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Speaker 1: There's a woo-hoo, and, well, that song's maybe a little prophetic. Anybody listen to Glenn Beck yesterday? Hey, happy Friday. Try to have one anyway. Halloween Eve. Got anything going on on Halloween? Eh, we got a lot going on on the 55KRC Morning Show. Brian Thomas right here. Glad to see Joe Strecker and the lineup. Joe Strecker, executive producer, has got a great lineup, as always. Tech Friday with Dave Hatter. Just amazing to have Dave around. We are so blessed to have him, especially with, well, $ 6 billion in crypto hack. DHS hacked again. Anyway, a lot to unpackage. So today, how secure are U.S. elections? Voting machine risks. Topic number one with Tech Friday's Dave Hatter coming up at 6.30. Latest MapQuest update. Actually showing you where the automatic license plate readers are.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: World's filled with information. You can post it. Hey, there's a license plate reader. Let me just post that information online. Yeah, okay. Waymo, robo-taxi operators are, well, dealing with some extra scrutiny because emergency response failures. In studio for a full hour. Welcome back. Man, we should all be blessed to have around, or thank the world, or thank the God that we have around us. Citizen watchdog Todd Zinser. We have him on the financial side. Former Inspector General for the United States of America is in Inspector General for all of us using his retirement time to look out for the shenanigans going on in downtown Cincinnati. We'll start off with the one about the, did you hear the one about the $ 353, 000 lawsuit against the city? Just one of multiple topics. Go over with Todd Zinser. You should follow him on Facebook. Just look for Citizen Watchdog and listen to his podcast. The man's brilliant. Really brilliant. Vivek Ramaswamy. He will be back today. He was on yesterday. He's on today. Obviously, we're Wrapping up the moments in time before the election next Tuesday. One more opportunity for Mr. Ramaswamy to convince you why he's infinitely better in all ways than Amy Acton. Anybody worried about next Tuesday? Jack Windsor, How Press Network. Talk about the media carrying the water for liberal candidates. Yes, over and over again. I was banging the drum on that one yesterday. Democratic AG candidate Kulowitz and his indiscretions. Ooh, that should be interesting.
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Speaker 1: He'll have a comment or two about getting out and vote. Jack Windsor, 830. And you, anytime you want to call, as long as there's not a guest around, like beginning at 630 and thereafter, you can call up until that moment in time.
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Speaker 4: 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK.
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Speaker 1: Bound 550 on your AT & T phones. Where to start? Anyway. I was kind of, I listen, I will be honest with you, and although I remind people at the end of the program every day, stick around because Glenn Beck's coming up, I do not normally listen to that show. I just want to sort of decompress after the morning show. I typically, I listen to music on the way home, and I'll go home and pull my laptop out like almost every day and try to find some old movie that's got nothing to do with gloom and doom or problems in the world, death and dismemberment. No, I just want to watch an old movie, like a film noir. So I'm often dealing with death, but, you know, I want to just relax. So there's my excuse for not listening to Glenn Beck. But for some reason, I had him on yesterday. And this prepare for impact, I got most of it. It was just weird because the timing almost allowed me to hear everything he had to say. And he, like I did earlier in the week, so this is before Glenn Beck's pronouncements on this, saw a pattern developing. We had the European Union, or rather the United Kingdom, And it's directive to its citizen, the Be Ready campaign, urging households to stockpile three days of non-perishable food, water, medicine, flashlights, and physical cash. The UK. And then the other one that I tied to the UK announcement because the timing was surprisingly, you know, coincidental maybe, maybe intentional. It seems to be more or less than coincidence after you hear Beck, but this Fortress initiative by the United States military, which will allow U.S. military bases to live independently off the grid with their own power generation and their own supplies for a full 90 days. 90 days. So the U.S. military is getting prepared for something, or at least maybe just give them props and credit for planning ahead. You know, with hindsight, we usually go, well, how in the hell didn't our elected officials realize that this could be a major problem? Well, it could be that. But the United Kingdom issuing that warning and then a bunch of other European countries also urging their citizens to do the same thing. This prepare for impact, the stowing away of several days worth of supplies that allow you to deal without any supermarkets, with no water, perhaps having no electricity, you know. And it's scary when you hear about it. And Glenn Beck did this back in 2007. And he said it. He goes, I remember I said the same thing back in 2007. And I remember my wife at that time was saying, God, it's just all gloom and doom. The world's coming to an end. Glenn Beck is just on this tear. And I was just basically tired of listening to it. I understand that reaction as well. And I kind of had the same reaction yesterday. Is this him just ginning up concern in advance of the election? Or is he legitimately concerned? You can draw your own conclusions. It seemed to me he was, and he said multiple times, take this for what it's worth. You know, you don't have to listen to me. You can think that I'm a nutcase. This is my recitation or boiled down version of it. But he was acknowledging that there would be critics and skeptics out there in connection with what he was telling people. But when you hear about all these different countries, not simultaneously, but within a close period of time, issuing the same sort of, in his boiled down explanation, prepare for impact warnings, kind of, should, I guess, raise some concern in your mind. At least you've got to pay attention a little bit to it, and then back up from that and think, wait a second. If you look at our federal government's websites, the preparedness, they have been saying this for years and years and years, the same information, three days. And Bobby calls all the time here on the program, 72 hours, 72 hours, and the point that Glenn Beck made tying all that together, which is, listen, if the government can't get the information crisis managed within 72 hours, that's when the wheels start falling off. And he pointed to like Hurricane Katrina, for example, you know, for a few days there, yeah, it was terrible. It was tragic. And we were getting reports of death and, you know, the water issues and flooding and people stuck and all that. But after that, that's when the looting starts. That's when people start going crazy. That's when people who didn't have sufficient food for several days realize that Man, there ain't nothing else out there. Without that supply, without those three days' worth of provisions that will keep you through for that, you're going to be really hungry by day three. If you don't have any water flowing, no fresh water, potable water, you might be a little bit thirsty. I realize that water is probably the least of most people's concerns. Somewhere there is water, whether it's polluted or not. But, you know, I mean, it's that 72-hour window. And so here I am. After I heard this, you know, you go home and kind of take inventory of what you've got. I did. Do I have everything that's necessary for the family to get through this period of time? It may be a little bit longer because, of course, three days is one thing based upon the statistical analogy or statistical belief that, you know, after 72 hours of the government that doesn't have things sewed up, the wheels are going to fall off. But what happens beyond that? So, you know, like the government here planning for 90 days of independence on the military bases. That's three months. Those who didn't do the math, maybe it's better to contemplate three months worth of supplies. And then when you come up with that idea, like, oh, that sounds logical and reasonable. How many people can do that? Therein lies the biggest challenge. I think about people who live in small apartments. Where are they going to stockpile? I presume that someone could manage a little corner of their apartment and stockpile three days' worth of supplies, but longer period of time? What about the economic challenges? If you don't have any money or you're living on very close margins, can you afford to go out and buy extra? And that's where Glenn Beck pointed. I said, listen, you don't have to rush to do this. It's not like you're going to run out and immediately acquire three days' or months' worth of provisions, do it now. Just start on the weekend. Buy a thing or two things. Set it aside. Do it again next week and the following week. So gradually over time, like buying Christmas gifts, you'll have accumulated enough stuff to get you through whatever hits the fan whenever it happens to hit. Now, he didn't guess if this was going to happen soon. He didn't say no, but the point was you got to remain calm regardless of But, you know, the journey of a thousand miles begins with a step. If you're standing here thinking there's no way I'll ever be able to get that quantity of supplies together in short order, well, start now, get a little bit, and continue the path and the process until you are adequately supplied, at least in your own mind, to deal with any challenges you might face. Now, I hope, you know, I I hated seeing all these warnings come out at one time. Again, you, you, it's not difficult to say, can this be coincidence? Can this be coincidence? Maybe, but throwing all conspiracy theories out the window and all concerns like, is this real? Do we really face this existential threat that might lead us to have to be supplied for three days or even longer? Some societal collapse that the government can't manage, whatever. Um, Wipe that away and then ask yourself in the concept or in the thought that I have always carried with me since Boy Scouts, you know, be prepared is smart advice. And the fool is the one who's not looking out for his or her own best interest, as I love to repeat oftentimes on here in the morning show. So I think it's sound advice regardless of whether you think the world's falling apart or whether you think the world is in perfect shape. The world is an imperfect place. Remember Breakfast Club? Screws fall out. So alarmist, perhaps, his advice? Yeah. Maybe not. But isn't it a smart thing to at least consider the idea of having enough around to keep yourself alive for a few days? And I think the answer to that is absolutely yes. 517, 55 KRC Talk Station. Your reaction, maybe you heard him say it. What do you think about that? I'd love to hear from you. It's a Friday anyway. Let's have some fun until we get to Tech Friday. 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK, pound 550 on AT & T phones. Oh, look, the Ebola warning. Tie that to it. I heard media aviation expert Jay Ratliff here in a moment. Don't go away.
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Speaker 5: Trump, and I approve this message.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Don. It is 521 on a Friday. They still do damage night on Halloween Friday for Halloween. Ah, yes. I mentioned this story yesterday about my dad, and so we'd get the pumpkin smashed on Damage Night the night before Halloween. Some call it Devil's Night. Anyway, it was the thing to do, go out and commit acts of vandalism, and my dad got pins, and he stuck them through the inside of the jack-o'-lantern to the outside, so really at night you couldn't see it. And I mentioned specifically Tom Murray. Good morning, Tom. If you're out there, his brother Steve is listening. Yep, it worked. Tom grabbed the pumpkin with the pins in it. He got stabbed with them. Good morning, Steve. The Murray brothers. Fond memories of growing up in my neighborhood as I was a child. I just can't work. And no, I'm not recommending you do that. I don't know if it's actionable, but... Cat Covey Briney from my lawyer friends out there. That would involve deadly force. Pins are not deadly force. Anyway, let's pivot over to maybe the concern Beck was worried about, but the CDC is clearly worried about it. Ebola-related travel requirements. Going back to iHeartMedia aviation expert Jay Ratliff.
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Speaker 4: They're worried.
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Speaker 1: Major U.S. international airline groups pushing back against this new Ebola travel-related requirement that literally will affect millions of people flying. Beginning November 3rd, all passengers on international flights into the United States are going to have to confirm that they have not been in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the prior 21 days. This announcement from the CDC. It applies literally to everyone. coming into or connecting through the United States of America. It doesn't matter whether or not you're in a citizen. It's American citizen green card holders, the entire crew of the airline. Every single one is going to have to complete a paper or digital statement before boarding, even if they've never visited the Democratic Republic of Congo. Now, there's several airline groups out there that go, well, hang on a second. How can we possibly manage this? The Airlines for America group represents major carriers. including all the big ones that might immediately come to your mind, asking the CDC to reconsider and give it, hey, give us more time. Group says, hey, we support your public health goal, but these new requirements are way too broad and they're being introduced too quickly. They asked the government for, specifically for a more proportionate and measured response, focus more closely on affected areas and travelers who've actually been there recently. Fox News interviewed a guy named Dr. Tyler Evans, described as an actual infectious disease physician, unlike gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton, whose only research paper involved reviewing other research papers on horse injuries. This person's an actual infectious disease physician. So someone that's a little more in the know than Amy Lockdown Acton. See how I did that? He said, you know, we have to ensure that this does not cross borders. This is the most highly infectious disease, I guess, on the planet. They're asking the CDC to exempt airline crew members, arguing that existing aviation documents already contain information about crews and their travel. So we've got that covered. U.S. military passengers, hey, you don't have to do them either because the U.S. military keeps track of where these guys are all the time. So little carve-outs are being requested, but overall the requirement is there. CDC said the purpose is intended to reduce the risk of Ebola entering the United States through air travel. 21-day period, I guess, is the incubation period, the maximum amount of time it takes for symptoms to appear. And Dr. Evans, speaking of the infectious nature of Ebola, the reality is, he said, Ebola is one of the most infectious and has one of the highest fatality rates of all infectious diseases. So as for the affidavit, since we have major concerns going on about voting and whether or not you need to really prove that you are a legitimate U.S. citizen to vote in elections, see how I did that? Travelers that knowingly provide false information, in other words, lie on the affidavit that you have to fill out, could face prosecution and fines. Nothing to see here. Move on with your day. 525-55-KRC-D Talk Station. Hey, local story's coming up.
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Speaker 3: Oh, look.
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Speaker 1: A man found shot in the arm in North Avondale. That happened this morning, didn't it, Joe? Nothing to see there either. Don't go away. Be right back.
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Speaker 6: 55-KRC.
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Speaker 1: Get in this. 529 on a Friday.
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Speaker 7: 513-749-5500.
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Speaker 4: 800-823-TALK.
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Speaker 2: Pound 550 on.
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Speaker 1: Your AT & T phone. Unless you're a carryover from the overnight show. No, there is no such thing as lizard people, and werewolves are not real. Seriously, Joe?
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Speaker 4: Yes.
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Speaker 1: No, there are no werewolves in real life. There's also no vampires. They just don't exist. And there are no Bigfeet. Bigfoot. Where do the Bigfeet go to die? How come nobody's ever found a Bigfoot carcass? Do they live forever? They're not real. Says, hey, police said they're investigating a shooting in North Avondale. It happened this morning, 2 o'clock or 2.15 in the morning. Man found with a gunshot wound in one of his arms taken to UC Medical Center. He is expected to recover. Police said they're working to find out what led to the shooting. No mention about a suspect. No mention about motives. It just was in the 900 block at Dana Avenue this morning. Starting off the weekend right. Bobby is over and under. Three and a half for violent crime in the city of Cincinnati. There's one. Adams County. Deputy and suspect shot last night. Adams County Sheriff Kenny Dick reported, said the deputies were called to Hope Lane in West Union about 9.30 yesterday for a report of a mental health-related incident. Investigators say that when deputies got to the scene, the suspect opened fire. Deputies fired back. Both the deputy and the suspect were shot, both taken to UC Medical Center. Extended injuries not known at the time of reporting, and thanks to Fox 19 for passing along the information. Bureau of Criminal Investigation is investigating. So if you have any information, please let the authorities know. Oh, wow. Prior to the third day of testimony, man standing trial and charges related to last year's beat down brawl pleaded guilty. Patrick Rosemont, 39 years old, pleaded guilty yesterday in Hamilton County Common Police charge to charges of felonious assault, misdemeanor assault, and aggravated rioting. Sentencing, December 9th. Get your popcorn out. He faces up to 31 1⁄2 years in prison. Testimony started October 27th. Four witnesses testified about being attacked 3 o'clock in the morning, July 26, 2025, near 4th and Elm. I'm sure you saw the video. Holly, the woman who got almost murdered, suffered a traumatic brain injury. She testified to that. She says it impacted her memories since then. and may have irreparable damage done.
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Speaker 4: Why?
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Speaker 1: Because she was trying to lend some help to a fellow victim of the beatdown. Good Samaritan ends up getting almost killed. Prosecutors had previously played the video that they said showed Rosemond striking her in the face, knocking her unconscious. The video also shows Rosemond attacking a guy who had been shoved to the street, stomping on him and kicking him. During testimony, a detective said that Rosemond was celebrating after the beatdown. Look what I did. Yay. Now, prosecutors pointed out Rosemond did not start the brawl. Instead, he just jumped right on into it. He's the sixth person to plead guilty in connection with the brawl. This is the brawl where we had elected officials saying a white man needs to be charged. And ultimately, the Russians was charged for nothing at all. And there was an argument about it. You must charge a white guy. I mean, I cannot believe the level of racism involved in this particular incident. Anyway, it's all there on video. Look, we got guilty pleas from every single person that was involved with it. No defense there. Videos taken from surveillance cameras, as well as every human being standing around with a cell phone capturing it. He turned down a plea deal this Roseman guy did just a couple days ago after the judge told him that she likely would not follow the recommended four-year prison sentence that came along with a plea agreement. Well, pleading guilty opens him up to facing 31 1⁄2 years in prison. Okie doke. Man convicted of killing Hamilton County deputy pleaded guilty Wednesday to three counts of assault. sentenced to 18 months after an altercation with corrections officers. Huh, does this name sound familiar? Rodney Hinton. Of course, being held in Claremont County, awaiting the trial on the death of Hamilton County Deputy Larry Henderson, who he killed in May of 2025. Apparently, in December, officer ordered Hinton a towel. at the Claremont County Jail before Hinton told the officers to get the F-word off of me, arguing he couldn't walk in jail slippers, then threw a punch and kicked while being handcuffed. The officer suffered minor injuries. That was the second incident. That's why he's just got 18 months for that one. Back in Hamilton County Court, November 19th, to be sentenced on charges of murder, reckless homicide, and felonious assault for killing Deputy Henderson. So you're guaranteed 18 months, question marks swirling about the trial involving Deputy Henderson's death because of the jury coming down with a verdict that said he didn't have intent to kill and while at the same time saying he had intent to kill. Reckless homicide can't be reconciled with murder, so you can expect a new trial on that one. But at least you got him in for 18 months guaranteed. It has not yet been completely resolved. 535, 55 K or C, the talk station stack.
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Speaker 6: Can you play John the Fisherman?
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Speaker 1: Oh, it's Friday. It's 540. The answer is yes. Good morning, Jeff, who's always excited about hearing a little Primus. And the stack is stupid, which is coming up next.
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Speaker 7: 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK.
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Speaker 1: I guess he's not listening to me, Joe. I'm not going to take calls about werewolves. I'm serious. You're on hold, man. I'm talking about you. I'm not taking the call. Joe's red flagged you. Joe Sarkar is the executive producer. He is in charge of call screening. And while I do have basically kind of an open format show, I try to keep it on matters political, local, or otherwise. And since I don't believe in werewolves... Oh, I'm glad I can laugh. Idiots doing idiot things because they're idiots. I don't feel like I've laughed genuinely for some time, so I'm rather enjoying this feeling of sort of happiness on a Friday. Memphis, Tennessee. There's a new lawsuit. This is weird, but it's a stack of stupid story. Lawsuit filed just the other day claims former Memphis Shelby County School superintendent, her name, Dr. Marie Fegans. exposed herself to a staff member and then fired her. Staff member, Camelyn Turner, described as a special assistant to the aforementioned Marie Fegans, the superintendent. Lawsuit claims that Fegans exposed herself in August 24 at Fegans' apartment. Now, the plaintiff said she was called downstairs to listen to a conversation. When she got to the staircase, she looked down and saw this Fegans woman standing at the foot of the stairs completely naked. The following day, Fegans, well, told Turner that she would be transferred and paid less. In other words, stripped her of her position.
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Speaker 4: That ain't all.
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Speaker 1: Fegans allegedly exposed herself again in October and demanded Turner Come to her home and dress her.
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Speaker 2: What?
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Speaker 1: I know. She declined. That was when Fegans allegedly said, I don't know why you're acting like you haven't seen a naked woman before. Turner claims in the lawsuit she was forced to resign 11 days later. Lawsuit claims sexual harassment, sex discrimination, retaliation, and constructive discharge. She's asking for back pay and compensatory damages. Okay. We go to St. Francisville, Louisiana. A naked guy allegedly took a fire extinguisher from a St. Francisville church before entering a nearby home and touching a sleeping woman's forehead. Why are you doing that?
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Speaker 5: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: We're ever going to find out. Me, Police Chief Chris Green. Said the woman's boyfriend grabbed a gun after she woke up startled. Man still inside the home when the officer showed up. That guy? Heath Allen Brumfield, who's 49, he's from Vicksburg, Mississippi, now facing charges of simple burglary, simple battery, and unauthorized entry of an inhabited dwelling. A bad idea, most notably here in the state of Ohio where we have the castle doctrine, would be intruders.
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Speaker 4: Sorry.
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Speaker 1: It was 1.30 in the morning on October 20th. Police said surveillance footage shows Brumfield entering a church hall through an unlocked door, taking a fire extinguisher, and then walking to a nearby home on the same street. and walking through an unlocked door. Police said Brumfield still had the fire extinguisher, which had the church's information on it when the police took him into custody. I'm not letting go of this. Crean said a woman was with Brumfield that night, told officers he was not in his right mind. Her words, while traveling along the highway, Brumfield allegedly parked his truck across from the post office, walked away with the keys. Police said Brumfield was sent to Baton Rouge for medical evaluation. After authorities obtained a rest warrant, sheriff deputies arrested him as a fugitive. He was then returned to West Valenciana Parish. Jail records show he was arrested on the 26th of October. His bond was set at.
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Speaker 7: $ 72, 500.
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Speaker 1: Police are calling this an isolated incident. Corey, welcome to the morning show. Happy Friday to you.
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Speaker 2: Good morning.
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Speaker 7: Just real quick, the reason I haven't found a Bigfoot carcass is because they're interdimensional.
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Speaker 1: Are they hanging out with the lizard people? Is that how that works?
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Speaker 7: Possibly, possibly.
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Speaker 1: And apparently the werewolves. You're right, Joe. Go ahead.
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Speaker 7: Anyway, I know I mentioned it before. I'm driving in Northern Ohio right now again. I see the Sharon Brown billboards everywhere. Every billboard talks about the cost of living being much more expensive. groceries, gas, electricity, and they're hitting on everything that matters to most people that don't follow politics. And I have yet to see a Houston billboard or the Vakes billboard or anything like that. But I see Amy Acton, big Amy Acton signs everywhere. Uh, Sharon Brown stuff everywhere. And, and I think, I think we're in for a shock come Tuesday.
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Speaker 1: And, uh, I hear you, man. I can't account for it. And Joe Strecker just reminded me, you know, we've outreached the Houston campaign multiple times in deafening years. Nothing back. I just scratched my head over that. The opportunity to get the word out and maybe do a little, well, maybe policy positions articulated because I hear them, the Democrats, claiming that they're going to deal with inflation. Oh, my God, prices are out of control. Evil orange man did all this to you. But no, I mean. Does anybody have a recollection of a short period of time behind us when Joe Biden and gasoline prices were through the roof because of their policies? Has anybody asked Amy Acton or Democrats, Sherrod Brown, anybody what they plan on doing to reduce the price of gasoline? I mean, there's no way. And even Donald Trump campaigned on that. And I thought mistakenly so. And I said at the time, I will reduce the price or I will reduce inflation, the price of stuff on day one or words to that effect. Like what human being could possibly accomplish that? It's not possible for a sole human being to deal with all the economic realities that go into why gasoline is currently almost five bucks a gallon. Oh yeah, that's right.
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Speaker 3: War.
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Speaker 1: That has something to do with it. Global warming policies, refusing to drill, refusing to tap into natural resources that exist right beneath our own feet. That has something to do with it. Can one person unring the bell of all those policies while at the same time dealing with the economic realities that war creates? No. What can the This is something we're all going to have to collectively ride out together. I hate having to say that, but it is acknowledgement of fact and reality. That's why I keep saying, someday this war will get resolved and things will go back to what will be the future status quo. And thankfully, we have a president who is not against tapping into the resources that are widely available around us. Huh, there's a solution brought to you by Donald Trump. Yeah, evil orange man, but he's doing the right thing in terms of giving us reliable energy sources. 547, 55KRC, the talk station. Stack is stupid. We'll continue after these words.
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Speaker 4: This is 55KRC.
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Speaker 1: 551, 552, 55KRC, the talk station. Good morning, Tom, or if you happen to be. And Joe W. sent me an email saying I ruined his plans by giving him the information about the travel restrictions to the Democratic Republic. Congo. He was all set to go this weekend. Damn it. Anyway, back to the stack of stupid. Well, since we have Tech Friday's Dave Hatter coming up in the eight stories I got left, I'm only going to be able to get a couple of them. Here's one old. Let's see. We go to Bergen County, New Jersey. Man was arrested for creating artificial intelligence generated nude images of two adults and then post them on the Internet. Daniel G. Pfeiffer, 37 years old, you think he'd have something better to do, charged with creating and distributing deceptive visual media, invasion of privacy, cyber harassment, and harassment. That's a court of the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office who said that in May of this year, the police contacted them because there was an online social media post depicting two adult victims. It included their real names and photographs alongside artificial intelligence-generated deep fake nude images. Investigation ultimately identified this Pfeiffer guy as the person responsible. They searched his home and determined he had created and distributed the images. Arrested on similar charges in prior years, including allegedly posting nude photos of a woman he knew back in 2017. Taken to the Bergen County Jail and is awaiting his first appearance. Get something better to do with your world.
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Speaker 8: And your life.
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Speaker 1: Oh, hold that. You've got to add this guy to it because he deserves the award more than the guy I just read about. Both worthy of the Biggest Deuce in the Universe Award. We go to Gainesville, Florida, while Huai Quang Do, I didn't name him, 25 years old, charged with nine felonies after allegedly picking up a 12-year-old girl from Lake City, Minnesota. multiple times over eight months, bringing her to his apartment and having sex with her. 31 felonies have been added to his prior charges. August 4th, law enforcement became involved. An adult reported a victim missing. She was tracked to Doe's apartment. Both Doe and the victim reportedly found inside the apartment. Investigation found that this Doe guy met the victim, who was 12 at the time, on Tinder. Parents, what are your children doing online? They began regularly communicating by phone. December 25, Doe allegedly drove to Lake City, picked her up, brought her to his apartment in Gainesville, engaged in sexual intercourse with her. Victor reportedly said this happened at least five times most recently in August of this year when she was 13. Search warrants obtained. What do they find? He began communicating with the 12-year-old on timber in December 25. That girl... connected Doe with her friend, who was the victim in this case, created a group chat with all three of them. He learned the same day that both girls were in fact 12 years old. Doe and the victim exchanged text messages for eight hours on the first day before Doe allegedly drove to Lake City to meet her and her friend. Before leaving for Lake City, Doe reportedly asked the victim whether he should bring condoms, his word, and it was decided that, yeah, he should bring them. Investigators found that Doe sexually battered the victim using the condoms in the early morning of hours of December 15th. Doe acknowledged on numerous occasions that the victim was a child, that he knew she was in middle school and going through puberty, and that he could be arrested. Doe allegedly recorded himself having sex with the victim on most of the occasions when they were together and sent dozens of sexually explicit graphic text messages to the child. repeatedly urged her to send him videos in which she was nude and or touching herself in a sexual matter, and according to the text messages, the victim sometimes complied. Detective noted that Doe hurled cruel insults, that's from the report, at the victim almost daily, and the text messages exposed the depth of the manipulation, abuse, and exploitation of the child, i.e. the victim, by this creep. 87 images of the victim were classified as child porn found on his phone. More images that were described as lewd and lascivious in nature. Here are your charges. Two counts of kidnapping under the age of 13 for the purpose of committing sexual battery. Seven counts of sexual battery of a child between the ages of 12 and 18. Attempted lewd or lascivious battery. Seven counts of using child in a sexual performance. Four counts of attempting to use a child in a sexual performance. Three counts of traveling to meet a minor for unlawful sexual activity. one count of promoting sexual performance by a child, two counts of explicit communication with a minor, four counts of possession of a sexual performance by a child, and a partridge in a blank and pear tree. He is being held without bail, and I hope he's having a hell of a good time in prison.
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Speaker 4: Joe?
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Speaker 1: In all the galaxies, there's no bigger douche than you. You've reached the top, the pinnacle of douchedom. Good going, douche. Your dreams have come true. Enjoy yourself.
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Speaker 4: Why?
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Speaker 1: Quang Do. Stick around. Tech Friday with Dave Hatter coming up at 6.30. Plenty to do between now and then. I hope you can stick around. Be right back.
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Speaker 4: News. And what happens next?
