Cincinnati Enquirer, October 24, 2004

Integrity Hall has hosted many campaigners                                                                                                                      It's become fashionable for the presidential campaigns to bring in big-name surrogates to Ohio to get out the vote in the final weeks of the campaign, but Steve Reece has been at it for more than two decades.

Among those who have visited Reece's Integrity Hall banquet room in Bond Hill over the years are Sen. Bill Bradley, D-N.J., Ohio Gov. Dick Celeste, Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, Rep. Harold Ford, D-Tenn., the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill., Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., Texas Gov. Ann Richards and Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif.

And for City Council races, former mayor Jerry Springer will make an encore.

Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, D-Cleveland, making her second Integrity Hall appearance Saturday, called Cincinnati Vice Mayor Alicia Reece "my little sister" and said the word is out: "You can't win in Cincinnati without coming through Integrity Hall."

Joining her were Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., and actor Don Cheadle, who decried the "malignant apathy" of people who won't vote.

By Gregory Korte