Speaker 1: It's seven oh six here at fifty five krsee he
Speaker 1: talks station Brian Thomas, please to welcome to the fifty
Speaker 1: five Krrise Morning show and he is live in studio
Speaker 1: running for Cincinni City Council as a Republican Kevin Farmer. Man, Kevin,
Speaker 1: it is a pleasure to have you in studio this morning. Hey,
Speaker 1: goot a little bit closer to that micro.
Speaker 2: Hey, thank you, Tom.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it. Brian, Brian, that's okay. Last name Thomas,
Speaker 3: that's okay. We just met for the first time.
Speaker 1: And I will tell my listening audience one thing that
Speaker 1: certainly came through right out of the gate. Kevin Farmer
Speaker 1: is excited and an enthusiastic man. He is really really
Speaker 1: geared up for this council run. And Kevin, that's a
Speaker 1: good thing because you got an ever growing field. I've
Speaker 1: read this morning in the Inquirer, Scott Warman reported that
Speaker 1: so far, forty one people have picked up petitions to
Speaker 1: consider a council run.
Speaker 3: So that's a growing field.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is a growing field. Man. What I understand
Speaker 2: that I'm official. I wanted a twelve because it's only
Speaker 2: twelve that are efficiently right on the ballot.
Speaker 1: Pulling the paper means one thing, but actually filing it
Speaker 1: and running is a completely different choice.
Speaker 2: Hey, it's it's it's not. It's not easy to get
Speaker 2: your signatures and I went, I got all my signatures myself.
Speaker 3: Good for you.
Speaker 1: You know, no representatives to me. Okay, your lifelong resident
Speaker 1: of the city of Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: Actually I was. I was raised here since I was
Speaker 2: about ten nine and a half, ten years old.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's long enough. What neighbor a one from the
Speaker 1: day one? You know, So you know the challenges of
Speaker 1: the city of Cincinnati faces. And let me just I
Speaker 1: tell you one of the take to it. Let's let's
Speaker 1: start with your background. I know you you're an independent
Speaker 1: business man. You started doing business my accurately.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have a small, small marketing firm that's called
Speaker 2: Major Look Promotion. So we deal with PR and direct
Speaker 2: marketing and uh, I've I've been fortunate to have great
Speaker 2: a great client tail. When a great client that was
Speaker 2: able to scale me where I'm at.
Speaker 1: Now, that's great. So you know about business, you know
Speaker 1: about what it is. But you also had a troubled youth.
Speaker 1: Not the greatest of circumstances for you growing up I say,
Speaker 1: I said three sixty in my life.
Speaker 2: You know, like I was explaining to you earlier, if
Speaker 2: it wasn't for if it wasn't for politics, I'm telling
Speaker 2: you I'll be in jail or I'll be dead.
Speaker 3: Right now.
Speaker 1: Now you're gonna have to explain that because somebody's going, wait,
Speaker 1: politics saved your life.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's really the boiled down version of that. Politics.
Speaker 2: Yes, I was awarded to the States, so it was like, uh,
Speaker 2: JFS was like my mother, and the next I got
Speaker 2: to say, the courts was like my daddy. So it
Speaker 2: was it was interesting because I had I had a
Speaker 2: real father and mother, but we had some issues because
Speaker 2: I had some issues. And then you know, with that aspect,
Speaker 2: it literally morphed into what we say, having a relationship
Speaker 2: so far with the courts that I've got a relationship
Speaker 2: with Judge Burlue and God rests. So if nobody understands
Speaker 2: Judge Burlue, he was an amazing and win my life.
Speaker 2: That really showed me how things worked. And he was
Speaker 2: and he was a lifelong Republican. Yeah, so it was
Speaker 2: just being able to get some of his tutelite, being
Speaker 2: able to get some of that grasp on politics early.
Speaker 2: It was just amazing to me.
Speaker 1: So you you had involvement in and and interaction as
Speaker 1: a younger person with the criminal justice system and it
Speaker 1: impacted you in a positive way.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, I knew. I knew early on. I
Speaker 2: was one of the few fortunate that was able to listen,
Speaker 2: so and being able to take information. I didn't listen
Speaker 2: right away, it was just taking the information because it
Speaker 2: was I knew that the system in politics controlled my
Speaker 2: life at a young age. So it was like, oh wow,
Speaker 2: So when I got older, I knew where decision making
Speaker 2: really was. That like when it came down to getting
Speaker 2: policy pushed, or being able to change rules, or being
Speaker 2: able to understand the rules that are accepted in society.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, given that the city of Cincinnati has been
Speaker 1: dominated by Democrats now for the last forty years, you know,
Speaker 1: what's your perception of Democrats the direction they've taken the
Speaker 1: city Before we dive down into the specifics of the
Speaker 1: current issues that are percolated percolating in the city of Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: where you stand on those.
