Speaker 1: Just shy at seven oh six here fifty five Caroseeed.
Speaker 1: He talks station Brian Thomas, wishing you a very happy Wednesday,
Speaker 1: inviting you to listen to lunch. Going to be a
Speaker 1: Weedhaman Brewery in Saint Bernard and I'm looking forward to
Speaker 1: seeing folks. Heard from Cribbage Mike earlier, heard from Christopher
Speaker 1: Smithaman he's going to be showing up of course west Side,
Speaker 1: Jim Kiefer and maybe Adam Caller in studio to talk
Speaker 1: about his campaign running for Hamid County Commissioner. I hate
Speaker 1: to put you on the spot and I'm gonna ask you,
Speaker 1: can you make a listener to lunch today? You got plans?
Speaker 2: I actually am doing a legoddess. Uh. It's a Catholic
Speaker 2: business owners group that I'm in. I'm doing a thing
Speaker 2: with them today. So yeah, good for you. That's prior plans.
Speaker 2: And of course you're on a campaign trail. I understand
Speaker 2: do my thing.
Speaker 1: You've been at listener lunch many times, so you know
Speaker 1: what you're missing. Good time. Anyhow, without further ado, let's
Speaker 1: dive on into the situation. Of course, Sadam is running
Speaker 1: for Hamiltonkenny Commissioner. Haven't seen really anything by way of
Speaker 1: activity from the current incumbents. Kind of been maintaining a
Speaker 1: really low profile, haven't they.
Speaker 2: I haven't seen anything outside of them, you know, crying
Speaker 2: about the frank LeRose proposal yesterday, with the whole ballot
Speaker 2: harvesting situation we got going on, That's the last time
Speaker 2: I've heard of them at all. I just don't think
Speaker 2: they have a whole bunch of energy or they maybe
Speaker 2: they just have too much confidence, well.
Speaker 1: In a lot of people, you know, they we know
Speaker 1: Hamilton County has gone blue. I mean, no one can
Speaker 1: deny that we've got some critically important races here. And
Speaker 1: you know, I am in favor of your campaign one,
Speaker 1: I know you, and I know where you are on
Speaker 1: the issues. I mean, for no other reason, jeez, we
Speaker 1: could use somebody with a different opinion or attitude than
Speaker 1: the lockstep leftist mentality we get from the commissioners or
Speaker 1: really literally nothing at all, and that would cause me
Speaker 1: to move over to local reporting, because I mean, let's
Speaker 1: face it, do you ever read anything about what the
Speaker 1: Hamilton Kenny commissioners are doing?
Speaker 2: You have no idea. Nobody even knows what commissioner's jobs are.
Speaker 1: They don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean, you're right in the checks. A lot of
Speaker 2: money's coming in. We control the biggest budget in the area,
Speaker 2: and a lot of that goes to the sheriffs. A
Speaker 2: lot of that goes to public services, the parks, things
Speaker 2: like that. But people don't understand how much power, essentially
Speaker 2: the Himilt County Commissioners have. But you don't hear from them.
Speaker 2: They're like invisible for some reason. Everybody focuses on city Council,
Speaker 2: but the Hamil County Commissioners have a lot of power
Speaker 2: to do a lot of things that could change the
Speaker 2: way money is spent. Your tax dollars are spent in
Speaker 2: this area.
Speaker 1: Yeah, one of the areas that I have heard. I
Speaker 1: don't know because I'm not a Hamilton County sheriff, but
Speaker 1: I do talk to Sheriff Jim Neil quite our hopefully
Speaker 1: sheriff again. Jim Neil, of course is running against our
Speaker 1: current sheriff, Charmy McGuffey. But the whole kind of DEI
Speaker 1: environment that's going on, and that they're promoting that and
Speaker 1: that means promoting people based upon maybe the color of
Speaker 1: their skin, or their gender or their sexuality as opposed
Speaker 1: to a merit increase, and that is a morale killer.
Speaker 1: I mean it's just in every company in America. Once
Speaker 1: they've adopted these policies, you can see more and more
Speaker 1: have of them are dropping them. The minute it's revealed
Speaker 1: that they pursue these policies, someone points it out and
Speaker 1: the next thing you know, look, oh more, Molson Coors
Speaker 1: has scrapped it's woke DEI policies. There's a local article
Speaker 1: in the newspaper this morning about oh who was it?
