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Thank you for listening. I can't listen to that drivel anymore. 2000 signatures in 5 days seems awfully tough. Not to mention many will be not valid so they will have to get above and beyond the minimum requirement. I hope they will go over every signature.

Shocking. Smitherman on 700 at 11 to beg for signatures.

Great pics but they were carefully orchestrated to show off 'the best' of pyongyang as someone already mentioned. Any outsider who goes to North Korea has 'minders' that show them only what they want you to see. If you guys want to see how surreal life is like in North Korea, I highly recommend checking out these youtube documentaries: National Geographic: Inside North Korea Less Formal Documentary Part 1(all clips on youtube: Vice Guide to North Korea Part 1(My favorite one of the 3): The Vice Guide to North Korea Part 1 of 14 Labor Camps: Some Tourist videos from the DMZ and how crazy it is everyday: If you want to see a documentary of a place that may be worse than North Korea, here's part 1 of a documentary from the Vice Guys Guide to Travel on Liberia The Vice Guide To Travel - Liberia - Part 1

It means they are going to blitz nursing homes and bars again for sigs

Oooooh ok I misunderstood

How is this legal? Allowing people who don't live in the city deciding on city issues? So they can collect signatures from Cleveland if they wanted to?

"Challenge to ALL Cincinnati Police and Fire Unions! by Mary Kuhl on Monday, August 1, 2011 at 11:39am I'd like to challenge ALL CPD and CFD to help us get those last 1000 signatures!! While I know of you folks do not live in the city however you can still collect signatures no matter where you live! We must crush this damn thing and this is a call for everyone to help. I know its hot, everyone busy but if some of the members of both of these unions actually did bit of " door to door" it would help greatly. Please consider helping with this as we have helped work to save your jobs over the last several budget cycles." Lets hope the elections committee is thorough in checking the legitimacy of these signatures.

Mary Kuhl has a history of being in the limelight for all the wrong reasons: http://www.cincinnatibeacon.com/index.php/content/comments/1221/ http://blackcincinnati.blogspot.com/2005/06/integration-drives-westwood-concern.html http://www.cincinnatibeacon.com/index.php/content/comments/mary_kuhl_a_renegades_letters/

The problem with the streetcar proposal is not a technical problem in my opinion. The problem is political. Despite all these years of campaigning and lots of hard work, the streetcar supporters have not been able to make the case to suburban residents that the streetcar is going to be a success. I can't tell you how many people have told me that they think the streetcar is the dumbest idea in the world. It's true that most of those people have never been more than a quarter mile from their houses without a car, and most of them have never walked the streets of Over-the-Rhine. That would be our media problem as well. Between the enquirer and 700wlw, the project has been bashed probably 2-3 times per week. Some weeks, like the past one, they bashed it everyday. Smitherman and the rest have been dominating the airwaves and news as of late. I have also run into people who say "This is the dumbest idea ever", "I hope it fails", "Cincinnati is a s*&^hole", "Only in Cincinnati", and "What a horrible waste of money" among other things. However, when I tell them that this amendment will also ban all rail for 10 years without a vote, they absolutely HATE that idea. The fact that NO local media is reporting the truth behind the actual amendment is absurd.

^ Where did you get that number? Did they say that on the radio? I wouldn't put much stock into their PR As we all know, the COAST crowd has a tendency to stretch or not tell the truth

Anyone gonna be down there to witness their shenanigans?

Nick Gillespie Q & A Q: You’re not fans of the streetcar, either. -There are no places in America where this type of redevelopment has worked. What works is the less glamorous stuff. What politicians have to do is make it so every new person who wants to open a small business or large business doesn’t have to come and kiss the ring of the pope of the moment. At the same time, you give up on the fantasy that what we really need in Cincinnati is an opera house or more classical music or a better museum. I generated an axiom that anytime you ask somebody about a city, if they mention a symphony orchestra in the top three or five attractions, you know you’re in a totally dead town. Nobody says what’s great about New York is Carnegie Hall or the Philharmonic. These are not the things that make a city great. They are reflections of cities that have vast amounts of wealth, which is always generated from much more humble activities. With Cincinnati, are people really going to say, Oh you know it’s great now we have this fucking streetcar? No. What they’re going to say is that we have great businesses and great restaurants and schools that are responsive. That’s not going to come from white elephant Oedipus-complex projects that politicians and local business leaders always want. http://www.cincinnatimagazine.com/webexclusives/Story.aspx?ID=1462165

