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Speaker 1: Station seven thirty nine Happy Thursday, Ryan Thomas welcoming back
Speaker 1: into the fifty five case Morning Shows Studios. Corey Bowman
Speaker 1: running from Mayor of the City Cincinnati. Coreybowman dot com
Speaker 1: is where you find his website. Help him out, put
Speaker 1: the arts on into your yard, get a T shirt,
Speaker 1: donate to the campaign, go door knocking, help him out
Speaker 1: because we need a different path in the city Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: As evidenced by yesterday's news conference with Mayor, I have
Speaker 1: toa pro ball. We'll dive on into that. Welcome back, Corey.
Speaker 1: Good to have you in the studio. Is your mic on?
Speaker 1: No move to the next one over? Joe said, that's
Speaker 1: not apparently firing on all cylinders or anything.
Speaker 2: Can you hear me?
Speaker 1: Now? That works?
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1: Start from scratch, Corey, get to see you, brother.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much for having me. I apologize for
Speaker 4: getting caught in a little bit of traffic there.
Speaker 1: Now you can't avoid that. It happens all the time.
Speaker 1: Anybody who lives in the greater Cincinnati area knows that's
Speaker 1: going to hit you from time to time. I understand.
Speaker 2: Drod.
Speaker 1: Start on a little lighter note. You attended the baseball
Speaker 1: game yesterday. You got to see the Little League home
Speaker 1: They got it in the park, Homer. That was I
Speaker 1: watched that.
Speaker 4: Video that was electric in the stadium because I mean,
Speaker 4: it's that's at the point where you don't know how
Speaker 4: the game's gonna go, and as a Reds fan, you're
Speaker 4: just like praying that you didn't just waste your entire night.
Speaker 4: And then when that happened, it is like my five
Speaker 4: year old boy. It's so I've got five and seven
Speaker 4: year old boy that they just like get so mad
Speaker 4: when we don't win when we go to a game,
Speaker 4: because it's like you get to go there once in
Speaker 4: a couple of weeks or a couple of months, and
Speaker 4: when that happened, they were like yeah. And then when
Speaker 4: the Grand Slam happened, it was like my five year
Speaker 4: old I mean, I felt like the greatest dat in
Speaker 4: the world. He was giving me a hug and so
Speaker 4: it was good. And we're five week old son. That
Speaker 4: was his first game there too, so I'm not sure
Speaker 4: how much he was keeping track of the stats, but
Speaker 4: he enjoyed it. Well.
Speaker 1: I bet you got a lot of pictures in that.
Speaker 1: I remember the first time we took our son after
Speaker 1: he was born to a it was a Cubs game
Speaker 1: because we were living in Chicago at the time hit
Speaker 1: his little tiny club Cubs onesie on and his little
Speaker 1: ball cap.
Speaker 4: I will say this that, you know, I always like
Speaker 4: try to watch the different fan bases, you know, the
Speaker 4: cub fan bases. I actually love the cub fans whenever
Speaker 4: they come into town. But the Phillies fans they were
Speaker 4: extremely loud last night. So I started realizing, like Philly fans,
Speaker 4: they know how to get loud when it comes to
Speaker 4: their team, even though you know, we beat them at
Speaker 4: the end of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, congratulations to the Reds on that. Well, we can
Speaker 1: pivot over because you were at the Reds game, you
Speaker 1: would let me know because I was talking about that
Speaker 1: shooting in Queen's Gate at sixth and Lynn. A woman
Speaker 1: got shot in the back, and you came in. You
Speaker 1: pointed out that that's not that far away from the
Speaker 1: Great American Ballpark.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so, I mean I was telling you earlier that's
Speaker 4: actually where we started our church. So we were in
Speaker 4: the Queen's Gate area right around Fifth and Lynn. There's homes,
Speaker 4: homeless encampments there, there's you know, obviously the issues that
Speaker 4: are happening in that area, but also especially during Bengals games,
Speaker 4: when it's extremely full, but a lot of people park
Speaker 4: in the Queen's Gate area to avoid parking rates that
Speaker 4: are a mile away in the stadiums, And so when
Speaker 4: up happenings that even during the games, people will park
Speaker 4: in certain areas of Queen's Gate and they'll ride scooters over,
Speaker 4: they'll walk over because it's only a mile and a
Speaker 4: half away. When the middle of the I believe it
Speaker 4: was the fifth inning, I'm looking down at my phone
Speaker 4: monitoring all the scanners and everything, and we see that
Speaker 4: there was a drive by shooting. This woman gets shot
Speaker 4: in the back, and I just can't believe that this
Speaker 4: happened in the middle of the Reds game. Thousands of
Speaker 4: people downtown for this and we're a mile and a
Speaker 4: half away, and this is happening.
