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Speaker 2: Showers likely to continue today, sometimes heavy rain sixty four
Speaker 2: for the high. Showers are likely every night with underforms
Speaker 2: thunderforms possible, dropping to fifty nine. Saturday, a high of
Speaker 2: seventy rain is likely with heavy rain expected overnight, more
Speaker 2: showers than a few strong storms forty five for the low. Finally,
Speaker 2: showers will end during the day on Sunday, with a
Speaker 2: floodwatch ending on Sunday morning fifty to to the high
Speaker 2: rate on Sunday fifty three.
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Speaker 2: fifty five KRSEY Morning Show, running from Mayor of the
Speaker 2: City of Cincinnati under the r Corey Bowman. Good to
Speaker 2: have you back on the program. Good to be back,
Speaker 2: Brian Corey Bowman dot com. Check him out, help him out,
Speaker 2: get a sign, get us shirt, make a donation. It
Speaker 2: will be so wonderful having a change in political affiliation
Speaker 2: in the Mayor's office. Of course, he's going to be running.
Speaker 2: I'm sure. I'm certain Corey's going to win the primary
Speaker 2: and off to the races against our current administration. It's
Speaker 2: been forty plus years since we've had a Republican and
Speaker 2: I think Corey, over the weeks I've gotten to known
Speaker 2: you in the many times you've been on the program
Speaker 2: that get some good ideas for the city of Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: But before we get to some of that, and to
Speaker 2: talk about the event that's coming up, how is lunch
Speaker 2: with Christopher Smitheman, that was a great lunch.
Speaker 5: Actually, it was actually my first time in Jim and
Speaker 5: Jacks and got to me a ton of amazing people
Speaker 5: and talk to the owners. We're actually excited to probably
Speaker 5: do an event there pretty.
Speaker 4: Soon as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're great people. I'm actually going to be at
Speaker 2: Jim and Jackson dining with Christopher today. We promised to
Speaker 2: sit over a beer and talk some politics. So I'm
Speaker 2: looking forward to seeing the guys at Jim and Jackson.
Speaker 2: They're just super people. I think Christopher's got an office there, Corey,
Speaker 2: he spends so much time there. I don't know if
Speaker 2: he's got a cot in the back or what the
Speaker 2: story is.
Speaker 4: Oh, I know, I know.
Speaker 5: He was introducing me to even the homeless people out
Speaker 5: on the streets. Man.
Speaker 4: He just knows everybody there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he does, he does. That's funny. Anniehow you've got
Speaker 2: an early voting event coming up? If I recall correctly,
Speaker 2: Pryce Lill Chilly next Tuesday, five pm.
Speaker 1: But I got that right.
Speaker 5: Yes, that's our early voting kickoff. You know, you said
Speaker 5: that you're fairly certain that will win the primary, but
Speaker 5: you know, nothing's certain.
Speaker 4: We have to get people out to vote.
Speaker 5: So April eighth is early voting start, and we're asking
Speaker 5: everybody to do everything you can to get out to
Speaker 5: the polls and get out to vote for our primary
Speaker 5: that ends on May sixth. But April eight is going
Speaker 5: to be an awesome nun It is.
Speaker 2: And it's an opportunity for folks to actually meet you,
Speaker 2: shake your hand, and talk face to face. I think,
Speaker 2: like I said, your message is a good one, and
Speaker 2: maybe get some people to help work on the campaign
Speaker 2: as a consequence of that event.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, We've spent a lot of the beginning stages of
Speaker 5: this campaign just meeting people, because I've been in politics
Speaker 5: a grand total of about three months now and so
Speaker 5: just meeting the right people, just like Christopher and others.
Speaker 5: And I really feel like this early voting kickoff is
Speaker 5: going to be the start to the next phase of
Speaker 5: the campaign, and that's mobilizing people, getting all the volunteers
Speaker 5: the right.
Speaker 4: Information to get people out to vote.
Speaker 2: Well, one of the things that I really like about
Speaker 2: what you're planning on doing if elected mayor at least
Speaker 2: working toward it. I know you'll probably have an uphill
Speaker 2: battle given the likely makeup of Cincinnati City Council, but
Speaker 2: reducing the regulatory burden and moving the hell out of
Speaker 2: the way when it comes to people wanting to redevelop neighborhoods,
Speaker 2: individual building, smaller sort of flip type investors who can
Speaker 2: come and rehab one of those dilapidated buildings around you know,
Speaker 2: in your area on the West End and turn it
Speaker 2: into a storefront or maybe livable space apartments. All of
Speaker 2: that can be done city if the city we just
Speaker 2: get the hell out of the way, right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Well, what I tell people is that's something we've
Speaker 5: had a front row seat to. That's not just a
Speaker 5: blanket statement that we're copy and pasted from.
