Speaker 1: Seven oh six at fifty five kr CD Talk Station,
Speaker 1: Friday eight. Bottom of the hour, don On O'Neal returns
Speaker 1: the Dwine State of the State. Yesterday they did a
Speaker 1: poll from Americans for Prosperity. We'll find out what the
Speaker 1: poll reflected. That's at the bottom of the aar. In
Speaker 1: the meantime, I'm happy to welcome back to the fifty
Speaker 1: five KRC Morning Show Cincinnati City, a city mayor candidate
Speaker 1: Corey Bowman running as a Republican in a pretty blue city. Corey,
Speaker 1: welcome back, man. It's always great talking to you.
Speaker 2: Brian. It's awesome to be back. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: So, how's things going out there as you are on
Speaker 1: the campaign trail meeting people, shaking hands? And your your
Speaker 1: website so I can tell my listeners Coreybowman dot com
Speaker 1: so you can see his seven policy pillars, among other things.
Speaker 1: And also up a right hand corner there's a little
Speaker 1: donate button. I'm sure he'd appreciate a campaign contribution. Anyway.
Speaker 1: How's it going before we get into some of the
Speaker 1: specific topics this morning, Cory.
Speaker 2: It's going great. And you know I've told people that,
Speaker 2: you know, when we first got into this. I thought
Speaker 2: I was just going to the slaughterhouse and it was
Speaker 2: just going to be me and about. Every day I
Speaker 2: get a reason to get more encourage on this campaign
Speaker 2: trail and really just get more motivated to know that
Speaker 2: there's a chance to get this thing.
Speaker 1: Well, that's wonderful to hear. And you're getting support from
Speaker 1: the Hamilton County Republican Party, I hope.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. The chairman Russell and Hampson County has been
Speaker 2: very helpful and very time throughout the whole process, especially
Speaker 2: for somebody that has really never gone into a race
Speaker 2: like this, and so I'm very appreciative.
Speaker 1: Of Well, we live in rather unusual times, and of course,
Speaker 1: obviously the policies and platforms of the Democrat Party, who
Speaker 1: has run the City of Cincinnata now for Cincinnati Now
Speaker 1: for the last several decades, don't seem to really care
Speaker 1: about stuff they've already have that's on their plate to
Speaker 1: take care of roads and infrastructure, and I know a
Speaker 1: lot of people are really upset about that, and that
Speaker 1: seems to me one thing if we focused on would
Speaker 1: make the city a more attractive magnet for people who
Speaker 1: otherwise wouldn't consider moving into the city. I mean, we
Speaker 1: got some problems on our hands in the city.
Speaker 2: Corey. No, absolutely, And if you look at our points
Speaker 2: on our website in the whenever we were first getting
Speaker 2: the signatures for our petition, I was really coning in
Speaker 2: on where the key policies that we need to focus
Speaker 2: on and really just don't get distracted by anything. And
Speaker 2: as I looked at it, number one is money management.
Speaker 2: Money management, where's the money going? Are you going to
Speaker 2: prioritize the budget to where it benefits the residents of Cincinnati?
Speaker 2: And I don't think there's a greater example where that
Speaker 2: mismanagement of funds is than in our infrastructure and in
Speaker 2: our roads.
Speaker 1: Indeed, I couldn't agree with you more on that. And
Speaker 1: let's just pivot over to an allocation of money that
Speaker 1: was just announced the other day for whatever I guess,
Speaker 1: they quote unquote found like one point three million dollars.
Speaker 1: And so there were a bunch of hands reaching out
Speaker 1: to try to get into the cookie guard, a lot
Speaker 1: of non governmental organizations to typically get some funding as
Speaker 1: directed by the mayor and council. They didn't get it,
Speaker 1: but what did get it three hundred thousand dollars anyway,
Speaker 1: went for a skate park, and then the rest of
Speaker 1: it went for the al or acquisition of two more
Speaker 1: dump trucks to help deal with the behind the eight
Speaker 1: ball equipment that is used for snow removal. We found
Speaker 1: ourselves in a precarious position with the last snowfall, and
Speaker 1: so we learned that twenty percent of the equipment was inoperable.
