Speaker 1: Shone oh five Best Person seven oh six Here fifty
Speaker 1: five cars de talk Station Americans for Prosperity, donald'neil at
Speaker 1: the bottom of the hour, one small step campaign. But
Speaker 1: prior to that, I enjoying the fifty five carse Morning Show. Returning,
Speaker 1: I should say Merrill candidate for the City of Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: Corey Bowman. Corey, welcome back, my friends. Good to have
Speaker 1: you back on.
Speaker 2: Great to be back.
Speaker 1: How's the campaign going.
Speaker 2: It's going great.
Speaker 3: We've done a lot of foundational work in the last
Speaker 3: few weeks since we got certified with our signatures, and
Speaker 3: we're officially having our campaign kickoff tonight.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, I have to ask you out loud.
Speaker 1: I know Joe Joe asked you before we started talking. Uh,
Speaker 1: do you have any interesting or tweets out there that
Speaker 1: you might regret from price if you're running for a
Speaker 1: Republican As a Republican, you didn't buy any chance endorse
Speaker 1: Democrats or push anti Trump narrators or anti Republican narratives online.
Speaker 1: Did you buy any chance?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: I was cracking up with that joke, but no, I
Speaker 3: don't think he'll be finding.
Speaker 2: Any of that.
Speaker 1: Glad to hear it. A problem that Brian Frank apparently
Speaker 1: has run into anyway, moving away from him, and not
Speaker 1: to give him any lip service, but if you want
Speaker 1: to check his ex account you'll see exactly what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about. Anyway, Corey, I understand you have an event
Speaker 1: you want to tell people about, a kickoff campaign kickoff event.
Speaker 1: Let's start there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I really appreciate the opportunity to tell people about it.
Speaker 3: You know, we, like I said, we've done a lot
Speaker 3: of foundational work getting our branding, website, contribution, you know,
Speaker 3: accounts all set up and strategy.
Speaker 2: These last few weeks.
Speaker 3: And so tonight at Bad Tom Smith Brewing which is
Speaker 3: at five to nine zero zero Madison od It's an
Speaker 3: event that's available for all. It's our official campaign kickoff
Speaker 3: and it's going to be happening from five thirty to
Speaker 3: seven thirty.
Speaker 1: Pm Bad Tom Smith Brewery.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sir, Yeah, it's in Massville area. Great location. We're
Speaker 3: going to be able to have you know, some light
Speaker 3: food and refreshments available for everybody.
Speaker 2: We're going to be giving away some free.
Speaker 3: Merch for our first official merch of the campaign. And
Speaker 3: then a lot of people been asking about, you know,
Speaker 3: where we stand on certain issues. Oh yeah, we've been
Speaker 3: you know, we've been doing issue we've been doing interviews
Speaker 3: and stuff. But we're going to be laying out a
Speaker 3: lot of very specific things tonight.
Speaker 1: Well I'm glad to hear that, because that's really critical
Speaker 1: to running a campaign. You got to have issues. You
Speaker 1: got to talk about critical important things. What is Numero
Speaker 1: uno for Corey Bowman? If you had to assess the
Speaker 1: landscape and you were elected mayor what what would be
Speaker 1: your first order priority?
Speaker 3: Absolutely number one is money management. I'm gonna be talking
Speaker 3: about that tonight. But we see what's happening with the
Speaker 3: federal government. We see the abuse, the waste of the
Speaker 3: corruption and what I tweeted this a while back, or
Speaker 3: on the night of the presidential address, that the last
Speaker 3: stand for all this corruption abuse is going to be
Speaker 3: these downtown cities. And so we have to have proper
Speaker 3: money management in these downtown areas. For the budget, we've
Speaker 3: got to know where the money's going, and we have
Speaker 3: to prioritize the budget not for you know, certain issues
Speaker 3: that look good on paper. We've got to prioritize the
Speaker 3: issues that actually make the lives of the residents better.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, I think about that. And we've been
Speaker 1: having a lot of well some several jokes, but it's
Speaker 1: not really a joke when you've let your infrastructure deteriorate
Speaker 1: over the years and you're so far behind in road repairs.
