Speaker 1: Seven oh six, I think about HAIRCB Talk station. Brian
Speaker 1: Thomas wishing everyone. I'm very happy Friday. I love my Fridays,
Speaker 1: and I love talking to folks, and I love particularly
Speaker 1: when folks I'm talking to are in studio. And thank
Speaker 1: you Jonathan Pearson, running for Hamilton County Commissioner, for joining
Speaker 1: me in studio to talk politics for a while here. Jonathan, good,
Speaker 1: have you Ron? Good?
Speaker 2: Thank you Ryan. I appreciate it. Good morning.
Speaker 1: Uh nothing really to talk about in the world of politics,
Speaker 1: is there.
Speaker 2: No, it's a slow.
Speaker 1: World and it's uh, you know it. May you live
Speaker 1: in interesting times. These are such boring times, it is, Jonathan.
Speaker 1: The first thing I said to you when you came
Speaker 1: in the studio was like, commissioner race has really really,
Speaker 1: really been very low key. It's sort of like it's
Speaker 1: just off in the distance someplace they haven't known. There's
Speaker 1: no racous debates and no finger pointing and no you know,
Speaker 1: prominent you know, display of alternative viewpoints why you should
Speaker 1: vote for me and why you shouldn't vote for her,
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. Not a lot of reporting on
Speaker 1: the commissioner's race either, any I mean, are you in
Speaker 1: agreement with me?
Speaker 2: On that jam.
Speaker 1: Since you're the candidate, I mean, you would know better
Speaker 1: than anybody else.
Speaker 2: It's been very interesting because people I've spent more time
Speaker 2: explaining what the Commission does, right, because most people stare
Speaker 2: at me, go what is it? So what? I always
Speaker 2: my tagline is it's the most boring important job in
Speaker 2: the county. Oh, that's a wonderful way of putting it.
Speaker 2: Because we deal with a lot of money.
Speaker 1: It is the largest chunk of which is the Sheriff's department.
Speaker 1: Of course we're all pulling for Sheriff Jim Neil or
Speaker 1: Jim Neil former sheriff. I think he's the best qualified
Speaker 1: for the job. And I don't recall anytime that Jim
Speaker 1: Neil had his firearms stolen from his vehicle.
Speaker 2: No, don't. I don't think Jim would be the type
Speaker 2: to leave it in his car either.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, and even can you remember the lock your
Speaker 1: junk in your trunk campaign to avoid smashing grabs? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Physician heeled iself just nexter plugging there for Jim Neil
Speaker 1: because I really supported he's a good guy. And of
Speaker 1: course Hamilton County prosecuted Melissa Power is so important to
Speaker 1: keep her for Oh, extremely, she's tough on crimes.
Speaker 2: She's the last She's literally the last one in America
Speaker 2: that a major city for Republican.
Speaker 1: Oh, that is so disheartening.
Speaker 2: It is because of the fact that the average Republican
Speaker 2: thinks of their community as a safe, vibrant place to
Speaker 2: walk around and do what they want to do. And
Speaker 2: let's just think of these cities that we start talking about.
Speaker 2: Just name one, Detroit, Cleveland, you know, let's be local Indianapolis,
Speaker 2: and you say, well, there's not a high crime in there.
Speaker 2: The FBI just secretly snuck in the new crime status.
Speaker 2: I saw that and uh huh shocker. They went up
Speaker 2: sixty five percent under Biden. Gee, I'm stunned.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and it's interesting. You know, honestly, I'm surprised
Speaker 1: that data came out before the election, correcting the record
Speaker 1: in advance.
Speaker 2: Well, they corrected it actually in September. That's how quiet
Speaker 2: they did it. We didn't even know that, and it
Speaker 2: was found by accident, by I think it was of
Speaker 2: all things like USA today, it's hard to wish. You
Speaker 2: would have never figured they would bring it forward.
Speaker 1: Not exactly your conservative leaning newspaper. Is that Jonathan Well
Speaker 1: let's talk about your qualifications. You're running for Hamilton County Commissioner.
Speaker 1: Clearly you understand the job, since you're going around and
Speaker 1: explaining it a lot to folks. But by way of
Speaker 1: background and what qualifies you to the extendingbody really needs
Speaker 1: to be qualified for public office anymore. Quite often, like
Speaker 1: for example, in the prosecutors race, some are not qualified that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm stunned. But the Democrats were willing to put
Speaker 2: up somebody who is nothing but a perennial runner.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, honestly, she runs for everything but qualified for nothing.
