Speaker 1: It's seven oh six. I think'bout cares do talk stays
Speaker 1: named Brian Thomas. Always pleased to see in studio the
Speaker 1: man who's keeping his eye on the shenanigans going on.
Speaker 1: And there are so many shenanigans going on. I'm surprised
Speaker 1: he's able to keep track of it. Todd Zenzer, former
Speaker 1: US Inspector General. Now we have basically he's the inspector
Speaker 1: General for Hamilton County and most notably City of Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: Welcome back, Todd Zenzer. It's always great seeing you, brother.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Brian. It's always good to be here.
Speaker 1: And he, of course is we Citizen Watchdog is what
Speaker 1: we effectively call him. That's the name of his podcast,
Speaker 1: Citizen Watchdog. You can find it, and we're gonna learn
Speaker 1: about his latest podcast, probably going to blow your mind.
Speaker 1: But this is gonna be This hour is gonna fly
Speaker 1: by a noe time.
Speaker 3: Todd. We've got so much to talk about. Really, I'd
Speaker 3: dwelt a whole lot.
Speaker 1: I had Smith ament on for a volume two of
Speaker 1: the Smith Event yesterday because of the equity whatever that
Speaker 1: committee is that advanced the proposal to amend the zoning
Speaker 1: laws in Hyde Park seven to two vote, and then yes,
Speaker 1: of course, city council voted seven to two to alter
Speaker 1: Hyde Park's zoning laws, zoning laws which the City of
Speaker 1: Cincinnati imposed upon all the neighborhoods, the connected community zoning laws, right, okay,
Speaker 1: So they took away every community's ability to control their
Speaker 1: own destiny. And that wasn't even that long ago, was it?
Speaker 1: Because you and I talked about it last June. Last June,
Speaker 1: and then yesterday they undid their own blanket rule for
Speaker 1: the entire city of since sant connectic communities by allowing
Speaker 1: a variance to the connected communities and building in what
Speaker 1: eighty five foot versus the fifty foot limitation, one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty bedroom, a hotel, and this whole new development
Speaker 1: that it sounds like the vast majority of High Park
Speaker 1: residents did not Were you at council meeting yesterday.
Speaker 2: I wasn't a council yesterday. I was at the committee
Speaker 2: meeting on Tuesday.
Speaker 3: So you saw what was there, You saw what was
Speaker 3: going on.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, it was just incredible that in the citizens that
Speaker 2: spoke were some of the most passionate, sincere articulate witnesses
Speaker 2: you ever wanted to hear and it just seems and
Speaker 2: somebody mentioned it yesterday. I watched it on TV. A
Speaker 2: citizen came forward yesterday and he said, you know what,
Speaker 2: at the end of that committee meeting, three or four
Speaker 2: of these council members had prepared remarks that they were making.
Speaker 2: They prepared them ahead of time, which tells all of
Speaker 2: us how that they had made their minds up before
Speaker 2: they even walked into the room. So what is the
Speaker 2: charade all about? And that's what we keep getting with
Speaker 2: this city council and with this city mayor. Is they
Speaker 2: do all these things and they may make it look like, oh,
Speaker 2: the communities involved, and we're taking your issues into consideration.
Speaker 2: They couldn't be farther from the truth. These city council
Speaker 2: members made up their mind long ago and there wasn't
Speaker 2: anything that these citizens could do to change their minds.
Speaker 2: And that's really what has to change in city Hall.
Speaker 1: Well, and you told me all air, and I wasn't
Speaker 1: even aware of it, because Hyde Park got organized to
Speaker 1: stop this. They were loud, they had campaign signs or
Speaker 1: save the Square or whatever. I mean, it was almost
Speaker 1: like a campaign for political office in terms of their
Speaker 1: opposition on this and the targets, of course, were the
Speaker 1: members of the city council and the mayor. It wasn't
Speaker 1: the entire community of Hyde Park over some bond issue
Speaker 1: or whatever. They were just focusing their attention on elected
Speaker 1: officials in the City of Cincinnati, Right.
Speaker 3: But you said this happened also in bond Hill.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, there was a development in bond Hill that
Speaker 2: was proposed. Developer came in, met with the communit unity
Speaker 2: up there, they all supported it. He goes back and
Speaker 2: he changes the plan and he makes it. He makes
Speaker 2: it look like the neighborhood approved it. What he was
Speaker 2: finally proposing was not what the community voted on, Jill
Speaker 2: bait and switch. Yes, very much so. And that's another
Speaker 2: one where the city council just went with the developer.
