Speaker 1: Seven oh five fifty five Caros De Talk Station, Happy Monday.
Speaker 1: You do a choice when it comes to elections. Of
Speaker 1: course your vote counts and every vote matters, and maybe
Speaker 1: we could change the direction of the city of Sinceing
Speaker 1: by going a different route politically. Joining me Merrill candidate
Speaker 1: Corey Bowman find him on line at Corey Bowman dot com. Corey,
Speaker 1: welcome back to the morning show. It's pleasure to have
Speaker 1: you on this morning.
Speaker 2: Hey, it's always great to be on.
Speaker 1: Thanks for having me. Brian, quick question, I want to
Speaker 1: put you on the spot. If you're not going, are
Speaker 1: you planning on being at Jim and Jacks for the
Speaker 1: VVA GRAMA Swamman Christopher Smitheman summit that's going on this evening.
Speaker 2: Yes, we believe in open discussion and we encourage anybody
Speaker 2: that whatever voice that you have to attend.
Speaker 1: That's wonderful to hear. Now your reaction to the press
Speaker 1: conference happened over the weekend, Ugus first, Mayor, I have
Speaker 1: to have Purvall Police Chief Dji and share along the
Speaker 1: city manager along with community leaders including Damon Lynch. The
Speaker 1: third perval had this to say, it's overt racial tensions
Speaker 1: that have been claimed by irresponsible leaders who have unfortunately
Speaker 1: cynically tried to take advantage of this awful fight and
Speaker 1: try and divide us. I read that and I wrote,
Speaker 1: loll after it. I mean, we've been living a reality
Speaker 1: the left is it loves to divide us. They're the
Speaker 1: ones that divide us constantly over every possible issue, political
Speaker 1: and social. This is what they're all about. Divide and
Speaker 1: conquer is a strategy for the Left. So I find
Speaker 1: it a little bit hard to swallow. I mean, look
Speaker 1: at like since George Floyd, they have used that to
Speaker 1: take advantage of this fight and try to divide us.
Speaker 1: Racial tensions claimed by irresponsible leaders. I mean, this has
Speaker 1: been going on for a long time. Anyway, your overall
Speaker 1: reaction to the press conference and where we stand on
Speaker 1: this incident, Corey Bowman.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, like you said, there's a lot of people
Speaker 2: trying to turn this into divisive issue, But I don't
Speaker 2: see how it can be divisive when you're just going
Speaker 2: against the violence that's happening downtown. If I wants you
Speaker 2: to take a side, and there's certain things of the
Speaker 2: details of the investigation, I believe as an elected official,
Speaker 2: you do have to tell people. Hey, the investigations ongoing,
Speaker 2: we have to wait for all the factors to come out.
Speaker 2: I agree with that, But what I don't agree with
Speaker 2: is just sitting your residence in the dark and not
Speaker 2: telling anybody anything and letting everybody kind of fend for themselves.
Speaker 2: And then when the information does come out, all you're
Speaker 2: doing is criticizing the social media. All you're doing is
Speaker 2: criticizing the media for not technically doing your job of
Speaker 2: informing the people. And that's what we have to realize
Speaker 2: is that city Hall, the chief, the mayor, they were
Speaker 2: silent for an extended amount of time while all this
Speaker 2: was going on, and the nation's eyes were on our
Speaker 2: city and the elected officials responsible for informing the people
Speaker 2: about what's going on, and they failed to do so.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the silence was deafening. We didn't hear from the
Speaker 1: mayor until Monday, if I recall correctly, he was out
Speaker 1: of town in Vancouver.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I get it. You know, there's there has
Speaker 2: to be vacations, there has to be time off. But
Speaker 2: when all the eyes of the nation are on our
Speaker 2: city and this is what's happening, and so from my perspective,
Speaker 2: I woke up on Monday morning, you know, and there
Speaker 2: was a lot of discussions that was happening over the
Speaker 2: weekend from people what's going on about the fighter, about
Speaker 2: the violence. And I want to say that number one,
Speaker 2: these videos for people that live downtown and live in
Speaker 2: the Cincinnati area, it's just a reminder of what we've
Speaker 2: had to go through over the last months of the
Speaker 2: summer with a poorly managed city that has let crime
Speaker 2: just override the streets of our city. You know. So
Speaker 2: but anyway, I woke up on Monday and my phone
Speaker 2: was ringing off the hook from media. And this is
Speaker 2: national media, you know, not one side of me, but
Speaker 2: this is all media outlets that some of them were
Speaker 2: flying in from the from their national headquarters to try
Speaker 2: to get news on this. And they told me specifically
Speaker 2: that nobody from city Hall, nobody from the police department
Speaker 2: officials were making any comments, and so they were just
Speaker 2: trying to get information to tell people what's going on,
Speaker 2: and there was silence from city Hall.
