WEBVTT - 10-24-25 Bill Cunningham Show 0:00:06.840 --> 0:00:09.119 All right, now, Billy Cunningham, the Great America from the 0:00:09.160 --> 0:00:12.280 Double Wide and Naples and New Year, I'm back. 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:13.680 My little week's. 0:00:13.480 --> 0:00:16.280 Vacation was wonderful. It was a stay vacation. I monitored 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:19.200 five nine twelve nineteen our newsroom. I read the Inquiry 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:21.000 every day. I talked to Tony Bender at least three 0:00:21.000 --> 0:00:23.040 times a day, which is half the time I talked 0:00:23.079 --> 0:00:26.599 to Joe Dieters. So it was a wonderful week off. 0:00:26.600 --> 0:00:28.800 But now I'm back at it. And while I monitor everything, 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:31.320 you have to point out to Tony Tony Pike, remember 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:31.800 that guy. 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:33.080 He's back. 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:35.919 Tony Pike is in the Hall of Fame with UC. 0:00:36.080 --> 0:00:38.560 We got the UC Bearcats tied for first place in 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:41.319 the Big twelve, the Big eleven, the Big fourteen. Then 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:44.160 we have the Ben Galley's of course on Sunday against 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:47.640 the Lowly Jets, and that we could have a quarterback controversy. 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:51.280 If Wacko Flacco keeps playing like this when Joe's ready 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:52.919 to come back Burrow, he may not get his old 0:00:53.000 --> 0:00:53.480 job back. 0:00:53.760 --> 0:00:54.640 But that's another matter. 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:56.760 Joining you and I now is the Great Brian Hambrick 0:00:56.800 --> 0:00:59.400 of the Power of Five and Brian Hamrick Welcome to 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:01.480 the Bill cunning A Show. My first guest after a 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:05.200 week off from my double wide and near Naples. Welcome 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:08.520 to the Bill Cunningham Show. Brian, how are you good? 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:10.080 Thanks for getting mister Cunningham. 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:13.520 Well, I was there monitoring events. There was a classic 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:17.200 scene I had from your newsroom when you're running down 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:19.480 the hallway of eight to one Plump Street trying to 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:23.120 chase down share along. She was morphing into various objects, 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:24.959 and you got close to her, she became a chair, 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:27.280 and then when you walked away, she suddenly popped up. 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:29.319 It came like a water cooler, and then you moved 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:31.319 a little bit, she became a door. In other words, 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:33.760 she avoided you like you had the plague or you 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:36.720 had COVID and you were chasing share along eight of 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:39.959 one Plump Street for what reason? In the hallways she 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:42.039 ignored you completely explained that. 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:47.960 One well, you know, I mean James Round didn't have 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:50.440 better moves sometimes. 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:53.320 You know, I feel good, I feel good, or. 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:57.080 Any one of them to try and get out of 0:01:57.120 --> 0:02:02.320 the way of the questioning. I mean, Walter Payton could 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:06.800 have not moved more swiftly, agilely. 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:12.400 It was unbelievable. You know, people think maybe, you know, 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:14.359 we get a kick out of this. You know, was 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:16.600 much easier for me if they just come out and 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:17.560 tell us what they're doing. 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:21.880 You know, we don't choose to walk them down like this. 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:25.799 But the reality is we have been trying over and 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:29.360 over and over to talk to anybody in the city 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:31.080 managers and mostly the city managers. 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:34.440 That's what everybody wants to hear from. She is at 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:39.799 the center of this entire event. Good batter indifferent might 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:43.840 be the greatest thing that ever happened, But that's the 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:47.200 person that you need to talk to because everybody else 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:49.800 can just debate this thing. We can all talk about, well, 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:53.640 you know, this city councilman wants to do it this 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:56.080 where he likes it, or he doesn't like it, or 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:58.360 he's not sure what it's about. The mayor is not 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:01.880 sure what it's about. Nobody knows. She's the only one 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:04.400 who has the information. We got to go to the 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:08.360 person with the information. Now, you know, on their side, 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:11.120 their side of it is, it's a personnel matter, it's 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:15.240 an ongoing investigation. We can't tell you anything. Well, that's 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:18.600 that's just not enough. I mean, there are things. You 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:21.359 can tell us. I mean, you can tell us. There 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:24.359 is no reason why you can't give us a basic 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:29.480 understanding of what the investigation is about. You know, there's 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:33.560 no information on that. So we go down to City 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:37.080 Hall and I had already prepared that this is what 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:39.080 it was going to be. Like, I knew she was 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:41.280 coming into this. It was a with some sort of 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:45.160 a pressor. Now, if you don't want to see me 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:50.160 or any of the other TV stations, why would you 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:54.520 hold a press conference on a very It was like 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:57.400 she was getting an award for hiring folks with disabilities 0:03:57.480 --> 0:04:01.960 or something. Why would you hold that press conference that day? 