Speaker 1: Well, I suppose shooting in downtown Cincinnati happens. Seems to
Speaker 1: be happening all the time. I mean, just that it's
Speaker 1: happens being close for proximity Great American Ballpark. Hell, we've
Speaker 1: had well, I guess I could call it riots close
Speaker 1: to the Great American Ballpark in the downtown Sincyny area.
Speaker 1: So crime huge issue. Mayor, I have to have pulwall
Speaker 1: says the city is safe despite the perception, and he
Speaker 1: claimed yesterday that the crime was actually down, which I found, Well,
Speaker 1: he can say it all day long, but he may
Speaker 1: be living in a state of denial this since an
Speaker 1: inquir reported that actually the crime is up. They point
Speaker 1: out if you just look at the month to month
Speaker 1: data that there was a in downtown collectively twenty six
Speaker 1: percent reduction serious violent crime. But if you look at
Speaker 1: it year to year, we are up forty eight percent
Speaker 1: over last year in violent crime.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and there's a saying that's going around right now
Speaker 4: that your perception is your reality. Right now, I'm actually
Speaker 4: like a fan of this specific statement when it comes
Speaker 4: to certain things because we came out of like youth ministry,
Speaker 4: and we came out of like I mean, there's marriage
Speaker 4: counseling involved in having a church, and so a lot
Speaker 4: of times when you talk to people about their relationships
Speaker 4: and marriage, or you talk about like parents, you talk
Speaker 4: about how, yeah, their perception is their reality. You know,
Speaker 4: how they view the world, that's their reality. You have
Speaker 4: to take that in consideration. But there's never a point
Speaker 4: where a child or a teenager would come in with
Speaker 4: a black eye and say that their dad beat them,
Speaker 4: and I would look at them say, well, your perception
Speaker 4: is your reality. No, your reality is your reality. That
Speaker 4: actually happened, that actually degrades the experience that that person had.
Speaker 4: Whenever you say, oh, it's only your perception that seems
Speaker 4: that it's unsafe, No, it was the fact that a
Speaker 4: woman got shot in the back last night a mile
Speaker 4: away from the stadiums. That's what's happening in our city.
Speaker 4: And it's not about perception anymore. It's about this is
Speaker 4: a reality that people downtown are fed up with bullets.
Speaker 4: Tell that to the person that's on Clark Street in
Speaker 4: John Street, that's right by my church where sixty five
Speaker 4: to seventy five bullets came going down Clark Street one
Speaker 4: night on Friday night. And then recently, Yeah, so we
Speaker 4: had an outreach that was happening at the stadium that
Speaker 4: night where over seven hundred individuals were there. Six hours later,
Speaker 4: there were sixty five seventy five bullets that were coming
Speaker 4: from the very end of Lynn Street all the way
Speaker 4: down Clark Street to John Street. And that was happening
Speaker 4: to where these are people that it's not just the
Speaker 4: bad areas, it's not just this These are people that
Speaker 4: own homes or town homes here that they're fed up
Speaker 4: with what's going on in our city.
Speaker 1: Yep. I think I'd be a little upset if there
Speaker 1: was a bullet hole in my house.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Try telling the person that has a bullet hole in
Speaker 4: their window that all your perception is your reality. Yeah,
Speaker 4: the bullet hole is your reality.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my perception will be I perceive it a wonderful
Speaker 1: thing that I wasn't standing in that room when the
Speaker 1: bullet came into it. Let's pause will bring Corey bumming back.
