Posted April 2, 200916 yr This is not a Cincinnati Enquirer article, but a Cincinnati Enquirer user blog post. Nothing to be worried about. Dean of Cincinnati Running For Mayor Posted by JanePrendergast at April 2, 2009 2:29 PM EDT An announcement from Justin Jeffre about his friend and Beacon co-publisher, Jason Haap: Local Blogger and Activist To Run For Mayor (Cincinnati) -- Today, Jason Haap -- veteran high school teacher and co-publisher of The Cincinnati Beacon -- announced his candidacy for Mayor of Cincinnati. "I supported Mark Mallory in 2005, and I'm outraged," explained Haap. "He had one simple plan, and it made sense -- to give each neighborhood $20,000 per year with the funds from selling the Blue Ash airport."
April 3, 200916 yr What exactly is every community going to do with $20,000? That's definitely not enough to do anything substantial, hire any employees, build anything, fix sidewalks, etc. Also, why should tiny little California get as much money as Westwood or Clifton?
April 3, 200916 yr Assuming this isn't an April Fools joke, it looks like he's trying to become Cincy's own version of Ralph Nader.
April 3, 200916 yr "Thanks to our current system, brought to us by Jeff Berding, my candidacy means we will have a wasteful election costing taxpayers half a million. There are plenty of simple solutions to a problem like this, such as Instant Run-off Voting." Actually, the simplest solution is for candidates without a chance of winning to not run.
April 15, 200916 yr Assuming this isn't an April Fools joke, it looks like he's trying to become Cincy's own version of Ralph Nader. I think that is too favorable a comparison for Mr Haap. At least Nader managed to contribute something useful in his earlier years.
April 30, 200916 yr http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090430/NEWS01/905010335 GOP has mayoral candidate By Howard Wilkinson • [email protected] • April 30, 2009 As its candidate for Cincinnati mayor, the Republican Party will turn to a political novice with a resume that includes more than a year as an Army surgeon in Iraq. Brad Wenstrup, a 50-year-old podiatrist from Columbia-Tusculum will be announced as the GOP's mayoral candidate in a press conference Monday afternoon at Findlay Market in Over-the-Rhine.
May 1, 200916 yr Mallory is doing a good job, but some real competition will keep him honest (not that he isn't) and we can always use more St.X guys in city gov't - I fear the Walnut contingent will grow so that might mitigate that. :evil:
May 2, 200916 yr I hope that if and when any debates happen that Mallory and Wenstrup refer to Jason Haap as "The Dean" instead of by his real name. That would be incredible.
May 2, 200916 yr "Thanks to our current system, brought to us by Jeff Berding, my candidacy means we will have a wasteful election costing taxpayers half a million. There are plenty of simple solutions to a problem like this, such as Instant Run-off Voting." Actually, the simplest solution is for candidates without a chance of winning to not run. Gee, I think we had primaries well before Berding was born; but Instant Run-off Voting is something that should be seriously considered. Not only would it save money but would make candidates much more responsive to the voters rather then their party. Just because a candidate is only favored by 10% of the voters doesn't mean that their concerns should be addressed. Probablya reason why so many people don't bother to vote.
May 2, 200916 yr ^Yeah, minority candidates certainly have a valid role in our system. I was just making a snide remark based on "The Dean's" comment that the current system is to blame for "a wasteful election costing taxpayers half a million". When in fact, if he really cared about taxpayer money, he could just avoid the whole thing by not running.
October 29, 200915 yr If anyone still doesn't know who he'll vote for next Tuesday, I thought it might be useful to see several of the major groups' endorsements for mayor, city council, and school board, together in one place: http://enjoymentandcontemplation.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/cincinnati-endorsement-compendium/ (scroll down)
January 11, 201015 yr This is really awesome. It's great to hear that the two are attempting to work together in order to build a better administration. Removing these political barriers is the first step. And it's great to know that the campaign didn't get heated or ugly. I look forward to Wenstrup running for the next election. Wenstrup ponders next move Mallory foe seen as rising star in GOP By Howard Wilkinson, Cincinnati Enquirer, January 1, 2010 When a Republican political neophyte named Brad Wenstrup announced last May he was running for Cincinnati mayor, anyone who predicted he would take 46 percent of the vote in a heavily Democratic city, running against a universally known incumbent, would have had his or her pundit ID card permanently revoked. But that is what Wenstrup did, finishing 6,221 votes behind Democrat incumbent Mark Mallory, in an election where more than 71,000 voted.
