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It always feels like pointing out hypocrisy, no matter how blatant, has no effect.

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  • taestell
    taestell

    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

  • ryanlammi
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    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.

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Notorious Cranley donor gets free $1.9 million pedestrian bridge:

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2018/11/19/oakley-identified-name-bridge-over-madison-road/2024949002/

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The Enquirer claims that we're going to all see Cranley's text messages re: Black's ouster that were lost in the hot tub "accident":

 

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Plus, we get a second A/B after the first A/B. 

 

 

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Just call him "Billboard Cranley":

 

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To pay for the operating budget additions, Cranley proposes moving a $611,000 appropriation for the city’s affordable housing trust fund to the capital budget, eliminating $400,000 in vacant positions and leasing 10 spaces for billboards on city property along interstate highways, which will bring in $250,000 in additional revenue. That’s on top of the restored state funding.

 

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Using Chiquita logic, none of these texts count as valid evidence since they weren't discussed openly in accordance with the law.

“To an Ohio resident - wherever he lives - some other part of his state seems unreal.”

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Cranley: City’s population could top 310,000 if everyone participates in 2020 Census

 

Cincinnati and Hamilton County leaders are urging the public to participate in next year’s U.S. Census, the official count of the country’s population every 10 years that plays a big role in determining how federal funding is doled out.

 

At an event on Tuesday, Mayor John Cranley said he believes there is added public relations value if the city can ensure its growth is reflected in the population count.

 

The most-recent Census Bureau estimate shows the city’s population at 302,605 in 2018, 5,662 more than the 2010 Census. With the rate of city building permits and other activity, the city believes its population actually is between 310,000 and 312,000, the mayor said. If the count reflects that, Cincinnati would be the only large Ohio city that was losing population in the last Census count to reverse that trend and see a 5 percent growth in population.

 

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https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2019/10/02/cranley-city-s-population-could-top-310-000-if.html

"You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers

interesting, is that new influx or just the upper limit based on past census?(censi?)

This reminds me of when Mayor Mallory projected Cincinnati's population ten years ago at 378,000:

 

https://www.soapboxmedia.com/innovationnews/47census2010.aspx

 

Cranley's estimate is much more conservative.  There is a lot of evidence that city population could grow with the official count due to building permits, more development in downtown, OTR and other neighborhoods but I don't want to be disappointed like we were in 2010 when we projected a 40,000 person increase and instead got a 40,000 person decrease.

“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche

A ton of residential has been torn down since 2010.  Thousands of units.  

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In state of the city speech, Cranley launches broadsides against state, federal governments

 

Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley sharply criticized the state and federal governments in his annual state of the city speech on Wednesday, and pledged to back a statewide referendum requiring universal background checks for gun purchases.

 

Cranley, a Democrat, also lavished praise on the city’s corporate community, boosting employers for raising the minimum wage and awarding Kroger CEORodney McMullen his annual “Cincinnatian of the Year” award.

 

Cranley, who has had congressional and gubernatorial ambitions and is barred by term limits from running for mayor again in 2021, blasted state government for its response to the mass shooting in Dayton earlier this year and for repealing a law that requires utilities to use green energy. He said the legislature is “NRA controlled.”

 

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https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2019/10/23/in-state-of-the-city-speech-cranley-launches.html

"You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers

Sounds like he's setting the stage to run for Governor of Ohio as a "moderate Dem."

Will Cincinnati liberals actually remember what he was like or is calling him out only something that happens here on UO?

No, he's pretty disliked in liberal circles elsewhere, the cronyism is pretty well documented.

 

The democratic bench is so weak in our state that I could see him being the best of the bunch in 2022.  I don't think that translates to a win, but unless a Sherrod Brown clone pops up out of nowhere, Democrats aren't getting the governors mansion... until 2035+, when 3C population overwhelms the old people living in the countryside.

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17 minutes ago, GCrites80s said:

Will Cincinnati liberals actually remember what he was like or is calling him out only something that happens here on UO?

 

Cranley lost the mayoral primary to Yvette Simpson. But because it's a nonpartisan primary where the top two candidates (regardless of party) proceed to the general election, Cranley and Simpson both proceed, virtually all of the Republican votes go to Cranley, and Simpson loses the general. So he is not the Dems' top choice, it is only when he combines the moderate Dem and Republican votes that he can win.