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Speaker 1: Around Thomas is Corey Bowman, Coreyboman dot com where you
Speaker 1: find him. He's running for the Mari City Cincinnati as
Speaker 1: a Republican and a tough road to ho he knows it,
Speaker 1: but he's up to the challenge and making some inroads
Speaker 1: and various potential voting blocks. Of course, you got the
Speaker 1: benefit of potential Hyde Park voters given what happened to
Speaker 1: them by the City of Cincinnati, and you got Bond
Speaker 1: Hill potential voters because of the property issue, and of
Speaker 1: course we have this raging issue of crime, which has
Speaker 1: brought a lot of national attention, you know, actually international
Speaker 1: attention if you look at what the vice mayor or
Speaker 1: the the pro tem councilwoman, the third line from the
Speaker 1: mayor spot saying that in this beatdown, that they deserved
Speaker 1: the beat down. That somehow, I mean, even ignoring the
Speaker 1: Russian guys, somehow anybody could justify Holly getting punched in
Speaker 1: the face and knocked out for what appears to be
Speaker 1: merely rendering aid to someone in distress is inexcusable. And no,
Speaker 1: she did not deserve that, but that actually made global news. Corey,
Speaker 1: this is not the type of attention we want in
Speaker 1: the city of Cincinnati. And going back to Pervol's comments yesterday,
Speaker 1: oh it's safe despite the perception, Well that perception is
Speaker 1: now a national, if not global, phenomenon. Corey, you get
Speaker 1: a lot of national attention too. I haven't. I can't
Speaker 1: read your name in the paper without following up by
Speaker 1: brother or Vice President JD. Vans as if that has
Speaker 1: anything to do with anything you're about, Corey.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, Yeah, well, I'm always going to say this.
Speaker 4: I'm never ashamed of my relationship with my brother. He's
Speaker 4: doing incredible things and what he's doing from the vice
Speaker 4: president an ency standpoint, it just amazes me every day.
Speaker 4: But you know, putting that aside, we have to realize
Speaker 4: that these are city issues. You just mentioned that, Hyde Park,
Speaker 4: bond Hill. We've got some potential people that could vote
Speaker 4: for us. This to me is not a political game
Speaker 4: of trying to necessarily even though we are trying to
Speaker 4: get votes because we believe we're the best candidate for mayor,
Speaker 4: but these are city issues that should be important to everybody.
Speaker 4: They shouldn't be red or blue issues. It's hey, we
Speaker 4: need clean streets, we need safe streets, we need prosperous streets.
Speaker 4: But then also you need council members that look at
Speaker 4: the voices of the people and consider that on a
Speaker 4: consistent basis. Not just get a blank check whenever you
Speaker 4: get voted in to do whatever you want, but say no,
Speaker 4: this is a vote of confidence that I'm going to
Speaker 4: continue to listen to the voices of the residents. And
Speaker 4: that's what we're running for now. When we talk about
Speaker 4: national intention, the national intention is getting there because people
Speaker 4: care about our cities. You know, I was born in Hamilton, Ohio.
Speaker 4: There's a Joe Nuxall way. That's actually an Hamilton, Ohio.
Speaker 4: People in Hamilton, Ohio, Fairfield and surrounding areas, they feel
Speaker 4: that Cincinnati is their home as well. They come down
Speaker 4: here for concerts, that come down here for the web
Speaker 4: and fireworks that's happening at the end of the month.
Speaker 4: They love this city just as much as anybody else.
Speaker 4: And so I think that there's a lot of people
Speaker 4: that nationally care about our downtown cities. But then globally,
Speaker 4: you mentioned globally what's happening is that, you know, America
Speaker 4: has to lead the way in so many things in
Speaker 4: our world. We have to be that light of hope
Speaker 4: for many nations. And when nations are watching America right now,
Speaker 4: they see a trend that our downtown areas are being
Speaker 4: riddled with crime, decaying infrastructure, and something needs to happen.
