Speaker 1: Do anything Trump does.
Speaker 2: I think he knows what we are doing every day, what
Speaker 2: we have to you know. Fifty five KRCD Talk Station
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Speaker 2: very Happy Friday slash Valentine'sdad. Everybody. Brian Thomas always pleased
Speaker 2: to look across the studio table here and see Todd Zends,
Speaker 2: their former inspector general. He knows where the low hanging
Speaker 2: fruit is as well. Todd Senzer, welcome back, man. It's
Speaker 2: great to have you in studio. You're brilliant, and you're
Speaker 2: very informative, and you benefit every one of my listeners
Speaker 2: when you show up. That means a lot to me.
Speaker 2: Let's before we guy dive into and you can explain
Speaker 2: what Rising fifteen is and we'll deal with some local
Speaker 2: shenanigans and other things. We're just having this off air
Speaker 2: conversation about the Democrats just screaming their head off about
Speaker 2: the revelation of all this fraud, wasting abuse and the
Speaker 2: efforts to stop it. You know, Billionaire Elon Musk. Billionaire
Speaker 2: Elon Musk. It's like, wait a second, you're defending the
Speaker 2: literally indefensible in saying that these cuts shouldn't be made.
Speaker 2: I mean, they are showing that it's the low hanging fruit,
Speaker 2: the dumb, the stupid, the ridiculous, the waste. And I
Speaker 2: read this, the editorial board point this, so you want
Speaker 2: proof of government fraud. I had to read it because
Speaker 2: all of this information, all of the areas of fraud,
Speaker 2: wasting abuse, previously identified under the Biden administration's people two
Speaker 2: hundred and thirty three to five hundred and twenty one
Speaker 2: billion annually in fraud from the Government Accountability Office last year,
Speaker 2: and then it just goes on and on and on.
Speaker 2: People in the Biden administration identified this, and so that
Speaker 2: Elon Musk is now and Donald Trump are now doing
Speaker 2: something about previously identified areas of fraud wasted abuse, and
Speaker 2: now they're screaming about it as if it isn't real.
Speaker 1: Right. The interesting thing, Brian, is that the GAO, the
Speaker 1: Government Accountability Office, is actually an arm of Congress. So
Speaker 1: it's their own auditor. It's Congress's own auditor that's coming
Speaker 1: up with this. So members of Congress should not be
Speaker 1: complaining about what they're finding. You would think that.
Speaker 2: That Elon Musk is coming in and threatening to molest
Speaker 2: their children or something. I don't know how to frame it,
Speaker 2: but I just stand in awe and aghast, in a
Speaker 2: state of disbelief over the loud, screaming, angry cries of
Speaker 2: these elected officials, and I think, wait a second, you
Speaker 2: were elected. You have constituents. These constituents presumably participated in
Speaker 2: work ergo, paid into the federal government via the income
Speaker 2: tax system and most notably, separate line item Social Security system,
Speaker 2: thinking at some point that they were going to reap
Speaker 2: the benefits of getting a Social Security check. Elon Musk
Speaker 2: comes out and says, look, dead people are getting checks.
Speaker 2: People that aren't entitled to get Social Security checks are
Speaker 2: getting your money. CBOs identified for years the Social Security
Speaker 2: is painfully underwater, so everybody's at risk of not even
Speaker 2: getting it. And that's if it's a well oiled, non
Speaker 2: corrupt machine. But in response to him pointing this out,
Speaker 2: they scream and try about how he's taking your Social
Speaker 2: Security benefits away. How do they answer to their own
Speaker 2: constituents with something.
Speaker 1: Like that, Well, unfortunately, I think the constituents that they're
Speaker 1: worried about are the constituents that support them and make
Speaker 1: the most noise about Trump or not having enough money
Speaker 1: to do certain things that those are the people they're
Speaker 1: listening to. They're listening to the people that have been
Speaker 1: feeding off the federal government for all these years.
Speaker 2: Okay, In the follow up question, which I know the
Speaker 2: answer to because I asked it before we started, are
Speaker 2: there that many people out there getting this money in
Speaker 2: a form of like recipients of no into the non
Speaker 2: government organizations or feeding at the trough of some ridiculous
Speaker 2: program paid for by the American taxpayer.
