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Not Cincinnati, the State of Ohio: codes.ohio.gov/orc/705.92 "705.92 Procedure for removal of elective officer by recall. Any elective officer of a municipal corporation may be removed from office by the qualified voters of such municipal corporation. The procedure to effect such removal shall be: (A) A petition signed by qualified electors equal in number to at least fifteen per cent of the total votes cast at the most recent regular municipal election, and demanding the election of a successor to the person sought to be removed, shall be filed with the board of elections. Such petition shall contain a general statement in not more than two hundred words of the grounds upon which the removal of such person is sought. The form, sufficiency, and regularity of any such petition shall be determined as provided in the general election laws." Given the dismal turnout on 11/05, signatures totaling 15% of the votes cast should be attainable. Since we are a Charter government this section does not apply. Source: http://www.leagle.com/decision/197633745OhioSt2d292_1280 If it's not in the charter then the statutory procedure alone is insufficient.

"(B) Once the board of directors of the special improvement district adopts a plan, it shall submit the plan to the legislative authority of each participating political subdivision and the municipal executive of each municipal corporation in which the district is located, if any. The legislative authorities and municipal executives shall review the plan and, within sixty days after receiving it, may submit their comments and recommendations about it to the district. After reviewing these comments and recommendations, the board of directors may amend the plan. It may then submit the plan, amended or otherwise, in the form of a petition to members of the district whose property may be assessed for the plan. Once the petition is signed by those members who own at least sixty per cent of the front footage of property that is to be assessed and that abuts upon a street, alley, public road, place, boulevard, parkway, park entrance, easement, or other public improvement, or those members who own at least seventy-five per cent of the area to be assessed for the improvement or service, the petition may be submitted to each legislative authority for approval. If the special improvement district was created for the purpose of developing and implementing plans for special energy improvement projects, the petition required under this division shall be signed by one hundred per cent of the owners of the area of all real property located within the area to be assessed for the special energy improvement project. Each legislative authority shall, by resolution, approve or reject the petition within sixty days after receiving it. If the petition is approved by the legislative authority of each participating political subdivision, the plan contained in the petition shall be effective at the earliest date on which a nonemergency resolution of the legislative authority with the latest effective date may become effective. A plan may not be resubmitted to the legislative authorities and municipal executives more than three times in any twelve-month period." http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/1710

You're right. Sorry, just a very frustrating day. I edited out the offensive portion.

Give it up, Cranley has a mandate. There's video of his campaign manager saying they polled it and 75% of people oppose the streetcar. I think it was a news record video. If that's true we're only going to further embarass the city.

Dillingham and Morowski don't have SB5 at the top of the ballot wave in on. Morowski isn't an endorsed Dem so that effectively precludes him from getting on. Dillingham has no name ID outside of union and party insiders.

Dillingham and Morowski have zero chance of getting on. Smitherman may get knocked off, but the challengers with the potential to get on are Mann, Landsman, Murray, Flynn.

Shit, we might as well get on him for getting murderers and rapists out of prison via the innocence project. This is a joke. He's a lawyer who was hired to do a job. It's not like the jobs moved out of the region, they only moved like 5 miles as the crow flies.

Cranley proved his innocence: http://crc.ohio.gov/Portals/0/Hearing%20Examiner%20Reports/9498.pdf

Look, the election is a three-point race, too close to call, and within the margin of error. Plus Roxanne clearly has the momentum. That same poll has Sittenfeld, Winburn, Smitherman, and Mann as top four in Council. If that's true Cranley is going to crush her.

I completely disagree with your premise. I think he can and he will IF able (i.e. has a complicit council). If he gets elected, which looks increasingly likely, he has to cancel it or his mayorship immediately comes undone. Sure, it will be a complete shitshow but he has to do it or he will have lost the other half of the city (those that want it canceled).

Why? If I care about the streetcar then why put effort into a Sisyphean task for Roxanne when I get maybe help preserve/increase a council majority that will cock-block Cranley? I'd much prefer Roxanne, but unfortunately reality has intruded and still allows the chance to preserve the streetcar.

So Roxanne is already behind? Shouldn't we just be turning our attention to Council, then? Cranley stomped her in the primary and the Enquirer endorsement isn't going to hurt him. Time to cut bait on lost causes and fight to preserve what matters.

This ad is a really bad sign. Cranley only runs an ad like this if he is way up on Qualls, if he was behind or neck-in-neck then he would run a more direct comparison between the two of them.

My point is this: at every other place he has ever had residence at least some of those factors would apply, they don't apply here, ergo he's not a resident. Homeless people are a special case and they have a special rule to deal with their situation.