WEBVTT 1 00:00:07.280 --> 00:00:10.199 My Billy Conning in the Great American Welcome this Wednesday afternoon. 2 00:00:10.240 --> 00:00:13.480 In the Tri States, Reds baseball continues on Friday in 3 00:00:13.560 --> 00:00:16.760 New York. That's six games on the road, then back home, 4 00:00:16.879 --> 00:00:19.760 three games out of the wild Card. There's hope and 5 00:00:19.879 --> 00:00:22.239 you having looked pretty good last night with a scoreless inning. 6 00:00:22.480 --> 00:00:24.320 I don't know how the National League lost a six 7 00:00:24.320 --> 00:00:26.839 to nothing lead, came to six to six, then one 8 00:00:26.879 --> 00:00:28.519 and no team and a home run derby. Kind of 9 00:00:28.559 --> 00:00:30.559 a stupid way in a baseball game, but it was 10 00:00:30.600 --> 00:00:31.440 somewhat exciting. 11 00:00:31.960 --> 00:00:33.640 But until then, as you may know. 12 00:00:33.679 --> 00:00:36.159 If you've listened to me for a long time, for 13 00:00:36.200 --> 00:00:37.840 a short period of time, I think the city of 14 00:00:37.840 --> 00:00:41.000 Cincinnati ought to be the heart that beats the try state. 15 00:00:41.280 --> 00:00:43.600 You may live in Boone County or Butler County, or 16 00:00:43.600 --> 00:00:46.119 you may live in Green County, but the city of 17 00:00:46.119 --> 00:00:48.520 Cincinnati ought to be the shining city on the hill 18 00:00:48.880 --> 00:00:52.920 that demonstrates good governance by the party in charge. And 19 00:00:53.159 --> 00:00:57.039 I think there's particularly a high bar when there's only 20 00:00:57.119 --> 00:00:59.759 a one party government to make sure the leaders of 21 00:00:59.759 --> 00:01:02.439 that party put up only the best in the bridest 22 00:01:02.479 --> 00:01:04.480 to be the leaders of the city. Because let's face it, 23 00:01:04.719 --> 00:01:07.799 it's damn near impossible for a Republican or maybe even 24 00:01:07.799 --> 00:01:10.400 a charter right to win city council seats. So it's 25 00:01:10.400 --> 00:01:13.040 incumbent upon the Democratic Party to make sure that the 26 00:01:13.079 --> 00:01:15.799 best in the bridest they have take office, which I 27 00:01:15.840 --> 00:01:18.480 don't think is always the case. And we cannot be 28 00:01:18.519 --> 00:01:21.280 a great region unless we have a great city. Because 29 00:01:21.920 --> 00:01:23.640 part of your body may be in great shape, but 30 00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:27.400 of the heart is malfunctioning. That's a difficulty. And Linda 31 00:01:27.480 --> 00:01:30.680 Matthews is a lifelong Cincinnatian. She is a trustee at 32 00:01:30.719 --> 00:01:34.840 Central State University. She's also the first vice president. She's 33 00:01:34.879 --> 00:01:38.439 kind of like the Michael and Micah Pence, the first 34 00:01:38.519 --> 00:01:41.840 vice president of the North Avondale Neighborhood Association. And she's 35 00:01:41.920 --> 00:01:45.760 a lifelong Republican and they selected her to lead parts 36 00:01:45.799 --> 00:01:48.719 of Avondale. And Linda Matthews, welcome, I think for the 37 00:01:48.760 --> 00:01:51.599 first time to the Bill Cunningham Show. So what has 38 00:01:51.599 --> 00:01:55.760 besieged you to leave your good private life to seek 39 00:01:55.799 --> 00:01:58.200 a city council seat? Why are you running for city 40 00:01:58.239 --> 00:02:00.920 council in the city of Cincinnati. And many consider, like 41 00:02:00.959 --> 00:02:03.359 Tony Bender, not to be a fool's Errand why are 42 00:02:03.400 --> 00:02:05.560 you doing it well? 43 00:02:05.599 --> 00:02:08.520 Bill? There are like you said, thank you for having 44 00:02:08.599 --> 00:02:09.319 me on your show. 45 00:02:10.080 --> 00:02:13.080 Like you said, there is ran by one party. 46 00:02:13.639 --> 00:02:17.319 And I believe that we should have more than that 47 00:02:17.599 --> 00:02:19.400 voice on our city council. 48 00:02:19.719 --> 00:02:21.360 And I want to be that voice. 49 00:02:21.400 --> 00:02:25.919 There's nine city council members that are Democrat with a mayor, 50 00:02:26.360 --> 00:02:27.879 and we see the results of that. 51 00:02:28.280 --> 00:02:29.919 So I decided I'm going to run. 52 00:02:30.240 --> 00:02:32.599 I'm going to run because I want to be the voice, 53 00:02:33.159 --> 00:02:38.360 the conservative Republican voice that bring our policies and our 54 00:02:38.479 --> 00:02:39.879 values to city council. 