Speaker 1: Yes, there's there. There are those people, and there are
Speaker 1: also people like members of the military industrial complex, all
Speaker 1: of these iron triangles that orbit the federal government. You've
Speaker 1: got that issue too, But you know that's alive and well.
Speaker 1: Here in Cincinnati there are I don't know, forty or
Speaker 1: fifty different groups that the city funds on an annual
Speaker 1: basis with you know, fifty thousand here, two hundred thousand there,
Speaker 1: and it's I mean, there's a name for it, but
Speaker 1: it's it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah. You can't stay it on the air, though, because
Speaker 2: that's just the non compliant.
Speaker 1: But that's the way the system is right now, Charlie Foxtrot,
Speaker 1: not only in the United States but here locally as well.
Speaker 2: But just using springing from your the framing of that,
Speaker 2: and I'm not disagreeing with your analysis or assessment of that.
Speaker 2: The City of Cincinnati doles out these dollars, Is that
Speaker 2: coming from the city's general fund, which is fueled by
Speaker 2: Cincinnatians and the the the income tax that they pay
Speaker 2: into the general fund.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's all coming out of there. It's all coming
Speaker 1: out of the city's general fund.
Speaker 2: So it's a city version of what the federal government
Speaker 2: is doing exactly. This problem is beyond systemic.
Speaker 1: Yes, it is.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 2: You can feel free to make me better, Todd, I
Speaker 2: make me feel better about this. You're not.
Speaker 1: It is baked in, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: It's very What do you think the landscape of the
Speaker 2: economy would look like if the plug just got pulled
Speaker 2: on all this extraneous and I will use the word
Speaker 2: crap because that's exactly the way I feel about it.
Speaker 1: Well, not only do you have to stop these programs,
Speaker 1: but you have to stop you have to stop funding
Speaker 1: them through taxes. If we didn't have all these programs,
Speaker 1: we wouldn't be paying all these taxes and the economy
Speaker 1: would The economy would have the money instead of the
Speaker 1: federal government or the state.
Speaker 2: Government fueling industry and business and goods and services that
Speaker 2: the economy thrives on because people actually want what they're
Speaker 2: providing exactly.
Speaker 1: It's more the free market system that's been corrupted.
Speaker 2: You know, it breaks my heart to say this, but
Speaker 2: you know, looking at this landscape and the just absolute
Speaker 2: opposition to curbing this fraud, waste and abuse, and the
Speaker 2: size of the national deficit and the debt service we're
Speaker 2: paying on it, you know deep down that it's going
Speaker 2: to require a collapse of the fiat currency in order
Speaker 2: to write the ship and to end this from happening,
Speaker 2: which basically is going to end the fiat currency. And
Speaker 2: I don't know how we're going to be able to
Speaker 2: survive as a nation without the fiat currency. I mean, it's.
Speaker 1: We're quickly racing to the bottom. We're going to crash
Speaker 1: here if these efforts of those and the president aren't successful.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, my mom will make this comment from
Speaker 2: time to time. God bless you, Mom. You know, I
Speaker 2: love you to death. Eighty five years old, and she's like,
Speaker 2: basically of the mindset, and so many people are, well,
Speaker 2: it looks like that's something bad's gonna happen, but least
Speaker 2: I won't be around when it does. Is that kind
Speaker 2: of the mindset of our elected officials. I mean, somebody
Speaker 2: like Nancy Pelosi's about one hundred and sixty five years
Speaker 2: old anyway, or Mitch McConnell, they're gonna die before it
Speaker 2: hits the fans. So they don't have any feel feeling
Speaker 2: like they have any obligation to do anything to write
Speaker 2: the ship.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, these some of these members who are senior, like
Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell and Nancy Pelosi, they just can't give up power.
Speaker 1: And that's that's what that's what it's all about. These
Speaker 1: these elected officials want to retain their their power.
Speaker 2: Is that's like a DSM five diagnosable illness.
Speaker 1: I would agree with you.
Speaker 2: I mean, you're eighty five years old now. Not to
Speaker 2: use my mom's age, I don't know how old Mitch
Speaker 2: McConnell is, but you know, let's face, he's old.
Speaker 1: He's close.
Speaker 2: Don't you think with the millions and millions of millions
Speaker 2: of dollars in value that you are worth literally sitting
Speaker 2: on cash, sitting on home property, you got it all made.