Speaker 4: A Republican website.
Speaker 5: That's something that we've experienced downtown firsthand. And I've talked
Speaker 5: with people, talk with local developers, and there's so many
Speaker 5: hungry and investors and businesses and developers that can only
Speaker 5: do maybe one or two properties at a time, and
Speaker 5: sometimes the process can be just overwhelming for these people.
Speaker 5: To where at the end of a year and a half,
Speaker 5: two years of trying to fight for the right zoning
Speaker 5: or the right construction paths, a lot of times they
Speaker 5: end up just giving up, and that shouldn't.
Speaker 4: Be the case.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm always reminded when I think about this.
Speaker 2: The other person I knew had just a front row
Speaker 2: experience of this was the late great Elmer Hensler, founder
Speaker 2: of Queen City Sausage. He did a major plan expansion
Speaker 2: and it took him forever. I mean, he's in an
Speaker 2: industrial area anyway. It's not like he's moving into some
Speaker 2: suburb and intruding on people's you know, view or landscape
Speaker 2: or something like that. This is just another extension which
Speaker 2: would create more which did create more jobs, generate more
Speaker 2: revenue for the city. I mean, it was he had
Speaker 2: to reach out. I'd like to reach out to to
Speaker 2: elected officials and have them check into why and the
Speaker 2: hell they were all standing in the way of this.
Speaker 2: What is I mean, why would they want to stand
Speaker 2: in the way of something that is so beneficial for
Speaker 2: the city and something they profess to desire.
Speaker 5: Well, ultimately, you have to see yourself as are you
Speaker 5: a city official that's elected to support the vision of
Speaker 5: the residents or the vision of the entity of the city.
Speaker 5: And I think that you need to always take the
Speaker 5: residents' opinions and their dreams and their visions into account
Speaker 5: because what we're seeing right now, and this is what
Speaker 5: we're seeing with connected communities and a lot of these
Speaker 5: other policies, is that overall they have this ultimate vision
Speaker 5: that they want for these areas, and so they hold
Speaker 5: these properties time on standby until they can get.
Speaker 4: All the ducks lined up in a row. But that's
Speaker 4: not how it should be.
Speaker 5: You know, the local developers', local businesses, the residents, the
Speaker 5: community councils, they should have the biggest impact in developing
Speaker 5: the businesses and the properties and their communities.
Speaker 2: Let's I tell you what hang on for a minute.
Speaker 2: We'll just bring it back. Talk about a couple more issues.
Speaker 2: I want to talk about crime a little bit with
Speaker 2: Corey Bowman. He is running for mayor be it Price Sill,
Speaker 2: Chile next Tuesday, five to seven pm. Hear what more
Speaker 2: about what Corey has to say? Meet him in person,
Speaker 2: ask him a few questions. He's a very approachable guy
Speaker 2: and he'll be happy to do that. Eight thirty six
Speaker 2: We'll one more with Corey Bumman after these brief words.
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Speaker 2: Nine first win of one the voecanst Lots of rain, showers,
Speaker 2: heavy at times, and a high of sixty four.
Speaker 1: More showers and thunderstorms overnight.
Speaker 2: Fifty nine seventy are high tomorrow with rain likely and
Speaker 2: heavy rain it's expected. They say, down to forty five
Speaker 2: overnight with more showers and a few storms than you
Speaker 2: finally get the end of the showers sometime during the
Speaker 2: day on Sunday. Also, the floodwatch ends on Sunday morning.
Speaker 2: Sunday's high will be fifty two. They say it's fifty
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Speaker 2: Hey thirty nine I fifty five KRCD talk Station Barn
Speaker 2: Thomas with Corey Bowman find one line at Corey Bowman
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Speaker 4: Hey.