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Speaker 1: It's 6.05 at 55KRCV Talk Station. Happy Friday. Happy Halloween Eve. My name is Brian Thomas, host of the 55KRCV Morning Show. Executive producer is Joe Strecker. You can get in touch with Joe. Call into the phone at the phone lines if you pass his call screening and aren't calling about werewolves which don't exist. He'll put you on the call screen, and I'll take your call. 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK, pound 550 on AT & T phones. Let us see what's going on here at the bottom of the hour. Tech Friday with Dave Hatter. And the first topic with Dave, and I think it'll be intriguing for my listening audience, always concerned about this, how secure are U.S. elections? Are voting machines at risk? That's a hell of a good topic as we fast approach Tuesday. Dear God, please get out and vote. Speaking of voting, Vivek Ramaswamy returns to the program this morning at 8.05. Sandwiched in between Tech Friday's Dave Hatter and Vivek Ramaswamy, citizen watchdog Todd Zins are in studio for an hour to talk about all of the crap going on in downtown Cincinnati, specifically starting out with the $ 353, 000 lawsuit that's been filed against the city of Cincinnati. After Vivek leaves the program, we'll talk with Jack Windsor and the Ohio Press Network. We'll talk about the media carrying the water for liberal candidates and Democratic Attorney General candidate Kulowitz and his indiscretions. I'm wildly curious what Jack has to say about that. That's why we get Jack at the end of the show on a Friday. Anyway, shenanigans. Democrats are just corrupt. And I know there's corrupt Republicans out there. We've had them here in the state of Ohio, haven't we? But this is absolutely shameless, and I'm sure you know which direction I'm going to go if you didn't get the memo on it. Alaska. Alaska. where they apparently aren't capable of winning. First off, they've got ranked voting in Alaska, which is where the shenanigans creep in. Be wary and worried about ranked voting. And here's why. The New York Times blew the lid off of this one. And previously, because of legal action initiated by the Department of Justice and others involving this, the liberals were all going, ah, this is lawfare, this is all lawfare, there's nothing to see here. But those people have now shut up because of the New York Times. Yes, the left-leaning New York Times published evidence that Democrats attempted to rig Alaska's ranked choice ballot with a decoy candidate in an effort to deny Republican Dan Sullivan re-election. Senator Dan Sullivan. What we know so far in this ranked choice voting state, you rank them in order of preference. Prior to the election filing deadline, a retired teacher named, oh, Dan Sullivan, hmm, filed to run against Senator Dan Sullivan. And That in and of itself says, well, there's something wrong here. Alaska Department of Elections board barred that decoy candidate. We'll call him decoy Dan for the sake of this discussion because that's what, and I'll give credit to Kim Strassel for breaking it all down as well from the Wall Street Journal, but decoy Dan. So Alaska Division of Elections said, no, no, no. He was, he filed with a purpose to confuse or mislead voters. That was the termination. So he's off decoy Dan. Filed as a Republican, had no ties to the GOP, had never, he had donated to liberal causes and to Senator Sullivan's challenger, Mary Paltola. He had used Democratic political consultant with links to Ms. Paltola or Paltola. He had asked to be listed as Dan S. Sullivan, surprisingly the same name as the senator, even though his own middle initial is J. He created a campaign logo that apparently looks almost identical to the incumbent, Dan Sullivan, the real Dan Sullivan. Alaska Supreme Court allowed this decoy, Dan, to move forward anyway. He got 2.5% of the primary vote in this ranked choice voting system, which was enough to allow him to get into the final four. So you literally are staring at a ballot that has two Dan Sullivans on it. Now, throughout all this, the Peltola campaign claimed, we had nothing to do with this. We don't know anything about it. However, Mrs. Peltola's former campaign manager, a woman... named Elisa Rios, who may find herself in an amazing amount of hot water considering the information that she told the New York Times, which specifically, she said, the campaign began in operation in 2025 to find another Alaskan named Dan Sullivan to coax them to run for the sole purpose of confusing voters. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the DSCC, provided a Democratic operative who, parenthetically, is from the state of Ohio. And this person specialized in, quote, secret ballot maneuvers, close quote. And he's the one that got this decoy Dan guy to run. According to the New York Times and all the information, they reviewed emails and texts and exchanges and conversations and talked to this Elisa Ross woman who filled in all the blanks, or at least steered them in the direction to find all the other information. This operative... reportedly told the campaign the decoy Dan said, quote, he hated Trump. And if it was going to help Mary, he liked Mary. He didn't have any interest in being a politician, but if this could help, he would go ahead and do it. Time story provides enough evidence that Democrats might have also recruited the fourth candidate on the ballot, Gerald Hikes, H-E-I-K-E-S. I don't know if I'm pronouncing that correct, but they were involved in that guy getting on the ballot as well. The Paltola campaign and the SCC both denied recruiting anybody. However, Ms. Rios spoke a tale to the contrary. And very detailed it was, all of her quotes. And then, interestingly enough, just before the Times story was posted, Ms. Rios told the Times... As discussed on our call earlier today, I am confirming that I have retracted all statements made regarding the 2026 Alaska Senate race in connection with any article you may or may not be writing. I am not willing to be a source for any story in any capacity. Now, the paper brought it up. The New York Times article even says that she told them she was retracting all of the detailed information that she previously gave, but they published it anyway because of their reporting standards. They're not obligated to honor a retraction. And they had all the other evidence which supported everything that Ms. Rios told them in the first place. So publish it, they did. Ken points out, it's clear Decoy Dan had no interest in actually attaining office. His campaign website contains two press releases, six blog posts, and was last updated six weeks ago. Facebook page features eight entries since August 18th primary, the last one on September 30th, one sharing a poem, none featuring a single idea, platform, or promise. He has spent no money on staff, advertising, media, travel, or campaign events. He listed expenses show $ 300 to the Alaska Election Division for a candidate brochure, $ 4, 000 to the Democratic consultant, and more than $ 20, 000 to a Washington law firm for, quote, compliance and legal fees, close quote. The Washington law firm, I think, also is implicated in this. She points out his only real fundraising is a link asking for money to cover his litigation costs. According to the Federal Election Commission records, he has had five itemized donors for the general election, contributing $ 5, 400, three of them living outside of Alaska. He's received zero contributions from any party committee, political action committee, or any other candidate. But, as she points out, and everyone can observe, he has served his purpose, getting his name on the final ballot in hope that it will confuse enough voters to tip the election to Ms. Peltola. She observes that some liberals and ranked-choice supporters are now claiming Alaska's system will guard against this chicanery, so long as supporters of the incumbent rank both Dan Sullivans, their vote will go to the senator in the end. Meaning, so long as every voter knows exactly how to defeat the game that was rigged by the Democrats, all will be A-OK. Well, yeah, right, she says. This will be Alaska's Republicans' third experience with ranked-choice voting, and they've been advised differently every single time. Two years ago, Republicans told to rank only one candidate for U.S. House election, a guy named Nick Begich. That made sense, as he was the only Republican. Now, Republicans are being told by Donald Trump and the Sullivan campaign to vote for multiple candidates. including the fraud guy, Decoy Dan. That's confusing, and why should voters cast a ballot for a deceptive candidate, though some will do so inadvertently? Especially since his name is the first on the ballot, apparently. Voters are also being purposely misled. A political action committee called the Center for Honest Voting sent a mailer this month to Republican and Independent households, screaming, one person, one vote, one choice. next to a graphic showing a filled-in first choice and crossed out additional choices. Quote, President Trump is calling out fraud, it claims. Trust your first choice. Only vote once. So in order to ensure that this decoy Dan doesn't have an impact in favor of the Democrats, you're going to have to vote for both of those candidates. Now here's the left. In addition to adding this decoy candidate on the election for the sole purpose of confusing Alaskans, they're also sending up follow-up literature that says, well, Do what we wanted you to do. Vote only for the single Dan Sullivan. That way you'll secure a victory because some people will in fact be confused. They can't win on their own platform. It's unclear what reach federal law has here, she observes, but it isn't unheard of for a court to disqualify a decoy candidate. And the U.S. Supreme Court has observed that a state has an interest, if not only a duty, to protect the integrity of its political process from frivolous or fraudulent candidacies. That's a quote from the Supreme Court. How much more evidence does the Alaska Supreme Court need that this decoy fits both definitions? That was a rhetorical question from, parenthetically, got that. Maybe the election results will be clear enough to make litigation unnecessary. But especially if Senate control ends up hinging on Alaska, the candidacy a decoy did can't be allowed to stand. This is a steal. This is a squeaker. The majority of the Senate is in the balance, and this is an overt effort by the Democrats to steal the Senate seat through subterfuge. Alaskans will do themselves and the nation a favor if they pass this year's ballot initiative, getting rid of ranked-choice voting, which we know now Democrats rigged to swing the Senate election.
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Speaker 4: Hey, man.
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Speaker 1: Kim Strassel, appreciate that, and thanks to the New York Times for actually doing this. You don't expect this kind of revelation from a left-wing paper like the New York Times. But I think that in and of itself speaks volumes to the controversy here, this insane effort to steal a Senate seat. Democrats, yep. 617. 622, the 55KRCD talk station. 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK, pound 550 on AT & T phones. David's excited for a Friday. I hope you are as well. Getting ready for Halloween and the single doorbell that will ring tomorrow evening. I think we got Butterfingers. And where's Maureen? Maureen, I thought you were going to call in. She's got a conspiracy she wants to talk about. Anyway, speaking of further efforts to rig the election and raising giant red flags about the election integrity, going back to Minnesota, which is just a state filled with massive corruption. Look who runs it. Minnesota Voter Outreach Director Melanie Hazlip. While on... Somali TV, that's a TV station. They've got a lot of them up there, so I guess they have their own public access station. Somali TV, quote, if you're already registered to vote, she said, you don't need to bring anything with you. You just show up to your early voting location, which is usually the county office or city hall. Minneapolis and bigger jurisdictions have a lot of extra places where you can go, like a lot of libraries or community centers. As long as you're registered to vote, you don't need to bring anything with you. If you're not registered to vote, you went on to stay, you still have options. If you have a Minnesota ID that is updated, that's all you need to bring with you. And if you don't have that, there's a list of documents on our website that you can find. You still have options to get registered the same day. Now, there is no argument that it is an accurate assessment of the law in Minnesota. The question is swirling. Well, wait a second. Why are you broadcasting that particular message on Somali TV? Many people suggest maybe the Somalis aren't citizens of the United States of America. And since apparently you can get the ID that she mentioned to the group, even if you're not a citizen... That means that non-citizens with a Minnesota ID can get registered to vote. Minnesota hands out the IDs to non-citizens with no citizenship marking. Vouching, and you can vouch for someone too. Seriously. Vouching lets one registered voter clear or vouch for up to eight others on an oath. Yes, I vouch that these eight people next to me are citizens of the United States of America. That's all it takes. Real-time proof? Well, not necessary. A statement of Fox News Digital speaking to the Minnesota Secretary of State's office said, It provides information and resources to Minnesota election laws to hundreds of nonpartisan community groups every year as part of our regular voter engagement efforts. There's no coincidence. This is Somali TV. It's no coincidence we have a whole lot of Somali immigrants here in the Minnesota area, but they need the information too. We also explained to them, and they all know, that you can get a Minnesota ID without proof of citizenship. And that you can have any random dude come in and qualify anybody and say they're citizens just by signing a piece of paper. And you know how difficult it is to prove a case of fraud? So they've greased the skids to allow very easy, very easy fraud. Just vouch for somebody. You could be lying through your teeth. You could be subject to prosecution. But some prosecutor is going to have to find out that there was a voucher in place. Go back and then figure out whether or not you knew that person was not a citizen when you vouched for them. The evidentiary chain is going to be difficult. The evidence is going to be difficult to get. And then fraud, again, a very difficult thing to prove. So if you fixed it up front, people in favor of the SAVE Act might note, like me, you could plug the holes here. You could require proof of citizenship, not just a voucher. There's a million things you could do to prevent fraud from happening, but you know what? They're not interested in that. Not a bit.
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Speaker 3: Huh.
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Speaker 1: 625. And in various other states, the only people who want to allow this to happen are Democrats. We know where the holes are that allow for voter fraud. They are easy to fix. They don't want to. I mean, that speaks volumes, doesn't it? Wake up. As I pivot over, earlier in the last hour, we were talking about Glenn Beck's doom and gloom pronouncement yesterday about being prepared. 51374. Oh, I'm sorry. It's Tech Friday. Dave Hatter. Get ready to get the phone number again. Default mode. IntrustIT.com is where we find Dave Hatter and his crew. They are the best in the business, court of business career for all your business computer needs, keeping you out of trouble, engaging in best practices, and unringing the bell of disaster when it hits. Dave Hatter, welcome back to the show, man. I certainly appreciate your company sponsoring this segment.
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Speaker 3: Always good to be here, Brian.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's jump right into it. An issue that comes up every election year is concerns about voting machines. Now, I get a pretty good sense here in Ohio that we don't have any hacking concerns. I've been advised that they're not hooked up to the internet and they can't be tampered with from outside forces. I'll have to take them at their word on this, but some states, well, are at risk. That's what this article says. Anyway, Dave, can you break it down?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so Security Week is a well-known, well-respected magazine in the the cybersecurity, information security space. Timing of this article is kind of unfortunate that they waited until a few days before the election to publish it. But it's a pretty deep dive into this, and I think it's really well done. You know, my concerns with all of this are always, Brian, and we see this sort of thing play out more and more every day, right? I don't think you and I have talked about the recent PHP vulnerability, but The point I've been making for a long time now, and one of the reasons why I got out of software engineering as a professional and into cybersecurity is because anything that has software in it is vulnerable. I've talked about Mikko Hoponen's book before. He's a very well-known, much smarter than me, cybersecurity professional, wrote a book called If It's Smart, It's Vulnerable. I know I've mentioned Bruce Schneier's book, also way smarter than me, internationally renowned cryptographer and cybersecurity guy, wrote a book called Click Here to Kill Everyone. And the whole idea is if it's got software in it, it's vulnerable. OK, period. That's the bottom line point they're making. I believe that's absolutely true. We've seen this PHP thing. We've talked about refrigerators being hacked and so forth. So this article is pretty long, but it goes into and here's the subhead. Unpatched voting machines, unverifiable QR coded ballots and AI driven influence campaigns leave U.S. elections short of secure. Now, that's their words, not mine. You know, they they make some very interesting points in here. There's some great quotes from some pretty well-known cybersecurity experts. They talk about the vote counting and the vote machines and how the machines are certified. But at the end of the day, they have software in them, Brian. And that's part of the problem. They talk about foreign nations trying to influence the vote. But the thing that I thought was the most interesting, again, because there's a bunch of different headlines. There's a whole section securing the integrity of the election, voting and counting. U.S. election voting machines are certified by the EAC. This certificate is designed to ensure their security and applies to both the voting and the counting machines. Shari Bargel, co-founder and CEO at Sequent, is doubtful. There is no direct correlation of the certification process to the four-year election cycle, and the certification can occur in any four years. Certification process may take a year, but probably less than two years. In a worst-case scenario, a voting machine whose certification began in the first year of the electoral cycle will have been sitting untouched for two years. Quote, now this is this guy.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw that. Yeah, go ahead. This is where you kick it out of the stadium here, right here.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Quote, that's pretty ridiculous. Unquote, comet sparkle. Quote, software needs to be updated and patched pretty much continuously. In the commercial world, we patch our systems every month. But for elections, we're trusting the software that hasn't been patched for two years or more. And the final analysis, the EAC certification is pretty much meaningless.
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Speaker 4: Great.
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Speaker 3: Unquote. Now, again, that's this guy. They talk about air gapping, keeping machines offline. They talk about voter village at DEFCON. You and I have talked about that over the years where DEFCON is a yearly cybersecurity conference. Thousands of people show up. They have villages where they take things apart and attack stuff and demonstrate stuff. And it says here, you know, machines are often taken to voting village, a hands-on election security lab run at DEFCON, gives researchers and election officials and the public legal access to real voting equipment so they can test the security. Some of these machines are still in use in the current election cycle when they're delivered to Voting Village. Then the same guy, quote, basically, this is Bargel, every voting machine that has been delivered to Voting Village has been successfully hacked once the hackers have hands-on access, unquote. So, I mean, this goes on and on. I'll post this in the notes. I've shared this with a bunch of people. I strongly encourage people to go read it for themselves. Again, they talk about election influence campaigns. They talk about the idea that printing something with a QR code where you can't read what it says is basically useless. I try to make this point every day, Brian. You can't look at a QR code and know what it does.
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Speaker 4: True.
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Speaker 3: I never, ever, ever scan QR codes out in public. I don't know what they do. I don't know how they got there. I don't know that some bad guy hasn't come along and put a new QR code over top of a legitimate QR code like in a parking lot. And this has happened, by the way. So, yeah, this is a really interesting article. I am going to send it to Secretary LaRose. I know him. I've done some cybersecurity seminars for his team, which, by the way, is a huge benefit to residents of Ohio that your secretary of state is out there providing free cybersecurity seminars for small businesses. I'm going to send it to the Kentucky secretary of state. I mean, again, sadly, now we're just days out from the election, but it's a very interesting look at this. And it's not political in any way. This article doesn't talk about politics at all. So, yeah, it's pretty useful in my mind. Frightening stuff. Although it would have been good to have it earlier.
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Speaker 4: Yes.
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Speaker 1: LinkedIn.com. Find Dave Hatter and LinkedIn.com. That's where you'll find the articles he speaks of here on the morning show. Don't go away. More to talk about, including the latest MapQuest update. 55KRC, the talk station. 41, 55KRC, the talk station. interestit.com where you find Dave Hatter and his crew for your business computer needs. Dave Hatter, I like this new feature on MapQuest, at least I think I do.
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Speaker 3: Well, you know, Brian, I'm not a fan of flock cameras and I always like to remind people flock has become the coke of mass surveillance.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Or the Kleenex, right? They're not the only company that are building these sorts of mass surveillance capable cameras. They're just the ones that have gotten the most ire. They're the ones that are the most well-known. Seems like in many cases the public is waking up to this whole mass surveillance thing and there's been a huge backlash against this. I like to point out that Fort Wright does not and has never had flock cameras or anything like this and will not as long as I'm involved in it. But that said, if you.
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Speaker 3: Don't use MapQuest. I have an Apple phone. I use the maps on my Apple phone. Nothing against MapQuest. But the native map app on my Apple phone does what I want it to do. And you know, Brian, I tell people all the time, the less apps you have, the better. So again, I have nothing against MapQuest. This is a useful feature, though, in my mind, and I think it just speaks to the backlash, although it's interesting to see one technology company essentially, let's just say, cast aspersions, for lack of a better word, for an FCC-compliant way to say this, on another tech company. So MapQuest and their latest update will now show you where the automated license plate reader cameras are. Think Flock. Again, other companies, Axon, there are other people doing this, but Flock is the most well-known So if you use the MapQuest app, you can turn this on and it will show you where the flock cameras are, wherever you are, so that you can avoid them. So if you're someone like me that does not want to be mass surveilled, it's just out minding your own business, trying to live your life, everyday, innocent, average citizen, and you don't want to be surveilled, you don't want to be tracked like this, this is a handy way to let you know how to avoid these things. And it's really interesting because in the screenshot they show in this one article, Now, again, I don't know, Brian, that this particular screenshot is legit or they just made it up for this news story. But assuming that's a real screenshot of a real place, there is an insane amount of flock cameras in that given location.
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Speaker 1: And that was going to be my point. To your point, even if I want to avoid flock cameras, it may be impossible for me to get to point A to point B without having to go past one or multiple of them.
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Speaker 3: I mean, looking at this map, again, assuming it's legit, it would be very difficult to avoid them. But at the very least, you could minimize your exposure to them if you had this.
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Speaker 1: Maybe this is less of a practical feature and more of just the look at the size and scope of the Big Brother reality we live in these days.
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Speaker 3: Well, it certainly has. points that out. And, you know, they say in the article, by turning on the surveillance layer in the map options, which I think is a funny way to describe it, by turning on the surveillance layer in the map options portion of the software, the map will reveal each location. And it does say in this article, the feature allows users to view the reported locations of license plate readers operated by providers, including Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions, and Axon. So I do appreciate the fact that this MapQuest update feature, speaking of software updates, like we talked about in the last Last segment, right? Software updates don't just fix vulnerabilities and bugs. They add capability. Or in our increasingly digital world, potentially take away functionality. Oh, well, you like that heated steering wheel in your car? Not for you unless you want to pay the subscription fee. Like those heated seats? Oh, your air conditioner? Yeah, that's going to cost extra because you're not paying the subscription fee. That's where we're headed with all of this. But, you know, again, back to the election machines and such, software updates are critical because they fix vulnerabilities, flaws that could be exploited. They fix bugs, things that make the software not function the way it's supposed to. But they also, also give you the capability to change the functionality. Today, I certified this, right? And then a software update comes out. Well, unless I recertify it, how can I know for sure there wasn't a change in the software that changed the behavior? In this case, adding new functionality that shows you these surveillance cameras. Hopefully what I'm saying is making sense to folks. Again, in the old days when something was mechanical, right, and you bought it, well, it couldn't just change itself overnight with a software update. It couldn't be your smart refrigerator that bricked itself and ruined the food or burned your house down due to a software update that caused it to overheat or something like things can now. And this is my point. but I keep trying to drive home to folks as we make everything digital, everything has software in it. Sometimes you get a benefit like, Hey, I can see these surveillance cameras in my MapQuest app. Now, sometimes things change and that they might tell you, they might not tell you, or it could be hackers that have broken into the source code of that and changed it without even the vendors knowledge that has happened many times, all well-documented Brian. So, uh, Yeah, that's where we're at.
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Speaker 1: That's frightening stuff. Waymo, robo-taxi operators. There's some new scrutiny over station. 651-55-KRCD talk station. Dave Hatton, Interest IT, doing the Tech Friday. And, well, confirming for me more that I'm not going to do automated vehicles, Dave. I don't think we're there yet. And apparently the federal government's going to start getting involved because Waymo and other robo-taxi operators can't manage, I guess, first responder emergency vehicle interactions. What's going on with this one, Dave?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's all kinds of wild stuff, but I want to take just one second to tell you two things, Brian. First off, since I know you're into this sort of thing personally, and I imagine a lot of your listeners are, I belong to the Kenton Game and Fish Association. Our annual fall turkey shoot is this Sunday.
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Speaker 1: Oh, cool.
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Speaker 8: Love it.
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Speaker 3: If you or any of your listeners want to come on down, you know, it's open to the public. Begins at noon. Kenton Game and Fish. It's on Locust Pike. You can find it online and I'll be sharing it in my social media. And if you want to hear me talk your ear off about more of this stuff, you can meet me in person and I'll tell you the stuff we can't talk about on the radio, Brian. Then you'll really, really be sorry that you know me.
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Speaker 1: No FCC oversight in offline communications. Anyway, let's get into this. We've got about three minutes to boil down the robo-taxi operator.
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Speaker 4: All right.
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Speaker 3: And then real quick, last thing. Queen City Con Cybersecurity Conference, November 13th through 15th. You all should come. That said, yeah, so Brian, you know me pretty well now after all the years we've been friends. I'm not riding in any autonomous cars anytime soon. Will these things eventually get to the point where they're trustworthy? Probably. But you have a vehicle with a bunch of sensors on it, right? Different types of sensors, cameras, LIDAR, all kinds of different sensors. They've been trained in real-world driving simulations. They've been trained in simulated driving situations. But you keep seeing issues with these things. Now, again, I know the experts and the people who are for this will tell me, oh, well, if you look at the stats over time, they're much better than human drivers. OK, that may be the case. All I know is we keep seeing examples where in real world situations where a reasonable human driver would make a different decision like, hey, let's not block the emergency vehicles. Hey, let's not drive into a construction zone. If you look, and I'll, again, post a bunch of these articles in the show notes that show you this, there are continuous problems with these kind of vehicles where they do things, they get stuck. In one instance, they went into a neighborhood and just jammed up the whole neighborhood. People run up and put an orange cone on the hood and the thing doesn't know what to do. Again, you can argue that in a perfect world, would a machine be better than a human driver?
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Speaker 1: Maybe.
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Speaker 3: For all the reasons I've stated in the last two segments, these things are full of software. They're connected to other systems. What happens when those systems go down? What happens if a sensor gets covered up? Again, I'm not against this per se. I think like so much of the technology that I rail on all the time, and you know I'm not an anti-technology guy, Brian. This is what I've done for more than 30 years. This stuff is moving way too fast. The incentives for you as a consumer from a security, both physical and cyber perspective, and your privacy are all wrong for you as a consumer. And we just keep putting more software in things, I've talked about some of the problems. In fact, one of the things I'm going to talk about at that cybersecurity conference and have talked about a lot recently, the abysmal state of software security. As a recovering software engineer that did it for 25 years, there is literally no bad practice I have not personally done because for most of my career, I was not focused on security or privacy. Those were not my objectives. I was not incentivized to care about that. I hope this makes sense to you. When I tell you I don't have a smart refrigerator or a smart coffee maker, that can be hacked online and used to burn my house down. These are the reasons why. I know how this process works. Trust me, they are not building this stuff with software in it that is designed for your security and your privacy. And that's why I'm not going to be writing any of these kinds of things soon. And I have a lot of concerns about them because even though it doesn't get a lot of press, it is documented out there. And there are many examples where these things don't work right. And yeah, it's not for me.
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Speaker 1: Appreciate the message. I've heard it loud and clear, and I follow your directive, Dave, because I know you're right. Dave. 706 here, 50-Bot Care CD Talk Station. Very happy Friday to everybody, and a happy Halloween Eve. And I am pleased to look up and see in-studio Todd Zinser. We call him Citizen Watchdog. He was a former Inspector General for the United States of America, bringing his, well... Inspector General Talents to the Greater Cincinnati Area in Following the Shenanigans. And I'll call it Shenanigans, the Cincinnati City Council. And Todd, you've got a whole bunch of quite revealing topics to go over with my listening audience and me this morning. First off, let me start by thanking you for the work that you do because it is quite revealing, my friend. Welcome back to The Morning Show.
01:08:44
Speaker 4: Hi, Brian.
01:08:44
Speaker 5: Happy to be here again.
01:08:46
Speaker 1: I'm glad. And let's start with the Auditor of State letter.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 5: Well, you know, I take a look at the financial statement audits for the city and the auditor of state has to sign off on the financial statement. statement audit. And so they send a cover letter when they do that. And this year there's a sentence in there that they inserted in the letter that said there's an ongoing investigation. But it doesn't say anything else. And so I went down to see— Well, wait a minute.
01:09:16
Speaker 1: It didn't certify the results? It didn't say they're not good enough or they are good enough? It just said there's an ongoing investigation?
01:09:24
Speaker 5: It never renders an opinion on the financial statements. But it didn't indicate that whatever investigation was going on had any kind of effect on the financial statements themselves. So it's just a notification to the city that his office has some type of investigation going on.
01:09:44
Speaker 1: Now, does the city know what he's talking about when he references this unspecific or nonspecific ongoing investigation?
01:09:50
Speaker 5: Well, it's very strange because I go down to city council and I tell them these things because I don't think they really do know. I don't think they really pay attention to what's going on with the administration.
01:10:03
Speaker 1: Well, there's a lot of reasons you could come to that conclusion, but go ahead as it relates to this one.
01:10:08
Speaker 5: So I said they should find out what it is, but I had submitted a records request. asking for documents about this.
01:10:18
Speaker 1: To the auditor?
01:10:19
Speaker 4: No.
01:10:20
Speaker 1: Oh, to the city.
01:10:21
Speaker 5: No, to both the auditor and the city. The city got back to me, and they don't know what I'm talking about.
01:10:29
Speaker 1: Did you attach the letter that mentions the ongoing investigation? It's like, no, that's what the letter says. What does this refer to? Right.
01:10:37
Speaker 5: So, no, and I haven't heard from the auditor of state either. I may not hear from him. I don't know.
01:10:42
Speaker 1: Does the auditor have an obligation to respond to something like that?
01:10:45
Speaker 5: Well, they should at least say they can't respond. They could at least say, well, it is an ongoing investigation and we can't.
01:10:53
Speaker 1: This is an elected office. What they should do and what they're obligated under the law to do are two different things. So is there an obligation for the auditor's office to respond to your request?
01:11:02
Speaker 5: They should respond, but I don't know that I would get any kind of.
01:11:06
Speaker 1: No details.
01:11:07
Speaker 5: No details, right.
01:11:07
Speaker 1: Just got your letter and whatever.
01:11:09
Speaker 4: Exactly.
01:11:11
Speaker 1: So this is just a swirling mystery.
01:11:13
Speaker 5: Right now it is, yeah.
01:11:15
Speaker 3: Huh.
01:11:16
Speaker 1: Hey, Joe, see if you can get the auditor on the phone. We'll figure this one out. Get Todd's records request taken care of. Okay. Right after Houston's campaign gets back with you? That hasn't happened.
01:11:30
Speaker 4: Either, Todd.
01:11:30
Speaker 5: I can't believe that.
01:11:31
Speaker 1: I sent a message to Josh Gert this morning. I said, what's the story? Joe has reached out every single time he gets a communication from Houston's campaigns. Respond to the person sending it out. Hey, we need to get John on the program. Talk about the campaign. Raise elevation of awareness. I mean, we've got a serious race here. Silence every single time. It really has me irked. I don't know if they're mad at me or something for something I've done. I can't imagine, but whatever.
01:11:55
Speaker 5: You never know.
01:11:56
Speaker 1: Not necessarily a well-oiled machine, which is not something we need to deal with right now.
01:12:00
Speaker 8: All right.
