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Speaker 1: Cincinnati Council candidate Linda Matthews. Linda, it's a real pleasure
Speaker 1: to have you on the program today.
Speaker 3: Good morning, Brian.
Speaker 4: How are you.
Speaker 1: I'm doing great. I'm even feeling better now. My understanding is,
Speaker 1: according to my notes, you are a Republican I am,
Speaker 1: and yet you're running for Cincinnati City Council. You know
Speaker 1: what you're getting involved with, right.
Speaker 3: Linda, Yes, I do.
Speaker 4: Brian.
Speaker 1: It's a vote Lindamatthews dot com. Vote Lyndamatthews dot com.
Speaker 1: Beautiful woman she is, and she's got some great policies here.
Speaker 1: Let's dive into them. One of the biggest issues around.
Speaker 1: I hear about it from Christopher Smithmen, former vice mayor
Speaker 1: of the city, who joins my program every Monday to
Speaker 1: vent his spleen, having a rip on Cincinnti City Council
Speaker 1: and the mayor for not supporting more out loud and
Speaker 1: advocating for the Cincinnti Police Department and dealing with all
Speaker 1: the violence and acknowledging the violence in the city. Hell,
Speaker 1: over the weekend we had seven people shot in the
Speaker 1: Greater Cincinnati area, and just yesterday to this morning, two
Speaker 1: more people. I mean, we got a real problem on
Speaker 1: our hands. Linda what's your proposal to deal with the
Speaker 1: police department relationships generally and as well as the violence
Speaker 1: in the city.
Speaker 4: Well, Brian, Cincinnati definitely definitely needs new leadership. You know,
Speaker 4: out of the nine current members on City Council, there's
Speaker 4: not a Republican voice president to push and advocate for
Speaker 4: Republican policies and values.
Speaker 3: And so with my Public Safety two.
Speaker 4: Point zero, I am recommending that.
Speaker 3: We advocately we aggressively.
Speaker 4: Train and train, higher, train and retain top pier law
Speaker 4: enforcement professionals by expanding recruitment nationwide to restore Cincinnati police
Speaker 4: force to a level needed for community safety.
Speaker 1: Yeah, their numbers are down, there's no question about it.
Speaker 1: I talked with the FOP president on the program regularly
Speaker 1: as well, and morale is also down. A lot of
Speaker 1: people are planning on retiring, and we're losing some of
Speaker 1: our officers to other police forces because of the low
Speaker 1: morale and the lack of support from some city government.
Speaker 1: So I appreciate that so lateral hires that that's going
Speaker 1: on now, more police classes, and of course the funds
Speaker 1: to support the police. How about your policy on zero
Speaker 1: tolerance youth curfew. There is no reason for children to
Speaker 1: be running amok in the middle of the night in
Speaker 1: downtown Cincinnati. I think I support your idea about a
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Speaker 4: Yes, Brian, it's really sad what's going on in downtown
Speaker 4: Cincinnati with all the deaths, and you know, like you said,
Speaker 4: there are seven There were seven shootings over the weekend,
Speaker 4: and some.
Speaker 3: Of them involved some of our youth.
Speaker 4: So I recommend, and I'm going to implement when.
Speaker 3: I'm elected to city Council.
Speaker 4: To implement strict, strict enforcement of our youth curve fee
Speaker 4: laws to reduce this youth balance and to keep our
Speaker 4: streets safe for all of our residents because right now,
Speaker 4: people in say Citizens and Cincinnati do not feel safe.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're an adult and you're surrounded by
Speaker 1: thirty young people, there's not a damn thing you can
Speaker 1: do about. If one young person comes up to you
Speaker 1: might be able to handle the situation. But when they
Speaker 1: cluster in gangs of youth and they represent a threat
Speaker 1: to you, uh, that does not give anyone a feeling
Speaker 1: of comfort. So we want to stop that. I guess
Speaker 1: I have to ask this question out low Lenda Matthews again.
