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This week, the Cincinnati blog issued a challenge to all local blogs, saying we should compete to raise money for the Freestore Foodbank.  This is a great idea, and The Cincinnati Beacon would be pleased totally destroy that website in its own challenge.  It’s like two good causes wrapped up in one:  beating that other blog, and helping those in need this holiday season!  Now you can do it online.  So, give what you can to the Freestore Foodbank today! And participate in this historic battle of the blogs!

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Now that Obama is making “mutt” jokes, we might as well come to terms with the fact that he is not the first African-American president.  Since he’s half white, he is actually the first multiracial president—and that fact may be worth celebrating!  But insisting that Obama is Black, when he is half white, perpetuates some of the oldest residuals of our culture’s institutionalized racism. 

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In a record breaking year for Democrats, Vic Wulsin could not figure out how to win Ohio’s 2nd Congressional District.  While Democrats have sent a strong message everywhere in the nation, hopefully the 2nd District is sending a strong message to Democrats:  Get Vic Wulsin out of these losing runs for Congress so a good candidate can take the seat.  Meanwhile, her involvement in the “malariotherapy” experiments continues to become problematic, especially since Dr. Henry Heimlich admits that they’re ongoing in a new, undisclosed country.

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Well, if you didn’t vote early, it might not be too late to consider our nearly too late endorsements!  Our editorial board just had a telephone conference, and unanimously decided to issue public support for the following issues and candidates!  Remember, for unbiased information about anything on the ballot, visit The League of Women Voters at SmartVoter.org for Hamilton County.

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For the past few years, Dr. Victoria Wulsin has repeatedly attempted to distance herself from the Heimlich Institute’s discredited experiments infecting AIDS patients with malaria. Perhaps her most absurd claim comes from a March 2008 Wulsin for Congress campaign statement.  But could Wulsin have stopped more victims from being abused by these experiments?  We have shocking footage to confirm that Dr. Heimlich is still on the prowl with his “malariotherapy” experiments! 

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After sending our request for a correction yesterday morning, The Enquirer has done the right thing—issuing a lengthy correction to its recent endorsement of John McCain.  At the same time, their explanation of how the mistake was made in the first place casts suspicion into what kind of sources the paper finds it reasonable to cite during the course of daily business.  Viral emails should never be utilized by a major daily paper as the source for a quotation.  The fact they published the widely circulated misquote should be a grave lesson to everyone involved.

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Mr. Morford

I just watched WCPO’s I-Team coverage of Issue 8, and the report failed to include key pieces of information—depicting an incomplete and erroneous picture of the campaign for Proportional Representation.  I am writing this letter, therefore, to request an immediate correction and an update both online and on television.

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Photo:  Left to Right: seated: Neil A. Armstrong, Professor of Aerospace Engineering, University of Cincinnati; Henry J. Heimlich, MD, Director of Surgery, The Jewish Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio; Edward A. Patrick MD, PhD, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University. Standing: George Rieveschl, Jr., PhD, Sc.D., Vice President for Special Projects, University of Cincinnati (circa 1975).

Five years ago, Dr. Edward A. Patrick of Union KY issued this press release in which he claimed to be the co-developer of the Heimlich maneuver.  This week, a court case involving Dr. Patrick has made the ongoing story about The Maneuver even more noteworthy.

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Todd Portune has a series of billboards around town.  They have slogans at the top right corners, the Todd Portune yard sign logo in the bottom left corner, and the web address ThePortunePlan.com in the bottom left.  The latter automatically redirects to ToddPortune.com.  Near my house, for example, is one that says “The Banks is back on track.” Yesterday, while driving on I-75 south, I saw a different slogan, which gave me pause:  “Two budget cycles and no new taxes.” Really?  Is Todd Portune running on a platform of not raising taxes, after trying to raise taxes?  Does he forget the only reason we don’t have higher taxes is because the people organized to vote down his jail tax?