Speaker 3: Well connected developer.
Speaker 2: Well, for this city council, they're all well connected.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you didn't coin the phrase. The last time you
Speaker 3: were here.
Speaker 1: You pointed out on this Hyde Park issue that we're
Speaker 1: talking about very well connected developers. In other words, big
Speaker 1: developers with a lot of money that fun campaigns and
Speaker 1: get things done for them that the ordinary, everyday voting citizen,
Speaker 1: the constituent can't get done.
Speaker 2: Right, what's interesting is one of the witnesses in supporting
Speaker 2: the project that spoke at the meeting was a lobbyist
Speaker 2: for the developer.
Speaker 3: I knew you were going through.
Speaker 1: I think it was maybe like a family member or
Speaker 1: one of the owners of the developer or something like that.
Speaker 2: Rumor is that she wants to run for city council.
Speaker 3: Oh geez, Well, what I.
Speaker 2: Think is that if that's the case, and this city
Speaker 2: council loves developers as much as they seem to love developers,
Speaker 2: maybe one of them would get up, give up their
Speaker 2: seat or give up their spot on the blue ticket
Speaker 2: they give to this lobbyist. Why not?
Speaker 3: Why not?
Speaker 1: I don't know if it would represent a change for
Speaker 1: the good or the better or worse. It's just impossible
Speaker 1: to know at this point. But what I draw from
Speaker 1: this is clearly this dictatorial council ignores the will of
Speaker 1: its voters, ignores the will of the citizenry, violates this
Speaker 1: representative democracy process. They're supposed to take into consideration what
Speaker 1: the majority of those folks out there want, and they
Speaker 1: just basically raise their metaphorical middle finger at everybody in
Speaker 1: Hyde Park and said screw you.
Speaker 2: Well, it's been reported to me that Jeff Cramerdin was
Speaker 2: being interviewed yesterday on the radio and he called the
Speaker 2: citizens impediments and that's consistent with a grant that the
Speaker 2: city prepared for HUD that called the citizens barriers. So
Speaker 2: that's really that's that's the city council in a nutshell.
Speaker 3: That's it. You know. I'm sorry, that's disturbing.
Speaker 2: It's very disturbing. But there are two people on the
Speaker 2: city council who get it, I know, the Vice mayor
Speaker 2: and Scottie Johnson. And it's like, why aren't we listening
Speaker 2: to the citizens here? And they just didn't carry the
Speaker 2: day well.
Speaker 1: Tee Lee readings a little difficult, and I was going
Speaker 1: to ask to you know who you were planning on
Speaker 1: endorsing at the tail end of this discussion, but was
Speaker 1: since we only have a couple minutes left in the segment.
Speaker 1: I when Corey Bowman was on He's going to be
Speaker 1: back on this program tomorrow, by the way, folks, if
Speaker 1: you want to tune in for that. But when Corey
Speaker 1: Bowmen was in here last time, we talked about this
Speaker 1: issue and I said, you know what, Hyde Park votes
Speaker 1: pretty blue. They're for pretty much Democrats over there, I said,
Speaker 1: because they are being ignored this city council and the
Speaker 1: mayor aren't worthy of their support. Are going to alienate
Speaker 1: so many people in Hyde Park. I said, Corey, you
Speaker 1: may have a really good opportunity to at least maybe
Speaker 1: get some campaign contributions and perhaps a good chunk of
Speaker 1: the voters over in Hyde Park to vote for you.
Speaker 1: The primaries coming up. If you know, this is just
Speaker 1: this is the top two. They don't break it down
Speaker 1: into party. So if the Hyde Park residents want to
Speaker 1: really show how angry they are, they should overwhelmingly vote.
Speaker 3: For Corey Bowman.
Speaker 1: And I'm encouraging everybody in the City of Cincinnati do
Speaker 1: the same thing. Wouldn't it be hilarious if Corey Bowman
Speaker 1: came out as the top vote getner over aftab per Ball.
Speaker 2: That would be something, Brian, I would be amazing.
Speaker 1: Yes, I mean, we can have a party in celebration
Speaker 1: the we're just that accomplishment, not that he would ultimately
Speaker 1: become mayor, but just for the people to voice their
Speaker 1: discontent and their absolute outright outrage over what happened yesterday.