Speaker 2: You only have a few more years in the normal lifespan.
Speaker 2: Why don't you just drop it and go and enjoy yourself,
Speaker 2: play golf, or play with your grandkids or great grandkids,
Speaker 2: or something like, why do you need to keep this office? Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's kind of sad, isn't It's it's pathetically sad. It's embarrassing.
Speaker 1: Well, the voters have something to do with that also.
Speaker 2: Well, no, I know it's easy to say that out
Speaker 2: loud when we have to, you know, sort of look
Speaker 2: at the mirror and ourselves and decide. Wait a minute, jeez,
Speaker 2: that's right. I did vote to keep that guy in office,
Speaker 2: right right. Paint a pretty dreary picture here this morning,
Speaker 2: but it's reality. Light has to be shed on it.
Speaker 2: I thank god that Elon Musk at least has the
Speaker 2: ability to shed light on it. I'm sorry, billionaire Elon Musk.
Speaker 2: God remember to put that in there. From now and
Speaker 2: apparently the rules have been issued so we can sort
Speaker 2: of semi wage to the class warfare while the guy
Speaker 2: who doesn't even own a big house or even stuff
Speaker 2: and things and is willing to do all of this
Speaker 2: work and identify fraud wasting to be for free doing
Speaker 2: good things because he wants America to survive. Go ahead,
Speaker 2: scream about him evil unelected official doctor Fauci seven fifteen
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Speaker 2: Nineteen fifty five Krcity Talk Station by Thomas Always please
Speaker 2: talk Todds in their former Inspector General. He's got his
Speaker 2: fingers on the pulse of all the crazy stuff that's
Speaker 2: going on in the world. And let us pivot over
Speaker 2: to local crazy, moving away from federal level. You kind
Speaker 2: of alluded to it earlier. We talked about Cincinnati doling
Speaker 2: out money to NGOs, and you know all the organizations
Speaker 2: that are supported by that, which are the ones that
Speaker 2: screaming yell every time someone tries to fare it out. Fraud,
Speaker 2: waste and abuse. But rising fifteen. Remind my listeners about
Speaker 2: this because I seem to recall reading an article or
Speaker 2: talking about a little bit in the morning show maybe
Speaker 2: when you were here. This is about the fifteen quote
Speaker 2: unquote underserved neighborhoods within the City of Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: Yes, there are three members of city Council who have
Speaker 1: identified fifteen neighborhoods that have been underserved. It's not clear
Speaker 1: whether that's historically or current or both. And they entered
Speaker 1: a motion back in October of twenty three to set
Speaker 1: up two special funds for these neighborhoods. And remember that
Speaker 1: in October of twenty three is when we were campaigning
Speaker 1: for and against the sale of the railway.
Speaker 2: Yeah, uh huh.
Speaker 1: This is all geared towards letting constituents know that they're
Speaker 1: going to get a piece of the railway money. So
Speaker 1: this motion set up a special two special funds for
Speaker 1: these neighborhoods. What they called a railroad fund and what
Speaker 1: they called an Economic development fund. And the idea back
Speaker 1: then as it is now, is to take ten percent
Speaker 1: of the proceeds from the railway sale that the city
Speaker 1: is given every year by the Railway Trust Board and
Speaker 1: put it into this railroad fund and let that accumulate.
Speaker 1: And it also establishes a seven member advisory board that
Speaker 1: basically controls that money.
Speaker 2: So we have an advisory board that controls the railroad money,
Speaker 2: and they take the interest generated off the principle, ten
Speaker 2: percent of which goes into a separate fund which is
Speaker 2: managed and organized by a completely separate entity. Let me
Speaker 2: guess who are appointed by the mayor.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, huh so Okay, now wait, all right, let's
Speaker 2: follow the money here. Okay, let's just say that happens.
Speaker 2: I guess. Definitionly speaking, do we even know what underserved?
Speaker 3: Is no?