Speaker 1: So buying two dump trucks and three hundred thousand for
Speaker 1: a skate park. Your comments and reflections on the skate park,
Speaker 1: what would you have done.
Speaker 2: Well? I use the example of in your own personal funds, right,
Speaker 2: because a lot of people are asking for things like
Speaker 2: not just a skate park, but you are we going
Speaker 2: to have a new arena in the city, Are we
Speaker 2: going to do this? Are we going to do that?
Speaker 2: And the problem is is that we have a personal
Speaker 2: budget that's completely out of control. We have no clue
Speaker 2: where we are. Necessarily, if we do, then we're not
Speaker 2: using it properly. So it's we have to have a
Speaker 2: good foundation in our budget of knowing what takes priority.
Speaker 2: The fact that you're buying dumb trucks and stuff just
Speaker 2: shows me that this administration and the council is really
Speaker 2: being reactionary instead of proactive. And I think that's the
Speaker 2: key thing with your finances, is that you have to
Speaker 2: be proactive on those just practical issues, you know, the
Speaker 2: snow removal, the dumb trucks, the public services, the potholes.
Speaker 2: We shouldn't be patching up potholes at a rapid pace
Speaker 2: right now because that's reactionary. These things should have been
Speaker 2: prevented months or years ago.
Speaker 1: Well, and my understanding is there an obligation to take
Speaker 1: care of a certain number of road miles every year,
Speaker 1: and that they have been behind in doing that for
Speaker 1: years and years and years, which of course compounds the
Speaker 1: problem and causes this reactionary allocation resources.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, and that's the thing I kept feeling is that
Speaker 2: we have to switch from being reactionary to proactive on things.
Speaker 2: We have to be able to plan ahead, we have
Speaker 2: to be able to see the future, and it's actually
Speaker 2: very hard to do that when you're being distracted by
Speaker 2: other things that shouldn't take precedence. I'm not saying that
Speaker 2: a skate parks wouldn't be beneficial to that certain aspect
Speaker 2: of that community. I'm saying it doesn't make sense when
Speaker 2: you see the rest of these areas and shambles that see.
Speaker 1: And that's where I go, don't build bright and shiny
Speaker 1: new objects and get your photo ops in when you
Speaker 1: have things around you that are supposed to be taken
Speaker 1: care of that you've ignored for a long time, like
Speaker 1: for example, being proactive and forward thinking. Did they do
Speaker 1: a budget analysis to find out how much upkeep and
Speaker 1: maintenance that skate park is going to require? Because you
Speaker 1: know certain elements that are going to deteriorate, what's it
Speaker 1: going to cost going forward? This isn't just a static,
Speaker 1: one time cost when you build something like that, It
Speaker 1: comes with future needs and obligations.
Speaker 2: No, absolutely, And that's with a lot of these projects.
Speaker 2: I think a lot of times when these projects, like
Speaker 2: you said, that provide photo ops or they just look
Speaker 2: good on paper, they don't realize the maintenance that's going
Speaker 2: to take, or you're just not thinking ahead, and then
Speaker 2: that just puts you further further in the whole of
Speaker 2: what you really need to focus on.
Speaker 1: Indeed, and I let's see here, well the one of
Speaker 1: the other elements of your platform. And I had to
Speaker 1: bring this up because I ran into some rather frightening
Speaker 1: statistics that I had in front of me for this
Speaker 1: morning's morning show. You talk about increased safety as one
Speaker 1: of your platforms policy Platform number five, Safety of the
Speaker 1: city residents. It's extraordinarily important. And as I look at
Speaker 1: these statistics and this is it's kind of like a
Speaker 1: buried reality because I haven't read it, but we rank
Speaker 1: in terms of homicides per capita. We are number twelve
Speaker 1: in the country. Your reaction, Cory.
