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WLWT http://www.wlwt.com/video/30485604/detail.html It was a cool ceremony. I'm sure the videos will load soon. First, Tom Luken streaked through the aisle yelling "Boondoggle". He threw off one of the bodyguards but was tackled by Mayor Mark Mallory himself. Then Chris Smitherman took the mic from Ray LaHood mid-speech and said "My man Mark Miller has one of the best twitter accounts of all time" before being tased & escorted out. After everyone settled down, Tom Luken broke past security and streaked again. He outran police and ran off into the CBD. Then after the conference, Chris Finney dove on the rock Mallory was digging up to try and prevent groundbreaking. He was escorted away by police while smacking his butt and telling David Pepper to "Kiss my ass". He is calling into 700wlw tomorrow to talk with Darryl parks about suing the city for injuries caused by the rock Eric Deters screamed treason and said he will conquer Cincinnati using 'White women and Pot'. Fortunately he was exposed as a phony after someone saw his "Obama '08' tattoo on the small of his back. Everyone pointed and laughed. Nelson from the Simpsons mocked Deters as he turned around, head slumped, and they walked off into the distance together Bill Cunningham had a stand in staged in the crowd to call his show at precisely 1:00PM and say to his audience that the streetcar has caused a bout of Bubonic Plague in the tri-state. Chris Smitherman later called in to confirm it. Darryl Parks was there covering the story for 700wlw and prepared for his 700wlw show tomorrow by putting in ear plugs and putting on a blindfold. He then accidentally stumbled into Washington Park. Panhandlers felt sorry for him and offered him change Leslie Ghiz screamed at a supporter. 'Its G with a hard G!' before telling cameras in front of a crowd of 400 'NO ONE WANTS THIS'. Laketa Cole scaled down the building in a Wonder Woman outfit, grabbed a hold of Ghiz and scaled back up. PG Sittenfeld told reporters he was against the project before he was for it but right after he was against it. He then said he was a huge Yankees and Red Sox fan, Loved Obama and Santorum, and Liked Skyline and Gold Star. Doc Thompson tried to make an appearance even he, in addition to everyone else, forgot who he was so he gave up Brian Thomas of 55krc sat down in the middle of the road, crossed his legs and arms, and whined. A four year old screaming about not getting ice cream suddenly stopped, looked at Thomas and said "Grow up". He was escorted into the paddy wagon with Finney and Smitherman already scheming about how to take over Cincinnati Mark Miller interrupted the ceremony as well. He pulled out his cell phone from his bright pink tie dyed fanny pack and tweeted "12.5% of your fire department browned out because of this boondoggle". CincyCapell rushed over, took his cell phone, threw it to Mallory, and proceeded to play keep away as Miller kept chasing the person with the phone. Yvette Simpson had a nice catch and behind the back pass to Seelbach who threw to a diving Quinlivan who threw to Wendall Young who threw to Thomas who threw to Cincy Capell. Capell crushed the cell phone inside of his right hand. Miller crumpled to the ground in a fetal position and bawled. Police picked him up and put him in the paddy wagon as well. Then Luken streaked back through the crowd and off into the sunset. Nothing too exciting That post was the funniest thing that I've read in weeks FCE. Thaks for posting it!!!

Poor disbarred former attorney/fired radio host/ washed up restauraneur Eric Deters can dish it out but he can't take it.

I just read that. Someone needs to send that to the Secret Service.

If anyone wants to post a polite response to Portune please feel free. It's been a long day and I'm too pooped to do it, and I have another long day tomorrow.

I wrote to Portune today, and received a reply. as there was no request of confidentiality, I am posting his email in it's entirety for your consideration:

I suspect that OKI & the County Commissioners might be positioning themselves to say that the OKI grant can't pay for any utility work, since Portune has apparently chosen to demagogue the issue (in vain hopes of pandering to suburban voters in November). If so that's fine, creative accounting will ensure that their $4 Million goes towards actual streetcar construction costs and nothing else.

This just in from WVXU: http://www.wvxu.org/news/wvxunews_article.asp?ID=9796 So it looks like OKI is preparing contigincy plans for the $4 Million in case the project does not happen.

Mark Miller is blabbering on Twitter that Portune is saying that Cincinnati may lose $4 Million in OKI funds for the streetcar. He provided no link to any source. Anyone know if something's up?

FYI, Rothenberg is a member of COAST, and a perennial right wing wannabe for local office as well.

Someone is playing Pretend Attorney again.

BRAVO! I've been working in Louisville all day, but followed the live tweeting of the Slitherman/Windbag dog & pony show. Looks like their little stunt backfired oin them, didn't it?? :shoot:

Agreed Jake. I thought that Museum Center was County owned? If it's City owned, how can it get a County levy?? I could be wrong, but if memory serves, didn't the City get that deal because the City owned land that was needed for the stadium project?

Agreed Jake. I thought that Museum Center was County owned? If it's City owned, how can it get a County levy??

Now I like this:

That's what I read too.

....and Dan Monk wieghs in Duke Energy won't pay to relocate utilities for Cincinnati streetcar Business Courier by Dan Monk and Lucy May, Courier senior staff reporters Date: Wednesday, February 8, 2012, 12:43pm EST Full article [removed full article text]

Duke Energy: We Won't Move Utility Lines For Streetcar Unless City Pays http://www.local12.com/content/breaking_news/story/Duke-Energy-We-Wont-Move-Utility-Lines-For/CuOU7k3jMUOIQc-OewuVxw.cspx#.TzK5GdKwCac.twitter There may be a major roadblock toward construction of the Cincinnati Streetcar. Duke Energy today sent a letter to Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory saying the company will not move their underground utility lines unless the city agrees to pay the full cost. The cost for moving the lines comes to about $18.7 million. Duke Energy also wants the city to promise to have an eight foot separation between the streetcar and the utility lines so they can work safely on the lines as the streetcar is running. Duke goes on to say they support the streetcar project but they don't want their customers to have to pay the cost of moving the lines. Ironically, Mayor Mallory is in Washington DC, attending a streetcar summit. Local 12's Jeff Hirsh is gathering more on this developing story and will have an update on Local 12 News First at Four.

That's the best news that i've heard all week!! :clap:

I thought I was on C4P's e-mail list? Maybe my anti-spam is working too well....... I actually just found their email sitting in my spam folder.

I hope so! I'm working with a new client who has been in town all week, and if I can get them off to the airport in time I'm going to be there too. I hope to see some of you there!!

The anti-streetcar crowd never stops, yet our side always seems to drop the ball between elections. I haven't heard a peep out of CFP via email, on their website, twitter or facebook. The worst part is that EVERY local media outlet will be at TheGrandstanders® sideshow tomorrow, and WLW, The Enquirer and the TV stations will pimp the story endlessly.

^how is discussing the biased coverage of the streetcar by the region's only daily newspaper "off topic"?

Yes how DARE we complain about the biased news coverage of this region's daily newspaper of record? The gall and temerity!

Sorry JJ! I didn't put two and two together! Awesome site though By the way, anyone else notice that the Enquirer scrubbed the mostly anti-Smitherman comment section clean from the "Letter: Smitherman has conflict" article? http://news.cincinnati.com/comments/article/20120120/NEWS0108/301200126/Letter-Smitherman-has-conflict The enquirer is routinely scrubbing comments from it's articles overnight, especially if it's a controversial topic.

The Enquirer routinely scrubs comments from an article, particularly from "controversial" topics. That's why I make sure that my comments also post to my Facebook, thus making it easy to cut & paste my comments back into the scrubbed comments forum, which I just did with the Slitherman article.