Speaker 3: I think it'd be awesome.
Speaker 2: Well, I hope, I hope that's the case, and I
Speaker 2: hope they carry that through to the general election.
Speaker 1: Well I do too, and so I suppose I can
Speaker 1: conclude from that that you are supporting Corey Bomer.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, absolutely, you know. And every day it just
Speaker 2: this Mayor reinforces that position, like on this over the
Speaker 2: weekend when he appeared at this fifty to fifty one
Speaker 2: protest downtown.
Speaker 1: He was They didn't even have a permit to block
Speaker 1: the streets, and there he was blocking the streets with
Speaker 1: the rest of them.
Speaker 2: He was giving it everything he could, just like AOC.
Speaker 2: He looked like AOC.
Speaker 4: He did, going on and on.
Speaker 2: About this individual deported to El Salvador, just going on
Speaker 2: and on about it.
Speaker 1: The MS thirteen wife beating gang member that had been
Speaker 1: arrested and already adjudicated a gang member.
Speaker 3: That guy, that guy, Yeah, yeah, I just can't. I
Speaker 3: just can't, family, man.
Speaker 2: I just can't go there. He looks mainstream. Aftab Purval
Speaker 2: is not mainstream.
Speaker 1: He isn't at all. He's as left as they come,
Speaker 1: because from the same tink of socialist cloths AOC. We
Speaker 1: will continue with Todd's in or Oursin's our citizen Watchdog.
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Speaker 1: Seven nineteen fifty five KRCD talk station Brian Thomas with
Speaker 1: Citizen Watchdog Todd Zenzer, former Inspector General, keeping his eye
Speaker 1: on the craziness going on in downtown Cincinnati and pivoting
Speaker 1: over Cincetti apparently has some green ambitions. I know this
Speaker 1: is your latest podcast, Citizen Watchdog. Find out where you
Speaker 1: get your podcast, Todd, what's this insanity all about?
Speaker 2: Well, Brian, I, like everybody else, see what's happening at
Speaker 2: the federal level with funding and the E and the
Speaker 2: Department of Energy, and the money that the city has
Speaker 2: been getting on climate activities is going to end. And
Speaker 2: you don't hear anybody at city Hall talking about what
Speaker 2: they're going to do differently. But Since two thousand and eight,
Speaker 2: the city every five years has updated their Green Plan
Speaker 2: Green Cincinnati Plan. It started in two thousand and eight
Speaker 2: with mister Mallory. He called the plan a climate protection plan.
Speaker 2: I don't know if he was protecting us from the
Speaker 2: climate or protecting the climate. And then every five years
Speaker 2: they have updated their Cincinnati Green Plan. In every five
Speaker 2: years it gets more and more extensive and really radical,
Speaker 2: I mean really extreme. The twenty twenty three Green Cincinnati
Speaker 2: Plan is probably the most comprehensive of climate change bible
Speaker 2: that you would ever want to see. It covers the
Speaker 2: whole gamut of civilization basically in Cincinnati, our food, our energy,
Speaker 2: our look at some others, mobility, natural environment, resilience, and
Speaker 2: climate adaptation. They have these eight focus areas, and each
Speaker 2: focus area has one to three goals, and then each
Speaker 2: goal has all these activities that they want to accomplish
Speaker 2: and furtherance of that goal. And you look at these
Speaker 2: things and well, first of all, you don't know whether
Speaker 2: it's really happening or not, and you don't know exactly
Speaker 2: what they're doing, you don't know how much all this
Speaker 2: is costing, and they just go about their business like
Speaker 2: this is the main thing, and it's not the main thing.
Speaker 2: And I, based on what I've been doing, if the
Speaker 2: city has to cut back on spending, this would be
Speaker 2: the area to cut back. If they stopped all these
Speaker 2: activities tomorrow, nobody would notice. Nobody would notice that, Oh, well,
Speaker 2: we're not going out trying to promote people to get
Speaker 2: on plant based diets anymore. Nobody's going to notice that.
Speaker 1: I didn't even realize they were out promoting people to
Speaker 1: get on plant based diets anyway.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was that was a goal in the twenty
Speaker 2: eighteen plan.
Speaker 4: Huh.
Speaker 1: Maybe then they I guess they embraced the idea of
Speaker 1: pairing back snap benefits to take out sugary beverages and
Speaker 1: and and and fatty foods and doritos.