Speaker 1: And that's one of the problems these fifteen neighborhoods. The
Speaker 1: motion has an exhibit attached that they say is the
Speaker 1: demographic and socioeconomic data that they use to identify these
Speaker 1: fifteen neighborhoods. That exhibit wasn't attached to the motion when
Speaker 1: they filed it with When they filed it with the
Speaker 1: council last week, I had to go down to the
Speaker 1: clerk's office to get a copy of the exhibit. It's
Speaker 1: basically one page, and the socioeconomic and demographic data includes
Speaker 1: the population of the neighborhood, the racial makeup of the neighborhood,
Speaker 1: and the median income of the neighborhood. That's it. Nothing
Speaker 1: about unemployment levels, nothing about education levels, nothing about crime,
Speaker 1: nothing about blight. Just race and income.
Speaker 2: That's Todd founding his hand in emphasis about what he's
Speaker 2: talking about. I had a listener complaining to me because
Speaker 2: when I moved my boom mic, it's a little squeak
Speaker 2: to it. He said, it drives me crazy. So I've
Speaker 2: been trying never to touch my mic. I just want
Speaker 2: to let him specifically know it was you being making
Speaker 2: a strong point. I don't have a problem with the Todd,
Speaker 2: trust me. I just want to let listeners know that
Speaker 2: I was aware of it. But movie back, Okay, fine,
Speaker 2: you got you've identified these neighborhoods. Let's just say and
Speaker 2: we say find that the demographic and and and identified information.
Speaker 2: And we haven't talked about the source of who gathered that.
Speaker 2: I don't know where that came from. Was it identified
Speaker 2: on the document? So we have no idea who compiled it.
Speaker 2: How will these funds be used to transform and underserved
Speaker 2: neighborhood into a served neighborhood.
Speaker 1: Well, that's that's to be seen. This advisory group that
Speaker 1: the Emotion would set up, I guess is supposed to
Speaker 1: come up with a plan for spending this money.
Speaker 2: But is the argument Now, Let's let's move over to
Speaker 2: the foundation for the sale of the railroad, which is
Speaker 2: to use the interest generated by the principle to work
Speaker 2: on previously existing projects.
Speaker 1: Right, and a.
Speaker 2: Previously just in project in this particular case is the
Speaker 2: mere existence of a neighborhood that they have called underserved.
Speaker 1: Well, that's hard to say, because what the what the
Speaker 1: emotion also does, or what they try to do, is
Speaker 1: is swap money. In fact, yeah, the vice mayor actually
Speaker 1: use that term a money swap, where oh, they're not
Speaker 1: going to use railway money, They're gonna take an equivalent
Speaker 1: amount of the railway money out of the general General
Speaker 1: Fund and put it in it in their special railroad.
Speaker 2: Fund, demonstrating as I always like to demonstrate the fungibility
Speaker 2: of money. Oh you're not kidding and switch, We're only
Speaker 2: gonna use for existing infrastructure. So it's okay to sell
Speaker 2: the railroad. It'll free up all these funds. We can
Speaker 2: get some projects done, okay, and then that will free
Speaker 2: up money that should have come from the general General
Speaker 2: Fund and allow it to be used for other brand
Speaker 2: new stuff and things.
Speaker 1: Right well, we said, after the sale was approved by
Speaker 1: the voters, we made several recommendations on how to strengthen oversight,
Speaker 1: and one of them was to establish a floor, a
Speaker 1: spending floor that you're going to spend X number of
Speaker 1: dollars on infrastructure, and then whatever comes in from the
Speaker 1: railway goes on top of that. That's how we're going
Speaker 1: to be spending more on infrastructure. Instead, they want to
Speaker 1: take the existing level of funding, take that away from
Speaker 1: infrastructure and use it for all these other things, new
Speaker 1: stuff and things, not even infrastructure things.
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Speaker 2: is floating around the back of my mind. Sunset, which
Speaker 2: is still like this landmark looks like a war zone
Speaker 2: from Ukraine or Gaza Strip.
Speaker 1: I went down there yesterday, Brian.
Speaker 2: It's even more so, I know, listen, that's why it's
Speaker 2: my favorite illustration.
Speaker 1: It's got a lot of potholes.