Speaker 1: And it's I think their belief, and I think it's
Speaker 1: a well founded belief, at least if you're a betting
Speaker 1: man that Hamilton County is blue. Now, so if you
Speaker 1: can just really run anyone with a D after their name,
Speaker 1: they're going to win.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I would like to think, for you know that
Speaker 2: the D in this case would stand at least for
Speaker 2: demonstrating some talent. But I can't say that of that
Speaker 2: particular person. You don't want to put her name on
Speaker 2: the record. Do you want to remind my listeners who
Speaker 2: you're running against, because Adam Kaylor also has an opponent? Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, We're running against three House and Reese for
Speaker 2: the Commissioner's office. And the reality is that I wanted
Speaker 2: to run because there's a lot of money that we're
Speaker 2: talking about. I mean, I don't think people understand how
Speaker 2: much money that the commissioners deal with. One point three
Speaker 2: billion dollars and you know, deals with all the moneies
Speaker 2: that come in from property taxes and from the sales tax.
Speaker 2: It doesn't go to the city. The rest is going
Speaker 2: through the county and we deal with that, and those
Speaker 2: go to the various projects that you are go around,
Speaker 2: and the most notable to everybody as a sewer system
Speaker 2: and the mngals Stadium and the convention Center. Well those
Speaker 2: are monstrously large ticket items and I don't think people
Speaker 2: realize what that means to their day to day life
Speaker 2: in this little or we call Hamlet County. And my
Speaker 2: whole goal was simple, let's go in and just as
Speaker 2: I say, am I thing well studied budget. Everybody wants
Speaker 2: to have these fancies terms a balance structured budget, which
Speaker 2: is just a lie. It's we've managed to fool you
Speaker 2: so you're stupid enough to not look. That's their hope.
Speaker 2: The reality is well studied budget is where you go
Speaker 2: line by line by line and you just start picking
Speaker 2: that thing apart and you look at it and say,
Speaker 2: do we really need one hundred million for all of
Speaker 2: these things? Do we need this job to be five
Speaker 2: million can be done at three, This job for five
Speaker 2: may need actually seven million, And then we start getting
Speaker 2: this So when we go to things like the sheriff's office,
Speaker 2: which is extremely important and one of the largest things
Speaker 2: we fund, we actually have the money. We can look
Speaker 2: at a good sheriff neal and say, hey, what do
Speaker 2: you really need the money for? And you know, do
Speaker 2: you need more for more deputies? Do you need this?
Speaker 2: Because right now the sheriff's offices is funded ridiculously well
Speaker 2: for the people that are there, and they're losing.
Speaker 1: People are down.
Speaker 2: They'll she'll say that there's plenty of people in there
Speaker 2: because their HR department said, no, actually it's going up. Well,
Speaker 2: as I mentioned in one interview, sure it's going up.
Speaker 2: Because when you're in a hole, there's only one way out,
Speaker 2: you know, So when that many people walk away and
Speaker 2: you hire one more person, well you've got you know,
Speaker 2: you're really on the move now. And the challenge that
Speaker 2: we're facing and all of that is why are they leaving. See,
Speaker 2: when we work politics from identity as opposed to talent,
Speaker 2: it stops at the door because once I see you
Speaker 2: at the door, I know what you are. Whether you
Speaker 2: want to say that you're you're gay, or you're black,
Speaker 2: or you're white, or you're jew or whatever, all of
Speaker 2: that becomes pointless when you sit down at the table
Speaker 2: to do the job. And so now it's may.
Speaker 1: On behalf of every resident of the county. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: we're made up of a real wild mix of folks
Speaker 1: here in Hamilton County.
Speaker 2: That's the beauty at this county. I know, man, I know,
Speaker 2: I think that's the beauty of this county because when
Speaker 2: I was I grew up in Springfield, Ohio. There's a
Speaker 2: nice city to nothing going on there, you know. So,
Speaker 2: but it was interesting because in my background I went
Speaker 2: to school in an inner city Catholic school. And it
Speaker 2: was inner city in every way except where it was Catholic.
Speaker 2: But everything you expect to happen inner city school. I
Speaker 2: mean we had to step over drunks and drug addicts
Speaker 2: to get into the building. Okay, sometimes I have to
Speaker 2: call sister and sister so and so is drunk and
Speaker 2: he's blocking the door and we can't open it. I mean,
Speaker 2: that was my school. And when I moved to Cincinnati,
Speaker 2: I was stunned to meet people that didn't go to
Speaker 2: school with black people. I didn't know that that was
Speaker 2: even possible. So to come down to a community that
Speaker 2: got that started to be more leaning towards an identity
Speaker 2: as opposed to a community was a little strange to me.
Speaker 2: And so I really got more involved in community itself.
Speaker 2: And I love this county. You know, I live in Fairfax.
Speaker 2: I love our little burg. It's very interesting little burg.
Speaker 2: In regards that I always joke and somebody said, weren't
Speaker 2: you concerned about the riots. I said, no, they'd discover
Speaker 2: that we believe in the Second Amendment.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't see me riots in either.
Speaker 2: Now the Fairfax is not going to have a ride
Speaker 2: anytime soon, just because of the reality. We firmly believe
Speaker 2: in the Second Amendment. But the reality is that, you know,
Speaker 2: I looked at it more from the community standpoint and
Speaker 2: everything that I got involved in, I never worried about
Speaker 2: somebody's identity other than they identified as being part of
Speaker 2: the group. And I think that's true when we look
Speaker 2: at the Commission's office. We look at it from the
Speaker 2: budget standpoint. We're not trying to pigeonhole something to one thing.
