Cincinnati Democrats make CPS endorsements

The Cincinnati Democratic Committee endorsed three first-time candidates for the Cincinnati Board of Education on Saturday.

Former judicial candidate Martha Good, former Hamilton County Recorder Eve Bolton and Aisha Nurredin (pronounced NURE-DEEN), a University of Cincinnati outreach coordinator and school volunteer, won the endorsements.

Good and Bolton are both veterans on the local political scene. Bolton served one term as Hamilton County recorder in the 1990s, and has run unsuccessfully in several elections since then. In 2006, she narrowly lost to Dale Mallory for the Democratic nomination for a seat in the Ohio House of Representatives.

Good lost a 2005 race for Hamilton County Municipal Court judge.

The party interviewed other candidates who were not endorsed, but co-chair Aryeh Alex would not identify them.

“Both the nominating committee and the executive committee unanimously agreed on supporting these three,” Alex said.

None of the three have formally filed to run in the race, according to the Hamilton County Board of Elections. The filing deadline is Thursday.

The November school board elections are guaranteed to bring at least two new members to the seven-member board. Three seats are up for election, and incumbent Democrats Florence

Newell and John Gilligan are retiring. Rick Williams is the only incumbent who has announced his intentions to try for another term.