Jesse Jackson is coming to Cincinnati this week...he's rumored to speak out in support of Black and against Cranley. 

COAST is suing because "the progressive 5" communicated via email/text... is COAST just out of their mind? Or is there some actual law that prohibits council members from communicating via email and text?

https://www.wcpo.com/news/government/greater-cincinnati-government/lawsuit-five-cincinnati-city-council-members-held-illegal-secret-meetings-over-harry-black

 

COAST is suing because "the progressive 5" communicated via email/text... is COAST just out of their mind? Or is there some actual law that prohibits council members from communicating via email and text?

https://www.wcpo.com/news/government/greater-cincinnati-government/lawsuit-five-cincinnati-city-council-members-held-illegal-secret-meetings-over-harry-black

 

Coast is a local Cincinnati version of 'trumpian rage.' Their sense of entitlement is limitless.

COAST is suing because "the progressive 5" communicated via email/text... is COAST just out of their mind? Or is there some actual law that prohibits council members from communicating via email and text?

https://www.wcpo.com/news/government/greater-cincinnati-government/lawsuit-five-cincinnati-city-council-members-held-illegal-secret-meetings-over-harry-black

 

 

Yes there are sunshine laws and they might have a teeny-tiny case that will now be blown into the stratosphere by our Cranley-loving media.

 

I think the problem here is that there was a meeting scheduled for this discussion, and instead of attending that meeting, these 5 council members exchanged emails and texts, privately, and then issued a statement in their capacity as the council majority, without a public meeting. I think this is the law that applies here: - there are exceptions for executive sessions, but I don't think this would apply (section G 1 is close, though):

 

http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/121.22

Jesse Jackson is coming to Cincinnati this week...he's rumored to speak out in support of Black and against Cranley.

 

From last week in Memphis:

^There's ol' Cranley, the politician, anticipating the next move in this game.  He's such a snake. 

:D

 

Hot tub accident zaps Mayor Cranley’s text messages amidst attempt to oust city manager

 

 

Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley dropped his cellphone in a hot tub sometime in March, resulting in the loss of all of his previous text messages, including those that relate to city business and his decision to try to oust City Manager Harry Black, a spokeswoman said on Wednesday.

 

Cranley’s hot tub snafu is significant because of the city’s decision on Wednesday to release text messages sent between five City Council members about their conversations related to Black and the city’s political crisis.

 

The Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes is seeking to get individual texts between the council members themselves instead of just texts exchanged between all five, which its lawyer, Brian Shrive, maintains is a violation of Ohio’s Open Meetings Act.

 

More below:

https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2018/04/18/hot-tub-accident-zaps-mayor-cranley-s-text.html

This is awfully convenient. 

Black accuses Cranley, associates of ethics violation

By Chris Wetterich  – Staff reporter and columnist, Cincinnati Business Courier

Apr 18, 2018, 5:42pm EDT Updated 3 hours ago

 

In 2016, Mayor John Cranley allegedly sought to steer a major redevelopment project to a company that had held a fundraiser for him, City Manager Harry Black said on Wednesday, a pay-to-play accusation that could get the attention of law enforcement officials. 

 

Black released a document detailing the accusations along with supporting documentation, including a “memo-to-file” he wrote after having a meeting with the city’s then-economic development director, Oscar Bedolla.

 

https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2018/04/18/black-accuses-cranley-associates-of-ethics.html

Not looking good for the Cran-man. 

Yeah, this is what many people have known about Cranley for a long time. When you donate to his campaign, suddenly your developments move forward. Hopefully some of the juicy details come out where everyone can see them.

Columbus TV news just spent five minutes on a firestorm between Wendell Young and Cranley over this Plush kid's death that I still don't understand. Columbus news is better at covering Cincinnati city council than Columbus city council since Cincinnati is more far compelling and less secretive.

Theres been a reason why all of the developments that were on the docket as we left the Mallory years suddenly failed to launch.  I've always felt the 4th and race tower debacle is all a Cranley screw job because the developer is from out of town.

 

Black accuses Cranley, associates of ethics violation

By Chris Wetterich  – Staff reporter and columnist, Cincinnati Business Courier

Apr 18, 2018, 5:42pm EDT Updated 3 hours ago

 

In 2016, Mayor John Cranley allegedly sought to steer a major redevelopment project to a company that had held a fundraiser for him, City Manager Harry Black said on Wednesday, a pay-to-play accusation that could get the attention of law enforcement officials. 

 

Black released a document detailing the accusations along with supporting documentation, including a “memo-to-file” he wrote after having a meeting with the city’s then-economic development director, Oscar Bedolla.

