On 10/13/2020 at 12:25 PM, Brutus_buckeye said:

Well the lunatic fringe of society can stand with crazy Charmaine. Personally, I am fine standing for someone who will run the sheriff's office in a professional manner, not seek to settle old personal vendettas and keep the county safe, along with not as likely to act completely unhinged while in office. So if that means voting for Hofbauer, than great.  But if you want to support chaos, then go ahead and vote for crazy Charmaine.

 

Breaking News! Hamilton County voters are the "lunatic fringe of society."

On 11/6/2020 at 10:19 AM, DEPACincy said:

 

Breaking News! Hamilton County voters are the "lunatic fringe of society."

 

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Edited November 12, 20204 yr by jmecklenborg

22 hours ago, jmecklenborg said:

 

 

Yeah except he didn't win that seat despite disguising himself as his brother.  

 

Deters kept his job, Republicans held the senate, and Trump almost won reelection because of the white BLM nonsense.  People aren't buying what white BLM is selling.  Get a job, hippie.  

 

 

The Senate is still up in the air. There are two runoffs. It could be 50/50, which was the modal outcome from a lot of forecasts. Trump wasn't even close to winning reelection. Biden got more votes than any candidate in history and will likely win the popular vote by 6 or 7 percentage points when the vote is all counted. 

 

But please, continue to go off.

2 hours ago, cincydave8 said:

 

Map of the presidential results. Pretty clear divide almost right down the middle.  Biden sweeps nearly all of Cincinnati except Riverside, Saylor Park and parts of Mount Washington. Biden also won most of Norwood, losing Norwood4-C by only 16 votes. Hillary lost all of Norwood 4 years ago.  Biden also won Silverton, Montgomery, Blue Ash, Maderia, Amberly, North College Hill, Mount Helathy, Forest Park and Mariemont.  

 

The highest I could find for BIden was Cincinnati 3-A (Evanston) with 95%. Trumps highest that I could find was Harrison AA with 81%.  

 

Looks like Biden won Terrace Park too. Wonder how the Portman family voted?

10 minutes ago, jmecklenborg said:

That's pretty much just a map that shows you where black people live in this county. 

 

Not really. Mariemont? Blue Ash? Montgomery? Hyde Park? Terrace Park? Wyoming? 

The map shows a broad coalition of Blacks, Asians, Hispanics, and college-educated Whites. 

2 hours ago, ColDayMan said:

Do you have maps for other counties in Ohio (or where they are available)?

 

46 minutes ago, taestell said:

Does anyone still think that a city-county merger would be a good idea?

 

Do these precincts supposedly have nominally the same population?  If so then an extruded 3D version of the map wouldn't be any more illustrative than the flat one.  However, a variant of the map below would better illustrate how the large swaths of red on the west side, Indian Hill, and Anderson aren't as influential as they look. 

 

It is interesting to see how Norwood, St. Bernard, and Elmwood Place stand out from the city.  Also while most of the suburbs to the north and east are pretty purple, the very red outer neighborhoods and incorporated suburbs are the more hillbilly-ish areas, like Riverside, Sayler Park, Addyston, Cleves, North Bend, Reading, Elmwood, California, and Newtown.  Indian Hill is obvious (I think the southern part of Anderson Township is red for the same reason), and Evendale has maybe a half dozen residential streets in that entire GE/Glendale-Milford precinct.   

6 minutes ago, jjakucyk said:

 

Do these precincts supposedly have nominally the same population?  If so then an extruded 3D version of the map wouldn't be any more illustrative than the flat one.  However, a variant of the map below would better illustrate how the large swaths of red on the west side, Indian Hill, and Anderson aren't as influential as they look. 

 

It is interesting to see how Norwood, St. Bernard, and Elmwood Place stand out from the city.  Also while most of the suburbs to the north and east are pretty purple, the very red outer neighborhoods and incorporated suburbs are the more hillbilly-ish areas, like Riverside, Sayler Park, Addyston, Cleves, North Bend, Reading, Elmwood, California, and Newtown.  Indian Hill is obvious (I think the southern part of Anderson Township is red for the same reason), and Evendale has maybe a half dozen residential streets in that entire GE/Glendale-Milford precinct.   