Speaker 2: So, uh, I'm gonna be honest with you, that's what
Speaker 2: I hope. It's this sanctuary thing scares me fair enough,
Speaker 2: it scares me. And you know, to be out here
Speaker 2: with elected officials. I understand, you gotta get votes, understand
Speaker 2: you gotta do what you gotta do to be able
Speaker 2: to keep your job. But this, no king antics. This
Speaker 2: we're we're not going to cut down on We're not
Speaker 2: going to tell law enforcement to cooperate with other law
Speaker 2: enforcement because we want this to be a I just
Speaker 2: I pray that this don't turn into California. Well, I
Speaker 2: pray that this don't turn into California. Right now, we
Speaker 2: have an issue when we are in sanctuary. You pretty
Speaker 2: much were going to that's an asylum for crime.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I appreciate your refreshing outlook on that. I
Speaker 1: you know, looking at the police department generally speaking. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you familiar with former Vice Mayor Christopher Smithman.
Speaker 1: He comes with my program every money. He does what
Speaker 1: we call this smither vent. He vents his spleen. And
Speaker 1: I love Christopher. I mean, he's a good friend of mine.
Speaker 1: But he's a real common sense outlook on things. But
Speaker 1: he is upset focusing on law enforcement and considering you
Speaker 1: had a good outcome as a consequence of getting involved
Speaker 1: or having to be involved with law enforcement, being in
Speaker 1: front of a judge, being a ward of the state,
Speaker 1: and all that. For you to come out the other
Speaker 1: side and be thankful for that process transforming your life
Speaker 1: and turning your life around. That is a refreshing alternative
Speaker 1: from what we typically hear from like leaders in the
Speaker 1: black community, for example, that the police sucker, a bunch
Speaker 1: of racists. We want to reform them, we want them
Speaker 1: out of our neighborhood. It doesn't sound like you come
Speaker 1: from that particular cut of the political swath there.
Speaker 2: What I understand what police officers and talking to police
Speaker 2: officers is they're really doing their job. Now, let's get
Speaker 2: into the now. This new judicial system we have and
Speaker 2: this prosecution system on top of that, because we got
Speaker 2: these new people are retiring the oldest and not to say,
Speaker 2: oh my seniors, I love my seniors, they are retiring
Speaker 2: and same in CPD when you fun fact, I was
Speaker 2: explaining to people that almost every week there are people
Speaker 2: retiring out of CPD as we speak, and they don't
Speaker 2: have enough to replace them because we have people not
Speaker 2: joining the academy. The outlook, what it looks like in
Speaker 2: the police force here is just makes people not wanting
Speaker 2: to join.
Speaker 3: Yeah, career law enforcement's a tough thing to divide off.
Speaker 2: Just everywhere now in this country, it's not it's not
Speaker 2: looked good upon in this woke society to be a cop.
Speaker 2: And then when like I said back to me, talking
Speaker 2: to the officers, the job is getting done.
Speaker 3: It's the follow through.
Speaker 2: We're rewarding bad behavior and a lack of accountability. Murderers
Speaker 2: are pleading up to eight years off off. I can
Speaker 2: they know who's killing We know who's the killers out there.
Speaker 2: They know it's like, but they can. They can sentence
Speaker 2: individuals for drug cases. The thing near thirty years. Then
Speaker 2: you got a person out here for two murders out
Speaker 2: here and the next thing only get please out.
Speaker 3: For eight Yeah, that's it's hard to believe.
Speaker 2: So we have a judicial system that needs to be
Speaker 2: it needs to be fixed. Policing is policing. Yeah, we
Speaker 2: need more personnel.
Speaker 3: Right, it's a downward spiral.
Speaker 1: If the police officers know, if they through the process
Speaker 1: and the energy and all the paperwork to arrest somebody,
Speaker 1: and the judicial system the judge at the end is
Speaker 1: just gonna let him go back out on the street.
Speaker 1: Why bother doing my job. That's kind of a fundamental
Speaker 1: point that's going through the police department. That's where the
Speaker 1: morale is down. It makes no sense. Why would I engage.
Speaker 1: It's not worth my time in forcing the curfews pointless.
Speaker 1: They're just gonna be let out.