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:05.560 Put it off until next week, you know, do something 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:08.160 else you don't you don't put up press go who 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:10.040 do you think is going to show up? We're all 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:11.960 showing up. We all want to know the same thing. 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:15.320 So I go up there coming, Yeah, so I think 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:19.120 I show up. Yet the chief wants to know, you know, 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:22.640 apparently she's not even sure the folks her attorney said, 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:25.359 they have no idea why they fire or didn't fire, 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:27.799 but they put her on this administrative leave. They fire, 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:35.320 they haven't yet. Well here's the thing, there's two different Uh, Uh, 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:37.839 there's two different ways of looking like at this. Apparently 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:40.800 under the charter there's one set of rules and if 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:44.520 she if uh, if they have her under the charter, 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:46.760 there's one set of rules. And if she is a 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:52.520 contract employees, there's a second set of rules. Under the contract, 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:54.440 they can just fire her. So if they're looking at 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:58.520 like she's under the contract, then they need to just 0:04:58.640 --> 0:04:59.239 fire her. 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:03.239 Right, she serves for the pleasure of the city manager 0:05:03.320 --> 0:05:05.640 and if you're not giving me pleasure. And until she 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:08.880 was fired, ill used the term fire discharge. She was 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:11.880 the greatest thing since sliced bread. I've seen all the news. 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:13.919 We're all on the same page. Thinks she's doing a 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:16.680 great job. July twenty six, she kind of went after 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:19.160 the media thing. You shouldn't be publicizing what happened to 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:21.479 Holly in July twenty six. She's doing a great job. 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:23.880 But let's go down history's hallway just a little bit. 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:27.080 Let's go back to Cheryl Long, who was the assistant 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:30.239 city manager at North College Hill, the home. 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:30.799 Of the Trojans. 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:34.840 Assistant city manager making little or no money, and at 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:37.560 that point and North College Hill was in financial and 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:41.240 physical emergency. There were gunshots fired to the football field 0:05:41.279 --> 0:05:44.279 a couple times. North College Jaill shall always say, is 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:46.760 not well run. And so the city gets together this 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:49.200 huge after they paid off the last guy millions of 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:52.200 dollars to a search committee to find the thirty seven 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:55.160 best candidates in America to be the city manager of 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:57.640 the City of Cincinnati, and the search form one of 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:00.680 the background of all the candidates, and loan hold I 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:03.160 think after Peeroval whispered in the ear of somebody, and 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:06.520 the search committee said, we want Cheryl long a DEI 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:08.840 higher from North College Hill, and they bring her in. 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:12.880 Then within a week it surfaces that she'd filed personal bankruptcy, 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:16.839 had numerous tax liens, and then aftippeerrival diverted to the 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:18.760 search committee saying well, why didn't you tell us this? 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:22.039 They couldn't find an information out and then Seth Walsh 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:23.919 and others are saying, now, wait a minute, do we 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:28.039 want someone who's filed bankruptcy with numerous tax liens to 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:31.080 run the city of five hundred million dollar operation? If 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:33.520 she's the most qualified, the mayor said, of those thirty 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:36.320 seven candidates, I want to see the qualifications of the 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:37.200 other thirty six. 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:40.200 Are they in drunk tank somewhere. I'm thinking, how in the. 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:41.640 Hell is this the most wodified? 