 

 

 

Yea, Biden won Hamco by like 17 points and counting. Dems swept most county offices and judicial races. Not sure why that should make us nervous about a hypothetical city-county merger? The entire county is going to keep getting bluer. There's just not that many people living in the red areas, and they skew older.

52 minutes ago, DEPACincy said:

 

Breaking News! Hamilton County voters are the "lunatic fringe of society."

 I know. It is overall pretty sad. 

22 minutes ago, DEPACincy said:

Dems swept most county offices and judicial races. Not sure why that should make us nervous about a hypothetical city-county merger?

 

Well, it would still dilute support for urban-focused projects and policies such as better transit, mixed-use development, cycling infrastructure, and the like. 

35 minutes ago, DEPACincy said:

Not sure why that should make us nervous about a hypothetical city-county merger? The entire county is going to keep getting bluer. There's just not that many people living in the red areas, and they skew older.

 

The county is getting bluer when it comes to voting for federal candidates. City and county issues are a completely different matter. It's already hard enough to get people on City Council who support improving public transportation, development of our urban core, complete streets, etc. As soon as you give people from Cheviot and Green Twp. and Indian Hill an opportunity to vote for City Council, it becomes even harder.

54 minutes ago, DEPACincy said:

But please, continue to go off.

 

I'd be delighted.  Despite the hundreds of millions of dollars, all of the tweeting, all of the pearl clutching by white BLM moirologists, all the juggling and clowning of the jugglers and clowns Bob Dylan warned that rolling stone about 55 years ago, the Democrats barely managed to unseat the political hack who sent their great champion to history's dustbin four years ago.  They made insignificant gains in the House and probably not a decisive change in the Senate.  So many people showed up to vote for Trump nationwide that Democrats didn't make significant gains in down ballot offices.  

 

All of the characters on Twitter were expecting a repeat of the 2008 Obama sweep and it simply did not happen.  They had the wrong candidate and they let the wrong issues become the face of the party.  Obama knew how to reign that crap in.  Obama was a pragmatist who knew the fringe crap would undermine the whole effort.  Biden is also a pragmatist but I suspect that he's going to cave to that stuff, or else he's a racist, because the AP stylebook now sez everything is racist.  

 

 

2 hours ago, jjakucyk said:

 

Well, it would still dilute support for urban-focused projects and policies such as better transit, mixed-use development, cycling infrastructure, and the like. 

 

That part is definitely true.

Thanks for sharing the map @ryanlammi. I had fun making it. 

Thoughts on annexation: I don't know what would begin that kind of conversation, but if it even happened I would imagine if Elmwood Place, St. Bernard, and Norwood were to become part of the City of Cincinnati, then you would see a lot of folks expand their home search to those places, really changing the politics.

2 hours ago, jmecklenborg said:

 

I'd be delighted.  Despite the hundreds of millions of dollars, all of the tweeting, all of the pearl clutching by white BLM moirologists, all the juggling and clowning of the jugglers and clowns Bob Dylan warned that rolling stone about 55 years ago, the Democrats barely managed to unseat the political hack who sent their great champion to history's dustbin four years ago.  They made insignificant gains in the House and probably not a decisive change in the Senate.  So many people showed up to vote for Trump nationwide that Democrats didn't make significant gains in down ballot offices.  

 

All of the characters on Twitter were expecting a repeat of the 2008 Obama sweep and it simply did not happen.  They had the wrong candidate and they let the wrong issues become the face of the party.  Obama knew how to reign that crap in.  Obama was a pragmatist who knew the fringe crap would undermine the whole effort.  Biden is also a pragmatist but I suspect that he's going to cave to that stuff, or else he's a racist, because the AP stylebook now sez everything is racist.  

 

 

 

Ram, is that you? 

 

Seriously man. Get off Twitter. Go outside and take a walk. 