 

 

 

https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2018/04/18/black-accuses-cranley-associates-of-ethics.html

Watching the news on Channel 12 they conveniently left out that part out about Cranley steering an development project to a company who've held a campaign fundraiser for him.  They seem to be pushing the narrative that being the Mayor it is Cranley's job to have interactions with entities interested in pursuing  economic developments in this city.  If this was only the case then there is nothing unethical about this but the City Manager is alleging that Cranley gives special preference to economic development  projects to entities who held campaign fundraisers for him or contributes money directly to his campaign fund.

Still hard to believe Cranley now coming out saying, "The people don't deserve a city manager who PG Sittenfeld said needs Alcoholics Anonymous" and all this stuff, he really is like a child trying to create a storm in front of his storm.

 

I think it's easy to say corruption is rampant with Mayor Cranley.  It's honestly depressing because he is dragging the city down, putting it in massive debt with his run around the charter on police raises, and all this other stuff and yet the media staunchly defends his back.  I can't wait until the next election and PG Sittenfeld crushes Chris Smitherman

Columbus TV news just spent five minutes on a firestorm between Wendell Young and Cranley over this Plush kid's death that I still don't understand. Columbus news is better at covering Cincinnati city council than Columbus city council since Cincinnati is more far compelling and less secretive.

 

It's interesting that that event is getting more play outside of Cincinnati than in it. I saw video footage of Wendell going off on the parents of the kid and it seemed bizarrely cruel. I have no idea what he was thinking, but it seemed his thoughts were elsewhere. The articles I've read about it locally make it seem like it wasn't that bad, but the tone and attitude he had when speaking said a lot more than the words themselves. That was one of the strangest moments I've seen in council in awhile, and that's saying a lot.

I can't wait until the next election and PG Sittenfeld crushes Chris Smitherman

 

Do you think PG will run for mayor? Since he already has shown he had his sights set higher at senate I wonder if he would try for mayor. I hope so, because I think he would win in a landslide and would be more amenable than Cranley, but I'm not sure it's what he wants.

Not sure, but I think the general consensus is that he will run in 2021.

 

I'm starting to hope he does run, because I'm worried about Smitherman.

Columbus TV news just spent five minutes on a firestorm between Wendell Young and Cranley over this Plush kid's death that I still don't understand. Columbus news is better at covering Cincinnati city council than Columbus city council since Cincinnati is more far compelling and less secretive.

 

It's interesting that that event is getting more play outside of Cincinnati than in it. I saw video footage of Wendell going off on the parents of the kid and it seemed bizarrely cruel. I have no idea what he was thinking, but it seemed his thoughts were elsewhere. The articles I've read about it locally make it seem like it wasn't that bad, but the tone and attitude he had when speaking said a lot more than the words themselves. That was one of the strangest moments I've seen in council in awhile, and that's saying a lot.

 

It must be a bunch of "Look at those nuts down in Cincinnati. Not like us and our anonymous, groupthink Council that held their meetings behind closed doors for 10 years."

Cranley lucked out and the ouster of Brian Price has pushed the hot tub incident out of the news. 

:D

 

Hot tub accident zaps Mayor Cranley’s text messages amidst attempt to oust city manager

 

 

Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley dropped his cellphone in a hot tub sometime in March, resulting in the loss of all of his previous text messages, including those that relate to city business and his decision to try to oust City Manager Harry Black, a spokeswoman said on Wednesday.

 

Cranley’s hot tub snafu is significant because of the city’s decision on Wednesday to release text messages sent between five City Council members about their conversations related to Black and the city’s political crisis.

 

The Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes is seeking to get individual texts between the council members themselves instead of just texts exchanged between all five, which its lawyer, Brian Shrive, maintains is a violation of Ohio’s Open Meetings Act.

 

More below:

https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2018/04/18/hot-tub-accident-zaps-mayor-cranley-s-text.html

 

Was Cranley attempting to use a Hot Tub Time Machine to take the city back to 1986?

This is a website that follows/promotes state and local government issues, so this fiasco is out there.

 

 

A New Plot Twist in Cincinnati’s Ongoing City Hall Soap Opera

Michael Grass By Michael Grass,

Executive Editor

APRIL 18, 2018 11:05 PM ET

 

TRANSPARENCY | For those keeping track of the unfortunate local government soap opera that’s been unfolding at Cincinnati City Hall in recent weeks—which has revolved around a dispute between Mayor John Cranley and City Manager Harry Black—there’s a new plot twist: A lawsuit that a conservative group, Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes, filed against the city has surfaced text messages from five city council members discussing the internal acrimony privately.

