Speaker 1: Billy cunning in the Great America, and welcome to this floor.
Speaker 1: Is sunny Wednesday after being in the tri States, and
Speaker 1: of course Joe Black goes dominating the news athletically, and
Speaker 1: according to Tony Benner and others, they have their sources
Speaker 1: deep in the bowels of the Bengals locker room. Looks
Speaker 1: like Joe Flack, who's going to start on Sunday in
Speaker 1: Green Bay. The four to twenty five start gives him
Speaker 1: an extra maybe three hours to get ready. So I
Speaker 1: don't know how big the playbook's going to be, but
Speaker 1: he's got an extra three hours to do a little
Speaker 1: bit better than Jake the Snake Browning. But other than that,
Speaker 1: we got big issues happening in River City, including the
Speaker 1: mayor's race, and of course half to have pure of
Speaker 1: all is running. He looks good, he smells good, he
Speaker 1: dresses well. But the policies stink. But that's a different issue.
Speaker 1: And joining you nine now is the Republican candidate for mayor,
Speaker 1: Corey Bowman. And Corey welcome again to the Bill Cunningham
Speaker 1: showing first of all as a father, as a business
Speaker 1: owner in the West End, as kind of a normal person.
Speaker 1: Why in the hell do you want to do this
Speaker 1: When Kamala Harris got seventy seven percent of the vote
Speaker 1: in the election in the city of Cincinnati, What is
Speaker 1: Corey Bowman, the half brother of JD. Vance, want to
Speaker 1: be the mayor of Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: Well, Bill, first off, thank you so much for having
Speaker 2: us on. You know, early voting just started yesterday. Me
Speaker 2: and my wife went to the Board of Elections and
Speaker 2: we voted. I will tell you who I vote for,
Speaker 2: but I'm a little bias. You could probably figure that out,
Speaker 2: you know. As far as me, you know, I've been
Speaker 2: you know, pastoring and business owner in the downtown area
Speaker 2: for about five years now. You raised in the area,
Speaker 2: and for me, you know, just like many people on
Speaker 2: both sides of the Yasle, we love this city. We
Speaker 2: love the potential of this city. We love the sports
Speaker 2: of this city except when we're playing and then we
Speaker 2: kind of debate that every week. But besides that, you know,
Speaker 2: we we care about the policies that affect the residents
Speaker 2: of this city. And what I think is happening in
Speaker 2: city Hall is that people have lost sight of what
Speaker 2: truly impacts the residents of the downtown area. To neighborhoods
Speaker 2: of our city, and that's what we've got to bring
Speaker 2: it back to. You know, for me, my opinion is
Speaker 2: that city Hall is nothing but glorified custodians. We've got
Speaker 2: the keys to the city. We need to keep the
Speaker 2: streets clean, we need to keep the streets safe. We
Speaker 2: need to get a handle on crime from a city perspective,
Speaker 2: and we need to make sure the money is spent properly.
Speaker 2: And when you look through the budget of the city,
Speaker 2: when you look at the crime that's happening in our city,
Speaker 2: when you look at the potholes everywhere, you can tell
Speaker 2: that people have lost sight of what truly needs to
Speaker 2: be prioritized at city Hall. And that's why we're running well.
Speaker 1: We had another terrible event on the heart of the city,
Speaker 1: of course, is Fountain Square, another event in which shots fired.
Speaker 1: I saw a lot of cones out, maybe twenty to
Speaker 1: thirty cones. Two people are involved a gunplay on Fountain Square.
Speaker 1: And every time I talk to city council members, they
Speaker 1: tell me crime is down, crime is down. Are the
Speaker 1: books cooked in the city of Cincinnati to give us
Speaker 1: a defined result? So to have pierreval and others can
Speaker 1: run on the idea that crime is down. What everyone
Speaker 1: knows crime is up. Are the books being cooked at
Speaker 1: city council?