55 00:02:40.120 --> 00:02:42.400 Can you tell me, just stepping back way of different 56 00:02:42.479 --> 00:02:45.639 life experiences, I was a Democrat for many years. I 57 00:02:45.759 --> 00:02:49.080 ran for state represent Democrat. I worked in the Democratic 58 00:02:49.159 --> 00:02:53.280 administrations of Dick Celeste and Anthony Celebrezzi and William J. Brown. 59 00:02:53.840 --> 00:02:55.479 The light went on in my head of the nineteen 60 00:02:55.520 --> 00:02:56.639 eighties with Ronald. 61 00:02:56.400 --> 00:02:56.919 Reagan, etc. 62 00:02:57.520 --> 00:03:02.000 But why are you a Republican when about ninety five 63 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:03.840 percent of black women are Democrats. 64 00:03:03.919 --> 00:03:04.879 Why? 65 00:03:05.919 --> 00:03:09.879 Well, the Republican Party. I believe in their values and 66 00:03:10.039 --> 00:03:11.039 I believe that. 67 00:03:13.599 --> 00:03:18.280 Everything about the Republican Party represents what I believe and 68 00:03:18.319 --> 00:03:20.960 the values that I grew up with. And that's why 69 00:03:21.039 --> 00:03:23.599 I am a Republican, and I'm going to stay a Republican. 70 00:03:24.280 --> 00:03:25.960 Not going to change anytime soon. 71 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:28.719 Not going to change anytime soon. 72 00:03:28.879 --> 00:03:31.159 THEND the Matthews, and what is wrong with the City 73 00:03:31.159 --> 00:03:32.360 of Cincinnati's governance. 74 00:03:32.360 --> 00:03:33.400 There's a lot of things right. 75 00:03:33.759 --> 00:03:36.159 I think about TQL, think about the REGs, the Bengals, 76 00:03:36.199 --> 00:03:39.360 think about Downtown Council. I think about Steve Leeper. I 77 00:03:39.360 --> 00:03:41.719 think about Fifth Third Bank. I think about Joseph Automotive. 78 00:03:41.719 --> 00:03:43.759 I think about Western and Southern. I think about the 79 00:03:43.759 --> 00:03:46.000 Hospital District. I think about Xavier. And you see a 80 00:03:46.039 --> 00:03:48.479 lot of things, right, But what's wrong with the governance 81 00:03:48.520 --> 00:03:49.240 of city Council. 82 00:03:50.719 --> 00:03:53.960 Well, right now we have murder in mayhem and public 83 00:03:54.039 --> 00:03:58.680 a public safety problem, and I'm recommending with that that 84 00:03:58.719 --> 00:04:00.360 we aggressively. 85 00:03:59.759 --> 00:04:03.000 High train and retain top pier law. 86 00:04:02.879 --> 00:04:07.919 Enforcement professionals by expanding our recruitment nationwide to restore a 87 00:04:07.919 --> 00:04:12.120 Cincinnati police force to the levels needed for community safety. 88 00:04:12.400 --> 00:04:15.240 We've had a lot of murder, a lot of mayhem 89 00:04:15.319 --> 00:04:17.560 that's been going on in our city. 90 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:20.920 And if we don't have regardless of what we built 91 00:04:21.120 --> 00:04:23.879 and give to the community, if it's not safe, no 92 00:04:23.879 --> 00:04:24.600 one's coming. 93 00:04:25.279 --> 00:04:26.759 Is there a sense that safety. 94 00:04:26.879 --> 00:04:29.759 When the mayor held a news conference well share along 95 00:04:29.800 --> 00:04:33.680 about a week or ten days ago, they dislocated their shoulders, 96 00:04:33.680 --> 00:04:36.319 patting themselves on the back about a great job they've 97 00:04:36.360 --> 00:04:39.720 done with law enforcement and crime reduction, like three percent here, 98 00:04:39.800 --> 00:04:43.000 two percent there in Avondale or in Cincinnati. Is that 99 00:04:43.079 --> 00:04:45.240 a real statement that crime is down in the city 100 00:04:45.240 --> 00:04:45.920 of Cincinnati. 101 00:04:46.040 --> 00:04:46.800 Do you accept that? 102 00:04:48.319 --> 00:04:52.480 No, I don't. Crime is down. Is not down in Cincinnati. 103 00:04:52.600 --> 00:04:54.839 Right here in Avondale, we had a fourteen. 104 00:04:54.519 --> 00:04:55.680 Year old that was killed. 