Courtesy of the University of Cincinnati
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.