Speaker 1: By Billy cunning in the Great America. Lots of big
Speaker 1: things happening at Columbus and elsewhere. And of course Representative
Speaker 1: Adam Byrd is in leadership of the House, and Adam
Speaker 1: Byrd welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show. And first
Speaker 1: of all, before we get off on these important issues,
Speaker 1: once again, Cincinnati head at the Privy Bar and over
Speaker 1: the run at Elm Street. Another mass shooting. Dozens of
Speaker 1: shots fired. I think three or four people were wound it.
Speaker 1: Fortunately everyone's got a bad shot. They made it to
Speaker 1: the hospitals alive. Cincinnati this year is going to have
Speaker 1: something like twenty to twenty five thousand shots fired. We're
Speaker 1: gonna have four to five hundred people wound it. We're
Speaker 1: gonna have about one hundred people killed. The mayor is
Speaker 1: firing the chief of police because she refuses to follow
Speaker 1: supposedly his orders, causing the mayhem. We got all hell
Speaker 1: breaking loose. So I ask you this question. We have
Speaker 1: eight large cities in Ohio, so to speak, and the
Speaker 1: three largest wins the three seas Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati
Speaker 1: are fully part of the far left Radical Democratic Party,
Speaker 1: which is to fund the police, make it difficult to
Speaker 1: arrest anybody for any offense. Don't pull over people committing
Speaker 1: traffic violations. And if guns are being used repeatedly, blame
Speaker 1: some inanimate metal object called a gun, and don't blame
Speaker 1: the perpetrator. We have soft judges all over the major
Speaker 1: cities in this country, and much as I've said Adam
Speaker 1: Bird around the country, we can't have a great nation
Speaker 1: if every major American city is in collapse. Well, you
Speaker 1: can't send your kids to school. The school systems think
Speaker 1: the judges are freeing criminals like the ones in Chicago
Speaker 1: who set the poor woman on fire. He was arrested
Speaker 1: seventy two times, convicted forty nine times. He's fifty years old,
Speaker 1: setting subway riders on fire. We have la which is
Speaker 1: in total economic collapse, and New York City just elected
Speaker 1: a communists. Put all that together other Can America be
Speaker 1: a great nation when our cities are in collapse? And
Speaker 1: can Ohio be a great state with Columbus Cleveland, Cincinnati?
Speaker 2: What do you say, hey, Bill, It's a wonderful to
Speaker 2: be on your program, It's an honor to be on
Speaker 2: your program, and that that question continues to come up
Speaker 2: over the last decade, as we've seen the degradation of
Speaker 2: our cities and and so yeah, it's really said, Bill,
Speaker 2: because you and I love Cincinnati. We've been from this
Speaker 2: area the since that even though we don't live in
Speaker 2: downtown Cincinnati, it's the hub of so many things. It's
Speaker 2: where our Bengals and Reds play, it's where the air
Speaker 2: and off Broadway shows are. There's so many great things
Speaker 2: happening downtown. And it's to say it that that people
Speaker 2: don't feel confident to go downtown and it's affecting the
Speaker 2: businesses downtown that that people from Claremont, Butler and Warren
Speaker 2: County don't want to go down there anymore. But can
Speaker 2: we be great? You know in Ohio? You know, I
Speaker 2: think we can because you know, we're we're trying as
Speaker 2: a state legislature to make sure that laws are applicable
Speaker 2: to every everywhere that you might live in the state
Speaker 2: of Ohio. Although all we do is create law, built
Speaker 2: that's somebody who's a mayor or you know, somebody in
Speaker 2: an executive branch has actually enforceable laws that we lay down.
Speaker 1: And in fact, I had on the other day the
Speaker 1: Speaker of the House, Matt Huffman, about marijuana. We got
Speaker 1: all these fancy laws about you can't smoke marijuana and
Speaker 1: public can't smoke in your car, you can't have a
Speaker 1: cheech and shong event happening. But walking around Cincinnati you
Speaker 1: smell marijuana everywhere. I was in Loveland at a very
Speaker 1: fine restaurant there having a little bit of salmon and
Speaker 1: marijuana is waffling all over downtown Loveland as if it's permissible.
Speaker 1: And you pass these laws in marijuana. In fact, as
Speaker 1: I said here, I don't know what the laws are
Speaker 1: on CBD and infused drinks. I know what you passed
Speaker 1: that you're going to look out at maybe a year
Speaker 1: from December to see what the Feds do. But we
Speaker 1: have ubiquitous marijuana use, ubiquitous CBD and THC use of
Speaker 1: infused cans of beverages that have in tox against them.