Speaker 2: You know, right now, they keep throwing money at this
Speaker 2: and say, see, we're giving money to help this person.
Speaker 2: We're giving me money to help this person, this group.
Speaker 2: Why aren't we helping somebody to actually stand up on
Speaker 2: their own two legs and move forward. This is the
Speaker 2: infamous Give a man a fish, feed him for a day,
Speaker 2: teach him how to fish, feed him for a lifetime,
Speaker 2: and he becomes one of those community leaders. Well, that's
Speaker 2: what our challenges in the county. People are tired of
Speaker 2: being given fish, so they're leaving. It's the same thing
Speaker 2: we're seeing at the Sheriff's department, and we've got to
Speaker 2: get people to be part of this community and get
Speaker 2: away from the identity of look at my individual You
Speaker 2: have to recognize my personal individual identity as opposed to
Speaker 2: a Hamiltonian County resident.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm in favor of merit. You know, the whole
Speaker 1: concept of equity is you don't have someone of a
Speaker 1: particular gender in the mix. Well, if there is someone
Speaker 1: of a particular gender out there who is both best
Speaker 1: qualified for the job. Get that person out here and
Speaker 1: have them run for the race.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean that's the point. Color of skin doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: It's content of character in this particular case, merit and
Speaker 1: ability to handle the affairs of Hamilton County on behalf
Speaker 1: of all Hamilton County residents. Simple concept. Yeah, that's it.
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Speaker 1: Thomas enjoying my in studio conversation with Jonathan Pearson, who's
Speaker 1: running for kind of commissioner, saying wise, rational thinking human being.
Speaker 1: Amazing that someone like that is trying to enter politics
Speaker 1: doesn't care about identity politics because he knows it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter a whit at all. What are you gonna do
Speaker 1: for the county? He related a story to me he
Speaker 1: met some guy who introduced himself as a gay man.
Speaker 1: He's like, I'm straight, and the guy got a little
Speaker 1: bit offended, and you had an interesting back and forth
Speaker 1: with that, ultimately proving to the guy it does not matter.
Speaker 1: Now you haven't even told me your name yet. You
Speaker 1: said to the guy like, oh mo, name's Bill, and
Speaker 1: you shake his hand and it's like taking aback. And
Speaker 1: you know there aren't enough people like you to kindly,
Speaker 1: not angrily, or just point something like that in a
Speaker 1: very friendly, subtle way. Oh I'm straight?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well what does that matter? Exactly?
Speaker 1: That was your opponem so and Yhow we do have
Speaker 1: one politician running for re election in the county that
Speaker 1: really starts every conversation with I'm a lesbian. Does it matter?
Speaker 1: Are you doing the job effectively?
Speaker 2: And you are?
Speaker 1: Are you a good manager of people? Are your people
Speaker 1: happy to be in your environment working with you? And
Speaker 1: I think across the board pretty much. The answer is no.
Speaker 1: In certain departments. Beyond that, Jonathan, you mentioned the sewer system,
Speaker 1: we're still onder that federal consent to CREE. Correct. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's talk about that a little bit, because I know
Speaker 1: it is what multi billion dollar project. Some projects like
Speaker 1: this deep tunnel they wanted to build were so dumb
Speaker 1: and so outrageously expensive. We've been able to pair that
Speaker 1: back a little bit. But where's what's the status of
Speaker 1: this and what would Jonathan Pearson be doing relative to
Speaker 1: the sewer system.
Speaker 2: Well, the one thing that fascinates me about the sewer
Speaker 2: system is I do a lot of maintenance for people,
Speaker 2: So I clean out sewers, I'll do whatever, you know,
Speaker 2: and I take care of things. So I'm used to
Speaker 2: doing stuff that nobody sees. You know, your Pierson landscape
Speaker 2: and my Peerson's landscape, and so what I see because
Speaker 2: I actually do maintenance within that company too, and so
Speaker 2: I do a lot of stuff that once it's all
Speaker 2: covered up, nobody saw what I did. And that's exactly
Speaker 2: what the sewer system is. So nobody's seeing it. So
Speaker 2: it's not like seeing the stadium redone, or a new
Speaker 2: convention center or an addition to the convention center. Yet
Speaker 2: it affects every one of us. It affects every one
Speaker 2: of us in an enormous way because flush your toilet
Speaker 2: there you go, you just use the sewer system. Well,
Speaker 2: the challenge is who's actually checking to make sure that
Speaker 2: we're doing these things. If you go down to Fairmont.
Speaker 1: And these things would be the solution the problems that
Speaker 1: are designed to fix the overflows.
