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Speaker 1: That is seven point thirty fifty five KAR see the
Speaker 1: talk station. Very happy Friday to you, and I'd like
Speaker 1: to welcome back and congratulate running for mayor of the
Speaker 1: City of Cincinnati, got the signatures turned in, They've all
Speaker 1: been approved. He is running for mayor. He is Corey Bowman. Corey,
Speaker 1: good to have you back on the morning show.
Speaker 4: Good to be back, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: Did you get a lot of people showing up at
Speaker 1: your coffee shop to sign the petition to get you
Speaker 1: on the ballot.
Speaker 4: It was a combination of a lot of different things
Speaker 4: that brought it all together at the last minute.
Speaker 1: You have a lot of people out there on the
Speaker 1: streets working for you, I hope.
Speaker 4: Yeah. So we had We had many individuals that were
Speaker 4: just very excited about what we were doing. They were
Speaker 4: going door to door, we were going to communities, families.
Speaker 4: When it came down to it the last night, we
Speaker 4: were driving around till midnight gathering whatever we could.
Speaker 1: Well and again they've already certified. You have on kind
Speaker 1: of board of Elections to certified the signatures for you.
Speaker 1: And when you're out and about gathering signatures to get
Speaker 1: on the ballot, and you're gonna have to continue to this.
Speaker 1: On the campaign trail, people are going to ask you
Speaker 1: questions about what you stand for, what your goals, your motivations,
Speaker 1: and your ideas are for the city. So did you
Speaker 1: hear a lot of or did you get a lot
Speaker 1: of questions along those lines when you're around circulating position?
Speaker 4: Yeah, And honestly, I I'd made a lot of those
Speaker 4: questions myself to the people a lot of times when
Speaker 4: we weren't just you know, paying somebody to get the
Speaker 4: signatures on our behalf. We were actually going out to
Speaker 4: our future voters. And so most of the people that
Speaker 4: we if we had the time to we would ask
Speaker 4: them what are the issues that are important to you?
Speaker 4: And then we would have really great discussions.
Speaker 1: What are you hearing from folks? What are the issues
Speaker 1: that are most important to them?
Speaker 4: I mean, for the most part, if you're downtown, they
Speaker 4: just say, fix the damn potholes.
Speaker 2: My god.
Speaker 1: One of my favorite pet peeves about the city of
Speaker 1: Cincinnati is just the absolute deteriorating, deteriorating nature of the infrastructure.
Speaker 1: You know, Corey, what they're like four hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: million dollars worth of projects behind. They're supposed to do
Speaker 1: X number of road miles a year and repairs, They
Speaker 1: have the money allocated for it, and for some reason
Speaker 1: or other, it never gets done. I mean that's that
Speaker 1: that should be a motivating factor to run for mayor
Speaker 1: in and of itself.
Speaker 4: Yeah, can you imagine from day one of being elected
Speaker 4: that that's the first thing that we actually do that
Speaker 4: we said that we were going.
Speaker 2: To do, just kind of like Donald Trump, Ye get
Speaker 2: a lot of people.
Speaker 4: It's you know, we live in a city. There is
Speaker 4: certain key issues that pertain to the residents of our city,
Speaker 4: and so yeah, there's a lot of issues that face
Speaker 4: the country as a whole, and there's a lot of
Speaker 4: broad statements that we could make, but ultimately there's real
Speaker 4: issues that people care about. And you know, if you
Speaker 4: drive over a pothole, it doesn't matter whether you're a
Speaker 4: Democrat or Republican. You're tired getting.
Speaker 1: Flat exactly right, and supposed notably, those neighborhoods that seem
Speaker 1: to be overlooked, you know, for decades, it's as if
Speaker 1: they don't exist. And I don't know how in that situation,
Speaker 1: someonel continue to vote for the same party that hasn't
Speaker 1: served their interests for however many years we've been going
Speaker 1: on with this problem. So maybe you stand a chance.
Speaker 1: Did you get a sense of you there's a possibility
Speaker 1: for you because you know, it is the city of Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: You're not running as a Democrat, Corey, And I just
Speaker 1: wonder what your enthusiasm level is after going out and
Speaker 1: about meeting with folks out in the communities.
