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Speaker 1: happy Wednesday to you. I like the man that's in
Speaker 1: my studio. Just got a chance to meet Brandon Nixon.
Speaker 1: My friends in the Cincinnati Greatest Cincinnati, Cincinnati area, those
Speaker 1: within the confines of the City of Cincinnati. Resident's going
Speaker 1: to be voting on a new mayor this fall. They're
Speaker 1: voting on new council members, and now they have an
Speaker 1: extra option Brandon Nixon, who's in studio, and he I
Speaker 1: think has seen the light. Brandon, it's been a pleasure
Speaker 1: talking with you off air, and it's good to have
Speaker 1: you on the show this morning. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Thanks for inviting me. Well, it's a pleasure, man. I
Speaker 1: understand you are currently registered as a Democrat, all right, yes,
Speaker 1: and you have plans of shifting party affiliation, yes, all right,
Speaker 1: but there's a window to do that and you're not
Speaker 1: in that window. So all right. People are going to say, well,
Speaker 1: he's a Democrat. But as I asked you off air,
Speaker 1: and I suspected. I knew the answer to the question
Speaker 1: when I asked it. You feel as though the Democrat
Speaker 1: Party left you? Yes, and what specifically? I mean, you've
Speaker 1: had conversations with Orlando Sanza, who I dearly love, and
Speaker 1: you've engage with him, and what was this sort of
Speaker 1: moment where you kind of saw the light?
Speaker 2: Number one. I think that they act like that. The
Speaker 2: Republican Party don't believe in black man. And I think
Speaker 2: that the Republican Party is not divided. The Prosian Party
Speaker 2: got different ways how they do it. And I think
Speaker 2: the Dimmer Party is brainwash. I think the Demmin Party,
Speaker 2: you got to be a yes man or they pick
Speaker 2: favoritism of the Democrat Party. If you're not in the
Speaker 2: first nine, you're not gonna get no vote. And I
Speaker 2: think that that's sad.
Speaker 1: Well, it is sad, and it's it's almost as though
Speaker 1: there's a collective brainwash. You know, people don't after the name,
Speaker 1: then they just simply will not vote for anybody. They
Speaker 1: don't look close enough at issues. Yeah, yes, if they
Speaker 1: really focused on it and said, all right, well is
Speaker 1: this issue the way this particular official is going to vote,
Speaker 1: what their platform stands for? Is it going to be
Speaker 1: beneficial to me or not? And I think Democrats love
Speaker 1: to claim that what they're trying to do for you
Speaker 1: is going to help you, when in fact it really
Speaker 1: only helps them. Yes, what part of town you live in?
Speaker 1: I live in Westwood. I understand you were not an
Speaker 1: original Cincinnati native. Oh, you made the right choice of
Speaker 1: moving here. Go ahead, let them know it's gonna have
Speaker 1: to come out at some point.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm from a town called Oliria. It's about twenty
Speaker 2: minutes from Cleveland and Go Browns. And I'm happy to
Speaker 2: be a man in sixty years. I'm happy to be here.
Speaker 2: I live about myself. Before I moved down here, I
Speaker 2: was I used to live in Kenyon Heights. I was
Speaker 2: on a Kenya hid community council for three years and
Speaker 2: campaign for campaign for a lot of people. I met
Speaker 2: a lot of people, and at that time I woke
Speaker 2: up and say, you know what, I'd like to Republican Party.
Speaker 2: You know they care about me. They this is what
Speaker 2: I got to say. You know, I'm not a yes man.
Speaker 2: They understand what I was coming from, and I'm happy
Speaker 2: I'm making that decision.
Speaker 1: Well, I think, at least in so far, as the
Speaker 1: overall platform. Republicans I think are more about safety, roads, bridges, infrastructure,
Speaker 1: and public safety. You know, if if government is going
Speaker 1: to deliver on something, let's keep that as the front burner.