Speaker 1: The kids and still buy right now, and the ponykegs,
Speaker 1: et cetera. And we have nail now. We have money
Speaker 1: coming to high school sports. I can't imagine what the
Speaker 1: quarterback of Saint X Fry could get on the open market.
Speaker 1: X Rocky Boorman is going to have to start paying money.
Speaker 1: Everywhere I look, I see opportunities where America is going
Speaker 1: the wrong direction. And for those who believe that marijuana
Speaker 1: is wrong, it's an intoxicant. It's a sketel one narcotic
Speaker 1: according to the FEDS, similar to cocaine and heroin and methanphetamine.
Speaker 1: How do you respond to a father living in Kenton
Speaker 1: County or Butler County, or Warren County or Clamont County
Speaker 1: that is this not happy with the fact that you
Speaker 1: legislators are approving more ubiquitous marijuana THHC used through beverages
Speaker 1: and through more uses of intoxicating drugs. How do you
Speaker 1: respond to Ohio making legal in a large sense a
Speaker 1: skeltu one narcotic described by the Feds. How do you
Speaker 1: respond to that? Out of bird, I'll put you on
Speaker 1: the spot, you know, how do you respond to that?
Speaker 2: Well, we're the bill, which, by the way, bill is
Speaker 2: still awaiting the signature of your friend and mine, Governor
Speaker 2: de Wine. He's got to sign the bill. And as
Speaker 2: soon as he signs the bill, it'll be ninety days
Speaker 2: until it becomes effective. So we need him to sign
Speaker 2: it yesterday and get that clock ticking. And this bill
Speaker 2: would not permit what's going on for you in downtown
Speaker 2: Loveland the other night. And as soon as that bill
Speaker 2: becomes law, I have full faith and confidence that Chris Stratton,
Speaker 2: the Claremont County Sheriff, he would enforce the law. He's
Speaker 2: not going to allow that kind of thing to happen
Speaker 2: in Loveland or anywhere in Clairemont County. And I suspect
Speaker 2: the other sheriffs we'll do that as well. And so
Speaker 2: you also talked about NIL bill. This is not the
Speaker 2: work of the state legislature. This NIL stuff is the
Speaker 2: work of OHSAA in Ohio, and it's got fraud and
Speaker 2: problems written all over it. You and I know that
Speaker 2: NIL has caused so many problems at the college level.
Speaker 2: Why in the world would want this to happen at
Speaker 2: the high school level. And what I would say to
Speaker 2: that bill is stay tuned. There may be a bill
Speaker 2: coming soon that would prohibit NIOL in Ohio.
Speaker 1: Well, we'll see what happens. You know, we get the
Speaker 1: government we deserve. And I know many of the large
Speaker 1: companies in downtown Cincinnati, the Kroger's, the Fifth Third Banks,
Speaker 1: the p and Gs, Procter and Gambles is grossly expanding
Speaker 1: their footprint in Mason. They kind of want to get
Speaker 1: out of Dodge. Their employees are saying, it's not safe
Speaker 1: down here. We don't want to be down here. We
Speaker 1: want to get out. And Kroger is a large multinational
Speaker 1: company worth hundreds of billions of dollars, but it's not
Speaker 1: run by Cincinnatians anymore. Procter and Gambles not run by
Speaker 1: Cincinnatians anymore. And we need a multifaceted approach to this.
Speaker 1: Can you briefly tell the American people, Adam Bird, as
Speaker 1: we sit here Monday afternoon, what is the status of
Speaker 1: CBD infused THC drinks in the state of Ohio. If
Speaker 1: Tony Bender after work wants to go somewhere and get
Speaker 1: some can that intoxicating beverages in a can, what is
Speaker 1: the status of law as we speak this Monday afternoon,
Speaker 1: No change bill.
Speaker 2: They're they're still permitted and and so we're we're definitely
Speaker 2: taking a back seat and waiting for the federal government.
Speaker 2: They have indicated that they are opposed to this and
Speaker 2: that they're going to do something about it, and and
Speaker 2: so yeah, these are really dangerous and and you know,
Speaker 2: we should, uh, we should be limiting their use to adults.
Speaker 2: We should be limiting the amount of of THC amount
Speaker 2: that's in the drink. And so this all has to
Speaker 2: be taken care of. And and yet it doesn't make
Speaker 2: me feel good. But we're waiting for signals from the
Speaker 2: from the federal government, and perhaps those signals are a
Speaker 2: little mixed right now. But but we need to take
Speaker 2: care of that.
