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Friday, August 24, 2007

Tarbell tossed off ballot

Howard Wilkinson reports


The last-minute effort by Cincinnati Councilman Jim Tarbell and two former Cincinnati school board members to become candidates for the Cincinnati Board of Education ended as quickly as it began Friday, when election officials said their petitions were short of signatures.

Tarbell, who is leaving city council early in September, put together a last-minute slate of school board candidates which included Anne Power, who was president of the board in the 1980s, and Sally Warner, who left the board two years ago after serving eight years.

The three-candidate team didn’t start collecting signatures on their nominating petitions until less than 24 hours before the 4 p.m. deadline Thursday. Each of them needed the signatures of 300 registered voters in the Cincinnati Public School District.

But officials at the Hamilton County Board of Elections said Friday afternoon that they fell short, with 264 valid signatures each.

A fourth school board candidate, lawyer Martha Good, who had the endorsement of the Cincinnati Democratic Committee, also fell short and will not be on the November ballot.
That leaves only four candidates running for three seats on the seven-member board – incumbent Rick Williams, Chris Nelms, the director of an inner-city baseball program; former Hamilton County recorder Eve Bolton, and Michael Flannery, a former WCPO reporter.


21 Comments:

at 3:25 PM, August 24, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

Well gosh, I really feel encouraged about the fate of CPS now. Aren't there any innovative thinkers and proven expeets who can come in and help turn around our broken school system?

 
at 4:30 PM, August 24, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

Aren't you one? Why don't you?

 
at 4:43 PM, August 24, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

There was: Steve Adamowski. But he left, and now we're stuck with an unimaginative superientendent and a under-qualified school board that recently "discovered" a $79 million deficit.

 
at 6:06 PM, August 24, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm being serious when I ask this: is there ANY political office Eve Bolton WON'T run for?

Eve, how many times do you have to hear the word NO?

 
at 10:20 PM, August 24, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

.
Talking about being kicked off the ballot:

The following wRong wingnut whackos are jumping "schmidt":

"Rep. Rick Renzi (R-Ariz.) said Thursday that he will not seek re-election in 2008, ending months of speculation regarding the ethically clouded Congressman's political future."

"Hastert, who today becomes the fourth House Republican in three weeks to say he won't seek re-election next year, didn't so much seize power as accept it."

"Rep. Deborah Pryce (R-Ohio) announced yesterday that she will retire from one of the most competitive House districts in the country, after squeaking to victory in a hotly contested race in 2006."

"Rep. Chip Pickering (R-Miss.) confirmed late Thursday night that he would not seek a seventh term in the House, becoming the third senior GOP lawmaker this week to say he would retire."

"Karl Rove will leave George Bush's side this month one of the most controversial political figures in living memory."

"Seven vulnerable House Republicans face difficult decisions about whether to return contributions from a major Republican donor who was charged last week on 23 counts of bankruptcy fraud, mail fraud, money laundering, obstruction of justice and perjury."

"A Justice Department corruption task force is investigating whether Alaska Congressman Don Young took campaign cash in return for securing $10 million for construction of a proposed Florida highway ramp..."

Rove, Rove, Rove their 'schmidt': 'family values' become Oh, soooo dirty !

Merrily, Merrily, Merrily, Merrily : when wRong wingnuts face ten to thirty !

PATHETIC HYPOCRITES !

HAD ENOUGH, VOTE DEMOCRAT 2007 !

 
at 12:10 AM, August 25, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

Can Tarbell, Power, and Warner become official write-in candidates?
Will they?

 
at 9:08 AM, August 25, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

Your right, the fate of CPS is very scary as a parent and student. Why doesn't our school board reflect our school population. Why should I continue to keep my children in CPS when we have people not being good stewards of the money we asked for couple years. I have a problem when your asking me for more money, yet the school in my neighborhood is now in it's second year of academic emergency. Why doesn't the district copy the great programs they have in the district (montessori schools, kilgour, walnut hills, scpa) at all schools instead all our children to continue fall behind. And tell me why again I should continue to live in the CPS area when I can move out to the suburbs and have excellent schools for my children. And don't let me get started on Eve Bolton.

 
at 11:35 AM, August 25, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

I just don't think hacks like Eve Bolton and a former news anchor are up to the job of turning around a screwed up school district. And I can't beleive we are about to elect Melanie Bates to city council. As CPS' Finance Chair, she incredibly had no idea that CPS had a $79 million deficit. I know folks (myself included) sympathize with her due to her persoanl tragedy. But her incredible incompetence at CPS should disqualify her from being taken seriously as a Council candidate. Bates is as much a hack as Bolton, yet has an even greater record of ineptitude.

 
at 1:24 PM, August 25, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

Boldface guy amkes a good point, an awful lot of Repugnicants are cutting and running rather than face certain defeat at the hands of the voters.

How much longer will Chabot pretend he is still viable?

 
at 3:35 PM, August 25, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

Obsession !

Please keep kissing our 'finney fanny' !

Oh yes, right their !

PATHETIC !

HAD ENOUGH, VOTE DEMOCRAT 2007 !

 
at 7:12 PM, August 25, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

tarbell is a good guy and great cincinnatian. that said, he doesn't nearly have the skills to be an effective CPS board member.

 
at 8:20 PM, August 25, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anon 11:35,

I agree about Eve. She'll have to work really hard to screw up this election. I'm sure she's up to the task, though. By inference, however, you seem to suggest that some guy who runs a baseball program is qualified. Why no attack on him? Even Eve was (still is?) a teacher.