01:12:00
Speaker 1: So then this is just an open thing with no end in sight, and we're just all left with question marks.
01:12:06
Speaker 5: Right. We just learned of that in June.
01:12:10
Speaker 6: Hmm.
01:12:11
Speaker 5: And I just found out about it last week.
01:12:14
Speaker 3: All right.
01:12:14
Speaker 1: Well, I see we have an IRS penalty we need to talk about. But given that we only have a few more minutes in this segment, which topic is it easier to get through in a few moments? The hiring practices, the TIF issues, the... three reading rule, the change to leverage support fund. I mean, we've got railroad investments to talk about. Zinsser, come on, give me one.
01:12:32
Speaker 5: Let's talk about the suspending the three reading rule.
01:12:35
Speaker 1: Oh, this is insane. This is absolutely insane. Go ahead.
01:12:39
Speaker 5: You know, I've been calling this, I've started calling the city council a juggernaut because nothing gets in their way. Even rules like this, where they're supposed to do three readings on three separate days so that the public has an opportunity to to keep track of what's going on.
01:12:55
Speaker 1: So they have a proposed ordinance. It's going to change some aspect of how a city is managed to run or.
01:13:00
Speaker 5: Govern or whatever. That's right, or spend money or whatever.
01:13:02
Speaker 1: The law, the rules, require them to read it three separate times and, I guess, give the public advance notice of the reading so they know where they need to be to show.
01:13:11
Speaker 5: Up and find out. Well, it shows up on the agenda for the meetings, yes.
01:13:14
Speaker 1: Okay, so it is on the agenda. But that hasn't happened. Now, if they're obligated, Todd Zinser, if they're obligated to read any given change three times, that means that, of course, they normally do that, right?
01:13:30
Speaker 5: You would hope so, yes.
01:13:31
Speaker 1: Under what circumstances, Todd Zinsser, are they allowed to waive the three-reading rule?
01:13:37
Speaker 5: There's no criteria like that. It just gives the city council the authority to suspend the three readings, and they take a vote on that, and that's all it takes.
01:13:45
Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be an emergency. It doesn't have to be some sort of outlier ordinance. There's no carve-out.
01:13:50
Speaker 5: The emergency is another problem.
01:13:53
Speaker 1: Oh, okay. All right, pause. Keep emergency in the back of your mind, folks. So now, how many ordinances this calendar year so far, and how many times did they suspend the three-reading rule?
01:14:05
Speaker 5: Well, I went through the agendas from January to September this year. There were 438 ordinances enacted. And 100 percent of them suspended. They suspended the three readings rule.
01:14:22
Speaker 1: So the public never got notice.
01:14:24
Speaker 5: Well, they get notice on the agenda and the agenda comes out the day before the meeting. So if there's something that is really kind of problematic for the public, it's too late. They don't have time to really protest that.
01:14:40
Speaker 1: So city council is supposed to be a form of representative government, correct?
01:14:46
Speaker 5: That's what I hear.
01:14:47
Speaker 1: I'm baby-stepping here.
01:14:48
Speaker 5: I'm mansplaining. That's what I hear.
01:14:50
Speaker 1: I'm just making this so damn obvious to everybody. All the voters in the city of Cincinnati can be impacted by any one of these. They don't give advance notice, minimalist advance notice, and they never give the opportunity for three readings.
01:15:01
Speaker 3: Huh.
01:15:03
Speaker 1: Wow. What if the general public has a, let's say, a majority objection to it, like an overwhelming majority? Like the people in Hyde Park who got the zoning law changed. They came out in huge numbers. to actually propose a ballot initiative to unring the bell of what council did underneath their radar. This is the same kind of thing, isn't it?
01:15:20
Speaker 4: Yes.
01:15:20
Speaker 5: But what's interesting about the Hyde Park issue is that that zoning change was not passed as an emergency. And that gave the citizens the ability to mount a referendum against that.
01:15:37
Speaker 3: Yeah.
01:15:37
Speaker 1: And the council members, we went over this when that was happening, Todd. Council members were painfully aware of the objections from the Hyde Park residents. They had shown up during one of these readings and said, no, this is not a path you can take. That's a lesson they learned. We can't do this.
01:15:55
Speaker 5: That's right. The other analysis is how many emergency ordinances there are. They're not all. I don't have 100%. But I did the analysis one time. It's up in the 90%.
01:16:08
Speaker 1: Well, if they waive the three reading rule for just run-of-the-mill everyday ordinances, as you said, how does an emergency ordinance differ? What is it required to be labeled emergency and what does that cause by way of process change?
01:16:19
Speaker 5: Well, they come up with all these bogus reasons why it has to be an emergency. Basically, the reason is because we have to spend the money right away or we have to do it right away. And so what happens with an emergency ordinance is that the public has no opportunity to organize a referendum to decide challenge that ordinance. Wow. That's why I call him a juggernaut.
01:16:47
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, it's a legitimate conclusion, Todd. I'm just, you know, what bothers me so much about this is they just don't seem, or they obviously do not care what people think.
01:16:57
Speaker 5: Yeah, they have a, they're on a mission. I'm calling them uber-activists.
01:17:03
Speaker 1: Well, and just the sheer volume of ordinance changes, that sounds ridiculously large in one single, not even a full calendar year right now. Hundreds and hundreds of them.
01:17:13
Speaker 5: Yeah, the problem is I haven't really looked into it, but they have to pass an ordinance to do anything. So if they want to accept a $ 500 donation from somebody for the police, for example, they have to pass an ordinance to do that.
01:17:28
Speaker 1: Well, at least it has it on record.
01:17:29
Speaker 5: That's right.
01:17:30
Speaker 1: I guess it's a good thing. In the final analysis, it sounds like they're doing way too much, but if that is the reason there are so many of them, then I'm glad that's in place.
01:17:38
Speaker 5: Well, it's for anything. Anything that the city council wants to get done, they have to pass an ordinance to do it.
01:17:45
Speaker 1: And it sure helps when you don't let the public know about it.
01:17:48
Speaker 5: It sure makes things easier, that's for sure, for them.
01:17:50
Speaker 1: Coming up on 716, more with citizen watchdog Todd Zinser. You can find him on Facebook, Todd.
01:17:54
Speaker 4: At KRC, the talk station.
01:17:57
Speaker 1: 720-55-KCB Fox station. Happy Friday. Todd Zinser, citizen watchdog in studio, former inspector general, spending his retirement being an inspector general voluntarily for all of us in the greater Cincinnati area. And as we focus on what I call shenanigans in downtown Cincinnati. So clearly they don't like to engage in the representative government process, suspending the three reading rule all of the time. And then we pivot over and I see the word penalty, IRS penalty. That's not, you owe me X number of dollars for taxes. That is, you failed to pay a sufficient amount of taxes resulting in a penalty of $ 353, 000, Todd?
01:18:35
Speaker 8: Yes.
01:18:36
Speaker 1: The penalty?
01:18:36
Speaker 5: That's a penalty.
01:18:37
Speaker 1: What the hell do they do?
01:18:38
Speaker 5: Well, that's another thing we don't know.
01:18:41
Speaker 4: What?
01:18:41
Speaker 5: And I don't think the city council knows either.
01:18:48
Speaker 1: Well, how did you learn about the penalty in the first instance.
01:18:50
Speaker 5: Well there's when when an outside auditor issues their financial statement audit report it includes what they call a management letter and the management letter is supposed to outline issues or problems in that the city should be aware of and take care of, but they don't rise to the level of affecting the financial statement or the financial situation of the city. These are just like weaknesses in internal controls.
01:19:19
Speaker 1: Okay.
01:19:20
Speaker 3: So.
01:19:21
Speaker 1: Like tips for best practices kind of thing? You need to readjust your machinery to deal with these challenges?
01:19:26
Speaker 5: A little more strict than that, but I couldn't find a management letter when I looked. And so... I found out that in order to get.
01:19:36
Speaker 1: This letter– This penalty letter.
01:19:39
Speaker 5: This management letter that includes these areas of internal control problems, you have to go to the auditor of state. So I did, and this is the letter I got back, and it lists four areas, one of which is this IRS penalty that was paid in 2025.
01:19:55
Speaker 1: So– The Auditor of State letter that said that there's an ongoing investigation with no fill-in-the-blank details, that's different from this letter, which I identify.
01:20:05
Speaker 5: Well, as far as we know, maybe it's the same thing, but we can't tell. But I think if it wasn't significant, it wouldn't be in this management letter.
01:20:16
Speaker 1: I guess I'd have to agree. And how does one rack up a $ 353, 000 IRS penalty? Well, I.
01:20:24
Speaker 5: There was something when the city manager went to council to get approval to pay this, they characterized it as a assessment or something under appeal. We're dealing with a potential penalty and it's under appeal or something like that.
01:20:39
Speaker 1: Which suggests if they're appealing it, then at least the solicitor's office is aware of it and may be involved in a legal case.
01:20:47
Speaker 5: Related to this penalty. There's a term used. In the letter of adjudication. So there's some kind of adjudication that went on. And a month after they received approval to pay this, the city paid $ 353, 000.
01:21:04
Speaker 1: So would that qualify as existing infrastructure to allow them to tap into railroad dollars to pay for it, Todd?
01:21:12
Speaker 5: You never know, Brian.
01:21:13
Speaker 1: They got a slush fund for payment of IRS penalties there someplace?
01:21:16
Speaker 5: Well, I have reported that they're taking... interest earned on the unspent railroad money and they're putting it in the general fund.
01:21:24
Speaker 1: Yeah, we talked about that.
01:21:25
Speaker 6: Yeah.
01:21:26
Speaker 1: That's a massive red flag right there because that money should have never been allocated if it's not ready to be spent right away. And the idea that the city can sit on that money and get interest earned on it, which interest earned is not being spent on existing infrastructure. They wouldn't have had that money in their hand if it wasn't for railroad money and existing infrastructure projects.
01:21:43
Speaker 5: And you know what's worse is they're not telling the public how much that is, how much they're earning there.
01:21:53
Speaker 1: Why did the word criminal just enter into my mind, Todd? I don't know that this rises the level of criminal activity, but Lord Almighty, it sure sounds like it. At minimum, it's shameless behavior.
01:22:03
Speaker 5: It is definitely shameless. There's no question about that.
01:22:06
Speaker 1: That is just a metaphorical middle finger to every single resident of the city of Cincinnati, this hiding of details and this obvious reflection of mismanagement. I mean, you mentioned this external audit management letter, which addresses the $ 353, 000 penalty. But it also says IT security, employee fraud awareness training, and delinquent financial disclosures.
01:22:28
Speaker 5: Yeah.
01:22:28
Speaker 1: Cryptic that, but that's all it says?
01:22:31
Speaker 5: Yeah. Well, it has a little bit of an explanation. But the financial disclosures, they did a sample of 10 city officials who are required to file financial disclosure reports by April 15th every year. And again, the audit is all based on sampling, right? They can only look at so many records and be timely. So they do these samples. They sample 10 city officials who were supposed to file their financial disclosures. 100% did not do that. 100% of their sample did not file their financial disclosures on time.
01:23:10
Speaker 4: Wow.
01:23:11
Speaker 5: Yeah. There's absolutely compliance issues all over the place.
01:23:16
Speaker 1: Is there a? penalty that goes along with failure to comply with the law along those lines, Todd?
01:23:21
Speaker 5: You know, I think there may be, Brian, but I'd have to follow up on that. I do think that that is in the rules, but I'd have to check on that.
01:23:32
Speaker 1: So we have to rely on the AG to go after them for that?
01:23:36
Speaker 5: Well, again, this goes to the auditor of state. The auditor of state has investigative powers, as we just talked about. So this letter goes to the auditor of state, but the auditor can investigate anything he or she wants.
01:23:50
Speaker 1: Well, let's have them get on that, shall we? Well, you know how to get in touch with your auditor? Just search Ohio Auditor and you will find the website and all the communication information you need to get in touch with them about that. Light a fire on them so you think they can't go after this. I mean, that's just, again, I'm going with shameless. Todd Zinser will continue. And yes, I don't even think we'll be able to exhaust the list. that Todd has come up with for this morning's segment. 726 at 55 Care CD Talk Station. Chimney Care Fireplace and Stove. 730 on a Friday, an hour with Todd Zinser, our citizen watchdog. Hours collectively. Donating his time in retirement to, well, ferreting out the craziness going on in downtown Cincinnati. Usually coming up empty because that's the way city council intended it. You can't find anything because we're not giving it to you. And apparently they don't even bother following their own rules. Todd, you said you had one more point on the IRS penalty of $ 353, 000, which seems to still be swirling in mystery.
01:24:42
Speaker 3: Yes.
01:24:43
Speaker 5: The other mystery is when the external auditor wrote their management letter and brought this issue up, they included in the letter that the city has told them that they've done an evaluation of the issue already. And have taken corrective measures, and that's in the management letter from the external auditor.
01:25:04
Speaker 1: Taken corrective measures. Now, when did that letter from the city go to the outside auditor?
01:25:11
Speaker 5: Well, that's the outside auditor's letter dated March 27 of 2026, so it was this past March.
01:25:19
Speaker 1: Okay.
01:25:20
Speaker 5: But just last month in September, the internal auditor for the city did an audit of federal tax withholding, the same subject. different audit period and came up with, I don't know, half a dozen to a dozen other corrective measures that should be taken. And so you're thinking, well, are these new problems with federal tax withholding or are these the same issues that the external auditor came up with? And if it's the same, why did the external auditor say that it had already been taken care of?
01:25:57
Speaker 1: It's got to be a different set of problems then. We don't know, though.
01:26:00
Speaker 5: Or they misinformed the external auditor.
01:26:03
Speaker 1: Oh, there's that option, isn't there, Todd Zinser?
01:26:06
Speaker 5: So it's just very confusing to the public that's trying to track this, exactly what's going on.
01:26:12
Speaker 1: Confusing to the public if they did enough effort that you did and still have no idea. Todd, you did all the work, man. You've seen the documents. You don't even know. No, I don't.
01:26:23
Speaker 5: I'm trying to find out.
01:26:24
Speaker 1: They don't want the public to even be confused. They don't want the public to even know about it.
01:26:28
Speaker 5: Well, that's my bottom line is it does kind of look like a cover-up.
01:26:33
Speaker 1: Jeez Louise. You know what? And it'd be so easy. And they're saying, no, no, it's no cover-up, Mr. Zinsser. It's no. Well, if it isn't, then show us the damn documents and prove us wrong. That's right. Meanwhile, while you remain silent and clearly covered up an entire record here, we're only able to reach one conclusion that there's something to cover up.
01:26:53
Speaker 4: Yep.
01:26:55
Speaker 8: Jeez.
01:26:56
Speaker 2: What?
01:26:57
Speaker 5: Ah, shameless.
01:26:59
Speaker 1: Corruption, I might argue. All right. Moving on. Pick a subject. I got a list of about 12 of them here. Hiring practices.
01:27:10
Speaker 5: The hiring practices audit was interesting because it showed me two things. Number one is their documentation is, you know, just terrible. Widespread failures in documentation. And there's two records in particular that for 50%– no, I take that back. 30% of the records for new hires were missing their I-9 forms. So their I-9 forms are those forms that employers have to have completed that verifies that the person is in the United States legally.
01:27:50
Speaker 1: And the second– We're talking, this lack of documentation, we are talking about Sanctuary City, Cincinnati, right, Todd?
01:27:59
Speaker 4: Well.
01:27:59
Speaker 3: Okay.
01:27:59
Speaker 1: I just want to make sure we're clear on the subject matter here.
01:28:01
Speaker 5: That's right.
01:28:02
Speaker 1: Okay. Go ahead.
01:28:03
Speaker 5: And then secondly, there were background checks missing.
01:28:10
Speaker 4: Oh, really?
01:28:10
Speaker 3: Yeah.
01:28:11
Speaker 5: Out of the sample of 59, 40, or 40, I'm sorry, four background checks were missing. Now, there should be no background checks missing. There should be no I-95. forms missing. And I just think that the human services department is struggling, to say the least. I don't think there were recommendations in the hiring practice audit. And for three of those recommendations, the manager's response was, I do not have the staff to implement these recommendations.
01:28:45
Speaker 1: Cheryl Long said that.
01:28:46
Speaker 5: Well, the head of the Department of Human Resources said that. Who works for Cheryl Long.
01:28:52
Speaker 1: Who reports directly to Cheryl Long.
01:28:53
Speaker 6: Right.
01:28:53
Speaker 1: Speaking on basically Cheryl Long's behalf.
01:28:55
Speaker 3: Right.
01:28:56
Speaker 1: Since the buck stops at Cheryl Long's desk.
01:28:58
Speaker 5: That's right.
01:28:59
Speaker 1: Well, maybe, Todd, and we'll talk about this next, if they didn't spend so much money on nongovernmental organizations, they'd have enough to hire somebody who's competent to do this work.
01:29:07
Speaker 7: Maybe?
01:29:07
Speaker 5: Well, I do think there's a conflict between the city's ability or desire to fund the government infrastructure that people needed, the equipment needed, the systems needed. I think that is running into all the money that they spend on these external organizations. They subsidize these external organizations instead of investing in the city's government infrastructure. That's kind of where I'm headed with all this.
01:29:38
Speaker 1: Well, we're going to elaborate on that because I know you have a– there was a change to leveraged support funding, which is what funds the outside entities. KRC, the talk station. 740 here, 55 KRC Talk Station. Happy Friday. Todd Zinser, Citizen Watchdog. You can find him on Facebook. You can go to citizenwatchdog.com. Get his podcast and love having him on the 55 KRC Morning Show. So pivoting off the hiring practices audit where we ultimately conclude, or at least you heard from the city manager's office, that we just don't have sufficient employee resources to follow the law.
01:30:14
Speaker 5: Yes.
01:30:15
Speaker 1: Is that really what it boils down to, like the I-9 form? Yes, and it's not.
01:30:21
Speaker 5: Just human services. We looked at the challenges that the departments put in their budget presentations. They were required to include three top challenges. Out of 16 departments, 12 said that staffing was in the top three challenges. Two did not say anything about staffing. One was ambiguous and one said it didn't have any challenges. So 12 out of 16 departments say we've got problems with our staffing, including public services, which resulted in the whole trash pickup problem that occurred.
01:31:00
Speaker 1: I thought that was an equipment issue.
01:31:02
Speaker 3: No, no.
01:31:03
Speaker 1: No, I'm confusing that with the snow removal. I'm sorry, Todd. I got my crises mixed up.
01:31:07
Speaker 5: That's right. So you've got the flooding, you've got the trash removal, you have the snow removal. And I really have come to the conclusion that the city does not have the internal capacity to really even do the basic services of the city.
01:31:21
Speaker 1: Well, isn't that why they're farming out all kinds of stuff to NGOs, Todd? Or are the NGOs doing something different?
01:31:27
Speaker 5: Well, I think they're doing something different. I know that.
01:31:32
Speaker 1: So you talk about this all the time. First off, there's an entity out there that claims it is going to help the city achieve some goal, like juvenile crime. here we are, we're going to do stuff to help curb juvenile crime. And the city says, okay, here's half a million dollars.
01:31:49
Speaker 5: That's right.
01:31:50
Speaker 1: So there's one issue. Okay, people might say, well, that's the way it's supposed to work because the city's not capable of doing everything. Of course, it has to outsource some things. It happens all the time. But there's no following the money. Once it leaves the building, no one is held accountable for whatever work is supposed to be done. Am I right on that?
01:32:07
Speaker 5: That's right. And they don't even, in some cases, measure it.
01:32:12
Speaker 8: Metrics.
01:32:12
Speaker 5: What they're doing.
01:32:13
Speaker 1: There's no metrics.
01:32:14
Speaker 5: That's right.
01:32:14
Speaker 1: So it's trust.
01:32:16
Speaker 5: That's right.
01:32:17
Speaker 1: Here's taxpayer dollars. Go do your good work, and we'll trust you with that.
01:32:19
Speaker 5: And it's optics. Yeah, we care. We give money to these organizations. It's all about your children.
01:32:26
Speaker 1: I hear you. I hear you. But that's going on regularly. But then again, none of that relates to the internal struggles they have. And I'll be the first person to maybe call red flag. Do they really need all that much more staff? Or could they hire more competent people to get the work done?
01:32:41
Speaker 5: I think it's B. Because it really, the first thing that came to my mind was the whole 80-20 rule, where 20% of the people are doing 80% of the work. And so the other 80% are underperforming, so to speak.
01:33:02
Speaker 3: Okay.
01:33:03
Speaker 1: Well, maybe they should go back to meritocracy.
01:33:05
Speaker 4: Well.
01:33:06
Speaker 5: Maybe they should.
01:33:07
Speaker 1: All right. Well, we got that problem solved then, don't we? But we don't have a problem solved concerning this money that flows out to these nonprofit organizations, these nongovernmental organizations. So have they changed that? I see changes to leverage support funding on my list here.
01:33:22
Speaker 5: Right. So at the past couple of meetings, they've been considering an ordinance to change how they operate or manage the leverage support program, which is basically a grant To local organizations.
01:33:37
Speaker 1: This is what we just talked about.
01:33:38
Speaker 6: Right.
01:33:39
Speaker 5: And in the past, how it worked is the organization would submit an application to the city manager. They would go through certain criteria, and they would rank them, and they'd come up with a dollar amount that the organization would receive in a grant. And then it would go to the mayor, and then it would go to the city council. Well, both the mayor and the city council can add money to those grants arbitrarily.
01:34:06
Speaker 1: Sphincter-inspired amounts.
01:34:09
Speaker 5: Yeah, and so what happens is the city doesn't have all the money that they used to have to do these things.
01:34:17
Speaker 1: Well, how can you keep track of the dollars available if the mayor can go randomly add a whole bunch more in expenditures without the council even being able to budget for it?
01:34:23
Speaker 5: That's right. That's right. This is insanity. And so I think they're starting to feel the pinch of.
01:34:33
Speaker 1: Let me guess, the outside organizations pressuring them to give them even more money?
01:34:37
Speaker 5: Yes, or the same amount of money. I think they have to make some cuts. And so they've set it up now where they're trying to get the city council kind of out of the business of modifying whatever the city manager comes up with.
01:34:51
Speaker 1: Well, that takes the outside political pressure off of them, doesn't it?
01:34:55
Speaker 5: There's nothing I can do about it.
01:34:57
Speaker 1: You used to work with me, says council member XYZ, and then now you've got to work with them.
01:35:01
Speaker 5: So the five people that voted for this change, that's what they think. And the four people that didn't vote for the change says, this isn't going to work. We're still going to get the same amount of pressure from the public.
01:35:12
Speaker 1: That's like a divided Supreme Court. Maybe we need to pack council with more Republicans or some Republicans to right the ship.
01:35:19
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I don't hold out much prospect for that.
01:35:22
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know.
01:35:23
Speaker 1: We gave up. Somebody brought the flag out a long time ago, Todd Zinser. Remember, to the voters in the city of Cincinnati, all of this ridiculous gullibility. crap that we're staring at this morning that todd's walking us through uh democrats have been in charge for the city in charge of the city for how many decades now todd at least four or five okay this wasn't a republican creative problem we inherited this from i don't know eugene ruleman 746 one more with todd's sir we're not going to make it through the whole list i've got to bring you back don't go away folks odor exit first todd zinzer hold on because i got Tiffany Green, Officer Green from the Cincinnati Police Department Crime Stopper Division to help us catch a Crime Stopper Bad Guy of the Week. Welcome back, Officer Green. Thank you for what you do every day and who are we looking for?
01:36:07
Speaker 2: Good morning and thank you, Brian. The Cincinnati Police District 3 Investigative Unit is looking for Diego Robinson.
01:36:15
Speaker 8: Mr.
01:36:15
Speaker 2: Robinson is wanted for felony burglary and misdemeanor criminal damaging and misdemeanor aggravated menacing. Investigators say Mr. Robinson climbed through the victim's bedroom, window without the victim's consent. Once inside, Mr. Robinson proceeded to damage the victim's property. Diego Robinson is a black male. He's 23 years old. He's 5'7 and 140 pounds. Diego Robinson has an arrest history of failure to comply with police officer and was last known to live on East Ledge Street in Madisonville. If anyone has information on where police can find Diego Robinson, please call Crime Stoppers at 513- 352-3040, or submit a tip online at crime-stoppers.us.
01:37:01
Speaker 1: You'll be eligible for a cash reward if you tip Lisa an arrest, but you'll let Crime Stoppers keep that. We just want to get this guy off the street because he is clearly a menace to society. Officer Green will be looking for him. His photo's on my blog page, 55krc. iheart. com. Thank you again for the Cincinnati Police Department's work for the community each and every day. God bless each and every one of you. Todd Zinser, I intro'd it. Let's move over to the railroad money.
01:37:24
Speaker 5: Right, so... A lot of people are looking at how their railroad money is being spent, as they should.
01:37:29
Speaker 4: Right.
01:37:29
Speaker 5: And we've got problems spending that money. But there's also issues on the investment side. You have to keep an eye on the investment side as well.
01:37:38
Speaker 1: That's the board that's responsible for that.
01:37:40
Speaker 5: That's correct. That's the board that is responsible for maintaining the— it' s up close to $ 2 billion now.
01:37:46
Speaker 1: And they have a fiduciary obligation to do their best to maximize the return on that investment, do they not?
01:37:51
Speaker 5: That's correct.
01:37:51
Speaker 3: Okay.
01:37:52
Speaker 4: Okay.
01:37:53
Speaker 1: Responsibly managed.
01:37:54
Speaker 5: Responsibly managed. That's correct. So there's three big issues. There's a whole nest of issues involving the board and the investment advisors.
01:38:05
Speaker 1: Of course there are.
01:38:06
Speaker 5: But the first one is the board has decided that instead of issuing a standalone financial statement audit, they'll just merge... the financial information of the board and the trust into the city's financial statement. So it gets much less treatment than they would with a standalone audit. And I'm not really sure why they're doing that, except that there was some kind of conversation that it would cost an extra $ 30, 000 to have. Well, they can afford a $.
01:38:42
Speaker 1: 353, 000 IRS penalty. I think they can come up with 30 grand to cover an independent audit.
01:38:45
Speaker 3: Yeah.
01:38:47
Speaker 1: And the board is independent and a separate complete entity from the city of Cincinnati, which makes me wonder why in the hell would anyone think including it within a Cincinnati broader audit would be appropriate?
01:38:58
Speaker 5: The accountants can classify the trust as something called a merged component unit because the rationale is that the trust fund is all about Cincinnati. Cincinnati is the only beneficiary. It doesn't make it part of the city.
01:39:17
Speaker 1: Listen, we live in a time where I can say I'm a girl and people are supposed to swallow that.
01:39:22
Speaker 4: Right.
01:39:22
Speaker 1: It doesn't make it true, Todd.
01:39:24
Speaker 5: So this makes it even worse, Brian. According to the state law that set this whole operation up, the board is supposed to do an audit based on their calendar year. Well, the city does their books on a fiscal year basis. So right off the bat.
01:39:44
Speaker 1: You can't do it then.
01:39:45
Speaker 5: Right off the bat, there's a six-month gap.
01:39:47
Speaker 3: Yes.
01:39:48
Speaker 5: And I don't know what happened. I don't know how they accounted for the financial transactions during that gap period. And the law requires a calendar year audit. And they're not doing a calendar year audit.
01:40:05
Speaker 1: I question the word standing comes up, whether someone has standing to go after, maybe litigate some of these issues. Is this something that an outside citizen could pursue? Is this something, again, going back to the Attorney General's office? I mean, I guess I have to wonder, how can they be held accountable? How can they be forced to go back to regularly accepted accounting standards? Because this does not sound like it, Todd.
01:40:27
Speaker 5: Well, it technically does comply with the standards. But what it doesn't comply with is anything to do with transparency about that investment fund. And for example, you look at the investments that the board is making They've started investing in private credit. And private credit is not like the stock market. Private credit is you're investing in an individual company. But in the case of the board, there are brokers out there that will take your money, put it into private credit. And then what's really shocking is that those managers of those private credit pools, so to speak, they're getting... Oh, here we go.
01:41:12
Speaker 1: This is where the money comes in, right, Todd?
01:41:14
Speaker 5: 1.25% on the value of those investments.
01:41:21
Speaker 1: So whatever slice of the $ 2 trillion they throw at private credit, that outside guy gets 1.2%.
01:41:26
Speaker 5: That's right. That's right. That's outrageous.
01:41:30
Speaker 1: Does anybody ever vet these outside guys? I mean, determine ahead of time whether there's a conflict of interest between them and the members of the board who make this decision?
