Speaker 1: Hi, Billy cunning him the great America, welcome this Friday afternoon,
Speaker 1: the Tristead. Of course, the big news is tonight, a
Speaker 1: lot of great high school football going on. And then
Speaker 1: on Sunday at four twenty five, the Bengali's take it
Speaker 1: off against the Packers, and of course we have Flaco
Speaker 1: Wacko Flacco is in charge. We have just changed Joe
Speaker 1: for another Joe, and we'll see what happens. Burrow to
Speaker 1: Flacco and the game starts at four to twenty five.
Speaker 1: All coverage starts here about nine oh five am in
Speaker 1: the morning, and that gives Joe Waco Flacco in additional
Speaker 1: three hours to know the playbook and made me understand
Speaker 1: what's going on and if he wins, if he could
Speaker 1: beat the Packers twice over a four week period, he'd
Speaker 1: be the first quarterback in an NFL history over a
Speaker 1: four week period to beat the same team twice with
Speaker 1: two different teams he's playing for, which is somewhat unusual
Speaker 1: if you can follow my reasoning there. But the Bengals
Speaker 1: do things quite unreasonable quite often. Why the Browns would
Speaker 1: want to trade a functional quarterback to a division rival
Speaker 1: that haven't beaten they haven't beaten yet. Cleveland Cincinnati plays
Speaker 1: in about six weeks. Is beyond me. But Cleveland Browns
Speaker 1: often make decisions no one understands, but joan of you
Speaker 1: and I now is the great Steve Gooden. He's running
Speaker 1: for city council. Unfortunately, he sees hope in the city.
Speaker 1: And also he monitored the great debate last night. I
Speaker 1: had on Corey Bowman a couple of days ago. After
Speaker 1: have pure of all refuses to come on. But nonetheless,
Speaker 1: Steve Gooden, welcome again to the Bill Cunningham shun. First
Speaker 1: of all, I know you monitored the debate as much
Speaker 1: as your good stomach. Give me your ideas of what
Speaker 1: happened last night with a great debate for Mayor.
Speaker 2: Well, look, I think anybody that watched that debate that
Speaker 2: didn't conclude that our mayor is a petty, didn't skinned
Speaker 2: individual who has no business in an office like that,
Speaker 2: They weren't seeing the same thing I saw. It's all attack.
Speaker 2: It's all trying to paint everyone he disagrees with as
Speaker 2: a mega fashion extremists. He has nothing he can say
Speaker 2: about his record, nothing to say about the gun battle
Speaker 2: on Walnut Street on Monday night at five o'clock in
Speaker 2: the afternoon when people were leaving their offices, where two
Speaker 2: idiots got into a fight and started shooting and one
Speaker 2: of them got shot in the hand. It was just
Speaker 2: he has nothing to say about the new crime stats
Speaker 2: this week that show property crimes up more than one
Speaker 2: hundred percent downtown, that now shows that downtown is our
Speaker 2: most violent neighborhood. Of all the neighborhoods that starts the
Speaker 2: West End, Avondale, other places where we've seen gun violence,
Speaker 2: Downtown is the worst. He didn't talk about our restaurants
Speaker 2: being down twenty to twenty five percent. He didn't talk
Speaker 2: about this River Roots Festival having to cancel all their
Speaker 2: acts because of poor ticket sales because people are afraid
Speaker 2: to come downtown. He didn't talk about any of that.
Speaker 2: He just tried to say that Corey Bowman was some
Speaker 2: sort of an extremist or something, and you know, it
Speaker 2: was just it was a disgrace.
Speaker 1: You know, a few mothers. A few years ago, the
Speaker 1: Tall Stacks came here. It was well attended, people going nuts.
Speaker 1: All the cruises were sold out, the dinner cruises, etc.
Speaker 1: People downtown. It was all great stuff. It was good.
