http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=495&ncid=762&e=4&u=/ap/20050404/ap_en_mu/people_justin_jeffreBoy Band Singer Runs for Cincinnati Mayor
Mon Apr 4, 3:32 PM ET Entertainment - AP Music
CINCINNATI - Justin Jeffre, a former member of 98 Degrees, wants to be Cincinnati's next mayor, saying his love for his hometown and desire to make it better motivated his decision to run.
"I am serious about this, and I intend to win," Jeffre, 32, said last week.
Jeffre said he wants to bring people from all over the city together through Cincinnati's arts and entertainment venues and build a strong downtown.
"We need to sell this city back to the people of this city," he said. "We've forgotten how great this city can be."
He also wants VH1 to follow his campaign for a reality series. VH1 officials have said no decision has been made on his proposal.
Jeffre doesn't have a political affiliation and plans to run as an independent, his spokeswoman, Andrea Leslie, said.
Mayor Charlie Luken, the incumbent Democrat, has said he won't seek re-election.
Mayoral candidates officially run as nonpartisans. They face off in a primary on Sept. 13, with the top two vote-getters competing in the Nov. 8 election. The filing deadline for the primary is June 30.
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Monday, 4 April 2005 23:54 (twenty years ago)
well 98 Degrees peaked like 6 years ago. but yeah, they always were disconcertingly old for a boy band. i was a little taken aback when I saw a Newlyweds episode where they celebrated Nick Lachey's 30th birthday.
― Al (sitcom), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 00:21 (twenty years ago)
Both Laura and Cristina should be the next double mayors of Cincinnati
― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 03:25 (twenty years ago)
HaHaHa. Gerry Springer was mayor of Cincinnati when I was a teenager there. He left office in disgrace, touching off a scandal by paying for a hooker/hotel room with his credit card. While he was mayor!
Cincinnati uses the "city manager" system (or did in the 70s) where the mayor is a largely ceremonial position, basically a figurehead and head of city council. Yo, what's Bootsy doin'?
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 09:51 (twenty years ago)
not even an ex-boy band mayor will help that god-forsaken city. and right, the mayor there is a largely ceremonial position. when I lived there, a couple of years ago, there was all this talk about "attracting the creative class" to Cinci. But despite the many good, potentially good, things about the place, it's fundamentally an uncreative place, full of frustrated people. I mean I've lived in the south and it's more liberal and forward-thinking than the town in Ohio. That place has problems no one could ever solve.
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)