Speaker 2: So that's a good question, Brian. I don't know if
Speaker 2: they would go for that or not.
Speaker 1: No, they wouldn't go for that because that would deprive
Speaker 1: people of choice, the choice that they're arguing they shouldn't
Speaker 1: have because they want you to eat plants. Yes, so
Speaker 1: none of this makes sense. It doesn't really make Well,
Speaker 1: let's let's look at it from a broader element. How
Speaker 1: many we have, like two hundred and eighty thousand people
Speaker 1: or dollars roughly, Yes, in a defined space that's a
Speaker 1: city of Cincinnati. The geographical limitations. That's as far as
Speaker 1: their power extends. What do they really truly think can
Speaker 1: be accomplished by imposing all of these edicts and mandates
Speaker 1: on a finitely, if very infinitely comparently small space within
Speaker 1: the state of Ohio when everybody around us isn't doing this.
Speaker 1: More fundamentally, outside of the country, like China and India
Speaker 1: and Turkey and other large producers of pollutants, they're not
Speaker 1: doing it anyway. We're all breeding the same damn air.
Speaker 1: What possible benefit can any of this have on impacting
Speaker 1: the climate so that somebody could make that argument, I
Speaker 1: think it makes them certifiably insane.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I think that the EPA is going to
Speaker 2: do something about this CO two and endangerment.
Speaker 3: Of it's plant food for God's sake.
Speaker 2: Right, So the city. I think that they are following
Speaker 2: the Democrat orthodoxy. But one of the things, as they
Speaker 2: do with the Green Cincinnati Plan is their tentacles go
Speaker 2: out even further. They've got about seventy different community organizations
Speaker 2: and nonprofits that are on board, and they're giving money
Speaker 2: to these groups, yeah, to do all these things, and
Speaker 2: they build this constituency, but it's that constituency really isn't
Speaker 2: in the neighborhoods as far as I can tell, maybe
Speaker 2: a couple of neighborhoods. But I really don't think the
Speaker 2: people in West Price Hill or East Price Hill are
Speaker 2: really thinking that the city is putting a dent into
Speaker 2: the greenhouse gases. They claim they are some kind of dent. Oh,
Speaker 2: we've reduced greenhouse gases in the city of Cincinnati by
Speaker 2: x percent or something like that. But the greenhouse gases
Speaker 2: only affect the atmosphere at a very high level. So yeah,
Speaker 2: it really doesn't do anything.
Speaker 1: And I suspect the folks in Price Hill or Avondel
Speaker 1: or pick A neighborhood are probably a little bit more
Speaker 1: worried about the property tax bill and putting food on
Speaker 1: the table and inflation and stuff that really matters. And
Speaker 1: this all is taking money away from resources that might
Speaker 1: go to well, I don't know, phil potholes or improve
Speaker 1: the the the neighborhood. From a broken windows theory connected standpoint,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 2: Right, well, if they put as much energy into planning
Speaker 2: fixing the roads as they have in this Green Cincinnati plan,
Speaker 2: we would see a lot more progress on our infrastructure.
Speaker 2: But I've been trying to figure out how much money
Speaker 2: this is all costing. It's not easy to track through
Speaker 2: the city, but so far it looks like in two
Speaker 2: thousand and four they received forty five million dollars in
Speaker 2: federal grants and then the city spent their own money
Speaker 2: to about nine million dollars for green New Green Cincinnati activities,
Speaker 2: and so a lot of that money is just going
Speaker 2: to go away. And they have people on staff. The
Speaker 2: city has people on staff, especially in their Office of
Speaker 2: Environment and Sustainability, I think is what they call it.
Speaker 2: I mean, they basically have this attitude, we eat what
Speaker 2: we kill. So they file all these grant applications with
Speaker 2: the federal government. Yeah, the head of the office was
Speaker 2: quoted in the newspapers saying that, oh, he's They've put
Speaker 2: applications in for between sixty and eighty million dollars. And
Speaker 2: so you have people writing these grants. When you get
Speaker 2: their grants, you have to manage the grant and it
Speaker 2: consumes so much energy and part of the city staff
Speaker 2: that I don't know how they're making progress in some
Speaker 2: of these other areas.
Speaker 1: I don't think the point is to make progress, Todd.
