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| Roxanne Qualls, with Bob Bedinghaus and Mike Brown |
Dear fellow tax hikers, for many years former Commissioner Bob Bedinghaus has received most of the credit for the wildly successful stadium tax that has brought much wealth and prosperity to Hamilton County. However, he did not do it alone. As the evidence shows, Roxanne Qualls was more responsible than anyone for winning the Stadium Tax vote.
Roxanne Qualls not only supported the Bedinghaus Stadium Tax, she was a pivotal force in getting it passed. A detailed analysis of this and more can be found in the June 1996 edition of Cincinnati Magazine, Pages 68-74.
Passing this wonderful tax increase took a lot of work. Roxanne was there from the beginning:
Bedinghaus, Qualls, and Voinovich - a holy trinity of legendary tax hikers. (and some people say it is Cranley who works too closely with Republicans)
But the Bedinghaus tax wasn't polling well early in the campaign and needed a boost to make sure this vitally important tax increase passed. Enter Roxanne Qualls!
It was Roxanne Qualls who pushed the Bedinghaus tax ahead in the polls. And it was Roxanne who kept it that way:
Qualls knows a good deal when she sees one, and the Bedinghaus stadium deal was one of the best. The Roxanne Qualls stadiums were an "investment". Just like the Roxanne Qualls streetcar is also an "investment".
While we give a ton of credit to Bob Bedinghaus for giving us this fantastic stadium deal, he isn't the one who won it at the polls - that was Roxanne Qualls. We thank Roxy from the bottom of our hearts for everything she did to pass the
It was Roxanne Qualls who supported the Bedinghaus Stadium Tax. It was Roxanne Qualls who worked tirelessly on the Stadium Tax campaign. It was Roxanne Qualls who went on tv to get the Stadium Tax passed. If it wasn't for Roxy, we would not be paying that Stadium Tax for the Bedinghaus stadium deals today. Wouldn't that be awful? Thanks to Roxanne, we've been paying that Stadium Tax for many years, and we will be for many many more.
30 comments:
Yawn.
Roxanne Qualls is Bob Bedinghaus in a pantsuit.
Republican Wannabe John Cranley is now attacking Roxanne Qualls for joining forces with Republicans 17 YEARS AGO???? Clearly, the Cranley campaign is flailing about in desperation hoping that something, anything will stick.
Qualls wins Tuesday, 62-36-2.
I do have to thank John Cranley for wasting many Republicans' money. Dollars given to Cranley meant less for the puny 4-member GOP council team. Not a single one of them has the funds or the clout to win on their own, so after backing the losing and money-wasting horse, they've fallen too far behind to catch up in November.
A Republican-free council is exactly what this city needs if it is ever going to turn itself around.
Thanks a lot Roxanne for teaming up with Bob Bedinghaus and Mike Brown to bankrupt our county! 40 years of giving our money to the Bengals isn't that bad.
After having established her leadership bona fides, Roxanne Qualls does a sterling job of reminding the voters why they can't stand John Cranley.
http://cincinnati.com/blogs/politics/2013/09/04/qualls-ad-cranley-left-public-service-for-ethics-reasons/
Wow, I forgot how much Bob looks like my boss Montgomery Burns.
I thank Roxanne Qualls and Bob Bedinghaus so much for the millions and millions they've given me. They are two of the best friends I've ever had.
What a difference a day makes! Yesterday the local Qualls lackey was accusing Cranley of being a Republican and running a negative campaign.
Today Roxanne Qualls releases a low-class, negative ad; and it turns out it's Qualls who worked with Republicans Bob Bedinghaus and George Voinovich to ruin Hamilton County's finances for 40 years. Things can change in a day.
On the same day that COAST got its head handed to it by the Republican-dominated Supreme Court yet again, the Cranley-cronies of COAST are now making the ludicrous claim that Roxanne Qualls is a closet Republican.
I guess we know now that the COASTers are closer to Ron Paul's position on drug legalization than they are to Orrin Hatch's position.
Cranley had to scrape the bottom of the barrel to find a former Democratic judge to try to make the case that he's right and the Enquirer is wrong to characterize him as a sleaze.
I guess the other re-treads like Laketa Cole and Dwight Tillery didn't even want to touch that one.
It's only September? Who's next in your long line of re-treads? At the rate he is going, Cranley will be channeling dead Republicans from the grave and getting their out-of-state grandchildren to speak up for him.
It's really sad that John Cranley has to subject all of us to this flailing campaign of lies, smears, distortion, whispered innuendos, and other slimy Republican tactics from the Lee Atwater/Karl Rove school of race-baiting and gay-bashing on his way to two crushing, humiliating defeats this year.
He should have just kept quiet at his law practice and shoveled in wheelbarrows full of taxpayer funds, keeping his hypocritical gripes to himself and his wealthy Republican colleagues at his white-shoe law firm.
We all would have been better off if he had done that.
The only downside to the thorough defeat that will be administered to John Cranley this Tuesday is that he will use the next two months to spew even more right-wing anger and hatred at all of us.