01:41:37
Speaker 5: Here's the thing. What I recommended to the board that they have completely rejected is that the problem is you have UBS as their investment advisor, right?
01:41:47
Speaker 4: Yeah.
01:41:47
Speaker 5: They're the ones that are advising the board to invest in this private credit. Well, the board doesn't know anything about private credit. So who's supposed to Who's supposed to advise them on whether this private credit is worthwhile? The same advisor that's pushing it on them in the first place. There's a conflict there. And I said they should bring in an outside investment advisor to take a look at this whole private credit thing and make sure that it's not too risky. Because if it's too risky, then the board runs into the idea that they're being speculative. And they're not allowed to be speculative.
01:42:23
Speaker 1: Going back to the fiduciary obligation.
01:42:25
Speaker 5: That's correct. Wow.
01:42:27
Speaker 1: Todd Zinser, that is a plate full that you just gave us today here.
01:42:31
Speaker 3: Yes.
01:42:33
Speaker 1: It's 8.06, and it's a happy Friday. All Fridays are happy to a certain degree. Some less than others, and a lot of folks are having a little bit of concern, angst, and anxiety over Tuesday. We've all got the memo about the blue wave that's coming our way. I've talked to so many people about this. How do you feel about it? It's never going to happen. There's no way the Republicans are going to show out in huge numbers. We're going to beat this back. It's that Democrats aren't engaged. They're not all socialists. They don't embrace this. But then everybody's pissed off about inflation and the price of gasoline. I just keep going back to the reality that the Democrats brought you, by virtue of legislation, expensive gasoline. It was worse before than it is now. At least now it's just a question of economics causing it. Welcome back. To the 55KRC morning show, vote Vivek Ramaswamy on Tuesday. If you haven't voted already, dear God, please save us from Governor Amy Acton, which even saying it out loud gives me a bit of nausea. Welcome back, Vivek Ramaswamy. Find him online at vivek4ohio. com. It's good to have you on one more time.
01:43:31
Speaker 4: Great to be on, Brian.
01:43:32
Speaker 1: How are you doing? I'm doing fine. Last hours, basically days, in essence, of the campaign. How are you feeling about it right now? I keep talking to people, Vivek, who are They're either there's no way the blue wave is going to happen or more of them. And I emphasize more of them are like we are screwed on Tuesday. It's not going to be a beautiful day to wake up to on Wednesday. Where is Vivek Ramaswamy? And please try to talk those folks off the ledge.
01:43:56
Speaker 8: Look, I think it's going to be a great it's going to be a great day. I think we are on track. The people of the state are wise. And I know that the people of our state are when we're really under threat for our way of life. People step up and they get out and vote.
01:44:09
Speaker 4: That's what they're doing. And this is a fork in the road, Brian.
01:44:12
Speaker 8: This is not an ordinary election.
01:44:14
Speaker 4: This is between common sense and communism. OK, this is what's on the ballot.
01:44:17
Speaker 8: You look at what's happening in Paris or New York City, which is under socialist.
01:44:22
Speaker 4: Rule, or L.A.
01:44:23
Speaker 8: Or Minneapolis or even Dearborn, Michigan, just to the north of us. We can't let that come to Ohio. And that choice belongs to us, to you, to we the people. And it is a choice about fighting for your family, about who's going to actually make your family's life better. I'm running against a woman who is probably the public official that's caused more damage to the lives of Ohioans than anyone else in the 21st century.
01:44:50
Speaker 4: She quit the job.
01:44:51
Speaker 8: It turns out that's the longest job she's ever held. I do not believe Ohioans are going to be anywhere close to rewarding that failure with a promotion.
01:45:00
Speaker 4: Someone who compares the law.
01:45:02
Speaker 8: Enforcement to the KKK, as we see a broader socialist, communist movement, anti-rule of law epidemic spreading across the country in the West. I think people in Ohio have great common sense.
01:45:14
Speaker 4: We're smart people.
01:45:15
Speaker 1: We're wise people.
01:45:16
Speaker 4: We're going to get it right.
01:45:17
Speaker 8: And for my part, Ryan, we just released this morning, we're already drafting up the day one executive orders.
01:45:23
Speaker 4: We already have the team ready to go.
01:45:26
Speaker 8: We're ready to execute for Ohioans to bring down property costs, property tax costs immediately, bring down electric bills immediately. initiate the waste, fraud, abuse investigations, as well as prosecutions immediately to save on health care costs.
01:45:42
Speaker 4: This morning, we just put out the top.
01:45:43
Speaker 8: Seven executive orders I'm signing before midnight on January 11th in detail.
01:45:49
Speaker 4: We are ready to execute.
01:45:51
Speaker 8: We're ready to start early to deliver big time on lower costs, including lower property taxes and electric bills, big time on combating crime, ending sanctuary cities, including Columbus, but also Cleveland and Cincinnati. across the state, we're ready to execute. And I think that's what Ohioans are ready for. And that's why I feel great heading into Tuesday. We're going to be coming out with a victory.
01:46:13
Speaker 1: I am so pleased to hear that. I know you've been enthused from the get-go. And of course, there is no question. There are just, there's a sea of difference in terms of the qualifications for the job, which I keep going back to. But let me just put A finer point on this, because I have been critical of Donald Trump, and I was at the time he uttered it, I will bring down inflation day one. Now, I hear something like that, and I know no human being is capable of doing that. There are so many other factors outside of the realm of even the presidential office to deal with to bring down inflation just generally. So with that springboard, the question I want to ask you, you said day one, I will bring down electric bills. I know my listeners would love to hear how you're going to accomplish that, because I pay an outrageous electric bill, and it just keeps going up.
01:46:55
Speaker 3: Yeah, look.
01:46:56
Speaker 8: Look, it's a good question, Brian, but the important thing is if you listen carefully to my commentary, I am commenting directly on things that are a consequence of policies that the state, specifically the governor, can actually set. I don't believe in making false promises. I'm making the promises I can directly keep. Property taxation is directly a consequence of government-created policy. So what I've said, we put it in the announcement this morning. On day one, I'm going to start investigations of any locality where property taxes have more than doubled to provide a public accounting of how those dollars have been spent. Right now, in many cases, it's a bit of a mystery. It's opaque because school performance has gone down while property taxes have doubled in those very regions. So that transparency and sunlight is going to be the first step to a legislative solution here to roll the property tax rate and base down. back to where it was pre-pandemic. That's common sense. By the way, our schools are performing better then. And if there are that are really necessary, we're not going to leave police, fire or local schools holding the bag. There's models for statewide backstops. But that is a practical solution that delivers the biggest property tax relief package to homeowners across the state. That's real money in your pocket. That's a real difference for being able to afford costs elsewhere in your life. Electricville's very same story. Ohio's part of PJM, okay? And I think Ohio has not been assertive enough in standing for Ohioans' cost interest in PJM. There's a lot of out-of-state interests, Democrat, left-leaning interests that effectively impose costs over the years through climate change policies, through Green New Deal policies that change the energy mix that feeds that grid. Well, guess who ends up paying for it? Ohioans do. Homeowners do. And can the governor make a difference there? You're darn right we can if you're willing to actually fight for Ohioans' interests. My job isn't to fight for climate change policies. My job is to lower costs by increasing supply of energy and by producing more energy in Ohio and reasserting ourselves to fix a few tweaks in our relationship with PJM and provide alternatives for people in Ohio, bringing nuclear energy to the state as well. These are areas where I know, I don't think, I know I can make a difference as a governor to slash your electric bills in half, to bring down the property tax rates in many parts of this state by half. These are practical solutions that we have day one plans, we're ready to execute on. But here, Brian, this is the choice, because God forbid if Amy Acton, the woman who failed this state once and then quit, who's never held a job for more than two years, now seeking a four-year position as governor. God forbid if she's ever governor. You mark this very carefully to understand the stakes. Your property taxes are on track to continue to double over the next 18 to 24 months, if not the next year. Your electric bills will double over the course of the next 12 to 24 months. That's just the trajectory we're headed on, especially with the plans that she has laid out to the extent you could even call them that. So that's the choice on the ballot. Do you want your property taxes and electric bills cut by half, or do you want them to double?
01:50:07
Speaker 4: Do you want to combat crime.
01:50:09
Speaker 8: In the streets of our cities, including my hometown of Cincinnati, or do you want to compare law enforcement to the KKK, as she did last year, letting crime run rampant? Do you want to end sanctuary city status, or do you want to effectively let this scourge of illegal behavior, including illegal immigration, continue in Ohio? That is the choice on the ballot. And I believe in the wisdom of the people of our state. Our founders fought a revolution, so we could self-govern. So it's up to us. And on this 250th anniversary, the question is, what are you willing to do to fight for your state, to fight for your family, to fight for your kids, fight for your grandkids, and fight for our country? All you have to do is get out and vote and take as many people with you and force as many other people in your family and friend group to do the same thing. And if you all do your part, I'm going to do mine. We're going to lead this state to greater heights than we've ever seen. I truly believe that deep in my bones. We have a positive vision for the state and plans to execute on it. But I do worry that, God forbid, if a leftist like Amy Acton were to come to power, it's part of a socialist wave spreading across our country. It'll be an economic devastation for Ohio. CEOs who are looking at Ohio as a place for investment have already.
01:51:26
Speaker 4: Told me they would go elsewhere.
01:51:28
Speaker 8: If, God forbid, Amy Acton came anywhere near the levers of power. And I hate to say it, but that makes sense. Because if you're in their shoes, you would look at it the same way.
01:51:36
Speaker 1: Well, who would know more than you, a person who's done business in the state of Ohio since you were a young man? I mean, this is your hometown here in Cincinnati. You built a business in Ohio, and you understand the challenges and the impediments to be able to effectively grow a business for the benefit of everybody in Ohio.
01:51:50
Speaker 4: That's right.
01:51:50
Speaker 8: And look, I've signed in front of a paycheck, Brian, not just the back of one. I've created thousands of jobs. I do know how to bring economic growth as a governor to this state. And I'm excited to do that. That's going to lift all of us up. Bigger paychecks, more jobs coming into the state, combined out with reducing the property tax burden, reducing electric bill burdens, and also even cutting red tape that stops new home construction for young people. I mean, that's another one, too, to help our workforce stay here, make home ownership more affordable, even on the front end. If you're building more of those starter homes, 16-, 17-, 1,800-square-foot starter homes on a quarter or third of an acre plot, that's a great start in the American dream. Those are the homes that aren't getting built, which is why the average age of a first-time.
01:52:39
Speaker 4: Homebuyer in Ohio is now 41 years old. Think about that.
01:52:43
Speaker 8: I'm 41, Brian, and hopefully in a week I'll be the governor-elect. The age of the first-time homebuyer should not be the same age as the governor of the state. But we can fix these problems. And so these are areas, to your earlier point, where it turns out a governor can actually make even a bigger difference than a federal leader, even a U.S. president, when it comes to those core areas of property taxes, electric bills, even housing costs. I know I can make a difference here, but we've got to get elected to do it. And that requires– if you haven't gotten out to vote– I mean early voting is open today. You guys can just get out and go today to cast the vote and just get your friends and family to do it, too. Take responsibility for that. And if you do that, you should hold me accountable to deliver on everything that I'm telling you we're going to do for you starting in January.
01:53:30
Speaker 1: Well, go to Vivek Ramasamy on Facebook. You can see the day one executive orders and read every one of them, which includes, for all my friends out there waiting for a responsible steward with the taxpayer dollars, Executive Order No. 4, Direct Department of Medicaid to Investigate Waste, Fraud, and Abuse. That'll inure to our benefit. And again, you're looking out for the taxpayer dollars that we have no control over once they're gone out of our pockets. Vivek Ramaswamy. Go to Vivek4Ohio to check out the campaign website. Again, Vivek Ramaswamy on Facebook. Multiple places to find this. I wish you all the best, sir. I truly do. I am praying for the state of Ohio that you are our next governor.
01:54:05
Speaker 4: Get out and vote, and we can make it happen. Thank you.
01:54:08
Speaker 1: Thank you, sir. Thank you very much. 818- At 55KRC. 55KRC, the talk station. Just have 830 here at 55KRC, the talk station, on a Friday. Very good time to be tuning in here to the 55KRC Morning Show. I hope you have his site bookmarked, theohiopressnetwork.com. I hope you're listening to his broadcast throughout the week. It's Jack Windsor. Welcome back, Jack, my friend. It's always a pleasure to have you on the 55KRC Morning Show. Happy Friday and happy Halloween Eve.
01:54:35
Speaker 6: Happy Friday, happy Halloween Eve, and happy election season, Brian. Honor to be here, man.
01:54:41
Speaker 1: Yeah, as much quote-unquote fun as guys like you and I have in anticipation and in the build-up to the election, I presume, like me, you'll be really, really happy when it's all behind us. Because we're going to have to start talking about the 2028 campaign on Wednesday.
01:54:59
Speaker 6: Listen, that's absolutely right. I mean, that's the weird thing that I think people forget this election cycle is this race between John Husted and Sherrod Brown is a special election. And the winner just serves out the rest of J.D. Vance's initial term and has to run again in 2028. And then, of course, in 2028, presidential election year, many of us expect Vice President J.D. Vance, Ohio's own, to be running for POTUS in 2028. So, yeah, man, take a nap. Wednesday morning and by Wednesday afternoon, let's go.
01:55:35
Speaker 1: Hit the ground running. All right, let's start with the abortion topic. I sent you that article yesterday, and Maureen, who sent the article to me with a specific request, please pass this on to Jack Windsor in case he hasn't seen it. Maureen was just on the show. She called in from Florida, offered her comments on some other issues, but this one was on her radar, and I said, well, I'll talk to Jack about the abortion issue with Amy Acton right out of the gate. So she's listening. I'm listening. What's this all about, Jack Windsor?
01:56:01
Speaker 6: Yeah, so there's really two things here, and I've got to be careful saying what's accurate and what isn't. But at the end of the day, Acton was the Ohio Department of Health director appointed in February of 2019. On November 12th of 2019, ODH, under her leadership, issued a license to Women's Med Center in Kettering after a lengthy series of court battles that let it continue surgical abortion. So There was a stoppage and then there was a scrum in the court system. The Ohio Supreme Court weighed in and the Ohio Department of Health issued essentially a permit for, and I think it closed down and then reopened is how it went. And so many in the pro-life community look at that as Amy Acton working hard behind the scenes when everything was kind of in disarray to make sure that women could still have abortions. And by the way, she was also, gosh, what was she? She served as a community research and grants manager at the Columbus Foundation prior to serving as the director of the Ohio Department of Health and grants there, obviously, to many abortion, pro-abortion groups. But also, my understanding is there were grants that were administered to CARE Ohio, C-A-I-R That's the nefarious group we've talked about ad nauseum. I'm not saying Amy Acton personally approved those grants, but she was involved leading that grant team. And CARE, as many of your listeners know, was the unindicted Koch conspirator in the Holy Land case that uncovered millions and millions of dollars being funneled through these groups to Hamas terrorists. And CARE is a group that has endorsed in this election cycle, they've endorsed The attorney general candidate, John Kulowicz, and just concerning.
01:58:03
Speaker 4: Stuff, right?
01:58:03
Speaker 1: I guess I want to know, what capacity does CAIR have anything to do with the functioning of the government of the state of Ohio?
01:58:11
Speaker 6: Well, look, I think they posture themselves as like a pro-Palestinian type of organization.
01:58:17
Speaker 1: What does that have to do with the functioning of the government of the state of Ohio, Jack Winter?
01:58:21
Speaker 6: Thank you.
01:58:22
Speaker 1: Period.
01:58:23
Speaker 4: Thank you.
01:58:24
Speaker 6: It does not. It does not. So when Vivek Ramaswamy stands on stage and says, I want to put Ohio first, that should resonate with some people. But Amy Acton also has the endorsement of people like State Representative Ishmael Muhammad. He's the guy you'll remember who was on video back in, I think, late 2024 talking about how he's here to represent Somalians in the state. It's not Ohioans in his district, but Somalians. He's also the guy that is really under the microscope right now for buying an almost $ 600, 000 home. outside of his district and saying under oath that he signed his name to false statements in the mortgage application, the tax document, his financial disclosures, claims that he has a wife under Sharia. So these are the types of people that are backing Amy Act. And I think Ohioans are starting to wake up to that, but we only have four days, so they better wake up fast.
01:59:16
Speaker 1: Starting to wake up to it. And you and I have been talking about this for so long, Jack, and people don't wake up until the moment before the election and realize that just the awful state of affairs that we're facing here and the, and the consequences of this election and how overwhelmingly important it is. This is a presidential election weight election. I mean, we're an off year, but this is not feeling at all like an off year, Jack.
01:59:41
Speaker 6: It, well, first of all, it is not feeling that way and it should not because Amy Acton has never, I don't think she's ever held a job for four years. She wants to be governor of Ohio for four years. And if she's not able to be recorded, if she's not able to debate, if you've seen the video that came out just yesterday from Toledo, she's not going to govern.
02:00:04
Speaker 1: Someone asked me how drunk she was.
02:00:07
Speaker 5: I know.
02:00:07
Speaker 1: I'm not saying she was. That's the kind of thing. You just watch the video, and impairment comes to mind. I'm not saying it's accurate, but you draw your own conclusions. Here's my prediction, Jack Wins. Before we take a break, we get on to the media carrying the water for liberal candidates, plus the problems with the attorney general candidate, Kulowitz. I think she is the Manchurian candidate type person that when she gets in, she's got a documented record of quitting. She'll claim emotional exhaustion or some medical problem, and Pepper will become governor, lieutenant governor. Or if that doesn't happen.
02:00:41
Speaker 6: Or if that's the scenario, they keep her there as the front.
02:00:44
Speaker 4: The figurehead.
02:00:45
Speaker 6: What they did with Joe Biden. They just kind of auto-penned their way through.
02:00:47
Speaker 1: And Pepper will be behind pulling the strings the entire time. I think that's the obvious outcome. Don't go away more with Jack Windsor. 840 at 55KRC, the talk station, theohiopressnetwork.com. Jack Windsor, that's his webpage. And he joins the program every Friday here on the 55KRC Morning Show to talk to you about some topics. So putting Amy Acton behind us, but you're pivoting over to, well, pretty much Amy Acton, but all other left-wing candidates. It's really disturbing. I think For anybody who just rolled their eyes at the constant comments from Republicans, conservatives, the mainstream media is biased. I've been listening to that for 15 or 20 years, Jack, maybe even longer. This election cycle reveals it. It's as if they came out loud and said, we are in the bag for the Democrats. You don't even have to guess anymore. It's not a conspiracy theory, says the mainstream media. It's obvious. We're doing it on purpose.
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Speaker 6: So there's a lot here, and I'm going to start with what I know. Here's what I know. You and I talked a couple of months ago about a guy in Canfield, Ohio, who was arrested. And when that happened, the Acton campaign put out a press release almost immediately and said that an armed man lunged at Acton, two people were injured, and that is what the Associated Press, that is what all the news outlets in Ohio ran with, was the Acton narrative. Well, I looked at the law enforcement reports as quickly as I could. I tried to obtain information. And it's embarrassing for the press, or it should be, that this guy, I mean, the prosecutor will even tell you, held up his phone and said, Dr. Acton, I have a question. Didn't attack her. Two people were not injured. One news outlet, Brian, actually called it an assassination attempt. I want you to think about how inept and feckless you have to be to call that an assassination attempt. That's number one. I don't want to talk about the Donna Arthur ad and the merits of it or what was true, what wasn't. What I do want to talk about is I've done some digging into who actually requested records from the law enforcement authorities from the court system. And what I'm starting to see is that the press did it again. Once the ad hit, the Acton campaign had a long time ago known that this might be a risk. So the operatives gathered some information and hand-selected what they wanted to go out to the press, assembled it probably with a narrative, sent it to the press, and the press did the same thing again. They started publishing what the Acton campaign handed to them. Some of them, I called them in the act saying, court records that we obtained. I went back and said, show me who requested the records and when, and those outlets did not request records. They took the information from the acting campaign and they parroted it. That's number one. I can tell you about two or three other things that bother me, but what the hell are we doing as a free press if all we're going to do is take press release information and pretend that we're actually doing journalistic investigative work before we publish it because it's not happening.
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Speaker 1: Well, I think they all just generally consider themselves, they're not journalists with some measure of journalistic standards, which is objective reporting of the facts, leaving the general public to draw its conclusions, politically or otherwise. But they have become basically a collective of online bloggers commenting randomly about their own mindset on certain things, or obviously twisting the truth to a person's political advantage. And that's exactly what happens. You know, I'm thinking about, you're accusing someone of attempted assassination, and this is not a public figure they're accusing. This is a regular run-of-the-mill person merely trying to ask a question. I think you're entering the realm of slander on that. Maybe he might have a legal action against someone who would accuse him of that. Because, I mean, we know who it is. He's on video. They have him. It was all documented.
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Speaker 6: It was all documented. And my understanding is I have to be careful here.
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Speaker 1: Reliable if it's written.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's scuttlebutt. But here's what we are also starting to understand. The prosecutor went forward and started, you know, prosecuting, assembling and prosecuting the case. And the Acton campaign ghosted him. Basically, it was like we put the press release out. We got what we wanted out of here. We're going to go over here and do something else. I want to talk about this. Let's cut through the noise. Amy Acton was health director in 2020. Masks do not work. Six feet of social distance was made up. The vaccine does not stop the spread. You can talk about its efficacy, but that was her area of expertise. She lasted less than 100 days. The Washington Examiner published an article, and I don't know if you caught this the first time that you read it, Brian, but Amy Acton, prior to COVID, had to deliver a budget proposal for the Ohio Department of Health. The language was written for her. to go ahead and testify before the Ohio General Assembly. She broke down in the bathroom crying, saying she couldn't do that. That was before COVID. And then, of course, once COVID hit, you know, we've heard that she was balled up on the floor in the fetal position, unable to effectively operate in that position. More than one time, Governor Mike DeWine said, well, Amy, what do you think about that? Amy, Amy, she wasn't there. This is not rocket science. This woman in her area of expertise failed. Vivek Ramaswamy is a successful man who has succeeded at almost everything he's ever done. I don't get the Republican Party who is apoplectic about him getting to get over themselves. For a decade, they screamed about somebody who wasn't a rhino. You have a billionaire who's independently wealthy, does not have to be beholden to the lobby and donor class, and has talked about bold reforms with a plan, with a plan, more than any governor I've seen in my history. And Republicans seem to be dithering. We better wake up.
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Speaker 1: Without question, Jack. That incenses me more than anything else. Don't go away. One more with Jack Windsor from the Iowa Press Network. Be right back. 55KRC. 849 on a Friday. Hope you have some great plans for this weekend. You'll get a lot of trick-or-treaters over your place. One more segment here with Jack Windsor from the Iowa Press Network. Got more details about the AG candidate Kulowitz. What's going on with this one, Jack?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, so, you know, Kulowicz is part of that camp that wants you to believe that the rich people ought to pay their fair share. Turns out he's an attorney and a pretty darn good one, but an attorney who represented wealthy people and insurance companies and big companies and made a mint. But he wrote a book several years ago that I have my hands on. I'm going to make sure I dive into it over the weekend a little bit more. But this guy's a communist. He really likes the communist movement. He loves socialism. And he was proud back in May when he got an endorsement from CAIR, C-A-I-R, the group that we've already talked about. That was the unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land case that involved the financing of Hamas, the terrorist group. And, you know, just an all shucks kind of nice guy persona, but full on Democrat socialist of America. And by the way, that's, I guess the thing I want many people to understand. This is not my grandpa's Democrat party. My grandpa was a union president. He was a JFK guy. Uh, Amy Acton, Sherrod Brown, John Kulowicz are more like Zoran Mamdani and Abdul El-Sayed than they are like JFK or FDR. So if there are Democrats who are just legacy voters for Democrats, uh, And I don't know how many of them listen to this show, but you might want to take a closer look at Sherrod Brown, Amy Acton, John Kulowicz, and some of the other Democrats in this race because they are full-on rubber stampers for the Democrat Socialists of America.
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Speaker 1: Well, I guess I can say fortunately, although my grandfather's passing was a sad event, fortunately he's not around to see what his party has become. And going back to your point, JFK would be considered a Republican. He wanted lower taxes, recognizing that lower taxes bring more money into government. What you spend it on make them Democrat. But still, he at least understood that concept. But my grandfather became a Democrat when FDR hired him to work on the CCC. You know, like the WPA, the CCC. They gave him a job at like a young age when the economy was tanked and nobody had the jobs. It was Great Depression time. And that made him a Democrat his entire life. He said that out loud to me once because he was dismayed that I was a Republican. So they bought political loyalty with that job. So, and, and then if he was alive today, he probably would still be voting Democrat, you know, and this is the reality of it. It's, I don't know what's in people's genetics or DNA that they don't pay attention to what they're actually doing with their vote. I mean, this, the guy doing legal work for these evil corporations that he wants to take all of their money, they wouldn't exist to pay him a salary if, if he got his way. I mean, it's just, it's insanity. It's insanity.
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Speaker 6: I thought billionaires were bad, right?
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Speaker 1: I know.
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Speaker 6: Look, we get the same thing with David Pepper. David Pepper's kvetching about Vivek Ramaswamy being on an airplane. I'm sorry, David. You mean to tell me that your dad, when he was CEO and chairman at Procter & Gamble, was never on a private plane? He never made a million dollars a year? You're a trust fund, baby. You were born on third base, and you're out here complaining about accomplishment. That's what really gets me, Brian.
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
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Speaker 6: I'm going to have one last rant.
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Speaker 1: You're allowed.
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Speaker 6: I want my kids to grow up in a state where people praise success, where they don't give you the lie that successful people stepped on the backs of people up the ladder to get there. I want people who go, I want people to have more power and more of their own money. And I want to create an environment where we actually help young people unlock the talent that God gave them to achieve their best. When you look at me and tell me that successful people are bad, there's a stink on you that I'm never going to not smell again. I don't get it. I can't vote for somebody like that.
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Speaker 1: A perception of ignorance that I will never forget. Wait a second. You just said that and you believe that? Okay. I know what a useful idiot is then. You're one of them.
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Speaker 6: That's right.
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Speaker 1: That's it. That's all. And look yourself in the mirror and say, okay, I guess I'm a useful idiot. I am being used to support principles that make no bloody sense and will be the ruin of America. That's me looking at myself in the mirror if you're that type of person. Okay, fine. This is the world we live in. This is why the next Tuesday is so damn important, Jack Windsor. And honestly, I'm worried. I really am.
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Speaker 6: Are you? Listen, I think, you know, and I don't want to get in the weeds. I analyze. I overanalyze. I think about polls and internal stuff, and I read it. If Republicans show up, they win. I talked to Vivek last weekend. I said, where are you at? And he said, if Christians and conservatives come out and vote, we win this thing. I still believe that. And look, if you look at some of the early voting returns, particularly in Cincinnati, Congressional District 1, I don't think that the support there for Sherrod and Amy is where it needs to be. I think the older voter population is turning out. I think that's good on average for Republicans, younger voters that tend to go toward Amy Acton and Sherrod Brown are not showing up yet. They might show up on Election Day. But I think looking at some of these early voting totals and understanding that Republicans are starting to mail in More so, though, they're showing up early. If Republicans can go to the polls at a larger clip than Democrats on Tuesday, I think we win. And when I say we, I'm not even saying I'm a Republican. I'm talking about the people who are republic, who are sane, who think that communism and socialism are a cautionary tale that have killed millions of people over the years.
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Speaker 1: Without question. And I share your qualification on that. I am a registered Republican, but I view the Republican Party as the only mechanism for me to achieve my ultimately little-L libertarian goals. That's the big tent that the Republican Party will allow me in. They won't allow folks from the Klan in, thank God. But, you know, if you're over on the DSA side, they'll take any commie or crazy in their big tent because we're a big tent. Okay, grind. You can have them, but you're going to ruin America going down that road. Jack Windsor, TheOhioPressNetwork.com. Thanks, man. I appreciate the note of optimism there toward the end, and I hope my listeners heed that and hold your nose if you have to to vote for Vivek Ramosomi. I don't understand why that has to be a thing. Just do it, for God's sake, please. Take care, Jack. We'll do this next Friday, and hopefully we'll be able to go over some positive news. Fingers crossed, man.
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Speaker 6: We're going to still be celebrating. God bless you. Have a good weekend.
