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Speaker 1: Don Dreehouse, who's running as a charter candidate for CINCINNTI

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Speaker 1: City Council. Don, welcome to the Morning Show. It's great

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Speaker 1: to have you on today, Brian.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for having me and I appreciate the opportunity.

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Speaker 1: I like your message. I've got just some of my

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Speaker 1: listeners know if they want to check out your website,

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Speaker 1: Don Dreehouse, do you r I E H A U

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Speaker 1: S for Cincinnati dot org. You're running on a well,

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Speaker 1: keep it simple, back to the basis kind of campaign.

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Speaker 1: We can't. We should fix what's both broken and build

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Speaker 1: some trust and UH and bring about some real results

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Speaker 1: for residents. I appreciate all that. Do you feel as

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Speaker 1: though the sin City, this city has bitten off more

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Speaker 1: than it should be chewing on in terms of what

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Speaker 1: it thinks that it can accomplish and what it's trying

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Speaker 1: to do.

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Speaker 2: Don, Yes, And in fact, I think we, the city

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Speaker 2: government itself, needs to get refocused, just like you know

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Speaker 2: we're saying we think that you know, paving the streets

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Speaker 2: has become a big issue here, and in cleaning up

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Speaker 2: the litter and dealing with public safety. Those are three

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Speaker 2: key issues and they need to be focused on first.

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Speaker 2: And I think the word first is where I was

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Speaker 2: in College Shill the other night and somebody said, you know,

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Speaker 2: talking about this and that, but they said, you know,

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Speaker 2: first is what the city needs to do. It needs

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Speaker 2: to do the basic first. Then you can kind of

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Speaker 2: expand your presence. But there's all kind of opportunities to

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Speaker 2: deal with deeper issues. But right now the city seems

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Speaker 2: to be lost and heading in multiple directions. We need

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Speaker 2: to get refocused on our core, you know, the core

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Speaker 2: issues with the city and what the city should be

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Speaker 2: bringing to the table.

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Speaker 1: Well, every time there's a ribbon cutting ceremony where I

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Speaker 1: have to have Purvall shows up, I just look at

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Speaker 1: it like it's a new skate park or it's a

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Speaker 1: new fill in the blank that the taxpayers paid for.

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Speaker 1: My immediate reaction, I think is along the lines of

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Speaker 1: the way you're thinking, Wait a second, these roads behind

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Speaker 1: me haven't been paved or touched for years. The city

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Speaker 1: looks terrible. There's garbage everywhere, or lots of places that

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Speaker 1: whole broken windows philosophy is being ignored. We let the

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Speaker 1: neighborhood deteriorate, crime increases, but look, we got a new

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Speaker 1: skate park that we have to take and maintain on

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Speaker 1: a going forward basis. They've forgotten the maintenance and upkeep

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Speaker 1: component of seemingly everything that they've already took, they've already built, Don.

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Speaker 2: I couldn't agree with you more. I live in Prace Hill.

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Speaker 2: I've been actively engaged with the Prey Seal Safety Committee

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Speaker 2: Action Team for sixteen years. And when you pick up trash,

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Speaker 2: we get out with kids and we work on the

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Speaker 2: weekends and we do the work. And yet we're constantly

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Speaker 2: cleaning the same sites that were good intentions. For example,

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Speaker 2: there's a top lot upon Warsaw which is a great

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Speaker 2: little spot and you know, twenty years ago was out

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Speaker 2: there with great fanfare and now it's just turned into

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Speaker 2: a unfortunately haven for you know, in essence, people that

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Speaker 2: are addicted to drugs and you know, low level crime,

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Speaker 2: and it's not well maintained, and we maintain it. So

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Speaker 2: it's you know, when you got volunteers in the street

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Speaker 2: who end up taking care of good intentions, that's a

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Speaker 2: lot of pressure and burden on a community.

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Speaker 1: Well, I have to give you props for caring, Don,

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Speaker 1: And I suppose if there were residents when each of

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Speaker 1: the neglected communities that actually stepped up to the plate

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Speaker 1: and demonstrated their care and concern for their own communities,

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Speaker 1: maybe the city would look a lot better than it

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Speaker 1: currently does. But not an approval to your perceptions about

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Speaker 1: city council. And it's just ignoring these growing problems. I mean,

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Speaker 1: who among us can say the roads in the City

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Speaker 1: of Cincinnati are well maintained or taken care of even remotely.