Speaker 1: Vote Lyndamtthews Dot com It's one thing to have the
Speaker 1: police enforce these laws you have, like for example, zero
Speaker 1: tolerance and high crime areas. Enforce every infraction of city
Speaker 1: law on high crime neighborhoods. I get that once the
Speaker 1: word gets out, you're going to be dealt with in
Speaker 1: the legal system. Maybe you'll quit doing that. That's one
Speaker 1: of the elements of the criminal justice system. The problem
Speaker 1: is when you have a liberal prosecutor and liberal judges
Speaker 1: who are not interested in prosecuting these young people or
Speaker 1: anybody to the fullest extent of the law. That's that's
Speaker 1: where the failure, that's that leg of the stool the
Speaker 1: criminal justice system gets kicked out. So police could do
Speaker 1: things all day long. But if we deal with this
Speaker 1: revolving door over at the on the enforcements or the
Speaker 1: prosecution side, it's like fighting an uphill battle.
Speaker 4: Yes, Brian, it is, and it's like a revolving door
Speaker 4: in a lot of cases.
Speaker 3: And the citizens are tired of it.
Speaker 4: They want new leadership and to deal with all the
Speaker 4: violence and restore order and deter this criminal activity even
Speaker 4: our if we pay I have also an initiative that
Speaker 4: I would like to re implements to pay it the
Speaker 4: power of citizens.
Speaker 3: To participate in their neighborhood patrols, the citizens on patrol.
Speaker 4: We need to reactivate that and you know that way
Speaker 4: we can have citizens that are reporting suspicious activity with
Speaker 4: youth are anyone and directed to law enforcement for a
Speaker 4: faster community driven you know, prevention. And we just can't
Speaker 4: keep doing the same thing over and over again without
Speaker 4: positive incomes.
Speaker 1: Amen to that. Can't agree with that. More and out
Speaker 1: loud government demanding that and asking for that and supporting
Speaker 1: that concept would go a long way. Pause, Linda Matthews
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Speaker 1: At seven forty one fifty five krosite talk station talking
Speaker 1: to Linda Matthews. She is a Republican runner for since
Speaker 1: a city council, a lifelong Cincinnati and trustee at Central
Speaker 1: State University, Ohio, Central Committee woman, graduate from Xavier University,
Speaker 1: first vice president of the North Avendel Neighborhood Association. I
Speaker 1: could go on. Obviously committed and familiar with the City
Speaker 1: of Cincinnati and its issues. Linda Matthews, I want to
Speaker 1: ask you about economic development. I think you've got a
Speaker 1: home run in your economic development plan repeal connected communities
Speaker 1: zoning laws.
Speaker 3: Yes, Brant, Yes, I.
Speaker 4: Feel that we have well, Cincinnati has fifty two unique communities,
Speaker 4: and each one of them have their own specific needs,
Speaker 4: and I trust the community councils, you know, and I
Speaker 4: trust the citizen that live in those communities, and that's
Speaker 4: why I support to repeal the connected communities. I assisted
Speaker 4: in the effort to collect the signatures to put the
Speaker 4: high Park issue on the ballot, and I encourage everyone
Speaker 4: to vote down the development in the current form.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, isn't it strange, Linda? The city shoves
Speaker 1: connected communities down everyone's throats in all fifty two neighborhoods,
Speaker 1: the entire cities under this development plan whatever the hell
Speaker 1: connected communities happens to be. And then a well connected
Speaker 1: developer shows up in Hyde Park and they issue a
Speaker 1: waiver in a variance allowing them to completely disrupt the
Speaker 1: entire Hyde Park Square over the Connected Communities development plan.
Speaker 1: So it's like, what the hell's going on here? They
Speaker 1: apparently did the same thing over in bond Hill. They've
Speaker 1: taken away the Yeah, the concept of representative government just
Speaker 1: doesn't even exist with the city council these days.
Speaker 4: That's right, and that's why I assisted in collecting those
Speaker 4: signatures to repel.
Speaker 3: High Park issues.
Speaker 4: And I encourage our communities to continue to have a
Speaker 4: voice and continue to fight for you know, representation and
Speaker 4: what they want in their community is not what's going
Speaker 4: to be shut down their throats. I support the repel
Speaker 4: and you know, I asked everyone to vote, know, vote
Speaker 4: down the current route and vote no and vote down
Speaker 4: the development in High Park at its current Uh, in
Speaker 4: this current farmt you know, the other.
Speaker 1: Thing that needs to be dealt with. And I talked
Speaker 1: to Corey Bowman about this one as well, because he's
Speaker 1: faced it himself. He's a West End resident and he
Speaker 1: talks to other developers who want to do redevelopment of projects,
Speaker 1: smaller projects, and they run into so much red tape
Speaker 1: and so much obstruction from the sense out of a city. Uh.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's not the council specifically, but the whoever's running
Speaker 1: the zoning rules and the and the and the permitting
Speaker 1: rules behind the scenes. It's just like you can't even
Speaker 1: get anything off the ground. I trust that you're you
Speaker 1: would like to streamline the process for development.