Speaker 1: Now that we have river Roots is happening, and no
Speaker 1: one knows that. I was unaware until I saw Paula
Speaker 1: and her toadies a couple of nights ago talking about
Speaker 1: river Roots. I'm thinking, what is that? And so you're
Speaker 1: telling me something I suspected. There's no buzz, there's no
Speaker 1: feeling that those in Boone, Kenton, Campbell, those in Butler, Warren,
Speaker 1: those in Columbus want to come to downtown Cincinnati, get
Speaker 1: a hotel room, walk around Fountain Square, maybe with kevlar on,
Speaker 1: go to the shores of the Ohigh, look at these
Speaker 1: old river boats, get some rubber chicken, then go back
Speaker 1: to the room if they're alive. And so that to
Speaker 1: me is a clear indicator indicator about what's happening with
Speaker 1: river Roots, which is a dud. And I would think
Speaker 1: the mayor would say, you know what these are? The
Speaker 1: Paula this is the last four years on crime, Support
Speaker 1: the police, support the firefighters. We need affordable housing, We
Speaker 1: need better healthcare clinics, we need better programs of one
Speaker 1: type or another.
Speaker 2: None of that was.
Speaker 1: He can't defend his record. So it's Tora Tora against
Speaker 1: Corey Bowman. So let's talk about number one crime you're
Speaker 1: downtown a lot. You're a big time lawyer in addition
Speaker 1: to being unfortunately running for city council. What have you
Speaker 1: discerned the last two or three years the safety of
Speaker 1: downtown Cincinnati that those around the region, no I'm not
Speaker 1: going down there.
Speaker 2: Well, that's exactly what's happening. I mean, you see it.
Speaker 2: You know. Look, I have an office right up this street.
Speaker 2: I lived downtown for years, and I can tell you
Speaker 2: it is less safe than it was four years ago.
Speaker 2: They used COVID as an excuse to pull back on
Speaker 2: some of the policing. We have a police staffing crisis,
Speaker 2: which we've known for many years. There's not enough officers
Speaker 2: to walk the beat, and a lot of the officers
Speaker 2: are approaching retirement. Agent cannot be made under the contract
Speaker 2: to work mandatory over time. It's a disaster. It's not safe.
Speaker 2: People want to use our downtown. We have all these
Speaker 2: beautiful new attractions, new buildings, new restaurants, but they're suffering.
Speaker 2: And I look, you know it's so bad now that
Speaker 2: the Inquirer has a regular column every month that tells
Speaker 2: you which restaurants closed They've got there. Keith panned off.
Speaker 2: He's a great writer for the actually does a column
Speaker 2: on closures and openings. Okay, so, and there's always more
Speaker 2: closures and openings, and most of them ru in that
Speaker 2: downtown area. It's killing these small businesses. There are people
Speaker 2: who have put their entire lives, savings, everything on the
Speaker 2: line to try to open small businesses there because they
Speaker 2: were told, Look, the city's investing it over the Rhine,
Speaker 2: investing in downtown. But if you don't invest in public safety,
Speaker 2: all the buildings, all the rehabs in the world don't
Speaker 2: make sense. If people are afraid of getting shot, they're
Speaker 2: a free to getting shot. And on this River Roots
Speaker 2: Tall Stack thing, I mean, you know, all the music acts,
Speaker 2: all the big music acts, they had to cancel and
Speaker 2: pull away. I mean they lost millions on this thing,
Speaker 2: I'm told. And because the last time we had a
Speaker 2: music festival, the Cincinnati Music Festival, the Old Jazz Fest,
Speaker 2: we made international news because of the attack on this
Speaker 2: Holly and those people and the Fourth Street beat down
Speaker 2: as they call it. So of course the older people
Speaker 2: with people who have options and want to choose word
Speaker 2: to spend their money, they're not going to come down
Speaker 2: and take that risk. And we also go I mean,
Speaker 2: my daughter runs a restaurant over in Covington, that Covington
Speaker 2: and Bellevue were the ones that are reaping the benefit.
Speaker 2: They have lines out the door from people who don't
Speaker 2: want to come downtown because it's safe because you can
Speaker 2: see police officers walking around Covington. Yes, because Bellevue has
Speaker 2: lights and they haven't made so you know, people are
Speaker 2: voting with their feet. And it's to the dutchment of everyone.
Speaker 2: And this is the council and active. They don't want
Speaker 2: to talk about it. They have to go negative because
Speaker 2: they really have nothing else to say.
Speaker 1: And on Borough Love and Kevin had an headline the
Speaker 1: other day about on the great debate is the National
Speaker 1: Guard needed in Cincinnati? Instead of asking the question why
Speaker 1: is the National Guard needed in Cincinnati? What are the
Speaker 1: policies of the current administration that incentivize criminals and disincentivized police.