 

According to WCPO-TV:

 

These texts offer a rare glimpse into the private, and possibly illegal, conversations and thoughts of city officials on one of the most controversial and dramatic events to rock City Hall in years.

 

Among the texts exchanged among city council members include messages about “whether City Manager Harry Black needed counseling” and that “implied Mayor John Cranley was a liar.” One of the attorneys working on the lawsuit, Chris Finney, told WVXU-FM that the text message discovery "demonstrates the need for our lawsuit and injunction to force compliance with the Open Meetings Act." [WCPO-TV; WVXU-FM]

 

https://www.routefifty.com/management/2018/04/new-plot-twist-cincinnatis-ongoing-city-hall-soap-opera/147570/

:D

 

Hot tub accident zaps Mayor Cranley’s text messages amidst attempt to oust city manager

 

 

Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley dropped his cellphone in a hot tub sometime in March, resulting in the loss of all of his previous text messages, including those that relate to city business and his decision to try to oust City Manager Harry Black, a spokeswoman said on Wednesday.

 

Cranley’s hot tub snafu is significant because of the city’s decision on Wednesday to release text messages sent between five City Council members about their conversations related to Black and the city’s political crisis.

 

The Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes is seeking to get individual texts between the council members themselves instead of just texts exchanged between all five, which its lawyer, Brian Shrive, maintains is a violation of Ohio’s Open Meetings Act.

 

More below:

https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2018/04/18/hot-tub-accident-zaps-mayor-cranley-s-text.html

 

Was Cranley attempting to use a Hot Tub Time Machine to take the city back to 1986?

 

good one, It's funny because it is actually true. His political coalition yearns to return to a former era.

Aren't everybody's text messages archived in the cloud nowadays?

You'd think so considering their tiny file size (sans images) as compared to phone conversations. But other people that Cranley texted might still have the texts also.

This is like a mini version of Clinton's 33,000 emails. Cranley's 33,000 texts?

 

You'd think so considering their tiny file size (sans images) as compared to phone conversations. But other people that Cranley texted might still have the texts also.

 

I don't understand why public figures even use text messaging.  If I were elected, I'd switch to a burner phone and cancel my home internet access.  Only use the computer at work and at the library. 

too many bums asking politicians to do something for them at the library internet pool

Cranley's office keeps writing Enquirer news stories:

 

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2018/04/24/cranley-used-private-email-detail-city-manager-problems-including-profanity-laden-call/546877002/

 

 

"16-year-old Kyle Plush died after his calls to 911 while trapped in his Honda Oddysey outside Seven Hills School in Madisonville didn't bring help."

 

Police showed up.  They didn't get out of their car and look. 

 

Cranley's office keeps writing Enquirer news stories:

 

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2018/04/24/cranley-used-private-email-detail-city-manager-problems-including-profanity-laden-call/546877002/

 

 

"16-year-old Kyle Plush died after his calls to 911 while trapped in his Honda Oddysey outside Seven Hills School in Madisonville didn't bring help."

 

Police showed up.  They didn't get out of their car and look. 

 

 

Divide and conquer, slash and burn. It is going to be a tiring 3 more years.

"16-year-old Kyle Plush died after his calls to 911 while trapped in his Honda Oddysey outside Seven Hills School in Madisonville didn't bring help."

 

Police showed up.  They didn't get out of their car and look. 

 

I just got around to reading the whole backstory around this incident and I don't see why the 911 call center is getting all the blame. It really seems like the majority of the blame lies with the police officers for not doing a good enough job of checking the lot when they were told that there was someone trapped in a car.

Probably a way to direct even more money toward police/fire

In his budget, Cranley kills dedicated funding for Tillery’s Center for Closing the Health Gap

 

Mayor John Cranley fired a political missile at a longtime Cincinnati City Hall insider on Wednesday, proposing to zero out city funding for the Center for Closing the Health Gap, the group headed by Dwight Tillery, who is Cranley’s former political ally and Cincinnati’s mayor from 1991 to 1993.

 

Cranley unveiled his budget on Wednesday afternoon in a news conference in Pleasant Ridge at the future site of a Goodfellas Pizza.

 

Tillery’s group was set to receive $562,000 in the fiscal year 2019 budget, down from $750,000 in FY2018. Under Cranley’s budget, the center would receive $0 in dedicated funds.

 

In remarks to reporters after unveiling the budget, Cranley said that the organization, whose mission involves improving the health outcomes of African Americans, could apply for funding through the $3 million allocated to the United Way to distribute amongst human services groups on a merit basis.

