Speaker 1: Oh, another big night on seven hundred WLW. Three hours
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Speaker 1: night edition of the Midweek Crisis, and Joe Waddell is
Speaker 1: running the big board in the seven hundred WLW command center,
Speaker 1: so I want to thank him for that. Where do
Speaker 1: we start tonight? Snow is moving in. If you're out there,
Speaker 1: you're driving around, maybe you're driving in that snow and
Speaker 1: you want to pass along some road conditions. I would
Speaker 1: be more than happy to hear about that. Hear how
Speaker 1: things are going out there. I know I left here
Speaker 1: last night. Joe Wadell, how was your drive home last night?
Speaker 1: Little tricky? Yeah, that snow is coming down last night,
Speaker 1: probably the same thing heading home tonight. You know, you
Speaker 1: gotta be uh, you got to be realistic about your
Speaker 1: ability to drive in the snow sometimes. And then we
Speaker 1: might be in for one of those days tomorrow talking
Speaker 1: about three and a half four inches on the ground,
Speaker 1: So we will see what happens. Wintertime is not wintertime yet,
Speaker 1: but wintertime certainly feels like it's here. What do we
Speaker 1: in one hour from now. I've got a guest on
Speaker 1: this guy I've never had on before. His name is
Speaker 1: what did I hold on once? Pete Caldwell is his name,
Speaker 1: and he is a neighbor of mine out in Anderson
Speaker 1: Township and a friend, a mutual friend of ours, sent
Speaker 1: me a narrative that he wrote about an experience he
Speaker 1: had downtown. And I'm going to read that here in
Speaker 1: just a moment. But before I do that, I want
Speaker 1: to give some props. Look, I sit up here and
Speaker 1: I'm behind this microphone, and I hammer the media all
Speaker 1: the time, but I also try to point out instances
Speaker 1: where they do things quite well. And I want to
Speaker 1: give some props to WKRC Channel twelve. And I came
Speaker 1: across the story as I was getting ready for the
Speaker 1: show today. It came across the story that they did.
Speaker 1: Morella Porter is the reporter that did this story. And
Speaker 1: they asked the question, why has in Cincinnati spent the
Speaker 1: over thirty million dollars allocated for street repairs across the
Speaker 1: city nearly two years after Cincinnati closed the one point
Speaker 1: six billion dollar sale of its railway in March of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. So they say, nearly two years. I
Speaker 1: was going to say, if someone had told me it
Speaker 1: had been nearly two years since that sale closed, I
Speaker 1: would not have guessed that. So it was in March
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty four. This is the end of twenty five.
Speaker 1: Is maybe a slight stretch to call it two years
Speaker 1: nearly two years, maybe, but in any case, it's a
Speaker 1: good year and a half year and ten ten months
Speaker 1: something along those lines. It's been a while, nearly two
Speaker 1: and a half years or two years, I should say.
Speaker 1: After Cincinnati closed it's one point six billion dollar sale
Speaker 1: on the railway in March of twenty four, people across
Speaker 1: the city scratching their heads. Complaints about city streets aren't
Speaker 1: hard to find. Some areas on Queen City are of
Speaker 1: concerned me, said Sandra Oliver. The roads out here they
Speaker 1: broke by muffler. Half of it fell off, said Brook Logan.
Speaker 1: We need the roads saved. And they make a good point.
Speaker 1: This money that came from the railroad sale was supposed
Speaker 1: to go to infrastructure. Things that like street repairs, wasn't
Speaker 1: supposed to be.
Speaker 2: Spent on.
Speaker 1: The late you know, the hottest social program of the
Speaker 1: day wasn't supposed to be sent on spent on virtue
Speaker 1: signaling stuff like that. Although, yeah, we'll keep an eye
Speaker 1: on the money and I wouldn't be surprised if some
Speaker 1: of it winds up doing that. It's talking to Todd's
Speaker 1: nswer the other day. He explained to me how the
Speaker 1: hell some of that money may wind up doing things
Speaker 1: like that. But Cincinnati's got the money to fix the road.
Speaker 1: It's almost thirty four million allocated and available for street
Speaker 1: repairs and bridges. But so far about only six percent
Speaker 1: of the money that is there that is available, has
Speaker 1: been spent on fixing roads. And they asked the question,
Speaker 1: what is taking so long? Why aren't these roads being
Speaker 1: fixed the money is there. Council Member Anna Alby says
Speaker 1: she regularly gets comments complaints about potholes and road quality,
Speaker 1: and people haven't seen the impact of the rail money.
Speaker 1: She says, if we can't even get the contract of
Speaker 1: the contract sign how do we actually show residents that
Speaker 1: what they took a vote on where they're spending dollars
Speaker 1: is making a difference.
Speaker 2: The city has something.
Speaker 1: Called the on track Dashboard, and I look this up
Speaker 1: and it's got a breakdown of all the money that's available.
Speaker 1: It doesn't go I mean, there's a fair amount of
Speaker 1: detail there, but it doesn't really answer a lot of
Speaker 1: questions and a lot of pie charts and stuff like
Speaker 1: That city has projected received roughly fifty five million annually
Speaker 1: from the railway cell. We ought to have roads in
Speaker 1: Cincinnati that are just fantastic, I think with that.
Speaker 2: Kind of money floating around.
Speaker 1: So that's the kind of reporting that local TV local
Speaker 1: news to be doing, and so big thumbs up to
Speaker 1: Channel twelve on that one for reporting that story. Now
Speaker 1: to this piece that was sent to me and written
Speaker 1: by Pete Caldwell, and this really points out it gives
Speaker 1: you a real life example of what happens in downtown
Speaker 1: Cincinnati as a result of the kind of leadership that
Speaker 1: we have in downtown Cincinnati and in Hamilton County. And
Speaker 1: Pete Caldwell writes, I haven't seen or heard any media
Speaker 1: mention of a shooting that occurred Tuesday night around nine
Speaker 1: point thirty on East McMicken near the Grant Park Playground.
Speaker 1: My family and I were at ryan Geist Brewery with
Speaker 1: a large group of friends. My son left early about
Speaker 1: nine thirty PM to go home to Deer Park. I
Speaker 1: got a call a few minutes later from him. Panicked,
Speaker 1: he inadvertently drove through a shootout on East McMicken among
Speaker 1: what appeared to be local marauding criminal elements who infest
Speaker 1: the area. He was surprised by the loud noise of
Speaker 1: the guns, which were fired from an intersection as he
Speaker 1: drove by, and the shaking of his car with the
Speaker 1: impact of the bullets. He heard ten to fifteen shots
Speaker 1: ring out, ducked his head below the dashboard, drove on
Speaker 1: a couple of blocks before pulling over to assess the situation.
Speaker 1: He found no holes in his person, but found four
Speaker 1: bullet holes in the side of his car at driver height,
Speaker 1: about three feet apart. One exploded his side view mirror
Speaker 1: right by his head. Had him in driving a one
Speaker 1: one hundredth of a second faster or slower, he might
Speaker 1: have likely caught a bullet to the torso or the
Speaker 1: head and would have joined a growing list of victims
Speaker 1: of downtown crime. Cops swarm the area. Police took his
Speaker 1: report after the chaos died down. He was very helpful
Speaker 1: and professional of the police. Where I should say I
Speaker 1: should just be happy that he was spared through the
Speaker 1: hand of providence or lady luck, but I find myself
Speaker 1: a day later filled with anger and frustration. The cops
Speaker 1: at the crime scene admit that all they can do
Speaker 1: to try to catch these slugs and criminals. That's all
Speaker 1: they can do, is try to catch these slugs and criminals.
Speaker 1: But the judges, who don't live in these areas keep
Speaker 1: letting them back out of jail with little or no consequence.
Speaker 1: As usual, these perpetrators all scurry into the dark escape
Speaker 1: apprehension and no one sees anything. This comes on the
Speaker 1: tale of my daughter getting her car shot up in
Speaker 1: another gunfight while parked in front of the Aaron Off
Speaker 1: Center back in June June twenty third, in which a
Speaker 1: woman was shot in the middle of the street. That
Speaker 1: one was later in the evening around two am, so
Speaker 1: police were slow and hardly responded, waiting until the gangsters
Speaker 1: had fled, and so not to have to waste their
Speaker 1: time capturing, arresting, and risking their lives and careers should
Speaker 1: a violent criminal decide to resist. The mayor and council
Speaker 1: have obviously decided to do whatever they can to prevent
Speaker 1: riots and the subsequent expensive settlement cases. But police have
Speaker 1: amazing video of the whole thing, which never was shown
Speaker 1: by media, and then he says you should public records request.
Speaker 1: A couple of months after that, September, fifteenth to ten
Speaker 1: to twelve year old kids brazenly followed the same daughter
Speaker 1: into a bar on Walnut Street where she worked. She
Speaker 1: was sprayed in her eyes from close range with a
Speaker 1: mace pepper spray. No use chasing them down the street,
Speaker 1: especially when blind and boogered up. They're just kids and
Speaker 1: everyone knows that they're immune to consequences. Of course, I'm
Speaker 1: angry with these animals that are allowed to perpetrate crime
Speaker 1: and violence at increasing rates, But I'm also disgusted at
Speaker 1: the ignorant voters who keep electing these soft on crime
Speaker 1: judges and politicians, and the media who only covers the
Speaker 1: stories after they get broadcast on social media by citizens,
Speaker 1: mayor perval, the city manager, city council, the pseudo government
Speaker 1: organizations like three CDC have tried their hardest to hide
Speaker 1: the reality of the violence and crime downtown. People who
Speaker 1: have no ability to vote in the city, but who
Speaker 1: have long kept it alive with their patronage and spending
Speaker 1: a voting the only way they can with their feet
Speaker 1: and wallets which we'll be walking, eating, and drinking elsewhere.
Speaker 1: My family, as Anderson townshippers, have heeded the call of
Speaker 1: the media, city leadership and the people who went downtown
Speaker 1: to succeed, and have often led our left our suburban
Speaker 1: neighborhoods where free parking, safe restaurants and entertainment establishments abound,
Speaker 1: and driven downtown two over the rhine to help keep
Speaker 1: businesses alive and enjoy what was a nice city. It's
Speaker 1: just not worth it anymore. Similarly, my daughter and son
Speaker 1: have had to replace their car windows multiple times after
Speaker 1: smashing grabs, just part of the privilege of living or
Speaker 1: working in the city, which is so common that police
Speaker 1: won't even show up to take a report. The city
Speaker 1: voters have spoken they value criminals more than residents, businesses,
Speaker 1: and customers, and they can have it. That's Pete Caldwell
Speaker 1: and everything he says, everything he writes in this narrative,
Speaker 1: you know it and I know it. It rings true.