Speaker 1: I think the point is to fund non governmental organizations
Speaker 1: and put money in those folks pockets who probably do
Speaker 1: live out in the suburbs and really nice multi hundred
Speaker 1: thousand dollars homes and enjoy the fruits and benefits of
Speaker 1: the American taxpayers labor while not accomplishing a single thing.
Speaker 1: I don't think they're out there actually do anything. I
Speaker 1: think they're just out to put money in their own pocket.
Speaker 2: Well, it's a very the city of Cincinnati is very
Speaker 2: high risk when it comes to these nonprofits. So far,
Speaker 2: they've got leverage support that they give out to the community.
Speaker 2: That's about fifty groups or so they had. Then they
Speaker 2: started this Act for SINSI, which is their violence prevention program.
Speaker 2: That's got another seventy sixty seventy groups, and then the
Speaker 2: Green Cincinnati Plan has over one hundred groups. Lord that
Speaker 2: they are trying to organize or that they all of.
Speaker 1: Whom have salaries and need to be funded before any
Speaker 1: actual work and be done or something can be actually
Speaker 1: accomplished out in the world to achieve whatever goal it
Speaker 1: is they were formed to achieve.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well this is this is this is a very risky,
Speaker 2: risky proposition to have all this city money going out
Speaker 2: to all these different groups and nobody's really overseen it.
Speaker 2: There was a case in Cleveland, for example, where one
Speaker 2: of the council members was perpetrating some fraud schemes through
Speaker 2: these nonprofits in Cleveland the same way. In one case,
Speaker 2: he got one of the nonprofits to put his girlfriend
Speaker 2: on the payroll for five thousand a month. And then
Speaker 2: the other case he got is he got a I
Speaker 2: think a development corporation, a local development corporation, to sell
Speaker 2: property to his girlfriend.
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Speaker 1: Brian Thomas with citizen Watchdog Todd Zenzer, former Inspector General.
Speaker 1: And we have a couple of minutes here, since I
Speaker 1: suppose the conversation on fiscal responsibility also dovetails into the
Speaker 1: attacks on Elon Musk, let's pause on that one's I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give a little bit more attention. You got to,
Speaker 1: I know you had something to say about Greg Landsman
Speaker 1: getting in trouble with his failure to report his stockish
Speaker 1: or stocks.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, back during the campaign it came out that
Speaker 2: he failed to make disclosures for basically his whole first.
Speaker 3: Term, as is required under law. Exactly, it's been a
Speaker 3: law for a long time, yes, And.
Speaker 2: So he came out and said, well, I'm supporting legislation
Speaker 2: that would prohibit members of Congress from UH trading in stocks. Well,
Speaker 2: that went by the wayside. Now the new proposal is
Speaker 2: to force members to put all their stock into a
Speaker 2: blind trust or something like that, and he supports that,
Speaker 2: but in the meantime he had to dump hundreds of
Speaker 2: thousands of dollars in stocks in order to walk the
Speaker 2: walk the talk.
Speaker 1: Oh that's hilarious. Well they did call him out on
Speaker 1: it's there to disclose, so and and and through these
Speaker 1: revelations we also found out that he was invested in
Speaker 1: defense contractors.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's very hypocritical in terms of in tobacco companies too, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: what what he talks about out on the campaign and
Speaker 2: where he puts his money.
Speaker 3: So he's not a green investor.
Speaker 2: No, he's going for the money.
Speaker 1: He's going for the money, right, And you know, I
Speaker 1: suppose a prudent investor in spite of the fact whether
Speaker 1: they like war, appreciate war, want to get out of wars,
Speaker 1: knows that the wars are perpetual. We manufacture a lot
Speaker 1: of munitions and sell them off to other countries. So raytheon,
Speaker 1: let's get some money. Rathon.
Speaker 2: Well, what's funny is that he must know that many
Speaker 2: members of Congress go into Congress with little money and
Speaker 2: come out of Congress with a lot of money. And
Speaker 2: that's all being done through the stock market. Yep, and
Speaker 2: so he's got to know that. So maybe that's why
Speaker 2: he has been reluctant to dump those stocks last See.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he knows what Congress is going to vote on,
Speaker 1: what's coming up with the proposed legislation, is what's likely
Speaker 1: to pass, and knows where, how which companies are going
Speaker 1: to benefit as a consequence of it. It's degreased palm
Speaker 1: index that Nathan backg Recking ed Fink and invented before
Speaker 1: they retired. Whoever had the most lobbying money going into Congress,
Speaker 1: they'd pick those companies. They put him in one fund.
