Continuing the Kamenetz family name in local politics

Young, motivated and ready to continue his father’s family legacy in Baltimore County, Karson Kamenetz tells Nestor why he’s going to be entering local politics and running for Baltimore County Council at Costas Inn in Timonium on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour.

Karson Kamenetz, 25, discussed his run for Baltimore County Council, emphasizing his desire to continue his father’s legacy. He highlighted the county’s aging population and the need for affordable housing and services for both young people and seniors. Kamenetz criticized the bureaucracy in the permitting office, citing a constituent’s months-long wait for a response. He advocated for clean energy solutions like solar power and criticized the idea of sending the National Guard to pick up trash. Kamenetz also stressed the importance of non-partisan governance and community engagement.

Karson Kamenetz’s Introduction and Background

• Nestor Aparicio introduces Karson Kamenetz, highlighting his family’s political background and his father’s legacy.
• Karson Kamenetz shares his age and experience, mentioning his passion for public service and his desire to improve Baltimore County.
• Nestor Aparicio discusses his own political background and the influence of his father’s involvement in politics.
• Karson Kamenetz talks about the generational desire to improve the county and the legacy his father left behind.

Karson Kamenetz’s Motivation and Platform

• Karson Kamenetz explains his decision to run for Baltimore County Council, emphasizing his love for the county and his desire to make it better.
• Nestor Aparicio and Karson Kamenetz discuss the importance of maintaining and improving key county assets like the racetrack and the Maryland State Fair.
• Karson Kamenetz highlights the challenges faced by the county, including bureaucracy and the need for better government services.
• Nestor Aparicio and Karson Kamenetz discuss the importance of accountability and compromise in politics.

Challenges and Opportunities in Baltimore County

• Karson Kamenetz talks about the need for better government services and the impact of bureaucracy on constituents.
• Nestor Aparicio and Karson Kamenetz discuss the importance of consistent government and the challenges faced by new businesses.
• Karson Kamenetz shares examples of constituents’ frustrations with the permitting office and the need for immediate action.
• Nestor Aparicio and Karson Kamenetz discuss the importance of non-partisan government and the need for collaboration between Democrats and Republicans.

Karson Kamenetz’s Campaign and Vision

• Karson Kamenetz outlines his campaign platform, focusing on the need to attract and retain young people in Baltimore County.
• Nestor Aparicio and Karson Kamenetz discuss the importance of affordable housing and the need for growth in the county.
• Karson Kamenetz emphasizes the need to support both the aging population and young people to ensure a strong future for the county.
• Nestor Aparicio and Karson Kamenetz discuss the importance of education and the need for new schools and infrastructure.

Karson Kamenetz’s Personal Commitment and Future Plans

• Karson Kamenetz shares his personal commitment to public service and his desire to make a difference in Baltimore County.
• Nestor Aparicio and Karson Kamenetz discuss the challenges of being a young politician and the importance of integrity and accountability.
• Karson Kamenetz talks about the support he has received from his family and the community.
• Nestor Aparicio and Karson Kamenetz discuss the importance of community engagement and the need for young people to get involved in politics.

Conclusion and Final Thoughts

• Nestor Aparicio and Karson Kamenetz discuss the importance of local issues and the need for effective leadership in Baltimore County.
• Karson Kamenetz shares his contact information and encourages people to get in touch with him.
• Nestor Aparicio thanks Karson Kamenetz for his participation and wishes him the best in his campaign.
• Nestor Aparicio wraps up the show, mentioning upcoming events and sponsors, and expresses his commitment to promoting Baltimore positively.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

Baltimore County Council, Karson Kamenetz, Kevin Kamenetz, political legacy, county services, redistricting, aging population, affordable housing, education budget, clean energy, community engagement, government accountability, local issues, campaign platform, public service.

SPEAKERS

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Karson Kamenetz, Nestor Aparicio

Nestor Aparicio  00:00

Welcome home. We are W, N, S, T am 1570 tasks in Baltimore. We are Baltimore positive. We are positively here at cost us in 20 I thought I lost my lucky sevens double or I did not. It was just to the left of me, to the right of me, I’ve got pressure locks. We’re gonna have Raven scratch offs here. Very, very soon. We’re doing a Maryland crab cake tour. We’re getting out five in a row. We’re going to be at Coco’s on Wednesday, and then I’m shutting it down and getting ready for Buffalo. We’re going to move on to Buffalo. Luke is out knowing mills. We’ve talked about Samuel basayo. We’ve talked about concerts and the fair out here at Timonium. Everybody needs to get out here. We’ve had great guests. John Eisenberg came by earlier today, Chris Corman for the Baltimore banner, some of my Goombas, my little mafia, my consulate Bill Cole from coal roofing, as well as a Howard share from Duck doctors. I didn’t give him a chance to promote duck doctors, but I’m here. Carson cabinets is here. He has a son of Kevin Kamenetz. He’s been on the show before. His family is here, making a big deal out of this county council thing. You know, almost ran for office once. I didn’t. I always say to all of you and I had nothing but politicians. On last week at Ocean City, anybody that wants to get in the arena like Teddy Roosevelt, you know what I mean, your man had in his blood. How old are you yet? You 18? Yeah,

