CPS campaigns get going
This week marks the beginning of the heavy-duty campaign season for the small field of candidates running for the Cincinnati school board.
Tonight, Chris Nelms holds a 7 p.m. kickoff event at the New Birth International Church in Bond Hill. He'll be joined by Eve Bolton and Michael Flannery, who round out the three-person Democratic/organized labor slate for the board. Then they'll move to the Laborers' Local 265 union hall on Montgomery Road for an event at 7:30 p.m.
Tonight's events follows up a Flannery fundraiser on Monday, a meet-the-candidates forum in Pleasant Ridge and two other events already this week. More are coming.
"It's a whirlwind," said Nelms, a first-time candidate.
The trio is running together against incumbent Rick Williams, the only other candidate in the race. Nelms, Flannery and Bolton all are endorsed by the Democratic party and the teachers' union as a concerted effort to keep Williams from a third term. Williams said last week he intends to run a more laid back campaign, appearing at various neighborhood events but foregoing a formal campaign kickoff announcement.
The top three finishers in the four-person race will win a seat on the board.
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Post a Comment*PATHETIC !
ENOUGH is ENOUGH, VOTE no on the school board!
Rick Williams is not who he thinks he is!
PATHETIC !
HAD ENOUGH, VOTE DEMOCRAT 2007 !
Isn't anyone going to post about Bush's SCHIP veto? This, despite the fact that 7 out of 10 Americans support the children's health insurance bill. In an attempt to justify his stance, Bush has been lying about the bill's contents.
The US House of Representatives now has a chance to override Bush's inexcusable veto. Steve Chabot and Jean Schmidt have already voted against SCHIP once; will they do it again?
Someone at the Enquirer should ask John Boehner why he voted against the Improving Government Accountability Act, which passed on an overwhelming 404-11 vote.
"ENOUGH is ENOUGH, VOTE no on the school board!"
Sorry, I was unaware the school board elections were a yes or no election. I appreciate your acute insight.
Today's Cincinnati Post has a good editorial about SCHIP:
If President Bush had a history of opposing big government and big spending, his choice of a child health insurance bill for only the fourth veto of his presidency might be more understandable.
But he has calmly presided over the largest increase in spending and the creation of the largest government entitlement - prescription drugs - since the Great Society. It is thus difficult for him to now credibly preach the virtues of limited government and fiscal prudence. It is doubly so while he is prosecuting a financially ruinous war that he chose to start.
The vetoed legislation would reauthorize and expand a program that subsidizes health insurance for low-income children. It is popular with the states, the medical community and the families of the children - and for good reason. It is a cost-effective approach to providing coverage, often preventive care, to families who don't qualify for Medicaid but can't afford private health insurance.
Congress can override Bush's veto. Please contact Jean Schmidt and Steve Chabot and tell them to vote for children's health insurance.
Rick Williams, a Black Democrat, was snubbed by the Democratic Party. This is a consistent pattern of racism by the white-run Democratic Party.
But hey, at least they're building a big new jail so they can say they have somewhere for people like Williams to feel at home.
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