Speaker 1: One of the great statements in Last Night is about
Speaker 1: all the crime. We're enabling police to do their job,
Speaker 1: is what f Ted Piroval says. We're enabling police to
Speaker 1: do their job.
Speaker 2: No, they're not.
Speaker 1: There's millions of dollars being spent on social welfare programs
Speaker 1: that could have hired an additional two underd police officers
Speaker 1: instead of hiring cops. They're paying arm robbers one thousand
Speaker 1: dollars a month as part of an ambassador program not
Speaker 1: to commit any more armed robberies, including travel vouchers to
Speaker 1: other American cities. Plus, I'm told some of the council
Speaker 1: candidates have Iris Roley and others that are being enabled
Speaker 1: to go after council candidates personally, and of course Iris
Speaker 1: Roly can do that. She makes one hundred and six
Speaker 1: or more thousand dollars a year as an ambassador of type.
Speaker 1: She's the implementer of the so called so called initiative
Speaker 1: to improve the relationship between the city and the cops,
Speaker 1: and she's being paid to attack. Can you explain, have
Speaker 1: you been the subject of an attack because the collaborative representative,
Speaker 1: not an employee of the city, making more than comps
Speaker 1: and firefighters, is being incentivized under the collaborative to attack
Speaker 1: council candidates that don't like have tad purerival. Have you
Speaker 1: been subjected to that?
Speaker 2: I had been subjected to skating, although I think in
Speaker 2: effective attacks by miss role Lee, particularly online. And look,
Speaker 2: here's the way it works. This is the new version
Speaker 2: of patronage at city Hall. You know, they do have
Speaker 2: civil service protections for full time employees. They can't get
Speaker 2: involved in politics. So what they do is they give
Speaker 2: these big contracts to so called consultants or to nonprofits.
Speaker 2: A lot of them are bogus, and that's how they
Speaker 2: defund the police. They fund the money to these places.
Speaker 2: So Iris, you know, used to be an activist outside
Speaker 2: the city Hall and some of the stuff she did
Speaker 2: was good, some of it was bad, but she was
Speaker 2: on her own time and she had a right to
Speaker 2: do it. Now she has a paid city content and
Speaker 2: through a loophole, is not subject to civil service protections
Speaker 2: and is clearly being used to attack people like me
Speaker 2: that they see as being you know, actually, I think
Speaker 2: the attacks are good news for me because it means
Speaker 2: they must have some polling that show people like me
Speaker 2: and Smitham and others are in the hunt. But yes,
Speaker 2: they've come after me. It's very clearly coordinated. She and
Speaker 2: Damon Lynch. You know, hundreds of people from I guess
Speaker 2: from these church communities that they associate with, are on
Speaker 2: Facebook and other places attacking me. My favorite is a
Speaker 2: guy that keeps calling me, well it gives me a
Speaker 2: white piece of dog crap every day I post something.
Speaker 2: He puts that on there actually doesn't say crap, but
Speaker 2: I guess I can't say the full thing here. And
Speaker 2: my other favorite is one who keeps calling me, quote
Speaker 2: a mediocre douchebag, which which is particularly offensive because I
Speaker 2: thought I was an extraordinary douchebag. I really work hard
Speaker 2: at it, so I was really hurt by that. The
Speaker 2: mediocre part really hurts. But this is the kind of
Speaker 2: stuff they do, and these are tax dollars paying this
Speaker 2: woman who has no real metrics. We can't tell what
Speaker 2: she does with her days, but she's out there not
Speaker 2: promoting the mayor but attacking his critics. Well, now that
Speaker 2: should bother anybody who from a taxpayer standpoint.
Speaker 1: Does she put in forty tough hours a week? Is
Speaker 1: she up there eight o'clock on Monday morning, she'll be
Speaker 1: reporting to the collaborative. And then what happened a few
Speaker 1: months ago is when she interfered with arrest and over
Speaker 1: the rhine the police union Ken Kobra wanted her arrested.
Speaker 1: In fact that he told the cops the next time
Speaker 1: she interferes with an arrest, arrest her and that's the
Speaker 1: number one said. That's exactly what she wants. She wants
Speaker 1: to be a victim. So how can anyone say Iris
Speaker 1: Rowlie is performing collaborative work when she has no work schedule,
Speaker 1: she has no job. She collects serious money. I understand,
Speaker 1: a three year contract worth four hundred and fifty thousand
Speaker 1: dollars a year in order to collaborate with who about what?