Karson Kamenetz  01:15

I’ll be 25 when elected, Nestor. All right,

Nestor Aparicio  01:17

25 Yeah. Definitely always had this in your

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Karson Kamenetz  01:20

pathway, though, right? Yeah, I used to joke all the time that it’s the sickness I inherited, but it really is more than that. It’s a calling, and it’s a passion, and it’s something you can’t turn off. You know, the desire to improve this county is is generational. I would say, what

Nestor Aparicio  01:35

did your dad leave undone that you’re mad about, that you need to fix? What’s going on?

Karson Kamenetz  01:39

Well, I think there’s a reason. It’s been seven years since he’s been in office, and now I’m deciding to run. I think Baltimore County is home for me, and I want it to be better, and that’s why I’m running. I think it’s that simple. What

Nestor Aparicio  01:50

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are you running for? Like, I had you on a couple years ago, and you were dipping your toe. I see it, Mako. I’ve seen you at various events. I mean, you really have picked up your dad’s legacy. You channel your dad a little bit. I loved your dad would be warm to you, if not, and knowing the story and the tragedy involved in your father, but like this is I had Johnny, oh, sitting right here about five weeks ago. We kind of christened this place, and we didn’t even pick it. It was kind of accidental, because we’re Dundalk guys, and we sat here, and I’m thinking to myself, if there’s anybody that was ever groomed to do this work, you know, running down at the Capitol and doing all that, I’m thinking, it’s people that dedicate their lives to it. I clearly dedicated my life to doing something different. And when I thought about entering politics, it was because, like, cities on fire, mayor’s going to jail. What’s what’s molars running the county you had just lost your dad. Like, I’m like, what Trump’s running the country? I’m like, and I still feel this, we could do better. Yeah, we could do better. I always feel we can do better, right? And I think if I were young as you and had the background you had, I grew up in a house where this was going on. I grew up in a political house. My dad was very involved in politics and a community development, community leadership. We had signs on the porch. Not everybody didn’t. Dundalk, we handed flyers out every Ted. Vanitulis took real umbrage to me because I campaigned for John coolahan, oh, wow, we kicked his ass, didn’t we? And I’m like, so I knew you knew Ted. But I mean, when I laugh about Ted, you knew TED is a kind of a crazy uncle, and your dad and your dad was in politics, this is all this was the conversation at your dinner table, where mine was more about baseball in my house.

Karson Kamenetz  03:25

Yeah, I think that’s why you see so many sons or daughters of politicians get into public service. Because, you know, I grew up with it at the dinner table. Just as you said, I received a master class every dinner about this is what’s wrong with county government. And, you know, you know, Kevin, he would say, this is how I’m gonna fix it, and we’re gonna do it my way. Well, he saw trade point. Oh yeah, oh yeah, right, a great example of something he marks on the other day. And we’re

Nestor Aparicio  03:48

talking about Todd Crandall issues and things that don’t I’m a Dundalk guy, and things that Todd could stand on. And I said, Well, Kevin, you know, I mean Jim Smith even before that, and anybody that was involved in believing in it, but I mean, your dad left these legacy pieces that be very easy for you to go out and campaign on things that he did, that are left behind, that are that are visible and visceral. I mean, even this racetrack and what we’re sitting in here now, hey, this is important. It’s alive. We got to keep the OTB. We got to keep the track here, like things that were fundamental to the county, that were important to your dad.

Karson Kamenetz  04:21

Yeah. I mean, you’re talking about the county’s identity. We have 200 miles of waterfront, 400 miles of streams and tributaries, farms and green spaces. We have the Maryland State Fair here every year at the fairgrounds. It’s

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Nestor Aparicio  04:32

now three weekends,

Karson Kamenetz  04:34

and it is packed as ever every single day. And people across this right here will tell you how busy it gets during the State Fair as well. I

Nestor Aparicio  04:41

told poor Christine she had bags under Russia. She didn’t sleep last night. It’s a tough job. You know, I empty right now won’t be on Thursday Friday, trust me, that’s the truth.