Speaker 2: Well, which school Texas did a Duke University? Just did
Speaker 2: I believe? Northern Kentucky University, North the Kentucky Universe, that's
Speaker 2: the one I read.
Speaker 1: Their Office of Inclusive Excellence, which is the DII office,
Speaker 1: has been dropped. So it's being rejected more and more
Speaker 1: because it really profoundly impacts employee morale. I mean, if
Speaker 1: if you're not working off merit, then it's Katie bar
Speaker 1: the door.
Speaker 2: America is about meritocracy. It is greatness needs meritocracy. You
Speaker 2: can't And this goes back to the schools, Brian. The
Speaker 2: Cincinnati public school system is in complete shambles. If you
Speaker 2: didn't have these problems, I mean, you've got a forty
Speaker 2: one percent chronic truancy rate in the Sinsini public schools.
Speaker 2: We spend twenty one thousand dollars a student, two to
Speaker 2: three times more than what some of these public schools
Speaker 2: are charging. Yet we get nineteen percent college readiness rates
Speaker 2: those kids that are graduating. And I was one of them.
Speaker 2: I went to Cincide Public right pretty much my whole
Speaker 2: entire life. They're not coming out of school prepared for
Speaker 2: these things. So why would you force a square peg
Speaker 2: into a round hole? The problem is the schools you
Speaker 2: wouldn't need DEI. If the schools were performing exactly, you
Speaker 2: wouldn't need it. The kids would be prepared. And if
Speaker 2: you're someone who's being forced into a job that you're
Speaker 2: not prepared for, you shouldn't want that position anyway.
Speaker 1: Greed set yourself up for You're.
Speaker 2: Setting yourself up for failure. Why would you want something
Speaker 2: that wasn't earned?
Speaker 1: Right, which takes me back to the point I was
Speaker 1: hoping would be reality. You mentioned and how much control
Speaker 1: the commissioners have. They're in charge of the sheriff budget.
Speaker 1: It's the biggest chance of money that the county pays out.
Speaker 1: Could they not have limitations on how that money is spent.
Speaker 1: In other words, none of this money can be ear
Speaker 1: marker used or otherwise for diversity, equity inclusion programs and
Speaker 1: things in doctrination programs and things of that nature.
Speaker 2: And you know what when I knew that Jim Neil
Speaker 2: was the right guy for the job was when he
Speaker 2: told me we don't need more money. I said, Jim,
Speaker 2: if I become one of the HAMLK kind of commissioners,
Speaker 2: you tell me what you need. Because crime and safety
Speaker 2: is one of the biggest problems in the county. People
Speaker 2: leave the county number one. I did a survey on
Speaker 2: Twitter the other day. The number one reason, I said,
Speaker 2: I've been in this city my entire life. If you left,
Speaker 2: why did you leave? Crime and safety was number one.
Speaker 2: Schools was number two. And I said to Jim, I said,
Speaker 2: you you let us know what you need. He said,
Speaker 2: we don't need more money, Adam. He said, we need
Speaker 2: to be more efficient, we need to be more proactive,
Speaker 2: We need to get into the community, we need to
Speaker 2: work with the people. And I said, that's the first
Speaker 2: time I've heard any right, any any police officer, fireman,
Speaker 2: anyone tell me they didn't need more money, right, And
Speaker 2: Jim's a Westsider. How we are where, you know, hiding
Speaker 2: money under the mattress.
Speaker 1: Just have a lot of the money we first earned,
Speaker 1: you know, the original the dollar that we first earned,
Speaker 1: still in our pockets. And that's just the way west
Speaker 1: Siders are typically very frugal with the money. But I
Speaker 1: mean that that see his admission along those lines as
Speaker 1: a reflection that it's not the amount of money, it's how.
Speaker 2: It's spent and look at the waste. Like one of
Speaker 2: the things Brian and I would get so excited about
Speaker 2: this being a cheap Westsider who was raised by a grandma,
Speaker 2: little German, five foot tall grandma who grew up in
Speaker 2: the depression. I would love to get a third party audit,
Speaker 2: just to go look at the county's numbers, Go look
Speaker 2: at all the money we see spend on. There's a
Speaker 2: DEI department. There's a d I department called the DEI department.
Speaker 2: They didn't even try to hide it in the county.