Speaker 2: And that's that's and that's the trouble because we have
Speaker 2: liberal judges and I ain't gonna give names, but we
Speaker 2: have a lot of liberal judges now and a lot
Speaker 2: of judges that are afraid to be able to make
Speaker 2: tough decisions on individuals because they fear, for whatever circumstances,
Speaker 2: to lose their seat.
Speaker 1: Well as a council person, and you know, if you're
Speaker 1: elected or so we'll say when you're elected, Kevin Farmer
Speaker 1: vote Kevinfarmer dot COM's website.
Speaker 3: Will you, at least going back to.
Speaker 1: My point about Christopher Smithman, he wishes council members and
Speaker 1: the mayor would be more outspoken and supportive of law enforcement.
Speaker 1: Would you be an outspoken critic and demand justice in
Speaker 1: the on the judicial side, would you be out there,
Speaker 1: you know, rattling sabers and raising the issue to the
Speaker 1: citizens of the city of Sinceinna that we need judges
Speaker 1: who will uphold the law.
Speaker 2: I'm out there with my megaphone now, Yes, let's get
Speaker 2: the megaphone and let's get it. Let's get it. What
Speaker 2: we say in my in my culture, let's get it.
Speaker 1: Popping there you are, We'll continue fifty five Karracity Talk
Speaker 1: Station are very happy Tuesday to you. Kevin Farmer in
Speaker 1: studio running for since City Council as a Republican vote.
Speaker 1: Kevinfarmer dot com is his website. You can donate to
Speaker 1: his campaign, get behind him, and of course, uh pressure
Speaker 1: of the Hamilton kind of Republican party to endorse you, right, Kevin,
Speaker 1: it's what you're looking for.
Speaker 2: Hey, all advocacy right now helps with me.
Speaker 1: Well, okay, let me just pose a question to you
Speaker 1: that I asked you off air, which is, you know,
Speaker 1: black man growing up in Avondale, you feel you're in
Speaker 1: the city of Cincinnati, which has been voting Democrat for
Speaker 1: the last forty years. You hear someone like President Biden
Speaker 1: of all people say something to the effect of, if
Speaker 1: you don't vote Democrat, you ain't black.
Speaker 3: What's been in your.
Speaker 1: Experience over the course of your life, snce you are Republican,
Speaker 1: you enjoy engaging in these conversations. You feel pressure to
Speaker 1: vote Democrat or have you felt like this, Like you're
Speaker 1: the weirdo in the room. For whatever reason, you got
Speaker 1: your logical and your reasonable, articulable ideas about why you're
Speaker 1: a Republican.
Speaker 3: You like to talk to people about it. But what's
Speaker 3: it like in that environment for you?
Speaker 2: I got, like I explained to you earlier, Brian Man,
Speaker 2: oh Man, I embrace the smoke. I embrace this pressure.
Speaker 2: There's a term that they say, and I might be
Speaker 2: messing it up, but I'm gonna paraphrase it. Strong men
Speaker 2: create peace times. Peace times create weak men. Ooh, weak
Speaker 2: men create bad times, and bad times create strong men.
Speaker 1: That's a circular process going on there. Yeah, we're in.
Speaker 2: Some bad times. And I look at it. When chaotic
Speaker 2: moments come, you see that, you see who comes out
Speaker 2: of the You see who the phoenix really is. And
Speaker 2: and I apologize using these oka these parables and quotes,
Speaker 2: but uh, when it comes down to my to the
Speaker 2: to the side that I understood that supposed to help
Speaker 2: help people, because that's what it that's what that's what
Speaker 2: we're supposed to do. Help people. Uh, they rather help
Speaker 2: themselves and get their beaks wet. And my thing is
Speaker 2: when you misuse people because we all in it, we understand,
Speaker 2: we all and we're all here to be used, but
Speaker 2: don't misuse us.
Speaker 1: Well in misuse, I think occurs in large part Democrats,
Speaker 1: at least, you know, paint with the broad brush here.
Speaker 1: So offer government as a mechanism to give people stuff
Speaker 1: and things, and they want to create this environment where
Speaker 1: you get used to the quote unquote free stuff and things,
Speaker 1: although you and I both agree there's nothing free, but
Speaker 1: that creates then this. If you don't vote for me,
Speaker 1: your free stuff and things are going to end. My
Speaker 1: position with regard to government assistance. And I'm not against
Speaker 1: it as a concept, but it's supposed to be a
Speaker 1: temporary lifeline that you shouldn't be casting a vote for
Speaker 1: someone who's just going to give you this un endless
Speaker 1: you know, the bounty compliments of the guys who are
Speaker 1: going to work every day and paying the taxpayer. I'm
Speaker 1: paying the taxpayer dollars that support these programs. That's a
Speaker 1: nefarious component of Democrats' philosophy from my standpoint.