Speaker 2: And part of it was the rain sewer. The rain
Speaker 2: water and the regular sewer were mixed, and you know,
Speaker 2: and we have a like we did that just the
Speaker 2: other day. We had that massive water come through. And
Speaker 2: you mix that with your regular sewer, your sewers can't
Speaker 2: handle that. And for some people in certain neighborhoods they
Speaker 2: discover over that painfully. And you know, and you're not
Speaker 2: being backed up with nice clean water either. And for
Speaker 2: the longest time, the metro sewer's way of repairing that
Speaker 2: was here, here's a thousand bucks, get somebody to clean
Speaker 2: it up. And you know, it's still that went into
Speaker 2: your basement. Let's just think about that for a second.
Speaker 2: I know you like my dog pooping in the house,
Speaker 2: so why would I want yours in my house? Yeah,
Speaker 2: and so the same thing. But I but this is
Speaker 2: where the FED stepped in and said, hey, you can't.
Speaker 2: That's not a fix, that's not even a solution, and
Speaker 2: so they said you have to do this. Well, this
Speaker 2: is the ready shoot aim mentality that we did with
Speaker 2: the stadium. We're doing with too many things, or did
Speaker 2: it with this and metro sewer the same thing got
Speaker 2: tagged across the river at st One there. That's their
Speaker 2: comparable system, and so they have to segregate all these systems. Well,
Speaker 2: that's easier said than done when you've got a lot
Speaker 2: of buildings sitting on top of the sewer systems, because
Speaker 2: it's not just as simple as digging up the street
Speaker 2: and putting in a new pie. There are buildings in
Speaker 2: the way, there are streets in the way, there's infrastructure
Speaker 2: in the way. And Fairmont, as I mentioned before, if
Speaker 2: you use that as a great example, you go down
Speaker 2: there and is this nice little running creek for the
Speaker 2: mill creek and stuff. Well it might be nice, But
Speaker 2: to the residents that lost their homes, and businesses that
Speaker 2: lost their businesses, and the parking lots that are all missing,
Speaker 2: that's the effect of what happens when we start sticking
Speaker 2: homes all over the place without thinking of how to
Speaker 2: get rid of the water and waste.
Speaker 1: Well, and I suppose, you know, somebody made the decision
Speaker 1: that those homes weren't worth saving, and that this project,
Speaker 1: this greener way of you know, filtering out the water
Speaker 1: and creating this nice park in an area that really
Speaker 1: was rather run down. I don't think any you can
Speaker 1: acknowledge that it was.
Speaker 2: It had its challenges, but you know, a challenge doesn't
Speaker 2: mean that isn't somebody's home. And I think sometimes we
Speaker 2: forget that part, and that's there are other ways to
Speaker 2: manage to the water without destroying whole neighborhoods. But when
Speaker 2: you start getting into the green movement and you want
Speaker 2: to put the green movement in something that even though
Speaker 2: it's practical draining off storm water, you don't need to
Speaker 2: have a big, old, super wide creek with the park
Speaker 2: sitting to the side. When you just took away Granny's home.
Speaker 2: At a certain point, where does green stop?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 2: I always say that, people say, well, yeah, but you know,
Speaker 2: with all this urban sprawl and all these different things,
Speaker 2: and then within the city we've got of this. I
Speaker 2: always laugh and I say, I blame it on God.
Speaker 2: He's the first one to make people have to move.
Speaker 2: He kicked him out of the garden. So you know,
Speaker 2: if we get over worried about having to build a
Speaker 2: new home and different things going on, that's just part
Speaker 2: of the human progress, you know, So don't be panicked
Speaker 2: by it. But we'll incorporate, you know, what we're doing
Speaker 2: within that. And you know, I think that that's the
Speaker 2: great challenge that we're facing right now with the sewer
Speaker 2: project is people don't want it to happen in their neighborhood.
Speaker 2: So let's go down to this neighborhood and we'll make
Speaker 2: it green down here. Because I guarantee you that sewer
Speaker 2: project that that kind of a cut wouldn't occurred in
Speaker 2: the middle of Hyde Park.
Speaker 1: They also don't get a whole lot of Section eight
Speaker 1: housing being.
Speaker 2: So well, the connected community is trying to change that. Oh,
Speaker 2: I know, let's pause, is are out of time. We
Speaker 2: got a lot more to talk about it, including the
Speaker 2: stadium deal. More with Jonathan Pierce, So you can find
Speaker 2: him online. Go to Hamilton County Republican Party dot org.
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Speaker 1: Brian Thomas with a race for County Commissioner that's running
Speaker 1: way low under Reverdy's radar. That I have one of
Speaker 1: the candidates in studio here endorsed by the Hamilton County
Speaker 1: Republican Party, Jonathan Pearson. You are endorsed by the Republican Party.
Speaker 1: You're on the right site.
Speaker 2: Yes, I am. I am endorsed. No, it's official.
Speaker 1: Take it for granted. No, he's right there. You can
Speaker 1: find out where he is on the various issues. Of course,
Speaker 1: his background and he's got some you know, business experience.