105 00:04:56.160 --> 00:05:00.439 So no, crime is up, and we need to do 106 00:05:00.480 --> 00:05:03.839 something about it. We need to enforce this youth, our 107 00:05:03.920 --> 00:05:07.680 youth curve few laws to reduce this youth violence and 108 00:05:07.720 --> 00:05:10.920 to keep our streets safer for all the residents. Right now, 109 00:05:11.439 --> 00:05:14.199 you can't go downtown and over the Rhine because you know, 110 00:05:14.279 --> 00:05:16.680 there's problems down there. You can't go on the banks. 111 00:05:16.959 --> 00:05:20.160 There's problems down there, and we need to the City 112 00:05:20.160 --> 00:05:25.279 of Cincinnati and City Council need to enforce our youth 113 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:30.680 curfew and to keep our communities and our residence safe. 114 00:05:30.639 --> 00:05:30.759 You know. 115 00:05:30.839 --> 00:05:33.279 And that question has been asked of the Chief of Police, 116 00:05:33.680 --> 00:05:36.959 Teresa Thiji and others. They're saying, yes, there is a 117 00:05:37.000 --> 00:05:40.560 curfew for those under the age of eighteen. Yes, it's 118 00:05:40.600 --> 00:05:44.439 not being upheld, it's not being ticketed, not being arrested, 119 00:05:44.519 --> 00:05:48.079 because it wouldn't work. Then my comment would be, why 120 00:05:48.160 --> 00:05:51.560 have laws that you're don't enforce. Why have the because 121 00:05:51.560 --> 00:05:54.800 it shows disrespect for law enforcement And so a coup 122 00:05:54.839 --> 00:05:57.040 will tell you, well, there might be one hundred kids 123 00:05:57.079 --> 00:05:59.600 or two hundred kids on the banks on a weekend night, 124 00:05:59.680 --> 00:06:03.000 running around the banks. We don't have the facilities to 125 00:06:03.240 --> 00:06:05.839 arrest their ticket one to two hundred kids that are 126 00:06:05.839 --> 00:06:08.360 breaking the law. What would Linda Matthew say about that? 127 00:06:09.800 --> 00:06:13.279 I would create those facilities because we have to hold 128 00:06:13.360 --> 00:06:14.600 people accountable for. 129 00:06:14.600 --> 00:06:17.959 Their behavior and we have to you know, with our youth. 130 00:06:18.120 --> 00:06:19.480 We can get our youth. 131 00:06:19.279 --> 00:06:22.720 Send them to a facility and have their parents come 132 00:06:22.759 --> 00:06:26.480 pick them up, and do something with those parents, because 133 00:06:26.519 --> 00:06:29.319 every parent needs to be responsible for their children when 134 00:06:29.319 --> 00:06:32.519 they're under eighteen. No child should be out in the 135 00:06:32.560 --> 00:06:37.920 streets of Cincinnati after the curfew. No fourteen year old, 136 00:06:38.000 --> 00:06:41.560 fifteen year old, thirteen year old, twelve year old should 137 00:06:41.560 --> 00:06:47.360 be outside causing mayhem after the curfew. And so we 138 00:06:47.439 --> 00:06:49.920 just need to do better with our children. We need 139 00:06:49.959 --> 00:06:52.079 to do better, and the city needs to really step 140 00:06:52.160 --> 00:06:56.720 up and enforce the curfew. And then I would, you know, 141 00:06:57.040 --> 00:07:00.600 and then you know, have a center where the children 142 00:07:00.680 --> 00:07:03.600 can be processed and tented over to their parents, and. 143 00:07:03.560 --> 00:07:04.199 I would think of that. 144 00:07:04.279 --> 00:07:06.879 If that happened two or three times for each child, 145 00:07:06.920 --> 00:07:08.639 the message would be sent, you can't do this. 146 00:07:09.439 --> 00:07:12.519 Something is different. I think that would be the message. 147 00:07:12.959 --> 00:07:17.199 Correct, that's right, we have to do something different. If 148 00:07:17.199 --> 00:07:20.639 it's not working, then hey, switch up and do something different. 149 00:07:21.839 --> 00:07:23.279 I think this is the way to do it. 150 00:07:23.360 --> 00:07:26.360 This isn't directly your Bailey Wick, but indirectly it is. 151 00:07:26.920 --> 00:07:31.079 There's a perception that the school district in Cincinnati CPS 152 00:07:31.160 --> 00:07:35.600 is in complete collapse. The results of all the standardized 153 00:07:35.639 --> 00:07:41.360 testing is well below grade level. There's a behavioral problem. 