 

Every reasonable person knew this was not going to be easy. Unseating an incumbent president never is. Even when that president is unpopular. Yet, Biden will end up winning the popular vote by something close to what happened in 2008. Maybe a percentage point off. A 50/50 Senate was the modal outcome for a lot of forecasts and we very well might end up with that. Dems didn't get the pick ups in the House they wanted, but maintained a majority. Yet, it's the Dems who have a problem? 

 

And I love Obama. I think he was a great president, but your statement here is completely rewriting history. Dems got slaughtered downballot during the Obama years. 

Edited November 6, 20204 yr by DEPACincy

3 minutes ago, Chas Wiederhold said:

Thanks for sharing the map @ryanlammi. I had fun making it. 

Thoughts on annexation: I don't know what would begin that kind of conversation, but if it even happened I would imagine if Elmwood Place, St. Bernard, and Norwood were to become part of the City of Cincinnati, then you would see a lot of folks expand their home search to those places, really changing the politics.

 

This is a good point. We ruled them out immediately because we wanted to be in the city. Definitely would've included them in our search otherwise.

6 minutes ago, DEPACincy said:

 

 

 

Seriously man. Get off Twitter. Go outside and take a walk. 

 

 

 

Yes, virtue signaling is lame. But worrying about other people being virtue signalers is also lame. No Twitter = no worrying about virtue signalers

29 minutes ago, GCrites80s said:

 

Yes, virtue signaling is lame. But worrying about other people being virtue signalers is also lame. No Twitter = no worrying about virtue signalers

 

The interesting thing about the "defund the police and protests cost Dems" narrative is that Biden improved over the 2016 margin among young people across the board and among older whites. So the activism seems to have helped among young people and, at worst, didn't hurt him among the olds! 

21 minutes ago, DEPACincy said:

This is a good point. We ruled them out immediately because we wanted to be in the city. Definitely would've included them in our search otherwise.

 

Same here.  Norwood's proximity to Hyde Park and Oakley would help it a lot in that respect, but its current attitude of "we don't know what we are, all we know is we're not Cincinnati" is very off-putting, and their financial problems are worrying.  That said, there's some great houses and nice streets with a lot of variety. 

19 hours ago, DEPACincy said:

 

The interesting thing about the "defund the police and protests cost Dems"

 

BLM was a hobby for white trust funders. Everyone saw right through it except those elites, who are remarkable for their lack of self-awareness. 

20 hours ago, Chas Wiederhold said:

Thoughts on annexation: I don't know what would begin that kind of conversation, but if it even happened I would imagine if Elmwood Place, St. Bernard, and Norwood were to become part of the City of Cincinnati, then you would see a lot of folks expand their home search to those places, really changing the politics.

 

People are only saying this because Cincinnati happens to surround those places.  They have their own school districts, which presumably would remain after a municipal merger.  Meanwhile, nobody ever suggests annexing Cheviot, because it merely borders Cincinnati, even though it's long been part of Cincinnati Public Schools.  

 

 

 

 

19 minutes ago, jmecklenborg said:

 

BLM was a hobby for white trust funders. Everyone saw right through it except those elites, who are remarkable for their lack of self-awareness. 

Good god please stop it with this garbage. Why do you have such a problem with White people acknowledging that Black people’s lives have value and meaning? You keep repeating garbage. 
 

Please, I beg you, just stop. Your takes on this topic are terrible and they are going to get you banned. And I don’t want you banned - you post too much good stuff on other topics that are actually in your wheelhouse.
 

I don’t think it would be physically painful for you to learn a little bit about the actual history of our country (not the garbage taught it American high schools) and the current life experiences of Black people in this country and just acknowledge that’s it different than what you and I experience as middle aged White dudes. That’s all that BLM is. Period.
 

Think about some of the things you care passionately about. Now imagine that the movement in support of those things was judged based on what the most extremist people associated with the movement are advocating for. That wouldn’t be fair. Yet that is exactly what you are doing here. FFS, just stop. 

Edited November 7, 20204 yr by Boomerang_Brian
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6 minutes ago, Boomerang_Brian said:

Good god please stop it with this garbage. Why do you have such a problem with White people acknowledging that Black people’s lives have value and meaning? You keep repeating garbage. 
 