Speaker 1: And we have heard the frustrations from Ken Kober. We've
Speaker 1: heard the frustrations from if you talk to police officers
Speaker 1: who were on the street. We've heard the frustrations from
Speaker 1: people who are downtown every day and in this last election,
Speaker 1: I wrote on my social media and and this was
Speaker 1: a day after the election, there had been another violent
Speaker 1: incident on short Vine, and I wrote, this is what
Speaker 1: the voters of Cincinnati apparently once because they vote in
Speaker 1: the exact same members of council, they vote in the
Speaker 1: exact same judges that do not address crime in a
Speaker 1: serious way, a serious or a meaningful way. And it
Speaker 1: goes on and on and on, and think about what
Speaker 1: he writes here.
Speaker 2: But for.
Speaker 1: A small change in timing, but for being a few
Speaker 1: inches one way or a few inches the other way,
Speaker 1: Like when President Trump got shot in Butler, Pennsylvania, had
Speaker 1: he not turned his head, we would have seen a
Speaker 1: live assassination on TV, the bullet going through his ear.
Speaker 2: Had he.
Speaker 1: Just been just millimeters the other way, it would have
Speaker 1: been a completely different outcome. Same thing downtown. If you've
Speaker 1: ever have you ever had a gun pointed at you
Speaker 1: in anger?
Speaker 3: I have.
Speaker 1: That is a moment in your life that things get
Speaker 1: very real in an instant, in a very quick way.
Speaker 1: Have you ever been to a building that you frequent
Speaker 1: or a car and you see a bullet hole in
Speaker 1: it and you know that a few hours ago or
Speaker 1: a day before or last night, you were right there
Speaker 1: where that bullet hole is. Now, what if you had
Speaker 1: been standing there when that bullet came through. Those are
Speaker 1: the kind of things that Pete Caldwell has to think about,
Speaker 1: and his son and his daughter have to think about
Speaker 1: windows busted out from smashing grabs. Look, you can't prevent
Speaker 1: everyone knows you can't prevent every crime from happening. But
Speaker 1: it has gone on for say, it has been such
Speaker 1: a major issue for so long now in Cincinnati, and
Speaker 1: the people who commit the crimes a relatively small number
Speaker 1: of individuals. They know that the consequences are they're not
Speaker 1: long term, and they don't care if it if they
Speaker 1: have a criminal record. So some people in this world
Speaker 1: just don't care. It's it's a regular part of their
Speaker 1: life that they've got warrants out for their arrest, that
Speaker 1: they are regularly stopped by police. They are arrested with regularity.
Speaker 1: They go into the system, they get processed through the
Speaker 1: justice center, they've got legal counsel appointed for them, and
Speaker 1: then they go in front of a judge who is
Speaker 1: going to send them on their way. And it happens
Speaker 1: again and again and again, and there are just certain
Speaker 1: elements of society, certain people who that's just part of
Speaker 1: their normal routine. And we've got a system in Cincinnati
Speaker 1: that allows that to happen. But the other side of
Speaker 1: that are real world consequences. People do get killed, people
Speaker 1: do get shot, their lives are altered forever. They've got
Speaker 1: property that gets damaged or destroyed. How does that affect you?
Speaker 1: How does that ruin your life? How does that make
Speaker 1: your day a miserable day, or a miserable week, or
Speaker 1: a miserable month or year. So these are the real
Speaker 1: consequences of crime. And so Pete Caldwell is going to
Speaker 1: join me in the ten o'clock hour and we and
Speaker 1: we'll discuss this a little bit further. Also coming up
Speaker 1: after the news here at the bottom of the hour
Speaker 1: is my buddy, Representative Adam Bird. I'm going to talk
Speaker 1: about the new law that is on its way to
Speaker 1: Mike the Wines, the Deak that changes the marijuana policy
Speaker 1: in the state of Ohio. I really don't have a
Speaker 1: dog in this fight, but maybe you do. So what's
Speaker 1: the deal with the with the you know, with the
Speaker 1: new the weed law. We'll talk to that and Bird
Speaker 1: about that as we roll on till midnight tonight on
Speaker 1: the Thursday night edition of The Midweek Crisis. Here on
Speaker 1: seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 2: Right back on the Big Ones.
Speaker 1: Seven hundred W l W nine, We rolled till midnight
Speaker 1: to night on the Thursday night edition of The Midweek Crisis.
Speaker 1: And Ohio wallmakers have sent a bill to Governor Mike
Speaker 1: DeWine that creates a whole bunch of new criminal offenses,
Speaker 1: from buying weed in Michigan to smoking in public areas.
Speaker 1: And here to talk about that, because look, I really
Speaker 1: don't know that much about marijuana laws. I don't know
Speaker 1: much about marijuana in general. And State Representative Adam Bird
Speaker 1: of Claremont County and New Richmond is here, and Adam Bird,
Speaker 1: great to have you back on the show.
Speaker 4: How you doing, Dan, It's great to be with you.
Speaker 4: It's to be with you. And that introduction was interesting
Speaker 4: because it sounded like you were going to introduce me
Speaker 4: as an expert on marijuana, and well, that's not the
Speaker 4: way typically someone would. I'm not an expert, but I
Speaker 4: do know what I do know about the law we
Speaker 4: just passed.
Speaker 1: Have you guys been talking a lot about marijuana up
Speaker 1: there and up the Columbus. So I hope you hope
Speaker 1: you know a little something about it. But why do
Speaker 1: why did we need to have changes to the to
Speaker 1: the marijuana laws that we have in Ohio to begin with?
Speaker 4: Well, that's that's the right question right there, Dan, And
Speaker 4: it's it's because we were the wild wild West here
Speaker 4: in Ohio for so long. And and as you know,
Speaker 4: when when a ballot initiative issue to a couple of
Speaker 4: years ago gets put on the ballot, who do you
Speaker 4: think writes the language for that issue to language, it's
Speaker 4: the motors boat on.
Speaker 1: It's not lawmakers, No, probably some lobbying group. Probably some group,
Speaker 1: the you know, pro marijuana sales lobbying group.
Speaker 2: I guess I don't know.
Speaker 4: It's a lobbying group that represents big marijuana. They're the
Speaker 4: kinds of that. They they're the ones who write that language.
Speaker 4: So there's a lot of language in there that most
Speaker 4: Ohioans don't really want. Now, Uh, most Ohioands, I think
Speaker 4: when they go into the ballot box, they don't really
Speaker 4: read all of it, but they do know generally that
Speaker 4: this says, I can you know that we're going to
Speaker 4: legalize marijuana? So they've oh, yes, if that's what they feel.
Speaker 4: They don't realize everything that's in there that has been
Speaker 4: put in there by the big, big marijuana lobby. So
Speaker 4: you know, at this point it's on us to make
Speaker 4: some common sense changes to protect children and to protect communities,
Speaker 4: to protect employers, to protect you know, neighbors and so forth,
Speaker 4: and so you know we're going to go. So why
Speaker 4: didn't we do this two years ago? Well, because we
Speaker 4: wanted to take some time to listen to constituents, and
Speaker 4: in the end we were struggling dan to get the
Speaker 4: right Now, we need fifty votes for something to pass
Speaker 4: in the House, we need seventeen votes for something to
Speaker 4: pass in the Senate, and it was taking a while
Speaker 4: for us to get agreement with that many people to
Speaker 4: take something pass.
Speaker 1: So the first line in this story that was written
Speaker 1: by Morgan Trowell and it was posted by Channel nine
Speaker 1: on their website. The first line of this story says,
Speaker 1: lawmakers sent the bill changing marijuana policy to government, the
Speaker 1: govern it or Mike the Wines desk, creating a slew
Speaker 1: of new criminal offenses from buying weed in Michigan. Is
Speaker 1: it illegal from for people in Ohio to go to
Speaker 1: Michigan and and buy marijuana and buy weed in Michigan?
Speaker 2: Is that illegal? Now?
Speaker 4: It will be?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 2: Why is that illegal?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 1: Do they do they have medicinal marijuana in Michigan recreational
Speaker 1: or what?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 2: Tell tell me why? That's? I mean?
Speaker 1: Can you go to Michigan and buy weed there and
Speaker 1: smoke it there? Or you cannot bring it across state lines?
Speaker 2: What? What's the deal there?
Speaker 5: That?
Speaker 4: The deal is that before you could do that, Okay,
Speaker 4: even under before Issue TO you could do that. After
Speaker 4: Issue TO you could do that. And and now that
Speaker 4: we have passed Issue TO and signed by the governor,
Speaker 4: you know, it's going to incentivize some to bypass this
Speaker 4: law and go to Michigan to buy it cheaper than
Speaker 4: you could buy it.
Speaker 1: So you can buy it cheaper in Michigan than you
Speaker 1: can in Ohio.
Speaker 4: That's correct, and it's it's often much cheaper. And and
Speaker 4: so they were trying to, you know, make sure that
Speaker 4: people weren't going to bypass the law that that we
Speaker 4: have here in Ohio. And and of course, uh I
Speaker 4: think you know, although Mike Dwine that our governor and
Speaker 4: I might not agree on everything, we certainly agree I
Speaker 4: think on efforts to protect children and protect families, which
Speaker 4: is what you know this bill is all about. We
Speaker 4: want to make sure that we're protecting them because we
Speaker 4: we were certainly in an area where we were not
Speaker 4: protecting children. If you go to a red game and
Speaker 4: you're smelling marijuana, that's that's not a family friendly environment.
Speaker 4: And if you're if you're you know, I smell, I
Speaker 4: smell one.
Speaker 1: I smell marijuana now everywhere I go. I mean, I mean,
Speaker 1: is it is it just me? I mean I smell it.
Speaker 1: I can't go anywhere, but actually downtown, if I go downtown,
Speaker 1: I mean I'm smelling dope.
Speaker 2: I'm smelling.
Speaker 1: If I go to the store and people walk, I
Speaker 1: can smell people walking by and the obviously they've been partaking.
Speaker 1: I mean it's uh, I don't know. It seems like
Speaker 1: it's very very prevalent anywhere you go now. And I mean,
Speaker 1: I look, I don't know if I don't know if
Speaker 1: that's good or bad. I don't know if it's legal
Speaker 1: or illegal. I don't I if I just to my
Speaker 1: way of thinking, if you're an adult and you want
Speaker 1: to use marijuana, then that's on you. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: don't don't don't drive under the influence, operate heavy machinery,
Speaker 1: don't endanger anybody else, keep it away from the kids.
Speaker 1: And that that's Uh, I don't know, I feel like that.
Speaker 1: I felt that same way before this whole issue became
Speaker 1: an issue.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, you make some good points there, Dan,
Speaker 4: but but I wouldn't use the city of Cincinnati as
Speaker 4: then a good example of whether law is going to
Speaker 4: be a felt or not, because I think a lot
Speaker 4: of picking and choosing by law enforcement in the city limits.