Speaker 4: But this needs to happen on our local levels. This
Speaker 4: cannot just be a point to where other people have
Speaker 4: to feel like they take the responsibility for it, even
Speaker 4: though that is what's happening and it's needed, like what
Speaker 4: we see in DC. But the reality of it is
Speaker 4: that our local government is failing its people and that's
Speaker 4: why this is happening. That's why we need strong leadership.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean take DC's in his illustration of the
Speaker 1: defund the police reality, and you know, post George Floyd,
Speaker 1: they lost a heapload to their police officers. They embraced
Speaker 1: the concept of defunding the police and rethinking the police
Speaker 1: and allocating resources elsewhere, you know, putting money into you know,
Speaker 1: community relations or some nebulous socialists or as a sociologist
Speaker 1: inspired concept. You need police officers. I mean, that's what
Speaker 1: everyone has come to the realization. You're the chief of
Speaker 1: the Metropolitan Police Department in DC is saying, thank god,
Speaker 1: these guys are here now, thank you for the federal
Speaker 1: government step again, we're down hundreds and hundreds of police officers.
Speaker 4: Let me talk about like the community initiatives and the
Speaker 4: things that happen these In my mind, there's so many
Speaker 4: programs and policies that divide the police officers from the
Speaker 4: communities they serve. I used to watch I watch these
Speaker 4: you know, sports movies where all these guys would be
Speaker 4: in like let's say, a barbershop or a diner talking
Speaker 4: about the high school football team, right, and always in
Speaker 4: the corner there was a cop, right, and he wasn't
Speaker 4: there for protections because he was a part of the community,
Speaker 4: right And that's what we need to get back to
Speaker 4: is that these cops.
Speaker 2: I have a coffee shop in the West End.
Speaker 4: Once the cops knew that they were welcome in my shop,
Speaker 4: they wanted to be there, not for protection, but they
Speaker 4: want to be there to be a part of the community,
Speaker 4: to talk with people. And that's what we've got to
Speaker 4: restore in our city. But the three to one ones,
Speaker 4: the arcs, the Act for Cincy programs, all these things
Speaker 4: are dividing the cops from the communities they serve.
Speaker 1: And someone to talk about you know, scarce valuable resources.
Speaker 1: Those are dollars and the being diverted away from hiring people,
Speaker 1: hiring citizen asus.
Speaker 4: Three point two million dollars going to Act for Cincy.
Speaker 4: You know, you got seven point one million that's going
Speaker 4: towards speed humps on Harrison Avenue. Could you imagine what
Speaker 4: patrols of seven point one million dollars would do on
Speaker 4: Harrison Avenue?
Speaker 2: YEA.
Speaker 1: And what was Lansman's response to the crime? Two million
Speaker 1: dollars And that guy had to be divided between hiring
Speaker 1: lateral police officers, extra street lighting and uh two two.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the funds are there in our budget to be diverted,
Speaker 4: but you have to prioritize public safety. And I'm not
Speaker 4: talking because we see that about sixty four percent of
Speaker 4: the budget currently actually goes toward public safety, but a
Speaker 4: lot of it gets muddied with administrative salaries, with contracts
Speaker 4: or with other departments that might not necessarily be needed
Speaker 4: or put that much emphasis on. We've got to get
Speaker 4: back to the basis of a proper police force doing
Speaker 4: its job is really what's needed, not stacking on top
Speaker 4: of it. Let's stack drones, Let's stack a roving task force.
Speaker 2: Let's test this.
Speaker 4: No, how about we have a proper police force and
Speaker 4: that comes from the top down.
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Speaker 1: It's Thursday, so we get I heard me the aviation expert,
Speaker 1: Jay Rattlift. He had about a half a dozen topics
Speaker 1: where with Jay Ratliff looking forward to that and of
Speaker 1: course looking forward to continue the conversation we're having right
Speaker 1: now Corey Bowman in studio of course Coreybowman dot com.
Speaker 1: Running from ay of the City of Cincinnati, and maybe
Speaker 1: we've got a possibility here. A lot of folks are
Speaker 1: upset and of you, the mayor, have to have pro
Speaker 1: Ball's response to the epidemic we've got going on. I'll
Speaker 1: call it epidemic. The problem with crime perceived or real
Speaker 1: seems to be a shift back over to more policing
Speaker 1: along lines what we were talking about before. We need
Speaker 1: police on the streets, we don't need you know, sort
Speaker 1: of side campaigns and you know, fluffy projects that we
Speaker 1: don't know whether are even born any fruit. I think
Speaker 1: that's one of the other problems. The corollaria this is, yes,
Speaker 1: we've got this program that's using up some of the
Speaker 1: resources that we could put toward lateral hires in the
Speaker 1: police policing generally speaking, But is what that program is
Speaker 1: doing actually doing any good? Is it reducing violence? And
Speaker 1: if you look at the statistics alone, one might conclude that, well,
Speaker 1: maybe not, it's not and that the answer is more
Speaker 1: police on the street, which without saying the other programs
Speaker 1: don't work. Provol's efforts, at least in response of recent
Speaker 1: crime developments, is to engage in more policing efforts. Now,
Speaker 1: I guess in terms of where you would go in
Speaker 1: direction of crime fighting, Corey, you said we need a
Speaker 1: full contingent of police officers. That requires some more money. Clearly,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to start training more police officers. That's
Speaker 1: a longer term proposition. Lateral hires are a great thing.