154 00:07:41.720 --> 00:07:44.879 Twenty twenty five percent don't show up any day twenty 155 00:07:45.160 --> 00:07:48.680 about forty percent, maybe it's fifty percent of young black 156 00:07:48.720 --> 00:07:53.600 males are chronically absent from school, which is an incredible number. 157 00:07:53.639 --> 00:07:58.560 There's little or no education actually occurring in CPS. It's available, 158 00:07:58.800 --> 00:08:03.120 the educator's care, the teachers care, the system cares, but 159 00:08:03.279 --> 00:08:06.959 the children show up not prepared to learn and having 160 00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:10.040 lived in Cincinnati almost your entire life as a trustee 161 00:08:10.040 --> 00:08:13.120 of Central State University. Do you have some comment on 162 00:08:13.160 --> 00:08:16.439 what's happening in CPS and how that could be improved. 163 00:08:17.800 --> 00:08:21.199 Well, everything you said is correct, but I think we 164 00:08:21.279 --> 00:08:23.839 need to switch up in how we educate our children. 165 00:08:24.759 --> 00:08:27.600 Some children are not going to college, so why don't 166 00:08:27.639 --> 00:08:32.159 we partnership with trades and university and tech. 167 00:08:32.000 --> 00:08:34.440 Firms too, because this is what they do. 168 00:08:34.559 --> 00:08:38.279 Children are into technology. Everybody's on their cell phone. Why 169 00:08:38.279 --> 00:08:41.200 don't we partner with the trades and bring the trades 170 00:08:41.279 --> 00:08:44.879 back to the schools. Start in the seventh grade. Let 171 00:08:44.879 --> 00:08:48.480 the children put their hands to something and learn a skill, 172 00:08:49.120 --> 00:08:52.080 and then they might be more interested in come into school. 173 00:08:52.159 --> 00:08:56.799 Because I believe in still education. We would partner with 174 00:08:57.200 --> 00:09:01.120 the trades and really help these children and they would 175 00:09:01.159 --> 00:09:04.440 be more interested in their education, and then they would 176 00:09:04.440 --> 00:09:07.600 come out with a skill, a skill that's demanded right 177 00:09:07.639 --> 00:09:11.679 now in our marketplace to do some real things different. 178 00:09:11.919 --> 00:09:14.879 We can't keep doing the same thing anticipating a different result, 179 00:09:15.600 --> 00:09:19.120 and the curfew laws are not being upheld. Another law is, 180 00:09:19.159 --> 00:09:21.919 of course, your kid cannot be chronically absent from school. 181 00:09:22.399 --> 00:09:25.879 If half the black boys in Cincinnati are chronically absent. 182 00:09:26.159 --> 00:09:29.159 That is a parental difficulty. And so would you hold 183 00:09:29.279 --> 00:09:32.720 parents accountable if their kids are completely true and for 184 00:09:33.000 --> 00:09:35.879 contributing to the delinquency of a minor. It's not some 185 00:09:36.000 --> 00:09:38.519 other way to send the message. We can't continue to 186 00:09:38.519 --> 00:09:39.320 do the same thing. 187 00:09:40.799 --> 00:09:43.919 I most certainly would the parents have to be engaged 188 00:09:43.960 --> 00:09:46.799 in their children's education and all for them to be 189 00:09:46.879 --> 00:09:48.120 successful in life. 190 00:09:48.399 --> 00:09:51.440 So the parents, they do have to be accountable. 191 00:09:52.039 --> 00:09:54.919 And we can have children absent all the time and 192 00:09:55.000 --> 00:09:57.919 expects for them to be a success in life. And 193 00:09:57.960 --> 00:10:00.120 so I would, yes, I would go along with that 194 00:10:00.399 --> 00:10:03.960 we hold these parents accountable and get them more engaged 195 00:10:04.080 --> 00:10:05.639 into their children's education. 196 00:10:06.399 --> 00:10:08.919 Linda Matthews, I'm going to ask you a philosophical question. 