Speaker 2: And like I say, I put it into the analogy
Speaker 2: almost like Heroin. It's it's the handout. Is like, in
Speaker 2: the black community, is our heroin. So when you take
Speaker 2: it away, especially how Democrats play the game, because they're
Speaker 2: the dealer. They they're dealing that, they're dealing, the free that,
Speaker 2: they're dealing, the free programs, everything the heroin to us.
Speaker 2: And when we take it away, when they say, oh,
Speaker 2: y'all taking it away, they taking it away, They taking
Speaker 2: it away.
Speaker 3: The Republic is not taking it away from you. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I ain't sell it to you, no mo oh.
Speaker 2: Now, the withdrawals, you see the withdrawal because everything because
Speaker 2: if you're on heroin, and it's sad to say I've been.
Speaker 2: I've seen people who has had the withdrawals being able
Speaker 2: to be off. You can't just take them right off.
Speaker 2: You gotta have some type of other substitute. So they're like, okay, listen,
Speaker 2: we'll give you another program, We'll give you another fix.
Speaker 2: And I'm telling and I and this is hard appeal
Speaker 2: to swallow. In my community. This is your last fix.
Speaker 2: It's over. It's over. It's time to recover and heal.
Speaker 2: And we're going to do that because there is a
Speaker 2: too much fraud, waste, and abuse and a lack of
Speaker 2: integrity in my community that needs to be addressed.
Speaker 1: Sounds like you, Kevin Farmer, have a profound understanding of
Speaker 1: the fiscal realities of what we're facing these days. Ain't
Speaker 1: no endless draw for cash to dive on into to
Speaker 1: sustain this. We are on an unsustainable trajectory.
Speaker 2: It's leading into it, it's leading into more. What we
Speaker 2: call it is just blaming out corruption. I'm anti corruption.
Speaker 2: I might be radical, but I'm man. But if I
Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm like a bloodhound for corruption.
Speaker 1: Appreciate that. Enthusiastic absolutely one after corruption. I love it.
Speaker 1: We'll continue more with Kevin Farmer. Vote Kevin Farmer dot
Speaker 1: COM's website at seven twenty five right now if you
Speaker 1: have krc DE talk station seven thirty. If if you have
Speaker 1: KRCD talk station. I feel like I made a friend
Speaker 1: this morning. Kevin Farmer run for since a city council
Speaker 1: enthusiastic man he is. I like what he has to
Speaker 1: say so far about the problems inherent in the system.
Speaker 1: I like that he's running as a Republican. I consider
Speaker 1: myself a little libertarian. You know my bottom line philosophies.
Speaker 1: I trust you with you, Zipper, and I trust you
Speaker 1: with your wallet. I don't want your money to spend
Speaker 1: it on what I want to spend on. I want
Speaker 1: you to spend it on what you want to spend on.
Speaker 1: And I don't care what you're doing behind closed doors. Dude,
Speaker 1: when I'm done fixing me, that's when I'll come after you.
Speaker 1: And that'll never happen, because never ever done fixing the
Speaker 1: man in the mirror. But beyond that republic you are running,
Speaker 1: you're looking for an endorsement from the Hamilton kind of
Speaker 1: Republican party to wish you luck on that.
Speaker 3: Let us focus on zoning.
Speaker 1: Alright, all right, City Cincinnati says you all all the neighborhoods,
Speaker 1: including your neighborhood. Yes, sorry, connected communities period. Here you
Speaker 1: get connected communities, you must build dense housing. And no,
Speaker 1: don't know whatever connected communities means. Everybody gets it. You
Speaker 1: don't have a say in your own neighborhood. Oh but
Speaker 1: along comes a well connected developer in Hyde Park and says, no,
Speaker 1: I want to build this monstrous, monstrous thing completely change
Speaker 1: the dynamic of Hyde Park in the square. I know
Speaker 1: the residents of Hyde Park don't want this. They've all
Speaker 1: come out in opposition against it, but I want it.
Speaker 3: I'm a well.
Speaker 1: Connected developer since a city council gives them a waiver
Speaker 1: over the connected communities mandate that they didn't ask anybody
Speaker 1: if they wanted and says, sorry, citizens of Hyde Park,
Speaker 1: it sucks to be you. The well connected developer gets
Speaker 1: what it wants. Now it's on the ballot. The citizens
Speaker 1: of Hyde Park rose up.