Speaker 1: Hey, Cincinnati, we pay, we pay. What what do you
Speaker 1: think about that? About this this settlement that the city
Speaker 1: of Cincinnati just approved eight point two eight point one
Speaker 1: million dollars two million dollars, two million dollars plus for
Speaker 1: the lawyers, and then the these individuals who were here, uh,
Speaker 1: breaking the curfew, not obeying police, causing causing problems in
Speaker 1: the street. They claimed that, you know, anyone who engaged
Speaker 1: in breaking a window or property damage or anything like
Speaker 1: that is not going to be part of the settlement.
Speaker 1: But the whole notion, what kind of message does that
Speaker 1: send that these individuals came into the city of Cincinnati
Speaker 1: did what they did, and then even though it's it's
Speaker 1: four years after the fact, they're going to go ahead
Speaker 1: and get a ten thousand or a twelve thousand dollars winfall.
Speaker 4: You know. I mean elections have concert and to stand.
Speaker 4: We know that. And when you elect people that uh,
Speaker 4: you know, allow soft on crime kind of policies or
Speaker 4: turn the other way and look or cash lists, bail
Speaker 4: or whatever the case might be. Uh, what does that do?
Speaker 4: That incentivizes people and businesses, by the way, who want
Speaker 4: a society where the walls are enforced. It encourages them
Speaker 4: to move away, and it encourages your police officers to say,
Speaker 4: you know, forget this. I'm going to go find a
Speaker 4: job in Claremont County, Warren County, Butler County, and I'm
Speaker 4: going to go work for a place and respect the law.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, kid, So here in Ohio we've got uh, we've
Speaker 1: got legalized marijuana, We've got legalized gambling. What's going to
Speaker 1: be next? Are we going to legalize prostitution? We're going
Speaker 1: to legalize some other vices. I mean what it seems
Speaker 1: like everything everything that that was illegal when I was
Speaker 1: a kid growing up and you couldn't do is legal now.
Speaker 1: And and well yeah, cigarettes. We pretty much outlawed cigarettes everywhere.
Speaker 1: You can't smoke a cigarette anywhere.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, you you bring on some really good
Speaker 4: points stand and it is frustrating at times, but you know,
Speaker 4: we had to pass these laws to bring on marijuana
Speaker 4: and hemp because you know, these hemp products were being
Speaker 4: sold to children and we had to bring some regulation
Speaker 4: to that. And now you you know, you can still
Speaker 4: buy a hemp drink, but you have to do it.
Speaker 4: You can't sell it to someone under the age of
Speaker 4: twenty one, and it has to be in a MARI
Speaker 4: licensed marijuana store and you can't just sell it out
Speaker 4: of a convenience mart like you could before. And we
Speaker 4: just had a wild, wild rest situation because of you know,
Speaker 4: it changed that the federal government in May back in
Speaker 4: twenty and eighteen when they accidentally put hemp and language
Speaker 4: to allow it. And so you know, we we've we've
Speaker 4: been in that situation. We're finally getting around to controlling it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what what is your sense of I guess the
Speaker 1: the illegal marijuana market is is does that still exist
Speaker 1: with the laws we I've not I've really not paid
Speaker 1: much attention to this at all, but you know, those
Speaker 1: people who might seek to sell marijuana, you know, illegally
Speaker 1: on the street corner, that sort of thing. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: have the you know, grow their own or sell their
Speaker 1: own outside of the legal avenues that we have to
Speaker 1: sell it. Now, what's your sense of the black market
Speaker 1: that we have here in Ohio? And when it comes
Speaker 1: to marijuana sales.
Speaker 4: Well, then, unfortunately, I have no idea about the black market.
Speaker 4: I I I don't use it. I don't know anything
Speaker 4: about it, and I don't even I don't even know
Speaker 4: if I know anybody who does. And it's I just
Speaker 4: I don't know abouch about that. But I can tell
Speaker 4: you that that you know, we the issue too that
Speaker 4: the voter's approved allow for you to grow a couple
Speaker 4: of plants in your own house. It also, the world
Speaker 4: that we just passed allows landlords to ban marijuana smoking
Speaker 4: and vaping and growing on their property if they want,
Speaker 4: and and it forbids people from growing and cultivating on
Speaker 4: behalf of other people. And it's interesting here too. We
Speaker 4: also we prohibited people who are fired for marijuana use
Speaker 4: from obtaining state unemployment benefit. So, in other words, the
Speaker 4: law of Ohio might say you can use marijuana, but
Speaker 4: your employer can still say no, no, no, not not
Speaker 4: here at work and not under the influence here at work.
Speaker 2: That's pretty good.
Speaker 1: Well, at least I think businesses should be able to
Speaker 1: have that, uh, that ability to do that. So I
Speaker 1: think that's a good thing. Let me ask you about
Speaker 1: another another issue. Agriculture is still the number one industry
Speaker 1: here in the state of Ohio and twenty four billion dollars.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump just passed a twelve billion dollar aid package
Speaker 1: for farmers, the people that you know in the agriculture community.
Speaker 1: Is this going to help them at all here in Ohio?
Speaker 1: Is this just a band aid? Is this not really
Speaker 1: addressing whatever whatever serious issues that that farmers and those
Speaker 1: in the agricultural community have.
Speaker 4: Well, the Ohio Farm Bureau and the US Farm Bureau
Speaker 4: are obviously important stakeholders and all of this, and and
Speaker 4: many of the farmers that live in my agricultural district
Speaker 4: deeply care about what is in that farm bill and
Speaker 4: the what I am hearing. I know this is not
Speaker 4: a good answer for you, Dan, but the Ohio Farm
Speaker 4: Bureau is still dissecting that bill. I've had farmers call
Speaker 4: me and ask me what's in it, and I'm like, well,
Speaker 4: you know, I'm your state legislator, not your congressman. So
Speaker 4: we are still you know, I'm still trying to understand
Speaker 4: what's in there. I don't have much information on you
Speaker 4: for you on that.
Speaker 2: No, that that's okay.
Speaker 1: I just you know, farming is big business here in Ohio,
Speaker 1: and I don't know, and it's the I should read
Speaker 1: more about it. I should know more about it if
Speaker 1: I'm going to I really I haven't talked about it
Speaker 1: that much. But you got twelve billion dollar aid package
Speaker 1: out there, and you know, farming is big business here
Speaker 1: in Ohio, and and it just seems to me that
Speaker 1: there's going to be a lot of Ohio farmers that
Speaker 1: that may or may not be affected by that.
Speaker 2: And then how do you know?
Speaker 1: Then I was going to ask, you know, how do
Speaker 1: we get in the situation where a twelve billion dollar
Speaker 1: aid package from the federal government is necessary for the
Speaker 1: for the people farming in Ohio.
Speaker 4: Well, I don't know the answer to that, but I
Speaker 4: can't speculate that there is you know, there may be
Speaker 4: some rampifications by you know, the tariff that Trump is
Speaker 4: putting on certain products in certain countries, and sometimes they
Speaker 4: pushed back by slapping a tariff on on soybeans from Ohio.
Speaker 4: And you know, so since there's since that happening limits
Speaker 4: trade from Ohio soybeans to Canada or Africa, then those
Speaker 4: countries slapped, you know, a tariff on us, and we
Speaker 4: lose a market. So it might be something about that.
Speaker 1: We got about a minute left, Adam Bird, what what
Speaker 1: are you hearing from constituents as far as electric bills
Speaker 1: and energy bills go this winter?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm hearing, I am hearing a little bit about that.
Speaker 4: And of course that sticker shock always comes along right now.
Speaker 4: But remember Dan, that we passed House Bill fifteen about
Speaker 4: seven months ago, which said we are not going to
Speaker 4: provide at a state of Ohio anymore subsidies for solar,
Speaker 4: for wind, for nuclear, for anything. We want the market
Speaker 4: to play out and we want, you know, and we're
Speaker 4: going to support in all of the above kind of
Speaker 4: attitude when it comes to energy. We want natural gas,
Speaker 4: we want coal, we want nuclear, solar or whatever. We
Speaker 4: want all of that. And and so when you put
Speaker 4: allow the market forces to work, sometimes they're going to
Speaker 4: go up. But but I do think eventually they'll come down.
Speaker 4: And and so you know, I hope that we are
Speaker 4: putting in place policies that will will reopen you know,
Speaker 4: energy producers like Vitra Energy, which owns Zambra Power Station
Speaker 4: in Clarmont County. It's sitting there unused, and it's it's
Speaker 4: in very good condition. And we're just you know, Vitra
Speaker 4: Energy in Houston, Texas owns that and we need them
Speaker 4: to open it back up. We need them to start
Speaker 4: producing electricity again. And and and let's start employing people
Speaker 4: from Climat County and that plan again. And we need
Speaker 4: that to happen soon for people, and especially when data
Speaker 4: centers coming. Yeah, we've got a lot of We've got
Speaker 4: a lot of people who need that electricity, not just
Speaker 4: homeowners but businesses. We've got Honda here, and we've got
Speaker 4: Intel coming, and we've got andrewl and Pickaway County. So
Speaker 4: a lot of good stuff happening. We need energy for
Speaker 4: it though.
Speaker 1: All Right, Adam Bird, with that, we got to run
Speaker 1: as always, I appreciate the time, keep up the great work,
Speaker 1: and we will be talking again before.
Speaker 2: Too long, my friend.
Speaker 4: Awesome, Thanks so much. Dan.
Speaker 1: All Right, there you go, State Representative Adam Bird. And
Speaker 1: the bottom line is Joe Waddell, no more driving to
Speaker 1: Michigan to get your marijuana needs. So there you go.
Speaker 1: Nine seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 2: Right back on the Big.
Speaker 1: One, seven hundred WLW ten O nine Dan Carroll till
Speaker 1: Midnight Tonight, Thursday Night edition of The Midweek Crisis And
Speaker 1: if you were, if you were with me at the
Speaker 1: beginning of the show, I read you a narrative that
Speaker 1: was written by a guy named Pete Caldwell who lives
Speaker 1: in Anderson Township, and essentially he was telling the story
Speaker 1: of his family. They were out at rhein Geist at
Speaker 1: night and as his son was leaving the event preparing
Speaker 1: to drive home, drove past the shooting that was going
Speaker 1: on on Nick Mickon and wound up with bullet holes
Speaker 1: in his car for his trouble. And it was a
Speaker 1: real life lesson in what happens and how people are
Speaker 1: affected by crime in downtown Cincinnati. We recently just had
Speaker 1: an election where it appears the twenty eight percent of
Speaker 1: voters who showed up are perfectly fine with the way
Speaker 1: things are, and Pete Caldwell has graciously decided to join
Speaker 1: us tonight to tell his story. In Pete Caldwell Great
Speaker 1: to have you on and welcome to seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 7: Hi Dan, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm glad you're here. The story and I read
Speaker 1: the narrative that our mutual friend sent to me, and
Speaker 1: it just it just rings true in every sense that
Speaker 1: there You know, you talk about these these marauding groups downtown,
Speaker 1: that we've seen the video of these running gun battles
Speaker 1: that take place in downtown Cincinnati. We we know that
Speaker 1: there are so many random victims who either get shot
Speaker 1: or killed when these incidents happen. We know that you
Speaker 1: sense the frustration from the police who talked to your
Speaker 1: son that night. He was giving them all the information
Speaker 1: he possibly could to help them affect and arrest, and
Speaker 1: you sense their frustration. But everything you write about this
Speaker 1: is it just just rings with truth from every sector
Speaker 1: that we have heard from. But but I think the
Speaker 1: most overlooked sector of all this are people like you
Speaker 1: and your family, the people who really are the victims
Speaker 1: of these idiotic soft on crime policies that we've had
Speaker 1: so long here for you know, here in Cincinnati and
Speaker 1: here in Hamilton County.