Speaker 2: Why do we have a d I department? Are there
Speaker 2: a bunch of wealthy white college PhDs looking to get
Speaker 2: jobs at the county that we don't know about that
Speaker 2: we need to keep out of those jobs. It's government work, right,
Speaker 2: I mean everybody can work in those jobs. So I
Speaker 2: mean you've got you've got just craziness going on. And
Speaker 2: to me, it's it's kind of a grift by Democrats
Speaker 2: to get people who went to college for BS degrees,
Speaker 2: liberal arts degrees just to find them positions.
Speaker 1: That's exactly it. It is industry that was created whole cloth. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it sounds like the green industry.
Speaker 2: It's what it creates jobs for people that have no
Speaker 2: other skills.
Speaker 1: Right, Or you know, went to college and racked up
Speaker 1: fifty to one hundred maybe two hundred thousand dollars worth
Speaker 1: a student loan debt and came out with a degree
Speaker 1: in humanities or you know, human studies or whatever.
Speaker 2: Or just call it a degree in complaining.
Speaker 1: Well, there you go, that's what it is. So we
Speaker 1: got to create a new department to hire those folks
Speaker 1: because they don't have jobs or otherwise don't have anywhere
Speaker 1: to turn for gainful employment because the degree was pointless.
Speaker 2: Well, the vast majority of jobs recently, I mean, if
Speaker 2: you look at the employment numbers THO or government jobs
Speaker 2: that are being added, I know that a huge swath
Speaker 2: of those jobs and you know the Feds looking at
Speaker 2: what job numbers. One of the reasons they haven't dropped
Speaker 2: interest rates recently is because the job numbers look good.
Speaker 2: What they've been told is that the job numbers are great,
Speaker 2: and then later on they reassess those numbers and they realize, oh,
Speaker 2: we had eight hundred thousand less jobs added last year, right.
Speaker 1: But hear that it's like jeez least.
Speaker 2: But when they first announced the numbers, they.
Speaker 1: Don't have one job and that was the figure out
Speaker 1: where we are in terms of well.
Speaker 2: And here here we are kids can't afford houses. You've
Speaker 2: got an entire generation of people that can't afford homes
Speaker 2: because his interest rates have been so high for so long.
Speaker 2: And then on top of that, the prices went up
Speaker 2: because for so long the interest rates were so low,
Speaker 2: you had people coming in buying if these houses, overbidding
Speaker 2: for them, pricing up the properties, and those property values
Speaker 2: have relatively stayed where they're at. So now you've got
Speaker 2: the Fed talking about maybe a quarter point reduction here
Speaker 2: in September, right in the wall streets looking for a half, right,
Speaker 2: but they're only probably going to get a quarter. And
Speaker 2: now you've got these high flying tech stocks that kept
Speaker 2: Biden looking good for so long. Those are taking a
Speaker 2: dump now, Like in Nvidia. People are looking at them
Speaker 2: and saying, look at the valuation of Nvidia. It's gone,
Speaker 2: it's out of control. You know. The AI hype is
Speaker 2: kind of wearing off.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And to that point, I love the memes that
Speaker 1: I see on you know, the typical question is comparing
Speaker 1: Trump to Kamala Harris formerly. You know, Biden, are you
Speaker 1: better off now or are you better off under Trump?
Speaker 1: And most of the vast majority of us felt like
Speaker 1: we were better off under Trump, and for no other reasons,
Speaker 1: the price of gasoline, the price of groceries, and the
Speaker 1: price of and then someone on the left side of
Speaker 1: the ledger will post the stock market and they'll show
Speaker 1: you where it was back when Trump was president, and
Speaker 1: where the numbers are now, Like, what do you mean
Speaker 1: you better off now? You better off before? And I'm
Speaker 1: thinking to myself, well, you know, there's a whole lot
Speaker 1: of folks that have the biggest problem out there with
Speaker 1: the price of groceries, and they're on the life's lower
Speaker 1: end of the margins. They're the folks who are struggling. Generally,
Speaker 1: they aren't high paying high falutin kind of job. Folks.