Speaker 2: That's the way I take when I go over to
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Speaker 2: bless it, I should come up with an alternative route
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Speaker 2: Seven fifty five KRCIT the talk station. Brian Thomas with
Speaker 2: former Inspector General Todd Zenzer in studio. We're trying to
Speaker 2: unpack this rising fifteen and uh Shenanigan's declaration, at least
Speaker 2: from my perspective, certainly, just Trekker's perspective. All right, Todd,
Speaker 2: real quick, care, let's sum it up. They take ten
Speaker 2: percent of the U of the interest earned off the
Speaker 2: railroad investment they put into a separate account. They have
Speaker 2: a new independent seven member board that is going to
Speaker 2: allocate that money. And really big question mark how long
Speaker 2: it's going to be in that fund. I guess it's
Speaker 2: an annual expenditure of ten percent. Every year, ten percent
Speaker 2: of the railroad money goes into this fund.
Speaker 1: That's my understanding.
Speaker 2: Okay, And whoever these members are, we don't know. They're
Speaker 2: not elected officials, are they They're huh, Well, let's just
Speaker 2: scream that out loud over and over again. So seven
Speaker 2: unelected officials are going to have complete control and say
Speaker 2: over how this money gets allocated or spent on any
Speaker 2: given project in these fifteen quote unquote underserved communities.
Speaker 1: Well, technically they're going to make a recommendation to council.
Speaker 1: But if the council sets up this advisory board to
Speaker 1: tell them, you know, how to robber sent exactly.
Speaker 2: Now, you were in council on a Wednesday speaking on
Speaker 2: an opposition against this. Yes, I was what arguments did
Speaker 2: you make to them and how were your arguments received?
Speaker 1: Well, the thing about claiming your two minutes to the
Speaker 1: City Council is they don't respond to you.
Speaker 2: They really sit there and play on their phones.
Speaker 1: Yes, so I made four points and then I asked
Speaker 1: that they withdraw the motion. The first one I said
Speaker 1: is that this thing is drenched in politics. It came
Speaker 1: about during the campaign regarding the railway sale. It was
Speaker 1: I said, it was political. Then it was drenched in politics.
Speaker 2: Now WCPO referred to it as reparations. Yes they did.
Speaker 2: I mean that was in their reporting on it.
Speaker 1: That was back in October twenty three. Yes, us, and
Speaker 1: if you read if you read the motion, you'll get
Speaker 1: an understanding of why they said that.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, did your I mean, I know you
Speaker 2: see your comments are ignored like most people, but generally speaking,
Speaker 2: I mean, is there concern among council members about going
Speaker 2: forward and moving forward with this, about the the repercussions
Speaker 2: that they might get.
Speaker 1: Well, I did send an email to the mayor and
Speaker 1: the council members and the city manager with these points,
Speaker 1: and I got one response from a council member, Jeffries,
Speaker 1: and he pretty much agrees with us with with my concerns.
Speaker 1: So that was one member that I got some feedback from,
Speaker 1: But I haven't heard anything from any of the other members.
Speaker 2: What of the railroad Board don't they have say over this?
Speaker 1: Well, that is a great that is a great question,
Speaker 1: Brian and I. Actually the railway Board met this past
Speaker 1: week also, They met on Tuesday afternoon, and I went
Speaker 1: there to make a couple of points about a different issue.
Speaker 1: You and I thought the meeting was encouraging. I didn't.
Speaker 1: They are putting up a new website where they are
Speaker 1: going to require information from the city about what projects
Speaker 1: are underway, how much money is being used, and what
Speaker 1: the status of those projects are. That's news to me
Speaker 1: because during the campaign I got the impression that they
Speaker 1: really weren't going to be too involved in how the
Speaker 1: money was spent. So from my perspective anyway, that was
Speaker 1: a positive development.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, that's the kind of transparency we deserve. Absolutely, if
Speaker 2: you want to know where the money's being spent, they
Speaker 2: will let you know. It's right there on the site.
Speaker 2: I think that's an absolutely fabulous idea, and I'm actually
Speaker 2: shocked that it's happening.
Speaker 1: I was very encouraged by it.
Speaker 2: They have a fiduciary obligation to monitor those dollars.
Speaker 1: Well, that's my argument. I mean, I used the story
Speaker 1: about when I was at the Transportation Inspector General's office,
Speaker 1: we had the Federal Transit Administration under our purview, and
Speaker 1: my boss used to call them a religious organization because
Speaker 1: they would throw billions of dollars out the door and
Speaker 1: just pray that it was properly used. That's not the
Speaker 1: way to go. If you're giving money out, you did
Speaker 1: you make sure that it is used for the purpose
Speaker 1: that you that you dispersed it.