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10 False Claims Against Issue 8 and Proportional Representation

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Cincinnati City Councilman Jeff Berding has been the most outspoken opponent of Issue 8, the ballot measure to return proportional representation for Cincinnati City Council elections. He has appeared on radio and television outlets, published commentary, spoken at several community forums and been cited as the lead expert of Committee to Protect Our Votes, which is the campaign group formed to oppose Issue 8. 

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Maybe we should not be surprised that the right-leaning Enquirer would endorse Congresswoman Jean Schmidt over Mt. Kenya University Chancellor Vic Wulsin, but some of their published reasoning provides a noteworthy context for Wulsin’s inability to grow as an articulate candidate over the past several years.  This fact, combined with Wulsin’s relatively new appointment as Chancellor of a University in Kenya, combine to raise questions about Wulsin’s continued presence doing weird things in Africa.

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According to my sources, the local Democrats have once again set in place a series of out-of-sight deals to insure that certain players get to hold certain positions of power—and if true, by doing this behind closed doors and off the ballot, they have therefore sacrificed voter choice and voter empowerment for the maintenance of the status quo.  The details of this deal seek to place certain interests into key City positions, sometimes for reasons that hardly even seem political or to the benefit of any particular ideology.  This is an example of the dark, underbelly of the political process.

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In the event that no one else bothers to at least report on all the candidates running for President who have achieved ballot status in Ohio, here is how our ballots will actually look:

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Some will refuse to believe it, but there is a part of me committed to being an undecided voter until the moment I cast my ballot.  I remain open to someone persuading me one way or another until the moment of my vote.  That said, I still advocate for whomever happens to be my favorite candidate at the time.  And, at this time, I am enjoying the candidacy of Ralph Nader.  So I decided to exhibit my enjoyment of Ralph Nader’s campaign at the recent open-to-the-public party Democrats held in Oakley to watch the Vice Presidential debates.  I was surprised by my rough treatment by the Democrats.

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The deadline is Monday, October 6th...

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In this week’s Business Courier, Councilman Jeff Berding wrote a response to the Courier’s endorsement of Issue 8 (Proportional Representation) in their paper the week prior.  Berding has had a very poor voting record in supporting African American issues even though he is defined as a democrat and the African American community is the base of his local party.  For example, some of his votes included decreasing resources to health clinics, decreasing resources for keeping swimming pools open, and supporting the building of a mega jail.  The proponents for the mega jail were misleading the public to believe that the jail was necessary to reduce inmate overcrowding.  It is now clear that the jail overcrowding argument was a lie. 

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Brother Steven Gerard Sidlovsky from the St. Anthony Secular Franciscan Order has recently been circulating a petition hoping to establish “Life Peace Zones” in Cincinnati.  These would be binding zoning designations based on Catholic family values.  And it turns out Councilmember Chris Monzel has jumped on board, asking Cincinnati’s Law Department to look into what type of wording might be acceptable for pushing some version of this concept through City Council.

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UPDATE: 9/19, 5:30 am:  Last night I was contacted by the Driehaus campaign, and I was told that not getting back to me was an oversight by the campaign, and that their response will be forthcoming today.  If true, I apologize for the miscommunication!

At committee this week, Councilmembers United Against the Health Department (CUAHD), led by former Fiscal Fascist Fiver Jeff Berding, continuously tried to pin the oversight failure related to the recently publicized nursing home raids onto the City’s Health Department.  There is only one problem with this attempt:  the State of Ohio inspected, and passed, the nursing home on March 6th—which, if you’ve been following the story and watching the dates, would be after the police first noticed the allegedly deplorable conditions, yet prior to the police raid.  All of this came out yesterday in Committee.  So if the City’s Health Department can’t do its job, neither can the State of Ohio.  Or, is something else going on here?  Does this relate to a backroom deal that Democrats might have engaged, perhaps for the benefit of an agency like Closing the Health Gap?