Speaker 2: No, I think that what was funny is that we
Speaker 2: had our kickoff of last week or two weeks ago actually,
Speaker 2: and whenever we had our kickoff that same week, their
Speaker 2: aftab had his kickoff, and they were running off of
Speaker 2: a platform of lower crime and things that had benefited
Speaker 2: the community. And I'm sitting there like, Bro, you know,
Speaker 2: if you're going to pin is is that people that
Speaker 2: live in the city, people that are experiencing these crime
Speaker 2: rates and these gunshots every night, and these things that
Speaker 2: are happening, they're not going to look at satistic or
Speaker 2: the people are what a certain administration wants to say
Speaker 2: this happening. They're going to see it for what it
Speaker 2: actually is. And so it's very frustrating when you see
Speaker 2: the crime rates up in certain areas when you see
Speaker 2: this happening. And so when we talk about increased safety,
Speaker 2: we're talking about getting behind the local law enforcement, getting
Speaker 2: behind the firefighters, not clementing their key roles with programs
Speaker 2: like three to one one and other comprehensive violence reduction
Speaker 2: agencies or whatever that might be. We've got to back
Speaker 2: what works, which is our police department. Now, I've talked
Speaker 2: with police department, and I've talked with police officers that
Speaker 2: have been in for over a decade in the CPD,
Speaker 2: and what they say is that we have to find
Speaker 2: that balance between being that protecting and that force of
Speaker 2: law in the city, but also they have to be
Speaker 2: involved in the community. You have to have that community's trust.
Speaker 2: It's very hard to have the trust of the community
Speaker 2: when there's another agency that's like three to one one
Speaker 2: that's basically answering other calls. We need to fully back
Speaker 2: the police department and our fire department in ways that
Speaker 2: really hasn't been seen in.
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Speaker 1: to keep them in the neighborhoods. And again, like you said,
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Speaker 1: that the elected officials share that belief, and I think
Speaker 1: many of them may very well do it. Let's pause,
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Speaker 1: At seven twenty fifty five K See talk station Brian
Speaker 1: Thomas with mayor old candidate Corey Bowman. Find him on
Speaker 1: line at Corey Bowman dot com. Read his policy platforms
Speaker 1: and maybe consider helping him out. Get on the campaign trail,
Speaker 1: go do a knocking, get a T shirt, and maybe
Speaker 1: make a campaign contribution. Corey, let us see here. Do
Speaker 1: you know whether or not after a Pervoll might agree
Speaker 1: to a debate? Has that been discussed? Have you reached
Speaker 1: out to him about doing something like that? And even
Speaker 1: are you interested in debating mayor Afterab Purvoll?
Speaker 2: There is talk about it that I've heard. There's no
Speaker 2: confirmation as of right now, but yeah, if mayor Aftab
Speaker 2: would agree to debate, then I think that that would
Speaker 2: be good.
Speaker 1: I do as well. And fundraiser coming up, Speaking of
Speaker 1: campaign contributions and donations. Fundraiser, I understand it's taking place
Speaker 1: April eighth. What are the details on that one, Corey?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we've just announced three events. Well, they'll be
Speaker 2: on our website by today. But specifically, what you're talking
Speaker 2: about is where at Tuesday, April eighth, we're going to
Speaker 2: be a Price Sill Chili and that's going to be
Speaker 2: from five to seven pm and it's all all is welcome,
Speaker 2: and Brian, I would like to extend a personal invitation
Speaker 2: to you if you could be there as well, that
Speaker 2: would be amazing.
Speaker 1: If my schedule allows for it, I will be happy
Speaker 1: to be there. Love Price sal Chili. Really excellent location
Speaker 1: in venue. Usually a lot of people show up for those.
Speaker 1: I presume Westside Jim Kiefer will be there. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he's got an apartment there somewhere. Edie. Anyhow,
Speaker 1: you your your your proposal regarding practical housing. I know
Speaker 1: there's a lot of screaming and yelling and the connected
Speaker 1: communities has been talked about, and what's your take on
Speaker 1: housing in the city of Cincinnati And as a mechanism
Speaker 1: to get more people to want to live there. It
Speaker 1: seemed to have worked when they read when they over
Speaker 1: the Rhine area. I know a lot of urban hipsters
Speaker 1: moved in there. That worked, but then people turned around
Speaker 1: and started saying, well, I can no longer afford to
Speaker 1: live in the area where I used to live. So
Speaker 1: it always comes with detractors when you invested in any
Speaker 1: given neighborhood. But what's your plan to create some sort
Speaker 1: of practical approach to housing.
