Speaker 1: Tell you about the States rights issue for regarding abortion.
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Speaker 2: Bottom They are, of course Judgenna Paula Tunn. We'll here
Speaker 2: from Ed Fink later in the program about the Veterans
Speaker 2: Day of animul Or High School. And right now we're
Speaker 2: going to hear from one of the most stark contrast
Speaker 2: races that there is that we are going to be
Speaker 2: voting on. Unless you have already voted, it is the
Speaker 2: prosecutor here in Hamilton County. In terms of the contrast
Speaker 2: and the vast difference in the experience level and qualifications
Speaker 2: for this job, this is the ultimate no brainer. At
Speaker 2: least it should be the only person with a sufficient
Speaker 2: experience and demonstrably proven talent in the office is my
Speaker 2: guest right now, Hamilton County Prosecutor Melissa Powers, Welcome back
Speaker 2: to the program. It's always a pleasure speaking with you.
Speaker 1: Good morning, Brian, thank you so much for having me today.
Speaker 2: Love having you on the program. Powersfoprosecutor dot com was
Speaker 2: where you find and I even encouraged my listeners last
Speaker 2: time you and I spoke. I said, go ahead, pull
Speaker 2: up Connie Pillach's site and take a look at what
Speaker 2: she thinks qualifies her for the mission or the job,
Speaker 2: and look at your resume coupled with your demonstrated proved
Speaker 2: abilities as Hamilton County prosecutor. This should be I mean,
Speaker 2: there is. This shouldn't be even a choice here, I would.
Speaker 1: Agree, Brian, there is not. This is a clear choice.
Speaker 1: It's so easy. It's just getting the message out to
Speaker 1: all the voters. The big difference between myself and my opponent.
Speaker 1: I spent my career as an attorney in the courtroom,
Speaker 1: whether a prosecutor, a civil litigator, doing defense work. Sixteen
Speaker 1: years as a judge in adult court and juvenile court.
Speaker 1: I've been fighting on behalf of victims. I've prosecuted murderers, rapist, burglars,
Speaker 1: the most dangerous criminals in our county. And my opponent
Speaker 1: has never prosecuted a single case. She hasn't been in
Speaker 1: side of courtroom in over twenty years. She let her
Speaker 1: law license lapse and literally has shown no interest in
Speaker 1: be an attorney. You don't do that and not maintain
Speaker 1: your law license. And then even since reactivating her license
Speaker 1: in order to put her name on the ballot. She's
Speaker 1: never handled a single case. She had two years to
Speaker 1: pick up some cases, to get familiar again, to actually
Speaker 1: be able to say to voters, hey, listen, I'm out here,
Speaker 1: I'm serious about running for this position. And she hasn't
Speaker 1: even done that. It's a clear choice. It scares me
Speaker 1: that how inexperienced she is. And then also what scares
Speaker 1: me so much through the future of our county is
Speaker 1: that she's aligned herself with these radical ideas from the
Speaker 1: left of defunding the police, putting the criminal's rights in
Speaker 1: front of you know before and that's paramount before any
Speaker 1: victims or even the safety of the community. She is
Speaker 1: being supported by the Working Families Party, which is basically
Speaker 1: a George Soro's New York out of state type of
Speaker 1: this point, putting money into her campaign and they publicly
Speaker 1: support defunding the police, abolishing cash bail, and then radically
Speaker 1: reforming our justice system. We know those policies don't work.
Speaker 1: We've seen it across the country where these cities have
Speaker 1: just failed, beautiful cities, and we have gone made so
Speaker 1: much progress in Cincinnati. Plus, this is my hometown. I
Speaker 1: love our county and our city. That's why I'm running.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to save our county from these radical ideas
Speaker 1: that are out there and my opponents right along with them,
Speaker 1: and we have to fight. We have to fight for everyone,
Speaker 1: invite for our community.
Speaker 2: Certainly, and your record demonstrates that. And i'd really like
Speaker 2: to highlight the fact that you started the first veterans
Speaker 2: treatment court in the state history, because I have a
Speaker 2: really really close connection with veterans because I have such
Speaker 2: tremendous respect for them, But the idea that you focused
Speaker 2: on them and the issues that they face that are
Speaker 2: truly unique compared to the regular run of the mill
Speaker 2: working folks out here in the world. So I salute
Speaker 2: you for that. But also as juvenile court judge, you
Speaker 2: did a hell of a great job with our struggling
Speaker 2: juvenile population and you just got this really solid record
Speaker 2: to run on. But pivoting over to the contrast, if
Speaker 2: George Soros is supporting Connie Pillage, that speaks volumes, because
Speaker 2: you can tell a lot by the company you keep.
Speaker 2: But I had a conversation earlier today Jim Neal, of
Speaker 2: course running for sheriff against Charmie McGuffey, and I asked
Speaker 2: him about illegal immigration. Lachland obviously is on the radar.
