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Speaker 3: On fifty five KRC the Talkstation. It's eight oh five
Speaker 3: shiveighto six here fifty five kr CD Talk Station by
Speaker 3: Thomas Wishing everyone ain't very happy Thursday slash Friday Eve
Speaker 3: and always looking forward to the bottom of this hour
Speaker 3: because we get to talk with Ihart me. The AVA
Speaker 3: is Nextpert Jay Ratliffe, good man, he is, and quite
Speaker 3: a few interesting topics to talk with about. But though
Speaker 3: in the meantime, Welcome back to the fifty five KRSE
Speaker 3: Morning Show, coming off of what I understand was a
Speaker 3: pretty successful debate with Mayraf tab Purval and the other guy,
Speaker 3: Corey Bowman, running from mayor of the City of Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: Welcome back, my friends. Good to have you on the
Speaker 2: show this morning.
Speaker 1: Hello Brian our happy opening day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you being the huge fan of the city
Speaker 3: of Cincinnati you are, I presume you are a Cincinnati
Speaker 3: Reds fan. I think that kind of goes without saying,
Speaker 3: right absolutely, And where are you going to be today,
Speaker 3: Corey Bowman?
Speaker 1: So obviously the parade is going on.
Speaker 2: I believe I'll probably be.
Speaker 1: I'll try to be around the Tountain Square area if
Speaker 1: I can get through the crowd and everything. That's the
Speaker 1: main place I'm going to be. And then me and
Speaker 1: my family are attending the game.
Speaker 3: Great, well, hell yeah, assuming you are identified, well, you're
Speaker 3: gonna have a Corey Bowman T shirt on or a
Speaker 3: big sign that says hi, I'm Corey Bowman and I'm
Speaker 3: running for mayor, or some way that people can identify
Speaker 3: you if they want to ask you a question or two.
Speaker 1: Corey, I'm going to have my Flip the Natty T
Speaker 1: shirt on. I think that goes pretty well with the
Speaker 1: reds coloring and everything as well. And then yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: probably have my ten on and hopefully people can hopefully
Speaker 1: the right people will recognize me.
Speaker 2: I hope so.
Speaker 3: And you can get in touch with Corey Bowman through
Speaker 3: his website Coreybowman dot com. There's his campaign pledges and
Speaker 3: what he hopes to accomplish, an opportunity to donate, maybe
Speaker 3: get a yard sign, get some Corey Bowman T shirts
Speaker 3: and spread his name around. What did you think of
Speaker 3: the debate when you look back on and reflect on it,
Speaker 3: were you happy? Because you know Westside Jim was there.
Speaker 3: I know, Todd Zenzer was there. He just got done
Speaker 3: talking about it. He said it came off he came
Speaker 3: off pretty well.
Speaker 1: Well, that means a lot. You know. It was my
Speaker 1: first political debate outside of just family dinners, and so
Speaker 1: I felt really good about where we came across at
Speaker 1: the end of the night. You know, I don't want
Speaker 1: to say that I came in with low expectations, but
Speaker 1: I did. I just want to come through knowing that
Speaker 1: we stood our ground and that we were able to
Speaker 1: go toe to toe with him, and I believe that's
Speaker 1: exactly what happened. I believe that there was a lot
Speaker 1: of valid points that we made, and we gave people
Speaker 1: the opportunity to see what we stand for.
Speaker 2: That's great.
Speaker 3: And understand from the reports, I got that Purval kind
Speaker 3: of ignoring the other candidate and really focusing his attention
Speaker 3: more on you, And I think that sort of speaks
Speaker 3: volume for the likelihood that you were gonna win in
Speaker 3: the primary. It's going to be you head to head
Speaker 3: with with have to have pro ball.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, with everything with the campaign, you know, whenever
Speaker 1: we got getting the signatures to get on the ballot,
Speaker 1: I try to stay as tunnel visioned as I can.
Speaker 1: And so we've gotten a lot of positive feedback about
Speaker 1: the primary. But I'm just telling people we have to
Speaker 1: get out and vote, you know, specifically, I'm calling on
Speaker 1: all the Republicans in Cincinnati that if you believe that
Speaker 1: we could be the one on the ticket, for you
Speaker 1: to get out April eighth through May six, as early
Speaker 1: voting starts, and let's get this thing solidified.
Speaker 3: Well, one of the things I just learned from Todd
Speaker 3: Zinzer is you may end up finding yourself having a
Speaker 3: pretty good support for my friends in Hyde Park. Quite often,
Speaker 3: you know, they're educated, they're very you know what. It's
Speaker 3: a typically you know, stereotypically wealthy community, but quite often
Speaker 3: lean blue and support Democrat candidates. But this whole project
Speaker 3: that they are all against, this redevelopment project. They're any
Speaker 3: council voted against it. This idea that this huge developer
Speaker 3: is going to come in and build these big structures,
Speaker 3: which don't know, are completely inconsistent with the vibe and
Speaker 3: the architectural style of that historic community. But Cincinnati City
Speaker 3: Council looks likely to approve it, which means that Trump's
Speaker 3: what the Hyde Park voters want, so you might find
Speaker 3: yourself in some good company in Hyde Park.