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Speaker 1: I got to say, actually ask this out loud on

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Speaker 1: the heels of my conversation earlier in the program about

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Speaker 1: nuclear power being the answer to all of our energy

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Speaker 1: demand needs. Have to have parvoll I believe was quoted

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Speaker 1: as saying something along the lines of he views everything

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Speaker 1: that lands on his desk as mayor of the City

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Speaker 1: of Cincinnati initially through the green lens. In other words,

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Speaker 1: as if the City of Cincinnati could take some sort

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Speaker 1: of decarbonization efforts and apply it to whatever project is

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Speaker 1: being done and have some impact globally on climate I, personally,

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Speaker 1: you don't need to agree with me, Dondree House. I

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Speaker 1: personally find that to be almost comical, if not actually comical,

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Speaker 1: given the insignificant amount of carbon we might put out

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Speaker 1: in the city relative to entire countries whose carbon negation

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Speaker 1: efforts have been blown away by China's output of carbon.

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Speaker 1: We cannot we cannot do a thing about it. Why

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Speaker 1: are we even trying?

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Speaker 2: Don your reaction, you know, I again, it seems all

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Speaker 2: inflated to be worrying about global warming and global issues

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Speaker 2: if we're not even paving our streets. And as far

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Speaker 2: as I'm concerned, you know, it's it's a noble thought.

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Speaker 1: But.

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Speaker 2: I kind of listen to people talking about, you know,

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Speaker 2: growing gardens in the city and doing all these nice things.

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Speaker 2: I'm more concerned about keeping the krogrow open in Price Hell.

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Speaker 2: All right, that's what's important. We need to keep our

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Speaker 2: businesses open, and that involves public safety and cleanliness and

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Speaker 2: an essence curb appeal in all of our neighborhoods. If

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Speaker 2: our businesses are struggling, if we're having if we're struggling

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Speaker 2: with low level criminal activity, if we're struggling with base again,

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Speaker 2: the basic services that the city should be providing, then

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Speaker 2: guess what these global thoughts that are way out there,

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Speaker 2: they don't make any sense because they're not real. It's

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Speaker 2: it's kind of like Maslov's you know, pyramid of needs.

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Speaker 2: If you can't, if you can't pave the streets, and

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Speaker 2: you can't do the basics first, I don't care about

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Speaker 2: the philosophy at the top. If the reality at the

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Speaker 2: bottom is bad, that's not the way it should work.

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Speaker 1: Amen, brother, Can I get a campaign pledge from your

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Speaker 1: doundry house that you'll see that Sunset gets paved. I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure. Since you're a west Side you may experience

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Speaker 1: the war torn reality of that road on a more

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Speaker 1: regular basis than I do. But it's become a poster

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Speaker 1: child for me in dealing with neglect. That road's been

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Speaker 1: in that shape for years and years now.

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Speaker 2: We play at the planners, we go down there and

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Speaker 2: work on Sunset. I'm very familiar, and I read I

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Speaker 2: have to say something. I was the other evening, I

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Speaker 2: was out in Kennedy Heights and I was lost in

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Speaker 2: Kennedy Heights. It was dark, and so I'm going down

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Speaker 2: Kennedy Avenue to their community meeting, and even Kennedy Avenue

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Speaker 2: is just it looks like a bombshell. I mean, you're

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Speaker 2: rattling along, You're it's all over the place. And I

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Speaker 2: walked in and I was building one there, you know,

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Speaker 2: running for council and we talked for a minute with

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Speaker 2: the group and all I had to do is say,

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Speaker 2: Kennedy Avenue is a mess, and they were nodding their head,

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Speaker 2: going yeah, sure is. And it's like okay, so all

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Speaker 2: the things we can talk about, but we can't get

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Speaker 2: Kennedy Avenue paid in Kennedy Heights just like Sunset on

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Speaker 2: the west side those and that's that can be across

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Speaker 2: the city. I mean, you see that example across the

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Speaker 2: city and that's the first one of the first items

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Speaker 2: that need to be addressed. Well.

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Speaker 1: Being a longtime resident of the Price Hill area, I

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Speaker 1: guess you've noticed the neighborhood has changed quite a bit

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Speaker 1: over the past maybe ten in fifteen years. What are

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Speaker 1: the residents in Price Will say about the nature of

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Speaker 1: the changes there and are they happy with the leadership

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Speaker 1: that we've had, which has been under Democrat control I

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Speaker 1: believe for the last forty years.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know the old line, there's not a political

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Speaker 2: way to pick up the gardage. I think the problem

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Speaker 2: in Price Hill, and I've been active on the Traunity

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Speaker 2: councilor and the Safety group for years, we just feel neglected.

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Speaker 2: I mean it's you know, the West Side just kind

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Speaker 2: of feels like we've taken on the brunt of a

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Speaker 2: lot of social issues and a lot of issues over

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Speaker 2: the last twenty years, and I've been actively engaged with it.