Speaker 1: He is the owner operator Pearson's Turfin Landscape. We were
Speaker 1: talking about that. I've been doing that since nineteen ninety
Speaker 1: two and moving away. So we talked about the sewer
Speaker 1: and before we move away from the sewer. Just generally speaking,
Speaker 1: that's one of the areas where I know we have
Speaker 1: a consent degree. I know there have been some really
Speaker 1: big arguments about certain projects, like, for example, I mentioned
Speaker 1: the deep tunnel thing, which I think got nixed because
Speaker 1: of the outcry and the seemingly stupid, stupid nature.
Speaker 2: It's not that simple to dig a tunnel. No it
Speaker 2: is not. People think you just for a hole through.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: No, no, it's not that simple.
Speaker 1: So are you aware of does anybody know what other
Speaker 1: projects are already baked into the cake? Right now? We're
Speaker 1: going to see more projects like you mentioned in Fairmont?
Speaker 1: Is there a better way to do it?
Speaker 2: To the details, I don't actually know all the firm
Speaker 2: details of them. That's one of the things I'd like
Speaker 2: to sit down with and actually see the actual plan
Speaker 2: as to where things are.
Speaker 1: Because going back to your initial comment, we started stage
Speaker 1: by page reviews.
Speaker 2: Just go through it and then the biggest thing is
Speaker 2: if you can keep the actual plan on task and
Speaker 2: those who are in the supervisory rules of running it,
Speaker 2: you know, daily reports, not this we'll sit down every
Speaker 2: two weeks because I think if you hold it to
Speaker 2: a daily event, because the county runs daily. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: mean there's a shocker to some people, it actually runs daily.
Speaker 2: And if you look keep that on task and then
Speaker 2: go to the subcontractors and actually know who they are
Speaker 2: and you know, are they capable or was it again
Speaker 2: a you know, a yeah, you know, we get into
Speaker 2: and these are examples of these projects. We do it.
Speaker 2: We want to do it for the stadium, want to
Speaker 2: do it for the convention center. We get so caught
Speaker 2: up and making sure that we do inclusion that it
Speaker 2: didn't occur to us. Can they do it? They going
Speaker 2: back and is it equity or is it competentcy? And
Speaker 2: a lot of people say, oh, you're anti inclusion. No,
Speaker 2: I'm for who's ever the best guy walked up and
Speaker 2: said I can do that job if his company is
Speaker 2: all whatever, I don't care, don't I don't care if
Speaker 2: it's they're waving their flag of look at me where
Speaker 2: the Jewish gay group? Fine, I don't care. Can you
Speaker 2: do the job? Can you fix it? And so again,
Speaker 2: the identity stops at the door once you go through
Speaker 2: and you have to actually do the job. Can you?
Speaker 2: And I think that that's one of the challenges we face.
Speaker 2: We get so caught up spending all this time making
Speaker 2: sure we get all that taken care of. These projects
Speaker 2: get waylaid because between the community here and between the
Speaker 2: state and between the Feds. They all say you have
Speaker 2: to have ex percentage of this, ex percentage of that,
Speaker 2: ex percentage of this without occurring that if we haven't
Speaker 2: helped these particular groups, like we got rid of vocational schools.
Speaker 2: Here there's a thought, Hey, let's help people that don't
Speaker 2: have a desire to go to college to actually have
Speaker 2: a vocation. Huh, how naive? My brother went through a
Speaker 2: vocational school. He was a mechanic, he was phenomenal. You
Speaker 2: know what, if you'd have kept him in a four
Speaker 2: year high school.
Speaker 1: He'd never have achieved. No. Yeah, it's collegeing for us.
Speaker 2: I had a lot of friends went through vocational schools,
Speaker 2: God bless them, and there was a great thing. And
Speaker 2: now we're kind of like, well, yes, but little Johnny,
Speaker 2: little Susie's got to get that college degree so she
Speaker 2: can go out and be you know, she can get
Speaker 2: that great degree in political science and do what. Well,
Speaker 2: guess what. I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't make fun of that degree. That's the one
Speaker 1: I got, but I knew I was going to go.
Speaker 2: I didn't go to I'm running for an office. And
Speaker 2: I didn't get a political science degree because you don't.
Speaker 1: Need one trust you don't got one, And no you
Speaker 1: don't if you're a fan of politics like I was,
Speaker 1: and you want to get a degree in your hobby
Speaker 1: like I did.
Speaker 2: But I knew I was going to go to law school.
Speaker 1: See, I didn't expect my political science degree to be
Speaker 1: the source of revenue down the road. I expected my
Speaker 1: law degree would serve me well, and it did obviously
Speaker 1: shifted directions. But you know, there is a demand in
Speaker 1: certain areas for lawyers, but there's not just for political
Speaker 1: science degrees.