197 00:10:09.000 --> 00:10:11.519 In fact, this is the big question. Are you prepared 198 00:10:11.559 --> 00:10:17.639 for the big question? I'm prepared For many years, going 199 00:10:17.679 --> 00:10:22.279 back to maybe sixteen nineteen, certainly going back into the 200 00:10:22.320 --> 00:10:26.399 seventeen hundreds, there were large numbers about twelve to thirteen 201 00:10:26.440 --> 00:10:30.039 million slaves imported into this country from Africa. It happened 202 00:10:30.080 --> 00:10:34.480 because African war lords and African chieftains would put in 203 00:10:34.559 --> 00:10:38.799 cages African men, women and children on the shoreline and 204 00:10:38.840 --> 00:10:40.679 wait for a ship to come in and then they 205 00:10:40.679 --> 00:10:44.480 would sell their own brothers, sisters, and cousins and nephews 206 00:10:44.519 --> 00:10:48.159 and nieces, their own to the Portuguese, to the Arabs, 207 00:10:48.200 --> 00:10:51.519 to a little bit of the English, mainly to the Spanish, 208 00:10:51.600 --> 00:10:54.279 and others to be imported all around the world. About 209 00:10:54.320 --> 00:10:56.639 five six of the slaves did not come to the 210 00:10:56.759 --> 00:10:59.879 United States. They went to South America and the Central America. 211 00:11:00.039 --> 00:11:03.080 And from that point on, when political parties formed in 212 00:11:03.120 --> 00:11:07.159 the eighteen twenties and thirties, the Democratic Party was hated 213 00:11:07.720 --> 00:11:10.960 by African Americans because they hated the idea. 214 00:11:11.320 --> 00:11:12.000 That is the. 215 00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:15.399 Party that enslaved my mother, my father, that's the party 216 00:11:15.399 --> 00:11:18.320 that beat my father to death. The Democratic parties the 217 00:11:18.320 --> 00:11:21.759 party that raped my mother. And I hate the Democratic Party. 218 00:11:21.960 --> 00:11:24.519 And then it got so bad in the Confederacy that 219 00:11:24.960 --> 00:11:28.120 we went the war. Six hundred thousand Americans were killed 220 00:11:28.480 --> 00:11:31.399 when the South were all Democrats wanted to keep slavery 221 00:11:31.399 --> 00:11:34.600 in other institutions that was against federal law, and we 222 00:11:34.639 --> 00:11:37.120 want the war and won the war in eighteen sixty five. 223 00:11:37.559 --> 00:11:40.559 About twelve years later, the Democrats in the South said, 224 00:11:40.600 --> 00:11:43.159 if you don't leave the South, federal troops we're not 225 00:11:43.200 --> 00:11:45.720 going to put we're not going to vote for the 226 00:11:45.840 --> 00:11:49.480 rutherfert B. Hayes in eighteen seventy six, so Hayes gets elected, 227 00:11:49.559 --> 00:11:51.600 he throws all the federal troops out of the South. 228 00:11:51.919 --> 00:11:54.600 That gave rise to the Ku Klux Klan, in which 229 00:11:54.639 --> 00:11:59.080 they murdered thousands of African Americans, murdered, lynched them without trial, 230 00:11:59.159 --> 00:12:01.919 beat the men, ape the women, and the Democrats did 231 00:12:01.960 --> 00:12:05.080 that for the next several decades. So the Democratic Party 232 00:12:05.120 --> 00:12:09.120 then had no allegiance whatsoever to the Republican Party. In fact, 233 00:12:09.360 --> 00:12:12.480 I'm sorry to the Democratic Party. They were Republicans. And 234 00:12:12.519 --> 00:12:16.039 because they were Republicans, the Democrats in the South had 235 00:12:16.120 --> 00:12:18.799 poll taxes. They wouldn't let any of the blacks vote 236 00:12:18.799 --> 00:12:20.679 in the South because they were going to vote Republican. 237 00:12:20.919 --> 00:12:23.120 And then we come up to the nineteen thirties and forties. 238 00:12:23.240 --> 00:12:26.039 FDR said in World War two, blocks can't serve in 239 00:12:26.080 --> 00:12:28.639 the military. We won't let you put on the uniform. 240 00:12:29.000 --> 00:12:32.919 The Tuskegee Institute arose, They had the pilots, but enlarged 241 00:12:33.080 --> 00:12:38.559 the discrimination. The vicious discrimination by Democrats against the African 242 00:12:38.600 --> 00:12:42.159 Americans continued. In fact, the African Americans voted ninety percent 243 00:12:42.200 --> 00:12:45.480 for Republicans, and then nineteen sixty four to sixty five, 244 00:12:46.080 --> 00:12:48.919 the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act only 245 00:12:48.960 --> 00:12:53.679 passed because Republicans in the Senate overrode the filibuster of 246 00:12:53.720 --> 00:12:57.600 who the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party has an awful 247 00:12:57.720 --> 00:13:01.279 history with African Americans, and now to that, the same 248 00:13:01.320 --> 00:13:04.080 Democratic Party is sanctuary City, sanctuary states. 