 

Cranley has obviously made a lot of progressive sounding statements but has done virtually nothing to meaningfully implement any sort of progressive policy. I have a hard time figuring out what major "accomplishment" he would promote while running for higher office because most of what he has done is block things from happening. He tried to have a big signature project with the parks tax a few years ago but that failed. He can take credit for FC Cincinnati stadium I guess, but I don't know if that will end up being something that he will want to take credit for, or if the narrative around the stadium will shift to cronyism/gentrification/displacement.

32 minutes ago, 10albersa said:

The democratic bench is so weak in our state that I could see him being the best of the bunch in 2022.  I don't think that translates to a win, but unless a Sherrod Brown clone pops up out of nowhere, Democrats aren't getting the governors mansion... until 2035, when 3C population overwhelms the old people living in the countryside.

 

The only way I see Cranley winning a statewide office is if he's running against a Republican that is seen as somewhat extreme right, and he can say, "look, I'm a moderate, I'm fiscally conservative, we need to return to the center" and pull some of the Republican votes in addition to getting all the Dem votes. You would probably still need to have a bit of a blue wave to make that math work.

 

Cranley has also never faced any real scrutiny because the Enquirer praises everything he does in both their news and opinion sections. If he ran for a statewide office, he would hopefully get some scrutiny from other papers in the state who believe in investigative journalism, and there is just so much material to work with--the shady way he got the City Manager fired, his "accidental" issuing of a proclamation honoring a cop killer, the accusations that he makes backroom deals with developers and asks for campaign contributions in exchange for supporting their projects, etc.

It is likely that the Columbus media will frame him as "zany", as they do with many Cincinnati politicians not named Taft.

It's pretty obvious that the machine got useful idiot Jason Williams in the Enquirer's politics desk...there is nothing but friendly banter back-and-forth between him and Cranley + Smitherman on Twitter.  They're writing his columns for him. 

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Cranley is trying to get into Buttigieg's cabinet after he's term limited out of office.

 

 

^He had that Hillary Clinton fundraiser at his house, remember?  Now he wants to go to Washington to go head-to-head with Yvette Simpson. 

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Not at all surprised, I keep telling friends in Chicago that Buttigieg reminds me a ton of Cranley, same kind of weaselly rat.

Please don't elevate Cranley's name like that. he's nothing like Cranley.

Cranley-Lite at most, he's less manipulative (I think...) and more of a poll watcher. But he does try to be a "pleaser" like how Cranley does with groups he targets outside of the core voters as important. Like Cranley and suburban voters and West Siders, Pete targets the big donors.

Buttigieg does the exact same strategy Cranley does which is trying to be a Republican lite in the hope of getting non existant moderate GOP people to join the dems. 

 

Though I guess what he did in south bend was slightly better from an urbanist policy perspective - though his relationship with the African American community gives me echos of Cincinnati in 2001.  Its that bad.

I don't know why you revived this conversation after months of inactivity, but I think your allegations about Buttigieg are really off. Not being extremely far left (ie. Not Bernie Sanders) doesn't mean Republican. You're never going to be happy with a nominee with that attitude, and I just hope you're willing to vote for any one of the current candidates who wins this nomination. I feel like too many people are stuck in an echo chamber with people exactly with their mindset. It's unhealthy IMO, and one reason I've stopped caring about Twitter's freak out of the day.

 

He's proposing some really good ideas that are far more progressive than nearly any Democratic president in history. If that's not enough, I don't know what is. 

Like his great policies towards endless wars right.   Good stuff, very progressive.  Lets model our security state after Isreal where people have very little rights and are presumed guilty until proven innocent, great policy that gave us the TSA etc.   Also If I was channeling the hard left I'd be saying a lot of BS about landlords - I'm not there, I just really don't like Buttigieg.

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Also, they both pretend to be from folksy backgrounds.  "'Mayor' Pete" is about as bad as Jeb!.  