Speaker 1: Stuff what I see out of this mayor maybe you
Speaker 1: can comment on it, like things like connected communities. You know,
Speaker 1: the zoning that they flat out blanketed all neighborhoods with
Speaker 1: in the City of Cincinnati without any input from the
Speaker 1: various neighborhoods or community councils. You will abide by these
Speaker 1: zoning rules and then lo and behold. You know Hyde Park,
Speaker 1: well connected developers show up to get a waiver from
Speaker 1: Connected Communities and they're given that even though the residents
Speaker 1: of Hyde Park don't want it. I mean, what, what's
Speaker 1: your take on that kind of thing going on? No one.
Speaker 2: I hate community. I hate it. It's terrible, you know.
Speaker 2: I look at them like bullies going to a neighborhood,
Speaker 2: and I work with Hyde Park two getting signatures too.
Speaker 2: I did that helped them out too, and I think
Speaker 2: they need to take a just take it away. I
Speaker 2: think that it's not right how you could just take
Speaker 2: a neighborhood from somebody like Bond Hill they did Bond
Speaker 2: Hill that they did different other neighborhoods like that. I
Speaker 2: think that they need to take away stop changing thing.
Speaker 2: If it's not broken, don't mess.
Speaker 1: With it, right or you know, if it's not broken,
Speaker 1: don't fix it, of course, but at least listen to
Speaker 1: what your constituents ask are asking for and don't do
Speaker 1: the polar opposite of it. I mean, that's a hard
Speaker 1: lesson they're learning right now. With this Hyde Park petition
Speaker 1: that's going to be on the ballot. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: the residents I think are going to come out in
Speaker 1: large amounts in the city and vote in favor of
Speaker 1: repealing the the waiver from the council. They're angry, yes,
Speaker 1: I mean they're expecting it. Hey listen, you know there
Speaker 1: but for the grace of God, go life. They did
Speaker 1: it to the Hyde Park, they did at the Bond Hill.
Speaker 1: They pretty much did it to all of us with
Speaker 1: connected communities. I'm not gonna have any more of this.
Speaker 1: I'm saying no. No. I'm saying no too.
Speaker 2: And like I said, my platform is giving back, getting
Speaker 2: back to the community, and that's my mottol because we
Speaker 2: need to have a voice in city Hall. And they
Speaker 2: have a voice in community council and we don't have
Speaker 2: one right now because they worrying about making money, worry
Speaker 2: about having billing apartments, and that's not right. The first
Speaker 2: thing you'repped to the public safety and you're not doing that.
Speaker 2: We got potholes in here, we got crime going around
Speaker 2: and our mayor is taking pictures or worry about national stuff.
Speaker 2: We didn't hire. We didn't vote you in for national.
Speaker 2: We will vote you in for local. And that pissed
Speaker 2: me off. Yeah, I understand that. You know.
Speaker 1: It's what if Christopher Smith and former vice mayor, comes
Speaker 1: on my program every week and we do it. He
Speaker 1: does this Smith their vent revents his spleen and he
Speaker 1: is all over that because they'll vote on resolutions that
Speaker 1: involve like Israel and Palestine or something like wait a
Speaker 1: second one. It has no impact at all. And why
Speaker 1: in the hell you spind on your wheels and wasting
Speaker 1: time voting on things over which you have zero control.
Speaker 1: How about fixing Madam Road? Right? Yes? Yes?
Speaker 2: And another thing is that it's like I know one
Speaker 2: consul man talm about that community council is terrible, but no,
Speaker 2: they don't understand that. I was Community Console for three years.
Speaker 2: We do it voluntarily. We love our neighborhood. We tried
Speaker 2: doing our best to help each neighborhood. Each neighborhood is unique, unique,
Speaker 2: and it's a shame how they don't respect us.
Speaker 1: And that's a big step in the face. Well, who
Speaker 1: knows better than someone who lives in a specific neighborhood
Speaker 1: than them? I mean, your problems in your neighborhood, and maybe
Speaker 1: you can identify some problems that you feel that have
Speaker 1: not been addressed by the city but are completely different
Speaker 1: than whatever problems if they have any in Hyde Park Square.