Speaker 1: I don't know how it ended up working out in
Speaker 1: terms of return on investment, but something tells me it probably.
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Speaker 1: Seven fifty five KRCD Talk Station Brian Thomas with Citizen Watchdog,
Speaker 1: former Inspector General Todd Zenzer and the kind of topics
Speaker 1: that we talk about, Todd.
Speaker 3: Are just mind blowing.
Speaker 1: I mean it angers me and I just stare and
Speaker 1: disbelieve that our elected officials actually go down these various
Speaker 1: roads that they have gone down, that they disregard the
Speaker 1: citizens will in the case of High Park. They're pursuing
Speaker 1: these green agendas with all these hundreds of non governmental
Speaker 1: organizations without accomplishing a single thing. Hopefully this federal dollars
Speaker 1: will dry up. But I think, as you said off air, though,
Speaker 1: probably just go ahead and redirect like road road repair
Speaker 1: money and critical infrastructure money to continue the pursuit of
Speaker 1: a green agenda to the I mean, to the detriment
Speaker 1: of everybody in every neighborhood in the city.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's going to be a choice for them
Speaker 2: down the road when all this federal money drives up
Speaker 2: and they have to make a decision on what they're
Speaker 2: going to cut. I don't have a lot of confidence
Speaker 2: that they're going to look at the green Cincinnati plane
Speaker 2: and say, oh, yeah, we don't need that. They're gonna
Speaker 2: make They're going to continue to make that a priority.
Speaker 1: Well, and I can't imagine that being a magnet for
Speaker 1: business and industry if you want to draw people into
Speaker 1: the city, you want to allow them to have choices
Speaker 1: about where they live and what they live in, and
Speaker 1: ability to drive in and out of it so they
Speaker 1: can escape it if they need to. Anyhow, And that's
Speaker 1: what employees of big incorporations would want to Big corporations
Speaker 1: want to g GE.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, did they move out? They That's right, they did.
Speaker 3: How's that working that for them? Anyhow?
Speaker 1: Justice Department just released an additional what they called the
Speaker 1: Greatest Hits the other day. Attorney General Pambondi, this is
Speaker 1: the Doge related conversation. City's fiscal responsibility, coupled with the
Speaker 1: outrage that I know you felt when you saw one
Speaker 1: of our elected officials, councilwoman, talking about burning teslas and
Speaker 1: attacking Elon musk Um.
Speaker 3: Let us see here.
Speaker 1: They cut two million dollars used for quote, national listening
Speaker 1: sessions of individuals with lived experience close quote asked jo
Speaker 1: just Treger this morning if he's had lived experience, and
Speaker 1: he has, and of course I've had fifty nine years
Speaker 1: of lived experience. I don't know what the hell that means,
Speaker 1: but we just cut two million dollars. It was going
Speaker 1: to that six hundred and ninety five dollars six hundred
Speaker 1: and ninety five thousand dollars for a quote. Excuse me,
Speaker 1: this is great and you're one of the most intelligent
Speaker 1: people I know.
Speaker 4: Tell me what this is?
Speaker 1: A parallel, convergent, mixed methods case study research designed to
Speaker 1: assess the efficacy of police departments, LGBTQ liaison services.
Speaker 2: WHOA how about that?
Speaker 1: That's a mouthful six hundred and ninety five grand of
Speaker 1: the taxpayer money. Anyway, the list just keeps getting longer
Speaker 1: and longer, and yet they're out there calling Elon Musk
Speaker 1: a Nazi and destroying Teslas and Tesla dealerships and Tesla
Speaker 1: charging stations. Once the darling of the Green agenda now
Speaker 1: is become an evil person because he's pointing this stuff out.
Speaker 2: That's right. Yeah, When a council member, Anna Albi, when
Speaker 2: they passed a resolution a couple of weeks ago to
Speaker 2: support the federal employees, and then if you look at
Speaker 2: the resolution, it basically just slams the administration about cutting
Speaker 2: this and cutting that, and she was triggered big time
Speaker 2: when it came to this. They all get a chance
Speaker 2: to talk about the resolution. So when it came to
Speaker 2: Miss Albi, she said, well, we're all talking very calmly
Speaker 2: about this, we should be angry. And she just went
Speaker 2: off and she started accusing Elon Musk of going around
Speaker 2: and harming people and harming our community and our residents
Speaker 2: from top to bottom, and just she she seemed like
Speaker 2: somebody that might just go out in Kia tesla. That's
Speaker 2: the way she seemed to me.