Karson Kamenetz  04:52

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But you know, some of that is under threat recently, and that’s really why I throw my hat in the ring here. I think Baltimore County, you just had weeks of politicians. And Mako, we have good, bad and ugly. You know, the good is when our government services work for people and neighbors feel heard and understood. The bad is when government doesn’t work so well, maybe bureaucracy clogs up and our friends don’t feel heard, and then we have the ugly, and that’s really when politicians let politics drive their decision making instead of doing the

Nestor Aparicio  05:19

right thing. And that’s like raiding DC with the federal army. Yeah,

Karson Kamenetz  05:23

yeah, yeah. I mean, there’s a lot of talk about Trump sending in the National Guard to Baltimore and to Maryland. And I think that’s crazy, because these people are here to, you know, respond to disasters, respond to emergencies. And I joke, I think maybe if he sends the National Guard in, he should do so to pick up trash, because we have a serious litter problem in Baltimore, in Baltimore County, and it hurts our economic corridor. So if he sends him in, let him pick up track, put him to work. Oh yeah, well, we’ll put him to work for sure.

Nestor Aparicio  05:49

All right, what Council? Manic district are you running? Yeah, Give me. Give me the lay of the lake. People don’t know. Council. So, I mean, I had David Marks on he’s trying to explain where his thing is, over on the east side, where it ends, mile from pizza because, and we’re about to bust these things up differently all over again. Jones on, and is he on? You know, I had Nick on running for county executive. I’m going to be, you know, pretty full into all of these elections that are happening in and around my county where I live and work now, Baltimore County, and new businesses like this opening up that are counting on. I don’t say better government, but consistent government.

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Karson Kamenetz  06:27

Yeah, I hear constantly from business owners, and even just knocking on doors, talking to regular constituents, that it takes months to get a response from the permitting office to build a simple awning outside their building. I talked to a constituent who called me, and mind you, I’m not even elected yet. I’m running for council, and they had to call me to tell me a story about how their home was punctured by a massive oak tree, and what did they do about it? They’ve been waiting months to get a single response. So I emailed the director of the permitting office, I talked to his Councilman staff, and we got it moving. But it shouldn’t take an email to somebody running for office to get something done in the permitting office. So that’s something we have to change on day one.

Nestor Aparicio  07:07

James cabinets, he knows people, that’s what I would say, right? Well, that’s

Karson Kamenetz  07:11

the problem. That’s some of the bad and the ugly. A lot of what happens in this county is very much dependent on who you know. It’s not a fair system, and it’s not a just system, and we can work to change that. We really can.

Nestor Aparicio  07:21

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I don’t know. Kathy Klaus Marty, I got an issue over my place. I got to figure it out. Carson cabinets is here. So what Council and where? Where’s your

Karson Kamenetz  07:28

place? So redistricting is ongoing. I live in Pikesville, and I think the councilmanic district that the council proposed extends from Pikesville under 695 all the way north into green Spring Valley. You live in Izzy’s Yes, yes. Right now is district. And of course, the council is expanding from seven to nine, and I think I’m always

Nestor Aparicio  07:46

interested what’s happening north because, like, I’ve never met the guy that represents Hereford. I mean, most Republicans don’t come around me, which is why, like, JB Jennings came out the other day and I had David Marks out. I mean, Todd Crandall. I grew up with Todd Crandall, so I know he’s had a lot of issues. Todd knows how I feel about him. I’ve known Todd 45 years. I’ve known Todd since we were kids. So people in the county like this Democratic, Republican thing, at least in the county, yeah, people try to work together and have some accountability. To come out and say, Hello, I’m not expecting Andy Ayers to show up at home soon, but it is. It’s a shame for the constituents. It’s a shame for the residents, for the citizens, for people who are trying to make a difference. When politicians hide from people like me,

Karson Kamenetz  08:27

yeah, I mean, I think it is. I mean as a constituent myself and a voter myself, I think county government can’t be partisan because you’re fixing potholes, you’re clearing snow. If you turn those things into partisan issues, you get nothing done and nobody’s happy. So the council is not as partisan as what you may see in Annapolis, or definitely not in DC, and that’s by design. But you are a Democrat. Oh yeah, I’m a Democrat. I I make it sure I am absolutely a Democrat, and I think I’m a true Democrat as well. When we see what’s happening in DC right now, it’s hard not to look at the destruction of civil service and and, you know, not turn a blind eye. It’s it’s hard to see. I can’t

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Nestor Aparicio  09:04

think of anything like I’m older than you man, like I voted for Republicans. I campaigned for Bob Ehrlich. And when I’ve run into him, I’ve told him I’m ashamed of it. I had JB Jennings on who got his start with Bob. Or like Bob Ehrlich was at my wedding. Bob Ehrlich declared me and my wife. It was our day in Maryland when he was like, I’m not anti Republican. I’m anti fascism. I’m anti lies. Well, I’m anti anti accountability.