Speaker 2: Before I get to public safety, which I know you're
Speaker 2: a big advocate of Corey, and I know you're also
Speaker 2: a big advocate of education and of course helping our
Speaker 2: children in the Cincinni public schools get better educated because
Speaker 2: I think some of the some of them are are
Speaker 2: being left behind demonstrably. So if you look at the
Speaker 2: test scores real quick. Citizen watchdog Todd Zenzer, who I know,
Speaker 2: you know, he actually has facts. He has actual documents
Speaker 2: that support his analysis of things. He was a former
Speaker 2: Inspector General, so he doesn't just pull things from his
Speaker 2: sphinker and say them like so many other people. It
Speaker 2: was an interesting post that he had on his Facebook
Speaker 2: page that Joe Streckers saw and forwarded to me that
Speaker 2: kind of chuckled like Joe did when he saw I know,
Speaker 2: you know about potholes. You've experienced the problems with potholes
Speaker 2: in the city. The roads are deteriorating all over according
Speaker 2: to a presentation from the Sinsini Department of Public Service
Speaker 2: at the Budget and Finance Committee this past Monday, I
Speaker 2: believe it was March thirty first. Anyway, they say the
Speaker 2: city repaired thirty seven thousand potholes between January and the
Speaker 2: end of March. And as Todd pointed out doing the math,
Speaker 2: if the department work five days a week, that means
Speaker 2: they fixed five hundred and seventy eight potholes a day.
Speaker 2: Do you buy that, Corey Bowman, Well, this.
Speaker 5: Isn't anything getst the workers that are trying to repair
Speaker 5: these potholes with what they have available to them.
Speaker 4: But yeah, that number kind of seems a little bit
Speaker 4: off to me.
Speaker 1: Well, okay, and I'll tell you what. Let's do.
Speaker 2: Let's say it's accurate. Doesn't that indicate And I know
Speaker 2: we've had a bad winter, but you know we have
Speaker 2: roads that have been falling apart now for years and
Speaker 2: years and they have not year after year and I
Speaker 2: don't know how many years you can go back, they
Speaker 2: haven't met up with their obligation to fix a certain
Speaker 2: number of lane miles annually. So this to me, if
Speaker 2: there are that many potholes in three months, thirty seven
Speaker 2: thousand of they fixed. That seems to me partly partially
Speaker 2: a revelation of how far behind they have and taking
Speaker 2: care of infrastructure.
Speaker 5: Well. Also in my mind too, if those numbers were correct,
Speaker 5: because we drive around the city all the time, you'd
Speaker 5: be seeing crews non stop outside fixing them, and you'd
Speaker 5: be seeing the.
Speaker 4: Roads kind of prepared.
Speaker 5: And last time I checked, even this last week driving around,
Speaker 5: these potholes are still out there in record numbers.
Speaker 2: All right, So rather than buy something new, Mayor Corey
Speaker 2: Bowman would concentrate on taking care of existing infrastructure. I
Speaker 2: think that's a safe statement.
Speaker 4: Isn't it.
Speaker 5: No, Absolutely, you have to just go forward with what's
Speaker 5: important to the citizens. And right now the study show
Speaker 5: you know, whenever you ask citizens what's most important to them,
Speaker 5: they say that it's crime and its infrastructure.
Speaker 2: Well, and I know crime, that's something I wanted to
Speaker 2: pivot to. Crime is a problem. I think the days
Speaker 2: of defund the police and the demonization of police are over.
Speaker 2: When you've got a city like Seattle reversing its policy
Speaker 2: and seeking to embrace and enhance its police department, you
Speaker 2: know those days are over. So I always thought we
Speaker 2: had a pretty good relationship with the since police Department.
Speaker 2: I know there are some instances in some times when
Speaker 2: we've had bad officers, but that exists in every profession
Speaker 2: in this country. But the vast majority of the officers
Speaker 2: proudly wear the uniform and proudly serve the neighborhoods and
Speaker 2: communities they're in. I think the larger challenge here, Corey,
Speaker 2: and it may have a direct relationship with why education
Speaker 2: doesn't seem to be Our children seem to be failing
Speaker 2: in education. You know, it's the deterioration of the family. You,
Speaker 2: as a man of the cloth and as a family
Speaker 2: man yourself, know that to have you know, a children
Speaker 2: need to be taught, loved, cared for, and embraced at home.
Speaker 2: They need to have a strong family foundation. They need
Speaker 2: to be repercussions and discipline in the home. And I'm
Speaker 2: not talking about physical discipline. My parents didn't have to
Speaker 2: do that well a couple of times, but you know,
Speaker 2: it's an expectation at home that you're going to go
Speaker 2: to school, you're going to get the work done, and
Speaker 2: if you need help, you're going to get some help.
