WEBVTT - 10-10-25 Bill Cunningham Show 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:09.200 Hi, Billy cunning him the great America, welcome this Friday afternoon, 0:00:09.280 --> 0:00:11.200 the Tristead. Of course, the big news is tonight, a 0:00:11.200 --> 0:00:13.360 lot of great high school football going on. And then 0:00:13.360 --> 0:00:16.400 on Sunday at four twenty five, the Bengali's take it 0:00:16.440 --> 0:00:20.120 off against the Packers, and of course we have Flaco 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:23.520 Wacko Flacco is in charge. We have just changed Joe 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:25.560 for another Joe, and we'll see what happens. Burrow to 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:28.360 Flacco and the game starts at four to twenty five. 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:30.880 All coverage starts here about nine oh five am in 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:34.479 the morning, and that gives Joe Waco Flacco in additional 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:37.200 three hours to know the playbook and made me understand 0:00:37.240 --> 0:00:39.840 what's going on and if he wins, if he could 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:43.800 beat the Packers twice over a four week period, he'd 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:46.479 be the first quarterback in an NFL history over a 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:50.120 four week period to beat the same team twice with 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:53.440 two different teams he's playing for, which is somewhat unusual 0:00:53.479 --> 0:00:55.640 if you can follow my reasoning there. But the Bengals 0:00:55.680 --> 0:00:58.920 do things quite unreasonable quite often. Why the Browns would 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:02.360 want to trade a functional quarterback to a division rival 0:01:02.360 --> 0:01:06.440 that haven't beaten they haven't beaten yet. Cleveland Cincinnati plays 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:09.199 in about six weeks. Is beyond me. But Cleveland Browns 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:11.840 often make decisions no one understands, but joan of you 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:14.839 and I now is the great Steve Gooden. He's running 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:18.360 for city council. Unfortunately, he sees hope in the city. 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:22.000 And also he monitored the great debate last night. I 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:24.360 had on Corey Bowman a couple of days ago. After 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:27.360 have pure of all refuses to come on. But nonetheless, 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:30.560 Steve Gooden, welcome again to the Bill Cunningham shun. First 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:32.560 of all, I know you monitored the debate as much 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:34.920 as your good stomach. Give me your ideas of what 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:36.800 happened last night with a great debate for Mayor. 0:01:38.400 --> 0:01:41.640 Well, look, I think anybody that watched that debate that 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:46.360 didn't conclude that our mayor is a petty, didn't skinned 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:49.640 individual who has no business in an office like that, 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:53.640 They weren't seeing the same thing I saw. It's all attack. 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:57.920 It's all trying to paint everyone he disagrees with as 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:02.960 a mega fashion extremists. He has nothing he can say 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:07.800 about his record, nothing to say about the gun battle 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:12.720 on Walnut Street on Monday night at five o'clock in 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:16.200 the afternoon when people were leaving their offices, where two 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:18.600 idiots got into a fight and started shooting and one 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:21.320 of them got shot in the hand. It was just 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:23.960 he has nothing to say about the new crime stats 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:27.320 this week that show property crimes up more than one 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:30.520 hundred percent downtown, that now shows that downtown is our 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:34.000 most violent neighborhood. Of all the neighborhoods that starts the 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:36.960 West End, Avondale, other places where we've seen gun violence, 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:40.880 Downtown is the worst. He didn't talk about our restaurants 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:43.679 being down twenty to twenty five percent. He didn't talk 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:46.560 about this River Roots Festival having to cancel all their 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:49.120 acts because of poor ticket sales because people are afraid 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:51.760 to come downtown. He didn't talk about any of that. 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:54.480 He just tried to say that Corey Bowman was some 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:58.560 sort of an extremist or something, and you know, it 0:02:58.600 --> 0:02:59.800 was just it was a disgrace. 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:02.480 You know, a few mothers. A few years ago, the 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:06.000 Tall Stacks came here. It was well attended, people going nuts. 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:08.880 All the cruises were sold out, the dinner cruises, etc. 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:12.280 People downtown. It was all great stuff. It was good. 