West Chester OH: BARF FEST-Bu$h Rally at VoA Park

[Eurobabe]

Get me some insecticide! This tool is campaigning near my new neighborhood -- how DARE he?

I happened to click on the Cincy Enquirer and this is the lead story:
http://www.enquirer.com/midday/09/09282004_News_mday_bush.crowd28.html

Poor Charles Dharapak, to go from photographing Wes Clark on the campaign trail to this fool!

[madmom]

1. 40,000 people???? I wanna see pics! n/t

[Eurobabe]

3. spelled P-O-T-E-M-K-I-N...

cardboard cut-outs of people drinking the purple koolaid. Actually I hate to say it, but it is my impression that there maybe ARE 40K Bushit supporters in that area of Cincinnati. <sigh>

Hubby starts new job there, we're adding this sticker to his commuter car:

[madmom]

8. I live in NW Ohio and....

believe me there are that many and more idiots here.Can't wait for retirement so we can get the hell out.

[buff2]

2. 40,000 phucked up idiots.......

who obviously don't have jobs,and why would they be at a rally to see the SOB who destroyed their jobs in the first place? And the senior citizen crowd.....there to see the moron who jacked up their medicare...yep,makes sense doesn't it? The more that jerk double jacks them around,the more they support him. It's a disgrace Americans are so blindly and blatantly fooled and led to believe everything that lying pile of shit says. Poor stupid fools. :grr:

[FatSlob]

4. No, they are there because they like him.

Bush has a ton of support down in the Cincy area. Kerry has Cleveland, Bush has Cincy. No big deal.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

5. Westchester is in Warren County, I think...GOP kids & cul-de-sacs suburbia

...brand new suburban sprawl.....suburbia with a vengence. Rock solid GOP land...moreso than Cincy propoer.

[Fescue4u]

7. Butler county

With the southern most portion dips into Hamilton County.

Its quite a nice area and thats why I live here, but unfortunatly it is Repub Central.

[rexcat]

9. Right next door to Warren County...

I live in Mason and it is Repuke central! Lucky for me I am out of town on a business trip today! I missed Bush* today but I don't think the SS would have let me within 5 mile of the VOA park.

[Fescue4u]

6. My parents went to it.

(yes, they are repubs unfortunately)

They said the official count was 53,000.

I believe it, practically the whole county was shutdown, traffic was lined up for hours just to cross I75. I've never seen such a massive mess in this area.

The local schools even sent the kids home early for this(!!!)

UGH, Im surrounded!

[VolcanoJen]

10. Cincinnati Enquirer reports 50,000+ attendees; largest Bush crowd yet.

http://www.enquirer.com/midday/09/09282004_News_mday_bush28.html

Excerpt:

West Chester Police Chief John Bruce said the crowd was estimated at more than 50,000 people. Republican officials called it the largest crowd of any Bush re-election campaign rally.

"It's been a little tough to prepare for the debates because he keeps changing his positions," Bush said, continuing his campaign's charge that Kerry has changed positions on the war in Iraq.

The crowd broke into chants of "Flip-Flop! Flip-Flop!"

No word on the average age of the crowd, but if they broke into the embarrassing, hand-waving "Flip! Flop" chant popularized at the Republican National Convention, I'm guessing five.

I watched the local 11:00 pm news coverage, and the crowd was loud, enormous and white.

I'm impressed with local Republican efforts... they work like hell, and they are organized. But I'm not intimidated, and we're every bit as talented and tough. And historically, we're better on the ground, so let's see if they can get out the vote, because I know we can.

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

11. Let's face it...

Butler & Warren Counties are the most Republican parts of the state. If Bush can't get 50,000 drooling idiots to show up there, it's not going to happen for him anywhere.

And I do wish people would stop slandering Cincinnati by calling it conservative. We are a Democratic enclave surrounded by a pack of gibbering idiots; in the last mayoral election, the Republican Party didn't even field a candidate, and will probably put up nothing but token opposition in 2005. There's never more than 2-3 Republicans on City Council.

It's the suburbs that cause Hamilton County to go Repuke, and franky, if we could just talk Clermont County into annexing Anderson Township, Hamilton County would be solidly Democratic.

[Eurobabe]

13. yeah, ugh what am I getting myself into?!

moving to Mason!!

[VolcanoJen]

14. Honestly, the Republicans can HAVE West Chester.

It's really Cincinnati's blandest, whitest suburb. Too much new construction; ugly home architecture in the Drees "Transitional Yuppie" style, built in fakey "titled" neighborhoods like "The Mills at Union Centre." There is no mill. To be accurate, they should title such neighborhoods "The Former Rolling Green Farmland of I-75." Or, simpler yet, "Moo."