Speaker 7: I mean, we're the victims in this case here and there.
Speaker 7: But in the long term, it's going to be the
Speaker 7: downtown businesses that are going to continue to lose business
Speaker 7: if people start realizing the reality of how rampant crime
Speaker 7: is downtown.
Speaker 1: And that's the other part that rings true to this.
Speaker 1: You and Iron neighbors. We both live in Anderson Township,
Speaker 1: and I can think of numerous times where I find
Speaker 1: reasons that there's player's plenty. Look, there's all kinds of
Speaker 1: different events that happen in downtown Cincinnati all the time,
Speaker 1: and I can't think of any number of reasons and
Speaker 1: any number of excuses that I can find. And it
Speaker 1: gets easier to find excuses to not go downtown, to
Speaker 1: not attend these events. Why bother, you know, why bother
Speaker 1: with the hassle and potentially becoming a victim of crime
Speaker 1: if you don't have to.
Speaker 7: Well, we struggle with that for years. My family loved
Speaker 7: going downtown. I used to like going downtown, but I
Speaker 7: can't separate myself from the statistics. And I know daytime
Speaker 7: is different than nighttime, but we were only down there
Speaker 7: at seven PM. My son left Ryan guys at nine thirty.
Speaker 7: That's not real late. And I always tell the kids,
Speaker 7: you know, they're like, you know, most most crime is targeted.
Speaker 7: You keep hearing the stories on the media. Most of
Speaker 7: the crime is targeted usually know you're you know your assailants.
Speaker 7: There's very little random violence. Well I don't agree with
Speaker 7: that because my daughter works downtown and she tells me
Speaker 7: all the time about these unreported stories. More shoe jings,
Speaker 7: more fights, more kids running down the street, cops chasing them,
Speaker 7: not than ever makes the media very rarely unless somebody,
Speaker 7: you know, a citizen, captures it on their own phone,
Speaker 7: puts it on social media, and that gives the media
Speaker 7: sort of sort of primes the pump that they can
Speaker 7: then cover story. But there's so many stories and so
Speaker 7: many incidents that are unreported, they don't show up on statistics.
Speaker 7: Therefore the mayor can go out there and say crime
Speaker 7: can be down. Well, maybe it is. The reports are
Speaker 7: down because people are reporting it. But I mean, I
Speaker 7: love downtown, love going down there. That's where the nice
Speaker 7: bars are, the nice restaurants. And I've always told the kids,
Speaker 7: you know, still got to keep your eye open. And
Speaker 7: here's the example of my son. He was not involved
Speaker 7: in anything, just went through the crossfire and luckily he's
Speaker 7: still find his car, still run somehow.
Speaker 1: How has that affected him that he was that close
Speaker 1: to becoming of well, he was a victimy the way.
Speaker 1: I mean his car got hit with bullets. But has
Speaker 1: that affected him? I mean, you know, I was talking
Speaker 1: about this in the first segment. I've had a gun
Speaker 1: pointed at me in anger before. I know what that
Speaker 1: feeling is. And to realize that you were literally just
Speaker 1: inches away or millimeters away, or had he been going
Speaker 1: you know, had he left the bar a minute earlier,
Speaker 1: a minute later. I mean that sort of thing is
Speaker 1: how's he dealing with that, that sort of reality?
Speaker 7: Amazingly? Well? I asked him, I said, did you sleep well?
Speaker 7: Did you go to sleep? I couldn't sleep that night,
Speaker 7: Just thinking run into my mind. You know where we
Speaker 7: could be tonight. We could be in the hospital, we
Speaker 7: could be playing funerals. He didn't seem to be too
Speaker 7: bothered by it roll off of him. But it just
Speaker 7: once again, is that I've been warning these kids for years.
Speaker 7: You know, something can happen down there. There's things that
Speaker 7: happen that won't probably happen in airstonnship. When you get
Speaker 7: down there, you're taking some risk on now. I keep
Speaker 7: telling I've been using an analogy in the last couple of
Speaker 7: days here of if somebody knew there was a landmine
Speaker 7: or a bomb in the middle of a one hundred
Speaker 7: acre park. Yeah, the odds are probably one in ten million.
Speaker 7: You're going to step on it. But there's no way
Speaker 7: anyone would go in that park, and there's no way
Speaker 7: the government would let you go in the park. They'd
Speaker 7: lock it down. But we know that the odds of
Speaker 7: something bad happening, whether it's just crime minor crime mugging,
Speaker 7: windows broken out, or you can catch a bullet, they're
Speaker 7: much higher than that. But as part of what we're
Speaker 7: considering normal. And I don't know what normal is anymore,
Speaker 7: because I guess it's normal now to walk down the
Speaker 7: street and smew weed. Normal to see defecation on the
Speaker 7: streets down some of those areas downtown. It's normal to
Speaker 7: see the panhandlers chasing down the street demanding money. Things
Speaker 7: are becoming normal, and maybe random gunfire is supposed to normal.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm like you, I would like to think that
Speaker 1: that's not normal for downtown Cincinnati. I would like to
Speaker 1: think that we still live in you know, we just
Speaker 1: had a settlement that went out eight point one million
Speaker 1: dollars that is going to get paid to people who
Speaker 1: were rioting and disobeying lawful commands by police to disperse
Speaker 1: in violation of a curfew that was put in place
Speaker 1: by Mayor John Cranley. And I would like to think that,
Speaker 1: you know, we don't have those sorts of things that
Speaker 1: go on in downtown Cincinnati. I like to think that
Speaker 1: where we live in Anderson Township, when will you hear
Speaker 1: crime reports? Very seldom? And I think we live in
Speaker 1: a place where we do not want to tolerate that.
Speaker 1: And we wouldn't put up for one minute if the
Speaker 1: sheriff's deputies that patrol Anderson Township would just turn a
Speaker 1: blind eye to that and let that sort of thing slide.
Speaker 1: And I don't think law enforcement in the City of
Speaker 1: Cincinnati does that, But I think we have I think
Speaker 1: we have judges, and we have political leadership that doesn't
Speaker 1: really want to address that in a serious way. When
Speaker 1: when the election season was going on and Corey Bowman
Speaker 1: was running for mayor, did you were you like me,
Speaker 1: did you hold out hope that he might have a
Speaker 1: chance that he was talking to people about addressing these
Speaker 1: issues in a serious way in a meaningful way that
Speaker 1: could just electing a new mayor isn't going to change
Speaker 1: the outlook on crime overnight, but maybe bring a new
Speaker 1: sense to city Hall and a new way of dealing
Speaker 1: with this. Did you hold out hope that maybe he
Speaker 1: might have a chance of breaking through and hopefully at
Speaker 1: least be the beginning of some sort of change in
Speaker 1: the way this issue is looked at at city Hall.
Speaker 7: Well, I was hoping, and I guess I could never
Speaker 7: imagine that he couldn't get more than twenty percent of
Speaker 7: the vote. Yeah, but I think most of the voters
Speaker 7: in Cincinnati get that little blue ticket when they get
Speaker 7: to the ballot box, just go down the line checking these.
Speaker 1: How disappointing is that though, because he because you said,
Speaker 1: you know, you're you're a guy that you like that,
Speaker 1: you like coming downtown, you like what what downtown has
Speaker 1: to offer, and now you have to seriously think twice
Speaker 1: before you before you pull the trigger on that.
Speaker 7: Well, especially since you're paying for it. I mean it
Speaker 7: sort of feel a little bit of the taxation and orbitanation.
Speaker 7: I mean word in Helda County, we take big taxes,
Speaker 7: We have poppy taxes, we have levies going and we
Speaker 7: have zoo levees, we have paying for the stadiums or
Speaker 7: paying for all kinds of stuff. And you think you
Speaker 7: should have a little saying things, but you really have none.
Speaker 7: And I was a city worker retired from the city.
Speaker 7: So I've paid this city taxes for twenty seven years.
Speaker 7: And you think you have some saying, you really don't.
Speaker 7: You just pay and you go down there and some
Speaker 7: else does and affects the uh, the government.
Speaker 1: So you're actually retired or from working for the city. Yes,
Speaker 1: WHATSD You worked for MSD for how long?
Speaker 7: Twenty seven years?
Speaker 1: Metropolitan Sewartistics. So did you were you over there in
Speaker 1: Queen's Gate every.
Speaker 7: Day, every day, all down the city every day.
Speaker 1: In Queensgate, all around the city generally speaking, in the
Speaker 1: time that you spent working with the city, did you
Speaker 1: have any concerns about going out and doing your job
Speaker 1: on a daily basis, going to different parts of the
Speaker 1: city on a on a regular basis to do the
Speaker 1: work you had to do.
Speaker 7: You knew what areas were very dangerous, but there weren't
Speaker 7: as many dangerous areas. They were pretty much defined that
Speaker 7: this is an area that scen area. Maybe you bring
Speaker 7: a buddy with you, just to have some extra eyes
Speaker 7: on site. But I take the last last ten ten
Speaker 7: to fifteen years, it changed and you never know where
Speaker 7: you could go.
Speaker 1: So you saw a change in the time that you
Speaker 1: were that you were working for the city. Is there
Speaker 1: anything that you can put your finger on that that
Speaker 1: caused this to change?
Speaker 7: Not really. I mean, I think we used to have
Speaker 7: a little more of a mixed city council. We had
Speaker 7: a mixed county commissioners. We have some Republicans, we have
Speaker 7: some Democrats, we have some charter rights on city and
Speaker 7: now it's pretty much one party, one group of one
Speaker 7: way of thinking. And I mean, so many areas downtown
Speaker 7: have gotten nice. So I feel I don't know if
Speaker 7: I'm more mad, angry or just sad that we spent
Speaker 7: so much money and product people spent so much money
Speaker 7: building up these businesses in these restaurants and Bye Street
Speaker 7: and Main Street, and we saw what happened in the nineties.