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:44.640 Explain that one to me and then let me continue. 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:46.560 And then one of the first things she. 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:49.480 Does is fire the police chief, a guy named Washington, 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:51.839 and he came up through the ranks and he was 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:55.800 fired allegedly for not promoting enough minorities. And he is 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:58.719 a black guy. He was fired. He files the lawsuit 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:00.800 and now we're going to pay. We're gonna pay him 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:03.400 millions of dollars. So they find this guy named McKinley 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:06.520 from Dallas. McKinley's the new fire chief. The first thing 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:09.560 he does is take an extended leave of absence. He 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:12.320 leaves and then comes back a couple months later. Then 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:15.360 over the next several months, coding the inquirer, he took 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:19.880 ten thousand dollars of wrongful money and fictitious overtime. And 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:21.720 when he was caught, instead of giving it to the 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:24.760 county prosecutor, what they did was say to say to 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:27.080 the new fire chief, McKinley, you pay us back. 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:27.360 He's out. 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:29.080 I don't have the money. They then say, we got 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:31.800 to garnishe your wages? And that's the fire chief. Now 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:35.240 let's move on to Fiji, for God's sakes. And I'm 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:38.280 looking at this. Let's put us put some canvas top 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:39.160 on top of the shirt. 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:41.640 Hit halftime there. Look what the. 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:44.440 Hell's going on around this place? Can you explain any. 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:46.520 Of this to the long list? But then there was, 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:47.960 you know, quite a bit more to go. 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:50.920 I'm thinking, okay, And then you're trying to find out 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:54.640 why Fiji, who come up through the ranks, did exactly 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:57.160 what the mayor told her to do every time he 0:07:57.280 --> 0:07:59.080 stood next to her and patted her on the back. 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:01.000 You're doing a great job. Keep doing what you're doing. 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:03.800 It's wonderful. Then she gets fired what she serves in 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:06.240 the pleasure of the city manager. You can get fired 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:08.240 for a good reason, a bad reason, or no reason. 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:10.640 But the mayor doesn't want that. It looks bad, so 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:12.600 he wants to hire a big time law firm to 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:15.040 spend millions of dollars more to find out why I 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:17.680 fired her? What you haven't guy? 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:18.200 That fired? 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:18.440 Right? 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:21.120 Can you smell when I'm cooking? 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:25.800 It is? But these are all the things, and this 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:28.840 is the reason why we felt like it was very 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:32.000 important to try and get something. 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:32.480 Get some answers. 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:38.960 From the city manager, you know. But as you saw there, 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:43.160 if you watch that, there is no intention what's over. 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:46.520 In fact, when we came into the first sip of 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:48.920 the hallway there at the bottom of the stairs when 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:51.560 you go into city Hall, there were the mayor's offices 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:55.040 to the left, and so she was apparently in there, 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:58.000 and I see all of her staff out in front. 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:00.600 I'm standing out there waiting for me because I'm like, well, 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:02.680 we'll just ask her. If she comes out, maybe she'll 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:05.920 stop and talk to us. They go inside and then 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:09.400 circumvent and try and go around the way that we weren't, 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:11.440 and that's when we caught up with her in the hall. 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:14.560 And if you watch that carefully, she puts the she 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:19.000 puts the folder she's holding over her face like like 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:22.959 I'm like, what is that about? Well, I'm looking at it, 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:24.559 going why is she doing that? 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:28.640 I'm hiding. I'm hiding to hide my folder, like. 