Speaker 2: Well, this is what I hear from city council a lot,
Speaker 2: is that the perception of people is their reality and
Speaker 2: so it's perceived as unsafe. Well, you know, we used
Speaker 2: to counsel in our church a lot of youth in
Speaker 2: the inner city. And if a kid came in with
Speaker 2: a black eye that he said that, you know, his father,
Speaker 2: his mother, you know, beat him the night before. We
Speaker 2: don't look at that child and say that their perception
Speaker 2: is their reality. We know that their reality is their reality,
Speaker 2: and we do something about it. So to tell people that, oh,
Speaker 2: it's only a perception that downtown is unsafe, but yet,
Speaker 2: you know, Fountain Square got shot up last night. We've
Speaker 2: had three shootings in three days, two of them were hobicides.
Speaker 2: Then that's a slap in the face to people, to
Speaker 2: business owners, to single moms, to families that are living
Speaker 2: in the area that experience this on a day to
Speaker 2: day base. You know, you asked, are we cooking the books?
Speaker 2: What I will tell you is that at our church
Speaker 2: on Clark Street in the West End, we've had three
Speaker 2: instances where forty to sixty shots have come by the
Speaker 2: street and they have run into car windows, into residents' homes,
Speaker 2: and a lot of it gets reported as just simply
Speaker 2: property damage. Right it's not even being reported properly. And
Speaker 2: then a lot of people don't even call nine one
Speaker 2: one anymore in the West End specifically, because we know
Speaker 2: it's not going to get dispatched properly. These are administrative
Speaker 2: failures that's happening from the top down, and that's why
Speaker 2: we're running.
Speaker 1: Two thousand cars are reported it's dolen. There's probably thirty
Speaker 1: to forty thousand car break ins in the city of Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: According to shot spotter, there's at least twenty thousand bullets
Speaker 1: flying around the city every year. Think about a number
Speaker 1: of twenty thousand bullets flying around that are picked up
Speaker 1: by shot spotter. There's thousands more not picked up by
Speaker 1: shot spotter. We have a police force down about twenty percent,
Speaker 1: and so if crime is down supposedly twenty percent, it's
Speaker 1: only down because twenty percent fewer cops are arresting people.
Speaker 1: If cops aren't available to arrest anyone, of course, crime
Speaker 1: is going to be down because cops are not arresting anyone. Plus,
Speaker 1: can you address yourself to solutions. One of the solutions
Speaker 1: a lemon kearney and have to have puival, is to
Speaker 1: have a program where arm robbers are paid about one
Speaker 1: thousand dollars a month not to commit armed robberies and
Speaker 1: are giving travel vouchers to other cities to enjoy themselves
Speaker 1: to get out of the cauldron of the city of Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: You think it's a good idea to pay arm robbers
Speaker 1: one thousand dollars a month of tax payer money not
Speaker 1: to commit more arm robberies? Is that a good idea?
Speaker 2: Well, I'll say this, if you're paying arm robbers, then
Speaker 2: a lot of people might choose a different profession to
Speaker 2: try to get benefits of that payment in the next
Speaker 2: few weeks ahead. But I will say this that we
Speaker 2: do have solutions for this, and these solutions come from
Speaker 2: the people that are boots on the ground. You know
Speaker 2: when you say that phrase crime is doubt, I've said
Speaker 2: to cop after cop that city Hall states that crime
Speaker 2: is down, and immediately, I'm telling you right now, every
Speaker 2: single one of them roll their eyes emphatically whenever they
Speaker 2: hear that, because they know it's not true. They know
Speaker 2: that they are trying to come up for air every night.
Speaker 2: I've had officers that come in to my shop and
Speaker 2: they'll look at me and say, if you don't win,
Speaker 2: I'm going to consider early retirement because it is a
Speaker 2: craftstorm of what's happening from the administration. These are officers
Speaker 2: that care about our city, that got into the job
Speaker 2: to be able to protect and serve, and so our
Speaker 2: solutions from the top down are we're going to allow
Speaker 2: the police offers to enforce the law. We're going to
Speaker 2: remove any of these divisive initiatives like Actor SINCI or
Speaker 2: three to one one or art programs that divide the
Speaker 2: police department from the communities that they want to serve.
