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Cincinnati s Charter Committee – the independent political party that has fashioned itself to be the watchdog for good government in the city – is going back to its roots.
After 2020, which saw three members of the nine-member Cincinnati City council indicted on federal corruption charges – something unprecedented in the nearly 100 years of Cincinnati s council-manager form of government – the Charter Committee saw an opportunity to once again become a major player in city politics, doing so by re-establishing itself as the reform party.
Thus, the Charter Committee – which plans to run a full slate of nine council candidates in the November election – released an actual Charter Platform. Party platforms became as rare as hen s teeth in the last few decades of city politics. But Charter has one that its as-yet-unnamed slate of candidates will run on this fall.
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How nice that the Cincinnati Democratic Committee says it does not want to confuse voters in the Cincinnati City Council and school board elections this year.
How odd, though, that they think having their endorsed candidates be cross-endorsed by the Charter Committee (or any other political party) would confuse the voters.
These off-year elections generally garner a fairly low turnout and, in my experience, which dates back to 1983, the voters who
do turn out are the ones who are paying the most attention.
The Cincinnati Democratic Committee, made up of all the party precinct executives, sent this out via social media to Democrats last week, laying out the new policy of not accepting endorsements from other political parties. We won t know who the endorsed candidates are until later this spring, after the party committee has gone through its vetting process.