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Speaker 1: It's seven oh six on a Friday, and a very

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Speaker 1: happy Friday to everyone.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate tennant a fifty five Parasey Morning Show.

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Speaker 1: My name is Brian Thomas' host, and I am happy

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Speaker 1: to welcome back to the fifty five Parasey Morning Show.

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Speaker 1: We gave it a shot, and of course a election

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Speaker 1: didn't work out real well, at least from my perspective

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Speaker 1: and this man's perspective. Welcome back mayoral candidate. Former mayoral

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Speaker 1: candidate Corey Bowman. Great to have you on the show.

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Speaker 2: Corey. Love hearing from you.

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Speaker 3: Hey, Brian, thanks so much for having me.

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Speaker 2: How's your morning going going okay so far.

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Speaker 1: I'm always happy it's Friday. Always feeling a better mood

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Speaker 1: on Friday than any other day of the week. But

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Speaker 1: that's good for me, and I hope you are in

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Speaker 1: a happy mood this morning as well. And I don't know,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to put you on the spot, but

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Speaker 1: did you have an opportunity to listen to Todd Zenzer

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Speaker 1: on the program yesterday here in the Morning Show The

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Speaker 1: Citizen Watchdog Todd Zenzer, Former Inspector General Todd Zenzer.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I was going through his summary just a little

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Speaker 4: He posted something on Facebook about I always love hearing

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Speaker 4: from Todd.

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Speaker 3: He's got such great.

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Speaker 4: Insight on keeping people accountable at city Hall.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well he's trying anyway, And I just thought, wow,

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Speaker 1: this is really problematic. They're getting draws from the railroad money.

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Speaker 1: The board is handing over money because the city apparently

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Speaker 1: has identified projects, infrastructure projects that the money's supposed to

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Speaker 1: go to, but those projects aren't in place, you know,

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Speaker 1: they're not ready to start digging with the shovels, y'or

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Speaker 1: not shovel ready. They haven't even issued RFPs or anything

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Speaker 1: for them. So they get the money promising to do

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Speaker 1: some project down the road at some point, and according

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Speaker 1: to Todd Zenzer, they've placed that in an interest bearing account,

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Speaker 1: which interest is now going basically to the general fund

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Speaker 1: as he understands it, So that would allow them to

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Speaker 1: circumvent the existing infrastructure requirement in the railroad money distributions.

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Speaker 4: Well, that was the issue from the very start, you know,

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Speaker 4: I mean, we can keep beating a dead horse, which

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Speaker 4: is a lot of times when it feels like when.

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Speaker 3: It comes to the railroad.

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Speaker 4: But it was not a good decision by the city

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Speaker 4: to sell it I even talk with people that actually

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Speaker 4: wrote the legislation for it and all the deal for it,

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Speaker 4: and some of them are even you know, on the

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Speaker 4: there would be you know, misappropriation of funds or shell

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Speaker 4: games that would take place in the city's general budget

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Speaker 4: to be able to compensate for it, and they said

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Speaker 4: they tried to put as much stipulation as they could

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Speaker 3: Actually, I think we knew from.

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Speaker 4: The very start that they would find some type of

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Speaker 4: loopholes or something to be able to divert those funds

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Speaker 4: to whatever they wanted. And that's exactly what's happening.

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Speaker 1: Well, I think the Railroad Board owes an obligation to

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Speaker 1: the city taxpayers to file a lawsuit or otherwise try

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Speaker 1: to claw that money back. Listen, if the project's not ready,

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Speaker 1: you're not ready to start writing checks to contractors to

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Speaker 1: do something for the city evolving existing infrastructure, then you're

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Speaker 4: Well, you know, and that's another thing about it too,

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Speaker 4: is that there's a couple of different aspects of this sale.

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Speaker 4: Number one is you know how it's being held. You know,

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Speaker 4: you have a railroad trust that you know, they're not

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Speaker 3: And then all these all.

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Speaker 4: These influx of cash to the city is supposed to

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Speaker 4: come from the increase from those investments. Well, I've spoken

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Speaker 4: personally with some of these you know, trust members, and

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Speaker 3: End up becoming forgivable. So that's one thing.

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Speaker 4: And then number two, we don't really have the infrastructure

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Speaker 4: And then number three, you know, this is the kicker

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Speaker 4: that category can be placed on a lot of different things,

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Speaker 4: kind of justify anything as being in existing infrastructure if

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Speaker 3: And that's the problem that we're seeing.

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Speaker 2: Yes, we are one of the problems.

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Speaker 3: Yea the time on the railroad was sold.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, the railroad was sold to be able to fix

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 4: I have a meme that I created from the ad

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Speaker 4: that the mayor was on. It says, fix our roads.

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Speaker 4: You know, we have potholes, we have deteriorating infrastructure, and

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Speaker 4: that's what was being sold on it. But yet they're

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Speaker 1: And they're also seem to have a keen interest in

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Speaker 1: national politics in spite of the fact that they have

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Speaker 1: no control over national politics. I mean, this always bothers me.