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Speaker 1: And you, sir. Folks, if you didn't get a chance to listen live, tech
Speaker 1: There's a woo-hoo, and, well, that song's maybe a little prophetic. Anybody listen to Glenn Beck yesterday? Hey, happy Friday. Try to have one anyway. Halloween Eve. Got anything going on on Halloween? Eh, we got a lot going on on the 55KRC Morning Show. Brian Thomas right here. Glad to see Joe Strecker and the lineup. Joe Strecker, executive producer, has got a great lineup, as always. Tech Friday with Dave Hatter. Just amazing to have Dave around. We are so blessed to have him, especially with, well, $ 6 billion in crypto hack. DHS hacked again. Anyway, a lot to unpackage. So today, how secure are U.S. elections? Voting machine risks. Topic number one with Tech Friday's Dave Hatter coming up at 6.30. Latest MapQuest update. Actually showing you where the automatic license plate readers are.
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Speaker 1: World's filled with information. You can post it. Hey, there's a license plate reader. Let me just post that information online. Yeah, okay. Waymo, robo-taxi operators are, well, dealing with some extra scrutiny because emergency response failures. In studio for a full hour. Welcome back. Man, we should all be blessed to have around, or thank the world, or thank the God that we have around us. Citizen watchdog Todd Zinser. We have him on the financial side. Former Inspector General for the United States of America is in Inspector General for all of us using his retirement time to look out for the shenanigans going on in downtown Cincinnati. We'll start off with the one about the, did you hear the one about the $ 353, 000 lawsuit against the city? Just one of multiple topics. Go over with Todd Zinser. You should follow him on Facebook. Just look for Citizen Watchdog and listen to his podcast. The man's brilliant. Really brilliant. Vivek Ramaswamy. He will be back today. He was on yesterday. He's on today. Obviously, we're Wrapping up the moments in time before the election next Tuesday. One more opportunity for Mr. Ramaswamy to convince you why he's infinitely better in all ways than Amy Acton. Anybody worried about next Tuesday? Jack Windsor, How Press Network. Talk about the media carrying the water for liberal candidates. Yes, over and over again. I was banging the drum on that one yesterday. Democratic AG candidate Kulowitz and his indiscretions. Ooh, that should be interesting.
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Speaker 1: He'll have a comment or two about getting out and vote. Jack Windsor, 830. And you, anytime you want to call, as long as there's not a guest around, like beginning at 630 and thereafter, you can call up until that moment in time.
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Speaker 1: Bound 550 on your AT & T phones. Where to start? Anyway. I was kind of, I listen, I will be honest with you, and although I remind people at the end of the program every day, stick around because Glenn Beck's coming up, I do not normally listen to that show. I just want to sort of decompress after the morning show. I typically, I listen to music on the way home, and I'll go home and pull my laptop out like almost every day and try to find some old movie that's got nothing to do with gloom and doom or problems in the world, death and dismemberment. No, I just want to watch an old movie, like a film noir. So I'm often dealing with death, but, you know, I want to just relax. So there's my excuse for not listening to Glenn Beck. But for some reason, I had him on yesterday. And this prepare for impact, I got most of it. It was just weird because the timing almost allowed me to hear everything he had to say. And he, like I did earlier in the week, so this is before Glenn Beck's pronouncements on this, saw a pattern developing. We had the European Union, or rather the United Kingdom, And it's directive to its citizen, the Be Ready campaign, urging households to stockpile three days of non-perishable food, water, medicine, flashlights, and physical cash. The UK. And then the other one that I tied to the UK announcement because the timing was surprisingly, you know, coincidental maybe, maybe intentional. It seems to be more or less than coincidence after you hear Beck, but this Fortress initiative by the United States military, which will allow U.S. military bases to live independently off the grid with their own power generation and their own supplies for a full 90 days. 90 days. So the U.S. military is getting prepared for something, or at least maybe just give them props and credit for planning ahead. You know, with hindsight, we usually go, well, how in the hell didn't our elected officials realize that this could be a major problem? Well, it could be that. But the United Kingdom issuing that warning and then a bunch of other European countries also urging their citizens to do the same thing. This prepare for impact, the stowing away of several days worth of supplies that allow you to deal without any supermarkets, with no water, perhaps having no electricity, you know. And it's scary when you hear about it. And Glenn Beck did this back in 2007. And he said it. He goes, I remember I said the same thing back in 2007. And I remember my wife at that time was saying, God, it's just all gloom and doom. The world's coming to an end. Glenn Beck is just on this tear. And I was just basically tired of listening to it. I understand that reaction as well. And I kind of had the same reaction yesterday. Is this him just ginning up concern in advance of the election? Or is he legitimately concerned? You can draw your own conclusions. It seemed to me he was, and he said multiple times, take this for what it's worth. You know, you don't have to listen to me. You can think that I'm a nutcase. This is my recitation or boiled down version of it. But he was acknowledging that there would be critics and skeptics out there in connection with what he was telling people. But when you hear about all these different countries, not simultaneously, but within a close period of time, issuing the same sort of, in his boiled down explanation, prepare for impact warnings, kind of, should, I guess, raise some concern in your mind. At least you've got to pay attention a little bit to it, and then back up from that and think, wait a second. If you look at our federal government's websites, the preparedness, they have been saying this for years and years and years, the same information, three days. And Bobby calls all the time here on the program, 72 hours, 72 hours, and the point that Glenn Beck made tying all that together, which is, listen, if the government can't get the information crisis managed within 72 hours, that's when the wheels start falling off. And he pointed to like Hurricane Katrina, for example, you know, for a few days there, yeah, it was terrible. It was tragic. And we were getting reports of death and, you know, the water issues and flooding and people stuck and all that. But after that, that's when the looting starts. That's when people start going crazy. That's when people who didn't have sufficient food for several days realize that Man, there ain't nothing else out there. Without that supply, without those three days' worth of provisions that will keep you through for that, you're going to be really hungry by day three. If you don't have any water flowing, no fresh water, potable water, you might be a little bit thirsty. I realize that water is probably the least of most people's concerns. Somewhere there is water, whether it's polluted or not. But, you know, I mean, it's that 72-hour window. And so here I am. After I heard this, you know, you go home and kind of take inventory of what you've got. I did. Do I have everything that's necessary for the family to get through this period of time? It may be a little bit longer because, of course, three days is one thing based upon the statistical analogy or statistical belief that, you know, after 72 hours of the government that doesn't have things sewed up, the wheels are going to fall off. But what happens beyond that? So, you know, like the government here planning for 90 days of independence on the military bases. That's three months. Those who didn't do the math, maybe it's better to contemplate three months worth of supplies. And then when you come up with that idea, like, oh, that sounds logical and reasonable. How many people can do that? Therein lies the biggest challenge. I think about people who live in small apartments. Where are they going to stockpile? I presume that someone could manage a little corner of their apartment and stockpile three days' worth of supplies, but longer period of time? What about the economic challenges? If you don't have any money or you're living on very close margins, can you afford to go out and buy extra? And that's where Glenn Beck pointed. I said, listen, you don't have to rush to do this. It's not like you're going to run out and immediately acquire three days' or months' worth of provisions, do it now. Just start on the weekend. Buy a thing or two things. Set it aside. Do it again next week and the following week. So gradually over time, like buying Christmas gifts, you'll have accumulated enough stuff to get you through whatever hits the fan whenever it happens to hit. Now, he didn't guess if this was going to happen soon. He didn't say no, but the point was you got to remain calm regardless of But, you know, the journey of a thousand miles begins with a step. If you're standing here thinking there's no way I'll ever be able to get that quantity of supplies together in short order, well, start now, get a little bit, and continue the path and the process until you are adequately supplied, at least in your own mind, to deal with any challenges you might face. Now, I hope, you know, I I hated seeing all these warnings come out at one time. Again, you, you, it's not difficult to say, can this be coincidence? Can this be coincidence? Maybe, but throwing all conspiracy theories out the window and all concerns like, is this real? Do we really face this existential threat that might lead us to have to be supplied for three days or even longer? Some societal collapse that the government can't manage, whatever. Um, Wipe that away and then ask yourself in the concept or in the thought that I have always carried with me since Boy Scouts, you know, be prepared is smart advice. And the fool is the one who's not looking out for his or her own best interest, as I love to repeat oftentimes on here in the morning show. So I think it's sound advice regardless of whether you think the world's falling apart or whether you think the world is in perfect shape. The world is an imperfect place. Remember Breakfast Club? Screws fall out. So alarmist, perhaps, his advice? Yeah. Maybe not. But isn't it a smart thing to at least consider the idea of having enough around to keep yourself alive for a few days? And I think the answer to that is absolutely yes. 517, 55 KRC Talk Station. Your reaction, maybe you heard him say it. What do you think about that? I'd love to hear from you. It's a Friday anyway. Let's have some fun until we get to Tech Friday. 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK, pound 550 on AT & T phones. Oh, look, the Ebola warning. Tie that to it. I heard media aviation expert Jay Ratliff here in a moment. Don't go away.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Don. It is 521 on a Friday. They still do damage night on Halloween Friday for Halloween. Ah, yes. I mentioned this story yesterday about my dad, and so we'd get the pumpkin smashed on Damage Night the night before Halloween. Some call it Devil's Night. Anyway, it was the thing to do, go out and commit acts of vandalism, and my dad got pins, and he stuck them through the inside of the jack-o'-lantern to the outside, so really at night you couldn't see it. And I mentioned specifically Tom Murray. Good morning, Tom. If you're out there, his brother Steve is listening. Yep, it worked. Tom grabbed the pumpkin with the pins in it. He got stabbed with them. Good morning, Steve. The Murray brothers. Fond memories of growing up in my neighborhood as I was a child. I just can't work. And no, I'm not recommending you do that. I don't know if it's actionable, but... Cat Covey Briney from my lawyer friends out there. That would involve deadly force. Pins are not deadly force. Anyway, let's pivot over to maybe the concern Beck was worried about, but the CDC is clearly worried about it. Ebola-related travel requirements. Going back to iHeartMedia aviation expert Jay Ratliff.
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Speaker 4: They're worried.
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Speaker 1: Major U.S. international airline groups pushing back against this new Ebola travel-related requirement that literally will affect millions of people flying. Beginning November 3rd, all passengers on international flights into the United States are going to have to confirm that they have not been in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the prior 21 days. This announcement from the CDC. It applies literally to everyone. coming into or connecting through the United States of America. It doesn't matter whether or not you're in a citizen. It's American citizen green card holders, the entire crew of the airline. Every single one is going to have to complete a paper or digital statement before boarding, even if they've never visited the Democratic Republic of Congo. Now, there's several airline groups out there that go, well, hang on a second. How can we possibly manage this? The Airlines for America group represents major carriers. including all the big ones that might immediately come to your mind, asking the CDC to reconsider and give it, hey, give us more time. Group says, hey, we support your public health goal, but these new requirements are way too broad and they're being introduced too quickly. They asked the government for, specifically for a more proportionate and measured response, focus more closely on affected areas and travelers who've actually been there recently. Fox News interviewed a guy named Dr. Tyler Evans, described as an actual infectious disease physician, unlike gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton, whose only research paper involved reviewing other research papers on horse injuries. This person's an actual infectious disease physician. So someone that's a little more in the know than Amy Lockdown Acton. See how I did that? He said, you know, we have to ensure that this does not cross borders. This is the most highly infectious disease, I guess, on the planet. They're asking the CDC to exempt airline crew members, arguing that existing aviation documents already contain information about crews and their travel. So we've got that covered. U.S. military passengers, hey, you don't have to do them either because the U.S. military keeps track of where these guys are all the time. So little carve-outs are being requested, but overall the requirement is there. CDC said the purpose is intended to reduce the risk of Ebola entering the United States through air travel. 21-day period, I guess, is the incubation period, the maximum amount of time it takes for symptoms to appear. And Dr. Evans, speaking of the infectious nature of Ebola, the reality is, he said, Ebola is one of the most infectious and has one of the highest fatality rates of all infectious diseases. So as for the affidavit, since we have major concerns going on about voting and whether or not you need to really prove that you are a legitimate U.S. citizen to vote in elections, see how I did that? Travelers that knowingly provide false information, in other words, lie on the affidavit that you have to fill out, could face prosecution and fines. Nothing to see here. Move on with your day. 525-55-KRC-D Talk Station. Hey, local story's coming up.
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Speaker 1: A man found shot in the arm in North Avondale. That happened this morning, didn't it, Joe? Nothing to see there either. Don't go away. Be right back.
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Speaker 1: Your AT & T phone. Unless you're a carryover from the overnight show. No, there is no such thing as lizard people, and werewolves are not real. Seriously, Joe?
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Speaker 1: No, there are no werewolves in real life. There's also no vampires. They just don't exist. And there are no Bigfeet. Bigfoot. Where do the Bigfeet go to die? How come nobody's ever found a Bigfoot carcass? Do they live forever? They're not real. Says, hey, police said they're investigating a shooting in North Avondale. It happened this morning, 2 o'clock or 2.15 in the morning. Man found with a gunshot wound in one of his arms taken to UC Medical Center. He is expected to recover. Police said they're working to find out what led to the shooting. No mention about a suspect. No mention about motives. It just was in the 900 block at Dana Avenue this morning. Starting off the weekend right. Bobby is over and under. Three and a half for violent crime in the city of Cincinnati. There's one. Adams County. Deputy and suspect shot last night. Adams County Sheriff Kenny Dick reported, said the deputies were called to Hope Lane in West Union about 9.30 yesterday for a report of a mental health-related incident. Investigators say that when deputies got to the scene, the suspect opened fire. Deputies fired back. Both the deputy and the suspect were shot, both taken to UC Medical Center. Extended injuries not known at the time of reporting, and thanks to Fox 19 for passing along the information. Bureau of Criminal Investigation is investigating. So if you have any information, please let the authorities know. Oh, wow. Prior to the third day of testimony, man standing trial and charges related to last year's beat down brawl pleaded guilty. Patrick Rosemont, 39 years old, pleaded guilty yesterday in Hamilton County Common Police charge to charges of felonious assault, misdemeanor assault, and aggravated rioting. Sentencing, December 9th. Get your popcorn out. He faces up to 31 1⁄2 years in prison. Testimony started October 27th. Four witnesses testified about being attacked 3 o'clock in the morning, July 26, 2025, near 4th and Elm. I'm sure you saw the video. Holly, the woman who got almost murdered, suffered a traumatic brain injury. She testified to that. She says it impacted her memories since then. and may have irreparable damage done.
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Speaker 4: Why?
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Speaker 1: Because she was trying to lend some help to a fellow victim of the beatdown. Good Samaritan ends up getting almost killed. Prosecutors had previously played the video that they said showed Rosemond striking her in the face, knocking her unconscious. The video also shows Rosemond attacking a guy who had been shoved to the street, stomping on him and kicking him. During testimony, a detective said that Rosemond was celebrating after the beatdown. Look what I did. Yay. Now, prosecutors pointed out Rosemond did not start the brawl. Instead, he just jumped right on into it. He's the sixth person to plead guilty in connection with the brawl. This is the brawl where we had elected officials saying a white man needs to be charged. And ultimately, the Russians was charged for nothing at all. And there was an argument about it. You must charge a white guy. I mean, I cannot believe the level of racism involved in this particular incident. Anyway, it's all there on video. Look, we got guilty pleas from every single person that was involved with it. No defense there. Videos taken from surveillance cameras, as well as every human being standing around with a cell phone capturing it. He turned down a plea deal this Roseman guy did just a couple days ago after the judge told him that she likely would not follow the recommended four-year prison sentence that came along with a plea agreement. Well, pleading guilty opens him up to facing 31 1⁄2 years in prison. Okie doke. Man convicted of killing Hamilton County deputy pleaded guilty Wednesday to three counts of assault. sentenced to 18 months after an altercation with corrections officers. Huh, does this name sound familiar? Rodney Hinton. Of course, being held in Claremont County, awaiting the trial on the death of Hamilton County Deputy Larry Henderson, who he killed in May of 2025. Apparently, in December, officer ordered Hinton a towel. at the Claremont County Jail before Hinton told the officers to get the F-word off of me, arguing he couldn't walk in jail slippers, then threw a punch and kicked while being handcuffed. The officer suffered minor injuries. That was the second incident. That's why he's just got 18 months for that one. Back in Hamilton County Court, November 19th, to be sentenced on charges of murder, reckless homicide, and felonious assault for killing Deputy Henderson. So you're guaranteed 18 months, question marks swirling about the trial involving Deputy Henderson's death because of the jury coming down with a verdict that said he didn't have intent to kill and while at the same time saying he had intent to kill. Reckless homicide can't be reconciled with murder, so you can expect a new trial on that one. But at least you got him in for 18 months guaranteed. It has not yet been completely resolved. 535, 55 K or C, the talk station stack.
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Speaker 6: Can you play John the Fisherman?
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Speaker 1: Oh, it's Friday. It's 540. The answer is yes. Good morning, Jeff, who's always excited about hearing a little Primus. And the stack is stupid, which is coming up next.
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Speaker 7: 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK.
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Speaker 1: I guess he's not listening to me, Joe. I'm not going to take calls about werewolves. I'm serious. You're on hold, man. I'm talking about you. I'm not taking the call. Joe's red flagged you. Joe Sarkar is the executive producer. He is in charge of call screening. And while I do have basically kind of an open format show, I try to keep it on matters political, local, or otherwise. And since I don't believe in werewolves... Oh, I'm glad I can laugh. Idiots doing idiot things because they're idiots. I don't feel like I've laughed genuinely for some time, so I'm rather enjoying this feeling of sort of happiness on a Friday. Memphis, Tennessee. There's a new lawsuit. This is weird, but it's a stack of stupid story. Lawsuit filed just the other day claims former Memphis Shelby County School superintendent, her name, Dr. Marie Fegans. exposed herself to a staff member and then fired her. Staff member, Camelyn Turner, described as a special assistant to the aforementioned Marie Fegans, the superintendent. Lawsuit claims that Fegans exposed herself in August 24 at Fegans' apartment. Now, the plaintiff said she was called downstairs to listen to a conversation. When she got to the staircase, she looked down and saw this Fegans woman standing at the foot of the stairs completely naked. The following day, Fegans, well, told Turner that she would be transferred and paid less. In other words, stripped her of her position.
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Speaker 4: That ain't all.
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Speaker 1: Fegans allegedly exposed herself again in October and demanded Turner Come to her home and dress her.
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Speaker 2: What?
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Speaker 1: I know. She declined. That was when Fegans allegedly said, I don't know why you're acting like you haven't seen a naked woman before. Turner claims in the lawsuit she was forced to resign 11 days later. Lawsuit claims sexual harassment, sex discrimination, retaliation, and constructive discharge. She's asking for back pay and compensatory damages. Okay. We go to St. Francisville, Louisiana. A naked guy allegedly took a fire extinguisher from a St. Francisville church before entering a nearby home and touching a sleeping woman's forehead. Why are you doing that?
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Speaker 5: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: We're ever going to find out. Me, Police Chief Chris Green. Said the woman's boyfriend grabbed a gun after she woke up startled. Man still inside the home when the officer showed up. That guy? Heath Allen Brumfield, who's 49, he's from Vicksburg, Mississippi, now facing charges of simple burglary, simple battery, and unauthorized entry of an inhabited dwelling. A bad idea, most notably here in the state of Ohio where we have the castle doctrine, would be intruders.
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Speaker 4: Sorry.
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Speaker 1: It was 1.30 in the morning on October 20th. Police said surveillance footage shows Brumfield entering a church hall through an unlocked door, taking a fire extinguisher, and then walking to a nearby home on the same street. and walking through an unlocked door. Police said Brumfield still had the fire extinguisher, which had the church's information on it when the police took him into custody. I'm not letting go of this. Crean said a woman was with Brumfield that night, told officers he was not in his right mind. Her words, while traveling along the highway, Brumfield allegedly parked his truck across from the post office, walked away with the keys. Police said Brumfield was sent to Baton Rouge for medical evaluation. After authorities obtained a rest warrant, sheriff deputies arrested him as a fugitive. He was then returned to West Valenciana Parish. Jail records show he was arrested on the 26th of October. His bond was set at.
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Speaker 7: $ 72, 500.
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Speaker 1: Police are calling this an isolated incident. Corey, welcome to the morning show. Happy Friday to you.
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Speaker 2: Good morning.
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Speaker 7: Just real quick, the reason I haven't found a Bigfoot carcass is because they're interdimensional.
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Speaker 1: Are they hanging out with the lizard people? Is that how that works?
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Speaker 7: Possibly, possibly.
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Speaker 1: And apparently the werewolves. You're right, Joe. Go ahead.
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Speaker 7: Anyway, I know I mentioned it before. I'm driving in Northern Ohio right now again. I see the Sharon Brown billboards everywhere. Every billboard talks about the cost of living being much more expensive. groceries, gas, electricity, and they're hitting on everything that matters to most people that don't follow politics. And I have yet to see a Houston billboard or the Vakes billboard or anything like that. But I see Amy Acton, big Amy Acton signs everywhere. Uh, Sharon Brown stuff everywhere. And, and I think, I think we're in for a shock come Tuesday.
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Speaker 1: And, uh, I hear you, man. I can't account for it. And Joe Strecker just reminded me, you know, we've outreached the Houston campaign multiple times in deafening years. Nothing back. I just scratched my head over that. The opportunity to get the word out and maybe do a little, well, maybe policy positions articulated because I hear them, the Democrats, claiming that they're going to deal with inflation. Oh, my God, prices are out of control. Evil orange man did all this to you. But no, I mean. Does anybody have a recollection of a short period of time behind us when Joe Biden and gasoline prices were through the roof because of their policies? Has anybody asked Amy Acton or Democrats, Sherrod Brown, anybody what they plan on doing to reduce the price of gasoline? I mean, there's no way. And even Donald Trump campaigned on that. And I thought mistakenly so. And I said at the time, I will reduce the price or I will reduce inflation, the price of stuff on day one or words to that effect. Like what human being could possibly accomplish that? It's not possible for a sole human being to deal with all the economic realities that go into why gasoline is currently almost five bucks a gallon. Oh yeah, that's right.
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Speaker 3: War.
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Speaker 1: That has something to do with it. Global warming policies, refusing to drill, refusing to tap into natural resources that exist right beneath our own feet. That has something to do with it. Can one person unring the bell of all those policies while at the same time dealing with the economic realities that war creates? No. What can the This is something we're all going to have to collectively ride out together. I hate having to say that, but it is acknowledgement of fact and reality. That's why I keep saying, someday this war will get resolved and things will go back to what will be the future status quo. And thankfully, we have a president who is not against tapping into the resources that are widely available around us. Huh, there's a solution brought to you by Donald Trump. Yeah, evil orange man, but he's doing the right thing in terms of giving us reliable energy sources. 547, 55KRC, the talk station. Stack is stupid. We'll continue after these words.
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Speaker 4: This is 55KRC.
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Speaker 1: 551, 552, 55KRC, the talk station. Good morning, Tom, or if you happen to be. And Joe W. sent me an email saying I ruined his plans by giving him the information about the travel restrictions to the Democratic Republic. Congo. He was all set to go this weekend. Damn it. Anyway, back to the stack of stupid. Well, since we have Tech Friday's Dave Hatter coming up in the eight stories I got left, I'm only going to be able to get a couple of them. Here's one old. Let's see. We go to Bergen County, New Jersey. Man was arrested for creating artificial intelligence generated nude images of two adults and then post them on the Internet. Daniel G. Pfeiffer, 37 years old, you think he'd have something better to do, charged with creating and distributing deceptive visual media, invasion of privacy, cyber harassment, and harassment. That's a court of the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office who said that in May of this year, the police contacted them because there was an online social media post depicting two adult victims. It included their real names and photographs alongside artificial intelligence-generated deep fake nude images. Investigation ultimately identified this Pfeiffer guy as the person responsible. They searched his home and determined he had created and distributed the images. Arrested on similar charges in prior years, including allegedly posting nude photos of a woman he knew back in 2017. Taken to the Bergen County Jail and is awaiting his first appearance. Get something better to do with your world.
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Speaker 8: And your life.
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Speaker 1: Oh, hold that. You've got to add this guy to it because he deserves the award more than the guy I just read about. Both worthy of the Biggest Deuce in the Universe Award. We go to Gainesville, Florida, while Huai Quang Do, I didn't name him, 25 years old, charged with nine felonies after allegedly picking up a 12-year-old girl from Lake City, Minnesota. multiple times over eight months, bringing her to his apartment and having sex with her. 31 felonies have been added to his prior charges. August 4th, law enforcement became involved. An adult reported a victim missing. She was tracked to Doe's apartment. Both Doe and the victim reportedly found inside the apartment. Investigation found that this Doe guy met the victim, who was 12 at the time, on Tinder. Parents, what are your children doing online? They began regularly communicating by phone. December 25, Doe allegedly drove to Lake City, picked her up, brought her to his apartment in Gainesville, engaged in sexual intercourse with her. Victor reportedly said this happened at least five times most recently in August of this year when she was 13. Search warrants obtained. What do they find? He began communicating with the 12-year-old on timber in December 25. That girl... connected Doe with her friend, who was the victim in this case, created a group chat with all three of them. He learned the same day that both girls were in fact 12 years old. Doe and the victim exchanged text messages for eight hours on the first day before Doe allegedly drove to Lake City to meet her and her friend. Before leaving for Lake City, Doe reportedly asked the victim whether he should bring condoms, his word, and it was decided that, yeah, he should bring them. Investigators found that Doe sexually battered the victim using the condoms in the early morning of hours of December 15th. Doe acknowledged on numerous occasions that the victim was a child, that he knew she was in middle school and going through puberty, and that he could be arrested. Doe allegedly recorded himself having sex with the victim on most of the occasions when they were together and sent dozens of sexually explicit graphic text messages to the child. repeatedly urged her to send him videos in which she was nude and or touching herself in a sexual matter, and according to the text messages, the victim sometimes complied. Detective noted that Doe hurled cruel insults, that's from the report, at the victim almost daily, and the text messages exposed the depth of the manipulation, abuse, and exploitation of the child, i.e. the victim, by this creep. 87 images of the victim were classified as child porn found on his phone. More images that were described as lewd and lascivious in nature. Here are your charges. Two counts of kidnapping under the age of 13 for the purpose of committing sexual battery. Seven counts of sexual battery of a child between the ages of 12 and 18. Attempted lewd or lascivious battery. Seven counts of using child in a sexual performance. Four counts of attempting to use a child in a sexual performance. Three counts of traveling to meet a minor for unlawful sexual activity. one count of promoting sexual performance by a child, two counts of explicit communication with a minor, four counts of possession of a sexual performance by a child, and a partridge in a blank and pear tree. He is being held without bail, and I hope he's having a hell of a good time in prison.
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Speaker 4: Joe?
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Speaker 1: In all the galaxies, there's no bigger douche than you. You've reached the top, the pinnacle of douchedom. Good going, douche. Your dreams have come true. Enjoy yourself.
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Speaker 4: Why?
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Speaker 1: Quang Do. Stick around. Tech Friday with Dave Hatter coming up at 6.30. Plenty to do between now and then. I hope you can stick around. Be right back.
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Speaker 4: News. And what happens next?