Speaker 1: Well that under the I mean, as an elected official,
Speaker 1: you're going to have to run in and deal with
Speaker 1: situations that you wish you didn't have to deal with.
Speaker 1: It sounds to me like they're by ignoring it. They
Speaker 1: thought that it was just going to go away. This
Speaker 1: is viral. I mean it took viral video to bring
Speaker 1: it to the attention of even local media who hadn't
Speaker 1: reported on it until what on Sunday or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know everybody says, oh, you can't just attack,
Speaker 2: you got to provide solutions. Well, we've been providing solutions
Speaker 2: with our campaign and what we would do differently. And
Speaker 2: Friday night or Saturday morning was a perfect storm of
Speaker 2: all of these dismanaged policies in the city that have
Speaker 2: encouraged its violence to happen on a regular basis. You know,
Speaker 2: let's talk about, you know, the emergency communications center, how
Speaker 2: they didn't have a delegated dispatcher in line for the events.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about the curfew, how officers were specifically told
Speaker 2: to not cite for violations and so basically they're glorified babysitters.
Speaker 2: A short staff force is trying to enforce a curfew,
Speaker 2: but not enforce a curfew. And then let's talk about
Speaker 2: how there was not adequate cops that were downtown. And
Speaker 2: then on top of this, let's talk about how the
Speaker 2: chief said that there was only one nine to one
Speaker 2: one call. And when they played that, I'm telling you
Speaker 2: that's the bold faced live because at the screenshot of
Speaker 2: a lady that called off a Fourth Street at three
Speaker 2: zho three am and she said that they were very
Speaker 2: dismissive on the line.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's a development that I was not aware of.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm trying to get the word out on that
Speaker 2: because that was just an actual both face locked when
Speaker 2: you say that there's one nine one one call. Now,
Speaker 2: I was waiting for it because a lady approached me
Speaker 2: on the street while I was doing an interview and
Speaker 2: she said, I tried to call I called nine to
Speaker 2: one one. She told me about her experience. She said
Speaker 2: that it was during the fight and she was trying
Speaker 2: to let the dispatcher know or the call taker know
Speaker 2: that there was a fight going on. She said the
Speaker 2: call taker was very dismissive and rude. And this was
Speaker 2: at three oh three am. And this is a lady,
Speaker 2: she's actually a very prominent, you know, influential lady in
Speaker 2: the financial district. And so when she told me that,
Speaker 2: she sent me her screenshot and then I see on
Speaker 2: the press conference, hold the police, she says, there's only
Speaker 2: one phone call and it happened at three oh six am,
Speaker 2: and so when they released the recording, I was waiting
Speaker 2: to hear the lady's voice because I was like, Hey,
Speaker 2: maybe I by a chance to only talk to the
Speaker 2: one person that called I one one. But that was
Speaker 2: not the case. And we're getting reports that there were
Speaker 2: calls and so that was a lie. And if you
Speaker 2: hear on the actual phone call itself that was released
Speaker 2: by the gentlemen who called, there are sirens at the
Speaker 2: end of the phone call. And so the police were
Speaker 2: informed before that as well, well, what.
Speaker 1: Do you think of or Mayor I have to have
Speaker 1: provol sort of a change in his viewpoint with regard
Speaker 1: to law enforcement. We got the Wine announcing that he's
Speaker 1: going to deploy the state Highway patrol to free up
Speaker 1: some of the officers so they can I guess, patrol
Speaker 1: the streets. Provoll said that will allow them to do that.
Speaker 1: He said, you're going to see police officers on foot
Speaker 1: You're going to see police officers on bike patrols. You're
Speaker 1: going to see police officers in squad cars. They're going
Speaker 1: to see police officers on segways and on segways that
Speaker 1: have three wheels. We are prioritizing the visibility in our
Speaker 1: urban core in order not just to maintain safety, but
Speaker 1: to make sure people feel safe when they're going out. Well,
Speaker 1: seems like something that people have been clamoring for for
Speaker 1: a long time. Where's the mayor been since he was
Speaker 1: elected and prior councils who are pro defunding the police.