Speaker 1: So do you feel like your community, your your local
Speaker 1: neighborhood has been overlooked, left out, or otherwise neglected by the
Speaker 1: City of Cincinnati. Yes, in what particular ways. Number One
Speaker 1: is crime, crime, crime, crime is a big thing. You
Speaker 1: got a lot of a company in that one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, potholes Because I was I live off of my
Speaker 2: Tanna and mustain and the road was terrible. I had
Speaker 2: to get my car, take pictures trying to get hit,
Speaker 2: take a bit and put on Facebook and to hey,
Speaker 2: you know that we were going through Every morning I
Speaker 2: worked early in the morning, I had to dodge and
Speaker 2: I'm playing foggy, you know, and then get my tire fixed,
Speaker 2: you know. But it's ridiculous. I understand that, you know,
Speaker 2: funding everything, but just be real. Just worry about our
Speaker 2: public safety and worrying about going on, worrying about the
Speaker 2: White House.
Speaker 1: I'm with you all day long on that talk with
Speaker 1: Brandon Nixon. You can find him on Facebook. He doesn't
Speaker 1: even have a campaign web page. We'll be looking for
Speaker 1: that down the road a little bit. But if you
Speaker 1: go to Facebook elect Brandon Nixon for Cincinnai City Council,
Speaker 1: you can get some information about the man who I'm
Speaker 1: talking with in studio today. And we're going to take
Speaker 1: a pause right now, Brandon, we'll bring it back. I
Speaker 1: want to talk to you specifically about crime and some
Speaker 1: other issues going on in the city and see if
Speaker 1: you have some thoughts or ideas about what you would
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Speaker 1: It's a twenty fifty five Yer City talk station. Enjoying
Speaker 1: my conversation with Brandon Nixon, finding my Facebook. If he
Speaker 1: elects Brandon Nixon for since a city council, he is
Speaker 1: a reform Democrat. He will become a member of the
Speaker 1: Republican Party when the window opens up. But he's already
Speaker 1: I learned over the break and props to you. You
Speaker 1: know the right people went through a whole bunch of names.
Speaker 1: You're friends with west Side Jim the kingmaker on the
Speaker 1: west Side, and you also remember the west Side Republican Party.
Speaker 1: Of course, yes, that's where you see Jim. I mentioned
Speaker 1: Pryce sl CHILEI that's how we went down that road
Speaker 1: because he mentioned my Tanna Avenue. I said, did you
Speaker 1: ever have to drive on Sunset? My listeners know, oh man,
Speaker 1: I constantly complain about that. It's like a road out
Speaker 1: a gaza or something. When are they ever going to
Speaker 1: fix that one? Money? Well, okay, moving over to crime.
Speaker 1: I thought it was an amazing revelation after the last
Speaker 1: couple of years, uh, the mayor and council and the
Speaker 1: police department telling us over and over again crime in
Speaker 1: the city is down. Oh look, I have to have
Speaker 1: pro ball police chief threat strategic and several other city
Speaker 1: leaders did acknowledge that, in fact, yes, crime is actually up,
Speaker 1: particularly over the Rhine. Boy, it's jumped up. We've got
Speaker 1: more murders now at this time than we did last year,
Speaker 1: a lot of property crimes, car thefts, it's all going on.
Speaker 1: That's a real problem problem in your neighborhood too. I guess, yes,
Speaker 1: what do you I mean? You said you had an
Speaker 1: interesting story along these lines. Let's talk about that and
Speaker 1: then we'll find out what your ideas are.
Speaker 2: The story was I wrote a paragraph about crime and
Speaker 2: to the mirror, and I have somebody call me and
Speaker 2: told me that I was a dis I was wrong
Speaker 2: for dissing the mayor out like that in public. And
Speaker 2: I was like, well, I got freedom of speech. I
Speaker 2: got the right because I paid. I'm a text player.
Speaker 1: I pay. But that person told.