West Chester just doesn't have any flava. Cincinnati is a great old river town, rich with fantastic architecture, quaint working class neighborhoods, and amazing, sports-loving, hard-working, hard-playing, generous people. When I think Cincinnati, I think Reading, Deer Park, Monfort Heights, North College Hill, Harrison, Blue Ash, Clifton, Colerain, Northside, Greenhills, Norwood, Oakley, Westwood, Madeira... now those are suburbs!

I think it's time we asked West Chester to secede, or at least cease and desist in calling itself a suburb of an otherwise really cool town.

My apologies to the three or four Democrats who actually reside in West Chester. My sympathies, as well.

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

15. Damn Straight!

I swear, you'd couldn't give me a house in West Chester or Mason (sorry, Crozet). You're a zillion miles from anything -- including the nearest grocery store. Culture consists of whatever's on cable that evening and the only persons of color you're likely to find are soccer moms who've had one too many trips to the local tanning booth.

But then there Tim Wuest, who was the local Kucinich organizer. Tim lives up there, and is one hard working guy who does a great job with his precinct. His goes about 40% Democratic in any given election -- which is huge for West Chester.

[VolcanoJen]

16. My best friends live in West Chester.

They're a wonderful couple, as liberal Democrat as you get, with three beautiful children and a stunning $500K home built in one of those icky fake neighborhoods.

During the primaries, they covered their expansive lawn with Dean signs. As you can imagine, the folks on their street stopped inviting them to the monthly block party.

I talked to them this morning, and after dealing with the drooling BushBots invading their neighborhood yesterday, they're seriously thinking of moving south. Finally.

Oh, and ritc? You could give me a home in West Chester. I'd sell it for far more than it's worth to some gullible golfer, and quickly snap up one of those gorgeous, palatial Victorians in Norwood for myself!

:D

And I couldn't agree more about Tim Wuest... brave man to hang his hat in that MooVille.

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

17. Hartwell...

There are parts of Hartwell that you'd swear are part of Wyoming. The minute I stop being all thumbs and have even rudimentary carpentry skills, that's what I'm buying!

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

20. Hartwell is sort of a mini-Glendale...one of Cincys railroad suburbs

....theres a whole string of older railroad suburbs up the Mill Creek Valley....Hartrwell was one of them...with its curvy streets....

[VolcanoJen]

21. Hartwell promises to be the new Glendale/Wyoming, for sure.

Good call!

And, the real point is this: Screw the endless Cincinnati West Side/East Side debate.

Let's all team up and take out West Chester!

again, my apologies, and sympathies, to Democratic residents of West Chester. It's all in good fun, and besides, if you're going to start calling yourself a Cincinnati neighborhood, you're going to have to toughen up a little bit.

[Eurobabe]

22. LOL! My cousin is a Dem and she lives in W/C

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

23. I have WMD and I'm not afraid to use them!

.

[Eurobabe]

18. well, book is out, we may not buy or build there....

All depends on what the hubmeister thinks of it when he sees it for first time next week.

We REALLY want an older house downtown (I am an architectural historian by schooling) there are loads of fellow 'BLUES' in city I know, but everything is picked over at this time of year. I fear there might be a bit of an RE bubble in some areas? Just my gut.

If any of you CIncyDU'ers want to give us some neighborhoods to look further in, I'd be most grateful! I already looked in Hyde Park, parts of Clifton, Mt. Adams area, some Norwood. HELP!

Believe me I have some cool plans for Cincy, re: New Urbanism (enviro-friendly home plans) -Crozet

[roseBudd]

26. There are a couple really nice brick houses for sale on fairview ave

a few blocks from UC. There is gaslight clifton and then there is CUF. Clifton Heights, University Heights and Fairview.

How many bedrooms are you looking for.

[Dilligent]

33. Older homes

Try Walnut Hills,Linwood,the East End. The East End is going through revitalization. There are some beautiful "painted ladies" there.

[Eurobabe]

34. my cousin lived in E. Walnut Hills for awhile,

where is Linwood? East End? (name some streets for me? thx!)

The problem is, most of the renovatable properties are sold already. This is a weird time to buy...

Looking for 4-5 bds.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

19. Cincy has such great older neighborhoods !

Really, the quality of the housing stock in that city...and older suburbs.... is pretty amazing...even the vernacular "builder" stuff is great.