Speaker 2: Corey.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I mean if you're going with the citizens
Speaker 1: and what they want to do, then in local government
Speaker 1: you should find yourself in good company. You know. Whenever
Speaker 1: all this development was first happening and we were researching it,
Speaker 1: that was a big thing we realized is that the
Speaker 1: opinions of the community councils were being completely ignored through
Speaker 1: the process. They said that they did some preliminary work
Speaker 1: to get the opinions of voters, but when it was
Speaker 1: about to be solidified, people made their voices loud and
Speaker 1: clear that they did not want this to happen in
Speaker 1: High Park. And those voices, it looks like they are
Speaker 1: just being ignored by the local government.
Speaker 3: Well, and that's something that you experienced in your own life.
Speaker 3: Last time you're on you told me about there were
Speaker 3: a lot of developers, small developers, not politically connected developers
Speaker 3: who wanted to put a lot of you know, investment
Speaker 3: and money into rehabilitating some of the houses in your neighborhood.
Speaker 3: That's roughly around Dayton Street, right, Corey, Yeah, it's.
Speaker 1: Around They called bay Miller Block Dayton Street really close
Speaker 1: to Lynn Street.
Speaker 3: Okay, so real developers with real projects and real money
Speaker 3: that will help the community, because any investment is better
Speaker 3: than leaving something dormant and empty. And yet the City
Speaker 3: of Cincinnati throws the roadblocks up it because it isn't
Speaker 3: part of their connected Communities vision. I mean it that,
Speaker 3: I just I really quite often, Corey, you go back
Speaker 3: to what the what the citizens want, what the constituents want,
Speaker 3: versus what special interest group or moneyed developers want. And
Speaker 3: when the city defaults and goes with the money developers
Speaker 3: and these political action groups or these you know, non
Speaker 3: governmental you know, outraged, constantly organizations which running contrast to
Speaker 3: what the voters want. You know, you got a real
Speaker 3: potential on this one, in spite of the fact that
Speaker 3: you're a Republican running in a blue city. I think
Speaker 3: more and more people waking up to this kind of reality.
Speaker 3: It's the connected people. It's not what you stand for.
Speaker 3: It's not the specific values of Democrats or Republicans. It's
Speaker 3: what's good for the citizenry. And they're not delivering on
Speaker 3: what's good for the City of Cincinnati and the voters.
Speaker 1: You're exactly right, and to be honest with you, When
Speaker 1: I look at what we're standing for, I'm amazed because
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm a nineteen seventy Democrat, you know,
Speaker 1: fighting the establishment of big times. Yeah, you know Gardmera
Speaker 1: or corporations. But yet I'm running on a Republican ticket
Speaker 1: and I'm just sitting here like, weren't Isn't this supposed
Speaker 1: to be the party that is for the common man,
Speaker 1: that's supposed to be fighting against this stuff. But the
Speaker 1: developers and the city officials, these ones, these are the
Speaker 1: ones that are kind of holding back. In my mind,
Speaker 1: what I think is one of the best things about
Speaker 1: our city is the small businesses. The local developers might
Speaker 1: be able to flip one or two properties at a time,
Speaker 1: they're really not getting the benefit out of any of this.
Speaker 2: No they're not.
Speaker 3: And I think more people are waking up to that reality,
Speaker 3: which gives you a fighting chance. Corey and a city
Speaker 3: that you know, a Republican couldn't get elected in. I
Speaker 3: just see this opportunity, this possibility. Now after what's the
Speaker 3: same for the sake of discussion, you win the primary,
Speaker 3: it's just you and after that Purwall that's when the
Speaker 3: campaign kicks off. In Earnest I imagine you're gonna be
Speaker 3: hitting the ground in all of the neighborhoods in the city.
Speaker 2: That is that correct?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean our strategy we have to mobilize and
Speaker 1: unify the Republican Party in our city because the last
Speaker 1: mayoral election only twenty six percent of voters showed up.
Speaker 1: So you've got seventy four seventy three percent of voters
Speaker 1: that didn't even feel like they had a voice, that
Speaker 1: didn't need and feel like it mattered if they came
Speaker 1: out and vote. So for this primary, we're primarily focusing
Speaker 1: on the Republican Party or those that we know just
Speaker 1: have felt like they haven't had a voice. And then
Speaker 1: after the primary, that's when we really kick it into
Speaker 1: gear because we've got to go to these communities and
Speaker 1: show them that were the right.
Speaker 2: People for the job.