Speaker 2: And we pray that this special meeting doesn't take place,
Speaker 2: that they re retract things.
Speaker 3: That's what that's gonna happen. Oh man, it can it
Speaker 3: can it can?
Speaker 2: But will it? That seems like some political suicide. I
Speaker 2: would like to see it not to happen, because why
Speaker 2: you want us to vote on it? They should have
Speaker 2: never took place. In the first line, if I was
Speaker 2: a city council member, I would have been it would
Speaker 2: have been what three.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I could have lobbied for the other two.
Speaker 2: I could have been. I could have had the megaphone
Speaker 2: out been lobbying for the other two. And this we
Speaker 2: wouldn't even been here right now talking about this.
Speaker 1: So you think it's going to impact on council racist November?
Speaker 1: I mean, I I keep thinking of my friends in
Speaker 1: Hyde Park predominantly Democrat. I understand this is the way
Speaker 1: they typically vote. But they got stabbed in the back.
Speaker 1: This is a failure of representative government period. They did
Speaker 1: what they wanted on counciled with the exception of Jan
Speaker 1: Kearney and who is Scottie Johnson. Johnson they said, no,
Speaker 1: you wuld have been number three, saying though.
Speaker 2: And then we would have lobbied for the two. I
Speaker 2: would have had my megaphone. Then I would have had
Speaker 2: my other you know, Scotti and Jan. I would have
Speaker 2: conveyed the other two Democrats, because you know, if I'm
Speaker 2: a lonely if I'm a lonely Republican, I gotta sway.
Speaker 2: So I think I would have been able to manage
Speaker 2: that because the people would have hurt me. The people
Speaker 2: would have hurt me. We got eighteen thousand plus petitions
Speaker 2: in the city of Cincinnati, that's fifty two communities. Eighteen
Speaker 2: thousand registered voters came and said, hey, we're gonna this
Speaker 2: is no.
Speaker 1: I think that's morphin showed up at the primary to
Speaker 1: actually vote, show up and show out exactly. But would
Speaker 1: you tell you what Going back to the concept of
Speaker 1: connected communities, the one size fits all approach, with the
Speaker 1: exception of Hyde Park and Bond Hill. Would you vote
Speaker 1: to repeal connected communities given that you know, you sound
Speaker 1: like a man who is is desirous of neighborhood direction
Speaker 1: and control, local direction and control over development as opposed
Speaker 1: to one size fits all from city council.
Speaker 2: People first, government last. Community is part of people. So
Speaker 2: if community says no, we can't, we can't oversee community.
Speaker 2: We can't go against them. We can't go against people.
Speaker 2: Government has stepped stepped their line. They just crossed the line.
Speaker 2: And when you're doing too much, and that's what we say,
Speaker 2: our young folks say you're doing too much, and now
Speaker 2: they became ops ops oppositions. Now we don't need elected
Speaker 2: officials to go against community and people. And that's the problem.
Speaker 2: That's the problem.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and well, and you need strong leaders to engage
Speaker 1: members of the community to get them to step up
Speaker 1: and stand up and say what they want. I mean,
Speaker 1: unlike you and me who have been involved with and
Speaker 1: interested in politics our whole lives, I don't think most
Speaker 1: people have the time and day to even lift a
Speaker 1: finger to care about politics. They got their day to
Speaker 1: day lives to live. They're dealing with their own issues
Speaker 1: and concerns, and of course they got a binge watch
Speaker 1: at whatever show on Netflix they're watching. They don't have
Speaker 1: time for politics. And that's how I think bad things
Speaker 1: happen in government.
Speaker 2: And because we have a sit down mentality, Yeah, that's that.
Speaker 2: And the crazy thing is people has been people in
Speaker 2: this city, just really in this nation has been played
Speaker 2: like chumps, chumps, and because they have positioned us to
Speaker 2: sit down now, so we have a sit down mentality.
Speaker 2: And with that sit down mentality, they'll have you sitting
Speaker 2: in and anywhere. And how does it feel to be
Speaker 2: a city in? It doesn't feel good to be a
Speaker 2: city in it? Actually cashtraights, you're right there, of being
Speaker 2: a city in it doesn't feel good to be one.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, and you know the other side of the coin
Speaker 1: is people are engaged. If they're engaged politically, on the
Speaker 1: left hand side of the ledger, they're out there throwing
Speaker 1: frozen water bottles at ice agents for doing their job.
Speaker 2: And the next that's where we call the manipulation of
Speaker 2: bad action, because what they're doing is manipulating people to oh,
Speaker 2: this is your plight, and black folks are sitting back,
Speaker 2: no what.