Petition blitz Friday to fight streetcar Posted: Jul 28, 2011 2:22 PM Updated: Jul 28, 2011 4:38 PM By Trina Edwards - email MORE LOCAL NEWS 4-year-old flown to hospital after falling down the stairs Former CODE president pleads not guilty Petition blitz Friday to fight streetcar 73-year-old arrested in police standoff Pre-school owner charged with rape Western Concern and Citizens Against Streetcar Swindle are holding a petition blitz on Friday to fight Cincinnati's proposed streetcar. The blitz is July 29 from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Sears parking lot at the intersection of Werk and Glenway. Streetcar opponents need 7,400 valid signatures to get the streetcar issue on the November ballot. The deadline to turn in the signatures is Aug. 10. Opponents say they want the issue on the ballot to show city leaders that they do not support the project. The City has committed to the streetcar line running from The Banks to Uptown, the area around the University of Cincinnati, hospitals and zoo. Mayor Mark Mallory, a streetcar supporter, said the project will provide $1.4 billion to the city. http://www.fox19.com/story/15166040/petition-blitz-friday-over-streetcar-fight

Oh. Well in that case I fully expect them to get enough signatures...

Where'd you find that? They aren't even halfway there yet. If this count is correct, it means Non Stop Smitherman guest appearances on 700wlw

And Doc Thompson already touched on it briefly. Will get into it more later. Also telling people to how and where to sign Smitherman's initiative Cmon Enquirer...You're the last one left...Prove me right

Guarantee it will be headlined on the Enquirer's website late tonight/early tomorrow, and Doc Thompson/Bill Cunningham will spend an hour with him...

(7/26/11): Board of Elections Obstructing Petition Count? PDF Print E-mail The Hamilton County Board of Elections seems to be obstructing counting the streetcar petitions. Cincinnati NAACP Media Release . CINCINNATI, OHIO - JULY 26, 2011 - The Hamilton County Board of Elections seems to be obstructing counting the streetcar petitions. They continue to make excuses on why they are unable to give an accurate and full count on the streetcar petitions. The excuses started on June 29, 2011 when the team was clear it had exceeded the half way mark. The team has turned in signatures since June 29, 2011 almost every working day. "Our petitions will not be moved to the back of the bus anymore. Now we must take off the gloves with 13 days left to collect and ask the board the most serious question. Are they obstructing the streetcar petition count?" Christopher Smitherman, president of the Cincinnati NAACP said. . It is shocking that the Cincinnati NAACP has found numerous errors in the Board of Election counting signatures. Our team has brought some errors to their attention. "It is a shame that the American process of Democracy is undermined by errors and excuses. The Cincinnati NAACP demands that our signatures be counted accurately and immediately," Smitherman says. http://naacpcincinnati.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=675&Itemid=42

Smitherman was on 700...again...for the 1000th time.

The gang is collecting signatures at intersection of Glenway and Glenmore tomorrow July 27th from 5-6:30. "Let the people decide!(again)"

Luckly the suburbanites, who overwhelmingly oppose the project, can't vote in November. So when 700wlw bashes the project daily and gives airtime to the opponents daily, its just preaching to the choir. The issue, again, comes down to the restrictive language of the initiative's wording as many people want to see light rail in Cincinnati. Many do not realize (And the Enquirer/700wlw is not telling them) that this would ban all all rail inside Cincy for a decade without a vote. This info will be crucial again and I imagine as we get nearer to Nov. and Smitherman makes it official that it is going on the ballot...again...that the PR will ramp up

Looks like 700wlw now is tied for 1st in June with B105. http://cincinnati.com/blogs/tv/2011/07/15/b105-ties-wlw-am-for-1-in-june/ Wonder what their share would be without the Reds

Good God this crowd just doesn't give up. If they put half the energy into helping the city instead of railing against every project, Cincy would be a world class city (exaggeration for those taking me literally but my point still stands).

Done with 700wlw. Can't watch dog these hacks anymore. So many lies and misinformation. Parks now railing about American jobs being lost because of 'the trolley'. For those interested, Amy Murray is on at 11:06 to agree with everything Parks says.

Darryl parks just lying on 700wlw over and over . "were sending jobs to japan"