On 1/16/2020 at 12:17 AM, ryanlammi said:

I don't know why you revived this conversation after months of inactivity, but I think your allegations about Buttigieg are really off. Not being extremely far left (ie. Not Bernie Sanders) doesn't mean Republican. You're never going to be happy with a nominee with that attitude, and I just hope you're willing to vote for any one of the current candidates who wins this nomination. I feel like too many people are stuck in an echo chamber with people exactly with their mindset. It's unhealthy IMO, and one reason I've stopped caring about Twitter's freak out of the day.

 

He's proposing some really good ideas that are far more progressive than nearly any Democratic president in history. If that's not enough, I don't know what is. 

 

Exactly. The four Democrats who are likely to win the nomination are all left of Obama. But the far left is vilifying Warren because she used to be a Republican, or vilifying Buttigieg because he doesn't support throwing our entire existing health insurance system system into the garbage and switching to single payer overnight (even though he has stated that he supports getting to single payer eventually).

 

Cranley's and Buttigieg's politics are nothing alike. Cranley is an actual Republican who calls himself a Democrat so he can win in a majority-Democrat city. He has never taken a single policy position that has upset Republicans. On the other hand, Buttigieg is a progressive/left Democrat who is simply not quite as far left as Warren or Sanders. Whether Cranley and Buttigieg are both pretending to be from "folksy backgrounds" ... whatever, I don't care, that's how politics works.

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https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/01/19/river-road-gas-station-stoplight-request-causes-controversy/4423102002/

 

 

Cranley may have promised a light there, but there is no real need. in an 1/8 mile stretch from that business to Fairbanks (delhi Pike) there are already two lights close together, on a road with no lights for a while after and before. Three lights in a row there would be crazy, and the Speedway across the street seems to be good and they didn't even get a turn lane.

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More on that...

 

Mayor Cranley eyes run for governor

 

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Mayor John Cranley is getting an early start running for his next public office.

 

In a brief statement, the two-term mayor said Friday he is exploring a run for Ohio governor in 2022, presumably against incumbent Republican Mike DeWine.

 

"For years, Ohio’s middle class has been shrinking under the weight of the state’s failed policies,” Cranley said. “Cincinnati’s comeback, population and job growth that buck Ohio’s overall track record is a better way forward.”

 

More below:

https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2020/02/14/mayor-cranley-eyes-run-for-governor.html

"You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers

I suspect most of the state is gonna say “...who?”

“To an Ohio resident - wherever he lives - some other part of his state seems unreal.”

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On 2/14/2020 at 4:38 PM, BigDipper 80 said:

I suspect most of the state is gonna say “...who?”

 

It's hard for Cincinnati politicians who act like nothing outside of the 275 loop exists to go on and run for statewide office. It's especially hard for politicians like Cranley who use the classic technique of "behave like a Republican but label yourself a Democrat" to win in Cincinnati, given that this technique is not going to work statewide.

On 2/14/2020 at 4:38 PM, BigDipper 80 said:

I suspect most of the state is gonna say “...who?”

 

I'm not so sure. Certainly name ID will be a problem in Northeast Ohio, but that can be overcome with a good campaign. I have friends in Dayton in Cbus who are pretty familiar with him though. Some Republicans I know who live in Clermont County told me they'd vote for him over DeWine, which kinda shocked me. I also have an uncle who lives in Adams County who is a die hard GOPer (and Trumper) who always speaks highly of him and has said he'd vote for him in a statewide election. For some reason Republicans love him. 

He ran a "Back to basics" style campaign in 2013. People to the right love fiscal responsibility (pension, credit rating), police and fire (Police and fire raises of 2016), basic services ($65 million borrowed for CAP road resurfacing) and opposition to "wasteful boondoggles" (Streetcar, parking plan). Not to mention his well earned "bully" governing style and personality.

 

The only reason he has been slightly more supportive of progressive issues (2-way streets, community solar, bus levy but with roads!) is because he did not have to tack so far right to defeat Yvette in 2017 (thanks Children's Hospital zoning debacle.)

 

Expect those top themes to be what he runs on for Governor in addition to his work in starting the Ohio Innocence Project. 

 

 

“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche

28 minutes ago, DEPACincy said:

For some reason Republicans love him. 