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:14.840 Now that we have river Roots is happening, and no 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:18.520 one knows that. I was unaware until I saw Paula 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:20.720 and her toadies a couple of nights ago talking about 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:24.560 river Roots. I'm thinking, what is that? And so you're 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:28.240 telling me something I suspected. There's no buzz, there's no 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:32.000 feeling that those in Boone, Kenton, Campbell, those in Butler, Warren, 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:35.440 those in Columbus want to come to downtown Cincinnati, get 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:39.560 a hotel room, walk around Fountain Square, maybe with kevlar on, 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:41.920 go to the shores of the Ohigh, look at these 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:45.320 old river boats, get some rubber chicken, then go back 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:48.680 to the room if they're alive. And so that to 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:53.120 me is a clear indicator indicator about what's happening with 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:57.000 river Roots, which is a dud. And I would think 0:03:57.080 --> 0:03:59.680 the mayor would say, you know what these are? The 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:03.000 Paula this is the last four years on crime, Support 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:07.000 the police, support the firefighters. We need affordable housing, We 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:10.360 need better healthcare clinics, we need better programs of one 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:11.120 type or another. 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:11.920 None of that was. 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:16.919 He can't defend his record. So it's Tora Tora against 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:19.520 Corey Bowman. So let's talk about number one crime you're 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:22.120 downtown a lot. You're a big time lawyer in addition 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:25.200 to being unfortunately running for city council. What have you 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:28.080 discerned the last two or three years the safety of 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:31.479 downtown Cincinnati that those around the region, no I'm not 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:32.360 going down there. 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:36.200 Well, that's exactly what's happening. I mean, you see it. 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:38.240 You know. Look, I have an office right up this street. 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:40.760 I lived downtown for years, and I can tell you 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:43.120 it is less safe than it was four years ago. 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:46.960 They used COVID as an excuse to pull back on 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:50.000 some of the policing. We have a police staffing crisis, 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:52.960 which we've known for many years. There's not enough officers 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:54.839 to walk the beat, and a lot of the officers 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:57.960 are approaching retirement. Agent cannot be made under the contract 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:02.400 to work mandatory over time. It's a disaster. It's not safe. 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:05.080 People want to use our downtown. We have all these 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:09.279 beautiful new attractions, new buildings, new restaurants, but they're suffering. 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:11.200 And I look, you know it's so bad now that 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:15.679 the Inquirer has a regular column every month that tells 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:19.080 you which restaurants closed They've got there. Keith panned off. 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:21.280 He's a great writer for the actually does a column 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:24.240 on closures and openings. Okay, so, and there's always more 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:27.000 closures and openings, and most of them ru in that 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:30.320 downtown area. It's killing these small businesses. There are people 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:34.760 who have put their entire lives, savings, everything on the 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:37.040 line to try to open small businesses there because they 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:39.120 were told, Look, the city's investing it over the Rhine, 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:42.560 investing in downtown. But if you don't invest in public safety, 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:45.360 all the buildings, all the rehabs in the world don't 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:47.280 make sense. If people are afraid of getting shot, they're 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:49.719 a free to getting shot. And on this River Roots 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:52.679 Tall Stack thing, I mean, you know, all the music acts, 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:54.680 all the big music acts, they had to cancel and 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:57.320 pull away. I mean they lost millions on this thing, 0:05:57.400 --> 0:05:59.640 I'm told. And because the last time we had a 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:02.800 music festival, the Cincinnati Music Festival, the Old Jazz Fest, 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:05.560 we made international news because of the attack on this 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:08.680 Holly and those people and the Fourth Street beat down 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:11.760 as they call it. So of course the older people 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:14.320 with people who have options and want to choose word 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:15.680 to spend their money, they're not going to come down 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:18.320 and take that risk. And we also go I mean, 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:22.640 my daughter runs a restaurant over in Covington, that Covington 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:25.080 and Bellevue were the ones that are reaping the benefit. 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:27.600 They have lines out the door from people who don't 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:29.920 want to come downtown because it's safe because you can 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:33.800 see police officers walking around Covington. Yes, because Bellevue has 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:37.120 lights and they haven't made so you know, people are 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:39.760 voting with their feet. And it's to the dutchment of everyone. 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:42.240 And this is the council and active. They don't want 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:44.880 to talk about it. They have to go negative because 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:46.120 they really have nothing else to say. 