Speaker 1: And how can you be attacked when you're not in
Speaker 1: office at all? And those in office not performing or
Speaker 1: not attacked explain that one to me?
Speaker 2: Well, I can tell you, I mean, I mean, apparently
Speaker 2: she's curious at me because I went on the VXU
Speaker 2: radio program and had the temerity to criticize her arrangement.
Speaker 2: And we've also called out the fact publicly that she's
Speaker 2: got her son working for her company. So again, if
Speaker 2: she were an actual civil servant, the nepotism rules would apply.
Speaker 2: So she's funneling money to her son as a full
Speaker 2: time or a part time employee making forty five hundred
Speaker 2: bucks a month. And again there's no metrics, there's no
Speaker 2: time sheets. From what we can tell, I mean, we
Speaker 2: don't know what they're doing or not doing. But I
Speaker 2: can also tell you this when I talked to King Kober,
Speaker 2: and I talked to my friends at the FOP, who
Speaker 2: I am proud endorsed our candidacy. Her actions are one
Speaker 2: of the number one, probably the number two issue with morale.
Speaker 2: Number one is staffing by far, but number two it's
Speaker 2: having people like Iris reporting to the mayor and the
Speaker 2: city manager or who are openly critical of police, not
Speaker 2: just individual officers but out there interfering with the rests,
Speaker 2: but just critical of police in general, and calling to
Speaker 2: defund the police by steering money toward her program. This
Speaker 2: awful community responders thing they have. They've got a couple
Speaker 2: millions stuck into that where they send social workers out
Speaker 2: to crime scenes to do god knows what. Eventually when
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get shot. And I always say, if you
Speaker 2: want to see how they're really defunding the police, drive
Speaker 2: over some of these speed humps that they spent tens
Speaker 2: of millions of dollars on. They're using those as an
Speaker 2: excuse not to bring officers into patrol. The speed humps
Speaker 2: are a form of defunding the police. It's tens of
Speaker 2: millions of dollars. There's a whole recruit class plus in
Speaker 2: those speed humps, and they just don't want the officers
Speaker 2: out there doing traffic inter addiction anymore and writing tickets.
Speaker 2: It's one of the reasons we have so many guns, frankly,
Speaker 2: because a lot, as you know from practicing criminal law,
Speaker 2: a lot of guns are recovered at traffic stops. That's
Speaker 2: just part of how it happens. So we don't really
Speaker 2: meaningfully do traffic in the city anymore on the speed humps.
Speaker 2: And that's a form of defunding the police. That's the
Speaker 2: kind of thing that she's Those are the initiatives she
Speaker 2: and people like that have been pushing. That can't be true.
Speaker 1: Crazy, None of this is true because the mayor said
Speaker 1: he enables police to do their job, you know that.
Speaker 1: And the other thing he said is affordable housing. I
Speaker 1: like to know, and Kevin Aldridge push pushed back on this.
Speaker 1: What is affordable housing the people's judge and I, you know,
Speaker 1: want to downsize a little bit. Every now and then
Speaker 1: I look at Oakley or Hyde Park. God knows, I
Speaker 1: never lived downtown or OTR, but we wouldn't mind living
Speaker 1: in Oakley or maybe Hyde Park and say we looked
Speaker 1: at these new housing being constructed on at Oakley. It's
Speaker 1: going to be home a rama. Do you know what
Speaker 1: it costs at the minimum price to go in Oakley?
Speaker 2: I can only guess you're in the four to five
Speaker 2: grand a month in some of those for the departments.
Speaker 1: From what I understand, Well, if you want to buy one,
Speaker 1: it's one point three to one point six million, I
Speaker 1: say one point three to one point six million in Oakley.
Speaker 1: And if you want to have a rental, if you
Speaker 1: want to run a place in and around hyde Park Square,
Speaker 1: it's forty five hundred dollars a month. And so I
Speaker 1: would ask the average American is one point three million?
Speaker 1: Is that affordable? Secondly, is forty five hundred dollars a
Speaker 1: month for an apartment?
Speaker 2: Is that affordable?
