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Who can vote on Young’s suspension from council? Ohio Ethics Commission urged to step in Brian Planalp © Provided by WXIX Cincinnati Cincinnati City Councilman Wendell Young
CINCINNATI (FOX19) - Cincinnati Vice Mayor Chris Smitherman wants the Ohio Ethics Commission to decide which City Council members may vote on the suspension of fellow council member Wendell Young, who is charged in a public records dispute over text messages that arose in 2018.
Smitherman submitted a formal request to the OEC on Monday.
The so-called ‘Gang of Five’ saga involved Young and fellow sitting council members Chris Seelbach and Greg Landsman. It also involved former council members P.G. Sittenfeld, Jeff Pastor and Tamaya Dennard. The five, all Democrats, admitted in 2019 to discussing city business over private text messages, a misdemeanor violation of Ohio’s Open Meeting Act.
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There are no provisions in the Cincinnati Charter that address what should happen if an elected official is charged with a crime. But under state rules. either the state attorney general or prosecutor – in this case Hanley – can move to suspend an elected official who has been charged with a crime.
Cincinnati voters approved a Charter Amendment last week that would allow Cincinnati City Council, with a vote of seven members, to suspend a council member. But that does not go into affect until May 18, when the Hamilton County Board of Elections certifies the official vote. Republican councilwoman Betsy Sundermann has put forward a motion to suspend Young, a Democrat, but that motion has not yet been brought to the floor of council.
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