Speaker 1: And a guy again, you know, it's like five minutes
Speaker 1: ago in your life, experience lived experience time was the
Speaker 1: darling of the Green agenda, was the greatest guy on
Speaker 1: the planet because he invented the best electric vehicle out there,
Speaker 1: no more emissions. We're all going to save the world.
Speaker 1: And he becomes evil because he shows that there are
Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands of Social Security numbers out there in
Speaker 1: the world for people that are over one hundred and twenty.
Speaker 1: That he reveals all of these insane programs that are
Speaker 1: on their face absolutely indefensible that he's running. He's endeavoring
Speaker 1: to run the federal government more efficiently like a real company,
Speaker 1: as opposed to squandering our labor in the form of
Speaker 1: taxpayer dollars. That's all bad, all because some federal employee
Speaker 1: in a useless department loses their job, they don't cry
Speaker 1: shed a single tier when some other business fires employees
Speaker 1: or goes to reorganization. I mean, I used to work
Speaker 1: for Anthem. I went through three reorgs. They lost people,
Speaker 1: they changed the departments, they shifted things down, they got
Speaker 1: rid of middle management. There wasn't an article in the
Speaker 1: paper even written about it, and not a tear shed.
Speaker 1: Federal employees aren't really doing anything and not even shown
Speaker 1: up at work. They're out in the street protesting over
Speaker 1: it and turning Elon Musk into somehow the head of
Speaker 1: the National Socialist Party well nazi.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, the federal government has already has personnel rules
Speaker 2: in place to do everything that's being done. It's not
Speaker 2: like they've come in and invented things. In fact, they're
Speaker 2: being very generous with this, the buyout and the way
Speaker 2: the buyout. Oh sure, and it has to be done.
Speaker 2: And for a member of city council to think that
Speaker 2: we don't spend enough money and that we shouldn't be
Speaker 2: cutting is just irresponsible.
Speaker 1: Listen, two trillion in additional expenditures from the federal government
Speaker 1: annually beyond what they spend and take in in taxes.
Speaker 1: We've dug ourselves into a monumental hole almost thirty seven
Speaker 1: trillion dollars. The debt service is already a trillion dollars,
Speaker 1: and someone's advocating to continue down that path. That person
Speaker 1: is either financially as ignorant as a post or is
Speaker 1: desirous of the end of the United States of America
Speaker 1: as we know, because it's going to crash our fiat currency. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she came off as a nefarious or stupid in either
Speaker 1: case stupid.
Speaker 2: It's very emotional, no question about that.
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Speaker 1: It's Seine fifty five KR city talk station. Certainly an
Speaker 1: eye opening hour here in the fifty five carre Sea mornings.
Speaker 1: She would always did with is when toddzensers in the studio,
Speaker 1: former Inspector General. Citizen Watchdog is his podcast check it out.
Speaker 1: He's one of the few sources of information that we
Speaker 1: get like this, and I am just I feel blessed
Speaker 1: to be in a position to let folks know about it.
Speaker 1: I think so few people really realize how our city
Speaker 1: is being governed and what their objectives are, and they
Speaker 1: seem to have nothing to do with the day to
Speaker 1: day lives of the people that live in the city
Speaker 1: of Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: Todd, Yeah, looking at this green Cincinnati Planet's almost as
Speaker 2: if there's two different efforts in the city. One is
Speaker 2: kind of the police, and fire, sewers, water, and then
Speaker 2: there's this other group that's doing all these things about
Speaker 2: the climate and it's kind of behind the scenes for
Speaker 2: the most part. Yeah, and it's very well funded, very
Speaker 2: well staffed, and it's energy and effort on the part
Speaker 2: of the city staff that could be redeployed to help
Speaker 2: with these core services. Exactly, Brian.
Speaker 1: I mean, our infrastructure is falling apart, and they're always
Speaker 1: complaining about insufficient dollars. L was, what is that? What
Speaker 1: are the motivations for selling the railroad? Absolutely, and then
Speaker 1: we find out there's tens of millions of dollars being
Speaker 1: thrown out there to hundreds of organizations for the purpose
Speaker 1: of achieving some inachievable or unachievable climate goal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, and the workforce keeps getting bigger.
Speaker 1: Along those lines. Along those they're not hiring more people
Speaker 1: to fix the roads or keep things sewn together.
