The Cincinnati Dealer - Pepper And Mallory Inherit All Of Their Supporters' Scandals

Pepper And Mallory Inherit All Of Their Supporters' Scandals

By Reginald Ottenheimer | Dealer staff writer

Wed, Oct 26, 2005

CINCINNATI - Mayoral candidate David Pepper has some explaining to do. This week, Rodney Ronkoff, an outspoken David Pepper supporter, admitted that he experimented with LSD in college. David Pepper has said that he's never done illegal drugs, but why is one of his biggest supporters a former acid-head?

And despite some claims that Ronkoff is not really a Pepper supporter, why did Pepper himself deliver a yard sign to Ronkoff's house last week? The Dealer could not confirm if the yard sign was actually a giant tab of acid.

Adding to Pepper's woes, a few reliable witnesses have confirmed that prominent Pepper supporter Dick Courtaine uttered the "N-word" at a cocktail party three years ago. Is David Pepper's silence, in fact, a tacit approval of everything Courtaine has ever said or done?

Pepper's opponent Senator Mark Mallory is not without his own scandals. Mallory supporter Victor Finke was arrested for shoplifting an X-Box game from Circuit City in late 2001. Mallory says he will reduce crime as mayor, but he couldn't even keep his future supporter out of jail four years ago.

To prevent any more scandals, both campaigns are insisting that all of their supporters go through diversity training, get an FBI background check, pass a polygraph, and a drug test, before they can have any Mallory or Pepper t-shirts, buttons, yard signs, or bumper stickers.

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After Ike's damage to Cincinnati, how are you taking precautions against future hurricanes?

	Purchasing a windbreaker
	Cutting down every tree within 150 feet of my house
	Practicing dialing Duke Energy's phone number in the dark
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