Please, I beg you, just stop. Your takes on this topic are terrible and they are going to get you banned. And I don’t want you banned - you post too much good stuff on other topics that are actually in your wheelhouse.
 

I don’t think it would be physically painful for you to learn a little bit about the actual history of our country (not the garbage taught it American high schools) and the current life experiences of Black people in this country and just acknowledge that’s it different than what you and I experience as middle aged White dudes. That’s all that BLM is. Period.
 

Think about some of the things you care passionately about. Now imagine that the movement in support of those things was judged based on what the most extremist people associated with the movement are advocating for. That wouldn’t be fair. Yet that is exactly what you are doing here. FFS, just stop. 

I would just try to ignore him.  He is always trying to get a rise out of people.  He has some sort of problem with young white people that come from wealthy backgrounds.  He exhibits this bias with mindless posts in countless threads.  Some of them are just laughable.  I think he was beat up a lot in high school by the cool kids with money.

3 minutes ago, Htsguy said:

I would just try to ignore him.  He is always trying to get a rise out of people.  He has some sort of problem with young white people that come from wealthy backgrounds.  He exhibits this bias with mindless posts in countless threads.  Some of them are just laughable.  I think he was beat up a lot in high school by the cool kids with money.

Fair enough. 
 

The thing is, Jake posts all kinds of great stuff on transit, rail, city history, so on so forth. And I generally enjoy his sense of humor. And I like the music stuff he posts. And we have a shared history of living a bunch of places (including Boston) and then coming back to our roots in Ohio. Mainly I responded because I think if he keeps posting this garbage, he’ll get banned, and I really don’t want him to be banned. 

Blue= McGuffey & Rucker Won

Purple= McGuffey & Deters Won

Red= Deters & Hoffbauer Won

 

There were no precincts where Rucker & Hoffbauer won.

 

37 minutes ago, thomasbw said:

Blue= McGuffey & Rucker Won

Purple= McGuffey & Deters Won

Red= Deters & Hoffbauer Won

 

There were no precincts where Rucker & Hoffbauer won.

 

 

Interesting. Looks like the Deters name still holds sway with the old money in Mt. Adams, Hyde Park, Mt. Lookout, and Mariemont. I'd say Republicans are screwed when Deters retires. He's the last gasp of the Hamco GOP.

19 hours ago, thomasbw said:

Blue= McGuffey & Rucker Won

Purple= McGuffey & Deters Won

Red= Deters & Hoffbauer Won

I wonder how the purple areas voted for President. Quick glance, I think most of them went slightly for Biden

On 10/13/2020 at 2:01 PM, DEPACincy said:

 

A woman points out systemic issues that policing experts agree are a huge problem and presents an evidence-based plan to address them. 

You and Brutus: "OH GOD SHES SO UNHINGED. SHE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT SHE'S TALKING ABOUT."

 

That, my friends, is blatant sexism on display.

 

Since you guys succeeded in banning me from the Current Events section of this website because I don't kowtow to popular sentiments, I was unable to post this in the Sarah Palin thread.  If I had written the same things as this writer, you guys would have come at me:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/07/opinion/marjorie-taylor-greene-republican-women.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

 

Hillary Clinton’s supporters were fond of the adage, “the future is female.” That may one day be true. But we should brace ourselves. That future may be quite different from the one we were expecting. The future often is.

 

 

6 hours ago, jmecklenborg said:

 

Since you guys succeeded in banning me from the Current Events section of this website because I don't kowtow to popular sentiments, I was unable to post this in the Sarah Palin thread.  If I had written the same things as this writer, you guys would have come at me:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/07/opinion/marjorie-taylor-greene-republican-women.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

 

Hillary Clinton’s supporters were fond of the adage, “the future is female.” That may one day be true. But we should brace ourselves. That future may be quite different from the one we were expecting. The future often is.

 

 

 

What are you talking about? I never even knew you were banned from the Current Events section and I certainly had nothing to do with it. 

 

Do I disagree with a lot of things you posted there? Yes. Was I ever shy about letting you know? No. But this is the first I'm learning of you being banned.

It said under his avatar "No Current Events" during the ban. I don't think those labels show up on mobile though.