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Speaker 1: It's 6.05 at 55KRCV Talk Station. Happy Friday. Happy Halloween Eve. My name is Brian Thomas, host of the 55KRCV Morning Show. Executive producer is Joe Strecker. You can get in touch with Joe. Call into the phone at the phone lines if you pass his call screening and aren't calling about werewolves which don't exist. He'll put you on the call screen, and I'll take your call. 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK, pound 550 on AT & T phones. Let us see what's going on here at the bottom of the hour. Tech Friday with Dave Hatter. And the first topic with Dave, and I think it'll be intriguing for my listening audience, always concerned about this, how secure are U.S. elections? Are voting machines at risk? That's a hell of a good topic as we fast approach Tuesday. Dear God, please get out and vote. Speaking of voting, Vivek Ramaswamy returns to the program this morning at 8.05. Sandwiched in between Tech Friday's Dave Hatter and Vivek Ramaswamy, citizen watchdog Todd Zins are in studio for an hour to talk about all of the crap going on in downtown Cincinnati, specifically starting out with the $ 353, 000 lawsuit that's been filed against the city of Cincinnati. After Vivek leaves the program, we'll talk with Jack Windsor and the Ohio Press Network. We'll talk about the media carrying the water for liberal candidates and Democratic Attorney General candidate Kulowitz and his indiscretions. I'm wildly curious what Jack has to say about that. That's why we get Jack at the end of the show on a Friday. Anyway, shenanigans. Democrats are just corrupt. And I know there's corrupt Republicans out there. We've had them here in the state of Ohio, haven't we? But this is absolutely shameless, and I'm sure you know which direction I'm going to go if you didn't get the memo on it. Alaska. Alaska. where they apparently aren't capable of winning. First off, they've got ranked voting in Alaska, which is where the shenanigans creep in. Be wary and worried about ranked voting. And here's why. The New York Times blew the lid off of this one. And previously, because of legal action initiated by the Department of Justice and others involving this, the liberals were all going, ah, this is lawfare, this is all lawfare, there's nothing to see here. But those people have now shut up because of the New York Times. Yes, the left-leaning New York Times published evidence that Democrats attempted to rig Alaska's ranked choice ballot with a decoy candidate in an effort to deny Republican Dan Sullivan re-election. Senator Dan Sullivan. What we know so far in this ranked choice voting state, you rank them in order of preference. Prior to the election filing deadline, a retired teacher named, oh, Dan Sullivan, hmm, filed to run against Senator Dan Sullivan. And That in and of itself says, well, there's something wrong here. Alaska Department of Elections board barred that decoy candidate. We'll call him decoy Dan for the sake of this discussion because that's what, and I'll give credit to Kim Strassel for breaking it all down as well from the Wall Street Journal, but decoy Dan. So Alaska Division of Elections said, no, no, no. He was, he filed with a purpose to confuse or mislead voters. That was the termination. So he's off decoy Dan. Filed as a Republican, had no ties to the GOP, had never, he had donated to liberal causes and to Senator Sullivan's challenger, Mary Paltola. He had used Democratic political consultant with links to Ms. Paltola or Paltola. He had asked to be listed as Dan S. Sullivan, surprisingly the same name as the senator, even though his own middle initial is J. He created a campaign logo that apparently looks almost identical to the incumbent, Dan Sullivan, the real Dan Sullivan. Alaska Supreme Court allowed this decoy, Dan, to move forward anyway. He got 2.5% of the primary vote in this ranked choice voting system, which was enough to allow him to get into the final four. So you literally are staring at a ballot that has two Dan Sullivans on it. Now, throughout all this, the Peltola campaign claimed, we had nothing to do with this. We don't know anything about it. However, Mrs. Peltola's former campaign manager, a woman... named Elisa Rios, who may find herself in an amazing amount of hot water considering the information that she told the New York Times, which specifically, she said, the campaign began in operation in 2025 to find another Alaskan named Dan Sullivan to coax them to run for the sole purpose of confusing voters. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the DSCC, provided a Democratic operative who, parenthetically, is from the state of Ohio. And this person specialized in, quote, secret ballot maneuvers, close quote. And he's the one that got this decoy Dan guy to run. According to the New York Times and all the information, they reviewed emails and texts and exchanges and conversations and talked to this Elisa Ross woman who filled in all the blanks, or at least steered them in the direction to find all the other information. This operative... reportedly told the campaign the decoy Dan said, quote, he hated Trump. And if it was going to help Mary, he liked Mary. He didn't have any interest in being a politician, but if this could help, he would go ahead and do it. Time story provides enough evidence that Democrats might have also recruited the fourth candidate on the ballot, Gerald Hikes, H-E-I-K-E-S. I don't know if I'm pronouncing that correct, but they were involved in that guy getting on the ballot as well. The Paltola campaign and the SCC both denied recruiting anybody. However, Ms. Rios spoke a tale to the contrary. And very detailed it was, all of her quotes. And then, interestingly enough, just before the Times story was posted, Ms. Rios told the Times... As discussed on our call earlier today, I am confirming that I have retracted all statements made regarding the 2026 Alaska Senate race in connection with any article you may or may not be writing. I am not willing to be a source for any story in any capacity. Now, the paper brought it up. The New York Times article even says that she told them she was retracting all of the detailed information that she previously gave, but they published it anyway because of their reporting standards. They're not obligated to honor a retraction. And they had all the other evidence which supported everything that Ms. Rios told them in the first place. So publish it, they did. Ken points out, it's clear Decoy Dan had no interest in actually attaining office. His campaign website contains two press releases, six blog posts, and was last updated six weeks ago. Facebook page features eight entries since August 18th primary, the last one on September 30th, one sharing a poem, none featuring a single idea, platform, or promise. He has spent no money on staff, advertising, media, travel, or campaign events. He listed expenses show $ 300 to the Alaska Election Division for a candidate brochure, $ 4, 000 to the Democratic consultant, and more than $ 20, 000 to a Washington law firm for, quote, compliance and legal fees, close quote. The Washington law firm, I think, also is implicated in this. She points out his only real fundraising is a link asking for money to cover his litigation costs. According to the Federal Election Commission records, he has had five itemized donors for the general election, contributing $ 5, 400, three of them living outside of Alaska. He's received zero contributions from any party committee, political action committee, or any other candidate. But, as she points out, and everyone can observe, he has served his purpose, getting his name on the final ballot in hope that it will confuse enough voters to tip the election to Ms. Peltola. She observes that some liberals and ranked-choice supporters are now claiming Alaska's system will guard against this chicanery, so long as supporters of the incumbent rank both Dan Sullivans, their vote will go to the senator in the end. Meaning, so long as every voter knows exactly how to defeat the game that was rigged by the Democrats, all will be A-OK. Well, yeah, right, she says. This will be Alaska's Republicans' third experience with ranked-choice voting, and they've been advised differently every single time. Two years ago, Republicans told to rank only one candidate for U.S. House election, a guy named Nick Begich. That made sense, as he was the only Republican. Now, Republicans are being told by Donald Trump and the Sullivan campaign to vote for multiple candidates. including the fraud guy, Decoy Dan. That's confusing, and why should voters cast a ballot for a deceptive candidate, though some will do so inadvertently? Especially since his name is the first on the ballot, apparently. Voters are also being purposely misled. A political action committee called the Center for Honest Voting sent a mailer this month to Republican and Independent households, screaming, one person, one vote, one choice. next to a graphic showing a filled-in first choice and crossed out additional choices. Quote, President Trump is calling out fraud, it claims. Trust your first choice. Only vote once. So in order to ensure that this decoy Dan doesn't have an impact in favor of the Democrats, you're going to have to vote for both of those candidates. Now here's the left. In addition to adding this decoy candidate on the election for the sole purpose of confusing Alaskans, they're also sending up follow-up literature that says, well, Do what we wanted you to do. Vote only for the single Dan Sullivan. That way you'll secure a victory because some people will in fact be confused. They can't win on their own platform. It's unclear what reach federal law has here, she observes, but it isn't unheard of for a court to disqualify a decoy candidate. And the U.S. Supreme Court has observed that a state has an interest, if not only a duty, to protect the integrity of its political process from frivolous or fraudulent candidacies. That's a quote from the Supreme Court. How much more evidence does the Alaska Supreme Court need that this decoy fits both definitions? That was a rhetorical question from, parenthetically, got that. Maybe the election results will be clear enough to make litigation unnecessary. But especially if Senate control ends up hinging on Alaska, the candidacy a decoy did can't be allowed to stand. This is a steal. This is a squeaker. The majority of the Senate is in the balance, and this is an overt effort by the Democrats to steal the Senate seat through subterfuge. Alaskans will do themselves and the nation a favor if they pass this year's ballot initiative, getting rid of ranked-choice voting, which we know now Democrats rigged to swing the Senate election.
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Speaker 4: Hey, man.
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Speaker 1: Kim Strassel, appreciate that, and thanks to the New York Times for actually doing this. You don't expect this kind of revelation from a left-wing paper like the New York Times. But I think that in and of itself speaks volumes to the controversy here, this insane effort to steal a Senate seat. Democrats, yep. 617. 622, the 55KRCD talk station. 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK, pound 550 on AT & T phones. David's excited for a Friday. I hope you are as well. Getting ready for Halloween and the single doorbell that will ring tomorrow evening. I think we got Butterfingers. And where's Maureen? Maureen, I thought you were going to call in. She's got a conspiracy she wants to talk about. Anyway, speaking of further efforts to rig the election and raising giant red flags about the election integrity, going back to Minnesota, which is just a state filled with massive corruption. Look who runs it. Minnesota Voter Outreach Director Melanie Hazlip. While on... Somali TV, that's a TV station. They've got a lot of them up there, so I guess they have their own public access station. Somali TV, quote, if you're already registered to vote, she said, you don't need to bring anything with you. You just show up to your early voting location, which is usually the county office or city hall. Minneapolis and bigger jurisdictions have a lot of extra places where you can go, like a lot of libraries or community centers. As long as you're registered to vote, you don't need to bring anything with you. If you're not registered to vote, you went on to stay, you still have options. If you have a Minnesota ID that is updated, that's all you need to bring with you. And if you don't have that, there's a list of documents on our website that you can find. You still have options to get registered the same day. Now, there is no argument that it is an accurate assessment of the law in Minnesota. The question is swirling. Well, wait a second. Why are you broadcasting that particular message on Somali TV? Many people suggest maybe the Somalis aren't citizens of the United States of America. And since apparently you can get the ID that she mentioned to the group, even if you're not a citizen... That means that non-citizens with a Minnesota ID can get registered to vote. Minnesota hands out the IDs to non-citizens with no citizenship marking. Vouching, and you can vouch for someone too. Seriously. Vouching lets one registered voter clear or vouch for up to eight others on an oath. Yes, I vouch that these eight people next to me are citizens of the United States of America. That's all it takes. Real-time proof? Well, not necessary. A statement of Fox News Digital speaking to the Minnesota Secretary of State's office said, It provides information and resources to Minnesota election laws to hundreds of nonpartisan community groups every year as part of our regular voter engagement efforts. There's no coincidence. This is Somali TV. It's no coincidence we have a whole lot of Somali immigrants here in the Minnesota area, but they need the information too. We also explained to them, and they all know, that you can get a Minnesota ID without proof of citizenship. And that you can have any random dude come in and qualify anybody and say they're citizens just by signing a piece of paper. And you know how difficult it is to prove a case of fraud? So they've greased the skids to allow very easy, very easy fraud. Just vouch for somebody. You could be lying through your teeth. You could be subject to prosecution. But some prosecutor is going to have to find out that there was a voucher in place. Go back and then figure out whether or not you knew that person was not a citizen when you vouched for them. The evidentiary chain is going to be difficult. The evidence is going to be difficult to get. And then fraud, again, a very difficult thing to prove. So if you fixed it up front, people in favor of the SAVE Act might note, like me, you could plug the holes here. You could require proof of citizenship, not just a voucher. There's a million things you could do to prevent fraud from happening, but you know what? They're not interested in that. Not a bit.
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Speaker 3: Huh.
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Speaker 1: 625. And in various other states, the only people who want to allow this to happen are Democrats. We know where the holes are that allow for voter fraud. They are easy to fix. They don't want to. I mean, that speaks volumes, doesn't it? Wake up. As I pivot over, earlier in the last hour, we were talking about Glenn Beck's doom and gloom pronouncement yesterday about being prepared. 51374. Oh, I'm sorry. It's Tech Friday. Dave Hatter. Get ready to get the phone number again. Default mode. IntrustIT.com is where we find Dave Hatter and his crew. They are the best in the business, court of business career for all your business computer needs, keeping you out of trouble, engaging in best practices, and unringing the bell of disaster when it hits. Dave Hatter, welcome back to the show, man. I certainly appreciate your company sponsoring this segment.
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Speaker 3: Always good to be here, Brian.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's jump right into it. An issue that comes up every election year is concerns about voting machines. Now, I get a pretty good sense here in Ohio that we don't have any hacking concerns. I've been advised that they're not hooked up to the internet and they can't be tampered with from outside forces. I'll have to take them at their word on this, but some states, well, are at risk. That's what this article says. Anyway, Dave, can you break it down?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so Security Week is a well-known, well-respected magazine in the the cybersecurity, information security space. Timing of this article is kind of unfortunate that they waited until a few days before the election to publish it. But it's a pretty deep dive into this, and I think it's really well done. You know, my concerns with all of this are always, Brian, and we see this sort of thing play out more and more every day, right? I don't think you and I have talked about the recent PHP vulnerability, but The point I've been making for a long time now, and one of the reasons why I got out of software engineering as a professional and into cybersecurity is because anything that has software in it is vulnerable. I've talked about Mikko Hoponen's book before. He's a very well-known, much smarter than me, cybersecurity professional, wrote a book called If It's Smart, It's Vulnerable. I know I've mentioned Bruce Schneier's book, also way smarter than me, internationally renowned cryptographer and cybersecurity guy, wrote a book called Click Here to Kill Everyone. And the whole idea is if it's got software in it, it's vulnerable. OK, period. That's the bottom line point they're making. I believe that's absolutely true. We've seen this PHP thing. We've talked about refrigerators being hacked and so forth. So this article is pretty long, but it goes into and here's the subhead. Unpatched voting machines, unverifiable QR coded ballots and AI driven influence campaigns leave U.S. elections short of secure. Now, that's their words, not mine. You know, they they make some very interesting points in here. There's some great quotes from some pretty well-known cybersecurity experts. They talk about the vote counting and the vote machines and how the machines are certified. But at the end of the day, they have software in them, Brian. And that's part of the problem. They talk about foreign nations trying to influence the vote. But the thing that I thought was the most interesting, again, because there's a bunch of different headlines. There's a whole section securing the integrity of the election, voting and counting. U.S. election voting machines are certified by the EAC. This certificate is designed to ensure their security and applies to both the voting and the counting machines. Shari Bargel, co-founder and CEO at Sequent, is doubtful. There is no direct correlation of the certification process to the four-year election cycle, and the certification can occur in any four years. Certification process may take a year, but probably less than two years. In a worst-case scenario, a voting machine whose certification began in the first year of the electoral cycle will have been sitting untouched for two years. Quote, now this is this guy.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw that. Yeah, go ahead. This is where you kick it out of the stadium here, right here.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
00:55:40
Speaker 3: Quote, that's pretty ridiculous. Unquote, comet sparkle. Quote, software needs to be updated and patched pretty much continuously. In the commercial world, we patch our systems every month. But for elections, we're trusting the software that hasn't been patched for two years or more. And the final analysis, the EAC certification is pretty much meaningless.
00:55:55
Speaker 4: Great.
00:55:55
Speaker 3: Unquote. Now, again, that's this guy. They talk about air gapping, keeping machines offline. They talk about voter village at DEFCON. You and I have talked about that over the years where DEFCON is a yearly cybersecurity conference. Thousands of people show up. They have villages where they take things apart and attack stuff and demonstrate stuff. And it says here, you know, machines are often taken to voting village, a hands-on election security lab run at DEFCON, gives researchers and election officials and the public legal access to real voting equipment so they can test the security. Some of these machines are still in use in the current election cycle when they're delivered to Voting Village. Then the same guy, quote, basically, this is Bargel, every voting machine that has been delivered to Voting Village has been successfully hacked once the hackers have hands-on access, unquote. So, I mean, this goes on and on. I'll post this in the notes. I've shared this with a bunch of people. I strongly encourage people to go read it for themselves. Again, they talk about election influence campaigns. They talk about the idea that printing something with a QR code where you can't read what it says is basically useless. I try to make this point every day, Brian. You can't look at a QR code and know what it does.
00:57:04
Speaker 4: True.
00:57:04
Speaker 3: I never, ever, ever scan QR codes out in public. I don't know what they do. I don't know how they got there. I don't know that some bad guy hasn't come along and put a new QR code over top of a legitimate QR code like in a parking lot. And this has happened, by the way. So, yeah, this is a really interesting article. I am going to send it to Secretary LaRose. I know him. I've done some cybersecurity seminars for his team, which, by the way, is a huge benefit to residents of Ohio that your secretary of state is out there providing free cybersecurity seminars for small businesses. I'm going to send it to the Kentucky secretary of state. I mean, again, sadly, now we're just days out from the election, but it's a very interesting look at this. And it's not political in any way. This article doesn't talk about politics at all. So, yeah, it's pretty useful in my mind. Frightening stuff. Although it would have been good to have it earlier.
00:58:01
Speaker 4: Yes.
00:58:02
Speaker 1: LinkedIn.com. Find Dave Hatter and LinkedIn.com. That's where you'll find the articles he speaks of here on the morning show. Don't go away. More to talk about, including the latest MapQuest update. 55KRC, the talk station. 41, 55KRC, the talk station. interestit.com where you find Dave Hatter and his crew for your business computer needs. Dave Hatter, I like this new feature on MapQuest, at least I think I do.
00:58:29
Speaker 3: Well, you know, Brian, I'm not a fan of flock cameras and I always like to remind people flock has become the coke of mass surveillance.
00:58:37
Speaker 4: Yeah.
00:58:38
Speaker 3: Or the Kleenex, right? They're not the only company that are building these sorts of mass surveillance capable cameras. They're just the ones that have gotten the most ire. They're the ones that are the most well-known. Seems like in many cases the public is waking up to this whole mass surveillance thing and there's been a huge backlash against this. I like to point out that Fort Wright does not and has never had flock cameras or anything like this and will not as long as I'm involved in it. But that said, if you.
00:59:10
Speaker 3: Don't use MapQuest. I have an Apple phone. I use the maps on my Apple phone. Nothing against MapQuest. But the native map app on my Apple phone does what I want it to do. And you know, Brian, I tell people all the time, the less apps you have, the better. So again, I have nothing against MapQuest. This is a useful feature, though, in my mind, and I think it just speaks to the backlash, although it's interesting to see one technology company essentially, let's just say, cast aspersions, for lack of a better word, for an FCC-compliant way to say this, on another tech company. So MapQuest and their latest update will now show you where the automated license plate reader cameras are. Think Flock. Again, other companies, Axon, there are other people doing this, but Flock is the most well-known So if you use the MapQuest app, you can turn this on and it will show you where the flock cameras are, wherever you are, so that you can avoid them. So if you're someone like me that does not want to be mass surveilled, it's just out minding your own business, trying to live your life, everyday, innocent, average citizen, and you don't want to be surveilled, you don't want to be tracked like this, this is a handy way to let you know how to avoid these things. And it's really interesting because in the screenshot they show in this one article, Now, again, I don't know, Brian, that this particular screenshot is legit or they just made it up for this news story. But assuming that's a real screenshot of a real place, there is an insane amount of flock cameras in that given location.
01:00:36
Speaker 1: And that was going to be my point. To your point, even if I want to avoid flock cameras, it may be impossible for me to get to point A to point B without having to go past one or multiple of them.
01:00:46
Speaker 3: I mean, looking at this map, again, assuming it's legit, it would be very difficult to avoid them. But at the very least, you could minimize your exposure to them if you had this.
01:00:59
Speaker 1: Maybe this is less of a practical feature and more of just the look at the size and scope of the Big Brother reality we live in these days.
01:01:06
Speaker 3: Well, it certainly has. points that out. And, you know, they say in the article, by turning on the surveillance layer in the map options, which I think is a funny way to describe it, by turning on the surveillance layer in the map options portion of the software, the map will reveal each location. And it does say in this article, the feature allows users to view the reported locations of license plate readers operated by providers, including Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions, and Axon. So I do appreciate the fact that this MapQuest update feature, speaking of software updates, like we talked about in the last Last segment, right? Software updates don't just fix vulnerabilities and bugs. They add capability. Or in our increasingly digital world, potentially take away functionality. Oh, well, you like that heated steering wheel in your car? Not for you unless you want to pay the subscription fee. Like those heated seats? Oh, your air conditioner? Yeah, that's going to cost extra because you're not paying the subscription fee. That's where we're headed with all of this. But, you know, again, back to the election machines and such, software updates are critical because they fix vulnerabilities, flaws that could be exploited. They fix bugs, things that make the software not function the way it's supposed to. But they also, also give you the capability to change the functionality. Today, I certified this, right? And then a software update comes out. Well, unless I recertify it, how can I know for sure there wasn't a change in the software that changed the behavior? In this case, adding new functionality that shows you these surveillance cameras. Hopefully what I'm saying is making sense to folks. Again, in the old days when something was mechanical, right, and you bought it, well, it couldn't just change itself overnight with a software update. It couldn't be your smart refrigerator that bricked itself and ruined the food or burned your house down due to a software update that caused it to overheat or something like things can now. And this is my point. but I keep trying to drive home to folks as we make everything digital, everything has software in it. Sometimes you get a benefit like, Hey, I can see these surveillance cameras in my MapQuest app. Now, sometimes things change and that they might tell you, they might not tell you, or it could be hackers that have broken into the source code of that and changed it without even the vendors knowledge that has happened many times, all well-documented Brian. So, uh, Yeah, that's where we're at.
01:03:30
Speaker 1: That's frightening stuff. Waymo, robo-taxi operators. There's some new scrutiny over station. 651-55-KRCD talk station. Dave Hatton, Interest IT, doing the Tech Friday. And, well, confirming for me more that I'm not going to do automated vehicles, Dave. I don't think we're there yet. And apparently the federal government's going to start getting involved because Waymo and other robo-taxi operators can't manage, I guess, first responder emergency vehicle interactions. What's going on with this one, Dave?
01:04:02
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's all kinds of wild stuff, but I want to take just one second to tell you two things, Brian. First off, since I know you're into this sort of thing personally, and I imagine a lot of your listeners are, I belong to the Kenton Game and Fish Association. Our annual fall turkey shoot is this Sunday.
01:04:17
Speaker 1: Oh, cool.
01:04:17
Speaker 8: Love it.
01:04:17
Speaker 3: If you or any of your listeners want to come on down, you know, it's open to the public. Begins at noon. Kenton Game and Fish. It's on Locust Pike. You can find it online and I'll be sharing it in my social media. And if you want to hear me talk your ear off about more of this stuff, you can meet me in person and I'll tell you the stuff we can't talk about on the radio, Brian. Then you'll really, really be sorry that you know me.
01:04:40
Speaker 1: No FCC oversight in offline communications. Anyway, let's get into this. We've got about three minutes to boil down the robo-taxi operator.
01:04:47
Speaker 4: All right.
01:04:48
Speaker 3: And then real quick, last thing. Queen City Con Cybersecurity Conference, November 13th through 15th. You all should come. That said, yeah, so Brian, you know me pretty well now after all the years we've been friends. I'm not riding in any autonomous cars anytime soon. Will these things eventually get to the point where they're trustworthy? Probably. But you have a vehicle with a bunch of sensors on it, right? Different types of sensors, cameras, LIDAR, all kinds of different sensors. They've been trained in real-world driving simulations. They've been trained in simulated driving situations. But you keep seeing issues with these things. Now, again, I know the experts and the people who are for this will tell me, oh, well, if you look at the stats over time, they're much better than human drivers. OK, that may be the case. All I know is we keep seeing examples where in real world situations where a reasonable human driver would make a different decision like, hey, let's not block the emergency vehicles. Hey, let's not drive into a construction zone. If you look, and I'll, again, post a bunch of these articles in the show notes that show you this, there are continuous problems with these kind of vehicles where they do things, they get stuck. In one instance, they went into a neighborhood and just jammed up the whole neighborhood. People run up and put an orange cone on the hood and the thing doesn't know what to do. Again, you can argue that in a perfect world, would a machine be better than a human driver?
01:06:17
Speaker 1: Maybe.
01:06:20
Speaker 3: For all the reasons I've stated in the last two segments, these things are full of software. They're connected to other systems. What happens when those systems go down? What happens if a sensor gets covered up? Again, I'm not against this per se. I think like so much of the technology that I rail on all the time, and you know I'm not an anti-technology guy, Brian. This is what I've done for more than 30 years. This stuff is moving way too fast. The incentives for you as a consumer from a security, both physical and cyber perspective, and your privacy are all wrong for you as a consumer. And we just keep putting more software in things, I've talked about some of the problems. In fact, one of the things I'm going to talk about at that cybersecurity conference and have talked about a lot recently, the abysmal state of software security. As a recovering software engineer that did it for 25 years, there is literally no bad practice I have not personally done because for most of my career, I was not focused on security or privacy. Those were not my objectives. I was not incentivized to care about that. I hope this makes sense to you. When I tell you I don't have a smart refrigerator or a smart coffee maker, that can be hacked online and used to burn my house down. These are the reasons why. I know how this process works. Trust me, they are not building this stuff with software in it that is designed for your security and your privacy. And that's why I'm not going to be writing any of these kinds of things soon. And I have a lot of concerns about them because even though it doesn't get a lot of press, it is documented out there. And there are many examples where these things don't work right. And yeah, it's not for me.
01:08:01
Speaker 1: Appreciate the message. I've heard it loud and clear, and I follow your directive, Dave, because I know you're right. Dave. 706 here, 50-Bot Care CD Talk Station. Very happy Friday to everybody, and a happy Halloween Eve. And I am pleased to look up and see in-studio Todd Zinser. We call him Citizen Watchdog. He was a former Inspector General for the United States of America, bringing his, well... Inspector General Talents to the Greater Cincinnati Area in Following the Shenanigans. And I'll call it Shenanigans, the Cincinnati City Council. And Todd, you've got a whole bunch of quite revealing topics to go over with my listening audience and me this morning. First off, let me start by thanking you for the work that you do because it is quite revealing, my friend. Welcome back to The Morning Show.
01:08:44
Speaker 4: Hi, Brian.
01:08:44
Speaker 5: Happy to be here again.
01:08:46
Speaker 1: I'm glad. And let's start with the Auditor of State letter.
01:08:49
Speaker 4: Right.
01:08:49
Speaker 5: Well, you know, I take a look at the financial statement audits for the city and the auditor of state has to sign off on the financial statement. statement audit. And so they send a cover letter when they do that. And this year there's a sentence in there that they inserted in the letter that said there's an ongoing investigation. But it doesn't say anything else. And so I went down to see— Well, wait a minute.
01:09:16
Speaker 1: It didn't certify the results? It didn't say they're not good enough or they are good enough? It just said there's an ongoing investigation?
01:09:24
Speaker 5: It never renders an opinion on the financial statements. But it didn't indicate that whatever investigation was going on had any kind of effect on the financial statements themselves. So it's just a notification to the city that his office has some type of investigation going on.
01:09:44
Speaker 1: Now, does the city know what he's talking about when he references this unspecific or nonspecific ongoing investigation?
01:09:50
Speaker 5: Well, it's very strange because I go down to city council and I tell them these things because I don't think they really do know. I don't think they really pay attention to what's going on with the administration.
01:10:03
Speaker 1: Well, there's a lot of reasons you could come to that conclusion, but go ahead as it relates to this one.
01:10:08
Speaker 5: So I said they should find out what it is, but I had submitted a records request. asking for documents about this.
01:10:18
Speaker 1: To the auditor?
01:10:19
Speaker 4: No.
01:10:20
Speaker 1: Oh, to the city.
01:10:21
Speaker 5: No, to both the auditor and the city. The city got back to me, and they don't know what I'm talking about.
01:10:29
Speaker 1: Did you attach the letter that mentions the ongoing investigation? It's like, no, that's what the letter says. What does this refer to? Right.
01:10:37
Speaker 5: So, no, and I haven't heard from the auditor of state either. I may not hear from him. I don't know.
01:10:42
Speaker 1: Does the auditor have an obligation to respond to something like that?
01:10:45
Speaker 5: Well, they should at least say they can't respond. They could at least say, well, it is an ongoing investigation and we can't.
01:10:53
Speaker 1: This is an elected office. What they should do and what they're obligated under the law to do are two different things. So is there an obligation for the auditor's office to respond to your request?
01:11:02
Speaker 5: They should respond, but I don't know that I would get any kind of.
01:11:06
Speaker 1: No details.
01:11:07
Speaker 5: No details, right.
01:11:07
Speaker 1: Just got your letter and whatever.
01:11:09
Speaker 4: Exactly.
01:11:11
Speaker 1: So this is just a swirling mystery.
01:11:13
Speaker 5: Right now it is, yeah.
01:11:15
Speaker 3: Huh.
01:11:16
Speaker 1: Hey, Joe, see if you can get the auditor on the phone. We'll figure this one out. Get Todd's records request taken care of. Okay. Right after Houston's campaign gets back with you? That hasn't happened.
01:11:30
Speaker 4: Either, Todd.
01:11:30
Speaker 5: I can't believe that.
01:11:31
Speaker 1: I sent a message to Josh Gert this morning. I said, what's the story? Joe has reached out every single time he gets a communication from Houston's campaigns. Respond to the person sending it out. Hey, we need to get John on the program. Talk about the campaign. Raise elevation of awareness. I mean, we've got a serious race here. Silence every single time. It really has me irked. I don't know if they're mad at me or something for something I've done. I can't imagine, but whatever.
01:11:55
Speaker 5: You never know.
01:11:56
Speaker 1: Not necessarily a well-oiled machine, which is not something we need to deal with right now.
01:12:00
Speaker 8: All right.
01:12:00
Speaker 1: So then this is just an open thing with no end in sight, and we're just all left with question marks.
01:12:06
Speaker 5: Right. We just learned of that in June.