Speaker 1: How many of them are there? Can we hire people
Speaker 1: away laterally? That remains to be seen, and I suppose
Speaker 1: that's in the works right now. But I guess my
Speaker 1: recommendation to people in the city, you know, choose a
Speaker 1: different path. We've got an administrative state kind of like
Speaker 1: the swamp that's built up over the last time twenty
Speaker 1: thirty years with Democrats in control, and they've got a
Speaker 1: really entrenched group of folks within the city of Cincinnati
Speaker 1: and behind the scenes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what I'm trying to get people to understand is
Speaker 4: because a lot of people think, well, what can a
Speaker 4: mayor really do, you know, especially with our structure. I
Speaker 4: thought I didn't think it was a strong mayor type
Speaker 4: of you know scenario, with the policies and the charter
Speaker 4: that we have in place. But this is what happens,
Speaker 4: is that we have a mayor election and then through
Speaker 4: that you have the ability of setting the city manager,
Speaker 4: which is our CEO of our city, and then through
Speaker 4: that the city Manager's office is in charge of so
Speaker 4: much in the city administratively. This is something that has
Speaker 4: to be looked at in our city because, I mean,
Speaker 4: everybody wants to focus on the video of the brawl,
Speaker 4: everybody wants to focus on the crime, everybody wants to
Speaker 4: focus on these.
Speaker 2: You know, safe Hyde Park Square.
Speaker 4: But what this boils down to is that administratively, this
Speaker 4: city is not being run properly. And if there was
Speaker 4: any corporation that was being run like this, this CEO
Speaker 4: would be fired exactly. And so this has nothing to
Speaker 4: do I'm sure maybe she's a nice lady, but for me,
Speaker 4: I'm looking at from the logistics standpoint of a CEO
Speaker 4: position with the city state that we're seeing right now
Speaker 4: needs to be removed in needs to be rethought about.
Speaker 4: So the city manager city manager's office that gets appointed
Speaker 4: by the mayor or at least the city manager does,
Speaker 4: and then through that city manager is able to appoint
Speaker 4: a strong chief and a bunch of other positions as well.
Speaker 4: There's probably about thirty board members, committee members, all these
Speaker 4: different things that happen. And then the mayor also appoints
Speaker 4: I mean, obviously this is a process with the approval
Speaker 4: of council and everything, but you also appoint the vice
Speaker 4: mayor as well. So with one election we can actually
Speaker 4: restore common sense into city Hall. And there's fine people
Speaker 4: that work within the city, but a lot of those
Speaker 4: people actually reach out to me and say, hey, we need,
Speaker 4: you know, change from the top down. This is not
Speaker 4: being run properly. And so I'm trying to tell people, yes,
Speaker 4: the hot topic is crime right now. We have to
Speaker 4: focus on crime. You mentioned the statistics when we look
Speaker 4: at more policing, Well, how about let's just have a
Speaker 4: good foundation of proper police force based on the authorized
Speaker 4: strength numbers. The authorized strength numbers that we have in
Speaker 4: our city right now is one fifty nine officers and
Speaker 4: right now, we're about one hundred and ten below that.
Speaker 4: But here's another thing you have to look at is
Speaker 4: that the authorized strength number hasn't been looked at for years,
Speaker 4: and so we're actually basing this off of old numbers.
Speaker 4: We need to look at what's happening crime wise in
Speaker 4: our city. We need to look at what's happening on
Speaker 4: a daily basis. We need to re look at what
Speaker 4: is the actual number of policing that needs to happen
Speaker 4: in our city.