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:30.640 We don't know who she is. I mean, it was 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:35.200 I couldn't understand it. And you know, if I thought, well, 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:38.160 maybe she thought the lights were bright, you know, or something, 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:40.439 but she put it down pretty quick and the lights 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:44.720 were even more bright, so I couldn't explain why it 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:47.360 went down like that. But then she comes through. I 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:49.680 had two or three questions. I knew I would have 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:52.760 a short time to just ask her quickly the top 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:55.560 of mind things. You know, is she being made a 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:58.400 stek goat's yes or a no? That has nothing to 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:01.400 do with with personnel at her. I couldn't see it. 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:04.080 You see, I had my sunglasses on. I couldn't see 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:06.040 the prescription glasses. I had to put them on because 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:08.120 I want to make sure I was, you know, finding 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:10.360 the right person. Here she is coming down the hall. 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:12.800 Behind her folder. 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:17.800 Oh, walking behind and and trying to get like. She's 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:21.679 got some of her staff over there running interference. I 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:24.200 mean it looks like a screenplay, is what it looked like. 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:26.480 You know, you put all those guys out in front 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:28.640 and there trying to knock off the people, and they're 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:31.240 answering for you. She has to go to a press conference. 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:34.440 I mean it was it was absurd, and she'd never 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:37.640 come to that. It was bizarre. So then she goes 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:40.840 into the press conference. Uh, give us a little dog 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:43.600 and pony show about whatever that press conference was about. 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:45.599 So we're waiting, we'll say, well, well said again, I 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:47.920 didn't want to be disruptive in the press conference. It 0:10:48.000 --> 0:10:50.400 was her moment with some award, so I didn't even 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:52.679 ask the question. I'm like, I'll wait till she comes 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:55.280 back out. I'll try again. Maybe she'll think, well, it's 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:58.400 probably better for her. It would have been one hundred times better. 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:00.040 She's gone. You know what here, Look, here's what I 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:03.280 got to say. We are working and doing everything we 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:06.280 can to fight crime in this city, and sometimes we 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:09.160 got to make hard decisions. And that's what we're doing here. 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:12.480 That's all I've got to say. Stay tuned. We got 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:14.400 the boom. She left, and you know what, I wouldn't 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:16.040 have been able to use any of that. I wouldn't 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:19.599 have used one second of me trying to ask her questions. 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:22.400 It would have gone away and she would have had 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:26.479 that as the sound bite that everybody would have used. Everybody. 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:29.200 But you know what they did. They didn't come out. 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:32.760 She went straight to the back. There's another room in 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:37.240 that room. Once fifteen there in the in the city building. 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:42.040 They found and I even asked God janitor there who said, no, no, 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:44.120 there's no other way out of there. They found a 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:48.080 way out. There's a trap door, a rat hole, there's something, 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:53.000 and you can go and circumvent everybody. And they ran 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:55.600 out the back. They ran out the back, and we 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:59.400 never saw them after that. My lord, I mean, this, 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:04.040 would you do that? That is a bad look for anybody. 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:04.839 Just come on. 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:05.680 You know. 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:10.160 I worked at in public relations to University of Oklahoma, 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:14.079 and there were some folks there that had the same theory. 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:16.680 The theory is if you don't say anything, you can't 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:20.640 say anything wrong. So just don't tell anybody anything. And 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:23.720 this was many, many years ago, and I was there, 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:26.920 and I remember some of the looks I got. So 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:31.840 I know, in public, sometimes in public the public forum, 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:34.880 people don't want to do this. But I said, listen, 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:40.760 we're reasonable people, we make reasonable decisions. Why don't we 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:42.600 just go out and tell them why we made the 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:43.640 decision we made. 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:49.440 Not everybody's going to agree with you. You're gonna you'll tell 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:51.760 them what you did and why you did it. I mean, 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:55.000 look to take somebody who does that and you can 0:12:55.040 --> 0:13:00.280 agree with despise, love him, hate him, but Sheriff Jones guy, 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:02.480 he will do what he does and then he stands 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:03.680 there and tells you what he did. 