Karson Kamenetz  09:30

I’m pro accountability. I’m pro get things done as well, if that means you cross party lines, and that’s what you got to do. I mean politics. I joke is Latin for compromise. You need to have those relationships. You need to understand where the other person is coming from, and you got to work on what’s in common. Well,

Nestor Aparicio  09:45

I feel that at Mako, I told me that. I told David Marsh, I had a lot of Republicans last week. Julie jordano from Wicomico County, who was from Catonsville, Rick Meehan, who’s a dowsing guy who’s running Ocean City, the mayor, yeah, I mean, and I talked wind with him, right? Eight. So he and I got into this wind issue. And, you know, I Billy Cole was sitting right here two hours ago, solar and and where we are with solar and this creep run in the country, this felon run in the country, but the wind thing, when I’m sitting with a Republican mayor who has a very Republican agenda, and I don’t think we would agree on much beyond Fisher’s popcorn and a hobba crab cake like literally, I don’t know that I have a lot in common with Mayor Meehan, but he started saying, how’d you like to come down at the beach and see these things spinning out in the water? And what’s the benefit of that, and what’s it really mean to Ocean City residents or visitors? Are we really saving tax money? Is this Italian company? And I’m thinking to myself, he changed my mind, so I had a Republican here I probably wouldn’t agree with on much sit with me over 20 minutes, and I’ve known the mayor for a couple years, and we can talk concerts, which we did, and beach we love Ocean City. You’re there. I’m there. We’re all there, doing our thing, tax dollars, all of that. But that win thing is such a partisan issue that, because it’s a Trump issue, I almost don’t want to fall in any line with it, because of the dirtiness of that side for me, but the wind in Ocean City, I’m Republican on that issue, you know what I mean? And I told the mayor, I went up to him at the bull roast on Friday, and I just said to myself, because he was sitting with the Worcester County Executive, why didn’t he just had a shirt on it said he was the wishing. So I went over and I’m like, Hey, if you want to talk to Baltimoreans about this issue again, I’m happy to do it because I think it comes from the Spirit that isn’t fake news, fake science, any of that. It comes from the heart and the spirit of Ocean City. That is a politicized issue. It’s an energy issue, it’s a cost issue. But I’ve seen the windmills in Maui when I’ve been to Maui, up on a hillside. And I’m like, maybe they have to do that out here, but maybe we could have a different issue. So he changed my mind, and I think it may go this, Die Hard Venezuelan. Maybe I have a green card. Maybe I was born at church home hospital 1968 in Baltimore City. But all of this Republican nonsense, there are real issues that come up that I want to have my radar up to not be anti everything and be so partisan that I can’t have a sane there’s only a few of you left, Al rebmer, sane Republicans left who can sit and talk to me and say the guy running the country is full of shit, and I see it every day, and I’m not going to hear that, But I will hear issues of local concern from Republicans who voted for Reagan or would have voted for Bush, who are not down with what this guy’s doing. Because, like, I have seen Republican friends a few, and I’m trying to rely on that to get me through the second time around.

Karson Kamenetz  12:36

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Yeah. I mean, I, I’m a law student. I’m I’m an argument guy, consequentially, so if you come to me, if you come to me with an argument and convince me of something, you won’t find a stronger advocate in any room, regardless of party, regardless of the issue. I like science and facts. Yeah, this shouldn’t be a controversial statement. And when you talk about wind, absolutely we can have a conversation about the pros and cons about it. But when you’re protesting outside of mica with a sign saying, Stop wind, to keep government secrets. We’re not on the same playing field. I would agree with that. It’s like, what are you talking about? You know, and that kind of dilutes their argument. It makes it hard

Nestor Aparicio  13:10

to respond. That’s income to me. The argument for me was fish, fisheries, the water, and the view absolutely how far away it is, and whether it’s really going to save anybody money, right? I’m in on all of those issues, enough to say, come up with a better idea than windmills in the middle of the water out in front Ocean City. That’s all. Yeah, I think we need to come up with a better idea. We gotta have that some solar. Let’s put some

Karson Kamenetz  13:30

solar in. I think Baltimore County has been beneficiary, or a great beneficiary, of solar in the last, you know, 10 years, and I think it’s been great, because we need clean energy again. And we talk about science and facts, and it doesn’t take a genius to look at what’s happening with the once in 100 year storms that seem to be happening three four times a year now, like, I’m