Speaker 1: And that I can hear someone out in the audience called, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: Well the actual numbers when they were established at one
Speaker 1: thousand and fifty nine or however many we're established at
Speaker 1: a time when the population of the city since night
Speaker 1: was much larger. It has shrunk in size. But what
Speaker 1: I'd like to see in response to that, well, maybe
Speaker 1: that's true, but compared to population numbers and everything all
Speaker 1: being equal, what's the level of crime versus back when
Speaker 1: those numbers.
Speaker 4: And also, why do you think that the numbers are decreasing?
Speaker 4: Why do you think that people are leaving? You fund
Speaker 4: the police and bad attitude people that want to come
Speaker 4: and so, and then you put out high density housing
Speaker 4: for low income and so then you're basically just trying
Speaker 4: to stack votes in my opinion. But the reality of
Speaker 4: it is that people need to know that, Hey, if
Speaker 4: you're outside the city, if you're in different states, if
Speaker 4: you're in different careers, Cincinnati is the place to be.
Speaker 4: We need to see a jump in population growth. We
Speaker 4: need to see an excitement in our downtown area. We
Speaker 4: need to see a promise of industry coming to Cincinnati, games, tournaments,
Speaker 4: whatever that might be. But people aren't coming to Cincinnati
Speaker 4: right now. Whether you want to say because of the
Speaker 4: perception or not, the reality of it is that our
Speaker 4: city is not ready from a capacity standpoint in infrastructure,
Speaker 4: and it's not ready from a crime perspective when it
Speaker 4: comes to safety on our streets to be able to
Speaker 4: take on these events.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and anybody from the outside looking in who might
Speaker 1: consider moving can see all that. It's all well documented.
Speaker 1: I mean, all the points you're making right now.
Speaker 4: Do you know the number one message that we get
Speaker 4: from our campaign or from my personal socials. I get
Speaker 4: it from parents. I've gotten so many emails from parents
Speaker 4: of incoming freshmen to University of Cincinnati right now that
Speaker 4: they're saying, we don't feel like, our kids are safe
Speaker 4: at that campus. What are you going to do to
Speaker 4: make sure that the campus is safe? What are you
Speaker 4: going to do to make sure a lot of parents
Speaker 4: reach out to me and say, my kid just graduate
Speaker 4: from college works downtown. I fear for their life. And
Speaker 4: those are valid fears. That isn't just like, oh, these
Speaker 4: are the suburbanites that are just out there and they
Speaker 4: don't really know what's going on. No, these are real
Speaker 4: fears that these parents or family members have, and we
Speaker 4: need to change that in our city.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, as a parent of you know, my
Speaker 1: daughter went to Ohio State University. She got robbed at
Speaker 1: gunpoint twice.
Speaker 4: And Ohio State University is in the smack dab in
Speaker 4: the middle of downtown Columbus. And so when we see
Speaker 4: a failure in these cities, it's not just affecting the
Speaker 4: city residents. It's affecting our schools, it's affecting our businesses.
Speaker 4: I just talked with a man that just moved his
Speaker 4: business out of downtown Cincinnati, and he has thirty two employees.
Speaker 4: He's moving to Blue.
Speaker 2: Ash right now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, now, I got his contact information. I reached out
Speaker 4: to him the day after this article happened, and he
Speaker 4: was shocked on the phone. He said, you're calling me
Speaker 4: right now, and I said, yeah, I want to know
Speaker 4: what's happening.
Speaker 2: Why is it that you left.
Speaker 4: Obviously I want to try to convince him to come back,
Speaker 4: but then at the same time there's real issues of
Speaker 4: why he left. And he said, I've got a business
Speaker 4: that I've been operating for years in the city. I've
Speaker 4: got thirty two employees and this went out and I've
Speaker 4: actually made complaints to the city and not one person
Speaker 4: from city Hall has reached out to me when it
Speaker 4: comes to my business moving out of this city. And
Speaker 4: I'm just sitting there realizing these people don't give a
Speaker 4: darn about any of these businesses leaving, about the safety
Speaker 4: of these this goal that's in Cincinnati, of our small businesses,
Speaker 4: of even the industry that could come to Cincinnati, or
Speaker 4: the potential that we have, they don't care. And so
Speaker 4: that's what is ended up happening, is that these people
Speaker 4: just say, hey, if you're going to ignore me, if
Speaker 4: you're not going to respond to my complaints, then I'm
Speaker 4: out of here.