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:49.479 And on Borough Love and Kevin had an headline the 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:52.880 other day about on the great debate is the National 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:56.800 Guard needed in Cincinnati? Instead of asking the question why 0:06:56.920 --> 0:06:59.760 is the National Guard needed in Cincinnati? What are the 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:05.560 policies of the current administration that incentivize criminals and disincentivized police. 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:07.960 One of the great statements in Last Night is about 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:10.600 all the crime. We're enabling police to do their job, 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:13.760 is what f Ted Piroval says. We're enabling police to 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:14.400 do their job. 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:15.280 No, they're not. 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:19.600 There's millions of dollars being spent on social welfare programs 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:22.760 that could have hired an additional two underd police officers 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:26.320 instead of hiring cops. They're paying arm robbers one thousand 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:30.040 dollars a month as part of an ambassador program not 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:33.640 to commit any more armed robberies, including travel vouchers to 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:37.080 other American cities. Plus, I'm told some of the council 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:40.920 candidates have Iris Roley and others that are being enabled 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:45.360 to go after council candidates personally, and of course Iris 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:47.360 Roly can do that. She makes one hundred and six 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:51.040 or more thousand dollars a year as an ambassador of type. 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:56.120 She's the implementer of the so called so called initiative 0:07:56.200 --> 0:08:00.320 to improve the relationship between the city and the cops, 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:03.400 and she's being paid to attack. Can you explain, have 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:07.360 you been the subject of an attack because the collaborative representative, 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:09.880 not an employee of the city, making more than comps 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:13.440 and firefighters, is being incentivized under the collaborative to attack 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:17.920 council candidates that don't like have tad purerival. Have you 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:19.200 been subjected to that? 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:23.520 I had been subjected to skating, although I think in 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:28.040 effective attacks by miss role Lee, particularly online. And look, 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:30.320 here's the way it works. This is the new version 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:32.800 of patronage at city Hall. You know, they do have 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:35.920 civil service protections for full time employees. They can't get 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:38.719 involved in politics. So what they do is they give 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:42.120 these big contracts to so called consultants or to nonprofits. 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:44.480 A lot of them are bogus, and that's how they 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:47.200 defund the police. They fund the money to these places. 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:51.400 So Iris, you know, used to be an activist outside 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:53.439 the city Hall and some of the stuff she did 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:55.160 was good, some of it was bad, but she was 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:57.040 on her own time and she had a right to 0:08:57.040 --> 0:09:00.480 do it. Now she has a paid city content and 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:04.400 through a loophole, is not subject to civil service protections 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:08.280 and is clearly being used to attack people like me 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:10.880 that they see as being you know, actually, I think 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:12.559 the attacks are good news for me because it means 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:14.440 they must have some polling that show people like me 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:17.640 and Smitham and others are in the hunt. But yes, 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:20.480 they've come after me. It's very clearly coordinated. She and 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:24.640 Damon Lynch. You know, hundreds of people from I guess 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:27.439 from these church communities that they associate with, are on 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:30.960 Facebook and other places attacking me. My favorite is a 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:33.280 guy that keeps calling me, well it gives me a 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:35.959 white piece of dog crap every day I post something. 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:38.240 He puts that on there actually doesn't say crap, but 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:40.320 I guess I can't say the full thing here. And 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:42.480 my other favorite is one who keeps calling me, quote 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:47.760 a mediocre douchebag, which which is particularly offensive because I 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:50.480 thought I was an extraordinary douchebag. I really work hard 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:52.400 at it, so I was really hurt by that. The 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:55.840 mediocre part really hurts. But this is the kind of 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:59.000 stuff they do, and these are tax dollars paying this 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:01.760 woman who has no real metrics. We can't tell what 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:05.640 she does with her days, but she's out there not 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:10.480 promoting the mayor but attacking his critics. Well, now that 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:13.520 should bother anybody who from a taxpayer standpoint. 