Speaker 2: It's a national story. Thirty three thousand Mauritanians have descended
Speaker 2: on a town of thirty four hundred people. The logistics
Speaker 2: behind that are just baffling. And I'm not pointing at
Speaker 2: the Martinian community or those folks in Lachland as being
Speaker 2: a criminal element. But there are immigrants legal or otherwise,
Speaker 2: I mean illegal ones is what I'm focusing on, which
Speaker 2: who do commit crimes. Cincinnati is a sanctuary city, and
Speaker 2: I'm just kind of curious to know your perception is
Speaker 2: about how the since a police department is in so
Speaker 2: far as working with Ice, and how the current Hamilton
Speaker 2: County sheriff is in so far as working with ICE,
Speaker 2: and how what your perception is in so far as
Speaker 2: the Prosecutor's office working with ICE.
Speaker 1: Well, I believe all the police departments are working with ICE. However,
Speaker 1: as you said, since it has been our city has
Speaker 1: been declared by the mayor sanctuary city, that has kind
Speaker 1: of has put some red blocks in the way of
Speaker 1: working making sure that ICE has the appropriate detainers if
Speaker 1: someone commits a crime. Now, a while back, we had
Speaker 1: some issues going on with the Chileans coming into our
Speaker 1: city and then they were burglarizing homes in particular neighborhoods,
Speaker 1: and then they're very difficult there. They're a international, highly
Speaker 1: sophisticated organized criminal gang unit. And through Chile, because of
Speaker 1: the visa way, they were able easily able to come
Speaker 1: into our country. They would fly into Miami, rent a car,
Speaker 1: drive up and be burglarizing homes and in affluent areas
Speaker 1: in many cities, whether it was outside of Nashville, Atlanta, Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: they would go up to New York, Connecticut, Michigan, and
Speaker 1: so they were very elusive, very difficult to catch. And
Speaker 1: I can't remember the exact number that we were dealing
Speaker 1: with last year of homes that were broken into. But
Speaker 1: when the police departments, other agencies, outside agencies, neighbor agencies
Speaker 1: such as Amberley or Montgomery or Indian Hill, these smaller
Speaker 1: agencies would would apprehend. They got very lucky through their
Speaker 1: hard work and they were able to apprehend one of
Speaker 1: the gangs that came through here. Once they got down
Speaker 1: to the jail, we had very low bonds set by
Speaker 1: a I guess a liberal judge, and then and there
Speaker 1: no with no detainer to hold them, so you didn't
Speaker 1: have that ICE detainer to hold them. And of course
Speaker 1: they got out, They got out on ankle bracelets. You
Speaker 1: know exactly what happened. They went left that to their country,
Speaker 1: so we had no opportunity to prosecute them. It was
Speaker 1: when that happened that came to my attention. I started
Speaker 1: working with the share of trying to convince, you know,
Speaker 1: their policy as ineffective. It wasn't working. That took almost
Speaker 1: a year to get changed, and I'm not quite sure
Speaker 1: that if I think at this point she's willing to
Speaker 1: work with ICE, but for a long time it was
Speaker 1: very difficult to get that, to get her to understand
Speaker 1: that her policy was ineffective.
Speaker 2: Well, she is supported by George Soros outside money. According
Speaker 2: to Jim neil, So that speaks volumes in and of
Speaker 2: itself prosecutor powers. There is a regular ad campaign. I
Speaker 2: mean even I have I'm so sick of hearing it
Speaker 2: that I can almost recite it. But suggesting that you
Speaker 2: are somehow going to prosecute women who have abortions, now
Speaker 2: I know well, and you can have any position you
Speaker 2: want as an individual in your status on abortions, but
Speaker 2: there are laws on the books, and now we have
Speaker 2: a constitutional amendment which protects women's rights along those lines.
Speaker 2: You want to address that question head on prosecutor powers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, then I've been trying to speak out and wherever
Speaker 1: I go to make sure that people understand. First of all,
Speaker 1: it's a mess comical that she has to pivot to
Speaker 1: these national issues in an attempt to scare our voters
Speaker 1: or try to make voters vote for her, to make
Speaker 1: this distinction on abortion. I mean, it's just kind of
Speaker 1: a playbook right out of the Democratic Party. We're talking
Speaker 1: about local issues here. First of all, this abortion has
Speaker 1: absolutely nothing to do with my race. But she's falsely
Speaker 1: claiming I'll prosecute women that will get abortions. Now, it's
Speaker 1: a constitutional protected right. It was voted by our in
Speaker 1: last November elections. The voters overwhelmingly past that. As part
Speaker 1: of our Ohio constitution, I take an I have to
Speaker 1: uphold that law or law, the laws of the United States,
Speaker 1: the laws of Ohio, the Constitution of the United States,
Speaker 1: the constitution of Ohio. So the absolute answer is, there
Speaker 1: is no way that I'm prosecuting women if they get
Speaker 1: a legal abortion. Secondly, this whole thing about if I had.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've been in the office room as two
Speaker 1: years not one female has been prosecuted for an abortion.