Speaker 2: There's just not enough of that out there and I
Speaker 2: don't know that we can fix society's problems gangs run
Speaker 2: and loose in the streets and looting stores and neighborhoods
Speaker 2: unless they have a found or strong family structure. I mean,
Speaker 2: can politicians can't change that though, can they?
Speaker 4: Well, you can encourage it, you know.
Speaker 5: I think that you know, with running for mayor, a
Speaker 5: lot of people might come in and just say, you know,
Speaker 5: I'm the savior of the city and I'm going to
Speaker 5: fix everything. Well, there's certain a lot of responsibilities to
Speaker 5: you as a mayor, and I think that you know,
Speaker 5: politicians and city officials kind of need to realize that
Speaker 5: that the whatever you're charged to be over, that's what
Speaker 5: you need to do your best at. But I think
Speaker 5: one of the key things, especially as a mayor in
Speaker 5: that position, is you can set the standard of what
Speaker 5: you support, you know, as far as what you are
Speaker 5: openly and vocally supporting, and then their policies kind of
Speaker 5: reflect that. So, yes, there is a crime issue. Yes,
Speaker 5: it's really what we're going through. And as a pastor,
Speaker 5: we see this it's a spiritual battle. This is a
Speaker 5: spiritual thing that's happening in our city to where we've
Speaker 5: got to get back to the roots of a family
Speaker 5: and structure and discipline. But when you see people that
Speaker 5: are trapped in areas to where like the West End,
Speaker 5: we're at eighty seven percent government subsidized housing. Realistically, what
Speaker 5: that means is that is that if a child grows
Speaker 5: up in that area a half mile one way and
Speaker 5: a half mile to the other, there is nobody that
Speaker 5: is above the poverty line. And so when you have
Speaker 5: policies that indicate that people are surrounded by poverties, surrounded
Speaker 5: by abuse, surrounded by crime, there's no way out for them.
Speaker 5: And so I'm all four policies that help lift people up.
Speaker 5: But when your policies are keeping people in bondage the
Speaker 5: rest of their life, and that includes with the family structure,
Speaker 5: that includes with job opportunities, that includes with having a
Speaker 5: home that people can call their own, our policies at
Speaker 5: the local level are not encouraging that at all. And
Speaker 5: that's what I would change if people will vote.
Speaker 2: For me and you know, offer vocal support and encouragement,
Speaker 2: reach out to the community leaders, the ministers, the pastors,
Speaker 2: the priests, the rabbis, and maybe help coordinate a collective
Speaker 2: effort that isn't about race, baiting and complaining and demanding
Speaker 2: more of this than that, but just collectively working together
Speaker 2: to better homes and communities and home LIFs. You know,
Speaker 2: I mean, and I think that that spirituality can help that.
Speaker 2: A lot we have gotten away from spirituality, as you
Speaker 2: might notice, and I really think that has a profound
Speaker 2: impact on the direction of society.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 5: Also in the downtown areas, a lot of people have
Speaker 5: been so afraid of pushing a spiritual aspect of this.
Speaker 5: And it's not about just cramming doctrine or cramming religion
Speaker 5: down your throat, no, but it recognizing that church helps
Speaker 5: the community. It's recognizing that these personal convictions that people
Speaker 5: have through these relationships and through these established community leaders,
Speaker 5: whether it be pastors or rabbis or priests, whatever that
Speaker 5: might be. We've been so afraid to talk about these
Speaker 5: things in our cities for the sake of offending people.
Speaker 5: I think people are so set up with how things
Speaker 5: are going to where I think they're willing to offend
Speaker 5: some people to be able to say, Hey, what are
Speaker 5: the things that are actually going to help this city,
Speaker 5: What are the things that are actually going to help families.
Speaker 4: In this city?
Speaker 1: Amen to that Corey Bowman dot com.
Speaker 2: Everybody's going to be over at the Pricel Chile next Tuesday,
Speaker 2: Westside Institution. It is, and it starts at five. You
Speaker 2: can help Corey out, learn more about him, and kick
Speaker 2: it off. Early voting begins, and it's important that we
Speaker 2: early vote. You've got to get out and vote Corey.
Speaker 2: Best of luck with the event next Tuesday, and off
Speaker 2: to the races from my perspective, and I hope you
Speaker 2: do a really good job.
Speaker 4: Thank you Brian so much.
Speaker 2: We'll talk again soon, my friend eight forty seven fifty
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Speaker 1: Don't go away.