Speaker 1: Well, on some level, it doesn't shock me they didn't
Speaker 1: reach out to them. My understanding is Holly the woman
Speaker 1: who was you know who knocked out cole Cock with
Speaker 1: the sucker punch. No one reached out to her either.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And there's real issues and real victims in our
Speaker 4: city that are not being reached out to. You know,
Speaker 4: how about the woman that was shot last night, how
Speaker 4: about the lady that was shot just I believe it
Speaker 4: was just a week ago in OTR just an innocent bystander,
Speaker 4: a mother of five, And I wonder who in the
Speaker 4: city has reached out to her. And so we've got
Speaker 4: to realize that these are real people, these are real circumstances.
Speaker 4: And that's why we're running this race. And I'm not
Speaker 4: running this race because I think that all Cincinnati is
Speaker 4: just the trash city and that we just need to
Speaker 4: bash it on national media.
Speaker 2: No, I'm running this race because we love this city. Yeah.
Speaker 4: The Reds game last night, and there is no greater
Speaker 4: city in my mind or has the most or has
Speaker 4: as much potential as the city of Cincinnati. The culture,
Speaker 4: the sports, the broadcasting, the history behind it. We have
Speaker 4: so much potential and that potential is being squandered right
Speaker 4: now because of poor leadership.
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Speaker 1: a moment, Cory mooment before we turn over and find
Speaker 1: out what this common sense ticket he's got lined up is.
Speaker 1: Apologies to Signal ninety nine. I described Signal ninety nine
Speaker 1: as a guy. It's a I guess active or current
Speaker 1: police officer from what I've led to believe. But Signal
Speaker 1: ninety nine is her Facebook pose, and I said his
Speaker 1: says that we're flatter you off and read or I
Speaker 1: refer to posts on your page. As much as we
Speaker 1: love your show, I must spank you like a rebellious
Speaker 1: toddler for telling the world that I was a guy
Speaker 1: yesterday morning. I'm the nicest, sweetest, both thoughtful and caring,
Speaker 1: yet ruthlessly savage and feral female you've never known. Consider
Speaker 1: buying me a No phone is mine caught on fire
Speaker 1: yesterday when literally hundreds of people either called or email
Speaker 1: texted or messaged me at almost the same time after
Speaker 1: your little blunder. Thank goodness, my homies at the CFD
Speaker 1: put the fire in my pocket out before it was
Speaker 1: I was engulfed in flames. Have a lovely day until
Speaker 1: my future Mayor Corey Bowman, I said to have a
Speaker 1: fantastic show with you today at seven thirty. Thank you
Speaker 1: at apologies signal ninety nine. Although you should follow her
Speaker 1: on Facebook. That's great, That is great. Appreciate Eric you
Speaker 1: forwarding that on to me. No, I had not seen that.
Speaker 1: Corey Bowman. Let's move over. We got an election coming
Speaker 1: up November. You have a choice. You have Corey Bowman
Speaker 1: as an option for mayor. Good choice. But what was
Speaker 1: your reaction to Christopher Smith and throwing his hat in
Speaker 1: the ring. And by the way, Jim and Jackson on
Speaker 1: the River opens at eleven, get over there and sign
Speaker 1: the petition to get Christopher on the ballot go ahead, Corey.
Speaker 4: I was very ecstatic to hear that news, to be
Speaker 4: honest with you, because and that's not something that we
Speaker 4: have previously discussed, but about it was in the beginning
Speaker 4: of April. Was the first time I ever met Christopher
Speaker 4: and me and him just spoke, and I was able
Speaker 4: to kind of see that this is a man that
Speaker 4: is very intelligent, has an amazing heart for the city,
Speaker 4: has knowledge of how the city operates, clearly, not just
Speaker 4: how politics operates. And that was refreshing to me because
Speaker 4: a lot of people surrounded me at the beginning. They're
Speaker 4: trying to make me this candidate, but they weren't really
Speaker 4: knowing how the city government works and what the city
Speaker 4: really needs. And so this is a man that truly
Speaker 4: cares about the city. And yeah, I can't stress that enough.