Speaker 7: We had a beautiful Main Street did Bar district down
Speaker 7: there that came up mostly prod of money. Was a
Speaker 7: very little government involvement. That's sort of before the v
Speaker 7: CDC people got involved, and it was a great place
Speaker 7: to go. It was a little dangerous on the outskirts,
Speaker 7: but you felt like you were Low Island and there's
Speaker 7: cops walking around. You felt some much safe and that
Speaker 7: little little island. And then you know, Riot two thousand and one.
Speaker 7: Riots came and I watched the police not enforced things,
Speaker 7: and they were cold, not to enforce rules. And next thing,
Speaker 7: you know, most of the restaurants, bars closed. Now they're
Speaker 7: coming back up again a little bit little, but you
Speaker 7: hate to see that kind of waste. And I'm afraid
Speaker 7: we're gonna see it in Vine Street and you were
Speaker 7: seeing the banks. The bank's supposed to have all this
Speaker 7: great promise, and now you go down there and it's
Speaker 7: not what it was five years ago. It's you know,
Speaker 7: they they've affected the uh, the curfews and they don't
Speaker 7: really work, and they get the little kids out, but
Speaker 7: it's definitely once it gets dark, it's a much rougherreer
Speaker 7: than it was imagined you know ten years ago.
Speaker 1: Well, uh, Pete, when when you talk to other people
Speaker 1: that who were your neighbors and your friends and Anderson Township,
Speaker 1: do you get the same sort of feeling from them
Speaker 1: that like I have that look if we're going to
Speaker 1: go out and do something that Downtown's not necessarily going
Speaker 1: to be my first choice, or my second choice or
Speaker 1: my third choice.
Speaker 7: I think everybody likes the idea of going downtown. They
Speaker 7: feel a little safer about doing it during the day.
Speaker 7: But I think the ideas are going down there and
Speaker 7: night timing.
Speaker 2: That's these days are over.
Speaker 7: Most people I talk to, they're like, I want to
Speaker 7: not be down there after dark.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you're going to go downtown, maybe go to
Speaker 1: a Reds game, go to a Bengals game, go to
Speaker 1: an event. It's you go downtown, you go to the event,
Speaker 1: you leave, you don't want to you don't want to
Speaker 1: hang around. And that's It's a shame, isn't it. I mean, really,
Speaker 1: it's just it's just a shame that I mean, it
Speaker 1: was that crime was the number one issue during the campaign,
Speaker 1: and we are going to be talking about, you know, tomorrow,
Speaker 1: will be talking about hopefully they can get the roads
Speaker 1: cleared when the snow comes. But uh, you know, we'll
Speaker 1: be talking about crime for a long time to come
Speaker 1: because we know that it at least in this latest
Speaker 1: election cycle, it has not been addressed in any way.
Speaker 2: That's going to make any difference.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, And at least if you go down here during
Speaker 7: the days on a big event day, you've got many
Speaker 7: cops down there directing traffic, supporting the event, so you
Speaker 7: feel definitely much safer. So you go down the evenings,
Speaker 7: you might not see any cops all night.
Speaker 1: Yeah all right, Well, Pete Caldwell, did you write so
Speaker 1: this narrative that I read here?
Speaker 2: Did you write? Did you send this into the Inquirer
Speaker 2: or the paper or.
Speaker 7: I sent it to the Inquirer. I've stayed to a
Speaker 7: couple of talk show guys.
Speaker 2: Is the quire going to print to you know?
Speaker 7: I receive nothing.
Speaker 2: Back, so no idea, Well they should.
Speaker 1: I think it's really I think it's really well written
Speaker 1: and really well done. And Pete Caldwell, I appreciate you
Speaker 1: taking the time to tell your story here on the
Speaker 1: radio tonight.
Speaker 7: Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2: You're hearing it all right.
Speaker 1: And I know you're an army guy. Who do you
Speaker 1: like in the Army Navy game this weekend?
Speaker 7: Definitely not to.
Speaker 2: Pete Caldwell.
Speaker 1: Thank you for your service and uh you have a
Speaker 1: great night and all the best to you and your family.
Speaker 1: Great talking to you tonight. I really appreciate it, all right,
Speaker 1: good night, all right, there you go, Pete Caldwell and
Speaker 1: your thoughts on this five one three, seven four nine,
Speaker 1: seven hundred The Big One, Joe Waddell, let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and open up the phone lines as we roll on
Speaker 1: till midnight tonight on seven hundred WLW back on the
Speaker 1: Big One, seven hundred WLW ten thirty eight. Want to
Speaker 1: think Pete Caldwell coming on and telling his story about
Speaker 1: being downtown, his son, the families at ryan Geist the
Speaker 1: sun leaves, gets caught up in a a gang shooting
Speaker 1: I guess it was. And then and his daughter who
Speaker 1: works downtown, has had her car windows busted out, got
Speaker 1: pepper sprayed or maced by some ten or twelve year
Speaker 1: old kids. She's been caught up in a gunfight as well.
Speaker 1: It is absolutely terrifying in many cases to go downtown.
Speaker 1: People are reacting to that. Five one three seven four
Speaker 1: nine seven thousand, one eight hundred The Big One. Let's
Speaker 1: start out with JP on the west side. Then we
Speaker 1: got Christy who also lives in Anderson Township. And then
Speaker 1: Mark and JP. How are you tonight, hey, JP? JP
Speaker 1: going once, JP going twice. We'll put them on hold
Speaker 1: and see if we can get them to pay attention there,
Speaker 1: Christy and Anderson.
Speaker 6: How are you tonight, Hey, Dan, I'm great, Thanks for
Speaker 6: taking my call.
Speaker 1: Sure.
Speaker 4: Also want to.
Speaker 6: Thank Pete Caldwell for making its aware of this extremely
Speaker 6: concerning and ongoing violence in our city. And what are
Speaker 6: the odds that both of his children have had their
Speaker 6: cars shot up in recent It's just crazy to me.
Speaker 6: Thank god both of them are Okay.
Speaker 1: It shouldn't happen it, really, I mean, it's it's ridiculous
Speaker 1: that it happens to one of them, but they have
Speaker 1: both of them get caught up in this, and his
Speaker 1: daughter has been involved in more than one incident downtown,
Speaker 1: So I mean, it shouldn't. It shouldn't have to be
Speaker 1: that way. How How can I mean? I used to
Speaker 1: work downtown and I never felt like I had a
Speaker 1: problem going down there, And you know, I never had
Speaker 1: my car broken into, never became a victim of crime,
Speaker 1: never saw any crime.
Speaker 2: But that was years ago.
Speaker 1: If I had to do that all over again, and
Speaker 1: given the circumstances that we have right now, I don't
Speaker 1: know that I would want to do that. I have family,
Speaker 1: family members who go downtown every single day, and they're
Speaker 1: reacting to this story that we heard from Pete Caledwell,
Speaker 1: and they're telling me that everything he said is exactly
Speaker 1: what they experience almost on a daily basis.
Speaker 6: It's frightening. And I have two adult children, one twenty one,
Speaker 6: one thirty two who work downtown and in OTR and
Speaker 6: I'm worried for their safety. My daughter's co worker was
Speaker 6: attacked in a public restroom downtown, but she was able
Speaker 6: to fight off her attacker. That happened during the day.
Speaker 6: Needless to say, my daughter's company have put in safety measures.
Speaker 6: They're actually making all of their employees who work within
Speaker 6: the city and other cities as well, because they branch
Speaker 6: out beyond Cincinnati, and they have to take a physical
Speaker 6: training course, defensive training, and they have to carry math
Speaker 6: and they're not allowed to use public restaurants. And you know,
Speaker 6: it's imperative that we get better governance within our city
Speaker 6: and we have to hold our elected officials accountable. We
Speaker 6: live close to downtown, we want to feel safe, we
Speaker 6: want to be able to visit downtown.
Speaker 1: Well, the elected officials who let things get to the
Speaker 1: state that things are in keep getting re elected, so
Speaker 1: we you know, we look, election has Elections have consequences,
Speaker 1: And the last time we had a vote, I think
Speaker 1: it was twenty eight percent of the voters showed up
Speaker 1: to vote, and the vast majority voted for the status quo,
Speaker 1: keeping exactly what we have right now. And I remember
Speaker 1: I put out on my social media, I said, apparently
Speaker 1: this is what voters want.
Speaker 2: They want.
Speaker 1: They want there to be regular crime, they want there
Speaker 1: to be in regular incidents. We hear about them on
Speaker 1: short Vine, we hear about them downtown, we hear about
Speaker 1: them over the Rhine, we hear about him, you know,
Speaker 1: on the banks. Just we saw the video that was
Speaker 1: just a block away from from Pay Corpse Stadium where
Speaker 1: you had the running gun battle, and so and I asked,
Speaker 1: I remember asking Chris smitham and I said, is that
Speaker 1: a fair comment? He said, it's absolutely fair.
Speaker 2: So well.
Speaker 4: To continue on with that.
Speaker 6: These crimes that are happening, actions should have consequences, right,
Speaker 6: especially horrible actions. What's happening a slap on the wrist,
Speaker 6: and all we're getting is lip service.
Speaker 4: We need action.
Speaker 6: We have to do better for public safety. We want
Speaker 6: people to feel safe downtown. We want to visit downtown,
Speaker 6: we want to support local businesses and we don't feel
Speaker 6: safe doing that. I definitely do not want to go
Speaker 6: downtown or to otr.
Speaker 1: Well, all these all these judges that we have that
Speaker 1: believe in restorative justice and all these uh, you know,
Speaker 1: it's kind of kumbay always of dealing with criminals and crime.
Speaker 1: How we looking? How well is that getting the job done?
Speaker 6: Not getting the job done?
Speaker 2: Christy. I appreciate the call tonight.
Speaker 5: Thanks Dan.
Speaker 2: All right, thank you very much.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Montford Heiss and we'll say say hey
Speaker 1: to Mark and then we'll try and go back to
Speaker 1: JP Mark seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 2: Hey Dan.
Speaker 3: A long story and I'll try to keep the short.
Speaker 3: But several several years ago, I mean, the girls always
Speaker 3: heard are girls always heard about going down to their fireworks.
Speaker 3: We had friends bring buckets to chicken the cooler and
Speaker 3: it was just, I mean, it was fantastic.
Speaker 2: It was a great time. I remember those days. It
Speaker 2: was yeah.
Speaker 3: And my daughter, my youngest daughter, always wanted to get
Speaker 3: down to their fireworks. I said, it's not the same anyway.
Speaker 3: We went down there. Long story short, gunfire breaks out,
Speaker 3: We get out of there, and it was funny because
Speaker 3: the blacks we thought it was fireworks. They knew it
Speaker 3: was gunshots. So we took off with them and they
Speaker 3: just bum rushed the gates, these ten foot ten foot gates.
Speaker 2: And knock them down.