Speaker 1: And quite honestly, Brian, let's go back in the farther,
Speaker 1: I don't even know. I've been doing this for thirty
Speaker 1: two years. I've never heard of any woman in Ohio
Speaker 1: and Hamilton County have ever been prosecuted for having an
Speaker 1: abortion ever in my thirty two years. So to bring
Speaker 1: this up, and to run a commercial and to be
Speaker 1: going and sending letters out to every zip code to
Speaker 1: try to tell women, that scares me. Either she doesn't
Speaker 1: know the law or she's intentionally misleading the public, and
Speaker 1: either way can't trust her. She's not telling you the truth.
Speaker 2: Well, that falls into the category you choose, or maybe
Speaker 2: it's a combination of both nefarious or stupid. The farious
Speaker 2: in the sense she's lying, or stupid in the sense that,
Speaker 2: as you pointed out, doesn't understand the constitution of the
Speaker 2: state of Ohio is ensuring abortion as the right. The
Speaker 2: other thing that you point out, and I noted that
Speaker 2: she was calling and what is the point of this
Speaker 2: exercise for independent audits of cases that were already reviewed
Speaker 2: and affirmed by courts of Appeals. What is that about.
Speaker 1: Well, Brian, it makes no sense to me, because we
Speaker 1: have within our within the justice system, and is that
Speaker 1: you can if there's a conviction, you can appeal your case,
Speaker 1: and that you can go to the Court of Appeals,
Speaker 1: and if you don't like that decision, you can try
Speaker 1: to get into the higher Supreme Court. On criminal cases,
Speaker 1: you can even go to federal court, to the sisters
Speaker 1: sixth District in the United State Supreme Court. His idea
Speaker 1: of auditing cases that have already been reviewed, it makes
Speaker 1: no sense to me. It tells me she doesn't know
Speaker 1: what the system, how the system even works, and that's
Speaker 1: that's pretty scary. Again, there's no need for it. I
Speaker 1: think I don't know exactly what she has in mind.
Speaker 1: She claims this is from her internal her military experience.
Speaker 1: You do this internally, and it doesn't make any sense
Speaker 1: at all. Well, and it's just I think it's useless
Speaker 1: and ridiculous.
Speaker 2: Well, if she was even I will articulate a reason
Speaker 2: for it. There is a finite number of dollars in
Speaker 2: the county, and of course engaging in that review process
Speaker 2: seems to me it would cost a whole lot of
Speaker 2: taxpayer money for again, any pointless gesture.
Speaker 1: I would agree with you. And that's one thing that
Speaker 1: I've done throughout my thirty now going into my thirty
Speaker 1: second year my career, is that I've always been a
Speaker 1: watchdog for taxpayers money. I have started many programs such
Speaker 1: as like you mentioned earlier, the Better Treating the Court.
Speaker 1: I did that without one dime of taxpayers money being spent.
Speaker 1: I've started a gang unit and within internally within our office. Again,
Speaker 1: I can do these things without taxpayers money and to
Speaker 1: be spending money, and it seems like the other side
Speaker 1: all they want to do is throw money, and they
Speaker 1: think they're solving problems with money, and really often it
Speaker 1: really produces little results.
Speaker 2: Little result, lots of money. I'll tell you what, Hamilton
Speaker 2: County Prosecuting Melissa Powers. I dearly, dearly, pray and hope
Speaker 2: that we can continue to call you Hamilton County Prosecuting
Speaker 2: Melissa Powers after next Tuesday. I'll strongly encourage my listeners
Speaker 2: to just go ahead. If they don't believe you and
Speaker 2: don't believe me, do the research yourself. It's prop Powers
Speaker 2: from prosecutor dot com. Check out the record, then you
Speaker 2: go check Connie Pillach's website and you can see if
Speaker 2: you can figure out one thing that puts her ahead
Speaker 2: of the game when it comes to qualifications for the office.
Speaker 2: It has been a distinct pleasure having you on my
Speaker 2: program all these years, and I hope we continue to
Speaker 2: do it in your as Hamilton County Prosecute and Melissa Powers.
Speaker 2: God bless you keep up the great work and best
Speaker 2: of luck as we head into Tuesday.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Brian, and I want to thank you and
Speaker 1: your listeners for your support. I've had support from It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter what party you're from, if you're a Republican,
Speaker 1: a Democrat, or an independent, you're voting for your safety
Speaker 1: when you're voting for me. I've had support throughout almost
Speaker 1: every zip code in the county, and it just chose
Speaker 1: and I think how important is race is to the
Speaker 1: future of our county. So I'll continue to fight until
Speaker 1: and hopefully win everyone's vote and be successful on November fifth.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 2: I pray for that outcome. Hamilton County Prosecuting Melissa Powers
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