Speaker 2: And then we're going to totally look at the ECC,
Speaker 2: the Emergency Communication Center, and make sure that our call
Speaker 2: takers are dispatchers in our administration in that department is
Speaker 2: going to be run by people that have police experience
Speaker 2: and know what they're doing. We're going to be doing
Speaker 2: a lot when it comes to that, but I think
Speaker 2: the biggest aspect is allowing the cops to do their job.
Speaker 2: Because I talked with an officer right before the WBN
Speaker 2: fireworks and I asked them, Hey, is there anything that
Speaker 2: we need to make aware on social media to give
Speaker 2: you guys some help, Like do we need to call
Speaker 2: in for help from the state, Do we need to
Speaker 2: call in for help from other sources? And the officer
Speaker 2: looked at me and said, we just want to be
Speaker 2: able to do our job. And that is the general
Speaker 2: consensus of what I get from CPD. They're not asking
Speaker 2: for help from the state or federal They're just asking
Speaker 2: to be able to do their jobs effectively. And every
Speaker 2: decision that's being made from the administration has political aspects
Speaker 2: of it, and they hate that. They just want to
Speaker 2: be able to protect and serve Corey Bowman.
Speaker 1: As far as your relationship, your half brother is JD. Vance.
Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier that Kamala Harris got seventy seven percent
Speaker 1: of the vote in the city of Cincinnati. Is your
Speaker 1: brother's presences the vice president of the United States? Is
Speaker 1: that a positive or a negative in the city of Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: Well, for me, my relationship with my brother is always
Speaker 2: going to be positive. I'm never gonna be ashamed of
Speaker 2: where my brothers come from and where he's taken himself
Speaker 2: because in just such a short amount of time, he's
Speaker 2: come from abject poverty, coming from the struggles that many
Speaker 2: people in the nation know about, to then going to
Speaker 2: the Marine Corps and then going to graduating early from
Speaker 2: Ohio State University from Yale, and then rising up to
Speaker 2: the Vice President of the United States as a family member.
Speaker 2: I'm so proud of where he's come from. But at
Speaker 2: the same time, I need people to understand that we're
Speaker 2: running this race not as like a plant from the
Speaker 2: federal government. We're running this race because we are trying
Speaker 2: to do our part to help our city. And that's
Speaker 2: exactly why we're running.
Speaker 1: Yeah, have you thought about bringing your brother into help
Speaker 1: with the campaign.
Speaker 2: My brother loves Cincinnati. You know, when we talk, I
Speaker 2: will tell people this is that at the end of
Speaker 2: the day, I need to have a brother, you know,
Speaker 2: more than a political advisor. Because we talk about our kids,
Speaker 2: we talk about you know, Star Wars, we talk about
Speaker 2: all these other things. And he's got a lot of
Speaker 2: bigger fish for fry whenever he's in the position that
Speaker 2: he's in, and so when we have those moments together,
Speaker 2: that's what we talk about. Now when it comes to help,
Speaker 2: he's completely on board with what we're doing. He's endorsed us,
Speaker 2: But I think that this has to be a race
Speaker 2: that we're running and showing people that we're running this
Speaker 2: for Cincinnati because the opposition that my opponent is trying
Speaker 2: to use the city and trying to use all these
Speaker 2: positions to try to get up to a higher level
Speaker 2: in DC, whether it be a cabinet position or whatever.
Speaker 2: I'm not trying to do that. I'm actually just trying
Speaker 2: to use my relationship with the SS to try to
Speaker 2: impact Cincinnati in a positive way.