Speaker 1: I mean millions and millions of dollars behind and hundreds
Speaker 1: of miles behind the road repairs. You got to take
Speaker 1: care of your neighborhood.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: It's that broken windows theory. The worse the neighborhood looks,
Speaker 1: the more likely it attract crime, and the more likely
Speaker 1: people are not going to want to move there. So
Speaker 1: I would hope that an order priority would be for you.
Speaker 1: And I'm asking out loud this question, are you going
Speaker 1: to deal with the backload of infrastructure problems we have
Speaker 1: rather than and I think you alluded to it, pursue
Speaker 1: you know, fun new shiny objects.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you absolutely have to do that.
Speaker 3: And that's why money management is my number one when I.
Speaker 2: Talked to people.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of hot topic issues. When we talk
Speaker 3: about the pension, when we talk about the streetcar, when
Speaker 3: we talk about the infrastructure, and I'm telling you, all
Speaker 3: of these come back to the root issue, which is
Speaker 3: the money is not being prioritized.
Speaker 1: Well, we do have a pension problem in the City
Speaker 1: of Cincinnati. You think the administration would get all over
Speaker 1: it because there's a lot of folks out there that
Speaker 1: are relying on that for their future in retirement.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 3: Yeah, these are issues that all relate to just terrible
Speaker 3: prioritization of the funds and the budget that's coming into
Speaker 3: of the city. And so whenever you look at a
Speaker 3: lot of these issues, if you focus on that, then
Speaker 3: we're going to be able to tackle a lot of
Speaker 3: other issues as well, you know, like the infrastructure. I'm
Speaker 3: tired of Cincinnati losing bids for major sporting events, and
Speaker 3: a lot of it's just because if you go out
Speaker 3: on a Tuesday afternoon with no event, it's wall.
Speaker 2: To wall traffic.
Speaker 3: We can't take any of any more congestion in our city.
Speaker 2: For these events.
Speaker 3: It's because the infrastructure is not in place to do it.
Speaker 3: And then obviously the potholes. You know, I'm sorry, but
Speaker 3: I'm not going to be the type of person that
Speaker 3: just puts on a vest and pretends like I'm fixing
Speaker 3: a pothole. I'm going to prioritize people actually fixing the
Speaker 3: potholes well.
Speaker 1: And prioritize fixing the three to one one system, so
Speaker 1: when you call it, you don't get a message that
Speaker 1: says it's down and not working. We discovered that the
Speaker 1: other day when we tried to call it here on
Speaker 1: the fifty five Casing Morning Show.
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Speaker 1: Sixty five Corey. That wow, that is as of this morning.
Speaker 1: Joe called it again this morning and it's still.
Speaker 3: No way, yes morning, still this morning, even after the
Speaker 3: promotion for it.
Speaker 1: Wow yeah, yeah, and I guess it. Theyded to provide
Speaker 1: you please contact customer service. They don't even give you
Speaker 1: a number to contact them, Like, well, okay, I'll contact them,
Speaker 1: but how do I do that? So still a number
Speaker 1: of potholes reported and allegedly being fixed is pretty substantial,
Speaker 1: But there are obviously some massive, massive road problems out
Speaker 1: there that have gone unaddressed for decades. It's just it's
Speaker 1: mind numbing to me.
Speaker 3: So otherwise you might want to institute a seven sixty
Speaker 3: five number. And if you look on that, that stands
Speaker 3: for SOL.
Speaker 1: It's the state of affairs right now in the city,
Speaker 1: which is why maybe we need a change in administration.
Speaker 1: And I don't want to be a negative about this,
Speaker 1: but you're dealing with the city of Cincinnati, which has
Speaker 1: been Democrat dominated I think since Ken Blackwhill at charterright
Speaker 1: back in the late eighty early nineties was mayor. You're
Speaker 1: facing an uphill challenge. I know that, I know you're
Speaker 1: up to the task. We've talked about this before. How
Speaker 1: do you how do you maintain motivation? And are you
Speaker 1: going to be visiting some of the more blueer neighborhoods
Speaker 1: and reaching out to folks in those neighborhoods to try
Speaker 1: to convince them that your message and your plan of
Speaker 1: action is the right path to go on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we have to you know, the days of like
Speaker 3: I mean, we obviously this has to be a grassroots
Speaker 3: movement as people like to call it.
Speaker 2: It has to be something.