Speaker 4: My enthusiasm level probably was improved every day that I
Speaker 4: spoke to people. I'll be honest. I mean I had
Speaker 4: no clue whether this was the right decision or not
Speaker 4: when we first made We just knew it it had
Speaker 4: to be done. And every morning I would wake up,
Speaker 4: I'll just say, you know, what are you doing, Corey?
Speaker 4: Why are you making this run? And every night I
Speaker 4: would go to bed more encouraged than not because of
Speaker 4: the conversations I had. People are very excited about what
Speaker 4: we stand for, They're very hungry for change in the city.
Speaker 4: And yes, it's going to be an uphill battle the
Speaker 4: next da months, but every conversation I had just gave
Speaker 4: me that extra energy that I needed to keep.
Speaker 2: On going well.
Speaker 1: And I know your jd Vance's half brother, and that
Speaker 1: propelled you sort of the national stage. I mean, there
Speaker 1: was a lot of reporting on major media outlets that
Speaker 1: you were, in fact or you are in fact running
Speaker 1: for the mayri City of Cincinnati. Do you feel as
Speaker 1: if it's a I mean, it's a benefit for me
Speaker 1: from a publicity standpoint, but you somehow feel maybe you're
Speaker 1: in the shadow of your vice presidential half brother.
Speaker 4: Well, like I said in my post whenever I announced it,
Speaker 4: that you know, he's a great role model of mine.
Speaker 4: And when I saw the enthusiasm and the hope and
Speaker 4: the change behind you know, the inauguration weekend, that's what
Speaker 4: inspired me because our hometown can't fall behind these next
Speaker 4: four years. So we're gonna We're gonna work very hard
Speaker 4: the next eight months to go into every district, talk
Speaker 4: to every community. We're going to get the right endorsements,
Speaker 4: We're going to get the right groups behind us. But
Speaker 4: then also I think one of the biggest motivators for
Speaker 4: people to vote for us is going to be this
Speaker 4: upcoming year with the current administration.
Speaker 1: Well, certainly a lot of talking points and different ideas
Speaker 1: are welcomed by a lot of folks across political stripes.
Speaker 1: One of the things I want to ask you when
Speaker 1: we come back, Corey, is about this Connected Communities program,
Speaker 1: because a lot of folks are rebelling against it, and
Speaker 1: it's a program that was pretty much shoved down every
Speaker 1: single neighborhood in the city's throat without their input. Let's
Speaker 1: bring Corey Bowman back. He is running for mayor the
Speaker 1: city of Cincinnati, and we'll try to be remain optimistic
Speaker 1: for him.
Speaker 2: In the meantime.
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Speaker 1: Seven forty fifty KCIT talk station. Brian Thomas was Corey Bowman,
Speaker 1: who is officially a candidate for the mayor of the
Speaker 1: City of Cincinnati. Got all the signatures been certified, and
Speaker 1: he's going to hit the ground running. You'll see him
Speaker 1: in neighborhoods. You're planning on having town halls and things
Speaker 1: of that nature. Corey, You're willing to actually meet and
Speaker 1: talk with the people. I kind of got that impression
Speaker 1: in the last segment.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's got to be a key thing
Speaker 4: with this campaign. We're definitely going to be doing live
Speaker 4: q ands on livestream, most likely every week. I'm trying
Speaker 4: to about what the best day is for it, but
Speaker 4: then every week we're going to have to hit different
Speaker 4: areas in different districts. My goal would be to find
Speaker 4: the local key businesses in the area. You know, we
Speaker 4: had our first one of our first meetings in our
Speaker 4: downtown coffee shop and it was a great response. You know,
Speaker 4: we had a meeting in price Field Chili. So what
Speaker 4: I want to do is just find these key businesses
Speaker 4: in these districts with the business owners that are hurting
Speaker 4: and really just have these events there and hear.