Desperate and Defeated, if you want to talk about retreads don't forget about the ultimate retread - Roxanne Qualls. It's a damn shame she didn't stay away. After the damage she did to this county with her ill-advised Bedinghaus Stadium Tax efforts, and now the stretcar and parking plot, she should have stayed away forever.
Hey Desperate and Defeated, lay off of political retreads! You're poisoning the well for us in 2014.
Cranley vs. Qualls? Yawn. I dropped both of those chumps.
The only question we need to decide is which project was worse - Roxanne Qualls' stadiums or Roxanne Qualls' streetcar.
Two Democrats are in this race with zero Republicans running because our party needs to do a much better job of being for abortion on demand, supporting gay rights and giving illegal aliens everything they want.
This is a tricky issue for us because we are so in bed with all the Bengals people. Heck, their lawyer Stu is one of our best friends. I think we'll stay out of this since we always know what's good for us and our wallet. Wouldn't want to bite any hands that feed us.
Yeah, enough of this retread stuff!
- Countywide loser Bill Mallory
- Countywide Loser Pamoola Thomas
- Countwide Loser Cecil Thomas
- Countywide Loser Jim Tarbell
- That Martha Good dude
- Congressional Loser Roxy Qualls
- City & Statewide loser David A. Pepper
Roxanne does better among women than Cranley does among men. Unless women turn out less than men, which never happens, there is no way Roxanne can lose.
John Cranley's craven political opportunism and his pandering to Tea Partiers, a minority within a minority, will cost him dearly this Tuesday and on November 5.
Remember when I insisted that COAST attorneys never win their cases, and that governments should fight them instead of settle?
Whooops! Don't expect me to admit my stupidity. I never do.
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20130906/NEWS010801/309060162/EXCLUSIVE-City-must-pay-COAST-lawyers-511K
Fatass Craig's legal expertise is on par with his lardass wife's. Tabby might have to work 50 years to make $511k the way her solo legal practice is going. By the way, if you add Craig's salary, it will still take 50 years.
Craig Hochscheid and his urbanite ilk bitching about COAST's legal fees are like the unsympathetic assholes who blame the rape victim for her plight because she wore a mini skirt instead of the real offender. All the City of Cincinnati as to do is STOP BREAKING THE LAW, and they won't get sued. It really is that easy.
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In the past three days, I've gone across the city and back for various reasons. East side, west side, OTR, Clifton, Hartwell, Mt. Airy, no matter where you go there is far more support shown for Qualls than Cranley.
I want Cranley to win. I think Qualls would be a disaster for this city. And yet, I look at the numbers, I look at the polls, I look at voting behavior in past elections, and there is simply no logical or mathematical way for Cranley to win.
Any experienced political operative will tell you that yard signs win elections.
Cranley's endless pandering to Republicans will cost him dearly tomorrow. Republicans simply will not vote in a Democratic party primary. Qualls will be seen as the front-runner and the Cranley/Right-Wing Smear Machine will never catch up.
We don't have a candidate and we can't obtain a majority on city council. But take a look at the Reds, baby!
Fun times await us tomorrow night when Roxanne wins and the losers behind this blog are crying in their beers.
Great predictions Qualls streetcar nutjobs. I'd like to remind you of your electoral idiocy on tonight, as John Cranley celebrates an ass-whipping victory of Streetcar Roxanne Qualls...
Game Over, GOP said: "Cranley's endless pandering to Republicans will cost him dearly tomorrow. Republicans simply will not vote in a Democratic party primary. Qualls will be seen as the front-runner and the Cranley/Right-Wing Smear Machine will never catch up."
- Is Qualls still the frontrunner after losing by 20 points?
Reality Check said: "Fun times await us tomorrow night when Roxanne wins and the losers behind this blog are crying in their beers."
- How were your fun times? I hope you weren't crying in your beers.
Let Me Get This Straight said: "Clearly, the Cranley campaign is flailing about in desperation hoping that something, anything will stick."
- I bet all flailing campaigns wish they could pull off a 20 point win.
Best Ad of the Season said:
"After having established her leadership bona fides, Roxanne Qualls does a sterling job of reminding the voters why they can't stand John Cranley."
- If by sterling job you mean hilariously ineffective then I agree.
Time to Face Reality said:
"The only downside to the thorough defeat that will be administered to John Cranley this Tuesday is that he will use the next two months to spew even more right-wing anger and hatred at all of us."
- Still think that's the only downside to tonight's election? Reality check anyone?
Math is Hard said: "Roxanne does better among women than Cranley does among men. Unless women turn out less than men, which never happens, there is no way Roxanne can lose."
- Math is hard, which is why I suggest you take a class to brush up on your skills.
Anonymous Informed Voter said: "John Cranley's craven political opportunism and his pandering to Tea Partiers, a minority within a minority, will cost him dearly this Tuesday and on November 5."
- Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Sign Watcher said: "In the past three days, I've gone across the city and back for various reasons. East side, west side, OTR, Clifton, Hartwell, Mt. Airy, no matter where you go there is far more support shown for Qualls than Cranley."
- I suggest you do a more thorough sign count, or become a better liar.
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