Speaker 1: When I talked to business owners, there is one on
Speaker 1: the banks that was in the Inquirer day. It's like
Speaker 1: a mini martive sorts. He said. Every day, there's six
Speaker 1: to ten fe every day coming in. He said. He
Speaker 1: started using cameras. It turns out to be twenty to
Speaker 1: thirty thefts every day from his store, he said, calling
Speaker 1: the police, Cincinni Police, this is at the banks. This
Speaker 1: isn't maybe in price Ill somewhere. It's worthless because they
Speaker 1: have so many thieves coming into a store that people
Speaker 1: walk in, take his tough and leave. And of course
Speaker 1: he's about to leave the banks because he can't live
Speaker 1: like that. You have many other individuals who were in
Speaker 1: Oakley and at Hyde Park that had massive car break ins.
Speaker 1: They don't call the police. They hit the nine to
Speaker 1: one one picked up, Okay, we'll send a car. A
Speaker 1: car doesn't come, and then they call back and say
Speaker 1: I like to make a police report, and then nine
Speaker 1: to one operator will say, well, we'll note that. And
Speaker 1: so there's a feeling in the citizens of Cincinnati that
Speaker 1: when crime takes place, it will not be memorialized, it
Speaker 1: will not be noted. If the police are demoralized, they
Speaker 1: don't show up. If you've been hired the past five years,
Speaker 1: you're told as a police officer in Cincinnati, don't pull
Speaker 1: people over for speeding violations or minor traffic. You might
Speaker 1: have to go hand on because there's no license. If
Speaker 1: your car is broken into, a just deal with the
Speaker 1: insurance company. If your store is robbed repeatedly, maybe the
Speaker 1: store owner said in the banks fifty to sixty times
Speaker 1: a week he has known thieves enter his store a week.
Speaker 1: So over a month, we're talking about two to three
Speaker 1: hundred thefts, none of which are recorded. So it's not
Speaker 1: surprising that crime is down. Also, when cops tell me
Speaker 1: there's been two people taking their curfew violation centers because
Speaker 1: the kids are now telling the cops how old are you?
Speaker 1: I'm eighteen? Okay, you got your ID with you? I
Speaker 1: don't have any ID. Cops can't arrest anybody on a curfew,
Speaker 1: and cops don't want to arrest anybody on a curfew.
Speaker 1: So shots are fired, blood running in the streets. Shopkeepers
Speaker 1: are being looted, Individuals are having violation of their personal
Speaker 1: space in their cars. Bullets are flying into homes. None
Speaker 1: of this is recorded as crime because they don't call
Speaker 1: the police. And so how do you respond to the mayor?
Speaker 1: Tomorrow night at Xavier there's a big, great debate there
Speaker 1: and I'm sure the Democratic Party has already stocked the
Speaker 1: audience in order to say patting themselves on the back.
Speaker 1: I looked this morning in the inquiry lemon Kearney and
Speaker 1: others are talking about crime is down, crime is down,
Speaker 1: crime is down. It is a lie. How do you
Speaker 1: tell the truth when the entire media in this town
Speaker 1: and others are treating this issue of crime as if
Speaker 1: it is something better than it's been in the past,
Speaker 1: when we know it isn't. Ben Now you got me
Speaker 1: a little bit fired up. I wish we had citizens
Speaker 1: who would actually report crime and the city would note
Speaker 1: what's being done. And like on Fountain Square, I saw
Speaker 1: about twenty eight cones on Fountain Score at five point
Speaker 1: thirty pm yesterday. I'm watching Shriek Palolo last night, and
Speaker 1: once again on Fountain Square there's a sense that it's
Speaker 1: the ok Corral. We have people being robbed, we have
Speaker 1: women being sexually assauted, we have cars being broken into,
Speaker 1: we have businesses being looted, and the city's mayor act
Speaker 1: as if I see here and speak no evil? How
Speaker 1: do you deal with all that? Tomorrow night? There's a
Speaker 1: question in there somewhere.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm telling you, Bill, what's been happening on the streets.
Speaker 2: Every single thing that you just mentioned that is what
Speaker 2: the citizens of Cincinnati are experiencing. And what you said
Speaker 2: is how are people reporting crime? How are people doing this?