Why would folks want to live out in some subdivision off the interstate?

OK..i could understand some older small town like Mason or Lebanon.....but those subdivisions out there are so bland!

[mongo]

25. Moo - LMAO!

How 'bout:

cow patty acres?

[FatSlob]

24. Clermont would have to annex a hell of a lot more than Anderson.

Try, Indian Hill, Terrace Park, Madeira, Montgomery, Blue Ash, Mariemont, Kenwood, Fairfax, Newtown, Loveland and Anderson Twp.

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

27. Anderson Township would be enough...

Take away 20,000 Republican votes and we'll kick their butts every time.

[FatSlob]

28. Perhaps. How much do we usually lose by?

Hell, we can't even field a candidate for Sheriff or Prosecutor, usually. Is Goering opposed? Is Parrot opposed? Portune is facing a big battle with DeWine. Our only lock is Dusty Rhodes, the auditor. Is Groppe opposed? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

29. The Line-Up

Portune vs. Dave Grossman for Commissioner (Grossman is a 74-year-old retired judge who's been out of politics for more than a decade)

Eve Bolton vs. Pat Dewine for Commissioner (Eve is a former County Recorder and a teacher in the Wyoming Public Schools -- and she ROCKS!)

Steve Brinker vs Rebecca Groppe for County Recorder (Brinker had ten of Groppe's current employees marching with him at the Harvest Home Parade -- how incompetent do you have to be to have your own people publicly supporting your opponent?)

O'Dell Owens vs. Carl Parrot for Coroner (years of scandals here, Dr. Owens is a renowned fertility expert and former Trustee of the University of Cincinnati)

Bob Drake vs. Robert Goering for Treasurer (go to www.bobdrake.org to learn about the Bob Drake Tax Break)

Martha Good vs. Greg Hartman for Clerk of Courts (likely a bloodbath - Hartman had a formidable war chest and Good is a first-time candidate)

Fanon Rucker vs. Joe Deters for Prosecutor (there are two other Republican Write-In Candidates, but Deters is clearly the leader of the pack. Rucker is a Asst. Prosecutor in Lincoln Heights and his father is an Indiana Supreme Court Justice)

To Write in Fanon Rucker for Prosecutor, all you have to do is write the name "Rucker" at the top of your punch-card ballot

So say it with me, won't you?

Write in Rucker!
Write in RUCKER!!
WRITE IN RUCKER!!!

[FatSlob]

30. I'm impressed...you are in the know.

Rucker...I like that...does he have a website?

OK, now that you've refreshed my memory, here are my guesses. Yes, I am a pessimist at heart.

Portune v. Grossman... Portune by 8.

Bolton v. DeWine... DeWine by 10

Brinker v. Groppe... Groppe by 7

Owens v. Parrot... Owens by 5

Drake v. Goering... Goering by 5

Dusty will obviously win...I love that guy.

Prosecutor... who knows? Deters is kind of scandal ridden up in Columbus.

Clerk of Courts... Hartmann by 20

Sheriff is unopposed...any opponent would get creamed. Si Leis is an excellent administrator, and stays out of the limelight...except when dealing with Larry Flynt. If he would ignore the pornography and indeceny stuff, I'd love him.

You know, some of these jobs are so non-political that it really doesn't matter what the party affiliation is. Coroner? Who the hell cares if the doc is a D or an R? Treasurer and Recorder? What the hell difference does it make? I can see Prosecutor, Commissioner, and Sheriff being a big deal, though.

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

31. Also on the ballot

Brayshaw (R) for County Engineer. Why in the hell would you elect the County Engineer?!

Dusty isn't on the ballot this time. The offices are staggered so that they entire County isn't running for re-election in the same year -- Dusty was re-elected in 2002.

And I think your prognostication is pretty accurate. It will be interesting to see the final total.

[FatSlob]

32. Yeah, Bill Brayshaw is a good one.

All contact I've had with his office has been good. Hate to admit it, but we do have some good Republicans here, at least good administrators. Brayshaw, Goering, and Groppe have been pretty decent. At least I have nothing to complain about. Even if we don't win any, I won't complain. It would be nice though, just to raise our numbers. Si Leis is Sheriff for life, why can't he just be the same guy he is now without the Maplethorpe and Flynt and porn fetish? He'd be excellent if he did that. I suppose the only reason that some of these jobs are elected is to prevent political patronage from happening.

[Eurobabe]

12. love your avatar, LOL!