Michael Flannery, however, will be a great addition to the school board. He really cares about kids and did a lot of work in his capacity as a reporter to help a lot of real people. It's never been an abstract argument with him, and I think he deserves to be elected. That kind of hands-on approach is just what the doctor ordered.

As for Bates, not only did she miss that huge deficit, but in 2004, she and Williams opposed a crucial school levy renewal despite the fact that the money was desperately needed and the fact that the renewal did not raise taxes. Fortunately, despite Bates and Williams forsaking the kids in those schools and instead doing the bidding of Tom Brinkman and COAST, the levy renewal passed. I think what's even more unfortunate than the idea of Bates on Council, is the idea that Williams will almost surely be reelected. Cincinnati has survived bad councils, but when school board members actively campaign against the schools, we've got an even bigger problem.

 
at 6:40 AM, August 26, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

Republicans are running alright. Running from a city that is quickly becoming another Detroit or Newark. Normal, hardworking people can see what's happening and are voting with their feet...

 
at 11:39 AM, August 26, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

Proves a point:

Tarbell is the most lovable and most ineffective politician in the history of Cincinnati.

 
at 6:37 PM, August 26, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anon 6:40,

Repugs ruin a place like Cincinnati with their refusal to raise taxes to take care of an aging infrastructure. Then, the Dems get elected to clean up their messes. Then the Repugs cut and run. The Repugs like to call it "voting with their feet" but all they do is bring their "me-first" attitudes and hatreds with them and ruin the countryside in the process.

 
at 8:37 PM, August 26, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

If they couldn't gather 300 valid signatures to run, they should NOT be on the school board. Please! Get some compentencies, people.

 
at 9:33 PM, August 26, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

(Three people, sitting at a table drinking a bunch a beers last week) "Hey! Want to run for school board guys?!" Answer: "SURE, lets do it, another round of beers!!" "WAit,someone says "we only have 24 hrs to get the signatures!" "OH, lets wing it! Who cares!!" "Another Round of Beers!" "WHOOO WEEE, this is how I ran things on council!!!""

 
at 1:14 PM, August 27, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

"...Anonymous said...
Talking about being kicked off the ballot:
The following wRong wingnut whackos are jumping "schmidt":
"Rep. Rick Renzi (R-Ariz.) said Thursday that he will not seek re-election in 2008, ending months of speculation regarding the ethically clouded Congressman's political future."
"Hastert, who today becomes the fourth House Republican in three weeks to say he won't seek re-election next year, didn't so much seize power as accept it."
"Rep. Deborah Pryce (R-Ohio) announced yesterday that she will retire from one of the most competitive House districts in the country, after squeaking to victory in a hotly contested race in 2006."
"Rep. Chip Pickering (R-Miss.) confirmed late Thursday night that he would not seek a seventh term in the House, becoming the third senior GOP lawmaker this week to say he would retire."
"Karl Rove will leave George Bush's side this month one of the most controversial political figures in living memory."
"Seven vulnerable House Republicans face difficult decisions about whether to return contributions from a major Republican donor who was charged last week on 23 counts of bankruptcy fraud, mail fraud, money laundering, obstruction of justice and perjury."
"A Justice Department corruption task force is investigating whether Alaska Congressman Don Young took campaign cash in return for securing $10 million for construction of a proposed Florida highway ramp..."

Rove, Rove, Rove their 'schmidt': 'family values' become Oh, soooo dirty !

Merrily, Merrily, Merrily, Merrily : when wRong wingnuts face ten to thirty !

PATHETIC HYPOCRITES !

HAD ENOUGH, VOTE DEMOCRAT 2007 !
10:20 PM, August 24, 2007"

OOps we obsessively forgot !

GONe-dole-ZALES !

lol,lol,lol

Looks like that Roving fleet has hit an elephant dung sand-bar !

lol, lol, lol

PATHETIC HYPOCRITES !

HAD ENOUGH, VOTE DEMOCRAT 2007 !

 
at 1:19 PM, August 27, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

.
"...(Three people, sitting at a table drinking a bunch a beers last week) "Hey! Want to run for school board guys?!..."

Oh the defeatist Ghiz, Boratz, and bird-ling !

Their future does look Dem !

PATHETIC FLIP-FLOPPERS !

HAD ENOUGH, VOTE, for a real, DEMOCRAT 2007 !

 
at 2:44 PM, August 27, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

gee, its too bad a certain east side representative didn't help them collect signatures.

 
at 12:38 AM, August 30, 2007 Blogger jimmy jazz said...

obviously jim didn't want school board bad enough...or someone with his connections in this town would certainly be able to handle something as basic as collecting 300 signatures..........BY THE WAY JIM....I STILL HAVEN'T FORGIVEN YOU FOR VOTING AGAINST MAKING GAY BASHING A HATE CRIME....WHAT'S UP JIM? AND YOU HAD THE NERVE TO SHOW UP AT THE STONEWALL DINNER AFTERWARDS AND TOOK OUT AN AD IN OUR DINNER PROGRAM!!!!!!!!! AND LOOKED LIKE QUITE THE WALLFLOWER I MIGHT ADD....YOU STILL WANTED MY SUPPORT EVEN THOUGH YOU DON'T CARE IF I GET THE CRAP BEATEN OUT OF ME FOR BEING SOMETHING AS SIMPLE AND COMMONPLACE AS BEING GAY. AND I BELIEVE WE MAKE UP MORE THAN TEN PERCENT OF THE POPULATION.

 
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