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:15.640 Does she put in forty tough hours a week? Is 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:18.240 she up there eight o'clock on Monday morning, she'll be 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:21.720 reporting to the collaborative. And then what happened a few 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:24.360 months ago is when she interfered with arrest and over 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:27.640 the rhine the police union Ken Kobra wanted her arrested. 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:30.080 In fact that he told the cops the next time 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:32.880 she interferes with an arrest, arrest her and that's the 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:36.120 number one said. That's exactly what she wants. She wants 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:39.360 to be a victim. So how can anyone say Iris 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:44.840 Rowlie is performing collaborative work when she has no work schedule, 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:48.600 she has no job. She collects serious money. I understand, 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:51.360 a three year contract worth four hundred and fifty thousand 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:55.400 dollars a year in order to collaborate with who about what? 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:58.080 And how can you be attacked when you're not in 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:01.480 office at all? And those in office not performing or 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:03.280 not attacked explain that one to me? 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:06.920 Well, I can tell you, I mean, I mean, apparently 0:11:06.960 --> 0:11:11.440 she's curious at me because I went on the VXU 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:16.120 radio program and had the temerity to criticize her arrangement. 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:19.760 And we've also called out the fact publicly that she's 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:22.600 got her son working for her company. So again, if 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:26.360 she were an actual civil servant, the nepotism rules would apply. 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:29.680 So she's funneling money to her son as a full 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:32.280 time or a part time employee making forty five hundred 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:34.800 bucks a month. And again there's no metrics, there's no 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:37.520 time sheets. From what we can tell, I mean, we 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:40.200 don't know what they're doing or not doing. But I 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:42.520 can also tell you this when I talked to King Kober, 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:44.640 and I talked to my friends at the FOP, who 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:49.319 I am proud endorsed our candidacy. Her actions are one 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:53.600 of the number one, probably the number two issue with morale. 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:56.640 Number one is staffing by far, but number two it's 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:59.360 having people like Iris reporting to the mayor and the 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:03.280 city manager or who are openly critical of police, not 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:06.079 just individual officers but out there interfering with the rests, 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:09.800 but just critical of police in general, and calling to 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:13.200 defund the police by steering money toward her program. This 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:16.640 awful community responders thing they have. They've got a couple 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:19.320 millions stuck into that where they send social workers out 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:22.520 to crime scenes to do god knows what. Eventually when 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:24.599 I'm gonna get shot. And I always say, if you 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:27.360 want to see how they're really defunding the police, drive 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:29.559 over some of these speed humps that they spent tens 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:31.840 of millions of dollars on. They're using those as an 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:35.400 excuse not to bring officers into patrol. The speed humps 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:37.520 are a form of defunding the police. It's tens of 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:40.560 millions of dollars. There's a whole recruit class plus in 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:43.520 those speed humps, and they just don't want the officers 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:46.600 out there doing traffic inter addiction anymore and writing tickets. 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:48.680 It's one of the reasons we have so many guns, frankly, 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:52.000 because a lot, as you know from practicing criminal law, 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:54.880 a lot of guns are recovered at traffic stops. That's 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:56.959 just part of how it happens. So we don't really 0:12:57.000 --> 0:13:00.960 meaningfully do traffic in the city anymore on the speed humps. 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:03.880 And that's a form of defunding the police. That's the 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:05.880 kind of thing that she's Those are the initiatives she 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:07.280 and people like that have been pushing. 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:08.200 That can't be true. 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:11.640 Crazy, None of this is true because the mayor said 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:14.040 he enables police to do their job, you know that. 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:17.760 And the other thing he said is affordable housing. I 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:21.720 like to know, and Kevin Aldridge push pushed back on this. 