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Speaker 1: I know, it's one of the things that former Vice

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Speaker 1: Mayoral Canada, Christopher Smithman is always on a tear on.

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Speaker 1: I'm done with resolutions, do the work of the city

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Speaker 1: residents and quit focusing on national politics.

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Speaker 3: Corey, Yeah, that's exactly.

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Speaker 4: So. I mean a lot of people see Cincinnati politically

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Speaker 4: as a stepping stone, right, city Hall is just a

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Speaker 4: chance for you to kind of get in the spotlight

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Speaker 4: and then you're kind of going to run for a

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Speaker 4: higher office. A lot of people say, oh, that's not

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Speaker 4: But then let's just look at this recent class of

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Speaker 4: city council members that just got sworn in. Within a

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Speaker 4: couple months or within a month, two of them announced

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Speaker 4: candidacy for higher offices. One is trying to run for

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Speaker 4: so you kind of see as a stepping stone. So

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Speaker 4: that's why you see a lot of these national issues

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Speaker 4: to practice for a bigger role. And I think that's

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Speaker 4: what people are tired of. Fix our streets, keep them safe,

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Speaker 4: spend the money wisely. But you can't do that if

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Speaker 1: Of your priorities well spending wisely? Boy, what is a

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Speaker 1: real eye opening?

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Speaker 2: Yesterday?

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Speaker 1: Barely the city is still pursuing these zero carbon emissions

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Speaker 1: agenda item and they're putting all kinds of money. The

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Speaker 1: federal government pulled the plug on the new solar array

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Speaker 1: that they were supposed to pay for, so the city

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Speaker 1: forward with it, to the tune of ten plus million dollars.

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Speaker 1: They've already built one solar array. It's pretty distant from

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Speaker 1: how that works, but gee, they're going to build another one.

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Speaker 1: They don't have enough money to cover the cover their budget.

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Speaker 1: I think it's a thirty one million dollar budget shortfall,

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Speaker 1: and yet they're still going to go after carbon neutrality

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Speaker 1: with another solar farm. I just carey, I can't understand this.

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Speaker 1: Don't they appreciate the fact that no one around us

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Speaker 1: is pursuing zero carbon emissions and that we all breathe

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Speaker 1: the same air And they can fight this uphill battle

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Speaker 1: all day long. But as long as China and Turkey

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Speaker 1: pursuing zero carbon, that their efforts amount to literally nothing.

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Speaker 4: Corey, No, You're exactly right, because when it comes to

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Speaker 4: we think that we have this big impact on the

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Speaker 4: national stage.

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Speaker 3: You know, I see that, we see it.

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Speaker 4: We have a resolution for a ceasefire in Israel, we

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Speaker 4: have a resolution for all these national issues. But we're

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Speaker 4: forgetting about our current residents. You know, I have a

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Speaker 4: novel idea. We're in the West End where there's thousands

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Speaker 4: of people that need jobs, that we need industry, that

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Speaker 4: we need manufacturing, we need future careers for our young

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Speaker 3: But yet we've neglected that, and.

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Speaker 4: All these major industries are moving outside of the city

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Speaker 4: or they're just starting outside the city. You know, we

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Speaker 4: see major announcements of people like Apple or Tesla or

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Speaker 4: see it in the downtown area. We need these jobs

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Speaker 4: in this industry in the downtown area, but they're too

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Speaker 4: focused on solar farms. When it comes to that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a I just find it. I find it

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Speaker 1: impossible to explain or even understand. But you know, if

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Speaker 1: and they can make a good argument for prioritizing the

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Speaker 1: solar panels over literally everything else the residents of the

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Speaker 1: city want. Fine, but we're not even close to there,

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Speaker 1: which makes the decision making this regard batcrap insane my words,

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Speaker 1: not Corey Bowman's. We'll bring Corey back, we'll talk about Yes,

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Speaker 1: he's running for another office. He's also got a podcast

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Speaker 1: and some other issues to talk about. Sevent nineteen fifty

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Speaker 1: candidate Corey Bowman. He is now un for yet another office.

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Speaker 1: Corey Bowman, you were running for another office? Which one

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Speaker 1: is this?

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Speaker 4: My friend, Well, yesterday I just got the word that

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Speaker 4: my petitions were sufficient to be a member of the

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Speaker 4: Hamilton County Central Committee for Cincinnati, and so.

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Speaker 3: This is just this is just a step to get

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Speaker 4: You know, after last year's election, I think a lot

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Speaker 4: of people were kind of asking, well, what's next, and

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Speaker 4: there's a lot of things that were suggested to us.

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Speaker 3: But you know, we were in Cincinnati.