Speaker 1: So instead of talking about, well the last four years,
Speaker 1: give me some results on affordable housing or development like
Speaker 1: the Hyde Park debacle, Instead of doing that, he talks
Speaker 1: about our plan provides more affordable housing. What the hell
Speaker 1: does that mean? It's untethered the reality.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, nobody knows what affordable housing means when they
Speaker 2: talk about it. I mean, if you're getting really technical,
Speaker 2: and I do a lot of work in this world
Speaker 2: with development, what he's really talking what I guess he's
Speaker 2: trying to talk about, is this you know, income restricted
Speaker 2: housing that the federal government pays for, you know, through
Speaker 2: HUD dollars that they're trying to push. They're pushing it
Speaker 2: on the same neighborhoods over and over, like the West
Speaker 2: End and Bond Hill and Price Hill, and they don't
Speaker 2: want anymore. They've at it with that kind of affordable housing.
Speaker 2: But what the what they typically call what these developers
Speaker 2: called naturally occurring affordable housing, which is you know, reasonable
Speaker 2: rents because of good supply. We don't have that. Because
Speaker 2: of the way our the city tax abatements have worked.
Speaker 2: They're incentivized to build these really high end units and
Speaker 2: get really high rents and try to get really high stuff.
Speaker 2: I mean, maybe iHeart will co sign with you on
Speaker 2: a on a million dollar mortgage at the end, maybe
Speaker 2: you could talk about that like some of your contracts.
Speaker 2: But it is not affordable to the average person. This
Speaker 2: Hyde Park development thing, the battle there. Those apartments were
Speaker 2: going to go for forty five hundred a month. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and they portrayed that as anyone who was against that,
Speaker 2: They said, you're a nimby who's against affordable housing. It's
Speaker 2: just nonsense. I mean, forty five hundred dollars a month
Speaker 2: it did me to qualify for that is you know,
Speaker 2: you would need an income well.
Speaker 1: Over two hundred ran well six sixty thousand a year
Speaker 1: in rent. And so if that's thirty percent of what
Speaker 1: you're making, you'd have to make two hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: five thousand dollars to maybe two fifty after paying taxes.
Speaker 1: And that it doubt and af TAB Pierreval says that's
Speaker 1: affordable to buy something in Oakley one point three million,
Speaker 1: or to get an apartment in Hyde Park is forty
Speaker 1: five hundred dollars. That's affordable. And he stands up there
Speaker 1: and I'm one last issue. I'm told we are awaystation
Speaker 1: to the glories of the administration of af Tab Pureval,
Speaker 1: either in Columbus or Washington, DC, whether it's the clerk's office,
Speaker 1: running for the Congress. He didn't want to become the mayor.
Speaker 1: It happened because of what happened to PG Sittingville. That's
Speaker 1: the only reason. So he's on his way to glory.
Speaker 1: And now he's going to use all of his success
Speaker 1: in Cincinnati to launch a nationwide or statewide campaign for
Speaker 1: something af TAB for Ohio. How would that fly in Steubenville.
Speaker 2: I think you know, I'm told he already has all
Speaker 2: those website domain names purchased, but I think he may
Speaker 2: as well just make he may as well just retire
Speaker 2: those black because you know my understanding, islack. Look, you
Speaker 2: know I've talked from our friends and well I think
Speaker 2: he's well, first they're going to sue him. I think
Speaker 2: that's some like intellectual property copyright infringement that'll catch up
Speaker 2: with him. But this poor guy is going to have
Speaker 2: a hard time if you ever run statewide. I mean,
Speaker 2: this guy has been not just not endorsed by the
Speaker 2: police union, but the FOP. They voted no confidence in
Speaker 2: it in his performance, and that will haunt him throughout
Speaker 2: the rest of his political career if indeed he has one.
Speaker 2: But courts have some was station Yeah, Well he did
Speaker 2: a number on the courthouse too. A lot of these
Speaker 2: judges that he handpicked and selected and encouraged to run
Speaker 2: are the ones that are letting these people out on
Speaker 2: low bond. So he has been a very consequential figure
Speaker 2: in town, both in the courthouse and at city hall,
Speaker 2: and in a very bad way. So he's got a
Speaker 2: record that will haunt him everywhere. Save Good and keep
Speaker 2: being a douchebag. It comes naturally to me. Thank you
Speaker 2: very much for your time.
Speaker 1: Now you're a lawyer, so that it fits Steve Good
Speaker 1: and thank you very much. We get the government we deserve.
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