Speaker 3: Yes, I would.
Speaker 4: We need to streamline it so that we can get
Speaker 4: more development that the people want in their communities and
Speaker 4: they should not have to go through all this red
Speaker 4: tape to get a development done in their community. So
Speaker 4: we need to streamline those permits.
Speaker 1: Fair enough on that. Now, in terms of well about
Speaker 1: economic growth is what are your what are your ideas
Speaker 1: for economic growth? That seems to be the big that
Speaker 1: what the city council claims to want. They're trying to
Speaker 1: do everything they can to lure people into the city
Speaker 1: of Cincinnati. One of the reasons they don't talk about
Speaker 1: crime because obviously that's not good marketing to let people
Speaker 1: know how dangerous it is. But in order to get
Speaker 1: people wanting to move into the city, what are your
Speaker 1: propose on that?
Speaker 3: While proposed that.
Speaker 4: We expand the Innovation District to support tech startups and
Speaker 4: minority owned businesses, neighborhood entrepreneurs, and small shops. Excuse me,
Speaker 4: small shops.
Speaker 3: We have to cut through this red tape. We have
Speaker 3: to begin to encourage other young people in our communities.
Speaker 4: To start opening up businesses and that creates job and
Speaker 4: give in senatives to companies that come into our city
Speaker 4: that hire locally and especially in high unemployment areas. And
Speaker 4: then we need to track and display the job growth,
Speaker 4: new business creation, and local investment to ensure that all
Speaker 4: voters can really see the results and not just a
Speaker 4: bunch of promises.
Speaker 1: Amen to that. Well, it sounds like some wonderful ideas.
Speaker 1: Linda Matthews again. Vote Lindamatthews dot com. You can see
Speaker 1: all of her points and what she's hoping for public safety,
Speaker 1: economic development, education and opportunity. I hear this since a
Speaker 1: public schools are laying off a whole bunch of people,
Speaker 1: they're on shaky grounds right now. Are you for education
Speaker 1: choice by any chance, London?
Speaker 3: I am for.
Speaker 4: Education choice and also I'm for expanding our stam education
Speaker 4: and moving towards trades trades. Yeah, I demand and we
Speaker 4: need our children and trades not just for.
Speaker 3: Now but for the future as well.
Speaker 4: So we need to redesign some structuring in our public.
Speaker 3: School system so that children.
Speaker 4: Can have access to still education, but also if it's
Speaker 4: not doing well, their parents have a choice to move
Speaker 4: their child to another school.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that all day long, London, And yes, there
Speaker 1: are huge demand for trades and those are career opportunities.
Speaker 1: Those aren't just jobs. Those are something you can support
Speaker 1: your family with and on into the future. And let's
Speaker 1: face it, Linda, they can't be replaced by artificial intelligence,
Speaker 1: which is something everybody's all worried about these days.
Speaker 4: That's right, they cannot because everyone needs an electrician, everyone
Speaker 4: needs a plumber, everyone needs someone in construction, needs their
Speaker 4: jobs that are just in demand.
Speaker 3: Yes, AI people are scared or AI is gonna take
Speaker 3: a bunch of jobs. But when you think of a
Speaker 3: STEM and when you think of the trades, I mean,
Speaker 3: those are jobs that just they're not going anywhere.
Speaker 1: They can't.
Speaker 3: We need to focus on that.
Speaker 1: Well, Linda, I wish you all the best in the
Speaker 1: world again. Vote Linda Matthews dot com. You can learn
Speaker 1: about her and find out about her background as well
Speaker 1: as her initiatives and her policies. And you know, we
Speaker 1: certainly could use a refreshing, a different voice on council.
Speaker 1: This lockstep democrat control has not done the city a
Speaker 1: whole lot of favors over the years, and you know,
Speaker 1: it's a refreshing to have someone maybe speak a little
Speaker 1: bit of truth to power and maybe you're that person.
Speaker 1: I'll encourage my listeners to check you out and support
Speaker 1: your campaign.
Speaker 3: Thank you very much, Brian, thank you for having me
Speaker 3: on your show.
Speaker 1: It's a pleasure. We'll do it again. I feel confident
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