Speaker 3: But I think the biggest thing you have to think
Speaker 3: is we have to think creatively and strategically on what
Speaker 3: it's going to take. Because there's been a lot of
Speaker 3: campaigns that have come through this city to have attempted
Speaker 3: what we're doing and flipping the city. But I think
Speaker 3: that this is you know, for the lack of better words,
Speaker 3: This is a kind of a perfect storm event to
Speaker 3: where we have the momentum of people just fed up
Speaker 3: with what's going on.
Speaker 2: We have the right people. I really believe.
Speaker 3: I've met some incredible people the last few weeks that
Speaker 3: are willing to get on board with this and are
Speaker 3: willing to make a change in this city. And then,
Speaker 3: obviously what you said those communities that are the bluest
Speaker 3: of blue, I've visited those those areas and I'm just
Speaker 3: telling you there's a lot more disgruntled people than you realize.
Speaker 3: And whenever they they speak, they don't ask.
Speaker 2: You whether you're red or blue? They ask are you
Speaker 2: going to fix this?
Speaker 3: Do you care about connected community? Do you care about this?
Speaker 3: These issues that people are frankly pissed off about.
Speaker 1: Well, and you know, you just anticipate in my next question,
Speaker 1: because they're just going to got done writing down connected communities.
Speaker 1: Because the folks in Hyde Park are a little agitated
Speaker 1: about the plan development there, but seemed to be snatched
Speaker 1: from their local control by this connected communities thing that
Speaker 1: was passed out of council. Where are you on that?
Speaker 1: Would you unring that bell? And are you and when
Speaker 1: you mentioned that that you hear about connected communit these
Speaker 1: in these neighborhoods. What are they saying about connected communities, Well.
Speaker 3: We're in the West End. And the affordable housing or
Speaker 3: the government subsidized housing, whatever you want to call it,
Speaker 3: the approach that this city has taken has might It
Speaker 3: might have provided housing that people can afford, but it's
Speaker 3: not providing them the way to get out of the system.
Speaker 3: And that's ultimately what government. If there's a government program
Speaker 3: that is to help people, ultimately it's to get them
Speaker 3: out of needing that help from the government. It shouldn't
Speaker 3: be a process that you're going to be caught into
Speaker 3: the system the rest of your life. So I've witnessed
Speaker 3: those processes and those policies firsthand. When you have concentrated
Speaker 3: affordable housing in areas that is keeping people in that bondage.
Speaker 3: And then whenever I looked at the details, because I'll
Speaker 3: be honest, you know, as a few months ago, I
Speaker 3: didn't know what the connected communities was. I researched it,
Speaker 3: talked to people about it, and when you look at it,
Speaker 3: you realize that this is it's just a trojan horse
Speaker 3: for those same policies you're giving the jobs to the
Speaker 3: developers that are big time, and said the small developers
Speaker 3: that really are they that's some of the greatest value
Speaker 3: of our city is these small businesses, these small developers
Speaker 3: that can flip one.
Speaker 2: Or two properties at a time.
Speaker 3: You're taking away the historic aspect of a lot of
Speaker 3: these amazing buildings.
Speaker 2: And then you're, like I said, the trojan horse.
Speaker 3: You're putting in these policies that are just going to
Speaker 3: implement the housing policies that have kept people on bondage
Speaker 3: for years.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I share your assessment of that, and I like
Speaker 1: the idea. You know, again going back to infrastructure. If
Speaker 1: the infrastructure is solid and sound, you create a welcoming environment,
Speaker 1: an environment for a developer that like, well, listen, I
Speaker 1: got really great roads, I got great lighting. It's a
Speaker 1: developable community. That means it's worthwhile for me to acquire
Speaker 1: one of these rundown properties, turn it around, make livable
Speaker 1: and desirable, and then you have more housing. So I
Speaker 1: think that's a recipe for success. It's been a great
Speaker 1: success for so many entrepreneurs that are doing that in
Speaker 1: other neighborhoods.
Speaker 3: No, absolutely, I mean, I mean, you remember not too
Speaker 3: long ago where.
Speaker 2: We went to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3: The whole city was just celebrating. Well, whenever we went
Speaker 3: to the Super Bowl, I was living off Fourth Street
Speaker 3: in the West End with our church and our business.