Speaker 1: This is a complete one eighty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you've been paying attention in a city hall,
Speaker 2: you know that this is a one ady. But this
Speaker 2: is the game plan for anybody that's in an election
Speaker 2: year that you're going to be reactive, not proactive. And
Speaker 2: this is the reality is that if you are elected office,
Speaker 2: you have to be able to see into the future.
Speaker 2: You got to be able to see what's ahead, and
Speaker 2: you've got to be able to plan ahead and just
Speaker 2: prepare the people or prepare the streets to be safe.
Speaker 2: And this is a little too little, too late, in
Speaker 2: my opinion, because this is something that from the top
Speaker 2: down is trickled down in competence from our city hall
Speaker 2: and we've got to get a change.
Speaker 1: In leadership, including the Chief of Police and the city manager,
Speaker 1: Corey Bowman.
Speaker 2: Well, so my public statement on Monday was I called
Speaker 2: for the public resignation of city manager sharel Law. A
Speaker 2: lot of people you know we're calling for the resignation
Speaker 2: of the mayor. Well, we're doing that in November. You
Speaker 2: can make your voice heard and vote for Corey Bowman
Speaker 2: in November fourth against mayor aft have pear of ale.
Speaker 2: But I'm trying to educate people on the reality of
Speaker 2: city government is that we have a CEO type which
Speaker 2: is the city manager. The city manager is responsible administratively
Speaker 2: for implementing policies throughout the city. This isn't just about
Speaker 2: the crime. This is about We've had terrible snowplower moval,
Speaker 2: We've had terrible potholes and infrastructure situations. We've had time
Speaker 2: and time again problems administratively with the city. And then
Speaker 2: the city manager, to top it all off, does appoint
Speaker 2: the Cincinnati Fire chief and the police department chief. And
Speaker 2: so if you call for the chiefs resignation, which I
Speaker 2: think that people have a valid response to that, but
Speaker 2: you have a city manager in place that will put
Speaker 2: somebody that's more incompetent into their place. And so we've
Speaker 2: got to realize that this is from the top down
Speaker 2: and competence from the leadership.
Speaker 1: Corey Bowman dot com where you find Corey and that
Speaker 1: help mountain his campaign and make show up tonight at
Speaker 1: Jim and Jackson the River five point thirty. It's going
Speaker 1: to be a crowd. I presume. I know there's a
Speaker 1: counter protests scheduled across the street now, Corey, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean Vivak Ramaswamy and Christopher Smithman, the leaders of
Speaker 1: this particular meeting are interested in finding solutions. That was
Speaker 1: the point of it. I mean, set it out loud.
Speaker 1: They're not there to filment violence and anger, as Iris
Speaker 1: Rawley would suggest, but an opportunity to maybe get your
Speaker 1: voice heard and see Corey Bowman and shake hands and
Speaker 1: again Corey Bowman dot Com to help his campaign. I
Speaker 1: hope it goes well tonight, Corey. I hope it's uneventful
Speaker 1: at least in terms of violence or anger, and I
Speaker 1: hope you do come up with some good solutions. It's
Speaker 1: a great opportunity for people to get the message out.
Speaker 2: No, Brian, thank you so much. And finally, if it's okay,
Speaker 2: I'd like to say that that is a key issue
Speaker 2: with everything going on is the game plan is divide
Speaker 2: and conquer from the other side, and we cannot allow
Speaker 2: that to happen. We have stood against any type of hay,
Speaker 2: any type of racism. We denounce anybody on either side
Speaker 2: that would cause violence to the other side for any
Speaker 2: type of reason. That is what we're fighting against, and
Speaker 2: we're trying to get people to focus on the main issue,
Speaker 2: which is trickled down in competence from the top down.
Speaker 2: We've got to change.
Speaker 1: Leadership, change leadership for the betterment of all people, regardless
Speaker 1: of political stripes in the city of Cincinnati. That's what
Speaker 1: your message is, Corey Bowman. That's all I've heard from
Speaker 1: you from the get go, and I know you personally
Speaker 1: and truly believe that you are a man of competence
Speaker 1: and of your word and someone who's certainly looking for
Speaker 1: peace and not violence and division. Corey, wish you the
Speaker 1: best of luck. Man. You and I will talk again
Speaker 1: real soon.
Speaker 2: I hope absolutely. Thank you so much, Brian.
Speaker 1: Sure, thank good luck. Tonight seven sixteen fifty five K
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