Speaker 1: Well, when I speak to my favorite US senators, they
Speaker 1: tell me there's no appetite in Washington to touch it
Speaker 1: at all. That there's a large group of lawmakers who
Speaker 1: don't like marijuana period. There's another group who loves it,
Speaker 1: thinks is almost religious experiance. Then there's another group that says, well,
Speaker 1: let's have it, but limit it. And just to make
Speaker 1: it a Schedule one, there's Schedule three would require the
Speaker 1: Congress to act, and they're stimy. They're not going to
Speaker 1: act at all. You can't look at Washington for guidance
Speaker 1: on anything. So the states are on their own. About
Speaker 1: thirty seven states allow marijuana and the other thirteen do not.
Speaker 1: And maybe that's the answer of federal system. Kind of
Speaker 1: let the let the states run it now. Secondly, you
Speaker 1: and many others were involved in the reapportionment about a
Speaker 1: week or two ago. Explain where we are now with
Speaker 1: the districts. I'm thinking about Southwest Ohio, the one held
Speaker 1: by Landsman. What's the status of that? And since the
Speaker 1: Democrats agreed, isn't it Isn't it like chisel and stone
Speaker 1: at this point?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what, when the Democrats agree on this, Willie,
Speaker 2: you can't call it Gary mandering. They want to have
Speaker 2: it both ways. They want to vote yes on it
Speaker 2: and call it gairymandering. You can't have it both ways.
Speaker 2: And so when you look at that seat, it's got
Speaker 2: Green Township added to that seat, You've got Harrison added.
Speaker 2: Those are reliably red areas. The reliably blue areas of
Speaker 2: Hamberley Village have been taken out, and the really red,
Speaker 2: reliable red area Clinton County has been added. Bill. This
Speaker 2: is going to be very competitive. I think that Republicans
Speaker 2: have a great shot at this, and we need more
Speaker 2: Republicans in Washington, DC right now, so this is a
Speaker 2: big step for Ohio. We've also made changes to the
Speaker 2: Marcy Capture seat in the Toledo area, that is that's
Speaker 2: going to have a Republican I am very much anticipating
Speaker 2: twelve Republicans out of fifteen going to Congress from the
Speaker 2: state of Ohio here in a year be will.
Speaker 1: What do you say to Americans angry about property taxes
Speaker 1: because some older folks, especially on a fixed income, are
Speaker 1: being priced out of their homes by property tax increases.
Speaker 1: What do you say to them?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, this is certainly a big issue. And so
Speaker 2: when you look at what we did, we passed four
Speaker 2: bills last week, will it's unprecedented and consequential, the amount
Speaker 2: of change and reform that we brought some property taxes
Speaker 2: in Ohio. And that's part of the reason why places
Speaker 2: like Kroger and others P and G are leading downtown
Speaker 2: Cincinnati because of the tax structure structure income tax, sales tax,
Speaker 2: property tax. They want out of places that's going to
Speaker 2: tax them into oblivion. And so when you look at
Speaker 2: these bills that we passed last week, the one that's
Speaker 2: really important, though there's a couple of them, they limit
Speaker 2: the tax growth property tax growth to the rate of inflation.
Speaker 2: And here's one that not everybody knows about, Willie. We
Speaker 2: are transferring money from the credit that we give to
Speaker 2: the non business credit to owner occupied credit, which means
Speaker 2: that if you live in the home that you are
Speaker 2: paying taxes on, you actually live there, you're going to
Speaker 2: go from two and a half percent credit on your
Speaker 2: property taxes to fifteen percent. That is a huge jump, Willie,
Speaker 2: and I think property tax pay who live in their
Speaker 2: home are really going to feel something positive for them
Speaker 2: in the next year.
Speaker 1: Now say that again, because a guy like me, I
Speaker 1: lived in my same house for twenty five years. I'm
Speaker 1: a senior citizen on a fixed income. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. I can't make any more money than I make.
Speaker 1: So does this benefit a poor man like me?
Speaker 2: Absolutely so. Right now, you're the owner occupied credit in
Speaker 2: Ohio is two and a half percent. You're getting a
Speaker 2: two and a half percent of your property taxes is
Speaker 2: paid by the state of Ohio for you. Well, over
Speaker 2: four years, we are going to up that from two
Speaker 2: and a half percent. We're going to gradually, over four
Speaker 2: years up back to fifteen percent. That state to Ohio
Speaker 2: is going to pay your property tax for you.