249 00:13:04.120 --> 00:13:05.679 They're ignoring federal law again. 250 00:13:05.919 --> 00:13:08.159 So I asked you the big question, Hell in the 251 00:13:08.279 --> 00:13:12.519 hell with that history, can any black person be a Democrat? 252 00:13:12.679 --> 00:13:13.879 Can you answer that question? 253 00:13:15.360 --> 00:13:15.600 You know? 254 00:13:15.879 --> 00:13:19.399 I asked my friends that who are Democrats all the time. 255 00:13:19.159 --> 00:13:22.559 With the history you just described? I don't know. 256 00:13:23.240 --> 00:13:27.559 I think it's a mental a mental thing that they're 257 00:13:27.600 --> 00:13:30.759 attached to the Democratic Party even though we know the 258 00:13:30.759 --> 00:13:34.720 Democratic Party has never been our friend. And so that's 259 00:13:34.720 --> 00:13:35.559 a big question. 260 00:13:36.440 --> 00:13:39.480 I can't, I know, suygure out why. 261 00:13:39.320 --> 00:13:43.240 They keep voting Democrats that I left the Democratic Party 262 00:13:43.480 --> 00:13:46.440 a long time ago. So I don't know. 263 00:13:47.039 --> 00:13:49.840 I really have asked. 264 00:13:49.559 --> 00:13:53.799 A lot of people and they can't answer it themselves. 265 00:13:53.799 --> 00:13:56.519 And I think it's just maybe ingrained in them at 266 00:13:56.559 --> 00:14:00.360 a very young age and they have not come out 267 00:14:00.399 --> 00:14:02.840 of it. Are done the research to know who they're 268 00:14:03.440 --> 00:14:06.279 with and what they're voting for. Is they're voting with 269 00:14:06.360 --> 00:14:09.679 their for their own demd Well, No, that's why I'm 270 00:14:09.720 --> 00:14:10.440 not a Democrat. 271 00:14:10.519 --> 00:14:13.320 It's kind of like the Stockholm syndrome in which captives 272 00:14:13.320 --> 00:14:16.440 take on the roles of the goals of their cap doors. 273 00:14:16.960 --> 00:14:19.399 And when I look at the results of the Democratic 274 00:14:19.440 --> 00:14:22.360 Party in the city of Cincinnati, the city of Dayton, 275 00:14:23.159 --> 00:14:24.080 the city. 276 00:14:23.840 --> 00:14:26.200 Of New York, or Chicago, look. 277 00:14:26.039 --> 00:14:29.840 At that history, say the last fifty years, promise has made, 278 00:14:29.919 --> 00:14:33.559 promises not kept. In fact, our current mayor, after purival 279 00:14:33.879 --> 00:14:38.039 off the pages of GQ magazine, said number one priority 280 00:14:38.519 --> 00:14:42.919 is public safety. How's he done with public safety? 281 00:14:43.200 --> 00:14:45.200 That's his top priority. 282 00:14:45.879 --> 00:14:48.759 He hasn't done very well with public safety. I mean, 283 00:14:48.840 --> 00:14:52.759 like I said, they're not you know, everything that's happening 284 00:14:52.799 --> 00:14:57.600 with these young people, and he has not even enforced 285 00:14:58.039 --> 00:15:01.679 what we need, and that is the curfew. We need 286 00:15:01.720 --> 00:15:04.679 to enforce this. So, in my opinion, I don't think 287 00:15:04.720 --> 00:15:07.279 he's done a very good job with safety. Well, he says, 288 00:15:07.279 --> 00:15:12.360 so police department is doing a wonderful job, but he's. 289 00:15:12.120 --> 00:15:14.440 Not doing a very good job, you know, Linda Matthews, 290 00:15:14.440 --> 00:15:17.840 it's underfunded by two hundred and fifty cops. If we 291 00:15:17.879 --> 00:15:20.799 had two hundred and fifty more police officers and we 292 00:15:20.960 --> 00:15:24.799 enforce the law, like smoking marijuana in public, or enforcing 293 00:15:24.879 --> 00:15:28.919 curfew laws, or enforcing truancy laws, maybe things would be different. 294 00:15:29.360 --> 00:15:30.720 And I look forward. 