Speaker 3: We ended up going the wrong way. Guy down there,
Speaker 3: just the bloody mess. The guy got shot. Now coming
Speaker 3: up to today, we had to go to I think
Speaker 3: of wife for a friend of ours that had passed away,
Speaker 3: and it was park in the Washington Park Garage, which
Speaker 3: I wasn't a big fan of, and this was kind
Speaker 3: of a high profile because it was a medical professional
Speaker 3: here in Cincinnati, and I thought, there's a lot of
Speaker 3: money here and if they catch wind of it, you know,
Speaker 3: I mean, they're going to be robbing people.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: My mind is just running, and I brought my gun
Speaker 3: and I told my wife, I said, if anything happens,
Speaker 3: just drop to the ground.
Speaker 2: I'll handle it.
Speaker 3: And it shouldn't be that way.
Speaker 1: Now, I was going to say, it's it's a shame
Speaker 1: that that has to be your mindset when you are
Speaker 1: attending even though it was a celebration of life downtown,
Speaker 1: did you feel like you have to do that when
Speaker 1: you come downtown for any reason. It would be nice
Speaker 1: if we lived in the city where you didn't have to.
Speaker 3: Entertain that notion, and you know, and their restaurants down
Speaker 3: there we would frequently go to, not not going down
Speaker 3: there drinking, but they have dinner or if we have
Speaker 3: out of town guests. And now you know, people coming
Speaker 3: to town, they say, oh, can we go back down
Speaker 3: to that place down there? And we didn't know we.
Speaker 2: The best not the best idea.
Speaker 1: Well, Mark, Yeah, Unfortunately, that is a feeling that is
Speaker 1: becoming all too prevalent, especially for people like us who
Speaker 1: do not live in the in the city limits.
Speaker 2: And I appreciate your thoughts on that.
Speaker 1: Let's go back to the west side and say, hey
Speaker 1: the JP JP seven hundred WLW Hey JP. All right, Joe,
Speaker 1: did we try and talk to JP? I guess all right, Well,
Speaker 1: I guess he's a JP is done for all right, JP,
Speaker 1: We'll see you later.
Speaker 2: You call in. You got to be more on the ball.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I'm you know, I was talking to Pete
Speaker 1: Caldwell there in that last segment, and my phone was
Speaker 1: blowing up with people who were telling me the exact
Speaker 1: same stories. People who work in the downtown area and
Speaker 1: tell me how things that they've changed their ways of
Speaker 1: doing business because of what happens. So uh, we you know,
Speaker 1: when we have leadership in the city of Cincinnati that
Speaker 1: tries to tell you everything is safe and everything is
Speaker 1: copasetic and it's all cool, come on down, I think
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people who might say otherwise, and
Speaker 1: it's a it's a shame that this is what we're
Speaker 1: dealing with. So uh any more thoughts on that five
Speaker 1: p One three, seven, four nine, the big one? What
Speaker 1: else is going on? What else is going on? Christin Um,
Speaker 1: who is the the Secretary of Homeland Security, was up
Speaker 1: on Capitol Hill today and.
Speaker 2: I mean she.
Speaker 1: The members of Congress who were trying to make her
Speaker 1: look bad just showed themselves for the idiots and the
Speaker 1: clowns and the fools that they really are. There's a
Speaker 1: guy up there, his name is Shrie Fender and he
Speaker 1: is a Congressman and he was I mean, I mean
Speaker 1: he really is. He's an ass clown. I don't know
Speaker 1: any other way to what to describe him. He's filed
Speaker 1: articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth and he was talking
Speaker 1: with Christine nom today and she wasn't taking any of
Speaker 1: his crap and Christine Noam was was on fire today
Speaker 1: and I definitely want to play some of that. So
Speaker 1: Joe Waddell, let's get let's get the audio ready and
Speaker 1: if you have it there, let's hear cut number twenty one.
Speaker 1: Christineoam with Representative Scherie Fander on Capitol Hill today.
Speaker 8: I am sick of your lives. The American people are
Speaker 8: sick of this lies. American people demand truth.
Speaker 9: America is very happy that finally they have a president
Speaker 9: in the White House that gets up every day to
Speaker 9: keep them safe.
Speaker 8: Madam Secretary, you're incompetence and your inability to truthfully carry
Speaker 8: out your duties of Secretary of Home Land Security. If
Speaker 8: you're not fired, will you resign?
Speaker 5: Sir?
Speaker 9: I will consider you're asking me to resign as an
Speaker 9: endorsement of my work.
Speaker 1: This guy, this guy doesn't even know what he's talking about.
Speaker 1: He has no clue what he's talking about. All he's
Speaker 1: doing is he got some talking points from the DNC
Speaker 1: and he is literally sitting there reciting talking points, trying
Speaker 1: to act like he's some kind of tough guy, and
Speaker 1: he really is just a clown and a joke of
Speaker 1: a congressman.
Speaker 2: And christin Um.
Speaker 1: Pretty much pretty much put it right back in his face.
Speaker 2: So I like that.
Speaker 1: Here's another guy who was testifying before the committee today
Speaker 1: and we don't hear Christy Noman this one. But this
Speaker 1: guy's name is George Reedy's and he claims this is Look.
Speaker 1: The Democrats spend a lot of time preparing for this hearing,
Speaker 1: creating phony narratives and telling a bunch of fake stories
Speaker 1: to try and make the secretary look bad, and they
Speaker 1: did a pretty piss poor job. This guy, George Reedy's,
Speaker 1: got before the committee and told his sob story.
Speaker 2: Let's hear cut number twenty two.
Speaker 10: Identified myself as a US citizen and a veteran, but
Speaker 10: that didn't matter. Agents smashed my window, sprayed to your gas,
Speaker 10: and pepper sprain to my car, dragged me out. I
Speaker 10: was choking on gas, unable to breathe, while officer has
Speaker 10: shout at conflicting commands. Even after I complied, I was
Speaker 10: taken to a detention center and held for three days
Speaker 10: without charges, no phone call, no lawyer, no medical care.
Speaker 10: Even though my skin burned from the chemicals, my family
Speaker 10: had no.
Speaker 2: Idea where it was.
Speaker 10: I was released without explanation and without a single charge. I.
Speaker 1: Well, there's a guy who is lying to members of Congress.
Speaker 1: And thankfully Trisha McLaughlin, who is from I believe she
Speaker 1: is from Cincinnati. She is the number two person at
Speaker 1: Department of Homeland Security, and she set the record straight
Speaker 1: on this guy. And so this guy, I mean, when
Speaker 1: you are when you run into law enforcement of any type,
Speaker 1: do you identify yourself as I'm a veteran, so you
Speaker 1: can't touch me. Now, Trisha McLaughlin sets the record straight.
Speaker 1: Agents were executing criminal search warrants on July tenth at
Speaker 1: marijuana sites in Camarillo, California. This guy that you just
Speaker 1: heard Readi's became violent and refused to comply with law enforcement.
Speaker 1: That's why he was arrested. He challenged agents and blocked
Speaker 1: their route by refusing to move his vehicle out of
Speaker 1: the road.
Speaker 2: So this was.
Speaker 1: The criminal search warrant at marijuana growing sites in Camarillo, California.
Speaker 2: You may remember this.
Speaker 1: This story was on the news for I don't know
Speaker 1: two or three nights, and it turned out there were
Speaker 1: all kinds of children, I mean young kids, little kids
Speaker 1: who were working at these marijuana grows sites. These were
Speaker 1: kids that came in the country illegally supposed to be vetted.
Speaker 1: I read that article last night talking about the three
Speaker 1: hundred thousand and plus kids that came into the country unvetted,
Speaker 1: put with the people who just abuse them in some
Speaker 1: of the worst ways imaginable, and a lot of these
Speaker 1: kids turned out. We're working at these California gross sites.
Speaker 1: And so this guy who I you know, look, he
Speaker 1: maybe it may have been a veteran, which is perfectly fine,
Speaker 1: that can be true too. But just because you're a
Speaker 1: veteran doesn't mean you can't do something that makes you
Speaker 1: worthy of getting arrested. And according to Trisha McLaughlin, that's
Speaker 1: exactly what this guy did. He was blocking ice agents,
Speaker 1: God violent, got himself arrested, and yet he conveniently glosses
Speaker 1: over that when he's given this fake and phony testimony
Speaker 1: to members of Congress on Capitol Hill ten fifty four.
Speaker 1: We got to get to a break. We'll have more
Speaker 1: Christi nume cuts coming up on the other side, and
Speaker 1: hopefully more You're phone calls five one, three, seven, four,
Speaker 1: seven thousand, one eight hundred, the Big One as we
Speaker 1: roll on till midnight tonight. On the Thursday night edition
Speaker 1: of The Midweek Crisis seven hundred WLW seven hundred WLW
Speaker 1: eleven eight can carroll till midnight tonight Thursday Night edition
Speaker 1: of the Midweek Crisis. A DC Appeals court has uphold
Speaker 1: or upheld the Trump prohibition on trans in the military.
Speaker 1: Major win for Trump. Federal Appellate Court upheld the Pentagon's
Speaker 1: prohibition on trans identifying individuals from serving in the military
Speaker 1: two to one ruling free judge panel DC Circuit Court
Speaker 1: of Appeals fully palls the march injunction issued by Biden
Speaker 1: appointed district judge. Writing for the majority, Judge Gregory Catis
Speaker 1: Appoint noted how War Secretary Pete Hexth concluded that adopting
Speaker 1: a policy prohibiting gender dysphoria individuals from service would advance
Speaker 1: important military interest of combat readiness, unit cohesion, and cost control,
Speaker 1: despite the Secretary's consultation of existing data and more recent studies.
Speaker 1: To justify the decision, Katis wrote, the District Court nonetheless
Speaker 1: preliminary and join the twenty twenty five policy based on
Speaker 1: its own contrary assessment of the evidence. In our view,
Speaker 1: the court afforded insufficient deference to the Secretary's considered judgment,
Speaker 1: so there is some sanity in the courts out there,
Speaker 1: and that is good to know. Meanwhile, over at Health
Speaker 1: and Human Services, the Department of Health and Human Services
Speaker 1: has altered the display information under the official portmit or
Speaker 1: portrait of Admiral Rachel Levin. The portrait has been changed
Speaker 1: underneath to include the Admiral's real name, Richard Richard Levin
Speaker 1: is this person's real name. The portrait was recently altered.
Speaker 1: Spokesperson for HHS confirmed digital photograph of the portrait obtained
Speaker 1: by MPR shows Levin's previously previous name is now type
Speaker 1: below the portrait. Richard R. Levin, MD and the the
Speaker 1: one time Assistant Health and Human Services Secretary, responded to this,
Speaker 1: calling it an act of let me see if I
Speaker 1: can find this. I mean, what the heck did I
Speaker 1: do with that? Hold on, hold on, hold on. Of
Speaker 1: course I can't find it when I'm looking for but.
Speaker 2: Let me see. Oh, dun dun, dun, dun, dun. Let's
Speaker 2: see here it is. That's not it. That's not it.