Speaker 3: Isn't thank you for saying that.
Speaker 1: No, it is because my perception is, like, let's look
Speaker 1: at the crime generally speaking, support of the police department.
Speaker 3: Generally speaking.
Speaker 1: My perception is, and you know others have echoed it
Speaker 1: and said, yeah, you're right, Brian police officers, Smitheman, and others.
Speaker 1: I would think if I'm in any given neighborhood in
Speaker 1: the city of Cincinnati, let's say your neighborhood Avondale, and
Speaker 1: I feel like I got a problem with crime, I'd
Speaker 1: want more cops around. I wouldn't be wanting to defund
Speaker 1: them and get them out of my neighborhood. I would
Speaker 1: think the police presence would be a welcome thing. Is
Speaker 1: that your Is that your belief right there? We do
Speaker 1: welcome the police. We want we want more presents.
Speaker 2: What the problem is we just the person Now we
Speaker 2: have only nine hundred and fifty fifty five officers. So
Speaker 2: like quote unquote the chief, they all they can never
Speaker 2: have enough officers to want to be that.
Speaker 1: See, that's a practice problem that can be addressed if
Speaker 1: we support the police, we embrace them as a concept.
Speaker 1: We make that job sound like it's a great a
Speaker 1: career choice for people we do lateral hires, which they're doing.
Speaker 1: Let's see we get the numbers back up. But what
Speaker 1: I see is the squeaky wheel always gets the grease,
Speaker 1: and these loud, angry anti police people take to the
Speaker 1: streets and it creates this fake perception that that's exactly
Speaker 1: what your community wants. They want the police out of
Speaker 1: the neighborhood. And I say, no, there's no way that
Speaker 1: that's what the average Joe or Jane in the community wants.
Speaker 3: That.
Speaker 2: No, they don't. And I've and I was once tricked
Speaker 2: on that, on that opposition too, to be able to say, oh,
Speaker 2: we don't need police.
Speaker 3: That's years I had a I was tricked.
Speaker 2: They they they use me like the individual to make
Speaker 2: myself go after individuals who didn't even need to go
Speaker 2: after because they wanted to be able to manipulate the narrative. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's that's how the Democratic Party moves. And when you
Speaker 2: and when you wake up, you be like, dang, dang,
Speaker 2: my community is looking excuse my French sush.
Speaker 3: Yeah again, a giant dump button. I know what you
Speaker 3: met though I know it.
Speaker 2: And when it looks were we're like dang, no, no,
Speaker 2: something has to give.
Speaker 1: All right out loud voices in support of the police,
Speaker 1: I think is what we need, and that was that'd
Speaker 1: be exactly what you get with Kevin Farmer. Vote Kevin
Speaker 1: Farmer dot com. We'll continue with Kevin now of time
Speaker 1: in this segment seven thirty eight right now fifty five
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Speaker 1: You stu a long segment, the last one, uh here
Speaker 1: with Kevin Farmer. He's running for since I City Council.
Speaker 1: Vote Kevinfarmer dot com. You're all about transparency. I see
Speaker 1: that in big bold letters right there on your website
Speaker 1: about your priorities.
Speaker 3: What's your what?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 3: What? What do you believe to be the failure of
Speaker 3: city government? Right now?
Speaker 2: Kevin Farmer the red tape you can't. The thing is
Speaker 2: people don't have real We have accessibility to your politicians
Speaker 2: when they're on election during election, but you don't have
Speaker 2: accessibility when this like when I need to come to
Speaker 2: see us city hall, right, it's always someone sitting at
Speaker 2: a desk that is normally mean or or literally so distracted.
Speaker 2: It's just it's just not a it's just not a
Speaker 2: like a friendly relationship. And if it is, it's always this,
Speaker 2: what's this in regards to? What's this in regards to?
Speaker 2: I get tired of hearing that? And then we know
Speaker 2: that we know that your elected officials is sitting in
Speaker 2: the back of the office. They need to be in
Speaker 2: the front.
Speaker 1: Or you know what have observed And you know Todd
Speaker 1: Zenzer or Citizen Watchdog, and he's spent on my program
Speaker 1: quite a few times. He follows the Antixas City Hall
Speaker 1: when they have open opportunities for citizens to come in
Speaker 1: and speak on any given issue. Council members are never
Speaker 1: paying attention. They're looking at their smartphones and they're doing
Speaker 1: doodles or drawings, and it's as if they just outright
Speaker 1: and are intentionally rude to people offering their thoughts and
Speaker 1: impressions on any given topic.