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Speaker 4: We have our coffee shop, our church, our family, and

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Speaker 4: after last year, you know, we still felt like we

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Speaker 4: need to be involved. And then after kind of looking

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Speaker 4: at the process, I knew that there was a vacancy

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Speaker 4: in our precinct. Executive is what it's called in our district,

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Speaker 4: and so we're in our precinct. And so this, in

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Speaker 4: my mind is just a first step of still staying

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Speaker 4: seeing impact and change.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's wonderful. I'd like to think we'd hear more

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Speaker 1: from the Hamilton Kinty Republican Party. Generally speaking, I think

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Speaker 1: isles from it seems deafening of late. And do you

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Speaker 1: hope to accomplish you know, like support for candidates out loud,

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Speaker 1: and do will you have any control over anybody, some

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Speaker 1: particular candidate getting money or anything like that.

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Speaker 2: Corey Bowen, Well, the.

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Speaker 3: Biggest thing with this, and I would encourage everybody.

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Speaker 4: I know that we're kind of past the deadline for

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Speaker 4: you know, this year's running, but you know we can,

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Speaker 4: you know, talk all we want about what we're unhappy

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Speaker 3: But overall, we love the city. Whatever the future holds, we.

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Speaker 4: Want Cincinnati to be impacted for the better of it.

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Speaker 4: And this is a way that everybody can get involved.

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Speaker 4: You know, we do have a local party. There's many

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Speaker 4: I and even in the West End community where we

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Speaker 3: We're here for the city.

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Speaker 4: We're not here to coffee and paste anything nationally, and

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Speaker 4: once people see that, you know, you'd be surprised how

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Speaker 2: Fair Enough, Now, have you gotten.

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Speaker 1: Any like progress toward getting the cameras that have been

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Speaker 1: I know, the money was allocated and there was some

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Speaker 1: recent rumblings that oh, yeah, yah, we're going to do it.

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Speaker 2: We're going to do it.

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Speaker 1: This of course, because we had some eleven year old

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Speaker 1: the promise was made again a couple of years ago

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Speaker 1: fast forward to now it still hasn't been done. I

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Speaker 1: guess they're too busy thinking about a solar panel farm,

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Speaker 1: but any progress in your neighborhood, Corey, Well.

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Speaker 4: First thing I would want to say is that we

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Speaker 3: You know, Queen Irie was eleven year.

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Speaker 4: Old girl that got shot on New Year's Day in

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Speaker 4: I know that there's kind of a mindset that takes

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Speaker 4: I think it's over five hundred cold cases in this

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 4: I think of people like Hope Dudley, who her son

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Speaker 4: She's still fighting not only to find her son's killer,

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Speaker 4: These are valuable programs that we have to encourage. But

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Speaker 4: A lot of people think that all it's an infringement

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Speaker 4: These are CRC areas. And this is the problem off

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Speaker 4: finding is that the city is putting a lot of

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Speaker 4: now because we're getting all this you know, pressure right now.

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Speaker 4: But this could have been done over the last two

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Speaker 4: but now all we need one hundred cameras by this day.

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Speaker 3: We need this.

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Speaker 4: That's not how you run government. You run government proactively.

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Speaker 4: You find the problems ahead of time to prevent stuff

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Speaker 4: get permission.

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Speaker 3: This is my suggestion.

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Speaker 4: The hottest parts when it comes to these crime wars

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Speaker 3: Is in Cincinnati. When it comes to the youth violence, it's.

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Speaker 5: These public parks, so Lower Park, Grant Park, Fairview Park,

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Speaker 5: A lot of these parks that have playgrounds that kids

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Speaker 4: And this is something to where CRC has the land

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Speaker 3: Go through all the red tape.

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Speaker 4: So this is something that needs to be done now,

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Speaker 4: it needs to go.

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Speaker 1: Corey Bowman, former mayoral candidate, now he's going to be

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Speaker 1: a precinct executive. That's great, core I'm glad to hear

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Speaker 1: about that, and I'll courage my listeners to find the

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Speaker 1: Corey Bowman podcast. How often are you producing a podcast

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Speaker 1: or how long is Joe Strecker producing your podcast?

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Speaker 2: How often?

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Speaker 4: Right now, we're doing it every week, and I'm gonna

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Speaker 4: actually need to talk with Joe about getting it into

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Speaker 4: our website and get into where it's easily findable for

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Speaker 3: I know he's got all the information all that.

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Speaker 4: He's doing an amazing job at getting the voice out

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Speaker 4: or so many of these issues you guys as well,

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Speaker 4: and so we're excited for that. I hear you still

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Speaker 4: have a Congressman Davidson up next right.

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Speaker 1: He's waiting in the wings. Cory Bowman will be talking

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Speaker 1: to him. You're about to shut down.

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Speaker 3: Please tell him, I said, Hi.

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Speaker 4: He's a great friend of mine and he's doing great

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Speaker 4: work on the national stage.

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Speaker 2: He sure is, Corey Bouman.

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Speaker 1: Look forward to having you back on again next week

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Speaker 1: and we'll be looking for the Corey Bowman Podcast. Keep

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Speaker 1: up the great work, my friend.

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Speaker 3: Okay, thank you so much.

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Speaker 4: Brown.

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Speaker 3: We'll talk to you soon.

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Speaker 1: Have a great weekend, So mach twenty five right now. Yes,

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Speaker 1: Congressman Warren Davidson will be joining the pro