Speaker 2: That's not it.
Speaker 1: I had it right in front of me a second ago,
Speaker 1: but they they changed the name. And it's uh, it's
Speaker 1: it's biological biological reality.
Speaker 2: And what's wrong with that now?
Speaker 1: Levin called this a uh I think an act of bigotry. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: and petty. No, it's an act of truth. And so
Speaker 1: when you have an act of truth, this is what
Speaker 1: people like the people like Levin consider to be petty.
Speaker 1: The truth to them is petty. The truth means nothing.
Speaker 1: The only thing that means anything is is their view
Speaker 1: on the world. The only thing that means anything is
Speaker 1: their agenda, and as long as their agenda is being served,
Speaker 1: they don't care who gets hurt in the process. Let
Speaker 1: ry remind you of what kind of person this Levin
Speaker 1: character really is. This is a cut of Rachel Levin
Speaker 1: Richard Levin talking about mutilating children and was a staunch
Speaker 1: advocate for experimental surgeries on children. Let's hear cut number three.
Speaker 11: Gender affirming care is life saving, necessary, age appropriate, and
Speaker 11: a critical tool for healthcare providers. As a pediatrician when
Speaker 11: it comes to making sure kids are healthy and happy,
Speaker 11: I know how important care. The deffermed someone's true identity
Speaker 11: can be.
Speaker 1: What a bunch of crap. It's all lies. Rachel Livin
Speaker 1: knew it, knew it when he or she spoke those words,
Speaker 1: and most definitely knows it now, But again, the cost
Speaker 1: to real human beings, the damage that this kind of
Speaker 1: surgery does, is of no consequence to someone like Levin.
Speaker 1: In Florida, the Attorney General there s filed a lawsuit
Speaker 1: against three of the most insidious argumentations pushing for the
Speaker 1: mutilation of children in fealty to transgender ideology, the World
Speaker 1: Professional Association for Transgender Health WPATH, the Endocrine Society, and
Speaker 1: the American Academy of Pediatrics. The lawsuit brings a racketeer
Speaker 1: influenced and corrupt organization a reco case as well as
Speaker 1: a consumer protection case based on the state's contention that
Speaker 1: the organizations knowingly disseminated false information about transition procedures to children.
Speaker 1: The disinformation campaign then led to children's genital mutilation, chemical castration,
Speaker 1: other irreversible outcomes associated with the interventions, which were very
Speaker 1: profitable to the organizations recommending them. For years, these groups,
Speaker 1: this is the Attorney General speaking for years of these
Speaker 1: groups insisted the recommendations were settled science, but behind closed
Speaker 1: doors they knew the evidence was weak. This is the
Speaker 1: Attorney General Uthmyer. He said this in a video he
Speaker 1: posted on social media. He said they knew the outcomes
Speaker 1: were uncertain and the risks were very real. Parents were
Speaker 1: not told the full story. In fact, some parents were
Speaker 1: told that if they didn't put their kids through permanent,
Speaker 1: life changing, life altering sick procedures like double massed ectomies
Speaker 1: and castration, their child would commit suicide. Not only is
Speaker 1: that unethical and dangerous medicine, but it's against the law.
Speaker 1: So the State of Florida knows that this narrative that
Speaker 1: was being spun by Rachel Levin Richard was completely false,
Speaker 1: completely unnecessary, a complete and total lie in furtherance of
Speaker 1: the agenda of the radical left and this movement that
Speaker 1: is quickly dying, as it should be, it should have
Speaker 1: died a long time ago. But this movement, this radical
Speaker 1: trans movement, and just because we have a leader in
Speaker 1: the White House who will not put up with this crap,
Speaker 1: who is outlawing this whole notion that you can surgically
Speaker 1: mutilate kids, it's being done away. I mean, just because
Speaker 1: there's new leadership now that's letting that happen. This movement
Speaker 1: will it'll die down, It won't go away completely because
Speaker 1: there will always be people out there who think that
Speaker 1: this needs to continue. But Rachel Levin can cry and
Speaker 1: complain all he or she wants to about their real
Speaker 1: name being put up under their portrait of Health and
Speaker 1: Human Services. But this Levin is one of the most
Speaker 1: reprehensible characters that you can possibly imagine. Ken and Mason
Speaker 1: seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 5: Dan I agree with you completely about transgenderism. It's actually
Speaker 5: it's a perversion. There's nothing normal about it. And most
Speaker 5: kids have no idea what they are until they're twelve
Speaker 5: thirteen years old. My three daughters were tom boys, all
Speaker 5: of them, but by time they were thirteen or fourteen,
Speaker 5: they were girls, and they were interested in boys and
Speaker 5: dances and dresses and everything else. The natural progression of life,
Speaker 5: you know, the kids are just playing when they're early on.
Speaker 5: And to perform surgery like that on children as heinous,
Speaker 5: that's that's a crime.
Speaker 1: And this and this the doctor Levin, this Rachel Levin
Speaker 1: is out there talking about how these surgeries are necessary
Speaker 1: in life saving. It does come complete and utter falsehood,
Speaker 1: a complete lie, and an absolute disgrace and unbelievably dangerous
Speaker 1: to children. And we're supposed to wring our hands because
Speaker 1: they they put the h they put this person's real
Speaker 1: name under their portrait of health and Human services and
Speaker 1: what is and what does he do? He says, well,
Speaker 1: that's petty, and it figures that's the word they would
Speaker 1: use because the truth to leftists and these radicals, the
Speaker 1: truth to them is petty and meaningless.
Speaker 5: Well, Danie'll remember last September, there were about one hundred
Speaker 5: and forty transgender girls that were going back to being
Speaker 5: a girl. Talk the horror stories of administrators and teachers
Speaker 5: telling them that you know, initially they were confused what
Speaker 5: they were and that they wish they had never performed
Speaker 5: the transgender procedures ever, and most of them will never
Speaker 5: be able to have a child in their lifetime. I mean,
Speaker 5: it was an absolutely heartbreaking the experience. And listen to
Speaker 5: all these girls and how they were influenced by these teachers.
Speaker 5: You know, our educational system is a disaster right now.
Speaker 5: Dan They've been doctrinating kids now for up to fifty
Speaker 5: years with all this BS. They're not teaching them reading, writing,
Speaker 5: and arithmetic like they should, developing an educational foundation. They're
Speaker 5: not teaching them civics like they should. They're teaching them
Speaker 5: to hate America. You know, I've been at some basketball
Speaker 5: games in the last two weeks, stand and half the
Speaker 5: audience won't stand up for the national anthem?
Speaker 2: Are you kidding me? I thought we were I thought
Speaker 2: we were past all that.
Speaker 5: No, I mean, I'm telling you there was half the
Speaker 5: crowd wasn't standing for the national anthems.
Speaker 1: That that is unbelieving. And they're doing this in front
Speaker 1: of How old are these kids that are playing basketball.
Speaker 5: When they're sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, and.
Speaker 1: Then these kids are sitting there watching this. That's embarrassing.
Speaker 1: Are the athletes at least standing up for the national anthem?
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, the school makes some stand up.
Speaker 2: Well thank god.
Speaker 5: You know, I've told people next to me, get your
Speaker 5: rear end up. That's the national anthem.
Speaker 1: If I was on the if I was on the PA,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't start the national anthem until I saw everyone standing.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: I remember I was my son My son was was
Speaker 1: went to Virginia Tech and he was a swimmer. And
Speaker 1: this was this was when the you know, the whole
Speaker 1: Colin Kaepernick thing was going on and people were taking
Speaker 1: knees and all this stuff. And you had different little
Speaker 1: league sports teams, you know, their coaches and their parents
Speaker 1: would tell them to take a knee during the national anthem.
Speaker 1: What a bunch of crap. But the thing that I
Speaker 1: was most proud of when I would go to these
Speaker 1: these swim meets and you'd go into these arenas that
Speaker 1: would be packed full of people. You would look around,
Speaker 1: they would play the national anthem before the events would start,
Speaker 1: and there was not one person that was taken a knee.
Speaker 1: Everybody was standing. Everybody was respecting our national anthem and
Speaker 1: respecting the flag, from every athlete who was competing, to
Speaker 1: every person who was in the stand, and it was
Speaker 1: and it was unbelievable. So's there's still wide sections of
Speaker 1: people in this country who love the flag and respect
Speaker 1: the flag and don't go along with that crap that's
Speaker 1: about taking a knee. And it blows me away, Ken
Speaker 1: from Mason, that there's still people out there doing that today.
Speaker 5: Dan, I've been lucky enough in my life in my work,
Speaker 5: I've traveled around most of the world, and America is
Speaker 5: the best country on God's green earth. These people, it's
Speaker 5: more than just stupidity. They're completely naive and they've been
Speaker 5: misled and they don't challenge any thing that they hear
Speaker 5: has been said to them, if they would go, if
Speaker 5: they could go to Russia and see how life goes
Speaker 5: on in Russia, If they could go to China to
Speaker 5: see how life goes.
Speaker 2: On in China.
Speaker 5: You know, if they could go to Turkey and see
Speaker 5: how life goes on there, you know, they would love
Speaker 5: America with all their heart and soul. People don't understand
Speaker 5: what a hell hole most of the world is compared
Speaker 5: to America. America, we have a great These people are
Speaker 5: allowed to say all these stupid, idiotic things because of
Speaker 5: our constitution. We have the greatest setup in a life
Speaker 5: of all time in this world. I mean, they're allowed
Speaker 5: to be idiots if they want to be. You know,
Speaker 5: they'd be dead if they were in Russia doing idiotic things.
Speaker 5: They'd be dead in China if they were doing idiotic things.
Speaker 5: You know, they don't understand it, They don't get it.
Speaker 5: They think there's a better place. They think in Europe
Speaker 5: it's a better situation. You know, ninety five percent of
Speaker 5: people in Europe can't afford a car.
Speaker 1: I think of I think of the election of a
Speaker 1: guy like Mandani and peg I peg a lot of
Speaker 1: that on the failure of our education system. He had
Speaker 1: so many people vote for him who were young people
Speaker 1: who were in their twenties, who were in their thirties,
Speaker 1: that were seduced by his talk of what free buses,
Speaker 1: rent control, free grocery stores, money for this, that and
Speaker 1: the other thing. Socialism. They've been seduced by this socialism.
Speaker 1: And have they had a decent education and a foundation
Speaker 1: to fall back on, they would have known the fallacy
Speaker 1: of the ideas that he's putting out there. They would
Speaker 1: have known they were being sold to Bill of Goods.
Speaker 5: And Daniz's led. Like we've been talking about Elanamar in Minnesota,
Speaker 5: it gets worse day by day. This woman needs to
Speaker 5: go to jail. This woman is a thief, she's a liar,
Speaker 5: she's a con artist.
Speaker 4: You know, we talked about it. She's now worth thirty.