01:12:10
Speaker 6: Hmm.
01:12:11
Speaker 5: And I just found out about it last week.
01:12:14
Speaker 3: All right.
01:12:14
Speaker 1: Well, I see we have an IRS penalty we need to talk about. But given that we only have a few more minutes in this segment, which topic is it easier to get through in a few moments? The hiring practices, the TIF issues, the... three reading rule, the change to leverage support fund. I mean, we've got railroad investments to talk about. Zinsser, come on, give me one.
01:12:32
Speaker 5: Let's talk about the suspending the three reading rule.
01:12:35
Speaker 1: Oh, this is insane. This is absolutely insane. Go ahead.
01:12:39
Speaker 5: You know, I've been calling this, I've started calling the city council a juggernaut because nothing gets in their way. Even rules like this, where they're supposed to do three readings on three separate days so that the public has an opportunity to to keep track of what's going on.
01:12:55
Speaker 1: So they have a proposed ordinance. It's going to change some aspect of how a city is managed to run or.
01:13:00
Speaker 5: Govern or whatever. That's right, or spend money or whatever.
01:13:02
Speaker 1: The law, the rules, require them to read it three separate times and, I guess, give the public advance notice of the reading so they know where they need to be to show.
01:13:11
Speaker 5: Up and find out. Well, it shows up on the agenda for the meetings, yes.
01:13:14
Speaker 1: Okay, so it is on the agenda. But that hasn't happened. Now, if they're obligated, Todd Zinser, if they're obligated to read any given change three times, that means that, of course, they normally do that, right?
01:13:30
Speaker 5: You would hope so, yes.
01:13:31
Speaker 1: Under what circumstances, Todd Zinsser, are they allowed to waive the three-reading rule?
01:13:37
Speaker 5: There's no criteria like that. It just gives the city council the authority to suspend the three readings, and they take a vote on that, and that's all it takes.
01:13:45
Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be an emergency. It doesn't have to be some sort of outlier ordinance. There's no carve-out.
01:13:50
Speaker 5: The emergency is another problem.
01:13:53
Speaker 1: Oh, okay. All right, pause. Keep emergency in the back of your mind, folks. So now, how many ordinances this calendar year so far, and how many times did they suspend the three-reading rule?
01:14:05
Speaker 5: Well, I went through the agendas from January to September this year. There were 438 ordinances enacted. And 100 percent of them suspended. They suspended the three readings rule.
01:14:22
Speaker 1: So the public never got notice.
01:14:24
Speaker 5: Well, they get notice on the agenda and the agenda comes out the day before the meeting. So if there's something that is really kind of problematic for the public, it's too late. They don't have time to really protest that.
01:14:40
Speaker 1: So city council is supposed to be a form of representative government, correct?
01:14:46
Speaker 5: That's what I hear.
01:14:47
Speaker 1: I'm baby-stepping here.
01:14:48
Speaker 5: I'm mansplaining. That's what I hear.
01:14:50
Speaker 1: I'm just making this so damn obvious to everybody. All the voters in the city of Cincinnati can be impacted by any one of these. They don't give advance notice, minimalist advance notice, and they never give the opportunity for three readings.
01:15:01
Speaker 3: Huh.
01:15:03
Speaker 1: Wow. What if the general public has a, let's say, a majority objection to it, like an overwhelming majority? Like the people in Hyde Park who got the zoning law changed. They came out in huge numbers. to actually propose a ballot initiative to unring the bell of what council did underneath their radar. This is the same kind of thing, isn't it?
01:15:20
Speaker 4: Yes.
01:15:20
Speaker 5: But what's interesting about the Hyde Park issue is that that zoning change was not passed as an emergency. And that gave the citizens the ability to mount a referendum against that.
01:15:37
Speaker 3: Yeah.
01:15:37
Speaker 1: And the council members, we went over this when that was happening, Todd. Council members were painfully aware of the objections from the Hyde Park residents. They had shown up during one of these readings and said, no, this is not a path you can take. That's a lesson they learned. We can't do this.
01:15:55
Speaker 5: That's right. The other analysis is how many emergency ordinances there are. They're not all. I don't have 100%. But I did the analysis one time. It's up in the 90%.
01:16:08
Speaker 1: Well, if they waive the three reading rule for just run-of-the-mill everyday ordinances, as you said, how does an emergency ordinance differ? What is it required to be labeled emergency and what does that cause by way of process change?
01:16:19
Speaker 5: Well, they come up with all these bogus reasons why it has to be an emergency. Basically, the reason is because we have to spend the money right away or we have to do it right away. And so what happens with an emergency ordinance is that the public has no opportunity to organize a referendum to decide challenge that ordinance. Wow. That's why I call him a juggernaut.
01:16:47
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, it's a legitimate conclusion, Todd. I'm just, you know, what bothers me so much about this is they just don't seem, or they obviously do not care what people think.
01:16:57
Speaker 5: Yeah, they have a, they're on a mission. I'm calling them uber-activists.
01:17:03
Speaker 1: Well, and just the sheer volume of ordinance changes, that sounds ridiculously large in one single, not even a full calendar year right now. Hundreds and hundreds of them.
01:17:13
Speaker 5: Yeah, the problem is I haven't really looked into it, but they have to pass an ordinance to do anything. So if they want to accept a $ 500 donation from somebody for the police, for example, they have to pass an ordinance to do that.
01:17:28
Speaker 1: Well, at least it has it on record.
01:17:29
Speaker 5: That's right.
01:17:30
Speaker 1: I guess it's a good thing. In the final analysis, it sounds like they're doing way too much, but if that is the reason there are so many of them, then I'm glad that's in place.
01:17:38
Speaker 5: Well, it's for anything. Anything that the city council wants to get done, they have to pass an ordinance to do it.
01:17:45
Speaker 1: And it sure helps when you don't let the public know about it.
01:17:48
Speaker 5: It sure makes things easier, that's for sure, for them.
01:17:50
Speaker 1: Coming up on 716, more with citizen watchdog Todd Zinser. You can find him on Facebook, Todd.
01:17:54
Speaker 4: At KRC, the talk station.
01:17:57
Speaker 1: 720-55-KCB Fox station. Happy Friday. Todd Zinser, citizen watchdog in studio, former inspector general, spending his retirement being an inspector general voluntarily for all of us in the greater Cincinnati area. And as we focus on what I call shenanigans in downtown Cincinnati. So clearly they don't like to engage in the representative government process, suspending the three reading rule all of the time. And then we pivot over and I see the word penalty, IRS penalty. That's not, you owe me X number of dollars for taxes. That is, you failed to pay a sufficient amount of taxes resulting in a penalty of $ 353, 000, Todd?
01:18:35
Speaker 8: Yes.
01:18:36
Speaker 1: The penalty?
01:18:36
Speaker 5: That's a penalty.
01:18:37
Speaker 1: What the hell do they do?
01:18:38
Speaker 5: Well, that's another thing we don't know.
01:18:41
Speaker 4: What?
01:18:41
Speaker 5: And I don't think the city council knows either.
01:18:48
Speaker 1: Well, how did you learn about the penalty in the first instance.
01:18:50
Speaker 5: Well there's when when an outside auditor issues their financial statement audit report it includes what they call a management letter and the management letter is supposed to outline issues or problems in that the city should be aware of and take care of, but they don't rise to the level of affecting the financial statement or the financial situation of the city. These are just like weaknesses in internal controls.
01:19:19
Speaker 1: Okay.
01:19:20
Speaker 3: So.
01:19:21
Speaker 1: Like tips for best practices kind of thing? You need to readjust your machinery to deal with these challenges?
01:19:26
Speaker 5: A little more strict than that, but I couldn't find a management letter when I looked. And so... I found out that in order to get.
01:19:36
Speaker 1: This letter– This penalty letter.
01:19:39
Speaker 5: This management letter that includes these areas of internal control problems, you have to go to the auditor of state. So I did, and this is the letter I got back, and it lists four areas, one of which is this IRS penalty that was paid in 2025.
01:19:55
Speaker 1: So– The Auditor of State letter that said that there's an ongoing investigation with no fill-in-the-blank details, that's different from this letter, which I identify.
01:20:05
Speaker 5: Well, as far as we know, maybe it's the same thing, but we can't tell. But I think if it wasn't significant, it wouldn't be in this management letter.
01:20:16
Speaker 1: I guess I'd have to agree. And how does one rack up a $ 353, 000 IRS penalty? Well, I.
01:20:24
Speaker 5: There was something when the city manager went to council to get approval to pay this, they characterized it as a assessment or something under appeal. We're dealing with a potential penalty and it's under appeal or something like that.
01:20:39
Speaker 1: Which suggests if they're appealing it, then at least the solicitor's office is aware of it and may be involved in a legal case.
01:20:47
Speaker 5: Related to this penalty. There's a term used. In the letter of adjudication. So there's some kind of adjudication that went on. And a month after they received approval to pay this, the city paid $ 353, 000.
01:21:04
Speaker 1: So would that qualify as existing infrastructure to allow them to tap into railroad dollars to pay for it, Todd?
01:21:12
Speaker 5: You never know, Brian.
01:21:13
Speaker 1: They got a slush fund for payment of IRS penalties there someplace?
01:21:16
Speaker 5: Well, I have reported that they're taking... interest earned on the unspent railroad money and they're putting it in the general fund.
01:21:24
Speaker 1: Yeah, we talked about that.
01:21:25
Speaker 6: Yeah.
01:21:26
Speaker 1: That's a massive red flag right there because that money should have never been allocated if it's not ready to be spent right away. And the idea that the city can sit on that money and get interest earned on it, which interest earned is not being spent on existing infrastructure. They wouldn't have had that money in their hand if it wasn't for railroad money and existing infrastructure projects.
01:21:43
Speaker 5: And you know what's worse is they're not telling the public how much that is, how much they're earning there.
01:21:53
Speaker 1: Why did the word criminal just enter into my mind, Todd? I don't know that this rises the level of criminal activity, but Lord Almighty, it sure sounds like it. At minimum, it's shameless behavior.
01:22:03
Speaker 5: It is definitely shameless. There's no question about that.
01:22:06
Speaker 1: That is just a metaphorical middle finger to every single resident of the city of Cincinnati, this hiding of details and this obvious reflection of mismanagement. I mean, you mentioned this external audit management letter, which addresses the $ 353, 000 penalty. But it also says IT security, employee fraud awareness training, and delinquent financial disclosures.
01:22:28
Speaker 5: Yeah.
01:22:28
Speaker 1: Cryptic that, but that's all it says?
01:22:31
Speaker 5: Yeah. Well, it has a little bit of an explanation. But the financial disclosures, they did a sample of 10 city officials who are required to file financial disclosure reports by April 15th every year. And again, the audit is all based on sampling, right? They can only look at so many records and be timely. So they do these samples. They sample 10 city officials who were supposed to file their financial disclosures. 100% did not do that. 100% of their sample did not file their financial disclosures on time.
01:23:10
Speaker 4: Wow.
01:23:11
Speaker 5: Yeah. There's absolutely compliance issues all over the place.
01:23:16
Speaker 1: Is there a? penalty that goes along with failure to comply with the law along those lines, Todd?
01:23:21
Speaker 5: You know, I think there may be, Brian, but I'd have to follow up on that. I do think that that is in the rules, but I'd have to check on that.
01:23:32
Speaker 1: So we have to rely on the AG to go after them for that?
01:23:36
Speaker 5: Well, again, this goes to the auditor of state. The auditor of state has investigative powers, as we just talked about. So this letter goes to the auditor of state, but the auditor can investigate anything he or she wants.
01:23:50
Speaker 1: Well, let's have them get on that, shall we? Well, you know how to get in touch with your auditor? Just search Ohio Auditor and you will find the website and all the communication information you need to get in touch with them about that. Light a fire on them so you think they can't go after this. I mean, that's just, again, I'm going with shameless. Todd Zinser will continue. And yes, I don't even think we'll be able to exhaust the list. that Todd has come up with for this morning's segment. 726 at 55 Care CD Talk Station. Chimney Care Fireplace and Stove. 730 on a Friday, an hour with Todd Zinser, our citizen watchdog. Hours collectively. Donating his time in retirement to, well, ferreting out the craziness going on in downtown Cincinnati. Usually coming up empty because that's the way city council intended it. You can't find anything because we're not giving it to you. And apparently they don't even bother following their own rules. Todd, you said you had one more point on the IRS penalty of $ 353, 000, which seems to still be swirling in mystery.
01:24:42
Speaker 3: Yes.
01:24:43
Speaker 5: The other mystery is when the external auditor wrote their management letter and brought this issue up, they included in the letter that the city has told them that they've done an evaluation of the issue already. And have taken corrective measures, and that's in the management letter from the external auditor.
01:25:04
Speaker 1: Taken corrective measures. Now, when did that letter from the city go to the outside auditor?
01:25:11
Speaker 5: Well, that's the outside auditor's letter dated March 27 of 2026, so it was this past March.
01:25:19
Speaker 1: Okay.
01:25:20
Speaker 5: But just last month in September, the internal auditor for the city did an audit of federal tax withholding, the same subject. different audit period and came up with, I don't know, half a dozen to a dozen other corrective measures that should be taken. And so you're thinking, well, are these new problems with federal tax withholding or are these the same issues that the external auditor came up with? And if it's the same, why did the external auditor say that it had already been taken care of?
01:25:57
Speaker 1: It's got to be a different set of problems then. We don't know, though.
01:26:00
Speaker 5: Or they misinformed the external auditor.
01:26:03
Speaker 1: Oh, there's that option, isn't there, Todd Zinser?
01:26:06
Speaker 5: So it's just very confusing to the public that's trying to track this, exactly what's going on.
01:26:12
Speaker 1: Confusing to the public if they did enough effort that you did and still have no idea. Todd, you did all the work, man. You've seen the documents. You don't even know. No, I don't.
01:26:23
Speaker 5: I'm trying to find out.
01:26:24
Speaker 1: They don't want the public to even be confused. They don't want the public to even know about it.
01:26:28
Speaker 5: Well, that's my bottom line is it does kind of look like a cover-up.
01:26:33
Speaker 1: Jeez Louise. You know what? And it'd be so easy. And they're saying, no, no, it's no cover-up, Mr. Zinsser. It's no. Well, if it isn't, then show us the damn documents and prove us wrong. That's right. Meanwhile, while you remain silent and clearly covered up an entire record here, we're only able to reach one conclusion that there's something to cover up.
01:26:53
Speaker 4: Yep.
01:26:55
Speaker 8: Jeez.
01:26:56
Speaker 2: What?
01:26:57
Speaker 5: Ah, shameless.
01:26:59
Speaker 1: Corruption, I might argue. All right. Moving on. Pick a subject. I got a list of about 12 of them here. Hiring practices.
01:27:10
Speaker 5: The hiring practices audit was interesting because it showed me two things. Number one is their documentation is, you know, just terrible. Widespread failures in documentation. And there's two records in particular that for 50%– no, I take that back. 30% of the records for new hires were missing their I-9 forms. So their I-9 forms are those forms that employers have to have completed that verifies that the person is in the United States legally.
01:27:50
Speaker 1: And the second– We're talking, this lack of documentation, we are talking about Sanctuary City, Cincinnati, right, Todd?
01:27:59
Speaker 4: Well.
01:27:59
Speaker 3: Okay.
01:27:59
Speaker 1: I just want to make sure we're clear on the subject matter here.
01:28:01
Speaker 5: That's right.
01:28:02
Speaker 1: Okay. Go ahead.
01:28:03
Speaker 5: And then secondly, there were background checks missing.
01:28:10
Speaker 4: Oh, really?
01:28:10
Speaker 3: Yeah.
01:28:11
Speaker 5: Out of the sample of 59, 40, or 40, I'm sorry, four background checks were missing. Now, there should be no background checks missing. There should be no I-95. forms missing. And I just think that the human services department is struggling, to say the least. I don't think there were recommendations in the hiring practice audit. And for three of those recommendations, the manager's response was, I do not have the staff to implement these recommendations.
01:28:45
Speaker 1: Cheryl Long said that.
01:28:46
Speaker 5: Well, the head of the Department of Human Resources said that. Who works for Cheryl Long.
01:28:52
Speaker 1: Who reports directly to Cheryl Long.
01:28:53
Speaker 6: Right.
01:28:53
Speaker 1: Speaking on basically Cheryl Long's behalf.
01:28:55
Speaker 3: Right.
01:28:56
Speaker 1: Since the buck stops at Cheryl Long's desk.
01:28:58
Speaker 5: That's right.
01:28:59
Speaker 1: Well, maybe, Todd, and we'll talk about this next, if they didn't spend so much money on nongovernmental organizations, they'd have enough to hire somebody who's competent to do this work.
01:29:07
Speaker 7: Maybe?
01:29:07
Speaker 5: Well, I do think there's a conflict between the city's ability or desire to fund the government infrastructure that people needed, the equipment needed, the systems needed. I think that is running into all the money that they spend on these external organizations. They subsidize these external organizations instead of investing in the city's government infrastructure. That's kind of where I'm headed with all this.
01:29:38
Speaker 1: Well, we're going to elaborate on that because I know you have a– there was a change to leveraged support funding, which is what funds the outside entities. KRC, the talk station. 740 here, 55 KRC Talk Station. Happy Friday. Todd Zinser, Citizen Watchdog. You can find him on Facebook. You can go to citizenwatchdog.com. Get his podcast and love having him on the 55 KRC Morning Show. So pivoting off the hiring practices audit where we ultimately conclude, or at least you heard from the city manager's office, that we just don't have sufficient employee resources to follow the law.
01:30:14
Speaker 5: Yes.
01:30:15
Speaker 1: Is that really what it boils down to, like the I-9 form? Yes, and it's not.
01:30:21
Speaker 5: Just human services. We looked at the challenges that the departments put in their budget presentations. They were required to include three top challenges. Out of 16 departments, 12 said that staffing was in the top three challenges. Two did not say anything about staffing. One was ambiguous and one said it didn't have any challenges. So 12 out of 16 departments say we've got problems with our staffing, including public services, which resulted in the whole trash pickup problem that occurred.
01:31:00
Speaker 1: I thought that was an equipment issue.
01:31:02
Speaker 3: No, no.
01:31:03
Speaker 1: No, I'm confusing that with the snow removal. I'm sorry, Todd. I got my crises mixed up.
01:31:07
Speaker 5: That's right. So you've got the flooding, you've got the trash removal, you have the snow removal. And I really have come to the conclusion that the city does not have the internal capacity to really even do the basic services of the city.
01:31:21
Speaker 1: Well, isn't that why they're farming out all kinds of stuff to NGOs, Todd? Or are the NGOs doing something different?
01:31:27
Speaker 5: Well, I think they're doing something different. I know that.
01:31:32
Speaker 1: So you talk about this all the time. First off, there's an entity out there that claims it is going to help the city achieve some goal, like juvenile crime. here we are, we're going to do stuff to help curb juvenile crime. And the city says, okay, here's half a million dollars.
01:31:49
Speaker 5: That's right.
01:31:50
Speaker 1: So there's one issue. Okay, people might say, well, that's the way it's supposed to work because the city's not capable of doing everything. Of course, it has to outsource some things. It happens all the time. But there's no following the money. Once it leaves the building, no one is held accountable for whatever work is supposed to be done. Am I right on that?
01:32:07
Speaker 5: That's right. And they don't even, in some cases, measure it.
01:32:12
Speaker 8: Metrics.
01:32:12
Speaker 5: What they're doing.
01:32:13
Speaker 1: There's no metrics.
01:32:14
Speaker 5: That's right.
01:32:14
Speaker 1: So it's trust.
01:32:16
Speaker 5: That's right.
01:32:17
Speaker 1: Here's taxpayer dollars. Go do your good work, and we'll trust you with that.
01:32:19
Speaker 5: And it's optics. Yeah, we care. We give money to these organizations. It's all about your children.
01:32:26
Speaker 1: I hear you. I hear you. But that's going on regularly. But then again, none of that relates to the internal struggles they have. And I'll be the first person to maybe call red flag. Do they really need all that much more staff? Or could they hire more competent people to get the work done?
01:32:41
Speaker 5: I think it's B. Because it really, the first thing that came to my mind was the whole 80-20 rule, where 20% of the people are doing 80% of the work. And so the other 80% are underperforming, so to speak.
01:33:02
Speaker 3: Okay.
01:33:03
Speaker 1: Well, maybe they should go back to meritocracy.
01:33:05
Speaker 4: Well.
01:33:06
Speaker 5: Maybe they should.
01:33:07
Speaker 1: All right. Well, we got that problem solved then, don't we? But we don't have a problem solved concerning this money that flows out to these nonprofit organizations, these nongovernmental organizations. So have they changed that? I see changes to leverage support funding on my list here.
01:33:22
Speaker 5: Right. So at the past couple of meetings, they've been considering an ordinance to change how they operate or manage the leverage support program, which is basically a grant To local organizations.
01:33:37
Speaker 1: This is what we just talked about.
01:33:38
Speaker 6: Right.
01:33:39
Speaker 5: And in the past, how it worked is the organization would submit an application to the city manager. They would go through certain criteria, and they would rank them, and they'd come up with a dollar amount that the organization would receive in a grant. And then it would go to the mayor, and then it would go to the city council. Well, both the mayor and the city council can add money to those grants arbitrarily.
01:34:06
Speaker 1: Sphincter-inspired amounts.
01:34:09
Speaker 5: Yeah, and so what happens is the city doesn't have all the money that they used to have to do these things.
01:34:17
Speaker 1: Well, how can you keep track of the dollars available if the mayor can go randomly add a whole bunch more in expenditures without the council even being able to budget for it?
01:34:23
Speaker 5: That's right. That's right. This is insanity. And so I think they're starting to feel the pinch of.
01:34:33
Speaker 1: Let me guess, the outside organizations pressuring them to give them even more money?
01:34:37
Speaker 5: Yes, or the same amount of money. I think they have to make some cuts. And so they've set it up now where they're trying to get the city council kind of out of the business of modifying whatever the city manager comes up with.
01:34:51
Speaker 1: Well, that takes the outside political pressure off of them, doesn't it?
01:34:55
Speaker 5: There's nothing I can do about it.
01:34:57
Speaker 1: You used to work with me, says council member XYZ, and then now you've got to work with them.
01:35:01
Speaker 5: So the five people that voted for this change, that's what they think. And the four people that didn't vote for the change says, this isn't going to work. We're still going to get the same amount of pressure from the public.
01:35:12
Speaker 1: That's like a divided Supreme Court. Maybe we need to pack council with more Republicans or some Republicans to right the ship.
01:35:19
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I don't hold out much prospect for that.
01:35:22
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know.
01:35:23
Speaker 1: We gave up. Somebody brought the flag out a long time ago, Todd Zinser. Remember, to the voters in the city of Cincinnati, all of this ridiculous gullibility. crap that we're staring at this morning that todd's walking us through uh democrats have been in charge for the city in charge of the city for how many decades now todd at least four or five okay this wasn't a republican creative problem we inherited this from i don't know eugene ruleman 746 one more with todd's sir we're not going to make it through the whole list i've got to bring you back don't go away folks odor exit first todd zinzer hold on because i got Tiffany Green, Officer Green from the Cincinnati Police Department Crime Stopper Division to help us catch a Crime Stopper Bad Guy of the Week. Welcome back, Officer Green. Thank you for what you do every day and who are we looking for?
01:36:07
Speaker 2: Good morning and thank you, Brian. The Cincinnati Police District 3 Investigative Unit is looking for Diego Robinson.
01:36:15
Speaker 8: Mr.
01:36:15
Speaker 2: Robinson is wanted for felony burglary and misdemeanor criminal damaging and misdemeanor aggravated menacing. Investigators say Mr. Robinson climbed through the victim's bedroom, window without the victim's consent. Once inside, Mr. Robinson proceeded to damage the victim's property. Diego Robinson is a black male. He's 23 years old. He's 5'7 and 140 pounds. Diego Robinson has an arrest history of failure to comply with police officer and was last known to live on East Ledge Street in Madisonville. If anyone has information on where police can find Diego Robinson, please call Crime Stoppers at 513- 352-3040, or submit a tip online at crime-stoppers.us.
01:37:01
Speaker 1: You'll be eligible for a cash reward if you tip Lisa an arrest, but you'll let Crime Stoppers keep that. We just want to get this guy off the street because he is clearly a menace to society. Officer Green will be looking for him. His photo's on my blog page, 55krc. iheart. com. Thank you again for the Cincinnati Police Department's work for the community each and every day. God bless each and every one of you. Todd Zinser, I intro'd it. Let's move over to the railroad money.
01:37:24
Speaker 5: Right, so... A lot of people are looking at how their railroad money is being spent, as they should.
01:37:29
Speaker 4: Right.
01:37:29
Speaker 5: And we've got problems spending that money. But there's also issues on the investment side. You have to keep an eye on the investment side as well.
01:37:38
Speaker 1: That's the board that's responsible for that.
01:37:40
Speaker 5: That's correct. That's the board that is responsible for maintaining the— it' s up close to $ 2 billion now.
01:37:46
Speaker 1: And they have a fiduciary obligation to do their best to maximize the return on that investment, do they not?
01:37:51
Speaker 5: That's correct.
01:37:51
Speaker 3: Okay.
01:37:52
Speaker 4: Okay.
01:37:53
Speaker 1: Responsibly managed.
01:37:54
Speaker 5: Responsibly managed. That's correct. So there's three big issues. There's a whole nest of issues involving the board and the investment advisors.
01:38:05
Speaker 1: Of course there are.
01:38:06
Speaker 5: But the first one is the board has decided that instead of issuing a standalone financial statement audit, they'll just merge... the financial information of the board and the trust into the city's financial statement. So it gets much less treatment than they would with a standalone audit. And I'm not really sure why they're doing that, except that there was some kind of conversation that it would cost an extra $ 30, 000 to have. Well, they can afford a $.
01:38:42
Speaker 1: 353, 000 IRS penalty. I think they can come up with 30 grand to cover an independent audit.
01:38:45
Speaker 3: Yeah.
01:38:47
Speaker 1: And the board is independent and a separate complete entity from the city of Cincinnati, which makes me wonder why in the hell would anyone think including it within a Cincinnati broader audit would be appropriate?
01:38:58
Speaker 5: The accountants can classify the trust as something called a merged component unit because the rationale is that the trust fund is all about Cincinnati. Cincinnati is the only beneficiary. It doesn't make it part of the city.
01:39:17
Speaker 1: Listen, we live in a time where I can say I'm a girl and people are supposed to swallow that.
01:39:22
Speaker 4: Right.
01:39:22
Speaker 1: It doesn't make it true, Todd.
01:39:24
Speaker 5: So this makes it even worse, Brian. According to the state law that set this whole operation up, the board is supposed to do an audit based on their calendar year. Well, the city does their books on a fiscal year basis. So right off the bat.
01:39:44
Speaker 1: You can't do it then.
01:39:45
Speaker 5: Right off the bat, there's a six-month gap.
01:39:47
Speaker 3: Yes.
01:39:48
Speaker 5: And I don't know what happened. I don't know how they accounted for the financial transactions during that gap period. And the law requires a calendar year audit. And they're not doing a calendar year audit.
01:40:05
Speaker 1: I question the word standing comes up, whether someone has standing to go after, maybe litigate some of these issues. Is this something that an outside citizen could pursue? Is this something, again, going back to the Attorney General's office? I mean, I guess I have to wonder, how can they be held accountable? How can they be forced to go back to regularly accepted accounting standards? Because this does not sound like it, Todd.
01:40:27
Speaker 5: Well, it technically does comply with the standards. But what it doesn't comply with is anything to do with transparency about that investment fund. And for example, you look at the investments that the board is making They've started investing in private credit. And private credit is not like the stock market. Private credit is you're investing in an individual company. But in the case of the board, there are brokers out there that will take your money, put it into private credit. And then what's really shocking is that those managers of those private credit pools, so to speak, they're getting... Oh, here we go.
01:41:12
Speaker 1: This is where the money comes in, right, Todd?
01:41:14
Speaker 5: 1.25% on the value of those investments.
01:41:21
Speaker 1: So whatever slice of the $ 2 trillion they throw at private credit, that outside guy gets 1.2%.
01:41:26
Speaker 5: That's right. That's right. That's outrageous.
01:41:30
Speaker 1: Does anybody ever vet these outside guys? I mean, determine ahead of time whether there's a conflict of interest between them and the members of the board who make this decision?
01:41:37
Speaker 5: Here's the thing. What I recommended to the board that they have completely rejected is that the problem is you have UBS as their investment advisor, right?
