangs,
the warlords out of northern Mexico that see

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right for the plucking billions of dollars
that they can sell on the internet for

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thirty forty cents on the dollar and
away you go. And so that's where

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we're headed. They call it organized
crime. And I should correct my last

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statement. It's not just in certain
areas. It's everywhere, Willie, I

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mean Rodeo Drive and Beverly Hill.
I mean they've the smash and grab.

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It's happening everywhere, especially throughout even
nicer areas of California. And there's a

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direct cause and effect of our being, our society, our interpretation of right

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and wrong and is it okay to
do certain things? And what's the penalty

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when you break the law. What
are we as a society going to do?

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Do we just let oh, you
know, it's okay, he just

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stole something or he or she and
then all of a sudden, we're just

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going to do in a cashless bond. We're going to let him out the

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next day. Nobody, nobody,
quote unquote was harmed in the commission of

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this grab and flee. So we
as a society we're saying, no big

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deal. So what are certain people
in the society doing, especially organized crime.

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They're coming in and saying, we're
going to take advantage of that.

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So we're getting we're reaping what we
sowed when it came to our crime and

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punishment policies related to this subject.
And then when the store employees try to

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stop this massive theft by direct means, they're fired by their employers. I

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can recall the Louis Vaton theft out
of the Kenwood Town Center, which is

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the greatest retail shopping center and the
Midwest, is right here at the Kenwood

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Town Center and smashing grab one in
three or four, mask up, no

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fingerprints, I seventy one is right
there smashing grabs. No one's going to

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stop them. There's no security present. If there was, they can't arrest.

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That is all organized retail theft.
And if you come across the southern

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border and you've got a certain kind
of a bracelet on, what you have

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to do is do what they tell
you to do, or else you and

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your family will be killed or raped
or murder, whatever it might be.

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So these individuals have industrial strength Louis
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Rado drive Kenwood Town Center. They
go where the money is, and it

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is said, and to stop it
you have to build prisons, have prosecutors

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at will, prosecute police at all, arrest and away you go. Because

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right now, walk into a jewelry
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They went him with sledgehammers, broke
him, and they broke the display

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cases and took literally a half a
million dollars in diamonds in your pocket and

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out the door. And a couple
tried to stop this big fat guy with

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a bag putting diamonds in and he
was apprehended, but he was out on

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bond within two hours because it was
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They don't prosecute those property crimes.
And this person has gone to do

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more of it. Unless we draw
the line somewhere in our society, guess

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what, we're going to have complete
chaos. It it'll be like escape from

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New York with snake pliskin, Snake
pliskin, and that's what it's going to

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come to. But if it happens
in Warren County, you got a prosecutor

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dot a prosecute. You got police
that will arrest and so that metastasizes in

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the city more. But we got
to run David Young the commission. I'm

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very happy to hear what's going on. It's not done till it's done,

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and if it is done with a
tennis tournament, it will be a long

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term, guaranteed, bonus laden contract. And God knows we need that.

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We need the w ebn our works, we need the LPGA, we need

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all these ancillary events off to the
side. They produced hundreds of millions of

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dollars and the quality of life that
other cities do not have. We have

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the Crown Jewel, which is the
Western and Southern w EB and fireworks and

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also the tennis tournament. So on
a scale of one to ten, are

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you getting closure to ten? Are
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seven five? Where are you at
this point? I would say I'm close

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to an eight at this point between
seven and a half. I'll say a

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solid seven and a half because I've
been around long enough to know it ain't

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done until it's done. But this
is a such an important asset for the

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entire region. Really, it's not
just Warren County in the city of Mason,

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It's the entire region. This is
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We have thirty to forty international companies
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have two hundred and forty thousand residents. There's a disproportionate amount of international companies

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here in Warren County. I can't
put my finger on in the direct core,

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but common sense dictates there's a reason
why they're here. Why do these

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international companies know about little old Warren
County Because we're doing it right and they've

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seen our name through the Western Southern
Tennis Tournament, So there is a correlation.

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There is a benefit to the taxpayers. We don't like to lose.

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We're gonna win. I'm confident in
it. But again, it ain't done

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until it's done. Willie and the
Joker and Coco Golf, they won the

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big tournament, the Western and Southern
Tennis Open. Then then go to the

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city on the East coast and they
went some other event. I don't recall

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exactly what it was, but they
won the Western and Southern Open, the

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women's champion, the men's champion.
The greatest of all time is the Joker.

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The Joker is wild and having won
the Western and Southern, he felt

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impossible win the US Open along with
it. All right, Commission, thank

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you for calling in, and thank
you for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show.

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And when there's massive theft happening,
prosecute, prosecute, prosecute, David

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Young, thank you very much.
God bless you, Willie, and God

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bless America. Let's get continue with
more Bill cunning into Great American Life,

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which om of the Reds still searching
for that playoff spotty game and a half

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out. Starting about five forty tonight, a news radio seven hundred that all

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of you progressive commercial process blown whole
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