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:25.160 What is affordable housing the people's judge and I, you know, 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:26.880 want to downsize a little bit. Every now and then 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:28.720 I look at Oakley or Hyde Park. God knows, I 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:31.480 never lived downtown or OTR, but we wouldn't mind living 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:33.960 in Oakley or maybe Hyde Park and say we looked 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:37.880 at these new housing being constructed on at Oakley. It's 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:39.679 going to be home a rama. Do you know what 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:41.960 it costs at the minimum price to go in Oakley? 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:46.319 I can only guess you're in the four to five 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:47.959 grand a month in some of those for the departments. 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:49.960 From what I understand, Well, if you want to buy one, 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:53.360 it's one point three to one point six million, I 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:58.040 say one point three to one point six million in Oakley. 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:00.480 And if you want to have a rental, if you 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:03.400 want to run a place in and around hyde Park Square, 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:06.240 it's forty five hundred dollars a month. And so I 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:09.920 would ask the average American is one point three million? 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:11.080 Is that affordable? 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:15.080 Secondly, is forty five hundred dollars a month for an apartment? 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:16.080 Is that affordable? 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:18.760 So instead of talking about, well the last four years, 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:23.120 give me some results on affordable housing or development like 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:26.440 the Hyde Park debacle, Instead of doing that, he talks 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:29.160 about our plan provides more affordable housing. 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:33.760 What the hell does that mean? It's untethered the reality. 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:37.640 Yeah, well, nobody knows what affordable housing means when they 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:39.920 talk about it. I mean, if you're getting really technical, 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:42.040 and I do a lot of work in this world 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:45.320 with development, what he's really talking what I guess he's 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:48.360 trying to talk about, is this you know, income restricted 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:50.760 housing that the federal government pays for, you know, through 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:53.760 HUD dollars that they're trying to push. They're pushing it 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:56.800 on the same neighborhoods over and over, like the West 0:14:56.880 --> 0:14:59.000 End and Bond Hill and Price Hill, and they don't 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:02.040 want anymore. They've at it with that kind of affordable housing. 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:05.440 But what the what they typically call what these developers 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:08.720 called naturally occurring affordable housing, which is you know, reasonable 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:11.960 rents because of good supply. We don't have that. Because 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:14.800 of the way our the city tax abatements have worked. 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:17.840 They're incentivized to build these really high end units and 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:20.720 get really high rents and try to get really high stuff. 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:23.440 I mean, maybe iHeart will co sign with you on 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:26.240 a on a million dollar mortgage at the end, maybe 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:28.600 you could talk about that like some of your contracts. 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:31.720 But it is not affordable to the average person. This 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:34.800 Hyde Park development thing, the battle there. Those apartments were 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:36.680 going to go for forty five hundred a month. Yeah, 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:39.320 and they portrayed that as anyone who was against that, 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:42.160 They said, you're a nimby who's against affordable housing. It's 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:44.840 just nonsense. I mean, forty five hundred dollars a month 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:46.920 it did me to qualify for that is you know, 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:48.360 you would need an income well. 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:51.040 Over two hundred ran well six sixty thousand a year 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:53.760 in rent. And so if that's thirty percent of what 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:56.120 you're making, you'd have to make two hundred and twenty 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:59.960 five thousand dollars to maybe two fifty after paying taxes. 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:02.680 And that it doubt and af TAB Pierreval says that's 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:06.480 affordable to buy something in Oakley one point three million, 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:09.080 or to get an apartment in Hyde Park is forty 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:12.120 five hundred dollars. That's affordable. And he stands up there 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:15.800 and I'm one last issue. I'm told we are awaystation 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:19.720 to the glories of the administration of af Tab Pureval, 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:23.960 either in Columbus or Washington, DC, whether it's the clerk's office, 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:26.720 running for the Congress. He didn't want to become the mayor. 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:29.480 It happened because of what happened to PG Sittingville. That's 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:31.880 the only reason. So he's on his way to glory. 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:34.240 And now he's going to use all of his success 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:38.480 in Cincinnati to launch a nationwide or statewide campaign for 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:41.040 something af TAB for Ohio. 