Speaker 1: I like that. I'm starting to believe in government all
Speaker 1: of a sudden.
Speaker 2: All right, you go now too, we finally did something good.
Speaker 1: Something good. Then thank you for coming on to clarify
Speaker 1: everything and nothing THC. I think if an adult wants
Speaker 1: they have an adult beverage at home and as THC
Speaker 1: in and I say, hey, I'm at it. I don't
Speaker 1: like the idea that people can walk around and smoke pot.
Speaker 1: I don't like the idea that teenage boys and go
Speaker 1: into a ponykeg and buy some of these beverages with
Speaker 1: high THHC content and they're intoxicating. I don't like that
Speaker 1: at all. I don't like the fact that the high
Speaker 1: school kids can now get Niel money. I don't know
Speaker 1: what Fry's worth. Its saying that's probably a lot of money.
Speaker 1: In fact, I don't like a lot of aspects of
Speaker 1: our life, but at least we try to govern our
Speaker 1: own affairs. I have a long term concern that our
Speaker 1: major cities are in complete collapse economically, religiously, educationally, and
Speaker 1: until that changes, we can't be a great state or
Speaker 1: a great nation when all of our major cities are
Speaker 1: in collapse with crime, rampant drug use, homelessness. The homeless
Speaker 1: camps are back in Cincinnati. I think it's a problem.
Speaker 1: But Adam Bird, good luck in New Richmond.
Speaker 2: Yeah, go ahead, thank you well. I was going to say,
Speaker 2: Willie that this is the reason why places like Claremont, Butler,
Speaker 2: and Warren are growing in population counties around Columbus, like
Speaker 2: Pickaway and Union in Delaware County, they're growing because people
Speaker 2: are fleeing Democrat policies and it's a big problem. And
Speaker 2: so will I just you know, last week it was
Speaker 2: a huge week in the state legislature. I mean, we
Speaker 2: passed a bill last week it said no more turning in,
Speaker 2: no more counting, have some key ballots after election day.
Speaker 2: We increase the penalties for drug and human trafficking. We
Speaker 2: require sex offenders to move away from their victim. We're
Speaker 2: not going to allow mail order abortion pills anymore. We're
Speaker 2: going to protect our prison guards better. And then also
Speaker 2: if you're pulled over with probable cause, you've got to
Speaker 2: turn over your driver's license really to the police officer.
Speaker 2: So we're going to create and protect law and order
Speaker 2: in Ohio. And we're for the people, and we want
Speaker 2: to protect people, and we want to make Ohio a
Speaker 2: great place to live.
Speaker 1: We have islands of debauchery inside of a sea of tranquility.
Speaker 1: We have the Blue Cities floating into a sea of tranquility,
Speaker 1: and hopefully the voters in these areas have got to
Speaker 1: understand what the results of their elections are. I can't
Speaker 1: imagine Mayor Peer of All getting eighty one percent of
Speaker 1: the vote, down from eighty three percent of the vote.
Speaker 1: After his performance in office, the voters held him to
Speaker 1: account from eighty three to eighty one percent, electing all
Speaker 1: the same goofballs, the goofs who ran city council, the
Speaker 1: same goofs are in charge once again. Adam Bird, I'm
Speaker 1: coming to Claremont County. I love that new Mexican restaurant
Speaker 1: kind of on the river. I like that place. And
Speaker 1: you and I get together, maybe have a margarita one
Speaker 1: day when they get two straws and suck it up together.
Speaker 2: What do you think you've come to Claremont County anytime? Willie?
Speaker 2: And New Richmond's a great place. He's got some good
Speaker 2: restaurants down there. And you know, I'm just saying, Willie,
Speaker 2: if you're going to let more and more people leave
Speaker 2: the hellhole of Cincinnati, please don't let him bring their
Speaker 2: politics with them to Claremont. Brown, Claremont and Brown and
Speaker 2: Butler and Warren, don't let them move out. Here if
Speaker 2: they're going to bring the stuff that that's created problem
Speaker 2: where they currently live.
Speaker 1: City Council or a bunch of goofs. All right, Tony
Speaker 1: Tony Bender said enough is enough. Let's continue. Adam Bird,
Speaker 1: you're the man. God bless you, and God bless Claremont County.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Adam Bird. Keep doing what you're doing. Honor
Speaker 1: to be with you, Bill, God bless America. City Council
Speaker 1: or a bunch of goofs Bill Cunningham seven hundred WLW