Speaker 1: They're not invested in the market, so you can show
Speaker 1: them that figure all day long. They only wish they
Speaker 1: had the extra money to be invested in the market.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, they're struggling to figure out how they're
Speaker 1: going to buy a pound of ground beef. Adam Kaylor
Speaker 1: you can find them online at Adam Kaylor k o
Speaker 1: E h l E R Adam Keyler dot com. Run
Speaker 1: for County Commissioner. He's got some great ideas and I
Speaker 1: like where you're on the Hamlin County Sheriff's Department. And
Speaker 1: God bless Jim Neil. We got more with him. We're
Speaker 1: gonna get an update on the Tom Brickman's idea and
Speaker 1: signature drive to get six hundred million of the railroad
Speaker 1: money into a separate fund to help people pay the
Speaker 1: real estate taxes. I just laugh every time I think
Speaker 1: about it. Fifty five krc DE Talk Station Brion Thomas
Speaker 1: with Adam Kaylor in studio Adam Koehler dot com. Find
Speaker 1: him online, help him out, get a yard sign and
Speaker 1: help bring some diversity. If I may be so bold
Speaker 1: and saying to the Hamilton County commissioners. I mean Adams
Speaker 1: already pointed out, you know, in charge of budgeting, we
Speaker 1: could limit how the sheriff budget is spent. We could
Speaker 1: cut away some fat in that. But moving over, since
Speaker 1: you are a city resident, and I know you've been
Speaker 1: following this the whole railroad sale. Of course you were
Speaker 1: against that. We led up to the sale of the
Speaker 1: railroads one point six billion dollars in a fund earning money.
Speaker 1: How that's doing, I don't know. But Tom Briankman come up,
Speaker 1: comes up with the idea like, wow, everybody's property taxes
Speaker 1: went through the roof, like a thirty percent across the
Speaker 1: board increase, craziness, some seniors can't afford to even stay
Speaker 1: in their home. Obviously caught us all off guard. But
Speaker 1: he wants to take six hundred million dollars out of
Speaker 1: that fund and put it in a separate invested fund
Speaker 1: to help the residents of the city pay real estate taxes. Now,
Speaker 1: normally I'm against government programs like this, because you know,
Speaker 1: if you buy a property, then you should be in
Speaker 1: a position to be able to pay your taxes. But
Speaker 1: I did like the idea of taking that money away
Speaker 1: from the government. I have to have purval and since
Speaker 1: they city council, so they can't build another leg of
Speaker 1: the street car or whatever. So where do you know
Speaker 1: where we are in terms of how the signature gathering
Speaker 1: is going, or how people are receiving this or they
Speaker 1: in favor of it. What's the story on this out?
Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you they You know, I've been dealing
Speaker 2: with some people down in Salor Park and they love it.
Speaker 2: Most people in Cincinnati really like the idea. The problem
Speaker 2: with the city of Cincinnati is you got a lot
Speaker 2: of renters, so they don't understand why this would benefit them.
Speaker 2: And you know, as a landlord, if my property taxes
Speaker 2: go up, I'm going to pass that on again. And
Speaker 2: most landlords are going to pass that on and tack
Speaker 2: on something because they see that as an opportunity. Oh well,
Speaker 2: property tax went up, I'm gonna have to raise your rent,
Speaker 2: but I'm gonna have to tack a little something extra side
Speaker 2: of that. Right, So it does affect renters. But you're right,
Speaker 2: what are they doing with this one point six down here?
Speaker 2: What do we think they're gonna do with that? We
Speaker 2: don't know. A lot of people are saying, hey, they're
Speaker 2: gonna buld An Arena with it. They're gonna do this
Speaker 2: with They're gonna do that with it. They've got some
Speaker 2: plan for that money. Right, do we trust city Council?
Speaker 2: Do we trust the Railroad Board? After they lied to
Speaker 2: us in the whole campaign, They completely lied to us
Speaker 2: about practically everything.
Speaker 1: Right, I want fred Street to get fixed and paved.
Speaker 1: You know, we got forty years.
Speaker 2: Where Sunset Avenue. Can you fix that one?
Speaker 1: Lord almighty, it's been a wreck for how many years?
Speaker 2: You take a left from Queen City on there in
Speaker 2: your right lane?
Speaker 1: You need an alignment boomah.
Speaker 2: I mean your shocks and everything are screwed.