Speaker 2: Two minutes and they don't respond back unless they want to.
Speaker 2: And that irks it just it just plays with people emotions.
Speaker 2: And when you play with people emotions and you are
Speaker 2: doing this and like you say, looking in your phone,
Speaker 2: just looking at to the point like I don't really care,
Speaker 2: don't care you, you get people upset well. And and
Speaker 2: we're at a time right now that this has been
Speaker 2: taking place, and now we have to set we have
Speaker 2: to set new We have to put new things in
Speaker 2: place to be able to have that open transparency. And
Speaker 2: that open transparency is not what this is in regards
Speaker 2: to not what uh uh we'll get back, we'll get
Speaker 2: back with you and not get back with you, and
Speaker 2: or we need to see what's going on. We need
Speaker 2: to stream politicians akaisanai stream politicians, put them under the microscope.
Speaker 2: If we can do officers that same way, can we
Speaker 2: put it like me, I'll be the first to take
Speaker 2: the body camp. I'll be the first. I'll open it
Speaker 2: up for everybody. They'll be saying, you don't, I'll volunteer,
Speaker 2: ill volunteer. You'll just be you're gonna We're gonna stream my, my, my, Well,
Speaker 2: we say thirty hours a week.
Speaker 3: It's all out in the open.
Speaker 1: When it comes to Kevin Farmer, one more segment with
Speaker 1: Kevin forty Parts Company. We'll get the bright part inside
Speaker 1: scoop after the top of the our news. It's seven
Speaker 1: forty five right now in studio, the full hour. Enjoy
Speaker 1: my conversation. I'm certainly enjoying the enthusiasm in the direction
Speaker 1: that Kevin Farmer's coming from again. Vote Kevinfarmer dot comas's website.
Speaker 1: You run for since a city council as a Republican
Speaker 1: at pivoting back now, I know we address the crime issue,
Speaker 1: and of course I think and you agree, a lot
Speaker 1: of the blame lies that the feat of the judicial
Speaker 1: system for not meeting out punishments and letting you know,
Speaker 1: murderers out on the street and zero bond for dangerous
Speaker 1: offenders and you know, slap on the wrist for anything,
Speaker 1: or just outright letting people go like for curfew violations.
Speaker 1: But pivoting back over to the cause. We seem to
Speaker 1: be in a downward spiral in America generally, but most notably.
Speaker 1: You can see it in the crime stats in the city.
Speaker 1: What is with young people? We got these massive crowds
Speaker 1: of you know, teenagers gathering together. Dude, if I was fourteen,
Speaker 1: fifteen years old and the police interacted me with at
Speaker 1: three o'clock in the morning, my dad would have tanned
Speaker 1: my hide. I mean, hell would have would have been
Speaker 1: to pay at home for that. That's why it never happened.
Speaker 1: So I guess I'm just wondering what is going on
Speaker 1: with the world that we would have random individuals grab
Speaker 1: a firearm and just shoot into a crowd of people. Kevin,
Speaker 1: what the hell does that have to do with a
Speaker 1: deteriorating community? What does that have to do with Oh
Speaker 1: my god, these services haven't been around, so I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go start shooting into a crowd of people. I don't
Speaker 1: see a connect between the systemic problems that are claimed
Speaker 1: by so many people to exist, like systemic racism or
Speaker 1: deprivation of goods and services in any given community, how
Speaker 1: that translates into outright gun violence on the street where
Speaker 1: it's young black men.
Speaker 3: They're dying as a consequence of this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're in this. We're in a sanctuary city. Otherwise
Speaker 2: that's that's anything you see sanctuary or see where you
Speaker 2: can't law enforcement can't help each other. It's we're in
Speaker 2: a dangerous we're in a dangerous area.
Speaker 1: So the sanctuary part, which relates to illegal immigrants, is
Speaker 1: a component of not enforcing the law.
Speaker 2: If I'm not going to enforce the law, that I'm
Speaker 2: not going to enforce the law anywhere. Yeah, and I
Speaker 2: and and with our kids now, with the youth is now,
Speaker 2: they don't feel safe. It is not we don't have
Speaker 2: a gun problem with that's what the that's what the
Speaker 2: Democrats say.
Speaker 3: Oh, it is so many guns.
Speaker 2: No, we don't have we have a people problem. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and people problem comes because we have a government problem,
Speaker 2: because it exceeds people. And when government is in front
Speaker 2: of you, I just say vote for farmer. Pumpa bump, bump, bump.