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Speaker 2: So there's a real feeling of ambivalence that city Hall

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Speaker 2: has not been paying attention, and when they do pay attention,

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Speaker 2: they don't really give us any real answers. I mean,

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Speaker 2: you know, I look at it as if hey, guys,

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Speaker 2: you know, like you said, recent example, right here, we

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Speaker 2: have all these issues going on up here in the streets,

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Speaker 2: and their idea of pandering at this point in time

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Speaker 2: is to dumple out of money into Dunham. Now Dunham's great,

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Speaker 2: don't get me wrong. It's a wonderful complex. We meet

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Speaker 2: down there, but it's down at the bottom of Sunset.

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Speaker 2: It's it's not a walking distance of anywhere in the neighborhood.

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Speaker 2: But if you start walking west a street land away,

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Speaker 2: you start walking Harrison Avenue, all of a sudden you're going,

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Speaker 2: wait a minute, why do we need all that we

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Speaker 2: went a pop shot down at Dunham when we should

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Speaker 2: be dealing with the in essence to yourpoint, the broken windows,

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Speaker 2: they're all over the neighborhood which you see every day.

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Speaker 1: That's a good point about the walking nature of Dunham.

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Speaker 1: I'm very familiar with that, and yeah, there isn't an

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Speaker 1: easy way to get there in terms of walking.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I run, and they've talked about putting a pathway

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Speaker 2: through the cemetery to get to Dunham. I'm looking at

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Speaker 2: that going it is not really a priority. I mean,

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Speaker 2: it's it's interesting, but it's you know, and I run.

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Speaker 2: I'll run down there. And I'm like, but I don't

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Speaker 2: know how many other people are going to run from

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Speaker 2: the top of the hill to the bottom of hill.

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Speaker 2: I mean, only crazy old people like me do that.

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Speaker 2: And I'm like, you know, I just don't know if

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Speaker 2: that's really something that's important or at this point.

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Speaker 1: Well, see, you're you're talking logical and reasonable along the

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Speaker 1: lines that I've always said. Everybody has a list of

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Speaker 1: things they want from government, everybody, and it's always different.

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Speaker 1: But some responsible person has to be the adult in

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Speaker 1: the room to prioritize the most important things. And I'm

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Speaker 1: with you all day long. Roads infrastructure should be a

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Speaker 1: top priority. The skateboard park can wait. When we get

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Speaker 1: the roads fixed, then we'll start talking about that. But

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Speaker 1: we've got to do what the work. You've got to

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Speaker 1: do the work that needs to be done to make

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Speaker 1: people satisfied so they can live, drive, thrive, and and

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Speaker 1: and and better their communities in other ways. I'm going

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Speaker 1: to stop and bring it back. It's Dondree House for

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Speaker 1: Cincinnati dot orgs his website going to go, but a

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Speaker 1: little bit of his background because in really great background

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Speaker 1: in terms of skill sets that I think are.

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Speaker 2: Talk stations.

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Speaker 1: Seven fifty five cares CD talk station. Happy Tuesday, Election,

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Speaker 1: Tuesday's next Tuesday. You have a choice. I don't have

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Speaker 1: to run on the same path. The definition of stupidity

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Speaker 1: is doing the same thing over and over again expecting

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Speaker 1: a different result. And if you're not happy with the

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Speaker 1: way the city is currently run, and Dondrey House seems

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Speaker 1: to be a man who is not happy way the

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Speaker 1: city has run, maybe go a different path. Dondrey House

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Speaker 1: for Cincinnati dot orgers where you'll find his campaign website.

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Speaker 1: Don you have a background I think is really beneficial

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Speaker 1: to the City of Cincinnati if you're elected. A financial background.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I worked thirty years in the financial industry. I

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Speaker 2: started out with Gradison, which was when the original brokerage

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Speaker 2: Burns in Cincinnati. Oh yeah, yeah, I started there in

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Speaker 2: nineteen ninety. I literally, I have to say, prior to that,

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Speaker 2: I kind of ran a bloomin saloon, So you know

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Speaker 2: that was back in the day, and you're old enough

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Speaker 2: to remember the two at Hyde Park and over on

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Speaker 2: the West Side. Ye, I started. So I have a

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Speaker 1: Don Dreehouse four Cincinnati dot orgs where you find Don's

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Speaker 1: campaign web page. Got one week to make your decisions.

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Speaker 1: I strongly encourage my listeners to take a look what

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Speaker 1: Don is saying on his website, but also what he

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Speaker 1: Don sounds good to me, my friend. I wish you

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Speaker 1: all the best, and if you are elected, I pray

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Speaker 1: that you help can help steer the Cincinnati, a city

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Speaker 1: Best luck as we fit. Quickly move forward to next Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: my friend, good to have you on the show today,

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