Speaker 2: But that's that's my whole thing. And we get so
Speaker 2: caught into this that we're so worried about identity that
Speaker 2: we forgot of helping somebody actually make a living back
Speaker 2: to teach a man to fish. Yes, and so that's
Speaker 2: been what's slowing many of these projects up.
Speaker 1: Well, and the exclamation point on slowing these things up
Speaker 1: is obviously, the more you kick the can down the
Speaker 1: road chasing what butterflies or whatever, the more expensive the
Speaker 1: project gets. Inflation is a topic of conversation of late
Speaker 1: and yes, it does impact construction more with Jonathan, just
Speaker 1: give me a second here, because I'm going to steer
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Speaker 1: and fixing your car with a full warranty on parts
Speaker 1: and service and not costing nearly as much as the dealer.
Speaker 1: Saved all kinds of money taking the cars to Foreign Exchange,
Speaker 1: So you should do the same thing because they do
Speaker 1: have access to your manufacturers technical information. Brian, you don't
Speaker 1: even know what kind of car I drive. I know
Speaker 1: I've seen really exotic cars in there and have also well,
Speaker 1: my Honda. I've been self deprecating that Honda looks terrible.
Speaker 1: It's got one hundred and fifty thousand plus miles on it,
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Speaker 1: need to get rid of it. Just keep it running
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Speaker 1: them check the battery, the tires, the fluid levels. Don't
Speaker 1: get stuck in the frozen tundra parking lot because you
Speaker 1: didn't have the battery checked out. They can do that
Speaker 1: for you. Also, make sure you know you have brakes,
Speaker 1: are in good shape. You know what it is. Just
Speaker 1: get ready for winter. You can do that at Foreign
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Speaker 1: Seven fifty five KRCD talk station Brian Time is spending
Speaker 1: an entire hour in studio with Jonathan Pearson, running for
Speaker 1: Hampton County Commission, endorsed by the Republican Party. And I
Speaker 1: thought a very thoughtful man. I guess you were getting
Speaker 1: the impressed you've been listening to Jonathan speaker with the
Speaker 1: you know, being thoughtful by going through the various documents
Speaker 1: page by page, looking at more thoughtful solutions, say for
Speaker 1: the sewer project, maybe ignoring and avoiding the stupidity of
Speaker 1: woke politics and let's just cut to the chase and
Speaker 1: hire bottom line competent, capable people to do the job.
Speaker 1: And that's a great idea. What interesting concept that content
Speaker 1: of character, not color of skin or who you sleep with.
Speaker 2: Can you do the job now?
Speaker 1: Jonathan, though let's move over to the stadium. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: but one point? Was it three billion? Yeah, that's with
Speaker 1: a B.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well you know, Mike's got to have a nice
Speaker 2: luxury office.
Speaker 1: Now, three hundred stacks of a million dollars.
Speaker 2: You know, I, as I tell people, I said, think
Speaker 2: about this, that's the budget for the county.
Speaker 1: The entire budget for the entire county for a full
Speaker 1: calendar year.
Speaker 2: So for one project, for one company that they make,
Speaker 2: that company makes money. Let's remember the NFL does revenue
Speaker 2: sharing unlike the Major League Baseball, So that means if
Speaker 2: you watch a San Diego game, the Bengals make money. Right,
Speaker 2: So not that San Diego is playing the Bengals.
Speaker 1: The Browns family is not standing at the free store.
Speaker 2: So the reality is that I tell people, think about this.
Speaker 2: You take you go home to your wife and you say, honey,
Speaker 2: we're going to spend the entire year's budget of everything
Speaker 2: we make on one project. How do you think that
Speaker 2: conversation is going to go with your wife?
Speaker 1: Well, particularly if the project is really what I would
Speaker 1: argue completely unnecessary question. Does the stadium currently function? Yes?
Speaker 1: Can you watch a football game there? Yes? Does it
Speaker 1: have all the amenities of every other stadium in the country. No,
Speaker 1: but you know what, it never did. And how can
Speaker 1: you continue to compete with other cities when they keep
Speaker 1: adding on? Is it a necessary thing to try to
Speaker 1: compete with a city that's even close to us? Why
Speaker 1: would you? I mean, Lord Almighty. I look at like
Speaker 1: certain high school projects and what they've done at colleges,
Speaker 1: and they expanded to make it like a resort spot. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I didn't have any of that growing up. I went
Speaker 1: to school and I had classes in a trailer for
Speaker 1: God's sake, because they ran out of space, a du
Speaker 1: high junior high. You know, we didn't have air conditioning
Speaker 1: back in the old days. We had crappy locker rooms.
Speaker 1: And you know, I'm sure the Bengals if they had,
Speaker 1: all they need is a locker to put their stuff
Speaker 1: in to change clothes and get out there on the field.
Speaker 1: Do they need a discothech locker room? Of course not,
Speaker 1: but there it is anyway. Well, I just I don't
Speaker 1: get it.