Nestor Aparicio  13:48

probably gonna agree with 98% of your politics. So give me your platform and how and why you’re running right this minute at 25 and some would say don’t get a like, go do Billy, thanks to come back and run for politics. Go teach, like Johnny or whatever. You’re diving into this. I’m convinced you’re bred to do it. I’m convinced this is what you want to do, but it’s going to take a constituency to vote for you as well. Absolutely, yeah, I want to be a politician, course. And besides, whether you’re a politician or not, absolutely, through who was a lawyer, yeah, not a politician, he’s both. I’d say, well, not a politician yet. Well, yeah, you got to be voted on. Your dad was a politician. Yeah,

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Karson Kamenetz  14:27

yeah. Well, you know, I think Baltimore County is at a crossroads right now. We have one in five people in this county that are 60 and older, and at the same time, we have a young population that gets invested in by over half our budget, in the education budget every year. So these people, they come of age, they start to be my age, and finish college, and they leave, they say, Baltimore County has nothing incentivizing me to stay here, and it’s not affordable for me. And I think that’s a problem that we have to reconcile with, and simultaneously with this aging population we have, we have a growing need for services to maintain their. Residency to make sure that they’re able to age in place. And I think we can do both those things, keep young people and ensure our, you know, senior residents are able to age in place. But we have to have the conversation about growth to get there.

Nestor Aparicio  15:13

I’ve been having that conversation. Had that with Nick Stewart. I was talking about White Marsh and what the malls are going to be, and what these town centers in the areas around them need to be for residential I’ve talked at length with Mark renbaum about the Lutherville project here with light rail and what’s going on. So the zoning part of this for the county and county growth and what is healthy and schools and rebuilding three schools right now. So I’ve been into all of this. I find the the aging thing. Maybe it’s because I’m 56 and have to get my colonoscopy over GBMC or Baltimore County soon, new sponsor for us, by the way, the aging thing. That’s something I had not considered it all that the population

Karson Kamenetz  15:57

me, specifically me, Nestor, you’re young. All right, that’s 57

Nestor Aparicio  16:02

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in October. Dude. 60 plus is gonna happen on your term, maybe in your first maybe in the first half of your council. Manic run here. So I am, look, I don’t want to be old, except when they give me a discount at the movies. There you go. There are benefits. Hey, can I, you know, get 10% off? Yeah, I’m in but I don’t really want to be AR peed here, but I also understand that, like so much of the budget, and I think I spoke to your dad about this, certainly Don Mueller taught me this in his time, how much money we spend on a county budget, for schools and for policing and fire and just those services, just beyond trash and beyond anything else the county do to get ahead, just how important teachers, schools, police, firemen, how much of the tax base goes to that, and how in our county, you know, the education part and the buildings and the structures, there’s a lot of age in all of that. But we haven’t talked about at ease and senior centers and all the things that are going to benefit me, because I ain’t going back to Colgate Elementary, although I am very appreciative your dad to make as well as your dad really built Dundalk high. So I should argue for that being a Dundalk high Hall of Famer, but I see the investment that was made on the east side of the county in these schools, but I also realize teachers, all of the money as I get older is going to go to kids, because that’s the way it’s kind of designed to do. But the fact that we were an aging County, I had not you’re the third person that’s brought this up in the last week with me, specifically as a talking political point. But you’re speaking to me now because I am the guy who is going to hopefully grow old in Baltimore County. You don’t want me leaving, right? That’s, that’s what we want for you become county executive sometime so but keeping me here, keeping my business here, which has been here 27 years, I think about what will be there for senior people here? What’s it going to look like for older people in the county? How am I going to age out into this thing? Yeah,

Karson Kamenetz  17:55

I think what’s been really great is we’ve seen, especially in northern County, a lot of 55 plus communities coming up recently, developments that are saying, Hey, we’re going to let you age in place in an area that is affordable for you, that you’re familiar with, that your family can come visit you at, and where you can see your grandkids. Do the same thing. Come up with Baltimore County schools just, just for me, we’re going to need to Nestor too. And we want these kids to be able to say, you know, or these grandparents to say to their kids, you’re gonna have a shot too. You’re gonna be able to have a great education. You’re gonna be able to go to college, nearby, work, near where you’re living, and then retire in dignity. That’s that’s the plan, that’s the benchmark of a good and strong, similar civilization. And we can get there, but we have to build more. We can’t do it with 155 plus community and totally ignoring where young people can live. I I have friends that are leaving this county now my age, just finishing post grad finishing or thinking, Where am I going to live in Baltimore County? There is nowhere that incentivizes me to stay. There’s nowhere that’s affordable for me to stay.