Speaker 4: If anybody is in the I don't care you know where
Speaker 4: you are in the city, I don't care if you're
Speaker 4: on the very east of the East. You need to
Speaker 4: get to Jim and Jackson. You need to sign that
Speaker 4: petition during their operating hours to get Christopher smithm in
Speaker 4: on the ballot for city council. And I believe he
Speaker 4: did an event with also Steve Gooden the other night
Speaker 4: as well.
Speaker 1: I was just going to bring Steve Gooden up. Now,
Speaker 1: let's note this, because you're talking about this common sense ticket.
Speaker 1: There aren't a whole lot of Republicans or running. Christoph's running,
Speaker 1: it is independent. Steve Gooden's running as a Charter right candidate.
Speaker 1: Both of them have the experience we need for the
Speaker 1: job and are demonstrably logical, reasonable, have a lot of
Speaker 1: common sense. So there's two guys right there. You're not
Speaker 1: voting Republican, you know, you're voting for quality candidates.
Speaker 2: We have quality candidates, you know.
Speaker 1: And you know.
Speaker 4: My biggest task right now is getting the word out
Speaker 4: that I am the best candidate for mayor of Cincinnati.
Speaker 4: A big part of that is that have the capacity
Speaker 4: to learn to understand. I have the ability to actually
Speaker 4: see the situation what the city actually needs, rather than
Speaker 4: using as a stepping stool to get to d C
Speaker 4: or to get to a higher profile. I truly care
Speaker 4: about the democratic process of the city. I care about
Speaker 4: what is going on in our city government and when
Speaker 4: it comes to safety. And I've said it from the
Speaker 4: very beginning that this is going to be on city issues,
Speaker 4: common sense issues, clean streets, safe streets, prosperous streets, and
Speaker 4: that's what we need to run on. We have amazing candidates.
Speaker 4: So you have Linda Matthews that's running as a Republican
Speaker 4: for city council. She's an amazing woman. She's got experience
Speaker 4: in not only politics but in government as well, and
Speaker 4: she'll be able to bring amazing things to the table.
Speaker 4: And then just these aren't necessarily official endorsement, you know,
Speaker 4: because I know how all that works. We want to
Speaker 4: wait for all the names to come in. But I
Speaker 4: am calling a common sense ticket. And if there's anybody
Speaker 4: that has common sense, it's Christopher Smitherman when it comes
Speaker 4: to the actual knowledge of how the city operates. You've
Speaker 4: got great names like Steve Gooden that's running from the
Speaker 4: Charter right, like you said, which has a long history
Speaker 4: in Cincinnati, and that history is based on city issues
Speaker 4: and common sense, not diving into national politics. Well then
Speaker 4: you have other names like Gary Favors, you have Brandon Nixon,
Speaker 4: you have other people Kevin Farmer who you've had on
Speaker 4: your show. And like I said, these aren't necessarily endorsements.
Speaker 4: This is me encouraging people. Do your research. Have you
Speaker 4: have one on one conversations with these people, because I
Speaker 4: promise you they will have those conversations with you. They
Speaker 4: will let you know their policies, and then you can
Speaker 4: actually go to the polls knowing that you are not
Speaker 4: just voting for a political ticket. You're not voting for
Speaker 4: a political party. You're voting for common sense to come
Speaker 4: back to city Hall.
Speaker 1: You know, I would love to see you know, there's
Speaker 1: a p slip, there's the blue slip, the endorsed candidates
Speaker 1: from the parties. I'd like to see a common sense
Speaker 1: ticket slip. Yeah, Corey Bouman, common sense ticket you smithem
Speaker 1: in and good anyway, Corey Bowman, I appreciate the hour
Speaker 1: that you spent with my listeners of me today. I
Speaker 1: wish you all the best, and again we'll strongly encourage
Speaker 1: my listeners to give you a hand in any way
Speaker 1: they can by going to Coreybowman dot com. Corey will
Speaker 1: do this again, I hope.
Speaker 2: So yeah, absolutely, thank you Brian for having me.
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