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In a recent letter issued from the Cincinnati Solicitor’s Office, it appears the City has cracked open both the definition of a political party and what it takes to sit on the Cincinnati Election Commission (CEC).  Earlier this year, I filed a complaint with the CEC, indicating that the word “organization” had no legal definition in Cincinnati’s Charter.  The fact suggested any “organization” that had endorsed a candidate receiving five percent of the vote qualified as a “political party” in the City of Cincinnati (which would mean that an “organization” could create a political party by just endorsing a likely winner, thereby increasing their fundraising limits next cycle—think the Lindner Party, for an example of potential abuse).  In trying to sidestep this potentially cumbersome situation, the City of Cincinnati issued a preliminary opinion on my complaint which may have unwittingly outlined membership in the CEC as now open to several organizations who do not even know they qualify as a “political party.”

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Guest article by Thomas A. Dutton, Miami University Center for Community Engagement

Exactly when did the American mind become comfortable with the notion that punishment solves deep social problems?  I suppose we should have seen this coming that, as U.S. society becomes not just a society with prisons but a veritable prison society, a kind of incarcerative logic would ooze into the social consciousness brandishing punishment—wielded as a stick to force behavioral change and exact personal responsibility—as social policy. 

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Almost a year ago, Michael Earl Patton wrote about hidden costs affiliated with the losing initiative to implement a Super Sized Jail Tax for a Super Sized Jail—specifically, he detailed how the site sat on contaminated land, and that an Environmental Site Assessment would need to be conducted.  No where in the “comprehensive” jail tax plan were such costs mentioned.  Now, in today’s Enquirer, the very costs Patton warned about have reared their head.  Congratulations, Michael, for noticing what no one else saw last year!

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It has come to the attention of the 93 year old Cincinnati Branch of the NAACP that the organization “Closing the Health Gap” has taken a position against the Cincinnati Health Department (CHD) because of the successful grant funding of its Health Disparities program for $260,000. The total grant would exceed 500,000! This is a grant to address the significant and severe health disparities in the City of Cincinnati. The Cincinnati NAACP cannot support the organization Closing the Health Gap’s perplexing position against the Cincinnati Health Department, a city resource that has historically and often provided care to African American and poor residents in Cincinnati when no other organization would do so—a city department (CHD) that has by state’s legal authority and responsibility for the health and well-being of all citizens in Cincinnati and therefore is the appropriate and legal institution to receive this health disparities grant funding.

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Whenever Joe Deters is mentioned here at The Cincinnati Beacon, we receive a fax with the title “Double Standard: Justice in Cincinnati.” The fax highlights a handful of cases of whites and blacks being prosecuted, with very different outcomes.  The comparison I find most interesting, and about which I would like more information, showcases the bank robbers Kenneth and Jewell Maples (who are white) along with bank robbers Chris Avery and Andrew Butler (who are black).  The white robbers, with a long list of former robberies across several states, apparently got just a few years in jail, while the black college students robbing banks for tuition money were given a couple decades.  Is this a good example of justice being applied unequally?

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Dear Membership and Community,

Enclosed are the financial records of Closing the Health Gap.  The Cincinnati NAACP did a public information request to gather information about Closing the Health Gap.  I have found the financial report enclosed interesting.

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So it looks like more people are thinking seriously about bicycling in Cincinnati.  And while a downtown bike center is a great idea—complete with areas for showering and changing from biking to professional clothing—I think we should take this a step further:  to really cultivate alternative transportation in Cincinnati, we should do something bold like installing The Trampe Bicycle Lift. 

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Recently, we posted this interview with Christopher Finney, where he framed the anti-tax ideology of COAST in the context of poverty and the working class.  To further the discussion, The Cincinnati Beacon is pleased to present a rebuttal by Democrat Greg Harris.  The Beacon identified four key points articulated by Finney, asking Harris to respond with detail.  Harris concludes the discussion by responding to a point of his own choice.  Enjoy!

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