Chris Seelbach | |
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Member of the Cincinnati City Council | |
In office December 1, 2011 [1] –January 4, 2022 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Christopher Steven Seelbach [2] November 14, 1979 Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. |
Political party | Democratic |
Spouse | Craig Schultz (m. 2018) |
Residence(s) | Over the Rhine, Cincinnati, Ohio |
Alma mater | St. Xavier High School Xavier University University of Dayton School of Law [3] [4] |
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Website | SeelbachforCouncil.com |
Christopher Steven Seelbach (born November 14, 1979) is an American politician. He made history in 2011 when he became the first openly LGBTQ+ person elected to the Cincinnati City Council. [5] On May 20, 2013, the White House named Seelbach a national Harvey Milk "Champion of Change" for his commitment to equality and public service. [6]
Seelbach was born in Louisville, Kentucky. He moved to Cincinnati in 1998. After founding the first gay-straight alliance at Xavier University, [7] he graduated from the university with a degree in business administration and attended law school at the University of Dayton. While in law school, he worked on the council staff of Vice-Mayor David Crowley, with whom he became friends, and was employed by Crowley's 2005 re-election campaign. [2] Seelbach also became involved in the campaign to repeal Article 12, a law which forbade the city council from passing any protections for gay men and lesbians, which was repealed in 2004. In 2014, Seelbach completed Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government program for Senior Executives in State and Local Government as a David Bohnett LGBTQ Victory Institute Leadership Fellow.
Seelbach was elected to the Cincinnati City Council in 2011. There are a total of 9 Cincinnati City Council members and all are at-large, representing the entire city. His campaign for the city council was backed financially by the Victory Fund.
Seelbach has previously served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of a small marketing/consulting business, the Seidewitz Group.
On August 2, 2012, Seelbach was announced to be one of the winners of the Cincinnati Business Courier's 2012 Forty under 40 winners. [8] Seelbach was also recognized in the Venue Magazine Fall 2012 edition as one of the "Great Leaders under 40." [9]
In 2018, Seelbach was caught participating in the "Gang of Five" a group of five city council members (Seelbach, P.G. Sittenfeld, Greg Landsman, Wendell Young, and Tamaya Dennard) who met via secret text messages. They attempted to undermine the elected mayor and bypass public meetings and debates. [10]
In March 2019, the Gang of Five agreed to turn over their text messages in order to settle a lawsuit filed by a local anti-tax activist. Among the text messages were juvenile discussions of city employees' sexuality, messages mocking members of the public who attended council meetings or contacted the city council. [11] The text messages were made searchable and posted on the website of the law firm that brought the suit against the Gang of Five. [12]
In June 2019 additional text messages were released as a result of a lawsuit filed by Sinclair Media reporter Angenette Levy in which it was revealed that Seelbach and P.G. Sittenfeld strategized to highlight and capitalize on racial tensions to protect the then city Manager (Harry Black). [13] [14] [15] This release also included text messages in which Seelbach discussed promises he extracted from Black in exchange for Seelbach's support, and Seelbach and other council members discussing Black's habit of making late night drunken phone calls to city officials and reporters. [16] Text messages also revealed that Black had engaged in efforts to suppress dissent among city employees, including chastising a city employee after she testified before council about the death of a teenager when 911 operators and Cincinnati police were unable to locate the teen. Despite all these concerns, Seelbach opposed efforts to fire Black. [17]
The Gang of Five's efforts cost the City approximately $500,000 as it resulted in additional costs to fire a city manager, and costs to hire outside lawyers to defend the lawsuit and ultimately in paying the fines and attorney fees as part of the agreed order resolving the lawsuit. [18] Another lawsuit for additional records is pending before the Ohio Supreme Court, State ex rel. Cincinnati Enquirer v. Cincinnati, Ohio Supreme Court Case No. 2019-0599. [19]
Italic type indicates incumbent. [20]
Year | Winning Candidates | Losing Candidates |
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2013 | P.G. Sittenfeld (D): 37,484 Charlie Winburn (R): 27,397 David S. Mann (C,D): 26,443 Yvette Simpson (C,D): 25,449 Chris Seelbach (D): 23,738 Christopher Smitherman (I) 23,604 Wendell Young (D): 22,600 Kevin Flynn (C): 22,059 Amy Murray (C,R): 21,979 | Laure Quinlivan (D): 21,079 Greg Landsman (C,D): 19,619 Michelle Dillingham (D): 19,143 Pam Thomas (D): 18,499 Vanessa White (C): 16,892 Sam Malone (R): 16,462 Melissa Wegman (R): 9,942 Shawn Butler (D): 9,788 Mike Moroski (I): 8,688 Angela Beamon (I): 7,943 Kevin Johnson (I): 6,647 Timothy Joseph Dorsbrusch (I): 4,006 |
2011 | Roxanne Qualls (C,D): 37,275 P.G. Sittenfeld (D): 30,474 Wendell Young (D): 29,067 Cecil Thomas (D): 28,892 Charlie Winburn (R): 28,829 Laure Qunlivan (D): 27,422 Yvette Simpson (C,D): 27,204 Christopher Smitherman (I): 23,760 Chris Seelbach (D): 23,484 | Chris Bortz (C): 22,044 Kevin Flynn (C): 21,828 Amy Murray (R): 21,433 Leslie Ghiz (R): 20,719 Wayne Lippert (R): 18,397 Jason Riveiro (D): 18,174 Mike Allen (I) 16,598 Nicholas Hollan (D): 14,628 Catherine Smith Mills (R): 13,513 Pat McCollum (I): 6,180 Kathy Atkinson (I): 5,012 Jacqueline Allen (I): 4,555 Sandra Queen Noble (I): 2,726 Orlando Welborn (I): 33 |
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