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:07.360 And that's what that'sody obviously agreed. 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:10.240 Trump's the same way. He'll tell you he's gonna he's 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:13.720 gonna be. Trump's gonna be kind of it's gonna demolish 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:16.200 the White House, he says, I'm not going to ask 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:17.880 permission within two days. 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:20.360 I'm just gonna do it. Yeah, you don't do it 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:25.880 what he did right there when you when you ask 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:28.400 and when you ask somebody like that about it, though 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:31.240 usually they double down on it if they're you know, 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:34.120 if they're happy with what they did, or they believe 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:38.360 in what they did, you know, hiding and running and 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:43.960 not answering questions and hide them behind you know, really flimsy. Well, 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:48.480 it's under investigation. And what investigation are you going to 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:53.520 circumvent by saying we're fighting crime in this city? There's none, 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:54.880 it's made. 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:59.160 Up, well, you know, Brian, Brian Hemry Channel five. I mean, 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:01.640 it's one of for to watch this show, and it's 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:05.120 happening because of the election, which is about ten twelve 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:06.880 days away. We're going to find out if the city 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:09.520 wants to take a different turn, which politically, all my 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:12.800 political friends tell me republican democratic. Otherwise, the city's not 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:16.000 going to go some different direction. It is simply holding 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:19.000 the status quotes after the election. It is absurd to 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:21.840 think that if Cheryl Long indeed and the mayor work 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:26.000 closely with Fiji Chief Fiji for not just months, but 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:28.480 two or three years, then knew the ins and the out. 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:30.560 She did exactly what they told her to do, and 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:33.440 all of a sudden, if they say that she's doing 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:35.680 a bad job, do a one to eighty of the 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:38.200 opposite direction. All you got to do is call her 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:39.960 and say, look, things aren't going the right way. We 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:42.920 have to let you go, and you get full pension 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:44.360 for the rest of her life. She makes like two 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:46.640 hundred thousand bucks a year, she'll make that for the 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:48.600 rest of her life. She got thirty some years and 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:51.760 she's in the drop program for cops. And you don't 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:53.600 hang her out to dry and make it look as 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:57.040 if she did something so wrong and so disgusting. 0:14:56.640 --> 0:14:58.000 That we knew nothing about that. 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:01.040 We got to fire her and keep keep this under 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:04.240 control until November the fourth and fifth, when the votes 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:06.040 are announced. At that point we're going to know. And 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:08.720 so they're hanging out to dry is to dirty her up. 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:12.400 The mission is the dirty up Thiji right now because 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:16.120 we were so incompetent. We can't manage the city. We 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:18.640 can't manage the cops. We screwed up the fire department. 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:21.359 We screwed up the police. We can't fill the potholes, 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:24.160 we can't shovel the snow. Someone's going to take the fall, 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:25.800 and it's going to be Thiji. And they want to 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:27.440 hire a firm to come up with all the dirt 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:29.120 on her, and then they'll go to her and say, 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:31.000 look at all this dirt we found about you. We 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:33.600 we'll pay you two million dollars to go away if 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:37.000 you sign the NDA. They want the NDA to be signed. 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:37.880 That's what's behind this. 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:42.640 That's what they want. They want something that whenever she 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:46.360 walks out of that building, she cannot say a word 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:47.680 about what she knows. 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:48.160 Correct. 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:50.480 And you know, there are a lot of people who 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:55.360 believe she knows a lot. And if she's able, if 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:57.640 they just went and fired her, she'd be able to 0:15:57.680 --> 0:16:00.000 walk right out. And I can guarantee you I would 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:01.880 and had to walk her down. No, he would have 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:03.080 stopped and talk. 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:03.680 Let's talk. 