25 minutes ago, GCrites80s said:

It said under his avatar "No Current Events" during the ban. I don't think those labels show up on mobile though.

 

So he wasn't banned? Just suspended? Either way, I had ZERO to do with it so I don't know why he targeted me.

Just locked out of Current Events. I've seen other users have section-specific lockouts too, I think.

 

Christopher Smitherman is collecting signatures for the 2022 Hamilton County Commissioner race. That's the seat currently held by Stephanie Summerow Dumas.

Hamilton County Democrats name Pureval replacement as clerk of courts

 

Hamilton County Democrats named Pavan Parikh, an attorney, veteran and former judicial candidate, to succeed mayor-elect Aftab Pureval as Hamilton County clerk of courts Wednesday night.

 

Pureval resigned as clerk of courts earlier this month. Under state law, local Democrats have the right to replace him until the next election in November 2022.

 

Parikh, a resident of Anderson Township, was a 2016 Business Courier 40 Under 40 winner. He currently is legislative counsel and assistant vice president for government relations at Federal Home Loan Bank of Cincinnati and a judge advocate in the U.S. Army Reserve. He previously was minority counsel for the Ohio Senate Democrats. He received his law degree from St. Louis University and a bachelor's in philosophy from Xavier University.

 

More below:

https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2021/12/29/hamilton-county-democrats-name-pureval-replacement.html

 

She got time today!!!

Hamilton County commissioner will seek re-election

 

Hamilton County Commissioner Stephanie Summerow Dumas, a Democrat, will seek re-election this year, she said Friday.

 

Dumas scored a shocking win in 2018 over then-Commissioner Chris Monzel, a Republican, to give the Democrats all three seats on the commission for the first time in modern history.

...

When asked about facing Smitherman, Dumas said she was not sweating his candidacy.

 

“He’ll face me. I am in the incumbent. When I campaign, I campaign on integrity, honesty and fairness. I think people see my track record. It’s a county race. I’ve done it before. He hasn’t,” Dumas said. “He’ll probably be a formidable opponent. I’m not concerned about him running against me.”

 

More below:

https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2022/01/07/hamilton-county-commissioner-will-seek-re-election.html

 

Good news for County Commissioner Stephanie Summerow Dumas

 

Candidate filings portend interesting match-ups for Hamilton County offices this fall

 

One thing is certain from Wednesday's candidate filing with the Hamilton County Board of Elections — there will be a three-way race this fall for the Hamilton County commissioner's seat held now by Stephanie Summerow Dumas.

 

....

 

Matt O'Neill, a Republican, has qualified for the ballot. He ran in 2020, but finished 16 percentage points behind Democratic incumbent Denise Driehaus. O'Neill does not have the backing of the Hamilton County Republican Party but he will be the official GOP candidate as he will have no competition in the May 3 primary.

 

The third candidate will be an Independent, former Cincinnati Vice Mayor Christopher Smitherman. County party leaders have tried to talk Smitherman into running as a Republican, but with no success. His attitude apparently is that he won election to Cincinnati City Council as an Independent and can do the same as a candidate for county commissioner.

^ having a Republican on the ballot could hurt Smiterman theoretically but he does have a ton of name recognition. I could see him being able to knock off someone like Dumas as in Independent, if he were running against Driehaus or Reese, it would be a much heavier lift.

Having a Republican on the ballot will hurt him. It's not theoretical. The vast majority of people voting for O'Neill would not be voting for Dumas if he wasn't on the ballot. They would either skip the race or vote for Smitherman. This hurts Smitherman's chances. It does not mean he will lose (I think he will), but it will hurt him.

5 minutes ago, ryanlammi said:

Having a Republican on the ballot will hurt him. It's not theoretical. The vast majority of people voting for O'Neill would not be voting for Dumas if he wasn't on the ballot. They would either skip the race or vote for Smitherman. This hurts Smitherman's chances. It does not mean he will lose (I think he will), but it will hurt him.