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:43.320 How would that fly in Steubenville. 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:47.840 I think you know, I'm told he already has all 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:51.400 those website domain names purchased, but I think he may 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:54.120 as well just make he may as well just retire 0:16:54.200 --> 0:17:00.160 those black because you know my understanding, islack. Look, you 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:04.320 know I've talked from our friends and well I think 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:06.120 he's well, first they're going to sue him. I think 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:09.760 that's some like intellectual property copyright infringement that'll catch up 0:17:09.800 --> 0:17:13.639 with him. But this poor guy is going to have 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:15.880 a hard time if you ever run statewide. I mean, 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:18.480 this guy has been not just not endorsed by the 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:21.800 police union, but the FOP. They voted no confidence in 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:24.679 it in his performance, and that will haunt him throughout 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:27.160 the rest of his political career if indeed he has one. 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:31.920 But courts have some was station. 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:35.960 Yeah, Well he did a number on the courthouse too. 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:38.480 A lot of these judges that he handpicked and selected 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:40.440 and encouraged to run are the ones that are letting 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:42.479 these people out on low bond. So he has been 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:46.480 a very consequential figure in town, both in the courthouse 0:17:46.520 --> 0:17:48.520 and at city hall, and in a very bad way. 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:51.320 So he's got a record that will haunt him everywhere. 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:53.040 Save good and keep being a douchebag. 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:57.520 It comes naturally to me. Thank you very much for 0:17:57.560 --> 0:17:57.880 your time. 0:17:58.040 --> 0:18:00.879 Now you're a lawyer, so that it fits well, Steve 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:02.680 good and thank you very much. We get the government 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:04.879 we deserve. Let's continue with more Steve. 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:05.199 Thank you. 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:05.520 News. 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:08.720 Next, that's your home of non douchebags. News Radio seven 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:13.640 hundreds WLW. Get the music, Dave Katon, Here we go 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:18.920 Friday afternoons. Big things happening, tother and fro. Just heerd 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:21.200 from Steve Gooden. On Monday or Tuesday of next week. 0:18:21.240 --> 0:18:24.440 I want to get on Linda Matthews, the Avondale Community 0:18:24.440 --> 0:18:27.600 Council and Chris Smitherman, if at all possible, I know 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:30.040 he's busy and more to see if I can help 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:32.679 as a positive change agent for the city of Cincinnati. 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:35.080 I always like to think I have hope, no matter 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:39.240 how dark it is. I continue to believe optimism will 0:18:39.280 --> 0:18:42.160 reign supreme in the long run, and that Cincinnati, Hamilton County, 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:44.440 the tried state, in the long run will be better 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:47.320 because there are so many good people with good intentions. 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:50.760 Democrat and Republicans that may look at things different politically, 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:53.000 but we all want the same goal. We all want 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:56.400 the same end. So when Steve Gooden points out what's 0:18:56.440 --> 0:18:59.080 happening in our city, and instead of the mayor and 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:01.600 city council members trying to defend its record, which they 0:19:01.600 --> 0:19:06.600 can't defend, they go on attack, tora tora, tora against 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:09.600 those who would dare oppose them. And this is a 0:19:09.680 --> 0:19:12.920 difficult environment for an independent and or for a Republican. 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:16.000 Even though I'm proud to have the vice president living 0:19:16.040 --> 0:19:20.440 in Hyde Park, jd. Vance, we haven't had too many 0:19:20.760 --> 0:19:24.640 presidential vice presidential individuals living in Cincinnati for a very 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:27.720 long time. I do know that in the last election, 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:31.240 as Kevin Aldridge pointed out last night at the inquir 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:33.480 the moderator on the debate, and by the way, I 0:19:33.520 --> 0:19:37.280 think Aldredge did a pretty good job. That's seventy seven 0:19:37.359 --> 0:19:40.600 percent of Cincinnati voters voted for Kamala Harris and they 0:19:40.720 --> 0:19:43.520 voted against Donald Trump. And whether you like it or not, 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:47.199 Corey Bowman is associated with JD. Vance, who is his 0:19:47.280 --> 0:19:51.840 half brother. Now they have severe policy differences, but that's okay. 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:54.440 One thing Corey Bowman is going to do is never 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:58.480 speak ill about JD. Vance's half brother, and so I 0:19:58.520 --> 0:20:01.320 get that completely, and so ultimately is going to be 0:20:01.359 --> 0:20:04.080 up to you living in the city of Cincinnati, to 0:20:04.119 --> 0:20:08.159 make change. I'm told by the experts here that about 0:20:08.160 --> 0:20:10.679 twelve percent of my audiences in the city of Cincinnati, 0:20:11.359 --> 0:20:15.200 about thirty five percent is in Hamilton County, about thirty 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:18.480 percent or so is in northern Kentucky, and about twenty 0:20:18.480 --> 0:20:21.680 five to thirty percent is in the rest of Ohio, 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:22.800