Speaker 2: Me that I was wrong and I need to stop
Speaker 2: doing it. And at that time was at work, and
Speaker 2: I told him. I was like, well, you can't stop me,
Speaker 2: because that now I thought. I'm happy because now y'all
Speaker 2: seeing me, you know, I feel special now because y'all listen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, and I'm happy about that. Well, that's
Speaker 1: actually kind of refreshing that you brought them out to
Speaker 1: challenge you. What was the subject matter? If I can
Speaker 1: ask me what were you complaining about, I would just
Speaker 1: complain about the crime period. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And it's sad because you see a lot of African
Speaker 2: American youth is dying.
Speaker 1: Oh it's terrible.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you see a lot of elders tell me
Speaker 2: walking around they're afraid to go outside because they want
Speaker 2: they don't want to get jumped. You see, you can't
Speaker 2: go to OTR because you got a group of teenagers
Speaker 2: are going to start jumping people. Like I said, I
Speaker 2: got a seventeen year old son and I'm afraid for
Speaker 2: him to go to I'm taff because the jump there
Speaker 2: you see a gentleman that pass away.
Speaker 1: You've got murdered. I'm sorry, I got murdered in his
Speaker 1: own place.
Speaker 2: Yes, and that's sad because I want that can say
Speaker 2: that the police can't be everywhere, right, But I think
Speaker 2: you stop lying to us, Stop saying that crime is
Speaker 2: down and crime is not down.
Speaker 1: Don't lie to it. Just tell the truth and to
Speaker 1: try to find something to fix it. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: one of the things I think is lacking, particularly into
Speaker 1: the Purvole administration. Okay, they'll pay lip service to the
Speaker 1: police every once in a while, but they don't seem
Speaker 1: to be actively involved in supporting them. Talking about the
Speaker 1: police as a positive thing for neighborhoods, the idea of
Speaker 1: law enforcement being there and being present, it's not a
Speaker 1: bad thing, it's a good thing. Neighborhoods. You should embrace
Speaker 1: the police. Police, embrace the neighborhoods, work cooperatively together in
Speaker 1: your neighborhood. Do you get the sense that people do
Speaker 1: not like the police, or that they think the police
Speaker 1: are outright evil force that shouldn't be around. Yes, you
Speaker 1: have that, that's the impression. Yes, Oh that's a shame.
Speaker 2: Yes, because my car got broken into at that time
Speaker 2: the Kia boys and it took the police about an
Speaker 2: hour and a half to come out.
Speaker 1: Well that's lack of police officers. Yes, I mean they're
Speaker 1: too busy going after the murderers and the gangs of
Speaker 1: roving teenagers out there. They don't have time for a
Speaker 1: property theft, right, right, But I mean, but does that
Speaker 1: can come pret And I mean if there were more
Speaker 1: police around and they showed up quicker. That will be
Speaker 1: a good thing, right, Yes, okay, kind of That's where
Speaker 1: I'm going to in terms of the attitude. Yes, people
Speaker 1: want more police presence to keep their neighborhoods safer and
Speaker 1: address the nine one one calls. Yes, right, okay, Now
Speaker 1: we got that cleared up as a little for I mean,
Speaker 1: because there's there, seemed to be, at least within the
Speaker 1: black community, this attitude that police are all racist, there's
Speaker 1: nothing but an evil force. I don't want them around,
Speaker 1: and I find that hard to believe. Police provide some
Speaker 1: measure of safety and protection for a community.
Speaker 2: Yes, and I do support in the blue too good
Speaker 2: and that's a good thing, especially particularly in these trying times.
Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you what, Brandon, it's been great talking
Speaker 1: with you, a pleasure to introduce you to my listening audience,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure maybe you and I will have more
Speaker 1: conversations between now and the fall. I wish you the
Speaker 1: best of luck on your campaign and get out there
Speaker 1: and mix it up with folks, get them talking. Thank you.
Speaker 1: I appreciate everything you did. It's my pleasure. Folks stick around.
Speaker 1: It is Wednesday, which means Judge Annonapolatanos coming Up next
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