Speaker 1: And of course the change that you need is going
Speaker 1: to come at the ballot box. None of the reforms
Speaker 1: that you mentioned during this hour discussion and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: the open door policy, the transparency, and we haven't even
Speaker 1: gotten into the fact that the mayor and apparently share
Speaker 1: along the uh the uh, they had this freedom and
Speaker 1: ability to sort of write a check to any non
Speaker 1: governmental organization that's out there claiming to want to help
Speaker 1: solve a problem. There's no transparency when it comes to that.
Speaker 1: So you have to be kind of friends of government.
Speaker 1: So getting at your foot in the door and changing
Speaker 1: the makeup of counsel will provide that vehicle and that
Speaker 1: opportunity for people to maybe have a say or we
Speaker 1: gotta dulge it.
Speaker 2: We got to that. We got I told you there's
Speaker 2: too much fraud, wasted abuse, and the lack of integrity,
Speaker 2: especially in my community. Yeah, and so we have it
Speaker 2: down in city Hall too.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: Okay, on one component of that, I again going back
Speaker 1: to Tod Zinser and his observations and others. Apparently the
Speaker 1: mayor and most of the council is obsessed with green
Speaker 1: the whole climate change. They want to allocate tons of
Speaker 1: resources and money to green projects and green programs. Are
Speaker 1: you inclined to want to continue down that road or
Speaker 1: do you think there's more important things for the city
Speaker 1: to address.
Speaker 2: We way more important. We don't have the money. And
Speaker 2: my thing is it's not we don't when it comes
Speaker 2: down to the importance of what the city needs, it's
Speaker 2: like what like how Corey Bowman said, we need to
Speaker 2: strip it to the bare bones. We need to be
Speaker 2: able to go into the whole budget to see we're
Speaker 2: unnecessary waste, fraud and abuses is lying and we have
Speaker 2: to get rid of it. We have to. We have to,
Speaker 2: we have to clean up. We have to clean up
Speaker 2: the books because we got people that can't. We got
Speaker 2: retirees that's never gonna get paid. We got individuals, we
Speaker 2: we got individuals, We got nonprofits in this that are
Speaker 2: getting money that aren't getting that aren't doing the job.
Speaker 2: Anyone that gets money from the city should literally have
Speaker 2: to do extra. You have to have you have to
Speaker 2: we have a gun, we have a crime issue. And
Speaker 2: with that crime issue, you're not out. You're getting money
Speaker 2: from the city and you're not What where you at?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: The non level organizations promise they're going to fix the
Speaker 1: problem with crime and they take the money, and you
Speaker 1: kind of they disappear, like where is the transparency, where's
Speaker 1: the the work product, where's the report from that organization
Speaker 1: showing what they have accomplished. The money trail just ends
Speaker 1: after the check gets written. It seems it disappears.
Speaker 2: It seems like when it disappears, it sounds like money laundering.
Speaker 2: It seems like a little bit of that. But I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna I'm not going to cause out some conspiracy.
Speaker 1: Please to speculate, is there, just like the class trail,
Speaker 1: come back into somebody's campaign coffers? Are they out there
Speaker 1: working the streets for some politician that gave him money?
Speaker 2: Who's getting whose beak is getting wet? And with that said,
Speaker 2: we're not We're with that. We're seeing the chaotic moments
Speaker 2: coming coming off of that. Yeah, and with these chaotic
Speaker 2: moments happening, I just question, I question where is the
Speaker 2: money being spent and used and is it being used
Speaker 2: properly exactly?
Speaker 1: Well, you need transparency to know that. And right now
Speaker 1: we don't have any Kevin Farmer or It's been a
Speaker 1: real pleasure having you in studio. Vote Kevinfarmer dot com
Speaker 1: where you find his website, maybe help out his campaign.
Speaker 1: I'll be looking forward to hopefully you getting a Republican
Speaker 1: Party endorsement. Kevin putting the word out. We'll see what happens. Hey,
Speaker 1: definitely have some engagement by the Republican Party here in
Speaker 1: the county. It's almost as if someone pulled the flag
Speaker 1: out and left and moved to Claremont County or something. Kevin, anyway,
Speaker 1: I wish you the best. It's been a real fun
Speaker 1: having a conversation with this morning and you're welcome here
Speaker 1: in the fifty five krsee morning show as we get
Speaker 1: closer to the election day.
Speaker 2: Hey, and remember this audience. Hey, I'm Kevin Farmer from
Speaker 2: the community for my hood. And remember November fourth
Speaker 3: I see you at the post, Yes you will, seven
Speaker 3: fifty six right now, fifty