Speaker 2: So, going back to our conversation at the outset of
Speaker 2: the program, literally every government government entity is doing this
Speaker 2: kind of thing, Yes, throwing money out the door and
Speaker 2: never paying attention to see what it's done out in
Speaker 2: the world, how much people are making off of the allocation,
Speaker 2: who is benefiting from it, or more fundamentally, if that
Speaker 2: allocation if deemed Appropriate's why the money went out the door.
Speaker 2: Actually does anything.
Speaker 1: Right well, some agencies that give out money grant make
Speaker 1: grants and things like that. Some do a better job
Speaker 1: at overseeing what happens than others, but they got a
Speaker 1: long way to go.
Speaker 2: Well, Brent Toddsen's er back, He's in studio for the
Speaker 2: full hour. This is just very informative Todd, and I
Speaker 2: can't thank you enough for you know, for showing up
Speaker 2: at these meetings on behalf of the taxpayers, for you
Speaker 2: providing your useful insight and giving them i think a
Speaker 2: more informed opinion about the legality of this, how it's
Speaker 2: gonna work, and bringing to their attention that this could
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Speaker 2: Happy Friday, Happy Valentine's Day, and an enlightening morning show.
Speaker 2: Since Todd Zinzers and Studio Form Inspector General telling us
Speaker 2: all about this rising fifteen and it is a motion,
Speaker 2: it has not been passed yet, correct, That's correct, all right,
Speaker 2: So I'm not going to restate what the parameters are
Speaker 2: for this. Bottom line is railroad money going into a
Speaker 2: separate fund to be allocated among fifteen communities. Now, I
Speaker 2: know you've done a couple of podcasts on this on YouTube.
Speaker 2: You have a YouTube channel which is called citizens Watch
Speaker 2: Citizen Watchdog with Todd Zenzer. Yes, and you've done two
Speaker 2: full programs on this alone.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 2: Now, obviously you filled up a lot of time on
Speaker 2: your your program on YouTube again, Citizen Watchdog with Todd Zenzer.
Speaker 2: You mentioned to me off air something that has passed,
Speaker 2: which is the City in City on Track Plan, the
Speaker 2: City on Track Plan. Now doesn't that already deal with
Speaker 2: the allocation of railroad fund money.
Speaker 1: Yes, that was the whole point of the plan.
Speaker 2: So this would interfere with a previously passed proposal for
Speaker 2: spending the money.
Speaker 1: Yes, I think it really confuses things. Remember that the
Speaker 1: campaign to sell the railway started with this idea that
Speaker 1: there's four hundred million dollars of deferred mateents that the
Speaker 1: city is grappling with, and the plan was to sell
Speaker 1: the railway and start attacking that deferred maintenance. So they
Speaker 1: came up with a City on Track plan, and it
Speaker 1: broke it down into different areas parks and recreation, roads
Speaker 1: and bridges, you know, et cetera, and then it distributed
Speaker 1: those funds across those subjects and across the neighborhoods where
Speaker 1: deferred maintenance has been identified. I don't know why they
Speaker 1: just don't look at that plan and see what projects
Speaker 1: exist within those fifteen neighborhoods and make those a priority.
Speaker 2: I think I suspect the reason why. It's because fixing
Speaker 2: a road in a neighborhood, or fixing an existing piece
Speaker 2: of infrastructure that they own and therefore have an obligation
Speaker 2: to maintain, does not change anything. On that slip that
Speaker 2: was not posted with this recent motion, you identifying neighborhoods
Speaker 2: with income disparities. That's right, because a fixed road does
Speaker 2: not change the income disparity.
Speaker 1: Right. What I liked working for the Transportation Department is
Speaker 1: that roads and bridges and infrastructure should not be political.
Speaker 1: It's all they own. It's all about public safety and
Speaker 1: economic development and things like that. That's why you need infrastructure.
