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This week's Soapblogs feature the committee co-chairs of Cincinnatians for Progress, a grassroots effort to educate Cincinnati voters about Issue 9 - alternately known as the 'anti-rail' measure that will appear on next week's ballot. The three young professionals who founded this group - Bobby Maly, Rob Richardson, and Joe Sprengard, Jr. - share the reasons they got involved in this important issue and what it means for Cincinnati's future as a progressive city.
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Soapblog 1: Vote No on 9

Posted By: Cincinnatians for Progress 10/27/2009

22 Comments

For the next seven days, please forget everything you know about the proposed streetcar project, and think about the following question: What Kind of City Does Cincinnati Want to Be?

Issue 9, the anti-passenger rail ballot issue, is our City's current opportunity to answer that question. First, Issue 9 essentially asks us whether we want to be led by the political ambitions/agendas of two polarizing figures, or whether we want to be led by our elected leaders. Second, Issue 9 asks us if we want to compete for talent and jobs in the near and long term future.

If Issue 9 is rejected, I believe Cincinnati is saying that we are excited to look forward to the future and to be a magnet city again - one that people want to visit, move to and work in.

I do not believe there is a single issue more important to that end than transportation choices - specifically, passenger rail.

My wonderful girlfriend calls herself a passenger rail widow. I didn't know the first thing about rail 12 months ago. But the truth is that I have spent the last 12 months of my free time volunteering with Cincinnatians for Progress because I see that the best cities in the world have passenger rail transportation. And the cities that are growing magnets for talented people with choices have passenger rail transportation.

I hope to Heaven our City sends a message with our answer to 'the question' next week on Tuesday, November 3 by voting No on 9.

Our City has some exciting positive momentum going right now, and we are almost ready to start growing again. But first, it's time to answer the question.

Vote No on 9.
Bobby Maly, Co-chair Cincinnatians for Progress

Comments:

Tuesday, October 27, 2009 10:49 AM by Jason

Bobby nailed it with this post. This is exactly why Issue
9 is so important to all of us. The
streetcar? Eh, it would be great, but that's not what I'm fighting for. I want to live in a city that's going somewhere. I want to live somewhere with transit options, not a car only town. With 3C highspeed rail right around the corner and tons of positive energy going into revitalizing our center city we are in an excellent position to move ahead of other cities now. We need to embrace rail transit if we want this momentum to continue. I want to send a message that Cincinnati is a great place to live, not a stagnant town stuck in the 1950s. Issue 9 will absolutely decide that and it is, in my opinion, the most important vote Cincinnati has ever been asked to make. No on 9 for Cincinnati's future!

Tuesday, October 27, 2009 2:03 PM by Jimmy in Westwood

Thank you for writing this. I didn't know that Issue 9 would affect all passenger rail. I thought it was just about the streetcar. I'm not so sure about the streetcar, but I don't think we should take ourselves out the the picture for high speed rail.

Why would they make this so broad? I really hope it fails. We can't run a city like this.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009 3:37 PM by Parker in Los Angeles

I stumbled across a link to this article on facebook and am really glad that I did. I couldn't agree more with Bobby's feelings on voting No on 9. After moving to Los Angeles a couple of months ago, I've had a multitude of opportunities to share with people where it is that I come from. I'm extremely proud to say that I'm from Cincinnati, don't get me wrong, but people around the country don't think of Cincinnati as one of the best, most active cities in America. This is an opinion which passenger rail could easily change. It took me moving away to realize a lot of the greatness that Cincinnati possesses. We need to recognize that Cincinnati has the potential to be even more amazing than it already is, and this is the next step in the process.

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