Speaker 2: I come from we homeschooled our girls, so I homeschooled
Speaker 2: my girls at home, and I use that example because
Speaker 2: all the new schools have to have these billion dollar
Speaker 2: schools they have to have all the newest stuff, the
Speaker 2: whiteboards and everything. Well, my kids went to college being homeschooled,
Speaker 2: and somehow we lived on the premise that if you
Speaker 2: have four walls and a door, you can have a classroom. Well,
Speaker 2: the same simplicity. In my This isn't a hatred towards
Speaker 2: the Bengals, but here I'll use the PNG as an example.
Speaker 2: PNG brings in more money than the Bengals because they
Speaker 2: don't play just ten times a year in this stadium.
Speaker 2: They play every day downtown and they have never been
Speaker 2: given one brick by the county. Now I'm not saying that, gee,
Speaker 2: we need to kick them out. What I'm saying is
Speaker 2: is this really the best use of our money? And
Speaker 2: I know a lot of people say we shouldn't ask
Speaker 2: that question because it's our beloved Bengals. I think that's
Speaker 2: been the problem in politics, is we get all caught
Speaker 2: with the shiny ring on the wall and we keep
Speaker 2: running around the carousel trying to grab it, and we
Speaker 2: forget to actually say, why are we trying to grab
Speaker 2: the brass ring? And I'm starting to question that why
Speaker 2: what's you know? Because LA goes out and spends five
Speaker 2: and a half billion dollars to dig a hole next
Speaker 2: to their airport so they can put a stadium in
Speaker 2: the ground and hide it so the planes you don't
Speaker 2: notice the plane's flying over it, and everyone goes, we'll
Speaker 2: see they're spent five and as that's LA. I don't care
Speaker 2: what they do in LA. I don't care what they
Speaker 2: do in California. I care what we do in Hamilton County,
Speaker 2: and Hamilton County does not have that kind of money
Speaker 2: to throw at one company that had the wherewithal in
Speaker 2: money to buy out in cash the other half of
Speaker 2: the Bengals from Paul Sawyer. We forget that there was
Speaker 2: a lot of cash on the table that he actually
Speaker 2: bought the team outright. God blessed the Brown family for
Speaker 2: only Bengals. I have no issues with that whatsoever. And
Speaker 2: I actually don't even have an issue that the Brown
Speaker 2: family asked for us to do this, because you might
Speaker 2: as well ask what you know. It's like all of
Speaker 2: us who are married.
Speaker 1: Remember though, Jonathan, the ask came along with either an
Speaker 1: out loud or at least implicit threat that if you
Speaker 1: don't get me what I want, I'm taking my team elsewhere.
Speaker 1: And that's not loyalty to me, And that's.
Speaker 2: Not loyalty to me and mine is that when again
Speaker 2: back to P ANDNG, P and G wanted to put
Speaker 2: bricks in Broadway in front of their on Broadway, in
Speaker 2: front of their towers, and they offered to buy all
Speaker 2: the bricks, all the materials for the city, and the
Speaker 2: city said, we're not putting them down. We're just not.
Speaker 2: We pave it or we don't, that's it. And PNG said, fine,
Speaker 2: we'll do it. And the PNG paid out of their
Speaker 2: pocket to do a public street project. Well, let me
Speaker 2: think about which company has more in tune to saying
Speaker 2: I'm serving. They didn't threaten to leave. Oh, you're not
Speaker 2: giving me anything, so I'm gonna leave. We're going to
Speaker 2: go move to some other We're gonna move to Mexico City. Well,
Speaker 2: I think Mexico City. I never even understood that. Has
Speaker 2: anybody actually mentioned the odds of Americans being kidnapped or
Speaker 2: held for ransom? Let me think, let's put a millionaire
Speaker 2: family from America in Mexico City and see how safe
Speaker 2: without having a ridiculous security team to keep around them.
Speaker 1: Well, they are trying to expand the market share around
Speaker 1: the Globe. Maybe they should have said the you know,
Speaker 1: Xingyang province in China.
Speaker 2: Is so POSI I don't know. I just my whole
Speaker 2: thing is, you know, let's rethink this and actually asked
Speaker 2: the question without the fear, and you know, they've got
Speaker 2: to back down the rhetoric from their side. We have
Speaker 2: to actually up our ability to actually look at this
Speaker 2: with open eyes, full transparency and say what's the real
Speaker 2: goal here.
Speaker 1: Adam Kaylor suggested, we need to get a cooperative a
Speaker 1: group of a whole group of people who are willing
Speaker 1: to put some money in to act as a potential
Speaker 1: buyer of the team, which I believe them some roadbox
Speaker 1: in the way of the Brown family threatening to leave.
Speaker 1: If there's another possible buyer, then apparently, somehow under the rules,
Speaker 1: that can't be done. I don't profess the note, Jack,
Speaker 1: I don't know the NFL rules on that NFL rule
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Speaker 3: That's five one, three, five eet four pink northbound seventy five.