Speaker 2: Well, and I also retract part of my conclusion on
Speaker 2: that because maybe I pin with a bit of a
Speaker 2: broad brush because these so broken windows that you know,
Speaker 2: if you have a neighborhood a bunch of broken windows,
Speaker 2: people think it's all My god, is a terrible neighborhood,
Speaker 2: and they don't want to invest in it. They don't want
Speaker 2: to move into it. Fix the windows, fix the streets,
Speaker 2: fix the roads, and it may inject much needed capital,
Speaker 2: jobs and possibilities for people that are there.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, the people in a neighborhood support the whole broken
Speaker 1: windows thing, at least in many of the neighborhoods. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would say, And why wouldn't you? Absolutely?
Speaker 2: I mean, if it reduces crime and statistically it's proven
Speaker 2: to do that, then yes, embrace it. It's like I
Speaker 2: want police in my neighborhood because it is. Uh, well,
Speaker 2: I did into bad guys hanging out in the corner
Speaker 2: and selling drugs. Yes, absolutely, Wow, I'll remind my listeners
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Speaker 2: If you about KRCDE Talks station. Very happy Friday to you,
Speaker 2: and at this time we're going to turn our attention
Speaker 2: briefly away from Todd Zenzer and talk to Officer Lisa
Speaker 2: Big with the Sinsint Police Department Crime Stoppers. Lisa, Happy
Speaker 2: Friday and happy Valentine, and who are we looking for?
Speaker 6: Good morning, We are looking for Curtis Allen. He's wanted
Speaker 6: for domestic violence. Curtis Allen. I know, I know you
Speaker 6: hate that. He's a black veil. He's fifty three years old,
Speaker 6: he's five foot seven, one hundred and eighty pounds. He
Speaker 6: has a history aggravated burglary and other domestic violences, and
Speaker 6: he frequents Saint Martin's Place in Cheviot.
Speaker 2: Man, just walk away, don't beat up on your spouse.
Speaker 1: Ah.
Speaker 2: Anyway, if we have information on where we can find
Speaker 2: Curtis Allen, and please please drop a dime if you do,
Speaker 2: who are gonna call Lisa Baker?
Speaker 6: Give Crime Stoppers a call at five one three three
Speaker 6: five two thirty forty, or you can submit a tip
Speaker 6: anonymously at Crime dash Stoppers dot u S.
Speaker 2: You'll be doing society a favor getting this guy locked up.
Speaker 2: You will be eligible for a cash reward. You will
Speaker 2: remain anonymous, underscoring that Lisa have a wonderful weekend. Thank
Speaker 2: you very much for all that you and the police
Speaker 2: department do. I hate domestic violence, folks, Todd, you know
Speaker 2: child molester's number one. Then guys who beat up on
Speaker 2: their wives?
Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, goduckah.
Speaker 2: And you know I'm talking to you. You're out there listening.
Speaker 2: You beat up your wife? Why do you do that?
Speaker 3: Anyway?
Speaker 2: Citizen Watchdog with Todd Zinzer on YouTube, Todd and pivotingel
Speaker 2: back to what else anything else we need to know
Speaker 2: by way of exclamation points on all the reasons why
Speaker 2: this rising fifteen sounds so unbelievably right for corruption? If
Speaker 2: I can just boil it down to that conclusion.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the this motion was put forward on the on
Speaker 1: February five at the February fifth meeting, and during that meeting,
Speaker 1: the Vice Mayor said the quiet part out loud. She
Speaker 1: told the council we promised this during the campaign. Well,
Speaker 1: she may have promised it to certain constituencies, but that
Speaker 1: wasn't the promise that all the voters received. All the
Speaker 1: promise that we received is that this money would be
Speaker 1: spent on existing infrastructure to attack the four hundred million
Speaker 1: dollars worth of deferred maintenance.
Speaker 2: You don't know to whom this promise was made. It
Speaker 2: was not a campaign out on the road campaign out
Speaker 2: loud pledge that maybe Sharon Coolidge from the inquire could
Speaker 2: have reported on or something like that. Well, yes, does
Speaker 2: this sounds suspiciously like PG Sittenfeld, if you elect me,
Speaker 2: or you give funds to me for my campaign, then
Speaker 2: I will give you this this, this Rising fifteen program.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, I would think that she made the promise to
Speaker 1: the movers and shakers and those fifteen neighborhoods. But I
Speaker 1: think it's probably narrowed down to even fewer neighborhoods in
Speaker 1: the fifteen that they were making promises to. But we
Speaker 1: don't really know exactly who, huh, But I think there
Speaker 1: were individuals that were made promise.