 

“We’re just asking them to compete like everyone else for human services,” Cranley said. “They should apply like everybody else.”

 

More below:

https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2018/06/06/in-his-budget-cranley-kills-dedicated-funding-for.html

suuuuuuuuuch a DINO

When you put your faith in government for your funding best not to piss them off and pick a fight over childrens hospital

City pays Harry Black $350,000 to promise to not sue the city:

https://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/hamilton-county/cincinnati/city-of-cincinnati-will-pay-additional-350-000-to-former-city-manager-harry-black-to-settle-dispute

 

This news, of course, drops in the middle of the media coverage of the shooting at Fifth Third. 

Dang. How many middle class income tax bills have to add up to produce that amount of money?

It seems like Mayor Cranley has discovered another "pocket veto" type of loophole in our City Charter, which is having a permanent Acting City Manager. In theory the City Manager is the CEO of the City but if the Mayor can keep an Acting City Manager in charge of the city for the next three years, he'll be completely under the Mayor's thumb. City Council normally gets to approve or reject the Mayor's nominee for City Manager, but by having a permanent Acting City Manager, City Council gets no say.

It seems like Mayor Cranley has discovered another "pocket veto" type of loophole in our City Charter, which is having a permanent Acting City Manager. In theory the City Manager is the CEO of the City but if the Mayor can keep an Acting City Manager in charge of the city for the next three years, he'll be completely under the Mayor's thumb. City Council normally gets to approve or reject the Mayor's nominee for City Manager, but by having a permanent Acting City Manager, City Council gets no say.

 

The Enquirer seems not to have noticed that there was never a search for another city manager.  Instead, they're on a quest for mold. 

 

More of Harry Black's allegations about John Cranley are coming out:

 

“(T)he mayor would insert himself into the negotiation for the purpose of giving the developer what it wanted, including using money in the city’s capital budget to fund the project,” the letter alleges. “Mr. Black believed these ‘sweetheart’ deals were fiscally terrible for the city and had contributed to the city’s budget shortfall of $25 million for 2018.”

Kroger will lead urban sustainability effort, Cranley announces at state-of-the-city speech

 

 

Kroger will help lead a new effort to make urban properties green, MayorJohn Cranley announced in his annual state-of-the-city speech on Tuesday.

 

The nation’s operator of traditional supermarkets will be a founding member of Cincinnati’s 2030 District. 

 

Cincinnati would be the 21st such district in the world. It is a public-private partnership spearheaded by the local environmental group, Green Umbrella. About $310,000 has been raised for the effort. 

 

More below:

https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2018/10/23/kroger-will-lead-urban-sustainability-effort.html

Oh please.  Kroger eliminating plastic grocery bags in 2030 -- write that down, everybody. 

^ My bet is they will do it before 2030.

Only in Cranley's fantasy-land could a grocery store promising to get rid of plastic bags by 2030 rank as one of his personal achievements. 

 

We're five years into the Cranley nightmare and there is absolutely nothing to show for it, yet the media keeps kissing this guy's ass. 

It was also revealed recently that the 56% of the city's streets are in fair, poor, or worse condition. There was only a 1 percentage point improvement in road quality from 2016 to 2017. So Cranley's biggest "accomplishment", the Capital Improvement Program, is barely making an improvement in the quality of our city streets. We borrowed $100 million for this program which we will be paying off for 30 years, and we're barely even outpacing the status quo.

^Did he mention how he started the Ohio Innocence Project?  How about his mission trip to the Dominican Republic? 

Cranley announces city manager finalists

 

Mayor John Cranley told Cincinnati City Council members on Monday that he wants them to pick among two candidates to be the city manager – the current acting city manager, Patrick Duhaney, and Assistant City Manager John Juech.

 

“Over the past few months I have given a great deal of thought to who should become our permanent city manager,” Cranley wrote. “I have great confidence in John and Patrick based on their past and current performance.”

 

Cranley asked that each member of council interview Juech and Duhaney. Cranley said he would meet with each member to hear feedback before nominating one of the two to be the permanent city manager after Cranley returns from a trade mission to China. 

 

More below:

https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2018/11/05/cranley-announces-city-manager-finalists.html

He spent 6+ months to say the finalists are his acting city manager and his assistant city manager? Wow.

EDIT: And if they aren't approved, they are still in that position.

Awesome how much COAST, etc., criticized Mallory for going to China.  Not a peep when rich boy Cranley goes.  I bet it's just like when he went to the Dominican on that high school mission trip.

 

Also awesome how Dahoney was a bad guy, but Duhaney is a good guy, except it's actually the opposite.