295 00:15:30.519 --> 00:15:34.879 To the day that there's multiplicity of viewpoints on city Council, 296 00:15:35.279 --> 00:15:38.320 a few Democrats, of course, a few Republicans, of course, 297 00:15:38.480 --> 00:15:41.000 and a few charter rights to change the course of 298 00:15:41.000 --> 00:15:43.559 the city. If that doesn't happen, we can't be a 299 00:15:43.679 --> 00:15:47.360 vibrant region with a heart and soul of the city 300 00:15:47.360 --> 00:15:50.399 of Cincinnati and collapse where more than two thousand cars 301 00:15:50.440 --> 00:15:54.080 are stolen every year, there's about six to seven thousand 302 00:15:54.200 --> 00:15:57.240 break ins of cars every year. We're gonna have about 303 00:15:57.240 --> 00:16:00.000 four to five hundred people shot, and the great majority 304 00:16:00.440 --> 00:16:03.399 African Americans. We're going to have seventy to ninety murdered, 305 00:16:03.600 --> 00:16:06.840 the great majority African Americans. And we can't continue on 306 00:16:06.879 --> 00:16:10.080 this route because, as the mayor says, it's it's unacceptable. 307 00:16:10.240 --> 00:16:12.919 And I would ask f Ted Pirival, what's an acceptable 308 00:16:13.000 --> 00:16:14.559 level of black deaths? 309 00:16:14.840 --> 00:16:16.440 What acceptable level is there? 310 00:16:16.480 --> 00:16:20.039 And there shouldn't be any acceptable level level, but Linda Matthews, 311 00:16:20.039 --> 00:16:21.960 we got to go what is your website? Because I 312 00:16:22.000 --> 00:16:24.559 know Tony Bender and others are like to contribute to you. 313 00:16:24.799 --> 00:16:26.279 So what is your website? 314 00:16:27.360 --> 00:16:32.120 Vote Lyndamatthews dot com for any information to read about 315 00:16:32.159 --> 00:16:35.159 my platform and to do donations or if you want 316 00:16:35.200 --> 00:16:37.960 to volunteer, It's all there on my website. 317 00:16:38.039 --> 00:16:39.960 Votelyndamatthews dot com. 318 00:16:40.159 --> 00:16:40.919 Sounds great to me. 319 00:16:41.039 --> 00:16:44.440 A trustee of Central State University, a vice president of 320 00:16:44.480 --> 00:16:47.399 North Avenue Community Council, et cetera. Been at it for 321 00:16:47.440 --> 00:16:50.519 a long time. The truth will set you free. And 322 00:16:50.559 --> 00:16:53.000 I fear that many blocks in our city are still 323 00:16:53.080 --> 00:16:56.120 enslaved with the idea that the Democratic Party is the 324 00:16:56.120 --> 00:16:59.200 only party for them. Well, that's the party that's brutalized 325 00:16:59.200 --> 00:17:01.960 them for the past two hundred years. It's unbelievable. 326 00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:04.440 Totally agree with you. I totally agree with you. 327 00:17:04.799 --> 00:17:06.920 And you know what, my voice is going to be 328 00:17:07.000 --> 00:17:11.079 very loud, and hopefully I can get people to wake 329 00:17:11.200 --> 00:17:14.400 up and see what the Democratic. 330 00:17:13.880 --> 00:17:17.400 Party has done to our community. So that's my. 331 00:17:17.480 --> 00:17:20.160 Goal, and I'm going to be a voice for our 332 00:17:20.200 --> 00:17:24.720 fifty two communities and I'm going to bring those Republican 333 00:17:24.839 --> 00:17:27.039 values and our politics. 334 00:17:27.240 --> 00:17:28.480 God for to it. 335 00:17:28.519 --> 00:17:31.200 They remember to vote me, vote for me on November 336 00:17:31.240 --> 00:17:31.680 the fourth. 337 00:17:31.920 --> 00:17:33.920 Well, I endorse you. That may help or hurt you. 338 00:17:33.960 --> 00:17:38.200 I'm not sure which, but I will endorse Linda Matthews 339 00:17:38.200 --> 00:17:41.759 for Cincinnati City Council. And Linda, once again, God bless you, 340 00:17:41.839 --> 00:17:43.960 God bless America, and thanks for coming on the Bill 341 00:17:44.000 --> 00:17:44.720 Cunningham Show. 342 00:17:44.920 --> 00:17:47.680 Linda Matthews, Thanks well, Bill, thank you, thank you for 343 00:17:47.680 --> 00:17:48.680 having me on your show. 344 00:17:48.720 --> 00:17:49.880 And I'm coming back. 345 00:17:50.079 --> 00:17:52.200 God bless you, I hope. So let's continue. 346 00:17:52.359 --> 00:17:54.759 The line becomes available five one, three, seven, four, nine, 347 00:17:54.799 --> 00:18:01.119 seven thousand, Bill Cunningham News Radio seven hundred. Wow, Billy Cunningham, 348 00:18:01.119 --> 00:18:04.160 the Great American. This should be a great social engineering study, 349 00:18:04.839 --> 00:18:09.319 maybe by Thomas Moore, Nku the home of Pello, maybe Xavi, 350 00:18:09.359 --> 00:18:11.759 You're my home. And God bless the new president we have. 351 00:18:13.039 --> 00:18:15.519 She's doing a much better job than the last president. 