Speaker 2: Like you'll be on the board if you if we
Speaker 2: get this through, if you get me elected, we established
Speaker 2: this Rising fifteen program, we're gonna let you control the money.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, along those promises, along those lines.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, maybe someone in law enforcement could look into that,
Speaker 2: because again I'm just thinking of PG sitting Feld, who
Speaker 2: recently was in the news since you lost this appeal.
Speaker 1: You know, on PG. The thing that I've always wondered
Speaker 1: is why were they doing business in a hotel room.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a red flag.
Speaker 1: That's absolutely a red flag.
Speaker 2: So host people, if your quote unquote doctor is scheduling
Speaker 2: surgery at a motel six, then you've got a real
Speaker 2: problem on your hands for that plastic surgery that you want. Yeah, Todd,
Speaker 2: I'm not sure how to unpackage this any further than
Speaker 2: we have unless there's other details that you want to
Speaker 2: just put exclamation points on the subject matter.
Speaker 1: Well, again, I think people need to understand what the
Speaker 1: statuses of these funds. The trust fund has actually grown
Speaker 1: by almost one hundred million dollars.
Speaker 2: Well, the market's been doing really well. Yes, if it
Speaker 2: hadn't grown by that much, then you have to worry
Speaker 2: about being mismanaged.
Speaker 1: Right, So yeah, it's not that great of a return.
Speaker 1: It's like five point five or something percent.
Speaker 2: So it's consistent with like S and P five hundred
Speaker 2: kind of growth.
Speaker 1: Yes, And in September of twenty four, this is the
Speaker 1: way the law is written. For some reason, the Trust
Speaker 1: Fund Board decided to spend or send fifty six million
Speaker 1: dollars to the city. But they get that on July
Speaker 1: the first, and they get it in four tranches July
Speaker 1: every quarter. So my argument to the board was that
Speaker 1: I hope they gauged the city's ability to spend that money,
Speaker 1: so that if you give them twenty five percent of
Speaker 1: that on July one, you need to find out on
Speaker 1: October one, whether they've even used it, whether they've spent it,
Speaker 1: because if they're not spending it, the trust fund should
Speaker 1: keep it and let it earn more money.
Speaker 2: Amen.
Speaker 1: So, like I said at the meeting at the Railway
Speaker 1: Trust Board, I was encouraged. I think I don't think
Speaker 1: we're that far apart in terms of considering that.
Speaker 2: Well, if someone can ray if there is some legal
Speaker 2: objection to this, you know, it's not consistent with the
Speaker 2: nature of the fund, the purpose of the fund. It
Speaker 2: would be a violation of our produciary duties to let
Speaker 2: ten percent of this money come out and go really
Speaker 2: anywhere other than existing infrastructure. They the board would be
Speaker 2: the ones to raise that type of challenge if it
Speaker 2: could be raised.
Speaker 1: Well, I wish they would, but it's really not clear
Speaker 1: how directly involved they're going to get like that. I
Speaker 1: think they're just want to turn on and off to
Speaker 1: spicett of money and then disclose to the public of
Speaker 1: what's happening with that money. I think they're going to
Speaker 1: leave it up to other parties to really well.
Speaker 2: I would think that they have a larger role than
Speaker 2: that in this entire equation.
Speaker 1: Todd would I would love that I recommended that they
Speaker 1: appoint a compliance officer that looks at the board's compliance
Speaker 1: as well as the city's compliance with the law. I
Speaker 1: recommend that back in November of twenty three. I don't
Speaker 1: think they're going to go that far, but that's what
Speaker 1: I would do.
Speaker 2: I nominate former Inspector General Todd Senser for that position.
Speaker 2: Anybody out there want to second that motion. Todd, thank
Speaker 2: you so much for coming in studio. Had no idea
Speaker 2: about this or the details of it. And you're the
Speaker 2: one that's got the era, like I said, hand on
Speaker 2: the pulse of what's going on in the city of Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: And I can't thank you enough. And I know the
Speaker 2: listeners appreciate what you're doing, and certainly I would like
Speaker 2: to think the residents of the City of Cincinnati do
Speaker 2: as well. We'll have you on back again real soon.
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