Speaker 2: If people are fed up, this is what they have
Speaker 2: to do. They have to go to the Board of
Speaker 2: Elections during early voting, and they have to make their
Speaker 2: voice heard. We have a debate tomorrow night. It's not
Speaker 2: so much just focusing on the bat of the past.
Speaker 2: We've got to focus on the hope for a future.
Speaker 2: And I think that's what many people in Cincinnati have lost.
Speaker 2: When everybody saw Joe Burrow run his foot, run his toe,
Speaker 2: that everybody lost hope. When everybody saw that final inning
Speaker 2: of the second game against the Dodgers. There's a lot
Speaker 2: of hope that gets lost. And when people are seeing
Speaker 2: what's happening in our city, a lot of hope is
Speaker 2: getting lost. But I'm here to tell people we have plans,
Speaker 2: we have policies. We know this isn't rocket science. We
Speaker 2: can bring this city back. We can be able to
Speaker 2: help our communities, the ones in low poverty, that are
Speaker 2: business owners, the people that have expressed their interests that
Speaker 2: they're tired of where the city is going. We can
Speaker 2: actually make a difference. And this starts with this election.
Speaker 2: Get educated on what the city council members that are
Speaker 2: running stand for, and then you have a choice between
Speaker 2: Aft Purvall and Corey Bowman. And I'm asking every single
Speaker 2: person Unlike the other side, I don't feel that I'm
Speaker 2: entitled to a vote. I don't feel that I'm entitled
Speaker 2: to somebody putting a sign in their yard or getting
Speaker 2: the word out. But what I will do is work
Speaker 2: my butt off to say I want to earn that vote.
Speaker 2: We have policies, we have plans, and we have a
Speaker 2: heart for this city and we're not going to look
Speaker 2: at party lines. We're going to look at what's going
Speaker 2: on Cincinnati. And if that's the case with what you feel,
Speaker 2: then I would encourage every single person get out and vote. Vote,
Speaker 2: vote for Corey Bowman for mayor Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: What does your website? Many want to know if they
Speaker 1: want to get involved in help. What is your website
Speaker 1: of any.
Speaker 2: The website is Coreybowman dot com and Cory bow We've
Speaker 2: got all of our structure in place. Every financial contribution
Speaker 2: from here on out is going toward ads, and it's
Speaker 2: going toward getting the word out to as many people
Speaker 2: as possible that there's an election happening November fourth, and
Speaker 2: that we actually have a choice. Because you're mentioning seventy
Speaker 2: seven percent of the vote went the other way for
Speaker 2: the presidential election. This is because people don't see a
Speaker 2: point in voting in the city of Cincinnati. But there's
Speaker 2: a sleeping giant of conservative values. There's a sleeping giant
Speaker 2: of people that are moderate, that see common sense on
Speaker 2: both sides, and they want to get out and make
Speaker 2: their voices heard. I'm telling people you've got a choice
Speaker 2: on November fourth, get out and vote, vote, vote.
Speaker 1: All right, Corey Bowman, thank you. Your opponent looks good,
Speaker 1: smell is good, acts great, but he stinks as the mayor.
Speaker 1: Let's continue, Corey Bowman, You're a great American. And thanks
Speaker 1: for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Corey, Thank you, Bill, to you and all
Speaker 2: your listeners. It's not or being on.
Speaker 1: God bless America. Let's continue with more and there it is.
Speaker 1: And do I have hope, Yes, I always have hope.
Speaker 1: I always have hope. Look at the Yankees last night,
Speaker 1: losing six to one, and everyone stood up for Aaron
Speaker 1: Judge and guess what the Yankees won. And I know Paul
Speaker 1: O'Neill is happy about that. That's a different story. But
Speaker 1: the city must be saved and Corey Bowman is the
Speaker 1: man that can save it. Bill Cunningham News Radio seven
Speaker 1: hundred WLW