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:06.880 She been finer on the spot. Yeah, yeah, we'll be 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:09.280 glad you wait, wait, I think I see some other 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:11.760 stations A half mile down the road. He'll be here 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:13.240 in a minute. We'll do it all, you know. 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:14.640 Yeah, Oh my god. 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:18.240 So that's what's happening. They're going this is that's the 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:21.840 bottom line. They want a deal where she can't say 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:25.720 anything when she leaves, because you know, some people believe 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:27.320 she knows where all the skeletons are buried. 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:30.720 Absolutely, absolutely, and they want to keep the lid onto 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:33.160 after the election. Get the law firm to give him 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:34.000 some dirt on her. 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:34.840 Call her in. 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:37.040 You're a good woman, You've been here a long time. 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:39.760 You'd exactly what we told you to do, and it failed. 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:42.080 We can't take blame ourselves. You got to blame you. 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:44.960 Here's two or three million dollars. Sign this, you'll be 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:46.640 rich and away you go. Well, we got to run, 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:49.720 Brian Hemrick. But one of the best things I saw 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:52.640 the last few days was you chasing down a folder 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:58.360 named Cheryl long Ms folder who is talking about nothing 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:00.800 except hiring the disabled, which by the way, is a 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:04.040 great idea, but nonetheless, Uh, Brian Hemrick, thanks for coming 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:06.480 on the Bill Cunningham Show, and may you continue to 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:07.760 have great success in what you do. 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:08.399 Thank you, Brian. 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:15.280 I've got that folder filed under bizarre. Thanks again, mister Cunningham. 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:17.480 Thanks again, Brian Hemrick of the Power of five. 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:18.000 Thank you. Well. 0:17:18.080 --> 0:17:23.800 Let's continue with more folder running, city hall, bankruptcy, tax leans, 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:28.639 unexcused absences, garnishing wages. Let's get dirt on Thiji to 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:31.960 put on top of that pile of crap. News Radio 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:39.760 seven hundred ww Dave hit the music, not much music, 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:43.560 by the way, good with me this afternoon for my 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:46.399 double wide near Naples, Florida. Went down there for a 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:48.960 few days to shoot some golfs with my buddies. 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:49.879 Loved it. 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:53.280 Got back monitored everything when I was gone five nine 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:57.000 twelve nineteen The Inquire our newsroom. It's wonderful the way 0:17:57.000 --> 0:18:00.560 the world works today, but it doesn't always work well 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:03.320 for many. One of the things we're losing in our 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:07.520 society indirectly or maybe directly, because of the Unaffordable Care 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:10.680 Act by Barack Hussein Obama. The chickens are now coming 0:18:10.680 --> 0:18:13.960 home to roost and healthcare. It's the fact that local 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:18.160 pharmacies are closing. In fact, Walgreens has hundreds of its 0:18:18.160 --> 0:18:22.560 pharmacies closing. You might know the CBS is either going 0:18:22.560 --> 0:18:25.120 out of business soon will be out of business. Thousands 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:28.000 and thousands of pharmacies all over the country. Rite Aid 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:33.280 is closed, liquidated completely. And that's what Deep said is 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:35.720 I announced that I think the best pharmacy in the 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:39.800 world is Adrian Pharmacy and Madeira at the corner right 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:43.560 there went there. The owner, Wayne Morris and his lovely 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:46.959 daughter Linda, had worked that business for like fifty years, 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:51.199 put together by Evan Adrien about sixty years ago, and 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:54.600 after years and years and years, they just can't make 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:58.160 it anymore because of the way the pharmacy business has 0:18:58.240 --> 0:18:59.240 changed fundamentally. 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:01.000 And that's true. 0:19:01.040 --> 0:19:03.560 And almost everything in medical care, whether it's the hospitals, 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:08.280 the docks, the technicians, the nurses, whatever it is, it's awful. 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:11.639 And because market forces were not allowed to operate, it 0:19:11.680 --> 0:19:15.600 had to be government subsidies with less care and more expense, 0:19:15.920 --> 0:19:18.960 which is that's what's happening with the exchanges now and 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:21.239 the fight over healthcare premiums. I'll get to that at 0:19:21.240 --> 0:19:24.240 a moment, but I learned a couple of days ago 0:19:24.320 --> 0:19:27.879 that the Adrian Pharmacy is closing. That's one of thousands 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:31.600 and thousands of local pharmacies that have closed. Our closing 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:33.960