Speaker 3: Well, and I understand the AFT have purvol pretty much
Speaker 3: gave you an outline on your for your campaign, and
Speaker 3: his opening statement at the debate, he went through all
Speaker 3: of what he thought were his accomplishments, many of which
Speaker 3: I can't I don't think you can call an accomplishment Corey.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you know, when it comes to statistics
Speaker 1: and everything, I mean you read some of the articles
Speaker 1: about the debate and they said that it wasn't in
Speaker 1: our favor, and then people that were in person they
Speaker 1: say it was in our favor. So I think that
Speaker 1: whatever your perspective is, you really got to go to
Speaker 1: the facts and the statistics. And I think one of
Speaker 1: the biggest things that was said was that t has
Speaker 1: been low, that crime over the last four years is low,
Speaker 1: and really that's not the case. There's a few examples
Speaker 1: of very small incremental decrease when it comes to homicides
Speaker 1: and shooting, but overall, when you look at the statistics,
Speaker 1: you're looking at aggravated assault is actually up eight percent,
Speaker 1: I believe, and then you're looking at auto thefts up
Speaker 1: forty percent, and then you're looking at that, and then
Speaker 1: you're looking at robbery that's up nineteen percent. And overall
Speaker 1: the crime statistics this is talking about from twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: first year he took office, to twenty twenty four, overall
Speaker 1: the crime reporting is up two point six percent. And
Speaker 1: so if you just focus or cherry pick certain statistics,
Speaker 1: you can say whatever you want about what's being accomplished.
Speaker 1: But if you're in the downtown area, you realize this
Speaker 1: isn't the case.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I like to think of these quote unute,
Speaker 3: uninformed voter, the one that really doesn't pay attention to politics.
Speaker 3: But if he hears the mayor suggests that crime is down,
Speaker 3: and he or she lives in a crime laden neighborhood,
Speaker 3: they're not going to buy that.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: It's like, don't tell me crime is down. You don't
Speaker 3: live where I do. Apparently I could tell you all
Speaker 3: day long how bad crime is.
Speaker 1: No exactly, And you know, voters that are in these areas.
Speaker 1: It used to be that you could just concentrate all
Speaker 1: these failed policies into an area like the West End,
Speaker 1: and you can just always, you know, count on their
Speaker 1: vote no matter what, because you just think that they're
Speaker 1: ignorant to it. But all of these failed policies now
Speaker 1: are bleeding into all these other communities and people are
Speaker 1: starting to wake up all around the district.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, Corey, you know Corey Bowman dot com. I
Speaker 3: encourage my listeners, most notably in the greater Cincinnati area.
Speaker 3: You can help him out even if you don't live
Speaker 3: in downtown Cincinnati. What happens and goes on in the
Speaker 3: city of Cincinnati. The decisions are made by city council
Speaker 3: and the mayor have a broad impact that transcends the
Speaker 3: boundaries of the city limits. So it's good for all
Speaker 3: of us. If the city conditions improve, more people would
Speaker 3: likely to consider the area generally speaking, including in Hamilton
Speaker 3: County the surrounding counties. If we have a stable, vibrant
Speaker 3: downtown Cincinnati, it's important for everybody. So with that in mind,
Speaker 3: get involved, get engaged, help Corey out, and maybe we
Speaker 3: can have a change in this in this community for
Speaker 3: the better. I know you're passionate about the city you
Speaker 3: love so much, Corey. It's why you're doing this and
Speaker 3: why you're running. And I don't know Aftab. I think
Speaker 3: he just enjoys being a politician more than he is
Speaker 3: passionate about the Cincinnati area.
Speaker 1: Well, I'd like to think that people get into public
Speaker 1: service to help people, and that's ultimately what we're in
Speaker 1: this to do. And so I tell people is if
Speaker 1: you're voting for me, you're not going for somebody that
Speaker 1: moved to Cincinnati to get into politics. Move to Cincinnati
Speaker 1: in the downtown area because it's from here. He loves
Speaker 1: the city and he wants to see the best sports citizens.
Speaker 3: There you are, Corey Bowman dot com is how you
Speaker 3: help him out? Corey, we'll have you back on the
Speaker 3: morning show soon. I will show all the best on
Speaker 3: the campaign trail as we head on into the primaries.
Speaker 2: Hey, and enjoy Opening Day.
Speaker 3: It's just what's a wonderful tradition we have here in
Speaker 3: the city and one of the things that makes the
Speaker 3: city so great. And we'll keep our fingers crossed for
Speaker 3: a victory for the Reds today.
Speaker 1: No, absolutely. I told my son, my five year old son,
Speaker 1: last night. I surprised him. I told him we were
Speaker 1: going to the game, and I think that was a
Speaker 1: mistake because I don't think he slept the next three hours.
Speaker 2: It's his first game.
Speaker 1: It's his first Opening Day game. We make a point
Speaker 1: to go to at least three to four games a year,
Speaker 1: but he's always wanted to go to Opening Day because
Speaker 1: he sees all the pictures of everything. So we're all
Speaker 1: very excited.
Speaker 2: Oh that's cool.
Speaker 3: And if you want to talk to Corey Bowman, find
Speaker 3: him on Fountain Square during the parade time. Corey, have
Speaker 3: a great day today, be safe and we'll talk real soon.
Speaker 1: Fran, Thank you so much.
Speaker 3: My pleasure eight eighteen Here fifty five KRECD talk station.
Speaker 3: We got a little more to talk about, plus Jay
Speaker 3: Ratliff coming up with Bottom of the Hour.
Speaker 2: Look forward to that and I hope you do too.
Speaker 2: I'll be right back fifty five krs