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Friday, October 28, 2005

I scream, you scream, we all scream for Berding

Like many Cincinnatians, you may well have your own favorite flavor of ice cream down at the corner UDF store.

Now, your UDF store has its favorite flavor of Cincinnati City Council candidate.

Drive into the parking lot of about a dozen Cincinnati UDF stores and you will pass by the yard signs of Jeff Berding (right), Democratic candidate for city council.

Yard signs and other political banners at retail stores are generally rare as a really good scoop of tutti-frutti, mainly because shop owners tend to shy away from politics. They know that if they endorse a candidate a potential customer doesn't like, that customer might decide to take his or her business elsewhere.

But UDF president David Lindner is an old fraternity brother of the council candidate, back in their days at Miami University; and old frat ties never die.

Berding said his college buddy called him and told him he'd be welcome to put his yard signs up at some of the stores.

"I never pass up an offer to put up yard signs,'' Berding said.

In addition to nice, high-traffic yard sign locations, Lindner gave the Berding campaign a maximum contribution of $1,000 - as did 14 other members of the Lindner family.

Nice gesture on the part of an old frat brother. Some of us, though, would have held out for a lifetime supply of chocolate malts.


9 Comments:

at 5:30 PM, October 28, 2005 Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thanks for covering this. I'd posted to another blog noting the Berding signs at UDF and suspected that was why. The Lindners all told gave him 17,000.

 
at 7:57 PM, October 28, 2005 Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thanks for the free press Korte. I hope Jeff mentions it on his next campaign report as an in-kind gift. Sort of like Hugable Howard's puff-piece was yesterday for the dems.

 
at 8:51 PM, October 28, 2005 Anonymous Anonymous said...

The Lindners give donations to all the corporate Republicans like Winburn and those still in the closet Republibrats like Pepper and Berding.

$17,000 for Berding, just as much for Pepper. I'm sure the Lindners won't get any special deals or treatment. They never get any corporate welfare. It's amazing that they get richer when they give so much to such charitable causes.

I'm sure No Reportee Kwhorte would let us know if we should be concerned.

 
at 10:01 PM, October 28, 2005 Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anon 7:57-this was written by Wilkinson not Korte.

 
at 12:42 AM, October 29, 2005 Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thanks for verifying what I had noticed and saving me a phone call to UDF headquarters. I'll be buying my gas & milk elsewhere for a while.

 
at 9:47 PM, October 30, 2005 Anonymous Anonymous said...

You're right, I'm sure No Reportee Korte is to lazy to read someone else's blog.

 
at 12:29 PM, October 31, 2005 Anonymous Anonymous said...

Lindner's don't give money, they invest it and the contributions to Berding and Pepper are Quid pro quo. These investments will return millions from the puppets that took them, millions of your tax dillars that is.

 
at 1:54 PM, November 02, 2005 Blogger Iwright said...

UDF should not have allowed the Berging signs. I won't be voting for him and I might not spend money with UDF for a while. I resistered my complaint with UDF management.

 
at 7:38 PM, November 10, 2005 Anonymous Anonymous said...

i think i will be buying all my gas and milk at UDF from now on... yay for BERDING!!!

 
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