Speaker 1: Everything, you know. And and I was obviously the absurdity
Speaker 1: of the American rescue plan. I was pointing out that
Speaker 1: you and I, as American tax players, under a rescue
Speaker 1: plan that was supposed to be dealing with COVID related problems,
Speaker 1: we ended up building water parks and paid for advertising
Speaker 1: campaigns for horse racing. And you know, that's the kind
Speaker 1: of thing that money isolates to be limited to existing infrastructure.
Speaker 1: It means Fred Street might get fixed because we got
Speaker 1: a billion six in the bank generating revenue. But do
Speaker 1: you trust them? To keep it limited to something that
Speaker 1: already exists, like the streets, the buildings that are crumbling,
Speaker 1: the bridges that are crumbling, the things that they have
Speaker 1: left and neglected for decades and decades.
Speaker 2: Well, and Brinckman is really smart about this, and people
Speaker 2: are like, oh, Brickman data, he's shaking it up. You
Speaker 2: know what they did at city council They got rid
Speaker 2: of a property tax cap that had property taxes at
Speaker 2: twenty nine million dollars for twenty years. In twenty twenty two,
Speaker 2: six to nine, they voted to get rid of that
Speaker 2: property tax cap. Now it's creeping back up. I think
Speaker 2: it's at thirty two maybe thirty six million now. So
Speaker 2: at the same time they got rid of the property
Speaker 2: tax cap, when people were complaining about their property taxes
Speaker 2: going up, what do they do? They pointed finger at
Speaker 2: Republicans in state of Ohio. They say, it's the state
Speaker 2: House's problem, it's the law. There's nothing we can do.
Speaker 2: They said that, Brian, there's nothing we can do. So
Speaker 2: what does Brinkman do? He does something about it. He says,
Speaker 2: we got one point six sitting here. He's like, let's
Speaker 2: say we take six hundred million dollars out of that
Speaker 2: one point six You told us UBS who's managing the money,
Speaker 2: told us that they're making six and a half percent
Speaker 2: on that money. Right, if you make six and a
Speaker 2: half percent on six hundred million, that's thirty nine million
Speaker 2: that pays property taxes, and then you have some leftover
Speaker 2: to roll back into that six hundred million dollar trust.
Speaker 2: It's amazing, which pays property taxes potentially indefinitely. You have
Speaker 2: good years and bad years. Right, this is one of
Speaker 2: the arguments we had to gain with the railroad. The
Speaker 2: same problem with the railroad. You're gonna have the exact
Speaker 2: same problem in the railroad. So put it into a
Speaker 2: property tax trust. And then what does that do for
Speaker 2: the pr the city of Cincinnati. You've got people fleeing
Speaker 2: the City of Cincinnati, fleeing Hamilton County. Now you can say,
Speaker 2: why would you move to Pittsburgh, Indianapolis, Co. Lumbus. You
Speaker 2: don't have property taxes to pay in city Cincinnati because
Speaker 2: there's this trust. Did Pittsburgh have a railroad to sell?
Speaker 2: Did Indianapolis have a railroad to sell? No, if you
Speaker 2: want affordable housing, you can come to the city Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: I don't understand why city council wouldn't be behind this,
Speaker 2: don't they want more people to move back to Cincinnati. Well,
Speaker 2: we're handing this to you want to a silver platter,
Speaker 2: This pr opportunity and whether or not it pays it forever.
Speaker 2: It's the idea that they are trying that somebody like
Speaker 2: Tom Brakman is out here saying, you know what, quit
Speaker 2: pointing fingers and actually do something for a change. And
Speaker 2: that's what this is about.
Speaker 1: Adam Kalk. Will we have a chance to vote on that?
Speaker 1: If not by November, if they don't collect the next signatures,
Speaker 1: the signature campaign will continue. They'll collect enough at some point,
Speaker 1: so maybe on a special election, maybe in.
Speaker 2: The spring, maybe December, January.
Speaker 1: Ye, yes, well it's coming at some point and we'll
Speaker 1: all get a chance to chime in at Adam Kaylor
Speaker 1: dot com. So you find Adam helps campaign out, get
Speaker 1: a campaign sign He is running for Hamilton Kenny commission
Speaker 1: and we could use a guy like Adam on the
Speaker 1: Hamilton County Commissioner board so we get some better ideas
Speaker 1: and some exchange of different concepts. Adam, You're always welcome
Speaker 1: to the studio, my brother. We'll have a good have
Speaker 1: a great week. We'll talk again obviously between now and November,
Speaker 1: so stay well.