352 00:18:15.880 --> 00:18:18.000 Or you see or Miami. Someone's got to do it. 353 00:18:18.920 --> 00:18:22.079 And that is what is happening with politics in the 354 00:18:22.119 --> 00:18:26.839 world today. Now you can argue that each political party 355 00:18:26.880 --> 00:18:30.480 have their own stars and devils in each group. Absolutely 356 00:18:30.839 --> 00:18:35.240 extreme rightis extreme leftists, absolutely, But the heart and soul 357 00:18:35.880 --> 00:18:41.400 of politics, how to be promises made and promises delivered. 358 00:18:42.400 --> 00:18:42.880 Policy. 359 00:18:42.920 --> 00:18:46.000 You may disagree, as I'm sure about half the American 360 00:18:46.039 --> 00:18:49.640 people do, with what Donald Trump is doing as president, 361 00:18:50.079 --> 00:18:53.640 but God bless him, he's doing exactly what he said 362 00:18:53.640 --> 00:18:54.240 he was going to do. 363 00:18:54.880 --> 00:18:55.680 He didn't hide it. 364 00:18:55.839 --> 00:18:58.240 In fact, he held another forty five minutes to an 365 00:18:58.240 --> 00:19:02.359 hour news conference. The guy loves the news media. He'll 366 00:19:02.400 --> 00:19:04.799 speak constantly. Well, the last guy couldn't speak at all 367 00:19:04.880 --> 00:19:09.000 because there was no there there. He was mentally unbalanced, 368 00:19:09.279 --> 00:19:12.359 didn't have a president for four years, and the policymakers 369 00:19:12.400 --> 00:19:15.519 around him, or the most progressive leftists in the country 370 00:19:15.599 --> 00:19:19.519 ran the presidency unbeknowns to the president and unbeknownst to 371 00:19:19.559 --> 00:19:22.160 you and I. If you listen to Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, 372 00:19:22.200 --> 00:19:25.160 and me, you understand that we reported on this constantly, 373 00:19:25.400 --> 00:19:27.480 but the mainstream media completely ignored it. In fact that 374 00:19:27.680 --> 00:19:30.680 they still ignore it. It doesn't fit their bias, doesn't fit 375 00:19:30.720 --> 00:19:34.519 the biases of NPR or VXU or GUC, doesn't fit 376 00:19:34.559 --> 00:19:37.359 their bias, the left wing bias. Therefore it's not news. 377 00:19:37.359 --> 00:19:40.640 They don't trust you being able to handle the truth. Well, 378 00:19:41.039 --> 00:19:44.079 I do handle the truth, and I think many Democrats 379 00:19:44.079 --> 00:19:45.039 can handle the truth. 380 00:19:45.160 --> 00:19:45.759 There ought to be a. 381 00:19:45.759 --> 00:19:49.000 Study conducted, maybe by Ohio State, that says, how in 382 00:19:49.039 --> 00:19:54.119 the world does one political party own the heart and 383 00:19:54.200 --> 00:19:58.880 soul of African Americans, especially black females. I think ninety 384 00:19:58.880 --> 00:20:02.319 five percent voted for Kamala Harris and ninety five percent 385 00:20:02.400 --> 00:20:05.519 voted for Joe Biden, and ninety five percent voted for 386 00:20:05.640 --> 00:20:09.279 Barack Husein Obama and Joe Biden. Ninety five percent voted 387 00:20:09.279 --> 00:20:12.359 for John Carey, and ninety five percent voted for Democrats 388 00:20:12.440 --> 00:20:14.440 up and down the line, when you have a really 389 00:20:14.480 --> 00:20:18.200 good Republican in city Council, like a Liz Keating as 390 00:20:18.240 --> 00:20:21.720 a moderate Republican who has the best interests of the 391 00:20:21.720 --> 00:20:24.920 city at heart, who ran a campaign that was all 392 00:20:24.960 --> 00:20:29.079 about bringing the city together. She wasn't an ideologue, and 393 00:20:29.359 --> 00:20:31.960 she wasn't a person that would fit in the Mega 394 00:20:31.960 --> 00:20:34.839 movement at all. But she didn't even get close to 395 00:20:34.880 --> 00:20:38.559 winning her own seat back on council because she had 396 00:20:38.599 --> 00:20:42.519 an R next to her name, Lynda Matthews. God bless 397 00:20:42.519 --> 00:20:46.119 her has looked at this thing objectively and said, how 398 00:20:46.160 --> 00:20:49.359 in the world are we continuing to be adherence to 399 00:20:49.440 --> 00:20:52.720 the Democratic Party when they have no results that are 400 00:20:52.720 --> 00:20:55.279 discernible that we can identify. In fact, they give us 401 00:20:55.279 --> 00:20:59.400