Speaker 2: Million, thirty million dollars.
Speaker 5: Yeah, she's never had a job.
Speaker 1: And Tom tom Homan, Tom, I heard Tom Homan, he
Speaker 1: was on you know, he might have been on news
Speaker 1: I think he was on news Max earlier today, but
Speaker 1: he he said they he's got the best investigators at
Speaker 1: Homeland Security looking into her now. So she's nice, she's
Speaker 1: gonna she's going to get hopefully she's going to get
Speaker 1: exposed and get what's coming to her. She's smart, she'll
Speaker 1: head back to Somalia before too long. Ken, we got
Speaker 1: to run, We got to get to a break. But
Speaker 1: as always, man, appreciate you listening, Appreciate you picking up
Speaker 1: the phone.
Speaker 5: All right, Dany, have a good one.
Speaker 1: All right, there you go, Ken from me some eleven
Speaker 1: twenty five at seven hundred WLW seven hundred WLW, Dan
Speaker 1: Carroll till midnight tonight, Thursday Night edition of the Midweek Crisis.
Speaker 2: I want to get back to Christy Nome.
Speaker 1: She was testified today in front of the Congressional Committee.
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's a it's amazing how how much
Speaker 1: on a on a weekly basis, I get ready for
Speaker 1: these shows. And I mean, you just see how much
Speaker 1: the left and Democrats, how much they lie and mean.
Speaker 1: Yet I played Rache Levin earlier. She's lying about how
Speaker 1: this transgenda gender affirming care is necessary and life changing,
Speaker 1: life changing for children. It's a complete and total lie.
Speaker 1: Promila Jaya Paul is out there talking about what Somalians
Speaker 1: did for America, saying that Somalis and Indians and Latin
Speaker 1: Americans built this country, made it what it is today,
Speaker 1: it's a complete that's just completely false. Alyssa Slotkin still
Speaker 1: trying to get out from under that the d that
Speaker 1: she made with the other seditious six Democrats talking about
Speaker 1: the illegal orders. How are men and women in the
Speaker 1: military don't have to don't have to follow those illegal orders.
Speaker 1: Now she's doing an interview, she did an interview with
Speaker 1: The Daily Beast. She's claiming that the only reason that
Speaker 1: she and the other Democrats released that video, that disgraceful video,
Speaker 1: was because they were approached by so many members of
Speaker 1: the military who were concerned about this very thing. Does
Speaker 1: anyone believe for a minute that they approached her that
Speaker 1: there were so many so many military members came to
Speaker 1: her and said that we are we're concerned about the
Speaker 1: illegal orders that we might get from Trump. And so
Speaker 1: she in turn made that video. What a complete that's
Speaker 1: another completing total line. And then these people on the
Speaker 1: committee today talking to Secretary No, they didn't do anything
Speaker 1: that was for the benefit of the American people. Their
Speaker 1: mission today was to bash Christinome, bash Donald Trump, bash
Speaker 1: his policies, try and make Trump look like the bad
Speaker 1: guy because we're deporting illegal aliens out of our country.
Speaker 1: Still not as many as Obama did, but that doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: Benny Thompson was on the committee. He said something completely reprehensible.
Speaker 1: But I want to start with this dude Rhode Island.
Speaker 1: This guy's from Rhode Island. His name is Seth Magaziner,
Speaker 1: and so he's talking to the secretary and he's trying
Speaker 1: to get her in a gotcha moment and it doesn't
Speaker 1: work out very well. And you're gonna see, you're gonna
Speaker 1: during the SoundBite here, you're going to hear him make
Speaker 1: reference to someone named, say June Park, say June Park,
Speaker 1: who actually was in the United States military. And as
Speaker 1: he says this, you see a one of his aides
Speaker 1: come up with what looks like an iPad and this
Speaker 1: guy's picture on the iPad like he's sitting there, like
Speaker 1: he's bringing actually bringing him into the into the hearing
Speaker 1: by remote. And this, this exchange is just unbelievable. With
Speaker 1: Seth Magazine or as this guy's name from Rhode Island
Speaker 1: and Joe Waddell, let's here cutting Umber twenty three, Please.
Speaker 2: Jerry, United States military veterans. Have you deported.
Speaker 7: Sir?
Speaker 9: We have not deported US citizens or military veterans.
Speaker 2: I don't believe you served in the military. I haven't either,
Speaker 2: but I think you and I can agree that as
Speaker 2: Americans we owe everything to those who have served our
Speaker 2: country in uniform, particularly those who have served in combat.
Speaker 2: Do you agree with that, sir?
Speaker 9: I believe that people that are in this United States
Speaker 9: that are citizens have legal status here.
Speaker 2: Those man, Secretary, We are joined on zoom by a
Speaker 2: gentleman named sa Jean Park. He is a United States
Speaker 2: Army combat veteran who was shot twice while serving our
Speaker 2: country in Panama in nineteen eighty nine. Like many veterans,
Speaker 2: he struggled with PTSD and substance abuse after his service.
Speaker 2: He was arrested in the nineteen nineties for some minor
Speaker 2: drug offenses, nothing serious. He never hurt anyone besides himself,
Speaker 2: and he's been clean and sober for fourteen years. He
Speaker 2: is a combat veteran, a Purple Heart recipient. He has
Speaker 2: sacrificed more for this country than most people ever have.
Speaker 2: Earlier this year, you deported him to Korea, a country
Speaker 2: he hasn't lived in since he was seven years old.
Speaker 2: Will you join me in thanking mister Park for his
Speaker 2: service to our country.
Speaker 9: Sir, I'm grateful for every single person that has served
Speaker 9: our country and follows.
Speaker 12: Can you please tell every one of them needs to
Speaker 12: be enforced.
Speaker 2: But you understand that many veterans struggle with PTSD, Many
Speaker 2: veterans struggle with with substance abuse challenges. This man took
Speaker 2: two bullets for our country. Will you you have brought authority,
Speaker 2: by the way as Secretary to issue humanitarian parole to
Speaker 2: do deferred action. Will you commit to at least looking
Speaker 2: at mister Park's case to see if you can help
Speaker 2: him find a pathway back to this country that he
Speaker 2: sacrificed so much for. I will absolutely look at his case, but.
Speaker 1: I want you well, it turns out that his case
Speaker 1: has already been looked at. Thanks again to Trisha MacLachlan, say,
Speaker 1: June Park has an extensive criminal history. Now it's true
Speaker 1: we served the military, but again, just because you served
Speaker 1: in the military doesn't mean that we need to bow
Speaker 1: down to you. This guy has an extensive criminal history,
Speaker 1: no matter if he's got PTSD or what. Still an
Speaker 1: extensive criminal history that includes convictions for drugs and weapons
Speaker 1: offenses as well as bail jumping. These convictions led to
Speaker 1: his green card being revoked in a final order of
Speaker 1: removal from the United States. His criminal record includes convictions
Speaker 1: for possessing, manufacturing, or selling a dangerous weapon. And so
Speaker 1: this this fool, this idiot from Rhode Island, Okay, just
Speaker 1: a few minds, just got arrested for a few minor offens,
Speaker 1: just some minor offenses. Possessing, manufacturing or selling a dangerous weapon,
Speaker 1: carrying a loaded firearm in a publica assault, criminal possession
Speaker 1: of a controlled substance otherwise known as crack cocaine, jumping bail,
Speaker 1: failure to appear in court.
Speaker 2: So this is the.
Speaker 1: This is the kind of criminal activity that this individual
Speaker 1: was engaged in. He served approximately two and a half
Speaker 1: years to three years in prison for his convictions. In
Speaker 1: twenty twenty oh nine, after his release, he was issued
Speaker 1: in order of removal, but was initially allowed to remain
Speaker 1: in the US under deferred action. So he was ordered
Speaker 1: out of the United States before Trump even thought about
Speaker 1: running for office. So don't give me this crap about
Speaker 1: how in twenty twenty five he was finally caught up
Speaker 1: with and sent out following the order that had been
Speaker 1: issued for him to get the hell out of the country.
Speaker 1: And then we've got one more Benny Toimepson. And if
Speaker 1: that name sounds familiar, it should because Benny Thompson is
Speaker 1: the guy that headed up to January sixth committee with
Speaker 1: Liz Cheney, and he's again going after Secretary Christino. And
Speaker 1: he mentions the two National Guard members who got shot
Speaker 1: in DC and listened to the way this buffoon, this
Speaker 1: clown talks about that cut number twenty four.
Speaker 2: What you did.
Speaker 13: Mount in Secretary of you and a gentleman from ct
Speaker 13: N CTC reference the unfortunate accident that occurred with the
Speaker 13: National guardsman in Kio.
Speaker 12: You think that was an unfortunate accident.
Speaker 13: I mean there's a territ Wait wait, look, I'll get
Speaker 13: it straight.
Speaker 12: Then you can shot our National guardsman in the head.
Speaker 13: Look, musam, will you direct witness to allow me to
Speaker 13: ask my question? It was an unfortunate situation.
Speaker 1: Allow me to ask my questions. Benny Thompson refers to
Speaker 1: two National Guard members who got shot as an unfortunate accent.
Speaker 2: Justin just an accident. We got an Afghan dude who lives.
Speaker 1: In Washington, drives across the country, lies in wait for
Speaker 1: these two and then shoots them both in the head
Speaker 1: kills one seriously critically wounds another, and he refers to
Speaker 1: it just an unfortunate accident and thank god for Christy Nomes.
Speaker 1: She says, you call that an accident. He shot two
Speaker 1: people in the head. So again we hear democrats, liberal leftists,
Speaker 1: radical democrats lying. Every one of these Democrats on this
Speaker 1: committee has put up a false narrative in front of
Speaker 1: the secretary to try and make her look bad, and
Speaker 1: she fired back with this today, Christine om cut number
Speaker 1: twenty five.
Speaker 9: I think it's shameful to see the defense of individuals
Speaker 9: who break our laws. We are a nation of laws.
Speaker 9: If we are not a nation of laws, we are
Speaker 9: no nation at all. And that is what we are
Speaker 9: doing every day.
Speaker 12: Is following us. If you guys don't like the law,
Speaker 12: go change it. That's your job. You don't complain.
Speaker 9: I was raised by a dad who said, we don't
Speaker 9: complain about things.
Speaker 12: We fix them. Well go fix them.
Speaker 9: If you don't like the law, quit belly ach and
Speaker 9: quit hitting and attacking our ice officers. Quit going out
Speaker 9: and protesting and screaming vile things at them, Quit calling
Speaker 9: them names.
Speaker 12: We wouldn't let our children do that.
Speaker 9: Go do something that actually matters by having an honest
Speaker 9: debate and changing the law.
Speaker 12: That's your jobs. You all should be fine, and my viewpoint.
Speaker 1: You all should be fired, and she's absolutely right with that.
Speaker 1: I got to call it a night. We will see
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