Monzel to citizens: Go see the Reds

What is this? A Cincinnati Reds promotional item? A Chris Monzel campaign piece?

Neither. Or maybe both. But you paid for it with your tax dollars. Monzel's chief of staff, Bradford P. Beckett, explains:

We produced the Reds schedule from City Hall. It was paid for out of our administrative budget. We paid $702.51 for 12,000 of them. Their purpose was 3-fold: economic development tool to bring more people downtown to spend money in restaurants etc.; constituent service vehicle by asking people to call us with problems, etc.; and it was a way to help the Reds' attendance levels by encouraging people to go to the games -- which keeps people employed and generates tax dollars (similar to the first reason).