Nestor Aparicio  18:54

City. She has a problem to come in exactly McCorkle on city wants you. I don’t doubt about

Karson Kamenetz  18:59

it. Oh, yeah, space for you. I think especially because of how linked the city and the county are in so many regard, we have to have the same message coming out of Baltimore County as well. It can’t just be age with us. It has to be, grow up with us. Stay here and age with us.

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Nestor Aparicio  19:13

Carson cabinets is here. He is running for county council in the Do we have a number on it yet? Are we trying to figure out new numbers

Karson Kamenetz  19:20

right now, right now, it’s four. It may or may not change. And this is, this is bad in the this is, this is part of the bad, of the ugly. You know, there’s a redistricting process that still hasn’t ended, despite starting over a year ago. And that’s, this

Nestor Aparicio  19:35

is, I’m not convinced they got the right. County executive. I’ve told five of them to their face, I’m like, You got to be kidding me. And then the inspector general thing, I don’t know. I live here, I work here. I play here. My business is wrong here. I got some I got some questions. I need some. You know, since your dad left and where we are, and Johnny graduating to Congress, and I had him here and all that, I needed to be stronger. I’m. And I do, and I want to pay tribute to your dad for one minute, because it just came to me about this. Because I have you here. I went to Colgate elementary on the east side. My parents bought a home there in 1953 My dad worked at Martin Marietta, then worked at the point after that that house. I grew up in my family. My mother was kind of a daughter to my father. Grew up in that house. My son grew up in that house. My son now lives in that house. My son has remodeled that house. I had to pay all the taxes after my mother died, but that house has been in my family for 74 years, right? Okay, so that house, my son’s there now, and I’m like, All right, dude, it’s time for you to go move whatever you say, Oh no, Dad, you pay for the house. I’m here. I got no mortgage. I’m good. And I’m like, Why do you want to stay there? And the neighborhood’s completely changing to those terrible Latin people, the people like me. When I was the only one there, it’s now 78% Hispanic the neighborhood I was the first one in. I was a pioneer. Yeah, I was the first one getting Hispanic phone calls because of the last name on the phone number over there. I go over there now, and the school’s there, and I said to my son, because my son does not mind at all living amongst Latin people, being one of them, and smelling all the delicious foods that are being made out there, but he hates that the window shades are down like Anne Frank, because everybody’s afraid of getting carted out. And I hate that, but I love that the school was rebuilt and my son stayed. And and one of the reasons my son stayed, he said it was paid for, and like all that, he feels safe, and he likes it. It’s home to him, and was home to me. It’s a bedroom I grew up in, right? But he said to me that they rebuilt the school here. Young people want to be here. The school is beautiful. It’s two blocks away. He’s like, we have kids. That’s where, you know, I want my kids to go, where you went, where I went, and schools different. Those schools are so beautiful, and it’s terrible that they’re a fortress. They can’t let me in as an alum because of guns and kids and pedophiles, all the weird stuff that happens in schools. The schools are these fortresses. I remember the Dundalk high Hall of Fame in my high school that your father really like. That thing’s like a museum. It’s so beautiful. Dundalk high, none of the alums can even get into the school because we can’t just go and knock and look for Mr. Lee down the hallway anymore. You know what? I mean, yeah. Like, you can’t just walk into a school anymore, right? Like I could to visit Miss Hawk at Colgate elementary after I left school, those schools that your father left and Moller fought for and Jim Smith before your dad and Johnny got to cut the ribbon over there with the mask on and all that I’m crying over Colgate pictures of kids I know on the walls up there and all that. That really was the legacy, I think, for your Father, or taking money like that and saying, hey Nestor, if your dad was sitting here and say, hey Nestor, your father invested in that house. You kept that in the family. You gave it to your kid. We’re gonna make sure there’s a school over there. I don’t what they’re gonna do about the mall and like all that. And you know what happens with bus lines in the point of trade, point Atlantic, and the jobs that my dad went to, but there is an infrastructure in East Baltimore that makes Dundalk desirable, makes Colgate desirable, makes the neighborhood I grew up a desirable because your dad, Pikesville guy, other side of town, went to bat for people on my side of

Karson Kamenetz  23:06

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town. Yeah, I think, I think, you know, my father, Kevin Kamenetz, and his predecessor as well, really understood that the best way to place make to raise property value of homes in an area is to build a great school nearby, is to renovate old, you know, decrepit areas with brand new retail, brand new housing, and most importantly, you know, good, strong schools. And that’s the key. If we can do that in places, in my district, in Pikesville and Owings Mills and in northern green spring avenue, we can show people that, hey, we can have the nice things that you may be getting in other jurisdictions, but you can have it in a way that’s affordable, that you can pass down generationally, just as your parents did with

Nestor Aparicio  23:46

you. Carson cabinets here, he’s gonna run for office. Tell me where to find you and all that stuff. They find you somewhere between your bikes.

