When the
Hamilton County Chairman of the Republican Party goes on television
and says he is very pleased with the results of last night's mayoral
election...and both candidates running were Democrats, there's a big,
big problem in Cincinnati and Black people, this is your doing.
Once
again, the Black community followed the religiously based Pied
Pipers and professional black politician/hustlers down the Yellow
Brick Road. It remains to be seen what will be lost this time,
although after so many years, there is not much else left to lose.
In
Cincinnati the best man for the job of Mayor was a woman, but the
male in the race won. He won handily, I might add. Some are even
calling it a landslide.
Only 23%
of the electorate bothered to exercise their privilege, telling the
rest of us that they don't really give a damn about what happens
here.
A
“landlside” of 23% of all possible voters is an embarrassment.
You can read the sorry details here,
So don't
walk up to me, message me on FB, text me about any problems you may
be having with current events, because I'm going to tell you what to
do with your bogus concern.
Ya
didn't vote...I'm telling you what you told me by your lack of
action...”fuck you. Fuck you very much!”
But back
to John Cranley. Cranley campaigned on two issues, stopping the
streetcar and leasing the parking meters. He promised that his first
action would be to stop the street car project. However, in his
victory speech last night, he said he would see what he could do
about stopping the project. That is different from stopping
something. It shows that Cranley really has no idea what he is going
to do, if anything, about the streetcar.
It is
being built with federal money. Federal money allocated for the
project in question. You can't just take that money and spend it
somewhere else. Cranley should know this. Yet he promised exactly
that and shortsighted Cincinnati, the ones who can't see across their
own street much less the big, down the road picture, bit on the lie
hook, line and sinker.
This AM
he has asked City Council to suspend all spending on the streetcar
until he takes office next month. The streetcar is already under
construction, by the way. People are already working. That is different from when Governor Kasich
derailed light rail a few years ago. When Kasich pulled the plug
stateside the project was still on paper and in the planning stages.
Here it has already begun.
It will
be interesting to see what happens when the Feds ask for their money
back-money already spent and in the ground, that is. Maybe the City
can begin giving paid tours of the Cincinnati Subway and Cincinnati
streetcar projects-the people mover projects that never were, sort of
thing, in order to raise revenue.
As for
City Council-voted sorta clueless. Sittenfeld led all voters. That
is a good thing. Seelbach won too. We've still got the openly gay man
on council. That is good. Young and Simpson return. That is good.
David Mann, former mayor, Councilman and Congressman returns. That is
great. Winburn and Smitherman, Cincinnati's version of Herman Cain
and Alan Keyes are back for yet another encore. The newbies are
Republican Amy Murray, who is also a returning Councilmember and
Kevin Flynn, an attorney who had been running unsuccessfully for a
few years now.
So now
what? Everybody gets sworn in next month and then let the games
begin.