Speaker 3: And then what happened was that I would watch local
Speaker 3: developers walk around with investors and everything all around the
Speaker 3: downtown area. They were hungry to invest in our community.
Speaker 3: They were hungry to improve these buildings, to flip buildings,
Speaker 3: and to provide housing and to do all this. And
Speaker 3: sure enough, two years later, those developments haven't happened because
Speaker 3: the policies of the city choked that out. Oh you
Speaker 3: have to do it by bus zoning. There's a lot
Speaker 3: of red tape. It doesn't agree with our vision for
Speaker 3: this area. There's so much potential specifically, I mean I'm
Speaker 3: talking about in the West End, but in so many
Speaker 3: of these neighborhoods in Cincinnati. There's all this potential of
Speaker 3: these empty properties that developers, local developers would jump at
Speaker 3: the chance of flipping and turning into an amazing business
Speaker 3: and residential area. But they are being choked.
Speaker 2: Out by the policies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember going back quite a few years and
Speaker 1: understand there's a whole lot of red tape in developing
Speaker 1: literally anything in the city of Cincinnati, and that needs
Speaker 1: to be eliminated. Elmer Hensler, the late owner of Queen
Speaker 1: City Sausage, wanted to expand his manufacturing facility and he
Speaker 1: it took him years in years, And this is, you know,
Speaker 1: a commercial area and there's commercial space. It's not like
Speaker 1: he was going to change the whole dynamic of a neighborhood.
Speaker 1: He was just going to build onto the business he'd
Speaker 1: already developed in this commercial area. But why were they
Speaker 1: standing in the way. It was the idea of creating
Speaker 1: more jobs and more space and ultimately more tax revenue
Speaker 1: for the city, and that they made it so challenging
Speaker 1: for him, it's just dumb.
Speaker 3: Well yeah, and then you got to realize this too,
Speaker 3: and I open out the can of worms here, But
Speaker 3: there's organizations and NGOs and nonprofits in the city that
Speaker 3: basically work hand in hand with the city to hold
Speaker 3: properties empty on their portfolio books so that they can
Speaker 3: have better investment opportunities other places.
Speaker 2: And so you've got to realize that.
Speaker 3: You know, whenever you have let's say, an organization in
Speaker 3: the city that holds millions of dollars worth of property
Speaker 3: but when local investors reach out to purchase their property
Speaker 3: that's for sale and there's a year waiting list on
Speaker 3: that property, and then it has to go on line
Speaker 3: with the affordable housing zoning and all sorts of other
Speaker 3: stuff of the policies and red tape, then it chokes
Speaker 3: out any type of development.
Speaker 1: That's just that's crazy, because I keep hearing they want
Speaker 1: more people to move into the city of Cincinnati and
Speaker 1: in other words, get more tax revenue from tax payers.
Speaker 1: And the way you do that is you create housing
Speaker 1: that people want to live in the idea of standing
Speaker 1: in the way in it so some other neighborhood might
Speaker 1: might get the benefit of those development dollars, which may
Speaker 1: not happen because the infrastructure is not there or some
Speaker 1: other problems. It's just dumb. Somebody wants to invest in
Speaker 1: any area of the city of Cincinnati, the skids should
Speaker 1: be greased for them to do exactly that. Corey Bowman,
Speaker 1: grease the skids. Show up tonight, Bad Time, Bad Tom
Speaker 1: Smith Brewery, fifty nine hundred Madison for the campaign kickoff event.
Speaker 1: Do you have a website up and running, Corey, Yes.
Speaker 3: Sir Coreybouman dot com. We've got the campaign kickoff there,
Speaker 3: We've got our donation page. We have a lead form
Speaker 3: that you can fill out to let us know if
Speaker 3: you want to get involved, and then after tonight we
Speaker 3: will be updating that with all of our bio and
Speaker 3: policies and getting the word out on that as well. Brian,
Speaker 3: I'd like to personally invite you and Joe tonight as well,
Speaker 3: if you're able to make it.
Speaker 1: I appreciate the invitation very much. I have checked the
Speaker 1: calendar and with my wife the boss of the house,
Speaker 1: see if we can make it. But I wish you
Speaker 1: all the success in the world in the launch campaign.
Speaker 1: Coreybowman dot com. Corey has been great having you on
Speaker 1: the show. Best of luck on the campaign trail.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Brian, have a great day.
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