Speaker 2: The hiring is going on in the city manager's office
Speaker 2: and in the administrative staff in city Hall.
Speaker 1: If we can get people to apply for the job,
Speaker 1: I mean, think of all the additional police officers we
Speaker 1: can have. We can have a full contingent of police officers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that is a mystery to me why they're not fully staffed.
Speaker 1: They seem to have this you know, one hundred or
Speaker 1: one hundred and so deficit in terms of vacancies, and
Speaker 1: it's just does I don't really understand it or pay
Speaker 1: them more?
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, I mean the police officers.
Speaker 1: If you want to get more people of quality and
Speaker 1: caliber that meet whatever expectations you have from a police officer,
Speaker 1: if you just put that nonsensical expenditure of money that's
Speaker 1: going into I don't know whatever green project, and you
Speaker 1: just offer them they need it for five, five thousand
Speaker 1: or ten thousand dollars extra year, you might get more
Speaker 1: people signed up.
Speaker 2: For the job. Yeah. Well, they're not doing things to
Speaker 2: attract candidates to the police force. In fact, they have this,
Speaker 2: they have this defund the police effort going on with
Speaker 2: three one one where they've hired what they call community responders. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and they're sending those folks out to some of these
Speaker 2: scenes instead of the police.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Not armed, not prepared, not trained law enforcement officers are
Speaker 1: more like defusers or counselors or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're supposed to be mental health counselors and things
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, talk to some cop when things go sideways? Are
Speaker 1: you gonna want a real cop there? You're gonna want
Speaker 1: someone who's gonna talk about your feelings.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it seems to me if they want to do that,
Speaker 2: it should be under the police department, and and that
Speaker 2: would be a position that they could use to develop
Speaker 2: and recruit more police officers. Have him start out as
Speaker 2: these community responders and recruit them for the police force.
Speaker 3: That's an excellent idea. Gee imagine that, Oh, Todd, I'm
Speaker 3: not quite sure where to go.
Speaker 1: You are supporting Corey Bowman though, I want to absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 2: Corey is very down to earth. I think he has
Speaker 2: very very good intentions, and I think he wants to
Speaker 2: be a good mayor.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, I've met him so many times, and
Speaker 1: he is a good man. Yes, you know, he's a
Speaker 1: sincere human being. I think he would be open to
Speaker 1: some of the concepts that you talked about today. He
Speaker 1: does absolutely want to better the city in terms of
Speaker 1: taking care of infrastructure and making things well easier to develop.
Speaker 1: I mean, he experienced his own problems in his own
Speaker 1: neighborhood with developers who wanted to come in and do
Speaker 1: some good for the neighborhood, only to be stopped by
Speaker 1: the City of Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, he's not going to be like arm mayor
Speaker 2: that it always seems that the mayor is auditioning for something,
Speaker 2: or that he's trying to get his ticket punched by
Speaker 2: the National Party or by somebody in Washington. That there
Speaker 2: is an agenda out there, we just don't know exactly
Speaker 2: what it all includes.
Speaker 1: Well, and fortunately we have u Toadzender to talk about
Speaker 1: what the agenda is behind the scenes, that they are
Speaker 1: in fact pushing real time right now and where the
Speaker 1: valuable and finite taxpayer dollars are actually being sent. Well,
Speaker 1: one can only keep our fingers crossed that that evil
Speaker 1: man Elon Musk will finally shut down massive quantities of
Speaker 1: cash for these stupid green programs and those people will
Speaker 1: have to go out and find real jobs. Toddsenzer get
Speaker 1: in touch with his podcast Citizen Watchdog. You know you're
Speaker 1: always welcome on the Morning Show. We could do this
Speaker 1: like every single day. From my standpoint, we never would
Speaker 1: accomplish getting through all the issues. But I cannot thank
Speaker 1: you on behalf of all of my listeners for the
Speaker 1: work that you do that you pay attention to all this.
Speaker 1: You keep tabs on it, you write about it, you
Speaker 1: do a podcast on it, and you're willing to come
Speaker 1: on here on the morning show from time to time
Speaker 1: to well vent your spleen, get it all of your system,
Speaker 1: and make people more aware of the what I will
Speaker 1: call shenanigan.
Speaker 2: So I appreciate it, Prian.
Speaker 3: My pleasure.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: It has really been a treat having you on the show.
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