 

I believe the head of the Hamilton County GOP already tweeted out that Cranley is not qualified to hold higher office, or something like that. They held their nose and let him win the Mayor's race because they preferred him to Yvette/Roxanne, but they don't want him as governor.

The rest of the state doesn't give a crap that he went to St. X whereas in Cincinnati that's important. 

1 hour ago, JYP said:

Expect those top themes to be what he runs on for Governor in addition to his work in starting the Ohio Innocence Project. 

 

He claims that he started it but I have been told by people who were there that he didn't do any of the work.  He showed up at the last minute and got his name put on it.  

22 minutes ago, GCrites80s said:

The rest of the state doesn't give a crap that he went to St. X whereas in Cincinnati that's important. 

 

John attended St. William's grade school and St. Xavier for high school, where his long term commitment to public service emerged. John served as a tutor in Winton Place Schools, as a big buddy at the Espy Boys Club in Lower Price Hill, as a volunteer at St. John's Social Services Center in Over-the-Rhine, and as a participant on a summer mission trip with Jesuit priests to the Dominican Republic. Upon graduating from St. Xavier High School, he was awarded the Jesuit Secondary Education Association Award for demonstrating the ideals of leadership and service.

 

 

Your parents had to pay $2,000+ for you to go on those trips.  I worked two jobs all summer - I worked all 90~ days of summer break, two years in a row.  Do I get to put that on my bio when I'm mayor?  

31 minutes ago, jmecklenborg said:

 

Your parents had to pay $2,000+ for you to go on those trips.  I worked two jobs all summer - I worked all 90~ days of summer break, two years in a row.  Do I get to put that on my bio when I'm mayor?  

 

I got to go on one and didn't pay a dime. Our parish paid for it. 

1 hour ago, taestell said:

 

I believe the head of the Hamilton County GOP already tweeted out that Cranley is not qualified to hold higher office, or something like that. They held their nose and let him win the Mayor's race because they preferred him to Yvette/Roxanne, but they don't want him as governor.

 

Of course the party isn't going to support him. I'm talking about rank and file Republican voters. My uncle in Adams County doesn't care what the state GOP thinks.

1 hour ago, GCrites80s said:

The rest of the state doesn't give a crap that he went to St. X whereas in Cincinnati that's important. 

 

I think running a Democratic candidate statewide from the Cincinnati area is a good strategy. You're already going to get a lot of votes from Cleveland and Columbus. If you can turn out Dems in Hamilton County and hold down the GOP margins in Greater Cincinnati then I think there is a path to victory there. 

6 hours ago, DEPACincy said:

 

I got to go on one and didn't pay a dime. Our parish paid for it. 

 

I went to St. X.  There were no grants or anything like that at the time.  The trips were *really* expensive, except for the Over-the-Rhine "trip".  Then, after the rich kids got back from their trip, they had this ridiculous candlelit vigil we all had to attend where the guys read from their journals.  This was at least once and maybe twice each year, so I might have gone to eight of these things.  One time this guy named Matt Deville tripped over the power chord to the stereo and the music cut out at what was to be the most contemplative moment.  

 

I've hated Cranley since I was 13 years old.  At freshman orientation, we were told about how great John Cranley '92 was.  Like, he was The Ultimate Jesuit Warrior!!!!.  I remember thinking I bet whoever this John Cranley character is I bet he's a total kiss-up piece of sh*t.  And my 13 year-old self was completely right in that assumption.  

 

On 2/24/2020 at 12:20 PM, jmecklenborg said:

 

John attended St. William's grade school and St. Xavier for high school, where his long term commitment to public service emerged. John served as a tutor in Winton Place Schools, as a big buddy at the Espy Boys Club in Lower Price Hill, as a volunteer at St. John's Social Services Center in Over-the-Rhine, and as a participant on a summer mission trip with Jesuit priests to the Dominican Republic. Upon graduating from St. Xavier High School, he was awarded the Jesuit Secondary Education Association Award for demonstrating the ideals of leadership and service.

 

 

Your parents had to pay $2,000+ for you to go on those trips.  I worked two jobs all summer - I worked all 90~ days of summer break, two years in a row.  Do I get to put that on my bio when I'm mayor?  

Did you go to the Dominican ?

I can't wait to see Cranley guide our fair city through the virus pandemic. 

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