Karson Kamenetz  23:52

So I am Carson with a K. That’s how nobody ever forgets it, and it’s Carson for the county.com. Would love to meet as many people as possible. That’s all I’ve been doing. This campaign has been meeting new people one after another, right where they’re at, knocking on their doors, saying, Let me take you to lunch, taking them to lunch, learning what they want, and figuring out how we could best solve it together. So

Nestor Aparicio  24:12

yeah, most of you kids, you give me no hope. You know what I mean, like, just in general, and then I go places. And Bill Cole and I were talking about this the other day. Bill said that he’s been going to Mako long enough now that he’s an old fart and the old farts, no offense to your dad, the Jim Smith so that were a lot of the older folks have graduated out of doing that event. And he said, Now when I go down there, I’m older and everyone’s younger. And he said the thing that he loves about is younger people, there is a new energy brought on by the indignity of having this felon run the country, and when you’re 21 years old, seeing our Capitol steps storm, and then they went back and put this clown in office so that he can continue to wreck the country, that somebody is stepping up, because it’s not going to be me. You know, Ted Veneto has told me, and if your dad had lived long enough, probably. Have told me you get more done with this crazy radio show that you can running and losing elections or, you know, even if you’re running your win, maybe you can’t be as effective. So I love that you’re out here doing this one way or another, and like participating in trying to make a change, even they say he’s too young. He’s Kevin’s kid. You know, the Republican, whatever it is, the fact that you’re representing as a younger person. And we say we want change. We want something new. We want young blood. We want new ideas. I love that people your age are inspired enough to get involved. Because when I was your age, you know, I could mail some stamps out and stand in and I did do signs, and I did, you know, politic on Election Day Out front of precincts and all that. But running is a whole different level of, you know, I had to have a long talk of my wife and Jill is over there now running a kid after her husband into this game. But I was going to run a different kind of way just because I was the anti politician, politician. But I don’t know that I ever could have been a politician. I would have been good at it. Well, you know, first of all, thank you. I think I’ve been a hell of a mayor for five minutes. Five minutes, but I wouldn’t have been good at doing this. You know, when Don mower told me how to go in the office and call people asking for money, I’m like, I do that all day. I ain’t doing that for signs to give it to w, B, L, so they can run my ad. So I have a whole different sense of money in

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Karson Kamenetz  26:14

politics. All right, I would love to talk about money in politics, you know. But I first want to say thank you. You know, being a young person in politics is not easy, and I think I’m very fortunate, of course, to have the last name and the network, and that gets me in the door, but I still have to break the Oh, you’re

Nestor Aparicio  26:29

not gonna get your feelings hurt either. Now, now people to enter the political space, the public space. I’ve been a public figure 35 years. My wife seen the worst things in the world written about me, right? Just in a general sense, like the fact that you need to be fearless, right?

Karson Kamenetz  26:45

And it helps having a family that grew up being told, Hey, you have a microscope at the back of your head. So, you know, that’s another reason why sons and daughters of politicians so easily can maneuver inside of it, is because we’re used to it, you know. We’re used to people saying, Hey, you have to watch every move you have to, you know, be aware of what’s coming up behind you and and that’s, that’s a skill, that’s an intangible. But I think most importantly, you know, we’re young and we want things to be better. It’s we see problems in the system. We see folks older than us that haven’t necessarily grappled with decisions that it’s going to impact my generation much less than theirs, and we’re ready to step forward and get it done. It’s not just me. There’s a lot of good young folks in Baltimore County that are gonna make a difference.

Nestor Aparicio  27:26

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Yesterday morning, I shared this. This is for these young people like Carson Cameron. It’s with a K. Integrity means being honest, truthful and consistent in your actions, values and words, even when no one is watching you. I think that’s the part of being a politicians kid that you probably like, that’s the part of it that says to me, like, yeah, you sort of why people are watching you. But even when nobody’s watching you, that’s when this is like, that’s when it really shines through if you’re doing the right thing.