01:41:47
Speaker 4: Yeah.
01:41:47
Speaker 5: They're the ones that are advising the board to invest in this private credit. Well, the board doesn't know anything about private credit. So who's supposed to Who's supposed to advise them on whether this private credit is worthwhile? The same advisor that's pushing it on them in the first place. There's a conflict there. And I said they should bring in an outside investment advisor to take a look at this whole private credit thing and make sure that it's not too risky. Because if it's too risky, then the board runs into the idea that they're being speculative. And they're not allowed to be speculative.
01:42:23
Speaker 1: Going back to the fiduciary obligation.
01:42:25
Speaker 5: That's correct. Wow.
01:42:27
Speaker 1: Todd Zinser, that is a plate full that you just gave us today here.
01:42:31
Speaker 3: Yes.
01:42:33
Speaker 1: It's 8.06, and it's a happy Friday. All Fridays are happy to a certain degree. Some less than others, and a lot of folks are having a little bit of concern, angst, and anxiety over Tuesday. We've all got the memo about the blue wave that's coming our way. I've talked to so many people about this. How do you feel about it? It's never going to happen. There's no way the Republicans are going to show out in huge numbers. We're going to beat this back. It's that Democrats aren't engaged. They're not all socialists. They don't embrace this. But then everybody's pissed off about inflation and the price of gasoline. I just keep going back to the reality that the Democrats brought you, by virtue of legislation, expensive gasoline. It was worse before than it is now. At least now it's just a question of economics causing it. Welcome back. To the 55KRC morning show, vote Vivek Ramaswamy on Tuesday. If you haven't voted already, dear God, please save us from Governor Amy Acton, which even saying it out loud gives me a bit of nausea. Welcome back, Vivek Ramaswamy. Find him online at vivek4ohio. com. It's good to have you on one more time.
01:43:31
Speaker 4: Great to be on, Brian.
01:43:32
Speaker 1: How are you doing? I'm doing fine. Last hours, basically days, in essence, of the campaign. How are you feeling about it right now? I keep talking to people, Vivek, who are They're either there's no way the blue wave is going to happen or more of them. And I emphasize more of them are like we are screwed on Tuesday. It's not going to be a beautiful day to wake up to on Wednesday. Where is Vivek Ramaswamy? And please try to talk those folks off the ledge.
01:43:56
Speaker 8: Look, I think it's going to be a great it's going to be a great day. I think we are on track. The people of the state are wise. And I know that the people of our state are when we're really under threat for our way of life. People step up and they get out and vote.
01:44:09
Speaker 4: That's what they're doing. And this is a fork in the road, Brian.
01:44:12
Speaker 8: This is not an ordinary election.
01:44:14
Speaker 4: This is between common sense and communism. OK, this is what's on the ballot.
01:44:17
Speaker 8: You look at what's happening in Paris or New York City, which is under socialist.
01:44:22
Speaker 4: Rule, or L.A.
01:44:23
Speaker 8: Or Minneapolis or even Dearborn, Michigan, just to the north of us. We can't let that come to Ohio. And that choice belongs to us, to you, to we the people. And it is a choice about fighting for your family, about who's going to actually make your family's life better. I'm running against a woman who is probably the public official that's caused more damage to the lives of Ohioans than anyone else in the 21st century.
01:44:50
Speaker 4: She quit the job.
01:44:51
Speaker 8: It turns out that's the longest job she's ever held. I do not believe Ohioans are going to be anywhere close to rewarding that failure with a promotion.
01:45:00
Speaker 4: Someone who compares the law.
01:45:02
Speaker 8: Enforcement to the KKK, as we see a broader socialist, communist movement, anti-rule of law epidemic spreading across the country in the West. I think people in Ohio have great common sense.
01:45:14
Speaker 4: We're smart people.
01:45:15
Speaker 1: We're wise people.
01:45:16
Speaker 4: We're going to get it right.
01:45:17
Speaker 8: And for my part, Ryan, we just released this morning, we're already drafting up the day one executive orders.
01:45:23
Speaker 4: We already have the team ready to go.
01:45:26
Speaker 8: We're ready to execute for Ohioans to bring down property costs, property tax costs immediately, bring down electric bills immediately. initiate the waste, fraud, abuse investigations, as well as prosecutions immediately to save on health care costs.
01:45:42
Speaker 4: This morning, we just put out the top.
01:45:43
Speaker 8: Seven executive orders I'm signing before midnight on January 11th in detail.
01:45:49
Speaker 4: We are ready to execute.
01:45:51
Speaker 8: We're ready to start early to deliver big time on lower costs, including lower property taxes and electric bills, big time on combating crime, ending sanctuary cities, including Columbus, but also Cleveland and Cincinnati. across the state, we're ready to execute. And I think that's what Ohioans are ready for. And that's why I feel great heading into Tuesday. We're going to be coming out with a victory.
01:46:13
Speaker 1: I am so pleased to hear that. I know you've been enthused from the get-go. And of course, there is no question. There are just, there's a sea of difference in terms of the qualifications for the job, which I keep going back to. But let me just put A finer point on this, because I have been critical of Donald Trump, and I was at the time he uttered it, I will bring down inflation day one. Now, I hear something like that, and I know no human being is capable of doing that. There are so many other factors outside of the realm of even the presidential office to deal with to bring down inflation just generally. So with that springboard, the question I want to ask you, you said day one, I will bring down electric bills. I know my listeners would love to hear how you're going to accomplish that, because I pay an outrageous electric bill, and it just keeps going up.
01:46:55
Speaker 3: Yeah, look.
01:46:56
Speaker 8: Look, it's a good question, Brian, but the important thing is if you listen carefully to my commentary, I am commenting directly on things that are a consequence of policies that the state, specifically the governor, can actually set. I don't believe in making false promises. I'm making the promises I can directly keep. Property taxation is directly a consequence of government-created policy. So what I've said, we put it in the announcement this morning. On day one, I'm going to start investigations of any locality where property taxes have more than doubled to provide a public accounting of how those dollars have been spent. Right now, in many cases, it's a bit of a mystery. It's opaque because school performance has gone down while property taxes have doubled in those very regions. So that transparency and sunlight is going to be the first step to a legislative solution here to roll the property tax rate and base down. back to where it was pre-pandemic. That's common sense. By the way, our schools are performing better then. And if there are that are really necessary, we're not going to leave police, fire or local schools holding the bag. There's models for statewide backstops. But that is a practical solution that delivers the biggest property tax relief package to homeowners across the state. That's real money in your pocket. That's a real difference for being able to afford costs elsewhere in your life. Electricville's very same story. Ohio's part of PJM, okay? And I think Ohio has not been assertive enough in standing for Ohioans' cost interest in PJM. There's a lot of out-of-state interests, Democrat, left-leaning interests that effectively impose costs over the years through climate change policies, through Green New Deal policies that change the energy mix that feeds that grid. Well, guess who ends up paying for it? Ohioans do. Homeowners do. And can the governor make a difference there? You're darn right we can if you're willing to actually fight for Ohioans' interests. My job isn't to fight for climate change policies. My job is to lower costs by increasing supply of energy and by producing more energy in Ohio and reasserting ourselves to fix a few tweaks in our relationship with PJM and provide alternatives for people in Ohio, bringing nuclear energy to the state as well. These are areas where I know, I don't think, I know I can make a difference as a governor to slash your electric bills in half, to bring down the property tax rates in many parts of this state by half. These are practical solutions that we have day one plans, we're ready to execute on. But here, Brian, this is the choice, because God forbid if Amy Acton, the woman who failed this state once and then quit, who's never held a job for more than two years, now seeking a four-year position as governor. God forbid if she's ever governor. You mark this very carefully to understand the stakes. Your property taxes are on track to continue to double over the next 18 to 24 months, if not the next year. Your electric bills will double over the course of the next 12 to 24 months. That's just the trajectory we're headed on, especially with the plans that she has laid out to the extent you could even call them that. So that's the choice on the ballot. Do you want your property taxes and electric bills cut by half, or do you want them to double?
01:50:07
Speaker 4: Do you want to combat crime.
01:50:09
Speaker 8: In the streets of our cities, including my hometown of Cincinnati, or do you want to compare law enforcement to the KKK, as she did last year, letting crime run rampant? Do you want to end sanctuary city status, or do you want to effectively let this scourge of illegal behavior, including illegal immigration, continue in Ohio? That is the choice on the ballot. And I believe in the wisdom of the people of our state. Our founders fought a revolution, so we could self-govern. So it's up to us. And on this 250th anniversary, the question is, what are you willing to do to fight for your state, to fight for your family, to fight for your kids, fight for your grandkids, and fight for our country? All you have to do is get out and vote and take as many people with you and force as many other people in your family and friend group to do the same thing. And if you all do your part, I'm going to do mine. We're going to lead this state to greater heights than we've ever seen. I truly believe that deep in my bones. We have a positive vision for the state and plans to execute on it. But I do worry that, God forbid, if a leftist like Amy Acton were to come to power, it's part of a socialist wave spreading across our country. It'll be an economic devastation for Ohio. CEOs who are looking at Ohio as a place for investment have already.
01:51:26
Speaker 4: Told me they would go elsewhere.
01:51:28
Speaker 8: If, God forbid, Amy Acton came anywhere near the levers of power. And I hate to say it, but that makes sense. Because if you're in their shoes, you would look at it the same way.
01:51:36
Speaker 1: Well, who would know more than you, a person who's done business in the state of Ohio since you were a young man? I mean, this is your hometown here in Cincinnati. You built a business in Ohio, and you understand the challenges and the impediments to be able to effectively grow a business for the benefit of everybody in Ohio.
01:51:50
Speaker 4: That's right.
01:51:50
Speaker 8: And look, I've signed in front of a paycheck, Brian, not just the back of one. I've created thousands of jobs. I do know how to bring economic growth as a governor to this state. And I'm excited to do that. That's going to lift all of us up. Bigger paychecks, more jobs coming into the state, combined out with reducing the property tax burden, reducing electric bill burdens, and also even cutting red tape that stops new home construction for young people. I mean, that's another one, too, to help our workforce stay here, make home ownership more affordable, even on the front end. If you're building more of those starter homes, 16-, 17-, 1,800-square-foot starter homes on a quarter or third of an acre plot, that's a great start in the American dream. Those are the homes that aren't getting built, which is why the average age of a first-time.
01:52:39
Speaker 4: Homebuyer in Ohio is now 41 years old. Think about that.
01:52:43
Speaker 8: I'm 41, Brian, and hopefully in a week I'll be the governor-elect. The age of the first-time homebuyer should not be the same age as the governor of the state. But we can fix these problems. And so these are areas, to your earlier point, where it turns out a governor can actually make even a bigger difference than a federal leader, even a U.S. president, when it comes to those core areas of property taxes, electric bills, even housing costs. I know I can make a difference here, but we've got to get elected to do it. And that requires– if you haven't gotten out to vote– I mean early voting is open today. You guys can just get out and go today to cast the vote and just get your friends and family to do it, too. Take responsibility for that. And if you do that, you should hold me accountable to deliver on everything that I'm telling you we're going to do for you starting in January.
01:53:30
Speaker 1: Well, go to Vivek Ramasamy on Facebook. You can see the day one executive orders and read every one of them, which includes, for all my friends out there waiting for a responsible steward with the taxpayer dollars, Executive Order No. 4, Direct Department of Medicaid to Investigate Waste, Fraud, and Abuse. That'll inure to our benefit. And again, you're looking out for the taxpayer dollars that we have no control over once they're gone out of our pockets. Vivek Ramaswamy. Go to Vivek4Ohio to check out the campaign website. Again, Vivek Ramaswamy on Facebook. Multiple places to find this. I wish you all the best, sir. I truly do. I am praying for the state of Ohio that you are our next governor.
01:54:05
Speaker 4: Get out and vote, and we can make it happen. Thank you.
01:54:08
Speaker 1: Thank you, sir. Thank you very much. 818- At 55KRC. 55KRC, the talk station. Just have 830 here at 55KRC, the talk station, on a Friday. Very good time to be tuning in here to the 55KRC Morning Show. I hope you have his site bookmarked, theohiopressnetwork.com. I hope you're listening to his broadcast throughout the week. It's Jack Windsor. Welcome back, Jack, my friend. It's always a pleasure to have you on the 55KRC Morning Show. Happy Friday and happy Halloween Eve.
01:54:35
Speaker 6: Happy Friday, happy Halloween Eve, and happy election season, Brian. Honor to be here, man.
01:54:41
Speaker 1: Yeah, as much quote-unquote fun as guys like you and I have in anticipation and in the build-up to the election, I presume, like me, you'll be really, really happy when it's all behind us. Because we're going to have to start talking about the 2028 campaign on Wednesday.
01:54:59
Speaker 6: Listen, that's absolutely right. I mean, that's the weird thing that I think people forget this election cycle is this race between John Husted and Sherrod Brown is a special election. And the winner just serves out the rest of J.D. Vance's initial term and has to run again in 2028. And then, of course, in 2028, presidential election year, many of us expect Vice President J.D. Vance, Ohio's own, to be running for POTUS in 2028. So, yeah, man, take a nap. Wednesday morning and by Wednesday afternoon, let's go.
01:55:35
Speaker 1: Hit the ground running. All right, let's start with the abortion topic. I sent you that article yesterday, and Maureen, who sent the article to me with a specific request, please pass this on to Jack Windsor in case he hasn't seen it. Maureen was just on the show. She called in from Florida, offered her comments on some other issues, but this one was on her radar, and I said, well, I'll talk to Jack about the abortion issue with Amy Acton right out of the gate. So she's listening. I'm listening. What's this all about, Jack Windsor?
01:56:01
Speaker 6: Yeah, so there's really two things here, and I've got to be careful saying what's accurate and what isn't. But at the end of the day, Acton was the Ohio Department of Health director appointed in February of 2019. On November 12th of 2019, ODH, under her leadership, issued a license to Women's Med Center in Kettering after a lengthy series of court battles that let it continue surgical abortion. So There was a stoppage and then there was a scrum in the court system. The Ohio Supreme Court weighed in and the Ohio Department of Health issued essentially a permit for, and I think it closed down and then reopened is how it went. And so many in the pro-life community look at that as Amy Acton working hard behind the scenes when everything was kind of in disarray to make sure that women could still have abortions. And by the way, she was also, gosh, what was she? She served as a community research and grants manager at the Columbus Foundation prior to serving as the director of the Ohio Department of Health and grants there, obviously, to many abortion, pro-abortion groups. But also, my understanding is there were grants that were administered to CARE Ohio, C-A-I-R That's the nefarious group we've talked about ad nauseum. I'm not saying Amy Acton personally approved those grants, but she was involved leading that grant team. And CARE, as many of your listeners know, was the unindicted Koch conspirator in the Holy Land case that uncovered millions and millions of dollars being funneled through these groups to Hamas terrorists. And CARE is a group that has endorsed in this election cycle, they've endorsed The attorney general candidate, John Kulowicz, and just concerning.
01:58:03
Speaker 4: Stuff, right?
01:58:03
Speaker 1: I guess I want to know, what capacity does CAIR have anything to do with the functioning of the government of the state of Ohio?
01:58:11
Speaker 6: Well, look, I think they posture themselves as like a pro-Palestinian type of organization.
01:58:17
Speaker 1: What does that have to do with the functioning of the government of the state of Ohio, Jack Winter?
01:58:21
Speaker 6: Thank you.
01:58:22
Speaker 1: Period.
01:58:23
Speaker 4: Thank you.
01:58:24
Speaker 6: It does not. It does not. So when Vivek Ramaswamy stands on stage and says, I want to put Ohio first, that should resonate with some people. But Amy Acton also has the endorsement of people like State Representative Ishmael Muhammad. He's the guy you'll remember who was on video back in, I think, late 2024 talking about how he's here to represent Somalians in the state. It's not Ohioans in his district, but Somalians. He's also the guy that is really under the microscope right now for buying an almost $ 600, 000 home. outside of his district and saying under oath that he signed his name to false statements in the mortgage application, the tax document, his financial disclosures, claims that he has a wife under Sharia. So these are the types of people that are backing Amy Act. And I think Ohioans are starting to wake up to that, but we only have four days, so they better wake up fast.
01:59:16
Speaker 1: Starting to wake up to it. And you and I have been talking about this for so long, Jack, and people don't wake up until the moment before the election and realize that just the awful state of affairs that we're facing here and the, and the consequences of this election and how overwhelmingly important it is. This is a presidential election weight election. I mean, we're an off year, but this is not feeling at all like an off year, Jack.
01:59:41
Speaker 6: It, well, first of all, it is not feeling that way and it should not because Amy Acton has never, I don't think she's ever held a job for four years. She wants to be governor of Ohio for four years. And if she's not able to be recorded, if she's not able to debate, if you've seen the video that came out just yesterday from Toledo, she's not going to govern.
02:00:04
Speaker 1: Someone asked me how drunk she was.
02:00:07
Speaker 5: I know.
02:00:07
Speaker 1: I'm not saying she was. That's the kind of thing. You just watch the video, and impairment comes to mind. I'm not saying it's accurate, but you draw your own conclusions. Here's my prediction, Jack Wins. Before we take a break, we get on to the media carrying the water for liberal candidates, plus the problems with the attorney general candidate, Kulowitz. I think she is the Manchurian candidate type person that when she gets in, she's got a documented record of quitting. She'll claim emotional exhaustion or some medical problem, and Pepper will become governor, lieutenant governor. Or if that doesn't happen.
02:00:41
Speaker 6: Or if that's the scenario, they keep her there as the front.
02:00:44
Speaker 4: The figurehead.
02:00:45
Speaker 6: What they did with Joe Biden. They just kind of auto-penned their way through.
02:00:47
Speaker 1: And Pepper will be behind pulling the strings the entire time. I think that's the obvious outcome. Don't go away more with Jack Windsor. 840 at 55KRC, the talk station, theohiopressnetwork.com. Jack Windsor, that's his webpage. And he joins the program every Friday here on the 55KRC Morning Show to talk to you about some topics. So putting Amy Acton behind us, but you're pivoting over to, well, pretty much Amy Acton, but all other left-wing candidates. It's really disturbing. I think For anybody who just rolled their eyes at the constant comments from Republicans, conservatives, the mainstream media is biased. I've been listening to that for 15 or 20 years, Jack, maybe even longer. This election cycle reveals it. It's as if they came out loud and said, we are in the bag for the Democrats. You don't even have to guess anymore. It's not a conspiracy theory, says the mainstream media. It's obvious. We're doing it on purpose.
02:01:42
Speaker 6: So there's a lot here, and I'm going to start with what I know. Here's what I know. You and I talked a couple of months ago about a guy in Canfield, Ohio, who was arrested. And when that happened, the Acton campaign put out a press release almost immediately and said that an armed man lunged at Acton, two people were injured, and that is what the Associated Press, that is what all the news outlets in Ohio ran with, was the Acton narrative. Well, I looked at the law enforcement reports as quickly as I could. I tried to obtain information. And it's embarrassing for the press, or it should be, that this guy, I mean, the prosecutor will even tell you, held up his phone and said, Dr. Acton, I have a question. Didn't attack her. Two people were not injured. One news outlet, Brian, actually called it an assassination attempt. I want you to think about how inept and feckless you have to be to call that an assassination attempt. That's number one. I don't want to talk about the Donna Arthur ad and the merits of it or what was true, what wasn't. What I do want to talk about is I've done some digging into who actually requested records from the law enforcement authorities from the court system. And what I'm starting to see is that the press did it again. Once the ad hit, the Acton campaign had a long time ago known that this might be a risk. So the operatives gathered some information and hand-selected what they wanted to go out to the press, assembled it probably with a narrative, sent it to the press, and the press did the same thing again. They started publishing what the Acton campaign handed to them. Some of them, I called them in the act saying, court records that we obtained. I went back and said, show me who requested the records and when, and those outlets did not request records. They took the information from the acting campaign and they parroted it. That's number one. I can tell you about two or three other things that bother me, but what the hell are we doing as a free press if all we're going to do is take press release information and pretend that we're actually doing journalistic investigative work before we publish it because it's not happening.
02:04:01
Speaker 1: Well, I think they all just generally consider themselves, they're not journalists with some measure of journalistic standards, which is objective reporting of the facts, leaving the general public to draw its conclusions, politically or otherwise. But they have become basically a collective of online bloggers commenting randomly about their own mindset on certain things, or obviously twisting the truth to a person's political advantage. And that's exactly what happens. You know, I'm thinking about, you're accusing someone of attempted assassination, and this is not a public figure they're accusing. This is a regular run-of-the-mill person merely trying to ask a question. I think you're entering the realm of slander on that. Maybe he might have a legal action against someone who would accuse him of that. Because, I mean, we know who it is. He's on video. They have him. It was all documented.
02:04:51
Speaker 6: It was all documented. And my understanding is I have to be careful here.
02:04:55
Speaker 1: Reliable if it's written.
02:04:57
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's scuttlebutt. But here's what we are also starting to understand. The prosecutor went forward and started, you know, prosecuting, assembling and prosecuting the case. And the Acton campaign ghosted him. Basically, it was like we put the press release out. We got what we wanted out of here. We're going to go over here and do something else. I want to talk about this. Let's cut through the noise. Amy Acton was health director in 2020. Masks do not work. Six feet of social distance was made up. The vaccine does not stop the spread. You can talk about its efficacy, but that was her area of expertise. She lasted less than 100 days. The Washington Examiner published an article, and I don't know if you caught this the first time that you read it, Brian, but Amy Acton, prior to COVID, had to deliver a budget proposal for the Ohio Department of Health. The language was written for her. to go ahead and testify before the Ohio General Assembly. She broke down in the bathroom crying, saying she couldn't do that. That was before COVID. And then, of course, once COVID hit, you know, we've heard that she was balled up on the floor in the fetal position, unable to effectively operate in that position. More than one time, Governor Mike DeWine said, well, Amy, what do you think about that? Amy, Amy, she wasn't there. This is not rocket science. This woman in her area of expertise failed. Vivek Ramaswamy is a successful man who has succeeded at almost everything he's ever done. I don't get the Republican Party who is apoplectic about him getting to get over themselves. For a decade, they screamed about somebody who wasn't a rhino. You have a billionaire who's independently wealthy, does not have to be beholden to the lobby and donor class, and has talked about bold reforms with a plan, with a plan, more than any governor I've seen in my history. And Republicans seem to be dithering. We better wake up.
02:06:55
Speaker 1: Without question, Jack. That incenses me more than anything else. Don't go away. One more with Jack Windsor from the Iowa Press Network. Be right back. 55KRC. 849 on a Friday. Hope you have some great plans for this weekend. You'll get a lot of trick-or-treaters over your place. One more segment here with Jack Windsor from the Iowa Press Network. Got more details about the AG candidate Kulowitz. What's going on with this one, Jack?
02:07:22
Speaker 6: Yeah, so, you know, Kulowicz is part of that camp that wants you to believe that the rich people ought to pay their fair share. Turns out he's an attorney and a pretty darn good one, but an attorney who represented wealthy people and insurance companies and big companies and made a mint. But he wrote a book several years ago that I have my hands on. I'm going to make sure I dive into it over the weekend a little bit more. But this guy's a communist. He really likes the communist movement. He loves socialism. And he was proud back in May when he got an endorsement from CAIR, C-A-I-R, the group that we've already talked about. That was the unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land case that involved the financing of Hamas, the terrorist group. And, you know, just an all shucks kind of nice guy persona, but full on Democrat socialist of America. And by the way, that's, I guess the thing I want many people to understand. This is not my grandpa's Democrat party. My grandpa was a union president. He was a JFK guy. Uh, Amy Acton, Sherrod Brown, John Kulowicz are more like Zoran Mamdani and Abdul El-Sayed than they are like JFK or FDR. So if there are Democrats who are just legacy voters for Democrats, uh, And I don't know how many of them listen to this show, but you might want to take a closer look at Sherrod Brown, Amy Acton, John Kulowicz, and some of the other Democrats in this race because they are full-on rubber stampers for the Democrat Socialists of America.
02:08:54
Speaker 1: Well, I guess I can say fortunately, although my grandfather's passing was a sad event, fortunately he's not around to see what his party has become. And going back to your point, JFK would be considered a Republican. He wanted lower taxes, recognizing that lower taxes bring more money into government. What you spend it on make them Democrat. But still, he at least understood that concept. But my grandfather became a Democrat when FDR hired him to work on the CCC. You know, like the WPA, the CCC. They gave him a job at like a young age when the economy was tanked and nobody had the jobs. It was Great Depression time. And that made him a Democrat his entire life. He said that out loud to me once because he was dismayed that I was a Republican. So they bought political loyalty with that job. So, and, and then if he was alive today, he probably would still be voting Democrat, you know, and this is the reality of it. It's, I don't know what's in people's genetics or DNA that they don't pay attention to what they're actually doing with their vote. I mean, this, the guy doing legal work for these evil corporations that he wants to take all of their money, they wouldn't exist to pay him a salary if, if he got his way. I mean, it's just, it's insanity. It's insanity.
02:10:07
Speaker 6: I thought billionaires were bad, right?
02:10:08
Speaker 1: I know.
02:10:09
Speaker 6: Look, we get the same thing with David Pepper. David Pepper's kvetching about Vivek Ramaswamy being on an airplane. I'm sorry, David. You mean to tell me that your dad, when he was CEO and chairman at Procter & Gamble, was never on a private plane? He never made a million dollars a year? You're a trust fund, baby. You were born on third base, and you're out here complaining about accomplishment. That's what really gets me, Brian.
02:10:31
Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
02:10:31
Speaker 6: I'm going to have one last rant.
02:10:32
Speaker 1: You're allowed.
02:10:33
Speaker 6: I want my kids to grow up in a state where people praise success, where they don't give you the lie that successful people stepped on the backs of people up the ladder to get there. I want people who go, I want people to have more power and more of their own money. And I want to create an environment where we actually help young people unlock the talent that God gave them to achieve their best. When you look at me and tell me that successful people are bad, there's a stink on you that I'm never going to not smell again. I don't get it. I can't vote for somebody like that.
02:11:06
Speaker 1: A perception of ignorance that I will never forget. Wait a second. You just said that and you believe that? Okay. I know what a useful idiot is then. You're one of them.
02:11:18
Speaker 6: That's right.
02:11:20
Speaker 1: That's it. That's all. And look yourself in the mirror and say, okay, I guess I'm a useful idiot. I am being used to support principles that make no bloody sense and will be the ruin of America. That's me looking at myself in the mirror if you're that type of person. Okay, fine. This is the world we live in. This is why the next Tuesday is so damn important, Jack Windsor. And honestly, I'm worried. I really am.
02:11:42
Speaker 6: Are you? Listen, I think, you know, and I don't want to get in the weeds. I analyze. I overanalyze. I think about polls and internal stuff, and I read it. If Republicans show up, they win. I talked to Vivek last weekend. I said, where are you at? And he said, if Christians and conservatives come out and vote, we win this thing. I still believe that. And look, if you look at some of the early voting returns, particularly in Cincinnati, Congressional District 1, I don't think that the support there for Sherrod and Amy is where it needs to be. I think the older voter population is turning out. I think that's good on average for Republicans, younger voters that tend to go toward Amy Acton and Sherrod Brown are not showing up yet. They might show up on Election Day. But I think looking at some of these early voting totals and understanding that Republicans are starting to mail in More so, though, they're showing up early. If Republicans can go to the polls at a larger clip than Democrats on Tuesday, I think we win. And when I say we, I'm not even saying I'm a Republican. I'm talking about the people who are republic, who are sane, who think that communism and socialism are a cautionary tale that have killed millions of people over the years.
02:12:57
Speaker 1: Without question. And I share your qualification on that. I am a registered Republican, but I view the Republican Party as the only mechanism for me to achieve my ultimately little-L libertarian goals. That's the big tent that the Republican Party will allow me in. They won't allow folks from the Klan in, thank God. But, you know, if you're over on the DSA side, they'll take any commie or crazy in their big tent because we're a big tent. Okay, grind. You can have them, but you're going to ruin America going down that road. Jack Windsor, TheOhioPressNetwork.com. Thanks, man. I appreciate the note of optimism there toward the end, and I hope my listeners heed that and hold your nose if you have to to vote for Vivek Ramosomi. I don't understand why that has to be a thing. Just do it, for God's sake, please. Take care, Jack. We'll do this next Friday, and hopefully we'll be able to go over some positive news. Fingers crossed, man.
02:13:41
Speaker 6: We're going to still be celebrating. God bless you. Have a good weekend.
02:13:43
Speaker 1: And you, sir. Folks, if you didn't get a chance to listen live, tech