Speaker 1: From people wonderful and by way of background, and I
Speaker 1: think it's important for our listeners to know you Uh,
Speaker 1: you own the King's Arms Coffee Roasters, which we've been
Speaker 1: mentioned a couple of times. You're also a pastor at
Speaker 1: the River Church in Cincinnati. I suppose being a pastor
Speaker 1: you have to regularly communicate with parishioners and spread the
Speaker 1: message and relate and connect to people. Does that is
Speaker 1: that a is that that served you well in your
Speaker 1: efforts thus far?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I joked around because one of the biggest things
Speaker 4: that helped me in politics unexpectedly was ministry. And partly
Speaker 4: because you deal with people and you're dealing with people's
Speaker 4: opinions and you're talking with people, also because you care
Speaker 4: for people. But then another is because ministry they'll cut
Speaker 4: your throat at any point in time, and so that's
Speaker 4: something that I'm learning about politics as well.
Speaker 1: Fair enough, Now moving over to one of the more
Speaker 1: interesting and I think problematic issues for the same the
Speaker 1: Cincinnati residents is this connected Communities thing that city Council
Speaker 1: passed really without any input from the various neighborhoods within
Speaker 1: the city of Cincinnati, requiring you know, changing in zoning
Speaker 1: and dense population in other words, knocking down single family
Speaker 1: homes and putting up higher volume apartments, many of which
Speaker 1: will not have any parking. I know neighborhoods like Hyde
Speaker 1: Park are worried about impacting the community where these people
Speaker 1: are going to park, but it's all design to get
Speaker 1: people on buses, and I think it's really an affront
Speaker 1: to the single family property owner to know that, you know,
Speaker 1: how next door neighbor could have sellar house and next
Speaker 1: thing you know, you're living in next to a ten
Speaker 1: twelve unit CONDOMENTI or rather apartment complex. Where are you
Speaker 1: on connected Communities?
Speaker 4: Corey, Well, when I first heard about these issues, you know,
Speaker 4: I decided we have to hear people's opinions, we have
Speaker 4: to research. So one of the first things that we
Speaker 4: did over the course of find these signatures was we
Speaker 4: went to a hall meeting that was in bond Hill
Speaker 4: area related to this Connected communities and Sky Johnson, Counselan
Speaker 4: Sky Johnson and Vice Mayor Kearney were there and as
Speaker 4: we were there, I give it up for the councilmen mayor.
Speaker 4: They were kind of, you know, doing some crowd control
Speaker 4: with the very disgruntled people in the room. But a
Speaker 4: lot of people showed up and you could tell that
Speaker 4: they're very frustrated with how this has been brought to
Speaker 4: the city. And so I was going through asking people
Speaker 4: questions and I think the biggest thing is that if
Speaker 4: you take the cover sheet on top of these connected
Speaker 4: community policies that most likely were written by chat GBT,
Speaker 4: you would sit there and say, yeah, we kind of
Speaker 4: like bringing communities together, but yeah, we look like helpless
Speaker 4: in need. We like bringing business. But it's what they're
Speaker 4: trying to kind of sneak in through these policies, and
Speaker 4: what they're really trying to sneak in through this is
Speaker 4: exactly what you're talking about. It's, you know, prop improperly
Speaker 4: managed affordable housing policies. You're bringing in big time developers
Speaker 4: instead of small time businesses that actually want to enhance
Speaker 4: the properties and want to utilize the historic buildings that
Speaker 4: are there. And then you're exactly right. They're trying to
Speaker 4: get it to a point to where people have to
Speaker 4: take the bus, they have to be in a multi
Speaker 4: level apartment, they can't own their own home, they can't
Speaker 4: park anywhere, and this isn't right for certain communities to
Speaker 4: where the historic aspect that like Park and other areas
Speaker 4: in our city that's invaluable and connected. Community policies like
Speaker 4: this are just going to rip that out from people.
Speaker 1: Well, and hasn't the city learned anything over the years
Speaker 1: about absentee landlords, which have been a problem and a
Speaker 1: plague on the general Greater Cincinnati area for so long
Speaker 1: properties deteriorate, they're nowhere to be found. When you finally
Speaker 1: try to find them, they change the corporate structure, so
Speaker 1: you have to start all over again. In terms of
Speaker 1: any litigation you're waging against them. I mean, you know
Speaker 1: that season written on the wall or baked into the cake.