Karson Kamenetz  27:50

Yeah, I would love to say I have the most integrity and most honor and most respect, but, you know, I’m working every day to be the best version of myself,

Nestor Aparicio  27:59

honesty, consistency, accountability, trustworthiness, moral courage, work on those. Where’d you find that on my Facebook page? There you go. All the good stuff is, yeah, yeah, no. I mean, I just saw it, and it spoke to me, not even about Trump or anything like that. Just spoke to me. I read it and I thought, like, Okay, this is what I want to be known for. You know what I mean? And but I but the part where nobody’s watching. That was like a Dr J thing from a sports thing. They say, how’d you get to be so good? He’s like, Well, I went practice in a gym all day long, nobody was watching me. So it made it easier when people were watching practice, doing the right thing all the time. You don’t have to worry about when lights

Karson Kamenetz  28:32

come on. That’s a great point. And if you’re always honest, you won’t have to keep track your lies. You know, God, that’d be a lot of work, wouldn’t it? I can imagine it’s difficult. I can imagine, unless you’re not held accountable for any accountable for any of it, like the president, yeah, yeah. And we talked about our IG, and that’s why I think it’s so important to have an IG. Is to say to Baltimore County residents, you can be confident in your elected officials, because I am here as a watchdog, so it’s an integral part of having this community of integrity. You

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Nestor Aparicio  28:58

run for inspector general next Absolutely not. Carson cabinets is here if you’re in his district. Consider voting for him. If you’re not, you know, consider hanging out with him, as I did it. Make her last week really good seeing you drive yet again. At some point we have a proper crab cake. I know you’re no stranger to cost us here. Timoni

Karson Kamenetz  29:16

Costas is incredible. Their crab cakes are honestly bar none. We had a crab cake here on Thursday or Friday. And the second you said you’re gonna be here, I said, I’m gonna be here too, because I want another No, he did.

Nestor Aparicio  29:27

He said, you do don’t. Everybody has to ask him across this, it used to just be one thing, yeah, I got to be specific and Pacific about it. Hey, this weekend they’re gonna have bands out here. They got the horses running out here. I’m wrapping things up, but I’m gonna be a Coco’s on Wednesday. I’m continuing my countdown here at Costas. Today we featured at number I believe it was seven. I didn’t want insult Christine as we’re doing our seven days of countdowns. We did the Oysters Rockefeller here, which is, if you’ve never had the cream spinach, forget about it. Get out of the Costas and get it as well as the crab Imperial make you. Feel like a king. We’re gonna be Cocos in my my last four places, they’re not wnsd sponsors, two of them I have never even mentioned on my Facebook page. So I’m very, very excited to release our 27 tastiness tips as well. My thanks to Paul mana for coming out promoting Trifecta food truck festival as well as I had John Eisenberg out. I had our chair from Duck doctors. I had Chris Corman from the Baltimore banner out. I think I left somebody out. I don’t even know. I’ve been here five hours.

Karson Kamenetz  30:31

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Man, you got you got a good job? Man, listen, here’s your job. Come to Pikesville, come good

Nestor Aparicio  30:35

kid. And if your mom nags me enough, it reminds me, as I put all this away, if I walk out of here without crab soup for my wife and I don’t take her home some crab soup, I’m gonna have to bring her out here Wednesday night. Yeah, so I’m gonna take her some crab soup. So remind me to do that. Yes, sir, always get the Maryland crab soup to go. It’s another little tip. It cost. I’m a half

Karson Kamenetz  30:54

and half guy. I like the half Maryland crab, half cream of crab, and ton of crab meat in it. And you can’t complain. You get best of

Nestor Aparicio  31:01

both worlds. I just love the Maryland crab soup here, you know, I

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Karson Kamenetz  31:05

respect it. You happen to be wrong, but I respect the opinion. You know,

Nestor Aparicio  31:09

debate team. Here we go. Listen where we are in a world right now. Democrats are not allowed to fight with each other more in a fight with him a lot right now, if I could, but I’m trying to be nice.

Karson Kamenetz  31:21

You see the arms on our governor, though he’s got some pretty big arms. He just did the Maryland

Nestor Aparicio  31:26

football video. Arms look really presidential, but you know what? I’d rather them look gubernatorial. Ah, first, well said, I need, I need, you know, it’s nice that you think you can run, but I want to see you walk and crawl. Well, said, yeah. Well, said, yeah, that’s my missed truth of the day, Carson cabinets with a K, very CASAS with a C, yes, in Towson with a T, or actually, Timonium with the T. Get out here to the State Fair this weekend and take care of the good folks. I’m stepping out taking a break because I got to get the Planet Fitness. My thanks to GBMC for putting these things together. The Maryland lottery bubble. I know you’re 18 now you get a lot. Make sure I still think of this kid as a kid, but he’s all right. He’s running for office. I am Nestor. We are wnst. Am 1570 Towson, Baltimore, and we never stop talking Baltimore positive. Stay with us.