Speaker 2: Well, I think one of the things that you have
Speaker 2: to hone in on is one of Cincinnati's best resources
Speaker 2: is our local small businesses and our developers. There's a
Speaker 2: lot of developers, a lot of people that are invested
Speaker 2: in the city, that loved the city, that grew up here,
Speaker 2: or they're from here. They call it their home that
Speaker 2: they're able to flip one or two properties at a time.
Speaker 2: But when you have an overall plan, let's say, or
Speaker 2: a vision that the city has for an area, and
Speaker 2: it's only going to be done by one big time developer,
Speaker 2: that's really what you're seeing with these connected communities is
Speaker 2: that you're not allowing people in the community to do it.
Speaker 2: You're actually just bypassing. I say, no, this is what
Speaker 2: we see for the community. And then in these policies,
Speaker 2: it's a trojan horse for a lot of things that
Speaker 2: have failed in the past and other communities in the city.
Speaker 1: Well, and I know one of the hurdles to you
Speaker 1: doing any kind of development, small or large. We have
Speaker 1: an overburden of regulations in the city.
Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely, And I witnessed that firsthand, you know, as
Speaker 2: a business owner in the West End. I remember the
Speaker 2: year that we went to the Super Bowl with the Bengals,
Speaker 2: and that the year after that, it was nothing short
Speaker 2: of like crazy in a lot of these streets in
Speaker 2: the West End, specifically where I was from. Is that
Speaker 2: there was developers and investors that were lining up the
Speaker 2: streets ready to pour into this city. And the way
Speaker 2: that you saw, you're like, man, this place is gonna
Speaker 2: blow up into in two years time. Max. There's gonna
Speaker 2: be so much development, there's gonna be so much housing available,
Speaker 2: there's gonna be so much resources available. This is amazing.
Speaker 2: Two years later, you just realize there's a kink in
Speaker 2: the hose. What is it. Well, it has to do
Speaker 2: with regulation. It has to do with zoning that is
Speaker 2: just not practical to the area. When you've got an
Speaker 2: area that's over eighty percent affordable housing or government subsidized housing,
Speaker 2: and then you're trying to put more of that in
Speaker 2: that community instead of just allowing businesses to thrive and
Speaker 2: people to have market rate or middle income apartments and
Speaker 2: condos and townhomes. This is just something that really hinders
Speaker 2: the growth of all these communities.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it concentrates poverty in certain areas which prevents them
Speaker 1: from economic development. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, and that honestly is probably one of the biggest
Speaker 2: factors of this campaign. With the money management, you're starting
Speaker 2: to see that just certain funds need to go certain
Speaker 2: places and be prioritized. But then on top of that,
Speaker 2: we have to have a practical housing approach because it
Speaker 2: is an issue. You know, when people say that there's
Speaker 2: a housing crisis, you've got to realize that there's a disparity.
Speaker 2: There's the very low income housing and then there's a
Speaker 2: very high income housing. But for us, in our coffee shop,
Speaker 2: there's several individuals that work in the city and they're
Speaker 2: able to afford a great price in our apartment, in
Speaker 2: the apartments that are above the building. We don't own
Speaker 2: the building itself, but we're able to pay a market
Speaker 2: rate for our business as well, and it's helped the
Speaker 2: community thrive. But there's a shortage of available units like
Speaker 2: that unless you have you know, if you play by
Speaker 2: the rules with the red tape of you've got to
Speaker 2: put this type of business here, and you've got to
Speaker 2: put this type of housing here, and really that shouldn't
Speaker 2: be the case.
Speaker 1: Coreybowman dot com for all the info and of course
Speaker 1: price sol Chili April eighth, beginning at five pm for
Speaker 1: the fundraiser and you get a chance to shake hands
Speaker 1: with Corey and meet him up front. Corey has been
Speaker 1: a pleasure having you on the show, with you all
Speaker 1: the beck best on the campaign trail, and I know
Speaker 1: we talk again real soon here on the morning show.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, thank you Brian for having me.
Speaker 1: My pleasure, my pleasure, and good luck stick around. We're
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