Speaker 1: When you got these outside developers building these units.
Speaker 4: Well you know when me and my wife have lived here,
Speaker 4: and well, we lived here, I've been from here my
Speaker 4: whole life. But being downtown for four years with the
Speaker 4: Church of Business, We've had many friends that have never
Speaker 4: visited Cincinnati before, and then they come in and they're
Speaker 4: blown away by the historic buildings. They're blown away by
Speaker 4: the beauty of Dayton Street and other areas that have
Speaker 4: these amazing town homes, amazing business fronts. I mean, I mean,
Speaker 4: my coffee shop is in one of these buildings. And
Speaker 4: when you bring in developers and absentee landlords and all
Speaker 4: these things, it's taking away from the beauty and the
Speaker 4: character of our city. And also, I'll be honest with you,
Speaker 4: we've been in the West End and we have many
Speaker 4: people connected to us that are small time business owners.
Speaker 4: They can only flip one property at a time or
Speaker 4: have one business location at a time. And they are
Speaker 4: hungry to utilize these spaces to better the community. But
Speaker 4: these policies took out developers, any of these small businesses
Speaker 4: that really want to utilize this. And so, yeah, you
Speaker 4: have thousands of vacant properties, but it's done by the
Speaker 4: hand of the city policies.
Speaker 1: Well, and you know, obviously tinkering with other people's neighborhoods
Speaker 1: and individual zoning rules. I just I mean, it's such
Speaker 1: an intrusion into that neighborhood's own rights and freedoms and
Speaker 1: ability to control their own direction that they just passed
Speaker 1: this without going to the various communities and getting input
Speaker 1: and asking if any given neighborhood was in favor of
Speaker 1: it ever or not. Some of them are, many of
Speaker 1: them are not. Again, I turned back to Hyde Park,
Speaker 1: and I guess the idea is this is going to
Speaker 1: somehow make a housing affordable. I mean, I'm sorry, but
Speaker 1: I'm a little skeptical that any player in Hyde Park,
Speaker 1: regardless of who builds it, it's going to be affordable.
Speaker 1: I mean, a lot of people love Hyde Park. It's
Speaker 1: a beautiful neighborhood. It's it's if it's walkable, it's got
Speaker 1: a lot of businesses that you can just walk around
Speaker 1: generally speaking. But if you build an apartment building there,
Speaker 1: the apartments are going to fetch a pretty high rent.
Speaker 2: I'm willing to bet anyone.
Speaker 4: Well, even if it does become affordable. This is a
Speaker 4: major issue in our city. Is that for the sake
Speaker 4: of affordable housing or income based housing, what's happening is
Speaker 4: that you have poorly managed policies that are really keeping
Speaker 4: those individuals. Yeah, they might be able to afford it,
Speaker 4: but they'll never be able to afford something higher in
Speaker 4: their lives because the way that they're structuring this, it's
Speaker 4: keeping people in bondage to the system.
Speaker 1: It's a great way of putting it. We can end
Speaker 1: on that note. Corey Bowman, He's got a Facebook page
Speaker 1: Corey Bowman Bowma and beautiful. You got a beautiful wife there,
Speaker 1: so congratulations on out kicking your coverage, my friend, and
Speaker 1: a beautiful a beautiful family as well.
Speaker 2: You got three children, is that correct?
Speaker 4: Yeah, we have a fourth on the way to end
Speaker 4: of June, early July.
Speaker 1: No, that's beautiful. Well, good luck with all that, and
Speaker 1: thanks for been a time with my listeners me. I know,
Speaker 1: and I hope that you and I will be talking
Speaker 1: a lot between now and the election, and I wish
Speaker 1: you the best of luck. Get the message out there
Speaker 1: and maybe we can transform the city to a better
Speaker 1: place for everyone.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, we're going to do it.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Thank you brother. Have a great
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