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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.