2013 election

Quinlivan shrugs shoulders over AFL-CIO snub

Howard Wilkinson — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 18:40:29 +0000

The Cincinnati AFL-CIO Labor Council has endorsed for re-election all the Democratic incumbents on Cincinnati City Council except one - Laure Quinlivan.

Quinlivan is convinced it is because she ran afoul of Firefighters Union Local 48 in the recent debate over the city budget, where she argued that police and fire services should be subject to the same kind of budget-cutting as other city services; and suggested that police and firefighters should be paying more for their health insurance coverage.

Parties' council slates set - almost

Howard Wilkinson — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 04:00:00 +0000

Yes, the Cincinnati mayor’s race is the big-ticket item on this November’s ballot.

But there is a Cincinnati City Council race too, and there are going to be some serious choices for Cincinnati voters to make when it comes to picking nine people to set the policy for the city for the next four years.

Yes, four years. Since the late 1920s, council has had two year terms; but that changes with this election because of a charter amendment passed by voters last year.

2013 Election Results

91.7 WVXU — Tue, 07 May 2013 23:30:00 +0000

Here are some links to local election results:

Dem dilemna: 10 candidates, only nine council seats

Howard Wilkinson — Tue, 07 May 2013 14:43:03 +0000

Now that the Cincinnati Democratic Committee has endorsed 10 Cincinnati City Council candidates, the trick for the party will be to let loyal Democrats know that they can only vote for nine of them.

“Yes, we need to develop a message on that,’’ said Hamilton County Democratic Party chairman Tim Burke said. “And, yes, it is a highly unusual situation.”

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Slim picking for voters in Tuesday primary election

Howard Wilkinson — Mon, 06 May 2013 15:24:45 +0000

Tuesday is a primary election day in Ohio, but voters in many townships, villages and cities in southwest Ohio won’t have anything to vote on.

The candidate races and ballot issues in southwest Ohio counties are few and far between – in fact, in Butler County, there is no election at all.

In Hamilton County, only 129 of the county’s 545 precincts will be up and running Tuesday, according to Amy Searcy, director of the Hamilton County Board of Elections. The 129 precincts are in 87 polling places.