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How will streetcar effect traffic? Naturally they go running to COAST for a comment to "balance" the article. The same COAST that implied the project is "Worse than 9/11" http://m.fox19.com/autojuice?targetUrl=http%3a%2f%2fwww.fox19.com%2fstory%2f23089611%2fexclusive-how-will-the-cincinnati-streetcar-affect-traffic

John cranley is getting upset, real upset, over accusations he's not progressive or a dem http://m.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/print-edition/2013/08/09/john-cranley-im-more-progressive.html?ana=twt&r=full Says he's more progressive than qualls

Amy Murray has been to numerous COAST fundraisers and events over last 3 years

Chabots plea "help me kill the streetcar project" It never stops with these guys. http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20130808/NEWS01/308080106

WTF? Murray is a tea partier. So they endorse extreme right, moderate left, and everything in between candidates now? Why don't they just endorse every candidate running for every office

Winburn and pg are pretty much the only two locks to be reelected to city council Everyone else is up for grabs

"Why in the world would you spend 10s of millions of dollars on a park? It just doesn't make any financial sense. We need to stop the insanity. First its the streetcar, then the atrium, now Washington park. These people now on council just don't have any business experience. We need to remember this and vote more conservatives on council next year. This is outrageous" -Christopher Smitherman approximately 1+ years ago paraphrased Now the smitheman pitch on 700wlw for cranky cranley conveniently leaves out Washington park. He hasnt mentioned it in months

Economic development reaches $81.4 mil along the streetcar route thus far http://cincystreetcar.wordpress.com/2013/08/05/two-projects-announced-today-total-81-4m-investment-along-phase-one-route/

^I would have put it in the smitherman thread but it was deleted In the database crash

Congratulations to Christopher Smitherman for recording his 99th podcast with 700wlw where he discusses the streetcar. http://www.700wlw.com/player/?station=WLW-AM&program_name=podcast&program_id=amazon.xml&mid=23533326 "African Americans are very concerned about the streetcar. They don't like it. They haven't appreciated the last 8 years." "A streetcar that's very unpopular...are making voters run to John Cranley" "They don't like the streetcar, they don't like the parking deal" - "No one likes the streetcar. I haven't met one supporter" (Amazon) "Citizens said to me. "Look Smitherman. I'm dissapointed in Mallory. He's not his father. Qualls has been there for 2 decades.I'm supporting John Cranley because I think the streetcar is nonsense". That is the feedback I'm getting in Hyde Park, Bond Hill and all over" "I'd like to see Amy Murray, Sam Malone, Melissa Wegman, Angela Feeman, elected to council. We can't look like Detroit to voters" "I can't say it enough. John Cranley for mayor. He must win" "Cranley tells me he wants more police officers, more fire fighters, fixing potholes. Not streetcars"

Was there for lunch on Friday with 7 coworkers. CLOSED FOR LUNCH MON-THURS special brunch on Sun, forget about Saturday People seem to like the service & food but not the construction - say it's too noisy. Perhaps it needs a door to nowhere. For the win

Does anyone know which prominent cincinnatians or companies donated to qualls?

Cranley has raised $472k. Plans on getting to $1mil Some donors: -Ex mayor Dwight Tillery -Phillips Edison Real Estate President David Birdsall -Joyce Farmer, wife of chairman of CINTAS -Buddy LaRosa from LaRosas -Neil Bortz of Towne Properties -Otto Budig, Budco Group -Jeff Wyler of Jeff Wyler Dealerships -Tom Williams, Port Authority Board Member -John Pepper, former CEO of P&G -Tom Blackburn, Bengals VP -Dick Farmer, Chairman of CINTAS -George Vincent, Dinsmore and Shohl firm -Jeff Ruby -Prus Construction -Bob Bedinghaus(Qualls can definitely attack him here if he brings up the stadium deal against her) Cranley has 3 primary staffers including former councilwoman Laketa Cole Qualls has raised $348K total

Queen Noble: Noble, who’s known for being eccentric and running for public office multiple times but never being elected, began the chain of the events with an explicit email. “ ” http://www.citybeat.com/cincinnati/blog-4917-longshot_mayoral_candidates_angry_over_debate_schedule.html

Listen to the last caller on that podcast....She goes off on Cranley about the parking meter and streetcar issues

Berns is officially out.

Cranley said that if elected, he will cancel the streetcar project 'in its tracks' and : Get Senator Brown, Chabot, Boehner, Wenstrup, County commissioners to lobby to federal gov and get that $45mil allocated to the MLK project Completely ridiculous what he's saying to get elected(Approximately the 17min mark). He knows this is an impossible scenario http://www.audio-podcast.fm/audio-episodes/john-cranley-22085334.html

Four former NAACP Presidents (Cincinnati Chapter) endorse Roxanne Qualls Release FORMER NAACP PRESIDENTS ENDORSE ROXANNE FOR MAYOR

Have it on good authority that the GOP is going "All out" in their support for John Cranley and Christopher Smitherman despite what they have said publicly. Then we have this gem of a quote by GOP leader Alex Triantiflou: The two biggest issues: privatizing parking and building a streetcar. Qualls supports both; Cranley has built his campaign around opposing them. “I do think John Cranley will be very attractive to African-American voters because they share his views on those issues,” Republican leader Triantafilou said. http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20130731/NEWS0106/307310060/African-American-voters-crucial-race-mayor Yes Alex. Every African American inside city limits is anti-streetcar and Anti-Parking

Is this Day 1 after the Cranley/Smitherman/COAST ticket is elected?

Remember, Mark Miller and COAST have been caught red handed creating multiple "personalities" for the sole purpose of posting criticisms of the city on enquirer, wcpo and other websites.

I doubt that. If a party wants to "back" a candidate, they endorse the candidate. Triantiflou said they are supporting candidates that have the "taxpayers interests at heart". Berns is their guy for the moment until he drops out then it will be cranley(although maybe not publicly) Cranley is headlining GOP fundraisers in Indian hill for a reason

The primary will narrow the election down to two candidates. On a side note, how will party line voters vote? I'd imagine Republicans might vote Qualls just because she is (technically) a third party candidate. Cranley may be trying to appeal to conservatives, but he is still a Democrat. GOP(Triantiflou I believe) has said publicly they are backing Berns, but when he's out of the race they will go to Cranley. Cranley has pandered to them tremendously over the last 3 months and gone to numerous GOP fundraisers in Indian Hill, Hyde Park, etc. Kudos to Cranley on his political strategy so far. I don't think he'd be a great mayor by any means but He's playing the game. He's pandering to: - GOP/tea party/COAST with parking plan/streetcar opposition - 700wlw/55krc crowd with regular appearances - Smitherman and him are using the NAACP to get out the African American vote Now what he's trying to do is shore up his democratic base Roxanne knows his gameplan. If she really is as bad of a debater as someone said on here, it could be tough. There is a ton of information out there that can really damage Cranley she can use, but will she use it effectively?

I've heard Yvette Simpson(Just rumors) Can the race for mayor have 3 candidates on the official ballot or does it have to be narrowed to 2? If Berns is still on the ballot, I imagine that he would draw some conservative votes away from Cranley Berns: Libertarian Cranley: Democrat Qualls: Charterite

The Fox 19 story, after a month of investigation, immediately got the route wrong by having Tricia macke say it ended at fountain square. I hate to keep harping on it but our local media is woefully inept. If we've constantly caught them flat out lying about this project numerous times, what else are they not being truthful about