Pavelish: I'm Using My Own Money
After last week's financial filings showed Cincinnati City Council candidate Steve Pavelish to have zero money, he called to let us know his campaign is still "alive and well."
"It might look like my campaign is dead," he said in a voicemail. "Steve Pavelish is alive and well. I'm financing myself...My campaign is coming from my personal account."
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Post a Comment*Go Steve! Your slogan should be "Don't Vote" and then the same ole stragglers won't get the votes they don't deserve.
Like your take on our housing stock. What other issue could be so big? Would we expect our cops and firefighters live in the stock this city provides? In a city with this trait, they would.
Steve Pavelish for Council - because slum lords should run the show!
SLUM LORDS do run the city. The city of Cincinnati is the biggest owner of blighted buildings, broken sidewalks, and dirty vacant lots. And who is running the city?? PRESENT CITY COUNCIL.
Pavelish has a great reputation as a landlord and neighbor and only the IGNORANT would call him a slumlord.
I met Pavelish in Oakley and we talked about the expense of running for office. He did mention that he is paying for the campaign himself. But in the near future he may need grassroots financial support. He told me that he will continue to reject money from those who want to influence him. Sounds good to me!
"only the IGNORANT would call him a slumlord"
There seem to be a lot of ignorant people out there!
www.hamiltoncountyauditor.org/pdf/flsad2005sold.pdf
www.hamiltoncountyauditor.org/pdf/2004propertiessold.pdf
citybeat.com/2004-05-26/cover.shtml - 37k
cagis.hamilton-co.org/opal/APD.ASP?JA=CC&AT=&APD=B200504541&TB=TBASE - 37k -
http://cagis.hamilton-co.org/opal/apd.aspx?QSPerm=B200502856
Face it man...he's a slum lord with a capital S-L-U-M!
These sites mentioned above lists the condemmed buildings that he purchased to rehab (after the purchase the city automatically condemms the new owner - strange,huh). I believe the CITY BEAT story of several years ago has Pavlish complaining that City actions (or inactions) are creating him problems of the buildings he WANTS to repair. He sounds responsible to me...
while some of the one's above point out applications the citybeat one talks about his properties and so does this one.
www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=1114.300
That's not responsible
The Urban Ohio article talks about "2 shacks" that Pavelish was trying to keep from city demolition. These "2 shacks" were small homes that Pavelish considered purchasing to rehab for his two daughters as college graduation gifts. Both houses were vacant for many years and passed thru many owners (who just kept them vacant).
One house had foundation damage due to street water runoff caused by a colapsed city sidewalk and the other house (on the same tiny street) actually had a portion of the road collapse against the house, damaging the foundation, etc. The city promised to make street repairs. Pavelish, satisfied, purchased the homes. Time went by and the city did nothing. When questioned Cranley's office stated that road repairs WOULD be made. Time went by and again nothing. THEN the city said that there is no money to do these repairs to such an insignificant street of only three houses. Pavelish took the city to court to force it to keep it's road repair promise but his attorney made a filing error and the case was thrown out of court. In retailiation the city declared the houses a public nuisance and ordered demolition. Now Pavelish's daughters are the proud owners of two empty lots. All the Council members were contacted as this problem was developing and NOT ONE even returned a phone call...Maybe that is why Pavelish is running for Council. Maybe that is why Pavelish believes that Council should be full time. And stories like this is happening to many. This is why all the construction is across the river and why people are moving out of Cincinnati.
anonymous at 2:03,
So he owned property that he was trying to rehab and the City condemned it before he could get it done...how is that "not responsible."
Besides, if you're going to try to tear someone down, I don't think it's the best idea to cite an internet message forum where anybody can post anything. I don't know what you learned in school, but I was always taught you shouldn't cite opinions as facts.
Anyone can put anything on those boards. So how can I take that seriously?
From the City Beat article:
"After RCM, the city's vacant building list shows the largest owner of blighted properties is the city itself, with 18."
Call Pavelish what you want...but it looks like the biggest Slumlord around is CURRENT CITY COUNCIL!
If city council isn't delegating money to fix up these buildings, how can they force someone else who owns the buildings to do it? Where's the lawsuits against the city? Maybe the city should take a look at fixing up their own messes before going after the little guy.
I just finished a house which was close to demolishion and before it's even sold, the county reassesses it to eight times the previous tax bill.
The city says the tax abatement is a good thing, but that only counts for the 20% of the tax bill. You hang yourself by giving them the numbers because then it'll be reassessed. It's a wash for them while it's the burden for the owner. All while improving the housing stock. Where are the grants for old housing? Oh yeah, there by the inner east river corridor and the stadiums. Egads!
Carthage was the only development geared toward where most people can live and that wasn't the most economical way to do it. I think the factory they were told they had to clean up resulted in some federal earmarks which drove the project. Use money to build up old housing with contributions from the owner. Only then...
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