I dont disagree with you, I think if he is going to run as an independent though, he stands a much better chance to beat Dumas than any of the other more well known and better funded commissioners. His name recognition in the black community will certainly offset the D behind her name some. I know the GOP is not exciting aout having a Republican on the ballot in this race but they cant stop it unless Smitherman were to run under the Republican endorsement. 

Familiar Republicans running as the party tries to bounce back in Hamilton County

 

Hamilton County Republicans will be running a slate of familiar candidates in November as the party tries to retake ground it has lost to Democrats as the county turned more blue over the past three election cycles.

 

But for the first time since 2016 when they took control of the Hamilton County Commission, local Democrats look to be facing unfriendly national headwinds. The president’s party usually suffers in the first midterm election, and President Joe Biden’s approval ratings are in the dumps. It will be a major test of how resilient local Democrats’ political strength is.

 

Wednesday was the filing deadline to run for local and state office, finalizing what the electoral situation in those races will look like.

 

At least seven former GOP office holders are running in the Nov. 8 election, and that’s not a coincidence, said Alex Triantafilou, the Hamilton County Republican chairman.

 

More below:

https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2022/02/03/republican-running.html

 

Top Cincinnati Democratic contributors hold fundraiser for Commissioner Stephanie Summerow Dumas

 

One of Cincinnati’s major Democratic donors held a fundraiser for Hamilton County Commissioner Stephanie Summerow Dumas, who trails her leading opponent, former Cincinnati Vice Mayor Christopher Smitherman, in the money race for the Nov. 8 election.

 

JoAnn and Gary Hagopian, two former Procter & Gamble executives who were the third-most generous local donors to President Joe Biden, held the fundraiser Tuesday at their Columbia Tusculum home.

 

Dumas, a Democrat who raised very little money and won a shocking victory over incumbent Republican Chris Monzel in the 2018 race, has never been known as a prodigious fundraiser, but she said the event's proceeds should help her get the word out about her campaign and record.

 

More below:

https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2022/08/24/top-cincinnati-democratic-contributors-dumas.html

 

GOP Hamilton County Commission candidate calls for repeal of one tax increase, public vote on another

 

The Republican candidate for Hamilton County commissioner wants to repeal the part of the 2020 countywide sales tax increase that funds the expansion of Metro bus service and put to a vote a 2019 0.25% sales tax increase to pay for the county’s basic services.

 

Matthew O’Neill’s opponents, Commissioner Stephanie Summerow Dumas, a Democrat, and former Cincinnati Vice Mayor Christopher Smitherman, an independent who nevertheless has the backing of many top county Republicans, oppose his ideas.

 

“I think the tax structure of the county is not competitive,” Matt O’Neill said at a Friday forum of the Western Economic Council, a West Side group.

 

More below:

https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2022/09/26/oneill-on-tax-increases.html

^ Considering the Metro tax had bipartisan support in the County that will not happen. O'Neill is trying to create a name for himself as Smitherman is the likely the frontrunner amongst Republicans. 

Battle over Hamilton County clerk of courts race heats up

 

The candidates for Hamilton County clerk of courts are trading fire over the powers of the little-known office and how they would wield them as Republicans attempt to snatch back an office they held for decades from a Democrat appointed to replace Aftab Pureval late last year.

 

The race as a whole is microcosm of a battle that has emerged locally and nationally over crime – Republicans portraying Democrats as coddling dangerous criminals, with Democrats arguing they want to reform the system to ensure more equitable outcomes.

 

While it may seem like a political backwater, the clerk's office is the linchpin of the county court system, handling every document that passes through the county's criminal, civil, domestic relations and probate court. Every business and resident using the system has interaction with the office. The 200-person office also has long been known as a haven for political patronage.

 

More below:

https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2022/11/07/battle-over-key-courthouse-race-heats-up.html

 

Republicans appoint Melissa Powers as new Hamilton County prosecutor

 

Melissa Powers, a former Hamilton County Juvenile Court judge who didn’t run for reelection this year, will replace Joe Deters as prosecutor after the Hamilton County GOP’s central committee appointed her Thursday evening.

 

Deters was appointed to serve on the Ohio Supreme Court by Gov. Mike DeWine. Under state law, the central committee of the party whose candidate won the office gets to pick their replacement.

