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I love this move by the city and the fact that we'll know before the end of the year. Smart play

I had a soccer mom with a mini-van full of kids try to race me in Victory Parkway while it was snowing... Don't underestimate the stupidity of humanity

I've done some investigating on the opponents plans that leads me to believe they are planning another ballot initiative, possibly/probably for this year(since they know they are running out of time) I've heard rumors of some of them wanting a petition to amend the number of people on city council and/or some of them wanting another streetcar measure of some sort. My guess is that they will go all out since they are in desperation mode

When? No way they'd do in Nov 2012, a presidential election year. By Nov 2013, the construction could be nearly complete. http://www.fox19.com/story/16002703/streetcar-opponents-react-to-vote If the money problems mount, however, Brinkman says another petition could be on the horizon. "Certainly they've got to figure out a way to get it done and if they don't we will go back to the ballot box," he said. "They can't be building a streetcar when they haven't addressed the pension issues and the fiscal long term stability of the city." This combined with the fact that Finney hinted at it last night sounds to me like they are planning another initiative ASAP

Brinkman said today they might go back to the ballot box to stop the project. Lets get these contracts signed, sealed, and delivered

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Tom Luken rambled on 700wlw . Said there is no federal or state funding for the project. Said costs will come out of public service. Says no one has answered any of his questions. Was extremely incoherent even for him Smitherman on 700wlw at 12:06. Quinlivan on at 1 o'clock hour

Streetcar opponents holding a press conference at noon today. Get Ready for the Finney Luken show Luken going off the rails on 700wlw right now

Still have a lot of work to do... Chris Finney was interview on 700wlw and he said they would continue to fight. Then he declined to answer if they would bring forth another ballot initiative. First things first, get some contracts signed and get some dirt moving before costs go up

Ditto! :drunk: It was an incredibly exhaustive yet exciting day. The council results were icing on the cake. So very proud of Cincinnati tonight! I didn't....I'm going to be an absolute train wreck tomorrow

Solid work.. Now lets get this MFing streetcar under construction already before Smitherman starts collecting signatures again!

Did Smitherman really get elected or is it April Fools?

Gentlemen(and ladies if there are any), It's been an honor discussing this issue with you all. Great work done by all. Seriously. Celebrate through the night. GREAT WORK!

This is it.... Lets hope rational people showed up at the polls... I might make it to Arnold's tonight to meet some of you guys. If there are some good results before I leave and the issue looks doom, I will lift my indefinite suspension of Applebees and bring some Mozzarella Cheese sticks

"$4.50 gas coming soon?" http://www.wcpo.com/dpp/money/consumer/dont_waste_your_money/%244.50-gas-prices-predicted-next-summer If 48 passes, it could be one of the worst things to happen in this region in a long time.

Doc Thompson mixed it up on 700wlw this morning. Said you have to vote "NO" on Issue 48 if you do not want the streetcar. He's too smart not to get it mixed up at this point. I think he's secretly hoping Issue 48 fails so he can get more ratings for his show Qualls and Quinlivan are in Pleasant Ridge right now

What? No Luken? No Louis? No Kasich? Hardly seems right to leave them out. I am ashamed to say Luken, Louis, and Kasich slipped my mind

Hows everything looking? How are the locations? Crowded? Any stories?

'Twas the night before Elections, when all through the debate Not an Issue 48 opponent was stirring, not even eigtgh and state The arguments were heard by the electorate indeed, In the hopes that supporters of 48 would concede The COASTers were nestled all smug on their knees With visions of Mozzarella cheese sticks from a local Applebees; And Chris Smitherman with his petition, Chris Finney with his chances Seem to be exhausted from chasing ambulances, When out on the pavement there arose such a shiller, I sprang from the bed only to see one Mark Miller. I stepped back from the window and was taking some heat, Mark had his laptop and continued to tweet And tweet he continued, no truth or no sense I did get a chuckle when he tripped on the fence When, all of the sudden my eyes saw a glider, With a miniature streetcar, led by John Schneider Mark Miller stood there, frightened with fear That's when I jumped up and let out a cheer From my vantage point, I heard Miller's rants Then I witnessed him immediately pee down his pants Out of the bushes, there came a change of plan Out came 700wlw with Barry Horstman John Schneider erupted, and called on his kin Jake Mecklenborg, Rob Jaques and Living in Gin Civvik, GCrites, natininja and KJP Made 700wlw instantly flee Horstman walked to Miller, willing to embrace Of course this was done at a 6.5 mph pace They stood there in shock, ready for battle At this point they thought they'd rather live in Seattle Issue 48 opponents, circled the two And simply told them both to go shoo Running up to his car, Mark decides to drive, Immediately getting stuck in traffic on 75 Cursing and yelling, he took a huge breath But that was just simply to inhale all the meth Barry Horstman turned around, feeling the heat And merged into traffic, using his feet As I drew my head in, and prepared for a shower I remembered to set my clocks back an hour But that's neither here nor there, I digress can't you see I should get back to this unique story John Schneider and kin, approached my apartment door They knocked politely then said 'excuse me senor' 'Issue 48 is dangerous, we went through this years ago It bans all rail, we urge you vote no' And with that they left, as quick as they came To the next neighbor, for more of the same But I heard them say, as they continued to boast "Vote NO on Issue 48, and COAST will be TOAST"

Him and COAST under fire for lying about Issue 2 now as well. Ed schulz talking about it tonight I wish all this news had come out a week ago....I'm still seeing tweets and facebook posts of people thinking the choice is cops/fire or streetcar How the FOP and the Fire departments support COAST/Smitherman is beyond me...

I've heard Smitherman already has plans for another initiative should he lose. So you may get a 3rd laugh as well. First things first, lets destroy this crappy amendment at the polls like a COAST member destroying a toilet in the bathroom stall after an All you can Eat Golden Corral Buffet

Close to 70 tweets yesterday from Mark just on the streetcar(to 12:01am) Today he's already at 19 including some in the 2-3 am range and then woke up at 7am to start again.

Mark Miller/COAST account tweeted 53 times today about the streetcar(still going) on a friday and we still have 2 hours left before the day is over.

Mark Miller is absolutely losing his mind on twitter. Taunting C4P and other streetcar supporters directly, and upping the post count to around 40-50 per day. The desperation is at extreme levels with him right now Does this guy have a job? Or a life?

Editor there is probably getting an earful of Smitherman right now By the way, John Schneider wrote a great guest column in todays Enquirer http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20111104/EDIT02/111040368/Guest-column-Don-t-strangle-light-rail?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|s EDIT: Forgot about Jake Mecklenborg, Chris Finney, and Mark Schmidt's podcast here: http://cincinnatiansforprogress.com/audio/Mark_Schmidt_on_WDJO.mp3