Posted on 10/22/2004 12:24:10 AM PDT by Kiss Me Hardy
Is the GOP trying to hold down the turnout among Cincinnati's Democratic voters to help President Bush carry swing state Ohio? Since 1980, local businesses have helped fund get-out-the-vote campaigns for a ballot initiative that pays 15% of the city's education budget. After failing to get the initiative pushed back to spring '05, the Cincinnati Business Committee, which includes Procter & Gamble (PG ) and Kroger (KR ), is withholding its support -- even though a defeat on Nov. 2 would whack $32 million from the schools this year. Local Dems charge that the GOP-friendly CBC is worried that the city's largely minority residents likely would pick Senator John Kerry if the initiative brings them to the polls. "That is my theory" for why business has yanked its support, says Cincinnati Board of Education President Florence Newell, a Democrat. The CBC says business acted because of unhappiness with the school board. The battle is key because surrounding Hamilton County could determine the race of too-close-to-call Ohio, which President Bush barely carried. The county's suburbs tend to be Republican, but Cincinnati could carry the day for Kerry -- if enough residents vote.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessweek.com ...
Anyway, it's a gross distortion. They make it sound like the wicked GOP is robbing poor little urban urchins of their futures. Read the full story in the Cincinnati Post editorial and you realize how much the writer had to twist and omit the facts to make this outrageous claim.
In fact its not just the business group that opposes the tax, it's two members of the schoolboard, the local Baptist ministers, the newspaper.
Also, the vote was brought foward by the school, but the story makes it sound like the "pro-GOP" group wanted to delay it
I think letters of protest are in order. The first should go to the author, ira_sager@businessweek.com. Any other ideas how we can nip this in the bud before another lie becomes accepted as "fact?"
Do any Freepers have any ideas on who to contact? This is in Ohio. so the reason why the magazine is being so deceptive is obvious.
It's late and I messed up. The link to the editorial is here:
http://www.cincypost.com/2004/10/20/edita102004.html
Ken Blackwell? Certainly not any of the democrat loons. Obviously the local news stations. Write letters to the editor in the Enquirer & Post. Whoever controls the faulty paper should be contacted as well.
I read that Proctor and Gamble has been ACTIVELY recruiting ONLY gays nationally for the last two years.
This could be why local Baptists and Catholics are not eager to have their support.
I don't know anything about Kroger.
Contact the mayor of Youngstown Ohio. He will be able to give you a handle on the situation. He is a Democrat who announced his support for Bush.
I'm trying to find Kroger's Proctor and Gamble's political contributions but OpenSecrets.org isn't cooperating. If they're big GOP supporters, that would be another lie.
big="not big".
Time to go to bed. This election keeps me up too late!
Me too, goodnite.
It is doubtful that P&G is a GOP supporter.
They are a union shop.
Since they are openly recruiting homosexuals, I would assume that they are liberal management.
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