 

Powers will face the voters in what is expected to be a hotly contested race in 2024. Former Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley told WVXU last month that he is considering running for the post, one of the highest profile elected offices in the region. Cranley was defeated in the Democratic primary for governor in 2022, losing both the city of Cincinnati and Hamilton County to Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley.

 

More below:

https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2023/01/19/republicans-appoint-new-hamilton-county-prosecutor.html

 

Tracy Hunter in the news:

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2023/04/10/former-hamilton-county-judge-tracie-hunter-faces-discipline-by-court/70100951007/?itm_medium=recirc&itm_source=taboola&itm_campaign=internal&itm_content=BelowArticleFeed-FeedRedesign

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More than eight years after her felony conviction, former Hamilton County Juvenile Court judge Tracie M. Hunter should be indefinitely suspended from the practice of law, according to a recommendation to the Ohio Supreme Court.

 

The sanction aligns with punishment dished out to every other sitting judge convicted in felony cases, according to the Ohio Board of Professional Conduct, which made its recommendation on Monday. Hunter has been under interim suspension since 2014.

 

[...]

 

In October 2014, Hunter was convicted of having an unlawful interest in a public contract, which is a fourth-degree felony.  It was related to giving confidential documents to her brother, a juvenile court employee who was in the process of being fired.

 

 

Meanwhile, her courtroom antics are up to 30 million views on Youtube:

 

 

 

Hamilton County increases hotel tax

 

Hamilton County commissioners voted 2-1 Thursday, Oct. 5, to increase the hotel tax by 1 percentage point, which will allow a $200 million renovation project at the Duke Energy Convention Center to go forward.

 

The tax would go from 18.3%, which includes both the state and county sales taxes, to 19.3%. Today, the hotel tax is one of the top five highest in the country. The tax increase will go into effect Dec. 1 instead of Nov. 1 to give local hoteliers more time to adjust their financial systems.

 

In the Oct. 5 vote, Commissioner Alicia Reece voted “no” saying she does not like the piecemeal approach commissioners have taken toward the convention center district project. She believes a new headquarters hotel should be financed and taken care of first.

 

More below:

https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2023/10/05/hamilton-county-increases-hotel-tax.html

 

Democrat Connie Pillich announces bid for Hamilton County prosecutor

 

A former state lawmaker announced that she will challenge Hamilton County Prosecutor Melissa Powers in 2024 for one of only two countywide offices Democrats do not hold.

 

Connie Pillich, a Montgomery Democrat, is an Air Force veteran who has served as a public defender and served three terms in the Ohio House. She ran unsuccessfully for governor in 2018 and Hamilton County commissioner in 2020.

 

“Attorneys and investigators in my office will be held to the highest standards to do their jobs with integrity, pursuing justice without fear or favor,” Pillich said at her campaign announcement at Veterans Park in Green Township. “A renter living in Price Hill will receive the same pursuit of justice as the owner of an estate in Indian Hill.”

 

More below:

https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2023/11/15/connie-pillich-hamilton-county-prosecutor-bid.html

 

52 minutes ago, ColDayMan said:

Democrat Connie Pillich announces bid for Hamilton County prosecutor

 

A former state lawmaker announced that she will challenge Hamilton County Prosecutor Melissa Powers in 2024 for one of only two countywide offices Democrats do not hold.

 

Connie Pillich, a Montgomery Democrat, is an Air Force veteran who has served as a public defender and served three terms in the Ohio House. She ran unsuccessfully for governor in 2018 and Hamilton County commissioner in 2020.

 

“Attorneys and investigators in my office will be held to the highest standards to do their jobs with integrity, pursuing justice without fear or favor,” Pillich said at her campaign announcement at Veterans Park in Green Township. “A renter living in Price Hill will receive the same pursuit of justice as the owner of an estate in Indian Hill.”

 

More below:

https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2023/11/15/connie-pillich-hamilton-county-prosecutor-bid.html

 

Connie is great! I’ve had the pleasure of working with her on the All Aboard Ohio board. She will be a wonderful upgrade in the prosecutor’s office.