Dear fellow tax hikers, we have wonderful news to share. It appears that we will get to pay another $15 million for our beloved Cincinnati Streetcar! Our $133 million streetcar now looks like the $148 million streetcar, just as Council is deciding whether to cancel it.
This information is based on the Secret Streetcar Memo which has finally been released. In this memo, the City of Cincinnati's own attorney's advised that the city will likely lose it's litigation against Duke Energy over $15 million of costs to move the utilities.
Former Mayor Mark Mallory and former City Manager Milton Dohoney publicly proclaimed that the city had a strong likelihood of winning this lawsuit, even as they had this memo which said they were likely to lose. Some would say Mallory and Dohoney were lying, but we say sometimes you have to fib to get the big government projects that we want.
As we streetcar supporters often demonstrate, we believe the ends justify the means. We will continue to lie if that's what it takes to build this wonderful streetcar system. We may have to come up with some great new lies in the next few weeks to save our streetcar. We believe in Cincinnati!
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I love it when this blog focuses on what the Democrats who run the city of Cincinnati and are turning it into the next Detroit are doing. It totally takes the focus off our tax-hiking Republican politicians in the suburbs and it completely obscures our failure to find a mayoral candidate or even try to establish a majority on council.
Oh man this isn't good news for us streetcar supporters. Should I flip-flop again?
Yes, just please keep the focus on the tax-hiking Democrat politicians and completely ignore the tax hikes I've pushed in Blue Ash. Keep that quiet the next five months and I am home free. Mustache power, baby!
It just gives me the shakes to see other people raising taxes when I can't anymore.
When the money runs out here at Republican Headquarters, it won't effect us since we don't get paid. Maybe that's why no one is sending us over to the Cincinnati Herald archives in the main library to find out when Eric Kearney really bought that newspaper and to see if there is any mention of tax liens or other liabilities he inherited.
As a city councilmember in Cincinnati, the city I represent as a councilmember, I find it reprehensible that the forces of hatred, bigotry, greed and divisiveness are doing everything that they can to tear this beloved investment out of the hands of the children and put their hard-working parents out of work right before Christmas. You're darn right that the ends justify the means, and if you criticize me, I will just run to my mommies at the Enquirer and tell them how mean you're being to me. Since I am gay, if I think you're being mean to me, then all my liberal friends and I will call you a homophobic bigot and my friends at the newspaper will say mean things about you. Remember, I am a gay liberal, so I have a monopoly anything I want as tolerant and decent, and declaring anything or anyone I don't want as hateful, extremist, bigoted, reprehensible and dispensable.
If the Qualls campaign had not run that incredibly stupid ad, or to be more precise, had not included that shot of the dog pissing on the Cranley name, right before the primary, the election would have had a much different trajectory and the streetcar might have survived. The people who came up with that ad, and the people who approved it, have a great deal to answer for.
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