Speaker 3: They've moved the accident just before twelfth Street out of
Speaker 3: the way, so traffic is starting to move a little
Speaker 3: bit better, but you're backed up into Florence and still
Speaker 3: over an hour delay into downtown.
Speaker 2: Sethbound seventy five. Break lights through Lachland.
Speaker 3: There's a wreck he's found one twenty nine before you
Speaker 3: get seven forty seven. Chuck Ingram on fifty five krs
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Speaker 1: Seven fifty fifty five kr City Talks Station. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give Jonathan a couple of minutes to do a closing
Speaker 1: statement here in a moment, the first let us catch
Speaker 1: ourselves a crime stuff or a bad guy of the week,
Speaker 1: And today it's not a bad guy, it's a bad girl.
Speaker 1: She looks harmless. Officer Lisa Baker from the SINCEAA Police Department.
Speaker 1: Look at that innocent little face, not so.
Speaker 4: It be deceiving, No deceiving. We are looking for Nakasha Greer.
Speaker 4: She's been indicted on three counts of felony death and
Speaker 4: for tell communications fraud. Nakeisha Greer. She's a black female.
Speaker 4: She's twenty seven years old. She's five foot two, one
Speaker 4: hundred and sixty five pounds. Prior rest history includes drug
Speaker 4: abuse and receiving stolen motor vehicle. Lasting on to live
Speaker 4: on South Wayne Avenue in Lachland.
Speaker 1: Well, look start deceiving anyway, moving aside, What are we
Speaker 1: gonna do if we know where we might how where
Speaker 1: she might be or a tip that might lead to
Speaker 1: an arrest.
Speaker 4: If you know where Nakeisha Greer is, give crime Stoppers
Speaker 4: a call five one three three five two thirty forty,
Speaker 4: or you can submit a tip online crime dash stoppers
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Speaker 1: You can check a monk shout out on my bloy
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Speaker 1: be eligible for a cash reward. Officer Baker, God bless
Speaker 1: you in the Sinsint Police Department. Keep up the great
Speaker 1: work and I have a wonderful weekend. All right, Jonathan,
Speaker 1: I'll give you the remaining couple of minutes we got here.
Speaker 1: Anything else you want to get out, I didn't if
Speaker 1: I didn't steer you in the right direction or get
Speaker 1: on a topic you want to talk about. Well, I
Speaker 1: think the easiest.
Speaker 2: You know, the whole reason I look at what we
Speaker 2: can do in the county is, you know, look at
Speaker 2: this budget. See what we're wasting money on. See we're
Speaker 2: not wasting money on. See what we need to be
Speaker 2: spending more prioritized. But since we can't affect the taxes
Speaker 2: directly in the commission office, we can affect the budget
Speaker 2: and then do the bully pulpit and talk about the
Speaker 2: taxes because once other businesses know that we're serious about
Speaker 2: a good budget in this county, they might be attracted. Well,
Speaker 2: there's a thought, let's bring businesses back. Guess what those
Speaker 2: businesses bring with them jobs, So back to the we
Speaker 2: can help demand fish forever. We also then get other companies.
Speaker 2: Look into that company that come in, they come in.
Speaker 2: These are residents now that start coming in. And suddenly,
Speaker 2: now our tax base is expanded to numbers. We can
Speaker 2: have a lower tax base. But actually make more money
Speaker 2: for the county and the surrounding communities within the county,
Speaker 2: and we don't need to keep raising taxes or have
Speaker 2: these ridiculously false evaluations of homes.
Speaker 1: Well, if we had appropriately prioritized over the years and
Speaker 1: focused on the core that brings people in, which is
Speaker 1: in for structure and safety, infrastructure and safety. If you
Speaker 1: have a safe community with a good infrastructure, roads you
Speaker 1: can drive on, and not the multitude of potholes, et cetera,
Speaker 1: the seemingly absolute dysfunction on that that that creates an
Speaker 1: opportunity for people to consider and say, you know what,
Speaker 1: maybe I will be paying a little bit more taxes
Speaker 1: in Mirmlton County compared to Claremont, But look at all
Speaker 1: that I'm going to get in return for that. I
Speaker 1: have solid roads, I have safe communities in Hamilton County.
Speaker 1: I'd rather have that.
Speaker 2: Then we have a good opportunity with Melissa Powers and
Speaker 2: Jim Neil, we have an excellent opportunity to make exactly
Speaker 2: that first point to safe community with those two two candidates.
Speaker 2: They are an excellent people.
Speaker 1: And if you are an elected commissioner, along with Adam Kayler,
Speaker 1: maybe a more thoughtful budget process one that focuses on priorities.
Speaker 1: Seven to fifty five. Jonathan, You're always welcome here. Good
Speaker 1: luck in the race. I know we're fast approaching election day,
Speaker 1: but again Jonathan Pearson. Find him on the Hamilton Kindyrepublican
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Speaker 1: we're going to hear from Brian Rensinger eight point thirty
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Speaker 1: back in October.
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